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7th National Counseling Advances Conference

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Event type: Conference

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03/12/2015 - 03/15/2015

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2015-03-12 00:00:00 2015-03-15 00:00:00 7th National Counseling Advances Conference This conference addresses the most relevant and cutting edge topics for today’s mental health, addiction and other helping professionals. The Red Rock Resort and Spa Stephen Cooke [email protected] false MM/DD/YYYY

Location: The Red Rock Resort and Spa

11011 West Charleston Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada, 89135 United States

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Contact Name: Stephen Cooke

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Phone: (800) 851-9100 ext. 222

Registration URL: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#register

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It offers a comprehensive view and updates, along with focusing in-depth workshops to provide participants with skill building in their areas of interest. Just some of the topic areas include: Trauma; Neuroplasticity; the Hidden Power of Language; Mindfulness and Meditation; Dealing with Resistance; the Dynamics of Shame; Addictive Disorders and the Traumatized Brain; Group Drumming in Therapy; Interactive Journaling; Neurobiology of Depression and Traumatic Stress; Gender Differences in Treatment; Co-occurring Disorders; Ethics and many more.

Special Focus On:  

  • Trauma Treatment   
  • The Brain & Addiction
  • Co-occurring Disorders 
  • Shame, Anxiety & Depression
  • Mindfulness & Holistic Approaches
  • Neuroscience & Psychotherapy

Experience the Other Side of Las Vegas  

At Red Rock, the excitement goes far beyond exclusive hotel amenities . . . There’s Rock Climbing, Mountain Biking, Hiking, River Rafting, or Horseback Riding . . . all in a breathtaking high desert setting. For the less adventurous, simply enjoy the luxurious surroundings of a 3-acre backyard, home to the ‘best hotel pool in Las Vegas’ and the adjacent spa. To complete a mind, body, spirit experience, conference organizers will schedule sunrise/sunset meditations, and drumming.  

 

Pre-Conference ETHICS Workshop

Meets ETHICS Licensing Requirements—6 Hours

Legal and Ethical Challenges Using the DSM-5: Best Practices

        Pamela H. Harmell, PhD

Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles CA. Past Chair, CA Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Former President, L.A. County Psychological Association. Psychotherapists struggle with the role of the DSM-5 system and ethical diagnosing of clients.

This workshop examines the major changes to the DSM-5 including: the non-axial system, ICD-9 and ICD- 10 requirements, substitutions for Axis I through V, and the primary “lifespan” chapter arrangement. Ethical Principles will be cited to highlight informed consent, proper billing, multicultural challenges, working with dangerous patients, and therapist suicide and self-care. Potential harm inherent in using diagnostic inflation for reimbursement, assigning parity diagnoses, fraudulent insurance practices, and documented ethical controversies related to development of the DSM-5 will be addressed.

8:30-9:00am

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

9:00-11:00am

Introduction to DSM system; Terminology; Judging abnormality; Organization of new system; Sections I, II, III; Chapter arrangement; ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes; Legal and ethical dilemmas; Benefits, limitations and controversies of the DSM; Using the DSM system in detail; Following the “lifespan”; Specific changes to DSM-5— Selected Diagnoses; Disorders proposed in Section III; Legal and ethical dilemmas.

11:15-12:15pm

Changes: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Substance Disorders, Disruptive Disorders, Paraphilic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Informed consent and diagnosis, Accuracy versus misrepresentation in diagnosis.

1:15-2:15pm

Changes: Cultural Additions, Cultural Concepts of Distress, Outline for Cultural Formulation, Cultural Formulation Interview

2:30-4:30pm

Tarasoff—Research on patients who stalk their psychotherapists, Working with dangerous patients, Avoiding patient abandonment, Proper termination, Relevant case law; Proper use of terminology (“Impairment”); Self care and the suicidal therapist; Diagnostic competency; Insurance Fraud; Record keeping; Assessment and ethics.

- See more at: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#sthash.icvjmzOv.dpuf

Pre-Conference ETHICS Workshop

Meets ETHICS Licensing Requirements—6 Hours

Legal and Ethical Challenges Using the DSM-5: Best Practices

        Pamela H. Harmell, PhD

Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles CA. Past Chair, CA Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Former President, L.A. County Psychological Association. Psychotherapists struggle with the role of the DSM-5 system and ethical diagnosing of clients.

This workshop examines the major changes to the DSM-5 including: the non-axial system, ICD-9 and ICD- 10 requirements, substitutions for Axis I through V, and the primary “lifespan” chapter arrangement. Ethical Principles will be cited to highlight informed consent, proper billing, multicultural challenges, working with dangerous patients, and therapist suicide and self-care. Potential harm inherent in using diagnostic inflation for reimbursement, assigning parity diagnoses, fraudulent insurance practices, and documented ethical controversies related to development of the DSM-5 will be addressed.

8:30-9:00am

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

9:00-11:00am

Introduction to DSM system; Terminology; Judging abnormality; Organization of new system; Sections I, II, III; Chapter arrangement; ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes; Legal and ethical dilemmas; Benefits, limitations and controversies of the DSM; Using the DSM system in detail; Following the “lifespan”; Specific changes to DSM-5— Selected Diagnoses; Disorders proposed in Section III; Legal and ethical dilemmas.

