ENHANCING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
New JerseyCounseling Association’s Annual Conference
April 30, May 1 & 2, 2006 at the Sheraton Hotel in Eatontown, NJ
Conference Program
Sunday, April 30, 2006
11:00 am – 12 noon Registration
Concurrent Sessions:
12 noon – 5:30 pm KEYNOTE: Starting, Maintaining or Expanding a Private Practice
Robert Walsh, M.A., NCC, LCPC & Norman Dasenbrook, LCPC
This program is a practical presentation that introduces: setting up a practice with minimal investment, fee collecting and billing third party payers, dealing with managed health care, and practice management. The descriptive handouts include examples of practice forms and marketing materials. The presenters have over 40 years experience in private practice. This program will be of special interest to those who cannot make a large investment with which to begin their practice.
12:00 – 2:00 Creative & EffectiveSchoolCounseling
Shannon Black, M.Ed., LPC
Presented by the author of Classroom Guidance Games, this session will provide you with lots of hands-on activities, lessons, and incentive programs for bullying, anger control, study skills, getting along, careers, responsibility, and more! Learn techniques that will help make your school counseling programs, easy, fun, and effective for counselors, teachers, and students.
2:15 – 3:15 Helping People Help Themselves, New Jersey Self Help Clearinghouse
Jeanne Rohach
An overview of The NJ Self-Help Group Clearinghouse services including free consultation assistance with the development and maintenance of mutual aid self-help groups, statewide toll-free helpline, and free training workshops.
3:30 – 5:30 REACH for Counseling Adolescents
Lona Whitmarsh, Ed.D., Jaime Mullette, MA
The REACH model for counseling adolescents is a psychoeducational approach that provides a structure and process for counselors to facilitate the adolescent’s increased understanding of the complex and multiple psychosocial tasks that are critical to the successful resolution of this important developmental life stage. Bring cases from your counseling experiences that can be used in the application of this model.
Monday, May 1, 2005
7:30 – 8:30 am Registration
8:30 – 11:00 am Challenging Situations in Group Work
Jesse DeEsch, PhD, James Murphy, D. Ed.
The program is designed to discuss, role play, and demonstrate challenging situations in group work, including task groups, psychoeducational groups, counseling groups, and/or therapy groups.
Eating Disorders: Assessment & Treatment
Melinda Parisi, PhD
This workshop will provide an overview of eating disorders, including differential diagnosis, associated signs and symptoms, and similarities between the various eating disorders. It will review individual, family and social-cultural factors that put one at risk for developing an eating disorder as well as essential components of eating disorders treatment.
Traumatic Grief
Barbara Rubel, MA, BCETS, CBS, CPBC
Participants will increase their knowledge of the impact of sudden loss on survivors and professionals. Identify ways to respond to survivors of suicides, homicides, car crash deaths, disasters, and terrorist acts. We will also discuss the significance of resiliency when tragedy strikes.
Addiction & Pain Management
James Mulligan, M.D., ASAM, Medical Director of Seabrook House
& David Kim, M.D.
This objectives of this presentation are to: Identify common causes of pain among addicts and the methods for treating it. Examine the interrelatedness of addiction and pain through the pathway reward system of the brain. Review the “safe” and “unsafe” pain medications for addicts and look at alternative methods for treating pain.
OCD in Children & Adolescents
Allen H. Weg, Ed.D.
Attendees will come away with specific, practical procedures that they can apply to the treatment of OCD in children and adolescents. They will be better able to differentially diagnose OCD, especially from other anxiety disorders and ADHD, which may often mimic or mask OCD symptoms. They will have a better capacity to intervene, and have a clearer understanding, not only of the cognitive behavioral treatment approach to pediatric OCD, but how to present it to the client and his or her family.
11:15 – 12:15 am Helping Bereaved Children and Teens
Henry de Mena, MA
The objective of this talk is to help those people who work with children to have more confidence in helping them after a death. We will review the basic bereavement reactions in various aged children and teens. Attendees will be exposed to how the child/teen sees the bereavement process and will be given some specific recommendations on helping the various age groups. Long illness and sudden death bereavement cases will be discussed. We will also discuss what schools can do to help and look at some approaches to group support for children/teens as well as the use of email for reaching out to teens.
