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This is an advanced workshop for clinicians who have special interest and experience in assessment and treatment
of ADD. New models emphasizing executive-function and working memory impairments in ADD will be presented. Advanced clinical
problems discussed will include unmanageable preschoolers, ADD with bipolar disorder, documentation of ADD/LD in high school/college,
OCD and social impairment in ADD with Asperger's, options for treatment of ADD in individuals with substance-abuse history, and other complex cases of ADD with comorbid disorders.
Biography of the Presenter Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate
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Antidepressant Treatment Update: Integration of Psychopharmacology
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This intermediate workshop presents practical information
for practicing psychologists about the effects of common antidepressant, how to best explain these medications and their
effects to patients, and how to employ cognitive-behavioral principles and practices to enhance pharmacotherapy. The antidepressant
teaching is based on understanding the division of antidepressants into seven classes according to their neurotransmitter
effects. Once the seven classes are recognized, it is possible to have a logical approach to selection of a particular antidepressant
based on the side effect profile of the class to which it belongs. In addition, practitioners will learn to identify medical
illness, medication side effects, and drug effects that can produce depressive symptoms and practical outcome measures to
track and modify treatment.
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The Bylaws of the American Psychological Association charge the APA Ethics
Committee with formulating “rules or principles of ethics for adoption by the Association.” The APA adopted its first Ethics
Code in 1953, and in 1996 the Ethics Committee began the process of drafting the Code’s 10th revision. This course provides
an overview of the new APA Ethics Code, which the APA Council of Representatives adopted in August 2002 and which became
effective in June 2003. While the course focuses on highlights of the 10th Ethics Code revision, the course participant
will gain a solid grasp of the new Code’s letter and spirit.
Biography of the Presenter Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate
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Significant progress has been made in assessing children with autism spectrum disorders. It is the case that a consensus model for assessment and diagnosis has not been reached. This
advanced workshop will summarize the state of the science of autism assessment beginning with a historical overview of etiology, definition, and discussion of uses and limitations of standardized autism assessment scales and tools; discuss developmental considerations; and emphasize the importance of integrating data in making a diagnosis of autism or related ASD.
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Behavioral Sleep Medicine: Evidence-Based Treatments for Sleep Disorders |
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An overwhelming number of patients have sleep problems, which can be disconcerting
to clinicians without formal training in the treatment of these disorders. A wellspring of evidence supports several psychological
treatments of sleep disorders such as insomnia, parasomnias, and circadian rhythm disorders, and there is a growing need
for practitioners with expertise in these techniques. However, there is a bottleneck in dissemination. The main goal of
this introductory workshop is to educate clinicians about how to provide, and be reimbursed for, empirically validated treatments.
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Bipolar Across the Life Cycle |
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Bipolar disorder is complex diagnosis that affects four times as many adults than previously thought. This INTERMEDIATE workshop discusses key issues, including: Whether bipolar appears differently in children versus adults, how often bipolar occurs in youths in different settings, what issues make accurate diagnosis especially challenging, how to use specialized measures to diagnose it more accurately, what are promising treatments, and how to adapt methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to better treat bipolar disorder. Updated content includes new measures, longitudinal findings, and treatment implications of mania versus depression.
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Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Presentation, Assessment Strategies, and Treatment
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Bipolar disorder is a controversial and high-stakes diagnosis in children and adolescents. This
intermediate workshop discusses key issues, including how bipolar disorder appears differently in children versus adults, how often it occurs in youths in different settings, what issues make an accurate diagnosis especially challenging, how to use specialized self-report and parent-report measures to diagnose it more accurately, and how to use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to treat pediatric bipolar disorder. New and updated content includes new measures and treatment implications of mania versus depression.