11:15-12:15pm

Changes: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Substance Disorders, Disruptive Disorders, Paraphilic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Informed consent and diagnosis, Accuracy versus misrepresentation in diagnosis.

1:15-2:15pm

Changes: Cultural Additions, Cultural Concepts of Distress, Outline for Cultural Formulation, Cultural Formulation Interview

2:30-4:30pm

Tarasoff—Research on patients who stalk their psychotherapists, Working with dangerous patients, Avoiding patient abandonment, Proper termination, Relevant case law; Proper use of terminology (“Impairment”); Self care and the suicidal therapist; Diagnostic competency; Insurance Fraud; Record keeping; Assessment and ethics.

- See more at: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#sthash.icvjmzOv.dpufPre-Conference ETHICS Workshop


Meets ETHICS Licensing Requirements—6 Hours

Legal and Ethical Challenges Using the DSM-5: Best Practices

        Pamela H. Harmell, PhD

Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles CA. Past Chair, CA Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Former President, L.A. County Psychological Association. Psychotherapists struggle with the role of the DSM-5 system and ethical diagnosing of clients.

This workshop examines the major changes to the DSM-5 including: the non-axial system, ICD-9 and ICD- 10 requirements, substitutions for Axis I through V, and the primary “lifespan” chapter arrangement. Ethical Principles will be cited to highlight informed consent, proper billing, multicultural challenges, working with dangerous patients, and therapist suicide and self-care. Potential harm inherent in using diagnostic inflation for reimbursement, assigning parity diagnoses, fraudulent insurance practices, and documented ethical controversies related to development of the DSM-5 will be addressed.

8:30-9:00am

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

9:00-11:00am

Introduction to DSM system; Terminology; Judging abnormality; Organization of new system; Sections I, II, III; Chapter arrangement; ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes; Legal and ethical dilemmas; Benefits, limitations and controversies of the DSM; Using the DSM system in detail; Following the “lifespan”; Specific changes to DSM-5— Selected Diagnoses; Disorders proposed in Section III; Legal and ethical dilemmas.

11:15-12:15pm

Changes: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Substance Disorders, Disruptive Disorders, Paraphilic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Informed consent and diagnosis, Accuracy versus misrepresentation in diagnosis.

1:15-2:15pm

Changes: Cultural Additions, Cultural Concepts of Distress, Outline for Cultural Formulation, Cultural Formulation Interview

2:30-4:30pm

Tarasoff—Research on patients who stalk their psychotherapists, Working with dangerous patients, Avoiding patient abandonment, Proper termination, Relevant case law; Proper use of terminology (“Impairment”); Self care and the suicidal therapist; Diagnostic competency; Insurance Fraud; Record keeping; Assessment and ethics.

- See more at: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#sthash.icvjmzOv.dpufPre-Conference ETHICS Workshop


Meets ETHICS Licensing Requirements—6 Hours

Legal and Ethical Challenges Using the DSM-5: Best Practices

        Pamela H. Harmell, PhD

Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles CA. Past Chair, CA Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Former President, L.A. County Psychological Association. Psychotherapists struggle with the role of the DSM-5 system and ethical diagnosing of clients.

This workshop examines the major changes to the DSM-5 including: the non-axial system, ICD-9 and ICD- 10 requirements, substitutions for Axis I through V, and the primary “lifespan” chapter arrangement. Ethical Principles will be cited to highlight informed consent, proper billing, multicultural challenges, working with dangerous patients, and therapist suicide and self-care. Potential harm inherent in using diagnostic inflation for reimbursement, assigning parity diagnoses, fraudulent insurance practices, and documented ethical controversies related to development of the DSM-5 will be addressed.

8:30-9:00am

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

9:00-11:00am

Introduction to DSM system; Terminology; Judging abnormality; Organization of new system; Sections I, II, III; Chapter arrangement; ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes; Legal and ethical dilemmas; Benefits, limitations and controversies of the DSM; Using the DSM system in detail; Following the “lifespan”; Specific changes to DSM-5— Selected Diagnoses; Disorders proposed in Section III; Legal and ethical dilemmas.

11:15-12:15pm

Changes: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Substance Disorders, Disruptive Disorders, Paraphilic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Informed consent and diagnosis, Accuracy versus misrepresentation in diagnosis.

1:15-2:15pm

Changes: Cultural Additions, Cultural Concepts of Distress, Outline for Cultural Formulation, Cultural Formulation Interview

2:30-4:30pm

Tarasoff—Research on patients who stalk their psychotherapists, Working with dangerous patients, Avoiding patient abandonment, Proper termination, Relevant case law; Proper use of terminology (“Impairment”); Self care and the suicidal therapist; Diagnostic competency; Insurance Fraud; Record keeping; Assessment and ethics.

- See more at: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#sthash.icvjmzOv.dpufPre-Conference ETHICS Workshop


Meets ETHICS Licensing Requirements—6 Hours

Legal and Ethical Challenges Using the DSM-5: Best Practices

        Pamela H. Harmell, PhD

Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles CA. Past Chair, CA Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Former President, L.A. County Psychological Association. Psychotherapists struggle with the role of the DSM-5 system and ethical diagnosing of clients.

