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25th
ASSHP Workshop Descriptions
Monday
- Tuesday Classes (August 9-10, 2004)
1.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other
Drugs "The Basics"
Denise
Denton, MS. CPS Youth and Shelter Services Inc and Iowa State
University, Ames, IA
This course examines the full continuum of reactions and consequences involved in the use of psychoactive drugs. This course will address and distinguish the stages of use through dependency as well as identify the many characteristics of the various drug classifications and categories. Enrollment is limited to 40 people. Basic Level. Approved for IBSAC Category – Alcohol and Drug Specific
2.
Ethics and Risk Management for Practicing Counselors
Vilia
Tarvydas, Ph.D, LMHC, CRC, The University of Iowa, Counselor Education,
Iowa City, IA
Counselors will learn ethical standards of practice and be introduced
to legal and risk management considerations associated with their
practice. Areas discussed will include the most common types of
ethical complaints, the relationship between ethics and malpractice
actions and legal elements of malpractice, assessing and managing
client dangerousness, legal obligations of duty to warn/duty to
protect concerning dangerous clients and duty to prevent suicide,
dual relationships, proper techniques of case recording, and measures
to be taken if subpoenaed or charged with unethical conduct. Basic
Level. Approved for IBSAC Category - Ethics
3.
Group Play Therapy in Schools and Community Agencies
(CANCELED)
Gaylia
J. Borror, Ph.D, Winona State University, Rochester, MN
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce workshop participants
to child-centered group play therapy strategies and techniques.
Through lectures, films and fun filled applied learning activities,
workshop participants will learn the fundamentals of group play
therapy. All group exercises and activities can be easily and
and immediately applied in professional work settings, including
schools and community agencies. This workshop has received rave
reviews from those who have attended int eh past and it will be
of particular interst to those professionals who work with children.
Basic and Intermediate Level. Approved for IBSAC Category- Special
Populations
4.
Humor, Health and Healing
Cheryl
Hetherington, Ph.D, Hetherington and Associates, Iowa City, IA
It's time to develop a personal strategy for managing stress and
illness through humor. Humor, after all, encourages good health
and longevity, supports emotional well-being and improves the
quality of life. Just as valuable, it is downright fun. This experiential
class will promote healing. Elements of humor, hope and stress
management and introspection will be woven together to provide
new ways of improving many aspects of your personal and professional
life.
Class limited to 30. Basic Level. Approved for IBSAC Category
- Counseling Theories and Techniques
5.
LifeSkills Training by Dr. Botvin
Stacey
Richards, BS, Area Substance Abuse Council, Cedar Rapids, IA,
Melissa Walker, BA, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
PLEASE NOTE: Each participant will need to purchase the LifeSkills training folder from Stacey Richards at the beginning of the workshop. The cost of the folder is $8.25. Participants will need to purchase Level One of the middle school LifeSkills curriculum prior to the training and bring it to the workshop. Materials can be ordered at www.lifeskillstraining.com or by phone at 1 800 293-4969. If you need assistance in ordering materials please contact Stacey Richards at srichards@asac.us or 319 390-4611 ext 154.
LifeSkills was developed by Dr. Gilbert Botvin, a leading expert
on drug abuse prevention, for middle or junior high school students.
The LifeSkills program is a highly effective substance abuse prevention/competency
enhancement program designed to focus primarily on the major social
and psychological factors promoting substance use and abuse. By
the end of the training participants will be able to:
- Understand
the link between developmental tasks of middle school students
and at-risk behaviors
- Identify
essential skills, knowledge and attitudes young people need
to avoid risky behaviors
- Recognize
and model the four interactive teaching techniques of LifeSkills
- Demonstrate
competency in implementing the LifeSkills Training curriculum,
including effective skills to meet challenges while maintaining
fidelity guidelines.
Intermediate
Level. Approved for IBSAC Category-Special Populations
6.