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Building Your Practice Through Interprofessional Collaboration With Health Care Providers |
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This INTRODUCTORY workshop was part of Dr. Carol Goodheart's Presidential Programming. The workshop is designed for practitioners who are interested in expanding their practice through interprofessional collaboration. We will review the challenges of interprofessional collaboration, including health care culture, training disconnects, and institutional barriers. Participants will learn the business of practice strategies to overcome these challenges, including payment mechanisms and contractual and statutory mechanisms. Specific collaborative clinical approaches and their application to patient care will be reviewed.
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Successful completion will provide you with 3 CE credits. A CE certificate
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia: Theory, Assessment & Treatment |
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM) are controversial and
poorly understood illnesses without clearly defined causes or well-established treatments. In this introductory workshop,
participants will learn about illness controversies; theories of causation; practical methods of psychological, behavioral,
and community assessment; and effective, individualized treatment strategies using cognitive, behavioral, and experiential
interventions. Using a mind/body approach, clinicians can offer realistic hope for substantial improvement to these patients.
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Successful completion will provide you with 8 CE credits. A CE certificate
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Clinical Approaches to Women Coping With Pregnancy Loss and Perinatal Depression |
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This intermediate applied workshop will address clinical approaches to
women coping with common pregnancy related complications. Presentations will focus on the assessment and treatment of: (1)
women and couples who have experienced pregnancy loss during any trimester and (2) women with depression and anxiety during
and after pregnancy. Strategies to prevent perinatal depression will also be reviewed. Case discussions will illustrate
interventions for diverse women coping with pregnancy complications. Assessment tools will be provided as will guidelines
for collaborative care with obstetricians and reproductive endocrinologists.
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Clinical Health Psychology Institute: Expanding Psychology Practice to Primary Health Care-Evidence,
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On August 9, 2006, a one day program entitled Expanding Psychology Practice
to Primary Health Care; Evidence Skills and Issues was held prior to the APA’s Convention in New Orleans. There is much
written and discussed concerning psychology integrating into medicine, but practical knowledge has been difficult to obtain.
The focus this course, modeled on the program, is identification of key knowledge in the Integration of Psychology and Medicine.
It includes specific workshops designed to teach skills necessary to implement evidenced-based assessment and interventions
to medical patients.
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Coherence Therapy: Swift Change at the Core of Emotional Truth |
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Coherence therapy is a set of methods and concepts for bringing about profound shifts and the cessation
of a wide range of symptoms in far fewer sessions than is expected in most depth-oriented psychotherapies. Its experiential
methods serve as a therapist's GPS for accurately finding the specific, unconscious, adaptive emotional learnings maintaining
symptoms and then guiding the dissolution of those subcortical schemas, releasing their choke-hold and ending symptom production.
Videos of real sessions demonstrate this subjectively rich coherence-focused work. Also described is corroboration from
the recent neurobiological discovery of how ingrained emotional memory circuits become unlocked and unwired.
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Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate
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Price: US $120.00 for one year's access
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Collaborative Psychologist: Creating Reciprocal Relationships With Medical Professionals, The |
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This introductory workshop will help psychologists in independent or community
based practice develop strategies to create and maintain reciprocal working relationships with medical professionals. Psychologists
must shift practice patterns to collaborate with medical professionals to optimize patient care, facilitate referrals, and
decrease professional isolation. Yet, many psychologists find working with medical professionals frustrating. Three psychologists
with decades of experience working with primary care medical professionals will share their tips on finding collaboration-friendly
medical professionals and establishing and maintaining rewarding collaborative relationships via shared patient care.
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Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate
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Competency-Based Clinical Supervision: State of the Art |
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This intermediate workshop is designed to introduce participants to fast-evolving
best practices of supervision and to enhance supervisory competence through experiential exercises. The workshop includes
current research on supervision efficacy, optimal supervision, and parameters of competency based supervision with emphasis
on empirical support. Multicultural competence, alliance development and repair, legal and ethical issues and risk management
techniques, and more are highlighted in hands-on exercises, vignettes, and role-plays.
