6 Continuing Education hours (lunch included in cost)

Description: Today’s world has unprecedented demands on the individual as the turbulent world situation affects growing numbers of people. As pressure on people increase, stress levels increase also. While unacknowledged and unrecognized stress has a negative effect on the human being and their work, stress education can reduce this effect. This workshop is intended to provide you with information you can use to prevent deteriorating health and work performance that may lead to developing burnout.

Stress is like the weather, inevitable. We cannot control the weather, but we can make choices about how to protect ourselves from the elements. This class is designed to provide information, discussion and guided exercises about the nature, signs and symptoms of stress, as well as knowledge and practice of specific stress management techniques.

Instructor: Amy Burzinski, LISW-S. Amy Burzinski is a licensed clinical social worker who has been a school counselor at Bellefaire since 2003. She has an MSW and a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She has also received training in body focused repetitive disorders from The Professional Training Institute of the Trichotillomania Learning Center. Over the past two decades Amy has worked with individuals and families affected by bullying, domestic violence, substance abuse, depression, and anxiety. Amy regularly provides trainings to mental health professionals, educators and administrators on bullying prevention, child abuse, domestic violence, stress management and critical incident stress debriefings. She provides workshops on topics which include bullying prevention, character education, trauma and stress.

Registration deadline: May 8, 2013

3 CEUs
Participants increase their knowledge of the self-conscious emotions.
Participants will be able to distinguish guilt from shame.
Participants will address current research on the treatment of the self
­conscious emotions.
Participants will understand clinical interventions and assessment related
to the treatment of guilt and shame.
Presenter- April Cunion, Psy.D.

6 Continuing Education Hours (lunch included in cost)

Description: With the advent of Ohio’s casinos, mental health professionals need skills in recognizing and treating clients with gambling problems. This workshop will review of the latest literature highlighting pathways to developing gambling problems and best practice treatment strategies (including individual, group and couples work) for the treatment of problem gambling.

Instructor: Heather Chapman, Ph.D. Dr. Heather Chapman is Director of the Brecksville Gambling Treatment Program, and Deputy Director of the Veterans Addiction Recovery Center, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry Case Western Reserve University. A clinical psychologist, she has conducted assessments, individual psychotherapy, and psychotherapeutic, psychoeducational, and support groups targeting problem and pathological gambling since 1997. Dr. Chapman is a nationally certified gambling counselor and board certified clinical consultant from the International Gambling Certification Board of the National Council on Problem Gambling. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, and as such has developed groups specifically designed to enhance change for those struggling with problem and pathological gambling. Her current research interests include suicide and gambling, as well as personality and gambling, co-morbidity, and treatment retention.

Registration deadline: May 5, 2013

10.5 CEs
OPA-MCE 311143362
Seven Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
April 25; May 9, 16, 23; & June 6, 13, 20, 2013

The Purpose of the Workshop
1. To provide an overarching theoretical and philosophical approach to marital therapy that can integrate a clinician’s individual work with marital work, as well as provide a way to look at the overall process over time and the differences between couples from the diagnostic and clinical perspective.
2. To identify the most difficult challenges of marital therapy and in a coherent way look at how a clinician can meet these challenges
In addition to looking at the scenarios and the underlying theoretical framework, the workshop will explore the diagnosis of a couple, as well as the role of the therapist in treating those couples.
Held on Seven Thursday evenings: April 25, May 9, 16, 23, June 6, 13, & 20, 2013

Presenter
Norman Shub, MSW, LISW, LPCC, IMFT
Teacher, author, psychotherapist, consultant, Norman has worked around the world and is the co-founder and the current Clinical Director of the Gestalt Institute of Central Ohio. Known as a clear and articulate “master” teacher, Norman’s pioneering work in the application of Gestalt therapy is taught at the Institute and in many countries. He has spent his life dedicated to enhancing the process of foundational change in individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations. Norman has authored numerous publications including the Working Paper Series, a series devoted to developing the effectiveness of psychotherapists.

1.5 CE

Registration is open as long as space is available.

Each session will involve demonstration, discussion, and theoretical presentation of one scenario. Linked together, the participant will understand on the deepest level an approach to marital therapy over time, as well as how to meet these challenges as a clinician.