This workshop examines the major changes to the DSM-5 including: the non-axial system, ICD-9 and ICD- 10 requirements, substitutions for Axis I through V, and the primary “lifespan” chapter arrangement. Ethical Principles will be cited to highlight informed consent, proper billing, multicultural challenges, working with dangerous patients, and therapist suicide and self-care. Potential harm inherent in using diagnostic inflation for reimbursement, assigning parity diagnoses, fraudulent insurance practices, and documented ethical controversies related to development of the DSM-5 will be addressed.

8:30-9:00am

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

9:00-11:00am

Introduction to DSM system; Terminology; Judging abnormality; Organization of new system; Sections I, II, III; Chapter arrangement; ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes; Legal and ethical dilemmas; Benefits, limitations and controversies of the DSM; Using the DSM system in detail; Following the “lifespan”; Specific changes to DSM-5— Selected Diagnoses; Disorders proposed in Section III; Legal and ethical dilemmas.

11:15-12:15pm

Changes: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Substance Disorders, Disruptive Disorders, Paraphilic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Informed consent and diagnosis, Accuracy versus misrepresentation in diagnosis.

1:15-2:15pm

Changes: Cultural Additions, Cultural Concepts of Distress, Outline for Cultural Formulation, Cultural Formulation Interview

2:30-4:30pm

Tarasoff—Research on patients who stalk their psychotherapists, Working with dangerous patients, Avoiding patient abandonment, Proper termination, Relevant case law; Proper use of terminology (“Impairment”); Self care and the suicidal therapist; Diagnostic competency; Insurance Fraud; Record keeping; Assessment and ethics.

- See more at: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#sthash.icvjmzOv.dpuf

Pre-Conference ETHICS Workshop

Meets ETHICS Licensing Requirements—6 Hours

Legal and Ethical Challenges Using the DSM-5: Best Practices

        Pamela H. Harmell, PhD

Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles CA. Past Chair, CA Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Former President, L.A. County Psychological Association. Psychotherapists struggle with the role of the DSM-5 system and ethical diagnosing of clients.

This workshop examines the major changes to the DSM-5 including: the non-axial system, ICD-9 and ICD- 10 requirements, substitutions for Axis I through V, and the primary “lifespan” chapter arrangement. Ethical Principles will be cited to highlight informed consent, proper billing, multicultural challenges, working with dangerous patients, and therapist suicide and self-care. Potential harm inherent in using diagnostic inflation for reimbursement, assigning parity diagnoses, fraudulent insurance practices, and documented ethical controversies related to development of the DSM-5 will be addressed.

8:30-9:00am

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

9:00-11:00am

Introduction to DSM system; Terminology; Judging abnormality; Organization of new system; Sections I, II, III; Chapter arrangement; ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes; Legal and ethical dilemmas; Benefits, limitations and controversies of the DSM; Using the DSM system in detail; Following the “lifespan”; Specific changes to DSM-5— Selected Diagnoses; Disorders proposed in Section III; Legal and ethical dilemmas.

11:15-12:15pm

Changes: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Substance Disorders, Disruptive Disorders, Paraphilic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Informed consent and diagnosis, Accuracy versus misrepresentation in diagnosis.

1:15-2:15pm

Changes: Cultural Additions, Cultural Concepts of Distress, Outline for Cultural Formulation, Cultural Formulation Interview

2:30-4:30pm

Tarasoff—Research on patients who stalk their psychotherapists, Working with dangerous patients, Avoiding patient abandonment, Proper termination, Relevant case law; Proper use of terminology (“Impairment”); Self care and the suicidal therapist; Diagnostic competency; Insurance Fraud; Record keeping; Assessment and ethics.

- See more at: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#sthash.icvjmzOv.dpuf

Pre-Conference ETHICS Workshop

Meets ETHICS Licensing Requirements—6 Hours

Legal and Ethical Challenges Using the DSM-5: Best Practices

        Pamela H. Harmell, PhD

Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles CA. Past Chair, CA Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Former President, L.A. County Psychological Association. Psychotherapists struggle with the role of the DSM-5 system and ethical diagnosing of clients.

This workshop examines the major changes to the DSM-5 including: the non-axial system, ICD-9 and ICD- 10 requirements, substitutions for Axis I through V, and the primary “lifespan” chapter arrangement. Ethical Principles will be cited to highlight informed consent, proper billing, multicultural challenges, working with dangerous patients, and therapist suicide and self-care. Potential harm inherent in using diagnostic inflation for reimbursement, assigning parity diagnoses, fraudulent insurance practices, and documented ethical controversies related to development of the DSM-5 will be addressed.

8:30-9:00am

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

9:00-11:00am

Introduction to DSM system; Terminology; Judging abnormality; Organization of new system; Sections I, II, III; Chapter arrangement; ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes; Legal and ethical dilemmas; Benefits, limitations and controversies of the DSM; Using the DSM system in detail; Following the “lifespan”; Specific changes to DSM-5— Selected Diagnoses; Disorders proposed in Section III; Legal and ethical dilemmas.

11:15-12:15pm

Changes: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Substance Disorders, Disruptive Disorders, Paraphilic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Informed consent and diagnosis, Accuracy versus misrepresentation in diagnosis.