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Creativity and Engagement in Online Psychology Courses |
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Active pedagogy, engaged learning, and creative online strategies are important
tools for instructors who want to move their classrooms into the 21st century (Morton, 2007). This introductory workshop
will help instructors rethink and redesign their own classroom materials for use in a highly interactive and high-quality
online environment. Program directors and administrators of training programs who seek to meet accreditation demands for
learning outcomes may also find the workshop helpful.
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Successful completion will provide you with 3 CE credits. A CE certificate
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Customizing Mindfulness for Individual Psychotherapy |
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This is an introductory workshop for clinicians who would like to apply
mindfulness in individual psychotherapy. Participants will learn how to use mindfulness to foster therapeutic connection
and how to design mindfulness techniques for patients to practice between therapy sessions. The workshop will integrate
theory, clinical material, and research. Topics discussed will include the three core mindfulness skills, the basic structure
of mindfulness techniques, how to safely turn toward emotional suffering, and key clinical questions for the mindfulness-oriented
psychotherapist. Instructional methodologies are meditation practice, small- and large-group discussions, case presentations,
and clinical exercises such as role-playing.
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Distinguished Workshop Series — Improving Outcome by Integrating
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In this INTRODUCTORY workshop, a model of how the common factors are important in psychotherapy will be presented. This model describes how the common factors are therapeutic in and of themselves and how they interact with the specific ingredients of the treatment protocol. The implications of this model for clinical practice, regardless of the particular treatment protocol being used, are discussed, with an emphasis on clinical applications. Finally, the research that supports the model and its application is presented.
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Successful completion will provide you with 2.5 CE credits. A CE certificate
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Duty to Protect: Ethical, Legal, And Clinical Considerations, The |
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Duty to protect situations are among the most stressful scenarios for therapists,
and they can be made more difficult when the clinician misunderstands her or his ethical and legal obligations. Lack of
knowledge or misinterpretation can compromise clinical care and lead to ethical and legal charges. This intermediate workshop
is designed to provide direction for assessment and intervention in potential duty-to-protect situations. The content is
based on a thorough review of the ethical, legal, and clinical landscape that exists in this area
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Emerging Best Practices for Telepsychology Services |
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Telemedicine or real-time videoconferencing is an innovative strategy to address the challenges rural families face in finding quality mental health care. But there is caution in making sure the best quality psychology services are provided in technology context. This INTRODUCTORY workshop will summarize best practices in the emerging field of telepsychology, including clinical and distance education applications. The instructors will give examples of following evidence-supported practice within different telemedicine settings.
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Evidence-Based Group Treatments for Survivors of Catastrophic Trauma |
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In this INTERMEDIATE workshop on group therapy for survivors of psychological
trauma, two manualized treatments are presented: trauma focus group therapy (TFGT), a behavioral model incorporating skills-building
and trauma exposure; and present-centered group therapy (PCGT), a supportive approach informed by schema theory. Demonstration,
didactics, and discussion center on group interventions for specific PTSD symptom clusters, as well as trauma-based attitudes, beliefs,
and feelings. Application to recent trauma (e.g., war, terrorism, natural disaster) emphasizes adjustment issues, reintegration
into community, and depathologizing of distress.
Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may be
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Forensic Assessment and the Standard of Care |
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Standard of care is a term frequently used and even more frequently misunderstood,
especially when it comes to forensic assessment. There are many idiosyncratic approaches to forensic assessment that often purport
to represent a standard of care. This ADVANCED workshop will take the definition of standard of care used in legal areas and demonstrate
how, using established standards, guidelines, research, and practice documents, a forensic practitioner can meet a standard of care.
