US Journal Training, INC., and The Institute for Integral Development  
16th Annual Counseling Skills Conference - 24 CEUs
Friday, September 03, 2010
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Sunday, Jan. 13 | Monday, Jan. 14 | Tuesday, Jan.15 | Wednesday, Jan. 16 | Thursday, Jan. 17


Early Conference Registration
Sunday January 13, 2008, 5:00PM-8:00PM

Early Conference Registration   5:00PM - 8:00PM

Early Conference Registration at
Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort

   


Monday January 14, 2008, 8:00AM-5:30PM
Conference Registration   8:00AM - 9:00AM

Registration Continued
Continental Breakfast Available

   
Skill Building Workshop   9:00AM - 10:00AM

Why Integrating Mental Health and Substance Abuse is Hard and What to Do About It
 
Presented By:
David Mee-Lee, MD

Psychiatrist and International Trainer, Chief Editor of the Revised Second Edition of the ASAM Criteria, ASAM PPC-2R, Senior Fellow, Co-Occurring Center for Excellence
(COCE) for SAMHSA
.

Skill Building Workshop   10:30AM - 11:30AM

Drug Abuse and Addiction:
The Nation’s #1 Public Health Problem
 
Presented By:
Mark Gold, MD

Professor, University of Florida,
College of Medicine’s Brain Institute, Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Community Health and Family Medicine. Author of 700 medical articles, chapters and 12 professional books including Good News About Depression: Cures and Treatments in the New Age of Psychiatry.

Skill Building Workshop   11:30AM - 12:30PM

Dual Diagnosis: Depression, Suicidality and Addictive Disorders
 
Presented By:
Patrick Dechello, Ph.D.

Founder and Senior partner of D&S Associates, Middlefield, CT. As a psychologist, clinical social worker, substance abuse treatment specialist, and hypnotherapist, Dr. DeChello has over 25 years in training, consultation and direct care.

Skill Building Workshops   2:00PM - 3:30PM
Recovery in Co-Occurring Disorders: What Do You Really Mean and Walking the Talk about Recovery  
Presented By:
David Mee-Lee, MD

Understanding Self-Injury and Self-Mutilation   Presented By:
Patrick Dechello, Ph.D.

The Impact of Dysthymia on Addiction and Recovery
 


Presented By:
John Mcllveen, M.ED.

Donald Mullaney, Ph.D., C.A.P.

Michael Weiner, Ph.D., C.A.P.
Behavioral Health
of the Palm Beaches (BHOP)


Naelys Diaz., Ph.D.

E. Gail Horton, Ph.D., LCSW
Florida Atlantic University (FAU)


Systemic Family Intervention: The Best Model for Long Term Success
 
Presented By:
JoAnn Towle, MA, BRI

Director and Founder, Family Intervention Associates, Founding Member, Association of Intervention Specialists

Skill Building Workshops   3:45PM - 5:15PM

How the ASAM Criteria Help Integrate
Co-Occurring Disorders

  Presented By:
David Mee-Lee, MD

A Dissociative Structural Model of
Mental Disorders and Addictions
 
Presented By:
Colin Ross, MD

Clinician, Researcher, Author and Lecturer in the field of dissociation and trauma-related disorders, Founder and President of the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma, Author of Dissociative Identity Disorder and
The New Trauma Model.


Family Intervention: Re-defining “Success"  
Presented By:
JoAnn Towle, MA, BRI

Making Effective Mental Status
Examinations and Suicide Assessments
 
Presented By:
Patrick Dechello, Ph.D.

Social Hour   5:30PM - 7:00PM

Social Hour and Welcome Reception
“Overlooking the Beach”

   
Skill Building Workshop (Optional)   7:00PM - 9:00PM

Treatment Techniques for Trauma and Dissociative Identity Disorder

  Presented By:
Colin Ross, MD
   


Tuesday January 15, 2008, 8:00AM-5:15PM
Skill Building Workshop   9:00AM - 10:00AM

Trauma in the Family: Impact of Chronic Stress, Abandonment, and Violence
 


Presented By:
Claudia Black, Ph.D.

Renowned Author and Trainer; internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. Author of several books including—It Will Never Happen to Me; produced over 20 videos recently releasing “Issues of Recovery” and “What do I say to my kids?

Skill Building Workshop   10:30AM - 11:30AM

From Discovery to Recovery: Neuroscience, Addictions, Spirituality and Recovery
 
Presented By:
Cardwell Nuckols, Ph.D.

One of the Most Influential Clinical Trainers in America. Internationally Recognized Expert in Behavioral Medicine and Addictions Treatment, Longwood, FL, Author Healing an Angry Heart, Co-Author, Co-Occurring Series: Adolescent Disruptive Behavior Disorders.

Skill Building Workshop   11:30AM - 12:30PM

Women, Relationships and Recovery
 
Presented By:
Rokelle Lerner

President, Lerner & Associates, St Paul, MN; Co-founder, NACoA; Author, Living in the Confort Zone: The Gift of Boundaries in Relationships.

Skill Building Workshops   2:00PM - 3:30PM
The Four Horseman: Intevening in the Many Facets of Addiction—Anger, Relapse, Depression, Family  
Presented By:
Claudia Black, Ph.D.


Applications of Neuroscience Research to Therapy and Recovery   Presented By:
Cardwell Nuckols, Ph.D.

