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Prevent Suicide in Jails and Prisons: Save Lives and Avoid Lawsuits

Room Paradise Ballroom B

Speaker(s):

AE Daniel, MD, MRC Psych

Description

Suicide is the number one cause of death in US jails and the third cause in prisons. Inmates are among the highest risk group for suicide worldwide.
Suicide is a major public health issue. We have the highest rate of incarceration among the developed countries. Only 4.4 % of people in the world live in the US. However, 22.4 % of all incarcerated people in the world are in the US jails and prisons.
The emotional and financial consequences and legal ramifications of suicide are staggering. Millions of dollars are paid out to the survivors.
How can deaths by suicide behind bars be prevented; how can we save lives; how can the stakeholders of jails and prisons avoid lawsuits?
This course is for the correctional officers, mental health professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, therapists, and mental health workers, who work in these facilities and come into direct contact with inmates who could potentially take their lives. In my view, these professionals are the eyes and ears of suicide prevention.
The course is also directed to administrators such as Sheriffs, Wardens, Chief administrators of prisons, shift commanders, trainers and policymakers.
This highly informative, instructive and inspiring course pulls from my 20 years of clinical experience, research on suicide in correctional settings and expert consultations on lawsuits.

 

Objectives

    • Discuss the what, how and why of inmate suicide
    • Separate myths from facts of custodial suicide
    • Identify risk and protective factors to prevent suicide and save lives
    • Describe how to perform proper suicide screening and suicide risk assessment
    • Describe ways on how to be the eyes and ears of suicide prevention, monitoring, and treatment of suicidal inmate
    • Discover how to navigate policies, procedures and practices to avoid lawsuits
    • Review basic principles of legal decision-making in medical negligence and deliberate indifference lawsuits

 

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Real Self-Care for Mental Health Practitioners: Strategies to Prevent and Treat Compassion Fatigue and Burnout

Room Parasol II

Speaker(s):

Sarah Thomas, EdD, MSW, LCSW

Description

When we think about self-care we often visualize vacations, spa days, dinner out, and maybe even that morning cup of coffee. While these strategies are important, in this presentation we will go deeper. Let’s talk about strategies to improve your work day, advocate for your needs, prevent burnout and fatigue, and recover from the difficult and essential work that you do.

Objectives

    • Define burnout and compassion fatigue.
    • Discuss the detrimental effects of burnout and compassion fatigue on mental health care professionals.
    • Describe key strategies for mindfulness and flow state.
    • Identify a personalized essential self-care plan to prevent and work-related distress.
    • Utilize tools to advocate for wellbeing in your workplace.
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Treatment and Diagnosis of Individuals with Schizophrenia

Room Paradise Ballroom C

Speaker(s):

Lauren Smalling, MSW, LCSW

Description

This presentation focuses on treatment and diagnosis of individuals with schizophrenia starting with a description of the schizophrenia spectrum. The presentation uses real examples to help clarify the schizophrenia spectrum and how to diagnose individuals. The end of the presentation includes an interactive segment with three fabricated case examples to provide the listeners with the opportunity to come up with assessment questions in order to reach an accurate diagnosis.

Objectives

    • Define the schizophrenia spectrum.
    • Discuss the importance of communication and wrap-around services.
    • Discuss the meaning of success to clients.
    • Practice assessing and diagnosing clients.
    • Take an empathy-first approach with clients.
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Andrews, Crestin, DO

Dr. Crestin Andrews is the current chief resident and incoming academic chief resident at the University of Missouri Columbia Psychiatry Program. She completed dual bachelor’s degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, then graduated medical school from A.T. Still University-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. She discovered her passion for mental health during a service trip abroad to Egypt, after which she went on to establish a global service initiative centering around teaching preventative health measures to groups of youth internationally. Endlessly fascinated by the complexities of the mind, the study of nonverbal communication is one avenue on her continual pursuit of understanding the human condition. In her spare time, Crestin enjoys playing guitar, exploring nature, and learning about all things NASA and space travel!

Presentation(s):

Body Talks: The Covert Language of Nonverbal Communication

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Body Talks: The Covert Language of Nonverbal Communication

Parasol II

Speaker(s):

Andrews, Crestin, DO

Description

My presentation is largely on the body of work and research done by Joe Navarro. Initially inspired after reading his book “What every body is saying”, I found that he offered a self paced online 3 month course about body language interpretation. This course is the only one of its kind approved by the American Psychological Association. I approached my program director and chair of the department of psychiatry asking if they would support this training by means of an educational grant. The department granted the educational grant and supported my engagement in this course, in return I will be presenting on this topic as a grand rounds presentation and future lecture series. My presentation sticks to the research behind body language interpretation and attempts to dispel some of the misconceptions purported in mainstream media.

Objectives

Develop a working knowledge of the key concepts behind nonverbal communication and identify how these skills can be applied in a range of different scenarios.

Discuss the triune brain and the role of the limbic system in nonverbal communication.

Explore common body language cues that indicate comfort vs. discomfort.

Identify how knowledge of nonverbal communication can aid in the quality of patient care.

