Speaker(s):

David Lynde, MSW, LICSW

Christine Powers, MSW, LICSW

Presentation: This session will provide information regarding the key principles of the Supported Employment and Education intervention developed as part of the NIMH RAISE Study. Information will be provided regarding effective techniques and strategies for integrating SEE services in the ACT/TAY team structure in Missouri.

Objectives:

• Identify the key principles of Supported Employment and Education Intervention
• Describe the fundamental goals and functions of ACT/TAY teams in Missouri
• Provide an overview of how SEE services are integrated within ACT/TAY teams in Missouri
• Explain how Individual Resiliency Training (IRT) and Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) help people be successful with their employment goals

Slides and Handouts:

Lynde_Overview_SEE_ACT_TAY_slides

Speaker(s):

Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC

Presentation:

In this workshop you will learn strategies that will help you address five types of trauma in the clinical relationship, including: acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, complex trauma, 24-7-365 trauma, and historical trauma. Emphasis will also be placed on the use of humor and centering rituals to prevent secondary PTSD.

Objectives:

• Review diagnostic criteria for five types of traumatic stress disorders
• Describe five evidence-based practices to address varieties of traumatic stress disorders
• Discuss research on the effective use of humor to reduce the risk of secondary PTSD

Speaker(s):

Paul Grant, PhD

Presentation: Paul M. Grant, Ph.D. will discuss an approach he has helped to pioneer: recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R). CT-R is an empirically-supported treatment for people diagnosed with “serious mental illness” that operationalizes recovery and resiliency in a person-centered, strength-based way. The approach applies across the range of severity, and includes a way to understand the challenges (low energy, disorganization, grandiosity, hallucinations, aggression, self-injury, etc.) that can keep people from engaging and getting their desired life, along with strategies for action to promote that life to its fullest. Individuals can go from feeling defeated to flourishing, from chronic institutionalization to life in the community. There is a successful integration of adaptive beliefs and confidence that enables individuals to thrive in the life of their choosing. The presentation will focus on theory and science supporting the model, the basic protocol, team-based approaches, as well as successful implementation in a large mental health system – all producing significant culture change.

Objectives:

• Describe how an evidence-based approach (recovery-oriented cognitive therapy) operationalizes recovery and resiliency
• Identify methods of activating individuals into an adaptive mode
• Name the features of effective aspirations
• Identity elements of successful implementation of CT-R on a milieu or programmatic residence that impacts the greatest number of individuals

Speaker(s):

Regi Carpenter

Presentation: This workshop is designed to help therapists, social workers, clergy and bereavement counselors utilize storytelling as a therapeutic tool for the bereaved. Stories allows children, adults and families to share their experience of death in a risk-free environment as well as realizing the potentially life affirming dimensions of death. Using storytelling and other narrative techniques this workshop will provide guidance and resources on the inclusion of storytelling in grief work. Culturally diverse materials will be available to use in both private and group settings.

Objectives:

• Practice storytelling as a therapeutic tool in bereavement
• Underscore the affirmation of life for the grieving
• Use stories to lessen anxiety, heighten self-esteem and gain insight
• Utilize simple narratives to focus and clarify therapeutic sessions

Slides and Handouts:

Carpenter_Storytelling in Therapeutic Settings Handout- R Carpenter