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When Heroic Force Fails: Trickster Stories Show the Way

Speaker(s):

David Strabala, MSW

Presentation:

Hero stories are gaining more attention in culture, through superhero movies, focus on the hero’s journey, and even Trauma-Informed-Care asking, “What happened to you?” as a healing element. All alone, such healing focus on a hero’s power can become imbalanced, however, leading to narrow vision, hyper-masculinity and estrangement from community. Who can help? None other than the misunderstood character known as the trickster. A disruptor, fool, and seemingly evil, the trickster is also a creator. The trickster ways can be especially important today as many problems don’t respond well to typical forceful means.       

Using a djembe drum, the presenter will tell stories of heroes and tricksters from many cultures. He will compare heroes and tricksters to show how they complement each other in healing. The feminine in story will also be discussed, in the form of female protagonists and helpers and in action that balances masculine energy. The audience will learn the value of stories as containers for healing in three ways: through deeper, meaningful connections to self and others; through emergent insight and creativity; and as a guide to embracing non-violent conflict resolution. Focus will be placed on populations within the presenter’s specialties, primarily troubled teens and veterans with PTS.    

Objectives:

  1. Discover how stories connect us more deeply to ourselves and the world
  2. Experience how stories yield insights and creativity
  3. Open up non-violent conflict resolutions through stories

Slides and Handouts:

STRABALA – -Trickster webinar 2021 Strabaladoc

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Treating Nine Classic Types of Relationships

Speaker(s):

John Carpenter, MSW, LCSW

Presentation:

When any two people seek to have a meaningful, loving relationship, there are many factors which can interfere, distract, or deteriorate their efforts to succeed. Couples face interfering relatives, cultural differences, strong but often different values, blended family challenges, the dividing effect of manipulative children, addictions, and emotional distractions — not to forget the individual needs and personality dynamics of each individual. Sound too complicated or overwhelming?

This presentation will clearly illustrate nine classic formations of couples with their challenges based upon emotional distance caused by the types of interference just mentioned. Using wonderful illustrations, role plays, and visual props to demonstrate their dynamics. The ways to rebalance or treat these relationships will become very clear and easy to adopt. These nine types of couples should encompass every possible relationship you can imagine — including your own!

Objectives:

  1. Identify and comprehend each type of the nine couples
  2. Understand what forces / factors interfere with each type of couple
  3. Describe the basic treatment needs of each couple
  4. Learn visual and experiential techniques to assess and help each couple

Slides and Handouts:

CARPENTER_MIMH 2021

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Treating Anxiety in Children and Adolescents

Speaker(s):

Justin Puch, M.A., LPC

Presentation:

Anxiety has increased significantly in children and adolescents over the past decade. A study found that our children have the level of anxiety that inpatient psychiatric patients had two decades ago. In this presentation you will learn how anxiety presents in children and adolescents, how to treat anxiety in your office, and how to help parents help their children cope more effectively.

Objectives:

  1. Learn what anxiety is and how it presents in children.
  2. Develop and learn counseling techniques to use in sessions.
  3. Learn about tried and true coping skills for children and how to teach them so they are utilized.
  4. Learn how to coach parents to help kids cope more efficiently.
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The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Depression on Black Males

Speaker(s):

Eddie McCaskill, MSW, EdD

Anthony Bass, MEd, MA, MSW, RADC, MARS, CCATP, AMTP, CCTP, CDBT, EMDR, LPC

Presentation:

This workshop will examine the impact of adverse childhood experiences and depression on Black males. Black males who are exposed to adverse childhood experiences before age eighteen may be at an increased risk for depressive disorders as adults. There is minimum research on the impact of adverse childhood experiences on the health and well-being of Black males. Adverse childhood experiences have shown to have a severe negative impact on children as well as poor outcomes in their adult lives (Salinas-Miranda et al., 2015). The victims are at increased risk of being homeless, misusing drugs, suicidal, post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety at a higher rate than the regular population (Al-Shawi & Lafta, 2015).   

The Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (2016) data analysis indicated that more than half of all adults in the United States have suffered from adverse childhood experiences. The exposures to adverse childhood experiences have been connected to health problems in adults. Adverse events experienced in childhood may impact the individual for a lifetime. Felitti et al., (1998) identified the ten indicators of adverse childhood experiences as; physical and emotional abuse; physical and emotional neglect; sexual assault; parent treated violently; substance misuse in the home; mental illness in the home; parental separation or divorce; and an incarcerated household member. The Philadelphia Urban ACE Study included additional experiences such as neighborhood violence and racial discrimination. Adverse childhood experiences have been linked to depression in adults (Crouch, Strompolis, Bennett, Morse, and Radcliff, 2017).

Objectives:

  1. Identify the ten indicators of adverse childhood experiences.
  2. Raise level of awareness regarding the impact of adverse childhood experiences and depression on Black males.
  3. Learn psychological, emotional and behavioral symptoms that may present in Black males who have experienced adverse childhood experiences.

Slides and Handouts:

MCCASKILL AND BASS_Bass Formatted DMH Presentation 2021 (2)

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The Basics of Emotional Regulation: Understanding and Teaching Emotion Regulation Skills

Speaker(s):

Amy Shoffner, Psy.D.

Damalye Barclay-Debi, M.A.

Presentation:

Emotional regulation is one of the most important skills in addressing mental health issues. The topic of emotional regulation is often over-complicated which can be overwhelming for those trying to learn emotion regulation skills and for professionals trying to teach emotion regulation skills. This presentation will teach participants the basics of emotional regulation. It will take the mystery out of emotions and help participants understand their own emotional regulation system. Further, this presentation will consider ways to teach emotional regulation to a diverse diagnostic population.

