MC Counseling Professional Development

Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Presenter : John Chamberlain, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist Where : Friday, January 14, 2011 9:00am - noonat the Kolmac Clinic 1003 Spring St.,SilverSpring Md. 20910 Workshop is offered free of charge; 3 Category 1 CEUs offered for $20 This 3-hour workshop will address: · Symptom profile, assessment, and etiological theories of OCD. · Overview of cognitive-behavioral treatment using exposure with response prevention (E/RP). · Application of E/RP to the most common obsessive themes: contamination, harm to self or loved ones, sexual “perversions,” religious transgressions, aggressive impulses, perfectionism, and obsessing about obsessing. · Complicating factors, including “overvalued ideation,” comorbid disorders, “Tourettic OCD,” family members who enable compulsions, and emotions other than anxiety. · Application of techniques to milder OCD features. Case examples will be provided t...

EVIDENCE, ETHICS AND RELATIONSHIP TRENDS IN MENTAL HEALTH SUPERVISION When : Friday, December 10, 2010, 12:30PM - 4:15PM Where : Rockville Memorial Library 21 Maryland Ave First Floor Meeting Room COURSE DESCRIPTION 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. Presenter(s) Dr. Carlton E. Munson is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and Di...

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR APPROACH TO CONCEPTUALIZATION AND TREATMENT When: November, 19, 2010, 12:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Where: Rockville Memorial Library, 21 Maryland Ave, First Floor Meeting Room, Rockville, MD 20850 Program Description: This presentation reviews the diagnostic criteria and clinical presentations of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. As OCD can have a wide range of manifestations, it is important for clinicians to properly assess for the underlying themes so that an effective treatment can be developed. Successful treatment relies on effective interventions and creative clinicians. Interventions and treatments for clients with OCD involve cognitive behavioral strategies including hierarchy development and Exposure and Response Prevention. Also addressed will be the importance and rationale of the subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) as part of hierarchy development and E/RP. Program Objectives Participants will: • Become familiar with symptom...

PESI Buddha's Brain: the Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom Note: This live webcast (audio & video) will be broadcast LIVE over the internet on Monday, October 25, 2010 , starting 8:00 AM Eastern Time. You may access this event from anywhere with an established internet connection. Speaker: Rick Hanson, Ph.D. Price: $169.99 Course №: PLW77853 Duration: 380 Original Program Date: Monday, October 25, 2010 Have additional participants that need credit? Click here for additional CE for this webcast! · 4 steps to internalize positive experiences and heal pain and dysfunction · Learn from the “Olympic athletes” of brain training (lessons from 2,500 years of contemplative practice) · Understand the brain’s negativity bias, the greatest challenge in psychotherapy · Work with the brain’s 3 motivational systems (Approach, Attach, Avoid) · Strengthen the neural circuits of contentment, belonging and peace · Teach cli...

Chinese American Scholar Association (CASA) is pleased to invite you to attend E-Leader at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, January 3-5, 2011 and E-Leader at Zagreb, Croatia, June 6-8, 2011. CASA is a non-profit NYC firm founded in 1989. E-Leader is a global forum for Entrepreneurs, Ethics, E-commerce, and E-Learning in all academic disciplines. Since 2006, CASA ran nine successful E-Leaders in Asia and Europe. Four hundred people attended and raved about the conferences. CASA now has 111 board members from 29 countries, including Iran and South Africa, http://www.g-casa.com Submit your paper now by emailing it to: proposal@g-casa.com Topics of presentation include, but are not limited to: * Leadership (female, developing, inspirational) * Social and global issues, ethics, negotiation, conflict resolution * Accounting, finance, economics, management, marketing * E-Competencies (learning, training, communication) * Healthcare, teacher education, nursing, engineering, physical sciences Re...

Promoting African American Male Academic Achievement Workshop Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010 Time: 9:00 am - 1:00p.m. Registration 8:30-9:00 4 CEU Clock Hours Available African American males face formidable challenges to their educational achievement. There is a serious stifling of aspiration and pride on the part of many African American male youth from kindergarten through college. African American males tend to experience significant alienation from the educational process. Indications of massive educational failure on the part of African males can be found in school systems across the country. Such failure often begins as early as the third grade, with many African American males either dropping out or being pushed out of school for behavioral problems by the seventh grade. This troubling situation calls for aggressive action by educators. Concerted efforts are needed to develop comprehensive approaches for promoting the academic, career, and personal-social developmen...

The 2010 MH Annual Bereavement Conference: Helping Persons with Complicated and Traumatic Loss with Therese Rando, Ph.D. When Monday, September 20, 2010, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Where The Universities at Shady Grove Conference Center 9630 Gudelsky Drive Rockville, MD 20850 Conference registration fee: $100 (plus $10 CEU fee) Dr. Therese Rando is a world renowned author, researcher and educator in the field of death, dying, grief and loss. She has published over 70 written works pertaining to the clinical aspects of thanatology. Her books include Treatment of Complicated Mourning, How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies and Clinical Interventions for Caregivers. Dr. Rando is a national media expert in death, loss and trauma for the American Psychological Association. She has appeared on numerous television programs including “Dateline,” “Good Morning, America,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and provides commentary for newspapers and magazines across the country. Registration: Onl...