16 CEU Credit Hours
A Professional Conference for psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, social
workers, mental health and alcohol/drug counselors, criminal justice personnel,
and school staff
Please Register Early
Space is Limited
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SCHOLARSHIPS are available for professionals working in a non-profit
agency. For scholarship information, call Toll Free (877) 63-FACES
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Conference Schedule
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2001
4:00pm-6:00pm - Registration
6:00pm-7:30pm - Keynote Presentation
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The Heart and Soul of Change
This presentation translates 40 years of research on effective counseling into practical, common sense, and empirically supported therapeutic skills that you can use for the efficient and effective resolution of the problems that clients bring to treatment.
SCOTT MILLER, Ph.D.
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Author, The Heart and Soul of Change, American Psychological Association, 1999
International and National Lecturer
Co-Founder, The Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change, Chicago, Ill.
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7:30pm-9:00pm - Keynote Presentation
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Changing Behavior: From Crisis to Opportunity
How does one avoid punitive, blaming interactions and yet help others face their behaviors?
Front line staff need a strategy for talking to people with problems that is neither psychotherapy nor moralistic preaching. This keynote highlights the ecological counseling strategy of the Life Space Crisis Interview as developed by Red, Woods, and Long.
LARRY BRENDTRO, Ph.D.
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President, Reclaiming Youth International
Author, Reclaiming Our Prodigal Sons and Daughters
Author, Reclaiming Youth at Risk
Former President, Starr Commonwealth, Michigan and Ohio
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2001
7:30am-8:30am - Registration
8:30am-10:00am - Concurrent Workshop (Choose at the Conference)
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� Families: Circles of Courage
Parents need concrete strategies for raising caring, respectful, responsible children. In this session, Dr. Brendtro draws on his research of traditional Native American child-rearing and centuries of European pioneers in youth work, to offer practical approaches for creating environments where all young people can grow and flourish.
LARRY BRENDTRO, Ph.D.
� Creating Change with Difficult Clients
This workshop describes methods to create pathways to possibility, while engaging, and influencing motivation with challenging and difficult clients.
SCOTT MILLER, Ph.D.
� Conflict Resolution: The Win-Win Waltz
Participants will learn the three steps in resolving disagreements through cooperative dialogue. Roleplay examples will highlight the key skills and the traps to be avoided.
SUSAN HEITLER, Ph.D.
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Author, The Power of Two, New Harbinger, 1997
Author, From Conflict to Resolution, W.W. Norton, 1990
Clinical Psychologist, private practice, Rose Medical Center, Denver, Co.
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10:30am-12:00 noon - Concurrent Workshops (Choose one at the conference)
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� Romancing the Stoned: Engaging & Motivating Positive Process Change in Substance Abusers and their Family Members
This workshop outlines intervention, motivation and engagement strategies with substance abusers and their family members. This collaborative approach emphasizes process/system change with realistic expectations for recovery.
RICHARD FIELDS, Ph.D.
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Author, Drugs in Perspective, 4th edition, McGraw Hill, 2000
Owner/Director, FACES, Family & Addiction Conferences & Educational Seminars
Trainer, Quality of Life Workshops, Sierra Tucson, Tucson, Az.
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� Reclaiming Our Prodigal Sons and Daughters
Child and youth care has had a rich history during the past century. Dr. Brendtro draws from the scientific and spiritual contributions of great youth work pioneers to articulate our unfinished business as we once more seek to create a century for the child.
LARRY BRENDTRO, Ph.D.
� Anger: Cognitive, Emotional, & Marital Costs & Cures
Anger induces multiple cognitive changes that tend to induce and sustain increasingly more intense negative feelings in the self and the other. Fortunately anger can be de-escalated and converted to effective problem-solving.
SUSAN HEITLER, Ph.D.
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12:00pm-1:15pm - Lunch on your own (see the following for lunch times, depends on track selected)
Concurrent Workshops (Choose Ethics Track or Workshop)
12:45pm-2:45pm - 2 Hours Credit for State Ethics Requirement
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� Creative Counseling and Ethical Safeguards
Professional counselors must continue to expand their clinical competence. This workshop presents professional ethics as a framework for safeguarding the patient and the counselor during the expansion of a counselor�s skill base.