Motivational Interviewing
Fonda
Frazier, MA ACADC, MECCA, Iowa City, IA
This course will define and address the fundamental concepts of
Motivational Interviewing and its use with the substance abuse
population. Participants will practice Motivational Interviewing
through role-play exercises. Intermediate Level. Approved for
IBSAC Category-Counseling Theories and Techniques
7.
Relational Development and Relational Aggression between Adolescent
Females
Kathy
Nesteby, BSW, Department of Human Rights, Des Moines, IA
This course assumes participants have a base knowledge of female
responsive services.
The primary objective of this course is to increase participant
knowledge of relationship development and relational aggression
through exposure to research, theory, girls' stories, and methods
for addressing relationship issues in girls' lives. Participants
will also learn skills for creating environments that are conducive
to relational balance.
Questions to be addressed in the course:
- What
is relational aggression?
- What
do girls' learn about how to act in their relationships with
other girls? Why?
- What
are the contributing factors when it comes to relational aggression?
- Are
girls really becoming more aggressive or is it just the current
hot topic?
- How
can healthy relationship development between adolescent females
be nurtured?
- Where
does the hostility come from and how can it be handled in a
way that empowers girls?
- What
is the most important thing for professionals to be aware of
when it comes to dealing with relational aggression?
- If
relationships are so important to girls, why do they use them
against each other?
Participants
will be in a learning environment that mixes lecture, discussion,
activities, and video. Intermediate Level. Approved for IBSAC
Category-Special Populations
8.
Sexuality and Body Image
Jan
R. Barlett, Ph.D., Iowa State University, Ames, IA
A mere glimpse of print media in your favorite market or bookstore
reveals a national obsession with looking sexy and being thin.
How does this translate into issues for individuals, especially
adolescents? Also in the media there are stories reporting involvement
in sexual activity at the early age of 12 and 13. What are the
long term effects of such activity or is there? In this 2-day
workshop we will discuss the topic of Sexuality and Body Image.
Are these myths or realities and is there a link between the two?
Are we seeing increasing numbers of issues and concerns with eating
disorders and early sexual involvement? During our time together
we will view movie clips and examine popular print media both
for adults and teens and dialogue regarding societal implications.
We will also discuss current research and implications for practitioners.
For answers and an opportunity to discuss the topic in depth,
consider bringing your voice to the workshop. It is the intent
of the instructor to create a safe environment for discussion
and exploration of Sexuality and Body Image. Intermediate and
Advanced Level. Approved for IBSAC Category-Special Populations
9.
Treating Couples
David
L. Kearns, Ph.D., Department of Family Medicine, The University
of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
This workshop is for clinicians who are at an early stage of skill
development regarding their work with couples. Over the course
of two days, participants will learn about: (1) trends in marriage,
divorce, and marital therapy; (2) critical themes in the marital
therapy outcome literature; (3) indications and contradictions
for clinical work with couples; (4) general practice tips; and
(5) areas that clinicians should attend to when assessing and
treating couples, including: individual-level personality, cognition
and physiology, as well as the interactional characteristics of
the couple. Although largely didactic, this workshop will include
opportunities for participants to discuss and strategize about
their own work with couples. Basic Level. Approved for IBSAC Category-Counseling
Theories and Techniques
10.
Understanding Bullying/Mobbing and Creating Solutions
Noa Davenport, MBA, DNZ Training & Consulting International,
Collins, IA
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of bullying/mobbing
in order to create a nurturing, diversity-friendly environment.
Participants will also gain a better understanding of conflict
and disagreement and will gain confidence to deal with bullying/mobbing
constructively. Goals: (1) Understand bullying/mobbing; (2) Understand
reasons for bullying/mobbing; (3) Reinforce good listening skills
and good communication; (4) Deal with bullying/mobbing constructively.
Intermediate Level. Approved for IBSAC Category-Special Populations
Wednesday-Thursday
Classes (August 11-12, 2004)
11.
Advanced Counseling Skills
Kay
Colangelo, Ph.D, Colangelo Counseling, Iowa City, IA
The challenge of this course is to discard old perspectives on
therapeutic communication skills and learn it all again from a
different perspective. Verbal interventions of empathy, advanced
empathy, feedback, immediacy, and confrontation will be taught.