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Impact of Stress and Trauma Related to Military Deployment on Personnel and Their Families, The |
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This intermidate workshop is for clinicians interested in learning about the needs of military personnel and their families during
and after military deployments. CDP faculty will discuss recent findings on the impact of deployment and combat exposure on service
members, the stress of deployment on families, and the complex individual and family problems associated with postdeployment difficulties
including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate may be
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Integrating Outcome Measurement in Psychotherapy Practice |
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This INTRODUCTORY/INTERMEDIATE workshop was part of Dr. Carol Goodheart’s Presidential Programming. The workshop presents a framework for addressing the growing demand for practitioners to demonstrate the quality and the cost effectiveness of the care they provide. The workshop will describe criteria for selecting outcome-measurement approaches that reflect psychotherapy processes; how these approaches can be used to optimize client outcomes; and, how outcome efforts assist in establishing “practice-based” evidence of providing quality care. The approaches taken by governmental and health plans and the impact for practitioners will be addressed.
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Pediatric Psychopharmacology: New Developments, Evidence, Controversies, and Role Opportunities |
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This introductory workshop will summarize recent research findings associated with
pediatric psychotropic drug treatment of internalizing and externalizing disorders, FDA indications and warnings, innovative neuroimaging
studies of drug effects on developing brains, ways that psychologists may help enhance treatment adherence, other new role opportunities
for psychologists, and important ethical and legal considerations. Presented primarily by members of the Division 16 Task Force
on Pediatric Psychopharmacology, this workshop is intended to familiarize attendees with new developments. No prior training in
psychopharmacology is necessary.
Successful completion will provide you with 4 CE credits. A CE certificate may
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Personality Assessment: Ethics and Instruments |
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This workshop reviews clinical personality assessment practices for an intermediate
to advance audience by observing some of the limitations of the MMPI-2, which has become a dated instrument despite the 1989 restandardization,
and the viability of the MMPI relative to other contemporary objective measures, including the PAI and the MCMI-III. Assessment
practices also may include projective techniques, which have been increasingly criticized for limited reliability and validity.
Evidence for the viability of projective techniques and professional and ethical implications of instrument selection will be provided.
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Successful completion will provide you with 3 CE credits. A CE certificate may
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Positive Aging: An Innovative Approach to Counseling Older Adults |
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This introductory workshop teaches principles of Positive Aging to optimize coping
in later life. Specific strategies are described for the range of late-life problems, including adjusting to long-term care, caregiving,
and death and dying. Evidence-supported geriatric counseling is examined from a Positive Aging perspective, and meaning-based life
span therapies are introduced as techniques to help transform the problems of aging into opportunities for well-being and life enhancement.
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What is the proper focus of evidence-based practice? Is it the treatment method, the psychotherapy relationship,
the client as self-active healer, or principles based on the preponderance of evidence from the process-outcome research? In this
program, five preeminent psychotherapy researchers advocate for these positions. A discussion by an expert in the area of psychotherapy
integration emphasizes the need for methodological pluralism in understanding these different perspectives and a realistic stance
when thinking about theory in the light of third-party reimbursement.
This symposium was organized by the Division of Psychotherapy for the 2005 annual convention of the American Psychological
Association in Washington D.C. It is based on the 2006 book Evidence-based practices in mental health: Debate and dialogue on
the fundamental questions edited by John C. Norcross, Larry E. Beutler, and APA past-president Ron F. Levant and published by
the American Psychological Association.
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Psychological Consultation in Child Protection |
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This intermediate workshop for child and family clinicians provides an introduction to consulting with
local child protective service agencies, attorneys for parents and children, and the courts regarding clients in the child welfare
system. Participants will learn to differentiate the relevant issues early in a family's involvement in the system from those at
the end, when the court must decide whether or not to terminate parental rights. The forensic and ethical implications of this work
will be discussed.
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Recognizing and Initiating Treatment of Addictions in Mental Health Settings |
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Addictions are more common in mental health than in addiction treatment settings.
This introductory workshop examines the personal, professional, and contextual reasons why these addictions rarely are recognized.
Designed to meet the unique training needs of mental health professionals, participants are presented with a broadened conceptualization
of addictions that includes substances and behaviors that vary along a continuum of severity. Based on this conceptualization, participants
learn and practice techniques for screening, interviewing, and initiating treatment for addictions that can be seamlessly integrated
into current practices.