MICHAEL WAGNER, MSW, MAC
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Chairperson, NAADAC Ethics Committee
Instructor, Edmonds Community College, Western Washington University
National Trainer, Educator, Consultant
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1:15pm-2:45pm - CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS(Choose one)
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� Mindfulness in the Treatment of Trauma
This workshop explores the application of mindfulness-based principles in the treatment of trauma survivors and in the self-care of trauma therapists.
LANA R. LANDRUM, Ph.D.
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Clinician, Life Healing Center, Santa Fe, N.M.
Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice, Espanola, N.M.
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� Dealing with Death & Dying: An Existential Approach to Working
With Serious Illness
Dealing with death and dying challenges everyone, including the therapist. This presentation will address some of the issues that arise for both the therapist as well as the patient. Videotaped material of challenging situations will be used for illustration.
CATHERINE CLASSEN, Ph.D.
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Clinical Psychologist, Senior Research Scholar in Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine
Co-author, Group Therapy for Cancer Patients
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CHOOSE ONE WORKSHOP (Starting time varies with track selected)
3:00pm-5:00pm - Ethics - 2 Hours Credit for State Ethics Requirement
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� Creativity & Boundaries: Ethical Considerations
As professional counselors reach out to a broader patient population, there is a strong need to review boundaries. Healthy boundaries protect the patient, the counselor, and the community. This workshop reviews the ethical guidelines for maintaining boundaries.
MICHAEL WAGNER, M.A.
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3:15pm-4:45pm - CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS (Choose one at the conference)
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� The Therapeutic Action of Group Psychotherapy
This lecture presents the core theory of group therapy with focus on growth through learning about and through relationships. We explore how group cohesion and interpersonal learning contribute to therapeutic change. We discuss the therapeutic use of �here and now� experience and focus on the issues of preparation of patients for maximizing interpersonal engagement in the group.
RUTHELLEN JOSSELSON, Ph.D.
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Faculty, Fielding Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Author, The Space Between Us: Exploring the Dimensions of Human Relationships
Co-author, Best Friends: The Pleasures and Perils of Girls and Women�s Friendships
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� Dealing with Death & Dying: An Existential Approach to Working
With Serious Illness
Dealing with death and dying challenges everyone, including the therapist. This presentation will address some of the issues that arise for both the therapist as well as the patient. Videotaped material of challenging situations will be used for illustration.
CATHERINE CLASSEN, Ph.D.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2001
7:30am-8:30am - Registration
8:30am-9:45am - Keynote Presentation
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Psychotherapy Tips - Existentially Flavored
Dr. Yalom will discuss the tenets of an existential approach and its implications for the nature of the therapeutic relationship.
IRVIN D. YALOM, M.D.
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Recipient of the Oscar Pfister Award 2001� Best Contribution to Religion and Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association
Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, School of Medicine
Author
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10:15am-12:00 noon
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Group Psychotherapy - Experiental Demonstration
Following a brief presentation of the fundamental principles of group psychotherapy, we conduct a demonstration group with volunteers and then process this experience.
IRVIN YALOM, M.D. and RUTH ELLEN JOSSELSON, Ph.D.
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12:00 noon-1:15pm - Lunch on your own
1:15pm-3:15pm - Extended Concurrent Workshops
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� Risking Connection: Using the Therapeutic Relationship to Manage Severe Symptoms with Trauma Survivors
This workshop will be both didactic and interactive with time allocated to practice exercises designed to help practitioners to deal with the challenges of severe symptoms of trauma (i.e. suicidality, self-harming behaviors, flashbacks, and dissociative episodes) and to apply the material to their own cases.
SARAH GAMBLE, Ph.D.
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Staff Psychologist, The Traumatic Stress Institute/center for Adult and Adolescent Therapy, S. Windsor, CT
Co-author, Risking Connection: A Trauma Training Curriculum, Sidran Foundation, 2000
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� When Words Fail: Psychodrama � The Original Mind-Body Therapy Resolving Family of Origin Issues Experientially
Psychological and emotional trauma are stored in the mind AND the body. Through clinical role play psychodrama clients �show and tell� their stories and have them witnessed. This workshop demonstrates this process.