1:15-2:15pm

Changes: Cultural Additions, Cultural Concepts of Distress, Outline for Cultural Formulation, Cultural Formulation Interview

2:30-4:30pm

Tarasoff—Research on patients who stalk their psychotherapists, Working with dangerous patients, Avoiding patient abandonment, Proper termination, Relevant case law; Proper use of terminology (“Impairment”); Self care and the suicidal therapist; Diagnostic competency; Insurance Fraud; Record keeping; Assessment and ethics.

- See more at: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#sthash.icvjmzOv.dpuf

 

Wednesday March 18, 2015

Pre-Conference ETHICS Workshop

Meets ETHICS Licensing Requirements—6 Hours

Legal and Ethical Challenges Using the DSM-5: Best Practices

Pamela H. Harmell, PhD

Permanent Lecturer, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education & Psychology, Psychologist, Private Practice, Los Angeles CA. Past Chair, CA Psychological Association Ethics Committee, Former President, L.A. County Psychological Association. Psychotherapists struggle with the role of the DSM-5 system and ethical diagnosing of clients.

This workshop examines the major changes to the DSM-5 including: the non-axial system, ICD-9 and ICD- 10 requirements, substitutions for Axis I through V, and the primary “lifespan” chapter arrangement. Ethical Principles will be cited to highlight informed consent, proper billing, multicultural challenges, working with dangerous patients, and therapist suicide and self-care. Potential harm inherent in using diagnostic inflation for reimbursement, assigning parity diagnoses, fraudulent insurance practices, and documented ethical controversies related to development of the DSM-5 will be addressed.


Conference Agenda

8:30-9:00am

Pre-Conference Workshop Registration

9:00-11:00am

Introduction to DSM system; Terminology; Judging abnormality; Organization of new system; Sections I, II, III; Chapter arrangement; ICD-9 and ICD-10 Codes; Legal and ethical dilemmas; Benefits, limitations and controversies of the DSM; Using the DSM system in detail; Following the “lifespan”; Specific changes to DSM-5— Selected Diagnoses; Disorders proposed in Section III; Legal and ethical dilemmas.

11:15-12:15pm

Changes: Eating Disorders, Elimination Disorders, Sexual Disorders, Substance Disorders, Disruptive Disorders, Paraphilic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Informed consent and diagnosis, Accuracy versus misrepresentation in diagnosis.

1:15-2:15pm

Changes: Cultural Additions, Cultural Concepts of Distress, Outline for Cultural Formulation, Cultural Formulation Interview

2:30-4:30pm

Tarasoff—Research on patients who stalk their psychotherapists, Working with dangerous patients, Avoiding patient abandonment, Proper termination, Relevant case law; Proper use of terminology (“Impairment”); Self care and the suicidal therapist; Diagnostic competency; Insurance Fraud; Record keeping; Assessment and ethics.


Thursday March 19

 

8:00–9:00 am

Conference Registration

Continental Breakfast Sponsored by American Addiction Centers

9:00–10:00am

Shame and Addiction: Exploring the Interactive Fabric

        John Bradshaw, MA

One of the leading figures in the fields of addiction/recovery, family systems and relationships. His books, which include several New York Times Bestsellers, have sold over 12 million copies. His titles include Bradshaw On: The Family, Healing the Shame That Binds You, and his most recent Post Romantic Stress Disorder. He has touched and changed millions of lives through his books, television series, and his lectures and workshops around the country. He is Senior Fellow at The Meadows, Wickenburg, AZ.

The philosopher Nietzsche said: “Everyone needs a sense of shame, but nobody needs to be ashamed.” As far back as 1562, Annibale Pocaterra’s book, Two Dialogues on Shame, posits two faces of shame. He wrote “shame is a good thing a part of everyday existence.” The reason many have a hard time experiencing healthy shame (a sense of shame) is that there is only one word for shame in the English language. Most other languages have two words describing good shame and toxic shame. In this workshop, Bradshaw will present experiences of healthy shame, which he calls, ‘the maker of our finitude’ and contrast with toxic shame, an important dynamic in the addictive process.

10:00–10:30am

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Area (Break will be held each AM and PM)

10:30–11:30am

Addictive Disorders and the Traumatized Brain


        Janina Fisher, PhD

Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and Past President of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR international association consultant and former instructor, Harvard Medical School.

To address the interaction between addictive disorders and trauma-related autonomic activation, we need treatment strategies that directly impact the brain and nervous system. This workshop will offer a neurologically-informed model and a range of interventions drawn from both traditional and cutting edge treatment modalities.

11:30 am–12:30pm

Priming: Using the Hidden Power of Language for Superior Client Outcomes and Self Improvement

        Clifton Mitchell, PhD

Licensed psychologist and Professor of Counseling at East Tennessee State University. Author of Effective Techniques for Dealing with Highly Resistant Clients, and has published in many journals including the Journal of Personality Assessment, Journal of Psychological Type, and The Professional School Counselor. His research includes investigations of subliminal message tapes, stress and coping, PMS, and personality styles. He has trained thousands of mental health professionals in the management of difficult, perplexing legal and ethical issues in a game show format.

Participants will learn how to program the first computer you ever owned—your mind. This entertaining, educational presentation teaches the primary principles governing how your mind-computer works and provides the essential tools for effective mind-management. Understanding these principles will radically intensify the impact of your counseling communications upon clients and increase your therapeutic effectiveness.