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Taking care of the hated and hateful patient |
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Countertransference phenomena, the emotional responses of psychotherapists to their patients, are an
inevitable component of psychotherapy. How psychotherapists feel about their patients provides important clinical data that influences
the treatment process. In contrast to classical psychoanalytic thinking that represents the personal reactions of the psychotherapist
as irrelevant or detrimental, more recent ideas understand these reactions as opportunities to enhance the treatment process.
Countertransference rage and hatred are particularly threatening topics. Psychotherapists are healers
who care for their patients. To acknowledge hostile feelings towards a patient takes courage and professional maturity. How to make
effective use of these feelings in understanding and managing the treatment relationship is challenging and risky. Nevertheless,
hatred in its various forms is inevitable in a profession where exposure to intense affect is routine. In the treatment of personality
disorders where the therapist is invited to reenact certain aggressive roles, the alternative to experiencing hatred may be affective
numbing and stonewalling.
This symposium, originally presented at the 2005 APA Convention in Washington D.C., brings together
four experienced psychotherapists to discuss the theoretical aspects of countertransference anger and hatred and its management
in practice.
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What Psychologists Should Know About Working With Older Adults |
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This workshop was jointly sponsored by the APA Committee on Aging and the APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology.
This intermediate workshop will increase the competencies of psychologists interested in working with older adults, and their
families and caregivers. Topics include demographic characteristics and life contexts of older adults assessment and treatment of
dementia, anxiety, and depression; common behavioral health issues; private practice strategies in working with older adults; filing
for Medicare.
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Successful completion will provide you with 6 CE credits. A CE certificate may be
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Addressing Substance Use in General Practice: Tools for Practitioners |
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Data on co-occurrence of substance use with other mental health issues suggest that one-third to one-half of patients seeking mental health services have substance use issues or suffer from substance use disorders. Most clinicians receive little or no specific training in identifying and working with these patients. In this workshop participants will learn how to screen for, briefing assess, and intervene with substance users in general practice settings. Participants will be provided with tools that can be used to insure that these patients receive the most appropriate care.
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Adult and Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Nature, Assessment, and Treatment |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a significant and common disorder. It often presents differently in children and adults, but can be effectively diagnosed and treated in both populations. This program provides an overview of OCD and its diagnostic criteria, and details a variety of effective mechanisms for assessing and treating it. Behavioral and pharmacological interventions are discussed, described, and illustrated as they are used in practical clinical contexts. Intermediate to Advanced.
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In this session, you will be introduced to the technique of statistical moderation. You will learn how moderation and mediation differ in certain respects, and I will teach you how Baron and Kenny conceptualize it. I will show you how to go through the steps to prepare your data and compute the linear regressions necessary for determining whether you have significant moderation or not. Further, I will discuss how to conduct moderation on several other statistical platforms (i.e., structural equation modeling, multi-level modeling, and bootstrapping).
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Many therapies involve brief lengths of treatment. A structure will be presented for organizing the tasks and skills involved in different phases (pre, early, middle, late, and follow-through) of therapy. Numerous case examples, including video, will illustrate brief therapy techniques both in initial sessions and in the course of longer treatments.
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Clinical Applications of the Advanced Clinical Solutions for WAIS-IV/WMS-IV |
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Clinicians and researchers frequently need to identify if an examinee has experienced a change in intellectual functioning from pre-morbid levels due to neurological disorder or brain injury. Additionally, they often need to identify statistically significant change in cognition over time related to improvement in functioning due to medication or remediation or cognitive decline associated with dementia or other clinical condition. Clinicians and researchers evaluating examinees with neurological, psychiatric and developmental disorders frequently need to evaluate cognitive functions beyond those contained in standard intellectual and memory assessment batteries. These constructs include assessment of suboptimal effort, social cognition and executive functioning. Clinicians and researcher need to how they can assess these constructs with the recently published Advanced Clinical Solutions for the WAIS-IV/WMS-IV.