Advanced skills require that the counselor make interpretations
of human behavior, a risky and intrusive activity. This course
aims not only to teach these advanced verbal skills, but also
to help trainees take greater advantage of their powers of listening,
observation, concentration, courage, responsiveness, discipline,
and intuition. This course is experiential; all skills are demonstrated
many times, but the deepest learning occurs when trainees experience,
through practice in dyads and triads, their reactions to being
both client and counselor when advanced skills are utilized. Enrollment
is limited to 35. Advanced Level. Approved for IBSAC Category
- Counseling Theories and Techniques.
12.
Aggression Replacement Training - A Program that Works with Aggressive
Students
Kerrin Schumer, MA, St. Louis, MO
This session will present the concepts of the expanded version
of Aggression Replacement Training that was originally developed
by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein from Syracuse University. Dr. Goldstein
assisted school districts in St. Louis, Missouri, develop alternative
programs where A.R.T. was used successfully with students who
first exhibited aggression and students who were permanently expelled
from districts for extreme aggression. The Expanded A.R.T. program
was a result of thirteen years of experience with aggressive students
and includes lessons in empathy, anger control, social skill rehearsal
and character education. Many grants have been received over the
past several years to apply A.R.T. in various ways to help students
who are aggressive. Model programs currently exist in California,
Colorado, Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri and in Sweden and Norway.
The workshop will include introduction and research, current applications
and experiential activities that can be used with students in
a classroom, treatment facility, juvenile facility, alternative
school or in a special education program. Objectives are 1) Participants
will achieve understanding of the A.R.T. program applications
through lecture and experiential activities; 2) There will be
an understanding of the effectiveness of the program through discussion
of research; 3) There will be an understanding of how the program
works with students through participation in some of the effective
lessons and activities; 4) Participants will know something about
the grants available to fund this program and the resources involved
through discussion and document presentation. Basic Level. Approved
for IBSAC Category - Special Populations
13.
Art and Science of Prevention (CANCELED)
Denise
Denton, MS, CPS, Youth Shelter and Services and Iowa State University,
Ames, IA
Substance Prevention is both an art and a science. This course
will discuss the history of the field, the many theories which
converge to make prevention a science, and the creative strategies
and differing approaches that define it as art. Content will also
include basic core functions of the prevention specialist and
the skills and knowledge needed to perform those functions. Enrollment
is limited to 30. Basic Level. Approved for IBSAC Category - Generic
14.
Club Drugs: Street Wise, Treatment Savvy
Nicole
Pizzini, PhD candidate, CADC, Community Corrections Improvement
Association, Cedar Rapids, IA
Have you ever wondered "what's the rave?" This presentation
will address this question from several different angles. Using
video clips, small group discussion, facilitator led discussions
and other teaching techniques, participants will become more aware
of the issues surrounding club drugs. Participants will learn
to identify different club drugs, recognize the intoxication/withdrawal
symptoms and illustrate how and why club drugs are used. A variety
of treatment options will be explored. Current club drug use patterns
and trafficking patterns in Iowa will be discussed. Finally, the
relationship of club drug use and drug testing will be described.
Basic Level. Approved for IBSAC Category- Alcohol and Drug Specific
15.
Defiant Power of Human Spirit: Discovering and Creating Meaning
in Suffering
Greg
Clark, MA, Great River Trauma Counseling and Education Center,
Prairie du Chien, WI
"Our patients do not come to us because of their suffering,
but because their suffering lacks meaning."
- Viktor Frankl "Man's Search for Meaning"
This part-experiential, part-lecture, workshop will draw upon
the teachings of psychiatrist, and Nazi Death Camp survivor, Viktor
Frankl. His book, "Man's Search for Meaning," introduced
the elements of his Logotherapy, and is listed by the Library
of Congress as one of "the ten most influential books in
America."