2:00–3:30pm

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Refuge Recovery—A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addictions
 
        Noah Levine, MA


Author of Dharma Punx and Against The Stream. He is a Buddhist teacher, author and counselor and is trained to teach by Jack Kornfield of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. He teaches meditation classes, workshops and retreats nationally as well as leading groups in juvenile halls and prisons. Noah holds a Masters’degree in counseling psychology from CIIS. He has studied with many prominent teachers in both the Theravadan
and Mahayanan Buddhist traditions.

In this workshop, Noah will explain this systematic approach to treating and recovering from all forms of addictions. Using the traditional formulation, the program of recovery consists of the four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. When sincerely practiced, the program will ensure a full recovery from addiction and a lifelong sense of well-being and happiness.

Digital Dementia, FOMO and The Art of Mindfulness (Digital Detox) in the 21st Century information Age

        Brian Luke Seaward, PhD

Is considered a pioneer in the field of health psychology and is internationally recognized for his contributions in the areas of holistic stress management, human spirituality and mind-body spirit healing. He is an award winning author, photographer, filmmaker and teacher. Author of Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water, and Stressed is Desserts Spelled Backwards.

The topic of mindfulness is gaining great receptivity in the American culture, and not by coincidence, a parallel use of screen technology. Experts from MIT and Stanford University are now expressing concern with our love affair with technology (known as FOMO: Fear of missing out and Digital Dementia), citing an increased compromise of cognitive skills including short term and long term memory, attention span and critical thinking, and perhaps most alarming: Screen Addictions. Enter the age of Mindfulness, an ancient practice to quiet the mind with sensory overload. This presentation examines the science of “screen addictions“, FOMO, mental paralysis, as well as the newest research of neuroplasticity; regeneration of brain tissue produced from mindfulness meditation and relaxation.

Trauma-Informed Treatment of Addictive Disorders

        Janina Fisher, PhD

Abuse, neglect and attachment failure leave a lasting imprint on the nervous system’s ability to tolerate emotions, relationships, and even normal stress. A traumatized brain heightens vulnerability to compulsive behavior and substance abuse as a desperate survival strategy and increases the risk of relapse. Only integrative treatment strategies that address both the addiction and trauma can adequately address these challenges.

New Perspectives and Techniques for Managing Therapeutic Resistance: A Social Interaction Model

        Clifton Mitchell, PhD

The successful management of resistance is the pivotal point of effective therapy. It is also a critical component in alleviating therapists’ stress. Although most therapists have been trained extensively in theoretical approaches, few have had extensive training in dealing with resistance. This presentation will review many aspects of therapeutic resistance including historic definitions and present a model for resistance that empowers therapists in managing the problem. This is followed by fundamental principles and techniques for avoiding and resolving resistance. The techniques presentedare applicable across a wide array of clients and problems and can be integrated with all theoretical approaches.

3:30–4:00pm

Refreshment Break Sponsored by The Change Companies

4:00–5:30pm

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Integrating Motivational Interviewing and Interactive Journaling

        Alyssa A. Forcehimes, PhD

Is on the faculty of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and is the Executive Director of Train for Change Inc.™, the training branch of The Change Companies®. Her work centers on developing effective methods for disseminating and teaching evidence-based approaches for behavior change to multidisciplinary professionals nationwide. She has conducted over 150 on-site motivational interviewing trainings for diverse practice settings and a wide range of patient populations. She has authored several treatment manuals describing integrated approaches of motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral therapy for use in
community-based programs. With Dr. William Miller and others, she co-authored Treating Addiction: A Guide for Professionals (2011). She has also authored numerous articles and chapters on motivational interviewing.

As a result of the progress of the development and validation of behavioral change treatments, we have more science based answers than ever to the question of “what works” for those struggling with behavior change. The empathic and evoking style of motivational interviewing (MI) has successfully been joined to other interventions and often produces outcomes that are often superior to MI as a stand-alone treatment. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the clinical method of MI and how it can be combined with the evidence-based treatment method of Interactive Journaling.

Post-Romantic Stress Disorder (PRSD)

        John Bradshaw, MA

The Western sage Ram Dass stated that “one moment of awareness can change the most stuck relationship.” This presentation will present four new discoveries about brain circuitry and the mind and the brain that expand awareness. The purpose and hope of these “New Discoveries” is to stop people from throwing away perfectly good relationships and marriages!

The Bridge from Treatment to Recovery

        Earl Hightower, CCDC

For almost 30 years, Earl has worked on the front lines of addiction treatment as a professional interventionist. Highly regarded on an international level, he has conducted over two thousand successful interventions. He now instructs and supervises qualified individuals on the art of intervention as the president of Hightower Intervention Services, LLC. He is an author, a Board Registered Interventionist, a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor (CCDC) and recipient of the 2010 National America Honors Recovery Vernon Johnson award.

The unique perspective that only behavioral health intervention work can offer caused the presenter to recognize that the greatest gap in addiction services was during the first 60 days following residential treatment. In other words, people were not making it across the bridge from treatment to recovery. They were relapsing, post-treatment, before they had a chance to firmly connect themselves to their recovery communities. This presentation will focus on developing systems and strategies that support our clients in their goal of achieving a lasting connection to recovery.