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Complicated Grief and the Quest for Meaning |
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Although the experience of loss is universal, the paths we take through it can be surprisingly diverse, with some mourners moving through the changed terrain of their lives with surprising resilience, while others encounter severe obstacles or even dead ends. This program reviews evidence bearing on different trajectories through bereavement, both adaptive and maladaptive, and considers the relevance of attachment theory and meaning reconstruction processes in explaining the latter and promoting the former. Drawing on narrative and neurological models, amply illustrated with clinical material and scientific research, this course examines complicated grief as a profound disruption of both the bonds that tie us to others and the self-narrative that gives us a sense of coherence over time, and offers concrete tools for its concepualization and diagnosis.
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Cultural Considerations and Ethical Dilemmas in Rural Mental Health Practice |
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The two purposes of this presentation are (a) to review characteristics of rural communities and associated cultural considerations when practicing in rural areas and (b) to discuss ethical issues that may arise in rural practice, using the American Psychological Association (2002) ethics code as a framework. Emphasis is placed on ethical dilemmas associated with competence, multiple relationships, and confidentiality. Links are made between cultural characteristics and values and the ethical issues and risk management suggestions are offered.
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Cultural Self-Study: A Path Toward Intercultural Competence - Part I: Introduction to a Method |
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This is the first of a two-part training experience for clinicians, other applied psychologists, psychology graduate students, college faculty, and anyone who serves in culturally complex settings. The presenter introduces a conceptual schema to analyze culture then guides participants through a highly structured, step-by-step self-study.
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Cultural Self-Study: A Path Toward Intercultural Competence - Part II: Conducting a Self-Study |
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This is the second of a two-part training experience designed for clinicians, other applied psychologists, psychology graduate students, college faculty, and anyone who serves in culturally complex settings. The presenter introduces a conceptual schema to analyze culture then guides participants through a highly structured, step-by-step self-study.
Biography of the Presenter
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Differential Diagnoses and Treatment for Specific Learning Disabilities Across Development |
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Use of developmental, learning, and phenotyping profiles profiles for treatment-relevant, differential diagnosis of developmental and learning disabilities and within learning disabilities of dysgraphia, dyslexia, OWL LD, and dyscalculia is explained.
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Ethics and Self-Care: Balancing our Lives and Reducing Risk |
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Principle A of our ethics code reminds us that: “Psychologists strive to be aware of the possible effect of their own physical and mental health on their ability to help those with whom they work.” This INTERMEDIATE workshop examines the complex links between self-care and professional competence. The participatory format includes a structured self-assessment exercise and the application of ethical and self-care principles to challenging professional practice and multicultural vignettes.
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Foundations of Mindfulness: An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology |
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The use of mindfulness methods and techniques in psychotherapy has enjoyed increasing popularity. This workshop addresses the theoretical roots of mindfulness in Buddhist psychology, beginning with the Middle Way theory of Mādhyamika Buddhism, which demonstrates the interdependence, impermanence, and emptiness (lack of essence) of phenomena and proposes viewing phenomena as conventionally real but not having inherent reality. We next consider the concept of self from this perspective of emptiness, applying the understanding of “no-self,” and emphasizing how psychological dysfunction arises when we reify conventional concepts such as self and treat them as having inherent existence. Subsequently, we survey meditation techniques, focusing on awareness of created mental processes and immediate physical sensations as a way to assist in seeing that phenomena, including self, lack permanent essence. The workshop then articulates a rationale for the use of mindfulness in psychotherapy and describes examples of mindfulness methods and techniques from various psychotherapy approaches.