How Victims Learn to Cope: Clinical Strategies for Traumatic Pleasure and Traumatic Repetition
 


Presented By:
Rokelle Lerner


HIV/AIDS Update: A Model for Group
Counseling & Education
 
Presented By:
Michael Demask, Ph.D.

Professor, Hazelden Foundation’s Graduate School of Addiction Studies, Author, Facilitators Guide for Group Work for People with HIV/Aids.

Skill Building Workshops   3:45PM - 5:15PM

From Family Script to Choice: Clinical Strategies for Letting Go of the Past

  Presented By:
Claudia Black, Ph.D.

The Multi Problem, Multi-System Client: Therapeutic Approaches
 
Presented By:
Cardwell Nuckols, Ph.D.


Mending the Heart, Healing the Spirit: Therapeutic Tools that Encourage Forgiveness  
Presented By:
Rokelle Lerner


Recognition and Prevention of Medical Errors: Skills for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Staff
(Please note this ME session will extend until 5:45 to meet Licensure Requirements)

 
Presented By:
Margot Escott, MSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience in inpatient and outpatient mental health, private practice, employee assistance programs, hospitals, substance abuse treatment, forensics and adoptions. She was named Social Worker of the Year in 2002 Collier Unit of NASW and in 2003 the southwest chapter of NASW.

   


Wednesday January 16, 2008, 8:00AM-5:30PM
Skill Building Workshop   9:00AM - 10:30AM

Spiritually—Oriented Psychotherapy:
The Dangers and Promises
 
Presented By:
Don Meichenbaum, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University Of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and Research Director, The Melissa Institute of Violence Prevention and the Treatment of Victims of Violence, Miami, FL. Author, Cognitive Behavior Modification: An Integrative Approach, and Treatment of Patients with Anger Control Problems.

Skill Building Workshop   11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hormones and Harmony: Research Update on the Physiological Basis of Our Relationships
 
Presented By:
Pat Love, EdD


Family Life Educator, Consultant, Master Trainer for Imago Relationship Therapy, Author, Hot Monogamy, The Truth About Love and in 2007, How to Improve Any Relationship Without Talking About It.

Skill Building Workshops   2:00PM - 3:30PM

Medications in the Treatment
of Substance Abuse
 
Presented By:
Edward Poa, MD

Medical Director, Compass Young Adult Program for The Menninger Clinic and Assistant Professor, Menninger Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine.

Core Psychotherapeutic Tasks for Clinicians:
What Experts Do
 
Presented By:
Don Meichenbaum, Ph.D.

Understanding Self-Injury and Self-Mutilation   Presented By:
Patrick Dechello, Ph.D.

Anxiety: Why We All Have It
and How to Treat It
 


Presented By:
Pat Love, EdD


Ethics for Clinicians: Boundary Violations
 
Presented By:
Margot Escott, MSW

Skill Building Workshops   3:45PM - 5:15PM

Experiential Strategies and Group Process
 
Presented By:
Michael Leeds, Ph.D.

Internationally Known Community Mental Health Trainer and Consultant,
Eugene, OR.


Complicated Grief and It’s Impact on Recovery
 
Presented By:
Markus Dietrich, LMHC

Director of Specialty Programs and Business Development at Shands Vista, Co-founder, Signature Group, Gainesville, FL


Family Intervention: Re-defining “Success"
 
Presented By:
JoAnn Towle, MA, BRI

Attachment and Bonding Revisited:
Impact on Children and Adults
 
Presented By:
Pat Love, EdD


When the Spiritual Seeker Seeks Therapy
 
Presented By:
Sandra Coyle, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor at Edison College, Fort Myers, FL where she teaches Human Relations and Human Growth and Development


Ethics for Clinicians, Part II
 
Presented By:
Margot Escott, MSW

Skill Building Workshop   7:00PM - 9:00PM

Brain Neurochemistry, Depression, and Relapse
 
Presented By:
Terry Gorski, MA

President CENAPS Corporation,
a consulting and training firm that specializes in alcoholism, drug dependence, and mental health services. Author, Staying Sober Guide to Relapse Prevention, The Staying Sober Workbook, Counseling for Relapse Prevention, Learning to Live Again, A Guide to Recovery from Alcoholism, and Getting
Love Right.


   


Thursday January 17, 2008, 8:00AM-3:00PM
Skill Building Workshop   8:45AM - 10:15AM

When East Meets West In Psychotherapy:
The Role Of Mindfulness
 
Presented By:
Michael Leeds, Ph.D.



Skill Building Workshops   10:30AM - 12:00PM

Treating Co-Occurring Disorders: A Symptom Management Model
 
Presented By:
Terry Gorski, MA


Working With Anger and Violence
in Clients and the Family
 
Presented By:
Michael Leeds, Ph.D.


Is Your Client a Secret Keeper?:
The Psychodynamics of Destructive Secret Keeping
 
Presented By:
John Prin, LADC

Writer and Lecturer on recovery topics, Author of two books, Stolen Hours and Secret Keeping both focusing on case histories and offering treatment tips



PTSD and Addiction: Advanced Treatment Approaches
 
Presented By:
Jerry Boriskin, PhSD

Founder, Advanced Recovery Center, Delray Beach, Florida. Author PTSD and Addiction and Co-Author At Wit’s End.

Skill Building Workshops   1:00PM - 3:00PM

Cognitive Restructuring for Addiction: A Science Based Approach
 
Presented By:
Terry Gorski, MA

Treating Secret Keeping: From Living Double Lives to Freedom
 
Presented By:
John Prin, LADC

   

 


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