CouNSELING SKILLS Conference Schedule
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Wed Sept 26 | Thurs Sept 27 | Fri Sept 28 | Sat Sept 29
pre-conference ethics workshop (6 credit hours)
Wednesday september 26, 2007, 8:00AM-4:00pm
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Pre-Conference Ethics Workshop |
8:00AM-4:00PM |
Meets ETHICS Licensing
Requirements - 6 hours
LEGAL and ETHICAL Considerations When Using the DSM-IV-TR: Best Practices
Therapists struggle with the DSM-IV-TR system and ethical diagnosing of clients. This presentation addresses the Five Axial System with a full review of major diagnoses, informed consent, proper billing, and multicultural and gender bias challenges. Relevant Ethical Principles will be used to highlight ethical and legal issues.
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Presented by:
Pamela H. Harmell, Ph.D.
Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles, CA, Chair, CA State Ethics Committee
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8:00AM-8:30AM |
Introduction to Law & Ethics and DSM System; Substance Related Disorders; Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders. |
8:30AM-10:30AM |
Childhood Disorders; Accuracy Vs. Misrepresentation in Diagnosis; Sexual Disorders; Mood Disorders;
Tarasoff Update |
10:45AM-11:45AM |
| Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, Multicultural Challenges |
11:45AM-12:45PM |
| Personality Disorders; Breaking Fee of Managed Care; Proper Billing; Multi-Client Situations; Informed Consent |
2:00PM-4:00PM |
Thurs Sept 27 | Fri Sept 28 | Sat Sept 29 | Back to top
Thursday september 27, 2007, 8:15AM-5:15pm
Conference Registration
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8:15AM-9:15AM
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Opening Keynote
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9:15AM-11:00AM
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Understanding & Treating Borderline Personality & Trauma
This presentation clearly delineates an understanding of the relationship between early trauma and borderline personality disorder. This keynote is essential for all clinicians to more effectively treat this population.
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Presented by:
John Briere, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Director, Psychological Trauma Program, LAC-USC Medical Center
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Skill Building Workshop
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11:15AM-12:45PM
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Pain & Addiction: A Troublesome Co-Morbidity
The interface of addiction and pain represents one of the most difficult clinical challenges. Professional caregivers in general are inadequately trained in addiction and pain disorders. Recently, science has helped us understand how these diseases weave and how they are best treated.
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Presented by:
Barry Rosen, M.D.
Director, Pain Clinic, San Mateo Medical Center; Founding Partner, The Behavioral Medicine Clinic of the Peninsula; Medical Director,
The Sequoia Center
Jodie Trafton, Ph.D.
Director, The Institute for Disease Management; Health Science Specialist at the Palo Alto VA, Center for Health Care Evaluation; Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,
School of Medicine
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Skill Building Workshops
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2:00PM-3:30PM
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Treating Complex Post Traumatic Stress
This presentation explores the most effective treatment strategies for PTSD, while establishing the underlying therapeutic beliefs for these strategies.
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Presented by:
John Briere, Ph.D.
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Pain & Addiction: A Troublesome Co-Morbidity
In this workshop, we explore the basic understandings of these chronic conditions and their possible treatments through case presentations.
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Presented by:
Barry Rosen, M.D. and
Jodie Trafton, Ph.
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Sad, Mad or Too Glad: Misconceptions About Depression & Bipolar Disorder
Myths and facts about these disorders are cleared up, and effective treatment strategies are discussed.
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Presented by:
Lisa Boesky, Ph.D.
Clinical psychologist, Author,
When To Worry: How to Know If
Your Teen Needs Help—and
What To Do About It
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Skill Building Workshops
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3:45PM-5:15PM
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Integrative Medicine Approaches that Mental Health Professionals Need to Know
Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Psychiatry recognize that our emotional and physical selves are inseparable. Neither our physical history nor our genetics is sufficient to explain the differences in each person’s level of resiliency and emotional stability. This workshop presents non-pharmaceutical treatments for insomnia, depression, anxiety
and stress.
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Presented by:
Richard Landis, Ph.D.
Author, Trainer, Medical and Clinical Psychologist, Laguna Niguel, CA
Clinical Director of The Integrative Medical Institute of Orange County
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Self Injury: Clients Who Cut, Carve and
Burn Themselves
This presentation delineates how self-injurious behavior differs from suicide and focuses on the reasons individuals engage in this harmful behavior. Participants learn how to screen for imminent risk, and practical strategies. Video clips and case examples are used.
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Presented by:
Lisa Boesky, Ph.D.
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Outcome Data in an Opiate-free Integrated Chronic Pain & Addiction Treatment Program—Evaluation of First Year
The effects of an opiate-free integrated chronic pain and addiction treatment program on pain level, functional status, and level of optimism were evaluated. Interventions used included non-opiate pharmacologic therapy blended with complementary, alternative, and physical medicine approaches.
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Presented by:
Denise D. Crosson RN, PhD
Director of Research Programs, Foundation for Recovery, Vice President of Clinical Programs,
Central Recovery Treatment.
Jim Tracy, DDS, CADC
Interventionist,
Director of National Outreach,
Central Recovery Treatment
Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM
Medical Director,
Las Vegas Recovery Center
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FRIDAY september 28, 2007, 9:00AM-5:00pm
Skill Building Workshop
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9:00AM-10:30AM
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Advanced Trauma Treatment
A special focus on trauma treatment approaches and their effectiveness.
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Presented by:
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry,
Boston University Medical School,
Medical Director of the Trauma Center, HRI Hospital
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Skill Building Workshop
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Advanced Trauma Treatment, continued
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Presented by:
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
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Skill Building Workshops
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1:45PM-3:15PM
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Mindfulness in Counseling & Therapy
This session clarifies the contribution of flow theory to mindfulness skills, and develops skill development techniques to promote mindfulness. |
Presented by:
Michael Leeds, Ph.D.