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Historical Precursors to Postmodern Psychology |
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Postmodern approaches to psychology and psychotherapy have enjoyed increasing popularity, emphasizing a view of knowledge as humanly constructed, fallible, and open to revision, and of psychotherapy as focusing on meaning-making, collaboration, and a plurality of perspectives. These concepts have a long history, the understanding of which may help us to more fully comprehend and embrace their implications. This workshop addresses the historical ancestry of postmodern psychology, beginning with a consideration of three perspectives from over 2000 years ago in ancient Greece, Rome, and India (Sophism, Skepticism, and Buddhism), and subsequently surveying more recent viewpoints from 19th and 20th Century Europe and America (Perspectivism, Pragmatism). The workshop then summarizes and synthesizes several postmodern themes and approaches to implementing a pluralistic perspective on psychology and psychotherapy.
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How Does the Psychoanalytic Process Work? |
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The psychoanalytic treatment process, involving exploration of emotional experience in the context of a relationship, has informed all types of psychotherapy being practiced today. Its impact can be seen in behavioral, interpersonal and experiential therapies, as well as the many different forms of psychodynamic treatment. Freud was prescient in many respects in his theory of the treatment process; as in any complex theory, however, the basic premises and their therapeutic applications need to be continuously open to examination and revision in the light of new scientific knowledge. My goal is to formulate a modern theory of the psychoanalytic treatment process, and its various changing forms, in the light of current work in cognitive science and affective neuroscience. Such a theoretical framework is needed to provide a basis for research on mediating and moderating variables associated with change in different forms of psychotherapy, and to address questions concerning what treatment methods may be most effective for different types of patients.
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Key Practices in Culturally Alert Counseling |
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Strategies for incorporating culture into counseling have been few up until now. However, practitioners cannot ignore the press of ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, social class, and religion in their clients' lives. In this workshop, counselors will learn over 20 specific strategies for infusing culture into their work. The workshop will combine discussion, presentation, and video demonstration. Participants will be able to implement cultural dimensions into practice immediately after the workshop.
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Making Research Relevant: Reflections from LGBT Community-Academic Partnerships in Ontario |
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender individuals face experiences of homophobia and transphobia encouraged by broader social exclusion processes. Such a combination of forces has significant impact on the overall health and emotional well-being of our communities. Community-based participatory research partnerships are a powerful tool for creating positive individual and systemic change. Drawing on Ontario research, Dr. Travers will highlight current issues of concern to sexually and gender diverse communities, share lessons learned from partnership processes, and reflect on their promise for change.
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Motivational Interviewing |
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Motivational Interviewing is a
person-centered, goal-oriented method of communication for eliciting and
strengthening intrinsic motivation for positive change. In this brief workshop,
we will explore how MI can help us to be more effective in our work. Using the
underlying style embodying collaboration, evocation and autonomy support, we
will practice skills for guiding change-focused client conversations.
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Multidimensional Perfectionism and Stress/Coping: Predicting Well-Being and Dysfunction |
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This session is designed to help psychologists understand more clearly, and treat more effectively, clients with perfectionism. The session includes a review of selected recent perfectionism research. The session will also include a review of relationship between perfectionism, stress, coping, and a variety of outcomes.
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Problem-Solving Therapy for Depression |
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Problem-Solving Therapy (PST) is an evidenced-based intervention for treating both adult and late-life depression. Based on research identifying ineffective problem-solving ability to be an important vulnerability factor for depression, PST fosters adoption and implementation of adaptive problem-solving attitudes and behaviors as a means of effectively coping with stressful life events. A stepped-care approach to treatment will be described whereby treatment decisions are guided by the severity of a client’s depression levels and/or problem-solving deficits. The underlying conceptual framework informing this treatment modality, as well as its empirical foundations, will be presented. In addition, clinical guidelines for conducting PST will be described in detail.
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Profound Change in Psychotherapy: Using Coherence Therapy to Reliably Create Deep Breakthroughs |
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The psychotherapeutic goal of profound change of a person’s emotional conditioning is widely assumed to require long-term work. In this INTRODUCTORY workshop, participants will practice a clinical methodology, coherence therapy, that follows the brain’s recently discovered rules for swiftly unwiring ingrained emotional responses. Videos and a live session will illustrate an experiential, empathic process that can make lasting cessation of symptoms a regular occurrence in clinical practice. A brief account of the new neurobiology of implicit memory erasure is included.