Mind/Body Counseling Strategies for Reproductive Health Issues
Cherie Campbell, RN, MA, LPC
Through didactic and interactive exercises, participants will learn about the physical and emotional impact of women’s reproductive health issues such as PMS, infertility, miscarriage and menopause. Specific mind-body counseling strategies such as progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, mindfulness meditation, guided imagery, yoga, cognitive restructuring and other techniques will be discussed and demonstrated.
Salting the Slippery Slope: Legal and Ethical Violations
Barry Mascari Ed.D, LPC, LCADC & Jane Webber, PhD, LPC
New research identifying counselor legal and ethical violation patterns can be useful as a basis for counselors in developing a personal prevention plan. This session will use the research as a basis for identifying the slippery slope (high risk situations). Interactive case studies of violators will be used as participants go back and identify serious choice points in high risk interactions with clients and salt these slippery slopes.
“Excuse Me While I Change Into Something More Uncomfortable”
Rita Freeborough, M. Ed., GCDF, CFRS
This workshop is to help students and individuals of various backgrounds prepare for change, and make their transition from the known to the unknown more comfortable. The striking feature of this session is that it allows individuals focus on their present situation, and allows facilitators to guide them in developing empowerment so they can move forward. Share the activities, humor, stories, and factual information in this upbeat, motivational workshop.
Prevention-Risk Reduction Through IntegratingCommunity Services and Schools
Elizabeth Knodel-Gordon, MA, LPC, SAC and
Lynn Belvidere, MA, LPC, SAC
This workshop will focus on the components of a comprehensive Student Assistance Program. Often children who exhibit behaviors that are related to substance abuse, sexual acting out, eating disorders and self mutilation is affected by one or more risk factors. These risk factors increase the child vulnerability in becoming involved with substance abuse. Participants will learn a multi-faceted approach to identify the risk factors that may be causing the problematic behaviors and the community resources that are available to adolescents and their families to address these issues.
Cognitive Behavioral Based Professional Treatment
& Self Help Options for Addictions
Rich Dowling, MA, LPC, MAC
An introduction to professional treatment and self-help options for gaining independence from addictions based on cognitive behavior and educational principals for personal change. The philosophical and theoretical differences and similarities to the 12-step disease model will be discussed.
12:15 – 1:15 pm LUNCHEON – Conquering Overload
Jamie Novak, Professional Organizer (featured on HGTV)
Jamie Novak has been helping people go from chaotic to calm for over 15 years. Her approach is both easy and motivating; she is a natural and her passion for organizing shines through. Jamie promises not to try to reinvent you, instead she helps you find your style and work with it!
1:30 – 3:00 pm Bipolar Disorder in Children & Adolescents
Karen Gischlar, Ed.S., James Murphy, D.Ed. & Nancy Westburg, PhD
This workshop will cover (a) Bipolar Disorder symptoms and behaviors that may lead to a misdiagnosis, (b) treatments (developmental, preventive, and crisis) that have research support, and (c) how school counselors and community counselors can collaborate to provide hope-enhancing strategies at home and in school that best serve the child.
Educating the Educators Program – NAMI of NJ
Mark Perrin, M.D., Lorrie Baumann, BS, Alicia Stevenson
Educating the Educators” Program is a preventive mental health education outreach initiative designed to enlighten and inform K-12 guidance counselors, educators and administrators about mental illness in the classroom. The Program, which NAMI NJ (The National Alliance on Mental Illness of NJ) conceived, developed and copyrighted, promotes hope and recovery.
Follow Your Own True Colors
Carolyn Kalil, MA, GCDF, JCTC
Come to this fun, hands-on session to learn about True Colors from the author of the book Follow Your True Colors To The Work You Love. True Colors is a simple, yet accurate, assessment tool based on temperament theory. It helps individuals identify and understand their unique strengths/talents that unlock their potential for true success in work and relationships.
The Double “What’s Not Being Said”
Connie Miller, MS, LPC, CP
Learn this psychodramatic technique of how to double for you clients. The role of the double is to see and feel the world, both internal and external, through the experience of the client and to support the client with self-expression. The double helps the client express unexpressed feelings, change their perceptions and provides empathy and support. This powerful technique helps to build a sense of trust with the therapist. The double is also often referred to as two souls, one body.
3:15 – 4:15 pm Dream Work: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Suzanne Saldarini, MA, LPC
More than 100 years ago Sigmund Freud’s pioneering work with dreams revealed a hidden world of unconscious thoughts and wishes. Today, his respectful, informed approach continues to shed light on anxiety dreams, connections between memory and dreams, and motives unseen in waking life. Dreams: A Psychoanalytic Perspective will review key aspects of Freud’s findings, method and technique, and will guide participants’ use of dreams in clinical practice.
