Tuesday, May 16, 2017                                          6 CEs
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
 
This highly interactive, case-based, full day seminar will provide attendees with an opportunity to discuss a variety of ethical issues related to mental health and addiction services.  We will begin by reviewing a practical approach to ethical analysis that will help the attendees better manage ethical issues that they encounter in their professional lives.   More...
                                                 Wednesday, May 17, 2017                                      6 CEs
7:45 am - 8:30 am
Registration and Networking in the Exhibit Area
8:30 am - 10:15 am
 
This presentation will correlate the phenomenon of relapse as a survival mechanism to provide relief, respite, avoidance, medicating or numbing feelings of pain, remorse, guilt or shame surrounding trauma and post traumatic stress disorder. We will explore the crossroads with moral injury, the soul wound. Additionally, we will provide research, case studies and exercises presented by Judith Taylor Crane to define a deeper understanding of trauma, PTSD and its soul sister, moral injury.  More...
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Networking Break in the Exhibit Area
Judith Taylor Crane Book Signing
10:45 am - 12:15 pm
 
Until now passivity has been one of the least studied, discussed, and explained aspects of human behavior. The fields of psychology, personal growth, and recovery have completely ignored it. Understanding passivity is an essential and important key to creating healthy relationships, increasing self-esteem, and healing the bodies, minds, and spirits of individuals who are hurting or hurting others, and doing so without shame. In order to lead a fulfilling life, a person must overcome passivity, become compassionately assertive, and ultimately remember who he/she were meant to be, wanted to be, and not settle for a half-lived life characterized by quiet desperation, frustration, and settling. This workshop addresses the ever-increasing problems passivity presents to marriages, communication, conflict resolution, and stress. This material will positively impact individuals, groups, and families and does so without shaming those who lives may be less than what they’d hoped. As people recognize passivity and begins to understand and address it, they are building the foundation necessary to become creators of their worlds instead of feeling like the world controls them. These first steps allow people to become compassionately assertive with those they love and, in so doing, regain valuable insights into how to become the people they thought they would be, longed to be and, ultimately, can be, resulting in a fully-lived life.
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch on your own
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
 
Early life trauma can cause long-term and persisting changes to the brain and brain chemistry which can be measured and imaged, even decades after the childhood events. The presence (or absence) of childhood trauma can increase later-life vulnerability to addiction and mood disorders and also appears to influence which treatments are most effective.  More...
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Networking Break in the Exhibit Area
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Anthony J. Mele, PsyD
 
According to the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal and state agencies, the United States is in the midst of an addiction crisis. To address this national emergency, healthcare professionals nationwide must adopt strategies proven to combat substance use in their patients.. More...
                                                                   Thursday, May 18, 2017                              6 CEs
7:45 am - 8:30 am
Registration and Networking in the Exhibit Area
8:30 am - 10:00 am
 
Shame is that unpleasant feeling that drives emotional traumas and addiction. At times, it feels like our clients are exposed and dressed only in the “emperor's new clothes” when they are struggling with substance abuse and/or mental health disorders. How does a behavioral healthcare professional move a family or an individual to a new place of being? More...
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Networking Break in the Exhibit Area
Louise Stanger Book Signing
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Colin Ross, MD
 
In this session, Dr. Ross will describe his clinical experience working with suicidal combat veterans. In his experience, a major driver of the suicidal ideation is self-blame for combat events, often the death of a buddy or a civilian.  More...
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch on your own
Colin Ross Book Signing
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
W01 - The Anger Solution: The Proven Method for Achieving Calm and Developing Healthy, Long-lasting Relationships, (1.50 CE) John Lee, MA

The Anger Solution is based on John Lee’s book and is the culmination of more than two decades of work in the field of anger management. This presentation provides a unique approach for supervisors, human resource personnel, managers, employees, spouses, and the public to work effectively and elegantly with an often-confusing emotion. There is a simple and down-to-earth way of working with a feeling that every human being has a right to express. This unique presentation focuses on keys to working with anger as part of a safe encounter with the most misunderstood emotion.
 
Melissa Caldwell Engle MS, LPC, ATR
 
In this session we will review the developmental effects caused by unresolved trauma and its impact on the addictive client. Often these clients have a difficult time identifying, tolerating, and regulating their emotions. Therefore, it is important to provide an integrated approach that emphasizes mood state regulation. More...
 
Margaret Nagib, PsyD
 
A deep sense of shame often underlies and drives eating disorders (ED) and substance abuse (SA). When these two disorders co-occur, the level of shame intensifies.  More...
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Networking Break in the Exhibit Area
John Lee Book Signing
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
P07 - From Shame To The Road of Empowerment, Family, Food and Love (1.50 CE)
Louise Stanger, EdD, LCSW, CIP, CDWF-Candidate
Robyn Cruze, MA
Lori Jean Glass, CPC, CRC
 
As we grow and become fully human, we work through our relational attachments from where we came from (family) and how we relate (food), and ultimately we discover what type of relationships (love) we want to foster. This keynote address brings three powerful women innovators together to explore our clients’ relationship challenges with others and their survival patterns. Often our clients are not aware of what they are doing, thinking and feeling and their relational patterns are driven by misconceived, outdated patterns.  More...
                                    Friday, May 19, 2017                                   6.0 CEs
7:45 am - 8:30 am
Registration and Networking in the Exhibit Area
8:30 am - 10:00 am
 
Most therapists are proficient at helping clients identify and gain awareness about traumatic events. Insight, however, does not equal change. To move beyond trauma, we must be able to help clients identify not just the traumatic experiences but the coping strategies and personal behaviors resulting from these events and in addition, help clients replace these behaviors with healthy alternatives.  More...
10:00 am - 10:15 am
 
Networking Break in the Exhibit Area
Pat Love Book Signing
10:15 am - 11:45 am
 
Love in the time of Twitter has its own inherent dangers, and you don’t have to surf the dark web to find them. Internet dating, catch-and-release relationships, cohort consciousness, porn on the playground, sexting and the netherworld of internet narcissism are all part of our daily lives, not an underground uncommon experience assigned to a few.  More...
 
 
Janet R. Marquart, LCSW
 
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or chronic Post Traumatic Stress comprises a series of symptoms that usually leaves the mind overwhelmed, broken, fragmented, disturbed, and over-reactive to stressful triggers. These symptoms can feel unbearable, make relationships disintegrate, tempt the use of addictive substances, incite suicidal ideation, and more.  More...
 
 
Faye Reimers, PhD
 
In this session Dr. Reimers will present an overview of various types of trauma, and offer views on the natural process of recovery versus non-recovery. Highlights include the inexplicable link between trauma and addictions; the role of avoidance and addiction as primary contributors in non-recovery, summarizing how avoidance serves to keep the trauma active in the present; and other variables that determine the likelihood of recovery. More.
 
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Lunch on your own
Jan Marquart Book Signing
12:45 pm - 4:00 pm
 
As a universal experience, shame can be looked at as a gatekeeper to wellness. Shame has the power to color the filters through which we experience the world. This is not only true of our clients but is also true for us as helping professionals. In this extended session on shame, participants will participants will look at the developmental process of shame and how the powerful experience of shame impacts active addiction, treatment, as well as active recovery. Shame can be one of the largest obstacles to recovery, and yet we haven’t had many tools for addressing it.   More...