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Spiritual Practices in Psychotherapy: Thirteen Tools for Enhancing Psychological Health |
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The purpose of this workshop is to offer spiritual and religious tools common among the major spiritual and religious traditions that can be used by contemporary psychologists and other mental health professionals regardless of their spiritual or religious affiliation (or lack of) to enhance their professional services. Examples include the benefits of meditation, charitable works, ethical values, and approaching others with compassion. Examples integrating services, ethical issues, and best practices will be discussed.
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The New Statistics Part 1: Rationale, Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals |
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The APA Publication Manual, Sixth Edition, released in July 2009, includes expanded recommendations for statistical analysis and the reporting of research. Major themes include the formulation of research objectives, effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis. This is the first of two units that explain why the new recommendations are so important, discuss the statistical techniques emphasized in the themes, and explain with examples how to follow the new recommendations. This unit focuses on the reasons for the new recommendations, and their potential benefits. It discusses evidence-based practice in statistics and the formulation of research objectives, and introduces effect sizes and confidence intervals.
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The New Statistics Part 2: More Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals, and Meta-analysis |
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The APA Publication Manual, Sixth Edition includes expanded recommendations for statistical analysis and the reporting of research. Major themes include effect sizes, confidence intervals, power and precision, and meta-analysis. This is the second of two units on the new recommendations. It builds on the discussion of effect sizes and confidence intervals in the first unit. It discusses statistical power and precision, then introduces meta-analysis. It explains with examples how to follow the recommendations and how to interpret research reported in the new ways
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Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: An Evidence-based Guide |
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Complex posttraumatic conditions often develop in the aftermath of chronic cumulative trauma, particularly severe child abuse and neglect. It can also develop over the course of adulthood. The objective of this workshop is to provide information about the nature, diagnosis, and treatment of these conditions, drawing upon recent clinical writings and empirical findings. Topics to be covered include: description of complex trauma and diagnostic criteria for complex forms of PTSD/DESNOS and the dissociative disorders; treatment philosophy and treatment frame; sequenced treatment, and specific strategies and approaches, especially those directed towards affect regulation, ego-enhancement, symptom stabilization, and the maintenance of the client’s functioning. Evidence-based treatments will be emphasized.
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Treating Pain with Hypnosis |
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This workshop is designed to teach participants to use hypnosis for the treatment of acute and chronic pain. Geared toward the intermediate or advanced level, the instructor will base the workshop on scientifically grounded work that has been done with hypnosis. At the same time, substantial emphasis will be placed on enhancing the clinical skills of participants.
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Understanding and Diagnosing ADHD in Late Adolescents and Adults |
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From childhood, the ability to pay attention and regulate impulses can be disrupted by countless emotional and contextual factors. Adolescence and adulthood bring even more complexity to life and mood, complicating differential diagnosis when disruptions are severe enough to warrant clinical attention. This workshop is designed for individuals with intermediate-advanced testing skills who regularly use formal psychological assessment tools (e.g., cognitive and academic measures, continuous performance tasks, mood/personality measures). The workshop will briefly define ADHD according to current accepted standards, explore how the disorder presents itself in late adolescents and adults, and review appropriate assessment batteries according to the presenting question. The workshop will also offer opportunities to practice interpreting assessments and differential diagnosis.
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Using Science and Entrepreneurship to Identify Practice Markets and Opportunities |
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Contrary to what many mental health professionals are taught, “entrepreneurship” is not a four letter word. Theoretical concepts of entrepreneurship will be presented as they apply to the development of a private practice. Special emphasis will be placed on developing quality interventions and services in niche markets. Examples of transferring empirically-based research into services that clients will need and purchase will be highlighted, as will practice opportunities for mental health professionals that fall outside the purview of managed care.
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