Professional Development

PESI Presents:
Your Choice of Live Video Webcasts
Learn from Two Leading Expertsin Mental Health

Rick Hanson, Ph.D.Buddha's Brain:The Practical Neuroscience ofHappiness, Love and Wisdom Live Video Webcast Thursday, February 10, 201111:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (EST) Break from 2:50 until 4 p.m.

Featuring:Rick Hanson, Ph.D. Neuropsychologist & author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D.New Developments in the Treatment of PTSD, Complex PTSD and Comorbid Disorders Live Video Webcast Friday, February 11, 20118:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST)Break from 11:50 p.m until 1 p.m.

Featuring: Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D.“One of the most influential psychotherapists of the century.” Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D.New Developments in the Treatment of PTSD, Complex PTSD and Comorbid Disorders Live Video Webcast Friday, February 11, 20118:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST)Break from 11:50 p.m until 1 p.m.

Sensory Materials & Techniques for Any Setting, Age or BudgetLive Video Webcast
Thursday, February 10, 2011

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9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST) Break from 12:50 p.m. until 2 p.m.
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Dynamic sensory interventions with materials you already have on hand
Practical solutions you can implement the very next day
Hands-on exercises with sensory materials
Expertly maximize any space or budget

With current budget cuts and worries about the financial future, this session presents a practical approach towards addressing sensory needs in tight spaces with tight budgets. Finding sensory outlets that work without compromising services for individuals is the ultimate goal. This session will include specific ideas that use common, low cost materials in innovative ways. Examples of sensory applications will be given including simple sensory areas and materials that can be set up for “sensory on the go.”

The combination of relatively inexpensive materials paired with great ideas, intentions, and interaction can lead to wonderful outcomes. The speaker will give ideas for designing simple sensory routines and areas with respect to materials needed, safety, comfort, and cost. The value of positive sensory interaction in school, home, and community settings often stretches beyond the initial cost of materials. Examples of positive “best practices” in the use of resources and training will be given as well as suggestions for finding funding supports.

Susan McKinley is the director and founder of Tangible Alternatives a company that works with individuals with special needs and their caregivers to provide quality of life services and opportunities. Susan has worked with individuals with special needs for over 20 years in residential, community, and school settings. Her educational background includes degrees in education for children with mental, physical, and behavioral special needs, including autism. She is a licensed massage therapist, a Snoezelen trainer, and also teaches yoga for individuals with special needs. Susan has enjoyed working with teachers, parents, and other caregivers to build skills that can improve behavior, communication, and reduce stress. She frequently provides trainings for groups and individuals with hands on applications. The unofficial motto of the company is “We are Professionals. Please try this at home.”

How to register: $169.99Online http://online.pesi.com or phone 1-877-880-1335. Please have your credit card available.Fax 1-800-554-9775Mailing address:PO Box 1000Eau Claire, WI 54702One CE certificate included. $19.99 per CE certificate for each additional participant.

Co-Occurring Mental Health & Substance Disorders: Developing Integrated Systems of Care for Individuals & Families

Live Video WebcastFriday, February 11, 2011
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST) Break from 11:50 a.m. until 1 p.m.

Featuring Kenneth Minkoff, M.D.
Nation’s leading expert on the treatment of co-occurring disorders
Clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Join leading expert Kenneth Minkoff, M.D. and learn the latest research-based principles for successful treatment for individuals with co-occurring disorders. Learn how to apply these principles to successful clinical interventions in any setting. In addition, learn to design a strategy for service provision through the development of a comprehensive, continuous, integrated system of care (CCISC). Transform your approach and achieve not only recovery oriented co-occurring capability, but recovery-oriented co-occurring competency as well.

Dr. Minkoff’s approach is transforming treatment outcomes in over 30 states and four Canadian provinces, utilizing simultaneous interventions at the system, program, clinical practice and clinician levels. Leave this seminar and apply these evidence-based principles to interventions that can be applied in any service setting. You will learn to properly match services within existing resources to the individuals with co-occurring disorders.

Dr. Minkoff will also illustrate how any system, any program and any person delivering clinical care can immediately begin to make progress in improving welcoming, recovery-oriented co-occurring treatment for the people they are serving. Learn a systematic process for implementing this model in any setting.

Objectives
* Identify 8 principles of evidence-based treatment intervention upon which to base the design of a comprehensive, continuous, integrated system of care.
*Apply each principle to interventions such as integrated strength-based assessment, stage matched interventions, integrated skill building and positive contingency management.
*Describe the process of quality improvement that uses these principles to organize co-occurring capability for all programs in a comprehensive, continuous, integrated system of care.
* Identify funding strategies to maximize use of existing resources for developing co-occurring capable treatment of dual diagnosis.
* Implement principles at the system, program, clinical practice and clinician competency levels.

How to register: $169.99Online http://online.pesi.com or phone 1-877-880-1335. Please have your credit card available.Fax 1-800-554-9775Mailing address:PO Box 1000Eau Claire, WI 54702One CE certificate included. $19.99 per CE certificate for each additional participant

2011 Conference on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Live Video Webcast February 24 and February 25, 2011

Featuring Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D., LPC National Trainer & CBT Expert

Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D., LPC is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Oklahoma. He currently practices at Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the nation’s premiere psychiatric facilities. He is the developer and coordinator of Laureate’s cognitive-behaviorally-based borderline personality disorder program.

Dr. Riggenbach has spent the majority of the past 10 years researching, practicing and speaking on cognitive behavioral therapies, developing specific expertise in borderline personality disorder and other axis II conditions. He has completed training with The Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy and Research and is certified with the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Riggenbach is currently serving as site coordinator for an international multi-site outcome trial with schema-focused cognitive therapy for clients with borderline personality disorder.

Additionally, Dr Riggenbach has served as an adjunct professor and lectured in hospital and university settings. He is a member of the Beck Institute’s speakers’ bureau, and his seminars routinely receive the highest marks in terms of professional knowledge, practical application and entertainment value.

$169.99 for one day or $299.99 for both days One CE certificate included. $19.99 per CE certificate for each additional participant per day

How to register:Online:Register now for Thursday, February 24, 2011 Register now for Friday, February 25, 2011 Register for both days & save!Phone 1-877-880-1335. Please have your credit card available.Fax 1-800-554-9775

Mailing address:PO Box 1000Eau Claire, WI 54702

EVIDENCE, ETHICS AND RELATIONSHIP TRENDS IN MENTAL HEALTH SUPERVISION

Friday, February 25, 2011, 12:30PM - 4:15PM
Rockville Memorial Library 21 Maryland Ave First Floor Meeting Room

This seminar focuses on the mandates and trends in clinical, legal, administrative, and management aspects of mental health supervision. The focus is on the supervisor's role in management of services provided by agency practitioners and private practitioners. Traditional effective supervisory practices are reviewed as well as new and emerging generally accepted supervisory practice standards in an increasingly complex practice world. There will be specific focus on requirements for supervision for licensure. The training will also contain information about the changing role of clinical supervisors in the mental health field under the new federal health care law.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1) Develop skill in performing mental health supervision in the rapidly changing practice environment.

2) Become acquainted with legal aspects of mental health practice, supervision, and standards of practice.

3) Learn generally accepted standards of supervisory practice performed for candidates seeking licensure.

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