Effective Techniques for Dealing with Highly Resistant Clients: Questions and “I don’t know . . . ” Responses

        Clifton Mitchell, PhD

This is a fast paced, highly practical seminar designed to teach innovative approaches and ideas to prevent, avoid, and resolve resistance. These techniques are applicable across a wide array of clients and problems, and can be integrated with all theoretical approaches. Emphasis will be on “how to” aspects of resistance management, though the theory behind each approach is provided.
- See more at: http://www.usjt.com/Conferences/2015/7th-National-Counseling-Advances-Conference/#sthash.icvjmzOv.dpuf

 

Friday March 19

8:00–8:45am

Introduction to Meditation

        Noah Levine, MA

Buddhist Teacher, Author and Counselor

Designed for those new to meditation or those who would like a ‘refresher’ in the practice of insight, or Vipassana Meditation and the basic Buddhist teachings.

8:00–8:45am

Continental Breakfast Sponsored by Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches

8:45–9:45am

Winning the Anxiety Game: Brief Strategic Treatment for the Anxiety Disorders

Reid Wilson, PhD

Director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; author/co-author of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children; Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks; Facing Panic and Stop Obsessing: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions. Recipient in 2014 of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America’s Jerilyn Ross Clinician Advocate Award.

The anxiety disorders manipulate people by injecting rules into consciousness, then using that set of laws to take over mental territory. Phobias, panic, social anxiety, generalized anxiety and OCD will be discussed and treatment strategies explored.

9:45–10:15am 

Refreshment Break Sponsored by Las Vegas Recovery Center

10:15–11:15am

The Science of Recovery: Applying Neuropsychology and Neuroscience to your Practice

        Cardwell C. Nuckols, PhD


Widely published with more than 60 journal articles, 30 books and workbooks, 50 DVDs, CDs, and videos and 25 audio tapes series. His first book, Cocaine: Dependency to Recovery, was a trade best seller. His latest book, Finding Freedom Through Illumination follows The Ego-Less SELF. Clinical Consultant to American Addiction Centers.

This workshop will give an understanding of the neuroscience and neuropsychology of recovery from addictive disorders. Psychotherapeutic and pharmacological techniques will be described that can assist the participant while working with clients in early recovery. This assistance is in the areas of cognitive enhancement, increased motivation and management of craving.

11:15 am–12:30pm

Problem Solving Theater (PST)

        Meg Givnish, PhD

A nationally recognized clinician, teacher, trainer and motivational speaker, she was among the first professionals to be certified as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner by the American Board of Examiners in Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, training directly under Dr. J. L. Moreno, the founder of psychodrama. She is currently on the faculty of the Communications Program at Delaware County Community College, and has served as an honored faculty member of the Saint Joseph’s University Graduate School of Health Education since 1986. From 1981 to 1983, she served as President of the Moreno Institute, an organization that has helped individuals from all over the world learn about Psychodrama. In 1980, she created the Problem-Solving Theater Troupe. She was also featured in “When Hopes Become Despair”, an award-winning documentary on teen suicide, and received an Emmy for her work on the special “What Will We Do about Momma?” of which she was the writer, director and narrator.

PST is a blend of therapeutic drama, therapy, humor and spontaneity that has educated and entertained thousands across the United States. This adaptation of Psychodrama is sometimes referred to as “Psychodrama at arm’s length” since the role play and scene development is performed by trained actor/ therapists who represent problems which are expressed by members of an audience. The audience is usually invited to submit a problem situation in writing and anonymously. In this audience participation form of clinical Psychodrama, actor/therapists take on roles of people in situations which represent concerns or inter-personal difficulties that may exist among members of the audience. It can be described as therapeutic improvisational drama.

2:00–3:30pm

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Mindfulness, Emotions and Pain Treatment

        Mel Pohl, MD

Medical Director, Central Recovery Treatment, Author, A Day Without Pain and Pain Recovery.

Chronic pain is a challenging condition resulting in disability, emotional upheaval and family dysfunction. People concerned about someone with chronic pain suffer from characteristic dysfunctional behaviors that must be addressed if the person with chronic pain is to recover. Often families wonder whether or not the pain is “real” or not, or believe that pain based in emotions is less “valid” than physical pain. This session will review the emotional aspects of pain and suffering from a physiological and psychological standpoint and explain the basis of meditative techniques and the fundamentals of mindfulness practice.

Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

        Reid Wilson, PhD

This session will explore the fundamental structure of worry—how it ignores data that isn’t negative, how it squeezes out room for corrective information, and how it gives rise to erroneous beliefs. Stemming from this knowledge, participants will learn a set of therapeutic strategies based on the latest research.

Open Your Heart, Quiet Your Mind

Cardwell C. Nuckols, PhD

“Open Your Heart, Quiet Your Mind” is the spiritual definition for Truth. This is the intuitive Truth that rings “knowingness” which words cannot describe. This presentation is based on Dr. Nuckols’ latest book about realizing advanced spiritual consciousness, looks at how we put ourselves in the best possible position for realization and how the process of spiritual growth influences our relationship with this world including our role as healers.

A New Vision: From Recovery to Healing

        Mary Faulkner, MA

A pioneer in the field of mind body healing as a teacher and psychotherapist in private practice for the last twenty-five years. Currently she is the Director of Women’s Programming at Integrative Life Center. She has published several books in the field of religion and spirituality.