Objectives:

  1. Understand the basics associated with emotional regulation.
  2. Understand one’s own emotional regulation system, including how to use coping skills to lessen the intensity of unwanted emotions.
  3. Teach this model of emotional regulation to diverse diagnostic populations.

Slides and Handouts:

SHOFFNER AND BARCLAY-DEBI_Emotional Regulation_2021

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Solution Focused Brief Therapy

Speaker(s):

Stephen Finzo, Psy.D

Presentation:

This training will provide an overview of the establishment and development of SFBT, its uses for appropriate populations, and skills and nuances for application. We will explore the tenets of the treatment as related to addressing the client’s need in the present and with the focus on the future. We will explore the Needs and Change model addressing motivation, respectful curiosity, and the preferred future. We will determine and define interventions and skills readily available to the participant.

Objectives:

  1. Review the development of SFBT
  2. Gain a practical knowledge of the interventions of SFBT
  3. Learn a viable tool for intervention with clients

Slides and Handouts:

FINZO – SFBT PPT MIMH 5-2021-final

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Preventing Youth Suicide in Missouri: Effectiveness of a Hospital, School and Community Mental Health Center Collaboration in Kansas City

Speaker(s):

Kirsti Millar, M.S.

Michelle Alvarado, BSW

Bryan Gourley, BS

Rachel Morelan, BA, MPA

Heather White, BS

Presentation:

The Missouri Department of Mental Health was awarded a five-year SAMHSA youth suicide prevention grant in 2016. The Show Me Zero Youth Suicide Initiative aims to expand intervention services and prevent suicide in youth aged 10-24 in the greater Kansas City area. This initiative is being implemented by two local Community Mental Health Centers. The program diverts youth who are admitted to hospital emergency department and in-patient psychiatric departments to mental health services at these two centers. Program staff also work with Kansas City area schools to identify and refer youth at risk of suicide. This presentation will describe the key interventions, provide data on the ongoing program effectiveness and discussing ways for ongoing sustainability.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the Kansas City youth suicide prevention initiative and its effectiveness in reducing suicide and suicidal ideation
  2. Offer “Lessons Learned” from implementation of this youth suicide prevention initiative
  3. Discuss potential for replication in other locations and sustainability
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Opioid Use Disorder ECHO

Speaker(s):

Doug Burgess, MD

Evan Schwarz, MD

Dayana Arteaga, DO

Percy Menzies, M. Pharm.

Drew Shoemaker, MD

Angeline Stanislaus, MD

Presentation:

The ECHO model has been recognized as an effective method for distributing and supporting the implementation of evidence based practices to rural areas. This model utilizes teleconferencing technology to link experts in the treatment of opioid use disorder with clinicians interested in learning and implementing evidence based practices in the treatment of a particular condition. This presentation will consist of a live session of the Opioid Use Disorder ECHO. There will be a 20 min didactic on a topic pertaining to the treatment of individuals with opioid use disorder followed by a case presentation and discussion. The didactic covered during this presentation will be management of acute pain in patients being treated for opioid use disorder.

Objectives:

  1. Utilize the ECHO model as a tool to help implement evidence based treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
  2. Describe 1 strategy for addressing acute pain management in patients treated with methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone
  3. Understand the potential for synergistic pain control when combining buprenorphine with full agonist opioids

Slides and Handouts:

BURGESS_Management of Acute Pain in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder STI

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Moral Injury and The Development of PTSD

Speaker(s):

Brian Ouellette, MA, LPC

Presentation:

This presentation looks at Moral Injury and how it contributes to the development of PTSD. Part of this presentation will look at the overlapping symptoms of PTSD and Moral Injury.  This presentation will look at the development of a person’s moral code, how combat trauma has the potential to create cognitive dissonance with someone’s moral code.

The presentation will also cite examples of quotes by various veterans from books such as, “What Have We Done”, and “Soul Repair”, as well as having a collaborative discussion with the participants.

Objectives:

  1. Review how we develop morals.
  2. Discuss cognitive dissonance as it relates to war and morals

Slides and Handouts:

OUELETTE_Moral injury and the Development of PTSD

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Lessons Learned: The Road to Sexual Offending

Speaker(s):

Rachel Colwick, M.A., LPC

Mark Moore, M.A., LPC

Presentation:

This presentation will consist of an overview of the empirically supported treatment models and theories associated with persons who have committed sexual abusive acts such as Good Lives Model, Risk Needs Responsivity Model, Relapse Prevention, Self-Regulation Model-Revised, Motivation-Facilitation Model of Sexual Offending, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. The presenters will explain the dynamic risk factors related to this population as well as the protective factors, or features that have been shown to help lower rate of recidivism. Further, characteristics of patterns regarding the sexual offense progression will be depicted within this presentation. Additionally, case examples will be illustrated to increase conceptualization of the offense motivations, goals, and behaviors. Finally, an emphasis of evidence based treatment strategies or tools will be exemplified to audience members.

Objectives:

  1. Discuss the empirical based models associated with sexual offending
  2. Explain the dynamic risk factors associated with sexual offending including the protective factors (or features shown to help lower recidivism rates)
  3. Describe the primary characteristics or patterns (offense goals, motivations, and behavior) related to the offense progression
  4. Identify treatment targets and interventions or strategies

Slides and Handouts:

COLWICK AND MOORE_STI2021FinalDraft