His Logotherapy, recognized by leading medical and psychiatric
associations as one of the scientifically based schools of psychology,
sees the "Tragic Triad" of Grief, Guilt, & Death
as the unavoidable fate of living, and thus, suffering as one
of the primary connections of humanity. However, individuals,
feeling ill-equipped to confront such pain, and to go through
their suffering, often misplace their energy toward avoiding this
unavoidable suffering. This avoidance "disconnects"
them from humanity. The effort to avoid what is unavoidable leads
to a "flight from self; an "unauthentic existence'"
and ultimately "meaninglessness." In our "leisure
society," Frankl says, "the lack of purpose, and meaninglessness
is the neurosis of our time." The outgrowth of this "existential
frustration," can lead to mental illnesses, such as Addiction,
Aggression, and Depression (Frankl's "Mass Neurotic Triad.")
Frankl describes our free will to pursue meaning(fulness) as the
"Defiant Power of the Human Spirit," and it is this
pursuit of meaningfulness which is capable (and freely accessible)
to bolster us up under the weight of a suffering existence, thus
empowering us to face our suffering, and to "go through it"
toward living out the "authentic self."
Those who are interested in coping with suffering, and the pursuit
of meaning in life, will find Dr. Frankl's teachings of great
interest toward developing meaning in both professional and personal
life.
"I didn't invent anything, I just found a way to systematically
organize what the great healers of time have always known."
- Viktor Frankl
Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Level. Approved for IBSAC Category-Generic
16.
Defining Spirituality: Uses in Counseling Individuals and Groups
Sherry
Watt, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
In this two-day course, participants will explore definitions
of spirituality and learn how this approach can be a useful exercise
in helping clients to explore their own values and what brings
meaning to their lives. There will be opportunities to discuss
how worldview and the intersections of identities of the client
and the counselor can impact the therapeutic event. The presenter
will facilitate this workshop under the assumption that counseling
using a spiritual framework allows for the client to fully reveal
'who they are and who they want to become'. This course is further
built on the premise that counselors are more effective helpers
when they have done personal exploration that helps them to be
more clear about who they are so that they can open and more comfortable
with embracing the whole lives of their clients throughout the
counseling process. Participants will learn practical ways to
facilitate discussions around spirituality within individual and
group counseling.
Course Objectives
1. To explore definitions of spirituality.
2. To become more aware of the different ways the spiritual lives
of clients can be invited in to the therapeutic process.
3. To explore practical strategies for helping clients in individual
and group counseling sessions.
The learning activities will be experiential in nature. During
in class activities, participants will have an opportunity to
explore their own definitions of spirituality using a professional
lens and generate ideas for how to integrate this act into their
own style as well as reflect on how this approach will help them
to better facilitate the counseling process. Basic and Intermediate
Level. Approved for IBSAC Category-Counseling Theories and Techniques
17.
Grant Writing
Ron
Mirr, MSW, Iowa City, IA
PLEASE NOTE: Because of the extensive number of handouts used
in the workshop and their related costs, participants will need
to purchase the Program Development and Grant Writing Handbook
from Mr. Mirr at the beginning of the workshop. The cost of the
workbook is $40. The workbook contains all of the information
presented at the workshop. Participants should bring a 3-ring
binder that can accommodate 200 pages. There will be homework
of about 3 hours for each participant on Wednesday night. This
homework is necessary to support what is taught in class on the
second day.