TIAN DAYTON, Ph.D.
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Author, Trauma and Addiction, It�s My Life, Health Communications, 2000.
Director of Program Development and Staff Training, Caron Foundation, N.Y., N.Y.
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� Trauma, Brain Development and Trauma Interventions-A Practitioner�s Perspective
The purpose of this presentation is to be practical. The first section seeks to integrate
research and findings about depression and trauma reactions to the development of trauma related psychiatric conditions. The second section focuses on treatment inter-
ventions with an emphasis on audience participation in defining successful treatment
interventions.
PETER LOISELLE, CISW, CSAC
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Unit Therapist, Sierra Tucson, Tucson, Arizona
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3:30pm-4:30pm - Concurrent Workshops (Choose one at the conference)
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� Vicarious Traumatization: Safeguarding your Hope and Optimism in a Sea of Suffering
This workshop is both didactic and experiential, exploring the ways in which one�s sense of self and the world can be impacted by immersion in trauma work and how one can nurture and protect one�s spirit while doing this important work.
SARAH GAMBLE, Ph.D.
� Hidden Wounds �The body remembers what the mind forgets.� J.L. Moreno
Adult children of trauma carry hidden wounds in their bodies, minds and hearts.
This experiential workshop profiles the characteristics of Adult Children of Trauma and how to work with the Trauma Time Line.
TIAN DAYTON, Ph.D.
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Objectives
1. To identify counseling skills, attitudes, and techniques that influence positive change for the client and
the therapist.
2. To promote creative approaches to counseling that contribute to healthy and balanced lifestyles for the client
and therapist, and prevent vicarious traumatization.
3. To develop specific skills in group counseling, with an existential perspective.
Display booth space is available, contact RICHARD FIELDS, Ph.D.
Call Toll Free (877) 63-FACES
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CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
NAADAC: Approved Education Provider #000281 for up to 16 Contact Hours
NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors): Provider #5717 for up to 16 hours.
CAADAC: Provider #OS-99-432-1201 for up to 16 hours of credit
CALIFORNIA BOARD OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: Provider PCE 1685. Course approved for up to 16 hours continuing education credit for MFCC�s and/or LCSW�s as required by the CA Board of Behavioral Sciences.
MCEP Provider #FAM020 Exp 12/29/01: FACES is approved by CPA Accrediting Agency to offer mandatory CE for psychologists and maintains sole responsibility for the program.
This course is currently under review by the CPAA for up to 16 hours of credit.
WSPA As an organization authorized to approve Continuing Education for psychologists, the WA State Psychological Association certifies this approved CE activity ;meets WSPS�s criteria for up to 16 hours of credit.
NURSING: WA State Nurses Association: CEARP approved for up to 19.2 ED I hours by WSNA. Provider # PA36/Feb 03
CA Board of Registered Nursing: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider # CEP 13184, for up to 19.2 Contact Hours.
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE, NEVADA: up to 15 BDA CEU�s
Full time conference attendees who complete all required evaluations and attendance documentation are eligible to receive the maximum number of contact hours. Daily registrations can receive credit for each day in attendance; no partial day credit is available.
This program is open to professional and advanced student in health related fields, and is not suitable for the general public. If your credit agency is not listed, please contact them to determine eligibility.
REGISTRATION REFUND POLICY: All requests for refunds must be made in writing. Requests
post-marked by Jan 10, 2001 will receive a full refund, minus a $25.00 administrative fee, or full
credit to a future conference. No refunds will be made after January 10, 2001.
CONFERENCE SITE AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
TROPICANA HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER
A special room rate of $69.00 + tax (Wed &/or Thurs) and $125.00 + tx (Fri &/or Sat) has been arraged at the TROPICANA HOTEL, Las Vegas, NV.
For reservations, call 1-800-634-4000 by January 21, 2001 and ask for the FACES Counseling Skills conference rate # FACES01. Rooms are limited, please reserve early!
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