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Rakhshan Rouhakhtar, Pamela, PhD

Pamela Rakhshan Rouhakhtar, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She completed her internship in 2021 at the Clinical High Risk for Psychosis track within the VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland School of Medicine Psychology Internship Consortium, and received her degree in human services psychology from UMBC. Pamela’s work focuses on the validation and development of psychosis spectrum assessments and studying the role of cultural and contextual factors — particularly race — in our understanding of the psychosis construct, as well as illness presentation, course, and treatment. She is also a co-director of the Strive for Wellness (SFW) clinic within the Maryland Early Intervention Program, where she and the SFW team provide clinical supervision/training, assessment, consultation, and treatment for youth and their families in the Maryland community experiencing early or attenuated symptoms of psychosis.

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Screening and Diagnosis (CHR and FEP)

What is Not Psychosis – Disorders Masquerading as Psychosis

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Tubbergen, Tjitske “Tish”, MSW, PhD, LCSW

Dr. Tjitske “Tish” Tubbergen graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) in May 2003, a Master of Social Work (MSW) in May 2006 and a PhD in Social Work in August 2020. She has been a Missouri Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) since 2013. She has worked at Preferred Family Healthcare as a Community Support Specialist (CSS), a Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP), a counselor, a CSS supervisor, a Residential Clinical Coordinator, a counselor for those with severe mental illness in the Intensive Community Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center (I-CPRC) program, a Clinical Supervisor and as the Program Director of the Adult and Youth CPRC programs and Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) program at Preferred Family Healthcare in Kirksville. Dr. Tubbergen currently works as a therapist providing individual, couple and family therapy through the PFH Behavioral Health Clinic. In addition to her work at PFH, Dr. Tubbergen maintains a limited, part-time private practice working with children and adults dealing with mental health issues. Dr. Tubbergen is a member and current Secretary of the Missouri State Committee for Social Workers, a position Governor Jay Nixon appointed her to in 2015.

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Are Consumers getting what they want? An Examination of Factors Associated with Daily Living Activities of CPR Consumers

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Kingsbury, David, MA

Dave Kingsbury is the Director of Deaf Services and a member of the Executive Team for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. He oversees program and policy development and provides training, consultation, and technical assistance regarding clinical practices, culture, language, legal compliance, and ethics regarding services for the Deaf and hard of hearing and members of language minority groups. He has 20 years of education and experience in cross-cultural psychology including a bachelor’s degree in psychology and Deaf culture studies, a master’s degree in counseling psychology, and additional training and experience in Deaf mental health care and services for immigrants, refugees, and veterans. He previously worked as Director of Student and Outreach Services and the Resource Center on Deafness at Missouri School for the Deaf, where he oversaw on campus professional services and statewide programs including audiology, early intervention, and deaf education consulting. Dave also taught as an adjunct professor in the Carlstrom Deaf Studies program at North Central University and the ASL and Interpreting Program at William Woods University. He served 8 years in the U.S. Army National Guard and Reserve and currently serves as a Flotilla Commander, Operations Officer, and Diversity Officer in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. He is bilingual and working on becoming trilingual.

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Cultural Competence: Ethics and Models for Individual and Organizational Development

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Schlotzhauer, Le’Anne, BS

Le’Anne Schlotzhauer has worked in the field of adults with IDD for over 30 years. In that time, she has worked directly with clients and has been training supervisors and staff in the field for over 14 years. She is a Certified Autism Specialist. She is a certified trainer in Mandt, CPR/First Aid, and Tools of Choice. Le’Anne has been focused on supervisors and their wellness for the past year.

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Self-Awareness

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Ellison, Kathleen, MS, MA, NCC

Katie Ellison, MA, MS, NCC is an Associate Director of Research Activities and program director for the Safer Homes Collaborative with the Missouri Institute of Mental Health at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research focuses on lethal means reduction strategies, such as reducing easy access to firearms in the home to prevent firearm suicide. She has worked in community and school suicide prevention for over twenty years, earning recognition as a specialist and consultant in community, state, and school suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention best practices.

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Carpenter, John, MSW, LCSW

John Carpenter first got a BA in Psychology in 1977, followed by a Master in Social Work in 1979 from Washington University in St. Louis. He was trained in Family Systems, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, Rational-Emotive, Clinical Hypnosis, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavior approaches. He has served southwest Missouri for 44 years as a psychiatric therapist in hospital, clinic, and rural health settings. He has worked to treat every disorder that you could imagine.

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Experiential Assessment and Therapy for Difficult Clients and Confusing Situations


 

 

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Cummins, Duane, PhD

During the past 37 years Dr. Cummins has functioned in a variety of different positions within the Missouri Department of Corrections and the Missouri Department of Mental Health, as well as having served Gateway Foundation in numerous markets. Duane has had the opportunity to train employees in a wide range of professional disciplines and has participated in the development of numerous original offender programs and program designs. Duane has a substantial grasp of the unique issues presented by individuals expressing both substance use and criminal behavior often compounded by other mental health conditions.

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The Changing Face of Corrections Based Substance Use Services

 

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Zwolak, Steve, MEd

Steve Zwolak is the CEO of LUME Institute and Executive Director of University City Children’s Center. He has over 50 years’ experience as a student of children, tirelessly advancing and advocating for early childhood. Steve’s years as a classroom teacher and leader in the field of early childhood enabled him to build the LUME Approach to education, which focuses on Emotionally Responsive Teaching – braiding early childhood and mental health principles. The Approach emphasizes that the emotional development and wellness of teachers, children and families are collectively critical to a child’s future life script In addition, there is preliminary evidence that his work has the potential in closing the racial and socioeconomic achievement gap. We know the foundation for diversity, inclusion and equity are embedded the emotional development of children in the first three years of life. Steve teaches teachers that there is major watershed from birth through 5 years of age, where children must begin to internalize and then socialize their understanding of diversity, inclusion and equity to make it an embedded way of life.

Steve believes that is children are physically safe, they will feel emotionally safe, and then they can take social risk as they feel socially safe and finally the will confident in their own competencies to take academic risk. “All learning happens in relationships”.

Steve has been recognized locally, regionally and nationally for his work with children, families and educators.

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Understanding My Normal vs Their Normal

 

 

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Maglio, Christopher, PhD

Dr. Christopher Maglio is a professor in the Department of Education at Truman State University where he teaches measurement, statistics, research design, psychological testing and psychological foundations of education. He has presented at more than 90 State and National conferences and has several professional publications. Dr. Maglio is a licensed psychologist and maintains a limited private practice specializing in performing psychological evaluations for the State, the courts and various private and governmental agencies. Dr. Maglio served gubernatorial appointments as a member of the Missouri State Committee of Psychologists and the Missouri Committee for Professional Counselors and currently serves on the Missouri Child Abuse and Review Board. Dr. Maglio has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology (APA Accredited) from Arizona State University.

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Are Consumers getting what they want? An Examination of Factors Associated with Daily Living Activities of CPR Consumers