        Lee McCormick

Co-founder of Integrative Life Center in Nashville. He also founded Spirit Recovery, Inc., which produces Recovery Conferences, Sacred Journeys, workshops and other recovery and personal growth experiences. Author of Spirit
Recovery Meditation Journal and Spirit Recovery Medicine Bag (with Mary Faulkner). He is executive producer of Dreaming Heaven, a documentary on spiritual awakening and experience and co-creator of the Dreaming House in Teotihuacán, Mexico, a group retreat center at the foot of the pyramids.

A successful recovery requires a solid foundation; education, commitment and clean time all count. But we can’t live life not doing something. Life calls us forward. Recovery of our whole self needs vision—the client’s vision. We are our potential as well. Connection with our deep self—the part of us who remembers who we are at the core is healing. Ceremony connects us to our wholeness. It creates focus and vision, spiritual awareness and present moment attention and grounds us in a way that words cannot. Spirit Recovery works with ceremony by bringing the elements of ceremony into the healing circle.

3:30–4:00 pm

Refreshment Break Sponsored by Integrative Life Center

4:00–5:30 pm

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Getting Your Life into Flow

        Reid Wilson, PhD

This session will focus on how a person enters “flow”—a deep and uniquely human motivation to excel, exceed and triumph over limitation, the state when we have deep, effortless involvement, are fully absorbed in activity, lose our sense of time and have feelings of great satisfaction. Recent research will be covered with practical applications.

Treating Early Life Developmental Trauma: Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

        Cardwell C. Nuckols, PhD

No matter whether it is a criminal justice, alcohol and drug or mental health population, the recidivists will have a high incidence of early life trauma. This workshop will focus on the treatmentm of early life developmental trauma (Complex or Complicated PTSD). Emphasis will be placed on the understanding of current research from such disciplines as neurobiology, neuropsychology and attachment theory. Practical treatment techniques translated from the research will give participants hands-on skills.

From Resistance to Rhythm: Scientific Break Throughs in Group Drumming

        Christine Stevens, MSW

Author of Music Medicine: the Science of Healing with Sound, The Healing Drum Kit, The Art and Heart of Drum Circles and two critically acclaimed CDs. Christine has brought drumming to survivors of Hurricane Katrina, Ground Zero, and Columbine High School. She led the first drum circle training for conflict resolution in the war zone of Iraq.

This engaging presentation demonstrates the magnetic power of group drumming as a clinical tool for recovery and trauma as well as employee burnout and self-care. Attendees will learn about cutting edge scientific studies underlining the evidence base of group drumming and music for stress reduction, self-expression, disclosure and trauma. Presentation will show how drumming and music— ancient healing arts—can be used in modern treatment needs today.

Coming up for Air: Healthy Boundaries for The Counselor

        Brian Luke Seaward, PhD

The counseling profession is one of the most recognized groups of professionals noted for their devoted service to others. This service, however, is not without its drawbacks. Resentment from poor boundaries is as common as is Burnout a common problem. Counselors are no strangers to the stress of burnout. This presentation highlights the nature of stress, the quadrants of holistic wellness, signs of mismanaged anger, the relationship between stress and physical health, and several ageless coping skills and relaxation techniques proven to help restore one’s personal energy levels. Leave inspired, rested and rejuvenated.


Saturday March 21

 

9:00–10:00am

Ways to Bolster Resilience and Enhance Relapse Prevention Skills in Substance Abuse Clients

        Don Meichenbaum, PhD

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and Research Director, The Melissa Institute of Violence and Prevention and the Treatment of Victims of Violence, Miami, FL, author of Roadmap to Resilience.

This presentation will examine the nature of resilience, the building blocks that contribute to resilient-engendering behaviors, and their neurophysiological and psycho-social correlates. A Constructive Narrative Perspective will be offered that considers the nature of the” stories” that individuals tell themselves and others that contribute to relapse and consider ways to help clients develop alternative intra- and interpersonal coping and relapse prevention strategies that will contribute to long-term abstinence and improve their Quality of Life.

10:30–11:30am

Positive Emotional Habits: Keys to Well-Being Even During Very Difficult Times

        John Preston, PsyD


Professor emeritus with Alliant International University, Sacramento and formerly on the faculty of UC Davis School of Medicine. Author or co-author of twenty-one books addressing psychotherapy, mood disorders, PTSD, neurobiology, psychopharmacology and spiritual aspects of emotional healing and psychotherapy. He received the Mental Health Association’s President’s Award.

Often life is very hard and sometimes tragic. This workshop focuses on concepts and strategies for increasing a sense of meaningfulness and well-being . . . on a day-in and day-out basis and also during times of significant stress. Approaches to maintaining well-being are drawn from research on resiliency, adaptive emotional habits, neuroscience of positive emotions, cultural and spiritual traditions for navigating through painful emotional times and strategies from positive psychology. Included are: ways to overcome maladaptive emotional habits, healthy mood regulation techniques, increasing self-awareness, making life decisions that increase a sense of vitality and meaningfulness, dealing with times of very serious illness or one’s mortality, and approaches that foster optimal brain regulation of mood and cognitive functioning. The talk presents science based research, but is largely practical and applied . . . with many action strategies for improving the quality of life.

