MC Counseling Professional Development

Impact of Cultural Sensitivity and Interventions on Mental Health ...Within an Educational Context Saturday, February 23, 2013   8:30 AM – 2:00 PM The Johns Hopkins University, Rockville, MD (A&R Building) 4.5 CEU Clock Hours Speakers and Book Signing: Dr. Clemmont Vontress, "Opening Speaker": Professor Emeritus of Counseling at George Washington University with significant research around cross-cultural counseling, existential counseling, and traditional healing. Dr. Aaron Stills, "Evidence-Based Multicultural Clinical Interventions in Counseling": Chair and Professor of Counseling at Howard University and founding president of the national Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD). Dr. Norma Day Vines, "Broaching Behavior in Counseling and Educational Contexts": Professor of Counseling and Human Services at Johns Hopkins University, with numerous publicatio...

ACA's first webinar series October 24 (archived), November 7, November 14, November 21, November 28, December 5, December 12 1pm - 2pm ET / 10am PT Registration Closes One Hour Prior to Start of Each Live Webinar This powerful and intensive series will prepare you—or enhance the skills you already possess—for the highly specialized field of military counseling. The series is not a textbook treatment of trauma or a PowerPoint overview of PTSD. Instead, you will hear from recognized experts in military counseling, including counseling professionals who served tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. These seven presenters are helping professionals who are on the front lines here in the U.S., working every day with returning vets who are trying to get their lives back, find jobs, reconnect with their families, and learn how to cope with debilitating physical injuries and mental trauma. These presenters see what is working and what is not. Now they...

Helping Clients Transform Negative Self-Talk and Core Limiting Beliefs December 8 & 9, 2012 Fee: $386.00  (reduced registration fee $326.00) To access and print the brochure for this workshop, click the following link: http://www.ahtainc.com/NegativeSelfTalkbrochure122012.pdf 15 C E for Mental Health Professionals Register by phone, FAX or Online As a mental health professional, you know that negative statements directed at a person can erode their sense of self-worth. Even though many people find they can reject unfair criticism without much difficulty when it comes from others. When it’s the person him or herself, who is doing the negative self-talk, their sense of self-worth can be dramatically diminished and their potential severely limited. Negative self-talk causes stress, triggers anxiety, limits the person’s capacity for ...

The Maryland Consortium for Adjunct Faculty Professional Development (MCAPD) Is holding its 6 th Annual Conference at the Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville campus, on Saturday, October 6, 2012. The t heme for this year’s conference is “Adjunct Faculty: Adding Value to the Academy and the Work Force”.    Mr. Richard Story, Senior Vice President for Marketing at JPB Partners, is our keynote speaker and will address “Preparing For an Ever Changing World.”  Participants will have a wonderful opportunity to network with colleagues from other Maryland institutions and to learn and discuss creative and effective teaching techniques.  Many faculty members and staff from Montgomery College have participated in past conferences, both as presenters and attendees, and have found the conference to be fun and tremendously valuable.  This year, as in the past, several of our MC colleagues will be presenting sessions.  Attached are files containing in...

This most recent tragedy that happened in Colorado gives all of us pause, once again, to consider the impact of mental health relative to our individual and to our community’s safety. In speaking of the tragedy both law enforcement and mental health professionals emphasize the critical need for everyone to become more informed on mental health issues and to learn how to appropriately refer concerns so that proactive intervention can be initiated when it is needed. We are very fortunate at Montgomery College to have leaders who embrace the concept that it takes all of us, working together, to keep our campus communities safe. The collegewide Behavioral Intervention Team (BIT) and CPOD purchased access to the Kognito, “At Risk” software program that will help us identify and deal with the most common behavior problems that show up in college classrooms and on campus every semester. The training takes only 30 to 40 minutes and it is valuable training for anyone who has frequent interac...

2012 MAMCD Conference Friday, June 15 at Bowie State University. Schedule: 9:00 – 9:30 Registration 9:30 – 10:30 Trends and issues in Multiculturalism by Cynthia B. Greer of Trinity University 11:30 – 12:30 Counseling Depressed and Suicidal Students on the College Campus by Dr. Kamilah Woodson from Howard University 12:30 – 1:00 Lunch – box lunch provided 1:00 – 2:00 Counseling Veterans: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder by Jennifer J. Cho from the DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center 2:00 – 3:00 Open Forum on Multicultural Counseling: Past, Present, Future by Dr. Aaron B. Stills from Howard University Preregistration Until June 14 On-Site Registration June 15 Member $40 $45 Non-member $50 $55 Student Member $25 $30 Student Non-member $30 $35 For more information on registration please go to:ht...

do not forget about the professional  development/CEU's at the Child Center and Adult Services located at  Shady Grove Professional Building, 16220 Frederick Road, Suite 502, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 For more information please go to  http://ccascounseling.org/ContEduc2012_spring.htm