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PreConference Agenda
Thursday, October 27, 2011
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6:45am - 7:00pm |
Registration Open - Pre-Conference & Annual Conference |
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9:00am - 12:00pm |
Part I - Trauma and its Impact on
the Brain: Applications for Clinical Practice
Robert E. Longo, MRC, LPC, NCC, BNC - Serendipity Healing Arts |
6.5 |
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workshop will provide a basic overview of the brain and the impact of
trauma on the brain. This workshop will provide a basic overview of
the brain, the brain’s development, and how it is impacted by trauma (in
particular childhood abuse and neglect) and physical trauma resulting in
head injury/traumatic brain injury. Assessment of trauma and brain
function using quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) will also be
discussed. The workshop will also address basic methods and techniques
that may assist patients in learning skills to relax, self-regulate, and
better engage in the therapeutic process. Detailed demonstrations of
technology, equipment, and self-regulation techniques will be provided
in the afternoon workshop; and include biofeedback, neurofeedback, CES,
audio-visual entrainment, and heartmath. Cases examples will be used.
Part II continues from 1:00pm - 4:30pm below, after lunch on your
own.
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9:00am - 12:00pm |
Using the Ethical Decision-Making Model in a Peer Supervision
Arrangement
Diane Taylor Dougherty, MS, CAGS, LPC
This workshop explores the seven-step ethical decision-making model
with a combiniation of didactic and interactive instruction.
Attendees will learn the seven steps and how to employ them in practice
with actual therapy case studies. Attendees will explore how
clinical questions both impact and influence ethical decisions in
practice. "Using the Ethical Decision-Making Model in a Peer
Supervision Arrangement" will also incorporate information and practice
for counselors to use this model in a peer supervision arrangement to
help answer ethical questions and dilemmas in clinical practice with
clients.
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3.0 |
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9:00am - 12:00pm |
Anatomy & Treatment Update
for Traumatic Brain Injury
Sonya M. Montgomery, MSN, FNP-BC, PHMCS-BC, Psychiatric Nurse
Practitioner |
3.0 |
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People with disabilities from brain injury
comprise the largest and the fastest growing population of
neuropsychiatric patients in the developed world. One reason is that
emergency medical care is better that it used to be. Not very long ago,
most victims of TBI died. Today, most of them survive. And because
they tend to be young when they are injured, their numbers grow
steadily. The “epidemic” of closed head injuries is entirely
attributable to the growing number of survivors of present wartime
injuries, motor vehicle accidents, falls, and sporting competitions.
This is a change from past wartime injuries that tended to be
penetrating brain injuries, from high-speed missiles that penetrate a
circumscribed area of brain. In contrast, today’s closed head injuries
are “acceleration-deceleration” injuries, and they entail much more
extensive subcortical damage than penetrating injuries do. The
pathophysiology of closed head injury is different from that caused by
a penetrating head injury. As a result, the cognitive and
neurobehavioral sequelae are different.
The cognitive and psychiatric symptoms account for more disability
overall than motor deficits, (> 63% of cases). A complicating factor is
the psychological trauma of injury, specifically war related trauma.
The symptoms of acute stress disorder and PTSD overlap with the symptoms
of TBI. Teasing out the appropriate diagnosis is essential for positive
recovery.
Effective treatment and rehabilitation must be attentive
to neurobehavioral sequelae. Problems such as amnesia, depression,
psychosis, inattention, poor memory, and personality change are amenable
to correction, or at least to substantial improvement. The helpful,
competent practitioner will be able to recognize neurobehavioral
problems related to closed head injury; identify treatments, (including
pharmacological), to enhance brain function & recovery; avoid medical
treatments that are neurotoxic; and work collaboratively within a
medical/psychological treatment team approach.
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12:00pm - 1:00pm |
BREAK
Please note: Lunch on your own. |
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1:00pm - 4:00pm |
Ethical Practice: Clinical Mental
Health Counseling & Supervision
J. Dwaine Phifer, Ph.D. LPCS; CCMHC; ACS; NCC; NCSC |
3.0 |
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Counselors/clinical supervisors face ethical decisions every day. Some
are blatantly obvious; some are subtle and fuzzy. This workshop is
designed to promote ethical practice, not through the rehashing of the
obvious "thou shalt nots", but through actively experiencing within the
workshop the reality of ethical dilemmas in clinical practice, the
anxieties that arise because of ethical dilemmas, the frustrations that
arrive with one's ethical struggles, and the tendency to rationalize or
intellectualize in the face of ethical challenge. Attendees must
actively and creatively participate in structuring learning in this
workshop.
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1:00pm -
4:30pm |
Part II - Trauma and its Impact on
the Brain: Applications for Clinical Practice
Robert E. Longo, MRC, LPC, NCC, BNC - Serendipity Healing Arts |
6.5 |
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Continued from Part I above.
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This concludes the PreConference Agenda Thursday, October 27, 2011.
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