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Supported Education: Helping People with Education and Training Goals

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Parasol II

 

Speaker(s):

Lynde, David, MSW

Description

This workshop provides an overview of the principles of Supported Education.  The workshop will address some of the strategies and techniques used to support people with mental illness in developing and obtaining their educational goals.

Objectives

1. Participants will identify the basic principles of Supported Education
2. Participants will be able to describe useful educational interventions and strategies.
3. Participants will be able to describe some of the challenges and associated strategies for engaging and working with local secondary school systems.
4. Participants will be able to identify some of the challenges and associated strategies used to help people with mental illness to be successful with post-secondary educational programs.

Lynde Presentation

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Adverse and Protective Childhood Experiences: Risk and Resilience

Leeward 76-77

 

Speaker(s):

Welch, Tim, PhD, LMFT

Burgen, Kailey, BS

Description 

This presentation will first provide a definition of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and discuss relevant research on the association between exposure to multiple ACEs and numerous negative physical, emotional and mental health outcomes in adulthood. The presentation will examine exposure to ACEs through the lens of the Family Stress and Resilience theoretical framework. This approach highlights the role and value of enhancing protective factors to promote resiliency in the context of exposure to ACEs. This presentation will describe modern approaches to addressing the impact of adverse childhood experiences and discuss evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies for clinical and mental health practitioners including utilizing a trauma-informed framework when working with individuals exposed to ACEs.

Objectives

1. Define adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
2. Describe the negative effects of exposure to ACEs in adolescence and adulthood
3. Identify relevant protective factors to the harmful effects of exposure to ACEs
4. Describe evidence-based strategies for addressing the effects of of ACEs

Welch_STI_2023.pptx

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Contemporary Ethical Issues: Personal Worldview and Professional Acculturation

Paradise Ballroom C

 

Speaker(s):

Larkin, Nicole, MS, CDAC, SMFT

Likcani, Adriatik, PhD, LMFT

Woolery, Amber, BSW, CRADC

Description

This presentation on ethics is beyond the ‘typical’ topics of dual relationships and abuse of power with clients. It is about us as professionals and our personal worldview and professional acculturation. Why do ethical codes exist? What to do when my values and morals conflict with ethical codes? How to deal with ethical dilemmas? Can I talk about faith and spirituality with my clients? How do I apply evidence-based treatment with diverse populations? This session will help you find the answers to any of those questions and address other questions you may have. This is a session about ethics, values, morals, personal worldview and professional acculturation in the practice of treatment and recovery support for mental health and substance use disorders. Participants will learn about the ecology of substance use treatment and recovery support and issues that arise with scientific discovery such as evidence-based practices and effective interventions, medication assisted treatment/recovery, integration of faith-based approaches, etc. Such contemporary issues tend to challenge the stability of any professional and require of them to affirm or resist change. They will learn models of working through dissonance and finding a new stability. They will identify external and internal influences that impact their emerging worldview, personal and professional acculturation. Discussion with participants will be based on morals, values, sources of power and influence in the acculturation process, and the ethics of providing value-sensitive care and due care to individuals and families.

Objectives

1. Discuss how participants can use existing Codes of Ethics, including AAMFT, NBCC and NASW, to inform and reflect upon their personal worldview and professional acculturation
2. Identify personal lenses that cause dissonance among professionals in their practice
3. Recognize professional acculturation process through the ecology of substance use treatment and recovery support approaches
4. Identify issues that threaten status quo of the helper, prompt resistance or create dissonance, and require them to find a new professional stability

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We Understand Trauma for Patients…What About Us as Providers?

Leeward 74-75

 

Speaker(s):

Keeton, Zhanna, MBA, MA, LPC, CCTS, BA

Description

Let’s talk about how trauma affects providers in the behavioral health field and what we can do as peers and leaders of organizations.

Objectives

1. Describe the physiology behind trauma as it relates to providers.
2. Review realistic calming techniques in the workplace.
3. Discuss ways to shift towards supporting providers through policies and procedures.
4. Discuss expanding your perspective of compassion for fellow providers.

Keeton Presentation

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Experiential Therapy Approaches to Reveal Dynamics and Resolve Anger, Grief, and Relationship Issues

Windgate 62-63

 

Speaker(s):

Carpenter, John, MSW, LCSW

Description

Clients often feel their situation emotionally more than being able to express it into words. By helping them show their feelings in safe and even playful ways, they can actually see their issues more clearly as well as what needs to happen to resolve or change their lives. Like play therapy, these visual, metaphoric, and imagery techniques create a safe path for exploring difficult emotions and relationships. And the solutions seem easier to find and comprehend as well.

This session will help you clearly assess the hidden dynamics of couples and families. Experiential exercises will help clients work through complicated grief situations, pent-up anger, difficult losses, long-standing frustrations, and other intense emotions that seem stuck inside your client with no easy method of release or relief.

Objective

1. Describe three experiential approaches for assessing couples and families.
2. Identify five ways a therapist can bring dynamics out with visual props.
3. Describe at least three methods for releasing difficult emotions safely.
4. Describe the use of metaphoric imagery with couples for treatment.

Carpenter Handout

Carpenter Presentation