The Seven Scenarios
1. When there is no love
2. The stepchild dilemma
3. When there is a characterologic partner
4. When a couple is neurotically linked, meeting negative neurotic needs
5. Emotional and sexual infidelity and the impact on relationship
6. When the relationship is ok not great
7. Connection/communication/compassion/sexual passion/romance – when one of the basic elements is missing

This Workshop/Training is appropriate for clinicians in all phases of development for themselves and as couples therapists. This workshop will be thoughtful and concrete, and address the specific clinical concerns of the participants. In addition to looking at the scenarios and the underlying theoretical framework, the workshop will explore the diagnosis of a couple, as well as the role of the therapist in treating those couples.

Registrations are accepted until workshop room has reached capacity.

4.5 CEs This 3 session class (3 Thursdays) will use Robert Johnson’s book “Inner Work” for learning about the unconscious and as the doorway to focus on the experience of relating to dreams and using Active Imagination for personal growth.
Presenter: Janice Bachman is a Jungian Analyst, Spiritual Director, Retreat Director and Educator.
Pre-registration required by May 6.

While earning 6 psychologist cme’s, attendees at this workshop will learn from veteran trainer Ruth Herman wells, M.S. who was named one of the top 10 U. S. Education Speakers by Speaker Mix in 2011. Her work with troubled youth includes directing one of the top girls’ juvenile justice programs in the county as rated by a national policy group. Breakthrough Strategies delivers dozens of ready-to-use, effective strategies to turn around defiant, unmotivated, difficult youth. Every minute of this course is packed with real-world solutions to stop your most serious “kid problems.” Early Registration ($65)Deadline April 25. Final Registration($75)Deadline May 2, 2013.

The Ohio State University Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
1 CME hour
no ethics
no registration
WILLIAM MALARKEY, M.D.
Associate Director, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research
Director of the Clinical Research Center
Professor Emeritus, Endo, Diabetes & Metabolism
Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University

Threat Assessment with Dr. Terry Kukor at Maryhaven. Attendees will earn 3 CE. Knowing how to accurately assess a client’s behavior and ascertain which threats pose risk is an essential skill, yet many practitioners are not trained in such an assessment. This workshop will provide a detailed review of protocols for conducting threat assessments.

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Participants will learn to:
• Articulate the limitations associated with profiles of school or workplace shooters
• Describe the differences between threat and risk assessment
• Articulate the dimensions of specific threats most pertinent to assessing risk
• Describe the key differences in the Secret Service and FBI models of threat assessment

Terry Kukor, Ph.D., ABPP, is board certified in forensic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is the Director of Forensic and Specialized Assessment Services for Netcare Corporation in Columbus, Ohio. He serves as an adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychology at Miami University and Drexel University, and as a member of the Auxiliary Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, at The Ohio State University. Dr. Kukor has specialized in criminal forensic evaluation for more than 20 years, during which time he has performed a wide variety of forensic evaluations, including criminal responsibility, competence to stand trial, juvenile competency & waiver, violence risk assessment, and threat assessment. At the Netcare Forensic Center, he performs and supervises criminal forensic evaluations on court-referred adults and juveniles.

6 Continuing Education hours (lunch included with cost)

Description: This workshop is for professionals working with children, and their families, who are engaged in problematic sexual behaviors. Participants will learn what is meant by sexualized behaviors, their characteristics, the associated myths and assumptions, and the traumagenic dynamics if there has been children abuse. Attention will be given to assessing and understanding the goals of treatment, and the prerequisites for healing and recovery for these children. Useful tools and treatment exercises will be presented.

Instructor: Paula Atwood, EMBA, LISW-S, LICDC. Paula V. Atwood is the Vice President, Staffing and Special Projects at Beech Brook of Northeast Ohio. In this position, Ms. Atwood is responsible for the Employer of Choice Initiative, Staff Recruitment and Human Resources. She is also serving as the Clinical Director for AOD services. She oversees and supervises AOD program staff and screening, assessment, and treatment services. She also ensures compliance with ODADAS rules and regulations, ADAMHS Board contract requirements, applicable Joint Commission Standards and the financial outcomes.

Paula formerly served as the Vice President, Community-Based Services Cluster, with administrative responsibility for the delivery of quality care mental health, social services, and educational services to children, adolescents and their families. The programs included were the Outpatient, School-Based, Family Preservation, Family Health and Early Childhood programs. Ms. Atwood has been at Beech Brook in various administrative positions since 1999.

Ms. Atwood has over 33 years experience in administration, management, and direct care in the social service, mental health, child welfare, and substance abuse/chemical dependency field. She is a graduate of the School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and the Executive Masters in Business Administration program at Baldwin-Wallace College. She is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and a Licensed Independent Chemical Dependency Counselor.

Registration deadline: April 30, 2013