ADHD: Current Approaches to Treating Children with ADHD:State of the Science
George Kapalka, PhD
This overview will cover the latest research on the etiology of ADHD, diagnostic procedures, differential diagnosis, and treatment methods. Medical, educational and psychological approaches will be reviewed. The presenter will outline his own research on effective treatment approaches to manage the symptoms at home and in school.
TeamBuildingfor a Stronger Workforce
John Bland, MBA
“Team Building always has the benefit of exposing the participants to more than they could obtain by working alone. We will discuss the how & why build a “Team” in Job Search activity, and then, how to build a “Team” once employed. The concept of “Team Building” seems simple, and yet is seldom achieved, because the principles are not recognized. We will take the participants through the process that has successfully worked for us in managing a Professional Job Club!
Enhancing Your Career through Presentations, Publications
& Doctoral Studies in Counseling
Mark Kiselica, PhD, HSPP, NCC, LPC
The purpose of this workshop is to provide students and counselors with tips on doing conference presentations and publishing professional manuscripts, which can be a source of fulfillment while enhancing the odds of being admitted for doctoral studies.
4:30 – 5:15 pm “State of the Profession” from our Lobbyists on the National level
Scott Barstow, American Counseling Association
Beth Powell, American Mental Health Counselors Association
5:30 – 5:45 pm Comedy Break featuring “Effie Braun”
5:30 – 7:30 pm Comedy Break
Effie Braun has trained at both the American Comedy Institute and the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City. She has appeared at various comedy clubs, festivals and events in the U.S. and abroad. A counselor by day, her current production aims to explore the counseling profession through comedy
Research/Poster Session: Current Directions in Counseling Research
George M. Kapalka, Chair
This informal showcase will feature current counseling research from around the state. Graduate counseling students, university faculty and professional counselors post the findings of recent studies that advance the art and science of counseling interventions utilized in various professional settings. The posters are displayed on poster boards arranged around the room. Attendees browse the session and mingle with the presenters, allowing the audience to ask questions and discuss the findings in more detail.
President’s Reception - refreshments served
Music by the Jazzologists – sponsored by NJMHCA
The Jazzologists is a trio of accomplished musicians from the New Jersey, Pennsylvania area who interpret the classic jazz tunes of the bebop era. Drummer, Ralph Posmontier, guitarist, Rick Pressler, and saxophonist and flutist, Ken Lipman-Stern, together have been playing professionally for over 110 years. Having the Jazzologists at our annual conference is a tradition at the NJCA. Hopefully it will continue to be so for many years to come.
Meet the Lobbyists - Beth Powell & Scott Barstow
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
7:30 – 8:30 am Registration
7:30 – 8:30 am Meditation – sponsored by ASERVIC
We invite you to join us for an interactive morning Meditation. The intent is to help participants focus on core values and enhance the value of the rest of the day's workshops and activities.
8:00 – 8:30 am NJCA Business Meeting
8:30 – 10:30 am Keynote – Crosscurrents of Professional Ethics,
Clinical Decision-Making and The Law
Christopher R. Barbrack, Esq. PhD., Trial Attorney &
Licensed Psychologist
Conflicts in Clinical Practice: Discussion of decision making in connection with confidentiality, maintenance and release of “psychotherapy notes”, treatment transitions, boundary violations, duty to warn and protect, treating children and adolescents, dealing with attorneys and the courts, commercial considerations, the licensing board, and the criminal justice system.
10:45 – 12:15 pm Antidepressant Decision Making
Kenneth Burns, M.D.
The selection of an antidepressant by a prescribing physician should not be a random process. There is a rationale for antidepressant decision making. This workshop will discuss how a physician selects a medication in order to optimize treatment for a given individual.
Counseling in the Criminal Justice System
Judith Waters, PhD, LPC; William Ussery, MA, LPC &
Matthew Sheridan, Ed.D.
There is an increasing need for the services of professional counselors in the Criminal Justice System. This need encompasses law enforcement officers, prison inmates, and addicts charged as criminals. The panel will address the processes and problems faced in each of these areas.
OCD: Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
Joe Springer, PhD
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a highly treatable condition, however “generic” counseling and psychotherapy has not been shown to be effective. This workshop will outline the format for treating OCD using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with an Exposoure and Ritual Prevention component.