Trainer, Counselor, Eugene, OR
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Taps, Slaps, Cracks, Scrapes & Sticks: Physical Interventions for Chronic Pain
This workshop explores non-pharmacological interventions in clients with chronic pain. Presenters describe techniques and modalities available through chiropractic, physical therapy and acupuncture.
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Presented by:
Dr. Joseph J. Bradley, MS, DC (Chiropractic)
Director of Physical Medicine, Las Vegas Recovery Center
Scott B. Pensivy, PT, ATC
(Physical Therapy)
Director of S.P.O.R.T.S., Las Vegas, NV
Thomas S. Roben, DO
(Acupunture)
Internist, Private Practice, Las Vegas NV
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Broken: Insights in the Affliction of Addiction and the Journey to Recovery
How one man’s story and those of the people he meets can expand and improve the audiences knowledge of the power of addiction, the obstacles to treatment, and the promise and possibility of recovery. |
Presented by:
William C. Moyers,
Vice President of External Affairs, Hazelden Foundation, Author, Broken
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Skill Building Workshops
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3:30PM-5:00PM
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The Magic of the Mind: 10 Mindful Steps for Relapse Prevention
A review of 10 cognitive-behavioral steps for alcohol/drug relapse and other clients who are vulnerable to making unhealthy decisions. An engaging approach that has pragmatic applications for counseling sessions.
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Presented by:
Richard Fields, Ph.D.
Author, Drugs in Perspective, 6th edition, McGraw Hill, 2006
Private Counseling Practice,
Bellevue, WA
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Taps, Slaps, Cracks, Scrapes & Sticks: Physical Interventions for Chronic Pain, Part 2
This workshop will continue and allow participants to have hands on experience with the techniques described in the first part of this workshop.
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Presented by:
Dr. Joseph J. Bradley, MS, DC (Chiropractic)
Scott B. Pensivy, PT, ATC
(Physical Therapy)
Thomas S. Roben, DO (Acupuncture)
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AHA@ Anger, Hostility & Aggression
Through short didactic presentations, small group work, and structured learning experiences this workshop focuses on increasing the participants awareness and skill level in understanding and managing anger, hostility, and aggression (Aha!).
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Presented by:
Michael Leeds, Ph.D.
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SATURDAY september 29, 2007, 9:00AM-5:00pm
Skill Building Workshop |
9:00AM-10:30AM |
ENGAGEMENT: The KEY to SOBRIETY-
Does It Have that “Ring”?
The single best predictor of treatment outcome is “client engagement” in the treatment process. The “working alliance”—the relationship between client and therapist—mediates client participation. The potency of the therapeutic alliance is reflected in over 1,000 separate research findings, making it the best evidence-based practice available to clinicians.
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Presented by:
Scott D. Miller, Ph.D.
Co-founder, Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change
Author, The Heart and Soul of Change: What Works in Therapy
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Skill Building Workshops
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Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat:
Improving the Effectiveness with your Most Challenging Cases
Treatment failures. Every therapist encounters them. Few books, scholarly articles, or workshops focus on identifying and preventing their occurrence. Participants learn a simple and practical method for identifying potential therapeutic failures early in the treatment process.
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Presented by:
Scott D. Miller, Ph.D.
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An Addictionist’s Jaundiced View of Pain Management
Many pain specialists treat chronic pain as a purely physical illness, requiring heavy doses of medications and multiple procedures. But there is little scientific support for this approach. We will review the differences between pain and addiction, the relationship between pain and emotions, and how to provide effective treatment. |
Presented by:
James Gagné, M.D.
Consulting Physician, the Canyon at Peace Park; Physician, Verdugo Internal Medicine, Inc., Glendale, CA;
Asst. Professor of Family Medicine,
USC Keck School of Medicine
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Skill Building Workshops
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1:45PM-3:15PM
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Spirituality, Depression, and Chronic Pain:
Lessons from Abraham Lincoln
Chronic pain often creates a crisis of meaning, focus, emotion, and in many cases, addiction. In this workshop we will look at 1) some of the current research on spirituality and chronic pain, 2) some of the methods related to one’s spirituality that have been effective in treating chronic pain, and 3) how Abraham Lincoln’s battles with severe, debilitating depression serve as a roadmap and an inspiration to any of us who are, or have, struggled with chronic pain, addiction, and/or depression.
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Presented by:
John C. Friel, Ph.D.
Private Practice,
Friel Associates/Lifeworks, Inc., Reno NV and New Brighton, MN,
Author, The Seven Best Things
(Happy) Couples Do
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Mindfulness Relapse Prevention
This is a new program that combines cognitive behavior therapy with mindfulness meditation. The main goal is to develop more effective coping strategies for dealing with urges and cravings. |
Presented by:
Alan Marlatt, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology,
Director of Addictive Behaviors Research
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Skill Building Workshops |
3:30PM-5:00PM |
Chronic Pain & Family Systems: Moving From Enmeshment to Differentiation
Some people respond to a loved one’s chronic pain by becoming increasingly enmeshed, while others respond by becoming increasingly separated. This workshop examines the role of psychological differentiation in the entire family system’s response to chronic pain, and how a loved one’s self-confrontation can greatly benefit the chronic pain.
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Presented by:
John C. Friel, Ph.D.
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Mindfulness Relapse Prevention, Part 2
Continuation of the new program that combines cognitive behavior therapy with mindfulness meditation.
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Presented by:
Alan Marlatt, Ph.D.
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