This
workshop is designed to give participants the practical skills
they will need to begin the development of grant proposals. Participants
will leave the workshop with a clear understanding of how to begin
the grant writing process, where to look for resources, and how
to prepare a highly competitive grant proposal. The Program Development
and Grant Writing Workshop is intended for anyone interested in
obtaining grant funds from public or private sources at the federal,
state, and local levels. Course information includes 1) a description
of the general grant process with a special focus on how grants
are reviewed; 2) information about the location of funding sources
and the use of electronic media to find them; 3) instruction on
how to review an application to determine if it is appropriate
for your agency; 4) training on the use of 3 planning tools for
the creation of effective grant proposals; 5) information on the
budgeting process and how to maximize grant funding for your project;
6) instruction on how to create an appropriate evaluation plan
for your project; and 7) training on the most effective methods
for producing your grant proposal. This course employs a variety
of teaching formats including lecture, small group exercises,
and multimedia presentations. Basic Level. Approved for IBSAC
Category-Generic
18.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: Assessment, Treatment, and Implications
for the Returning Veteran
Terrance
J. Goodell, MA, NCC, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Cedar Rapids Vet
Center, Cedar Rapids, IA
This course will provide an overview of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) including a history of trauma, DSM-IV diagnostic
criteria, assessment techniques, and treatment strategies. The
objective of the course is for participants to gain a deeper understanding
of the disorder and to gain greater awareness of issues affecting
veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Lessons learned
from treating veterans of previous conflicts, particularly the
Vietnam War, will be highlighted. A panel of combat veterans diagnosed
with PTSD will answer participant's questions on the second day
of the seminar in order to facilitate a greater understanding
of living with the disorder. A combination of PowerPoint, videotape,
and didactic presentations will be utilized. Intermediate Level.
Approved for IBSAC Category-Special Populations
19.
Project Northland: Slick Tracy (6 th gr.) & Amazing Alternatives (7 th gr.) (CANCELED)
Carol J. Schlader, MPH, Area Education Agency 267, Clear Lake , IA
There are additional costs associated with this workshop.
Participants need to contact Ann Standing at Hazelden: 1-800-328-9000, ext. 4030. The middle school (grades 6, 7 & 8) Project Northland manuals are $245.00 each, but if you order the set of three, the cost is $579.00. Including the Supercharged manual (community involvement materials) with the set makes the cost $755.00. To have materials in time for the conference (and avoid express shipping cost), they need to be ordered by July 23. Materials will not be ordered until July 20 in case of cancellation .
Project Northland is a multilevel, multiyear substance abuse prevention program proven to delay the age at which young people begin drinking, to reduce alcohol use among those who have already tried drinking, and to limit the number of alcohol-related problems of youth. Designed for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students (10 to 14 years old), Project Northland addresses both individual behavioral change and environmental change. Project Northland also strives to change how parents communicate with their children, how peers influence each other, and how communities respond to young adolescent alcohol use. It has been designated as a Model Program by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and as an Exemplary Program by the U.S. Department of Education. For more information: http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov
Participants will be able to successfully implement Project Northland's Slick Tracy (6 th grade) and Amazing Alternatives (7 th grade) curriculum. Participants will: (1) Review the research results and history of the development of Project Northland; (2) Explore the use of small groups and peer leaders; (3) Obtain a working knowledge of Slick Tracy & Amazing Alternatives curricula; (4) Experience and present parts of the program; (5) Discuss possible local implementation issues and concerns. Basic Level. Approved for IBSAC Category-Special Populations
20.
Techniques of Group Counseling
Nick
Colangelo, Ph.D, Belin Blank International Center, The University
of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
This course is designed for substance abuse counselors and counselors
in other agencies. There will be presentations on group dynamics
and leadership skills and how they can be applied to groups in
a variety of community settings. The course will include presentations,
demonstrations, readings, and considerable opportunity for participants
to interact and demonstrate group counseling skills. This class
will not accept new members after the first day. Intermediate
Level. Approved for IBSAC Category - Counseling Theories and Techniques
21.
The Art of Presenting (CANCELED)
April
Ivey, BA, and Vicki Mueller, BA, IBSAC - Prevention Certification
Board, Waterloo, IA
This course will explain how to set up an environment that will
enhance the information retention of clients/students in a group
setting. Participants will learn how to lead group discussions,
how the brain retains new information, and how to keep students
attention through the use of hands-on activities. Course will
be interactive, as participants will be invited to experience
many of the activities suggested. Great opportunity for those
new to the field as well as veterans looking for fresh ideas.
Intermediate Level. Approved for IBSAC Category-Generic
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