Spiritual Language & Ideas in Therapy
Father Ed Murphy, Ed.D. Licensed Psychologist & Episcopal Priest
A presentation of how to approach spiritual talk within the context of counseling, to be followed by a question and answer session.
Implications of Attachment in a Multicultural Population
Donalee Brown, PhD, MA, M.Ed., Yolanda Hawkins-Rogers, Ed.D.,
Jessica Drake, MA & Kalindi Kapadia, MA
The goal is to offer clinicians a concrete framework of culture specific attachment styles. Treatment interventions reflecting sensitivity to world views of the individual are incorporated.
12:15 – 1:15 pm AWARDS LUNCHEON
Please join us to honor outstanding counselors in our field. The President's Award, the Tabler Award, the Outstanding Graduate Student Counseling Award and the Licensed Professional Counselors Award will be presented.
1:15 – 1:45 pm Division Meetings (for all – meet your fellow division members!)
2:00 – 3:45 pm Unsuccessful Work Adjustment: The Sometimes Misdiagnosed Life Crisis
Larry Burlew, Ed.D. LPC
In an interactive format, this program 1) introduces work adjustment from a lifespan, life-stage organizational perspective; 2) examines the symptoms that might occur from Unsuccessful work adjustment; and 3) addresses strategies to work with this life issue.
Online Counseling as an Adjunct to Private Practice
Deeanna Merz Nagel, LPC, CRC, DCC
Is Online Counseling Ethical? prepares the practitioner to responsibly and ethically utilize the internet as a communication medium. Benefits and cautions of online counseling will be discussed. Current ethics codes of ACA and AMHCA will be reviewed.
The Use of Art with Children of Substance Abusers (COSAs):
Talking, Trusting, Feeling
MaryEllen McAlevey, MA, LPC, ATR-BC
Children of substance abusers (COSAs) learn to abide by covert, unspoken rules in their family; don't talk, don't trust, and don't feel--in order to maintain self-preservation and family homeostasis. In this presentation learn the roles in a substance abusing family, why COSAs adopt faulty cognitions and dysfunctional coping mechanisms. Also, participate in an art task you can facilitate to encourage COSAs to improve their communication skills and identify and express emotions.
3:45 – 5:00 pm The 21st Century at Work
Michael Lazarchick, PhD
Participants will look at the Trends that are Shaping the Workforce of the 21st Century and changing the way we do business in a global economy. Find out how and why “work” is dramatically changing. Workshop includes the latest information on securing worthwhile employment.
Drama in Counseling
Anne Portine, MA-RTD, CADC
A brief background of drama therapy and its place in counseling will be reviewed. This will be followed by a demonstration of drama techniques that can be safely used in group or individual sessions. Interventions will focus on engaging the MICA population in the various Stages of Change
Reducing Anxiety & Stress in Children Using Dance/Movement Therapy
Sheila Franklin Gilstein, MA, LPC
An increasing number of children are being diagnosed with anxiety. This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to learn creative ways dance/movement therapy can reduce anxiety and stress on a non-verbal body level. Techniques will include how to teach children to identify and reduce stressors in their life and self-modulation techniques that they can use in school, the neighborhood, and home environments.
2:00 – 5:00 pm Sexual Addiction: Signs and Symptoms
Marie Wilson, MA, CSAT, ATR-BC, LPC
Compulsive sexual behavior, referred to as sex addiction, is a co-occurring condition that is often overlooked or misdiagnosed by behavioral health professionals, contributing to recidivism rates, especially in substance-related disorders. This workshop examines symptoms of the disorder, etiology, and assessment criteria as well as introducing basic guidelines for treatment.
Adult Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals
Joe Springer, Ph.D.
This workshop provides an overview of the more commonly prescribed psychotropic medications. Indications, contradictions and the more common side-effects of antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics and antiolytics will be reviewed.
Imago Relationship Therapy
Wade Luquet, Ph.D.
This workshop will consist of lecture, demonstration and a writing exercise. Participants will leave with an understanding of Imago Theory, methods and tools as well as several short lectures they can use with couples to describe Imago.
Compassion Fatigue & Stress: The Cost of Caring Too Much
Linda M. Symanski, MA, LPC
This program will introduce the concept of compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress, examine the various factors contributing to compassion fatigue in family advocates, crisis counselors, case managers and clinicians, and explore strategies for the reduction or prevention of compassion fatigue.
5:00 pm Conference Close
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