Seminars
“In the Community and For the Community (ICFC)”
Fall River – October 17, 2014 9:00 am -2:30 pm
Chelmsford- October 31, 2014 9:00 am -2:30 pm
Morning Session – 9:00 – 11:30 am
Child & Adolescent Trauma: Assessment and Treatment Strategies
Carryl P. Navalta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Medicine, Mental Health Counseling & Behavioral Medicine Program
Course participants will obtain new knowledge, enhanced clinical skills, and innovative strategies that will truly help them make a real difference in the lives of traumatized children, adolescents, and their families. Exposure to traumatic events and other serious adversities poses the greatest threat to children’s mental and physical well-being. Therefore, social workers who work with children and adolescents need the most up-to-date information and clinical skill-set to effectively treat this highly vulnerable segment of our population.
Afternoon Session – 12:00 – 2:30 pm
Mental Health Issues Related to HIV Prevention & Treatment
Stephen Brady, PhD, Program Director, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Graduate Medical Sciences, Boston University School of Medicine, Mental Health Counseling & Behavioral Medicine Program
Seminar will describe the relationship of trauma, psychiatric diagnoses and substance abuse in HIV + patients; provide an overview of how motivational approaches can be used to improve adherence and reduce risk behavior; and identify strategies for managing HIV+ patients with mental health and substance use disorders. Cases will be presented to illustrate these challenges
Register here by October 10th.
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Past Seminars
“Implementing and Adapting Trauma Interventions with Latino Populations” (Morning Session)
By Luz Lopez, PhD Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Practice
Fall River – March 28, 2014 9:00 am -11:30 am
*Breakfast and CECs will be provided at no cost.
Course Objectives:
- Describe differences in co-morbidity substance abuse and mental health symptoms among Latinos
- Analyze emerging issues and taboos working with addiction, mental health and trauma treatment
- Identify 3 trauma informed evidence based group interventions models
Register here by March 21st
“Families and Trauma: Assessment and Treatment” (Afternoon Session)
By Ruth Paris, PhD. Associate Professor Clinical Practice; Director, Family Therapy Certificate Program
Fall River – March 28, 2014 12:00 pm-2:30 pm
*Lunch and CECs will be provided at no cost.
Course Objectives:
- Trauma and families
- Impact of acute and chronic trauma on family life and functioning
- Family trauma assessment
- Family therapy for posttraumatic stress disorders
- Using family systems thinking in acute trauma response
Register here by March 21st
“Treatment of PTSD, Severe Mental Illness and Addiction”
By Kim Mueser, PhD; Executive Director, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (CPR); Professor, Occupational Therapy, Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitative Sciences: Sargent College
Fall River – February 14, 2014 9:00 am – 11:30 am
*Breakfast and CECs will be provided at no cost.
Course Description:
The course will begin with a review of the epidemiology of addictive disorders in person with severe mental illness, followed by a discussion of etiological theories accounting for the high rate of comorbidity in this population. Methods for assessment of substance use disorders will be reviewed. The principles of integrated treatment of co-occurring disorders will be explicated, including: comprehensiveness, motivation-based (stage-wise) treatment, cognitive-behavioral modalities, multiple treatment modalities, concurrent psychiatric rehabilitation, and long-term care. Motivational interviewing strategies adapted for persons with serious mental illness will be highlighted.
The high rate of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in people with addiction and/or serious mental illness will be reviewed. Methods for assessing trauma and PTSD will be described. Effective, non-exposure-based treatment methods for PTSD in persons with addiction and/or serious mental illness will be addressed, including education, teaching anxiety management strategies, and cognitive restructuring. Participants will be taught an easy-to-use self-management approach to cognitive restructuring for PTSD. Case examples will be provided.
Course Objectives:
- Inform participants about the prevalence and correlates of substance use disorders in people with serious mental illness.
- Review effective measures for detecting substance use problems in people with serious mental illness.
- Describe principles of integrated treatment for co-occurring substance use and serious mental disorders.
- Review the prevalence of PTSD in people with serious mental illness and/or addiction.
- Understand methods for assessing trauma and PTSD in people with serious mental illness and/or addiction.
- Review effective treatment strategies for PTSD in these vulnerable individuals.
Register Here by February 7, 2014
“Vulnerable Populations in the Military: Implications for Resiliency-Enhancing Behavioral Health Practice”
Video Presentation
Chelmsford – TBD
Fall River – November 15, 2014 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Course Description:
This presentation provides an overview of demographic, social, behavioral, and psychological characteristics of vulnerable populations who serve in the military and how these individuals may be disproportionately affected by military service and deployment experiences. Clinical practice models and implications for behavioral health practice will also be discussed.
Course Objectives
- Identify vulnerable groups in military service.
- Describe social, behavioral, psychological and historical characteristics associated with stigma and health disparities in military organizations and health care systems for specific vulnerable groups.
- List conceptual models that inform practice with vulnerable groups in military service.
“Treating Co-morbid Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders”
Chelmsford – November 1, 2013 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Fall River – November 15, 2013 9:00 am – 11:30 am
Course Description:
This training is intended to enhance clinicians’ skills in providing evidence-based brief treatment for comorbid addiction and mental illness. The primary goal of this training is to provide clinicians with manualized brief treatment approach to outpatient substance abuse counseling.
The approach that will be presented uses motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques in 6 -12 sessions that focus on building client skills to positively change unhealthy behaviors and maintain those changes. This training will include “hands – on” experiential learning through use of live demonstration, training video clips and group discussion
Course Objectives:
- To recognize forms of risky thinking and risky behaviors that precipitate lapse to use.
- To acquire strategies for helping clients change risky behavior and challenge risky thinking.
- To learn sobriety sampling as a strategy for helping clients initiate a period of complete abstinence from alcohol or drugs.
- To acquire skills for helping clients to cope with social pressure to use.
Registration for this event is closed
“Treating Co-morbid Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders” (Part 1 and Part 2)
Fall River – October 25, 2013 9:00 am– 2:30 pm
Course Description:
This training is intended to enhance clinicians’ skills in providing evidence-based brief treatment for comorbid addiction and mental illness. The primary goal of this training is to provide clinicians with manualized brief treatment approach to outpatient substance abuse counseling.
The approach that will be presented uses motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques in 6 -12 sessions that focus on building client skills to positively change unhealthy behaviors and maintain those changes. This training will include “hands – on” experiential learning through use of live demonstration, training video clips and group discussion
Course Objectives:
- To understand the impact of co-morbid mental illness on the treatment of substance use disorders
- To understand models of care that integrate treatments for both substance use disorders and mental Illnesses
- To better understand the theoretical basis for a CBT approach to treating substance use.
- To gain additional skills for assessment of the factors which maintain substance use based on a CBT conceptualization and generate a treatment plan based on observed deficits in coping skills
- To understand the major components of a CBT approach to substance use treatment.
- To gain practical skills in implementing components of CBT approach for treating substance use.
Registration for this event is closed