11:30 am–12:30pm

Silent Sons & Perfect Daughters: Appreciating Gender Differences in Treatment

Robert J. Ackerman, PhD

Formerly Professor and Program Director of Sociology, University of South Carolina at Beaufort. Editor of COUNSELOR, The Magazine for Addiction and Behavioral Health Professionals. Previous Director of the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Research and Training Institute in Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics; author of thirteen books including Perfect Daughters and Silent Sons.

This presentation will focus on developing an appreciation for gender differences in treatment/counseling. Additionally it will focus on how dysfunctional families affect gender development and, in turn, to assess how this development affects personal change for women and men. An appreciation for gender implications in alcohol and drug usage patterns, etiological differences, relapse and recovery issues, and associated problems will be addressed. This session will not treat women and men from dysfunctional families or addicted individuals as victims, but rather as survivors and will concentrate on strengths found in those from dysfunctional families or addicted individuals.

1:45–3:15pm

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

The Neurobiology of Depression, Anxiety and Traumatic Stress—Implications for Therapy

        John Preston, PsyD

New developments in the neurosciences have shed light on the biological basis of many psychiatric disorders. This workshop looks in detail at the neurobiology of anxiety, depression and traumatic stress. The discussion is comprehensive, but presented in an easy to understand format. A second focus of the workshop is on treatment implications. There is a review of non-medical approaches to altering brain functioning and thus reducing psychiatric symptoms, considering the role of exercise, sleep hygiene, diet, light therapy, and the neurobiology of psychotherapy. In these days of brief
therapy, mental health therapists and consumers alike must make use of effective and efficient approaches. The strategies addressed in this workshop are based on solid research and are designed to supplement more standard approaches to psychotherapy.

Maintaining Equilibrium in Our Ever Changing Society

        Sheri Laine, LAc, Diplomate of Acupuncture

Author of Living The Enerqi Connection, Sheri is a nationally certified acupuncturist/herbologist licensed in Oriental Medicine. Director, Eastern Medical Arts, in the San Diego area for the past 27 years. Sheri writes a regular column for COUNSELOR Magazine.

This workshop will pinpoint mind-body techniques including meditation/mindfulness, acupuncture, nutrition, and exercise that support positive lifestyle choices in coping with the stress of our modern culture. Participants will be able to identify triggers and the life stressors we all experience. Cognitive awareness methods will be explored as a powerful antidote.

Integrative Treatment for Individuals with Substance Abuse and Co-occurring Disorders

         Don Meichenbaum, PhD

Most individuals with substance abuse disorders, either currently or developmentally, experience comorbid psychiatric disorder such as PTSD, depression, anger-related and personality disorders, as well as medical complications. In contrast, to sequential and parallel treatment approaches, an integrative treatment approach that addresses the co-occurrence of such disorders will be presented. How to employ a Case Conceptualization Model that informs assessment and treatment-decision-making, how to create a therapeutic milieu that promotes an integrative treatment approach and how to implement the Core Tasks of psychotherapy to foster long-term beneficial outcomes will be discussed.

Using Typologies to Establish Goals in Treatment and Recovery


        Robert J. Ackerman, PhD

Growth, change and recovery are not measured merely by the absence of negative behaviors and thoughts. True change includes the development of healthy behaviors as well. This workshop will focus on helping clients identify their negative characteristics and establishing goals to reduce them and to develop healthy behaviors. Eight different typologies will be presented. Each typology will focus on the utilization patterns of each gender. Additionally, identifying and utilizing emotional motivations for each typology will be discussed.

3:30–5:00pm

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Neuroplasticity: Implications for Psychological Therapy

        John Preston, PsyD

Many psychiatric disorders and maladaptive personality styles are either caused by or result in neurobiological changes that create tremendous human suffering and complicate psychological/psychiatric treatment. This workshop provides an overview of neuroplasticity: the ability of the brain to change over the life span. The talk focuses on many practical treatment implications: non-pharmacologic ways to alter brain functioning and thus reduce symptoms: exercise, sleep enhancement, diet, bright light therapy, chronotherapeutics (stabilizing biological clocks), and meditation. Also explored is the role of neurobiology in psychotherapeutic treatments: cognitive therapy, psychodynamic approaches and character change.

Dropping Deeper into the Meditative Process Using Mind-Body Oriental Techniques

        Sheri Laine, LAc, Diplomate of Acupuncture

This experiential workshop will allow participants to discover how the “Mind leads the Qi”. Integrative techniques and cues will be introduced that can easily be adapted to everyday stressors. Using the meditative process, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how our life force and thoughts are powerfully connected.

Ability Therapy: Overcoming Inabilities that Prevent Treatment and Recovery

        Robert J. Ackerman, PhD

The greatest barrier to personal change, growth and recovery is often the inability to receive. How unfortunate it is to pursue change with all of your efforts only to find that you do not know how to receive and embrace recovery and healthy behaviors. This workshop will identify inabilities to receive and how each is maintained and prevents personal change. Strategies for overcoming inabilities will be addressed and strategies for utilizing existing and new strengths will be presented.


 

A nationally recognized clinician, teacher, trainer and motivational speaker, she was among the first professionals to be certified as a Trainer, Educato

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