| Thursday, April 17th 8:00-9:00am Registration & Refreshments 9:00-12:00 Session I Workshops APPLIED CONTROL THEORY (ACT): NEW TOOLS, PROVEN RESULTS - This workshop will provide you with innovative ways to improve your clients’ successes at home, school, and work. ACT represents a relationship model, based upon Perceptual Control Theory, that teaches three often ignored aspects of what “control” is and the subsequent implications for how we relate to ourselves and others. The personal or professional role for those learning ACT is to help children and adolescents become "disciplined within" and to create opportunities to do this in a noncoercive setting. Dr. Jeff Grumley WHY WEIGHT? TAKE ACTION! EXPLORE PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTING EATING DISORDERS AND BODY IMAGE PROBLEMS AMONG GIRLS AND BOYS - The percentage of young boys and girls struggling with eating disorders, unhealthy weight control behaviors, and/or body image dissatisfaction is a growing health concern. In this workshop, Dr. Ackard will look at how recent eating disorders research is being used as a foundation for understanding prevention efforts. Through this entertaining and informative talk, she will bring the data to life through patient stories, media horrors, parental concerns, and sociocultural factors. Workshop attendees will learn practical methods for preventing youth eating disorders and body dissatisfaction in their homes, communities, schools, and treatment facilities. Dr. Diann Ackard CHILD PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE - INDICATORS AND CURRENT MEDICAL ISSUES FOR THE NON-MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL - Dr. Kaplan will examine the current medical issues in such forms of abuse as: abusive head trauma, abusive fractures, cutaneous injuries, and sexual abuse. Terminology and diagnosis, as it relates to the evaluation of child abuse/neglect, along with the role of the child abuse medical provider will also be reviewed. Dr. Richard Kaplan 12:00-1:00 Lunch Break 1:00-2:30 Session II Workshops DISCIPLINE WITHIN: HELPING CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH ADDICTIONS - Brain-based research tells us we need to create a need-satisfying environment free of fear and coercion. Over one hundred studies on the effects of punishments and rewards warns us to avoid reliance on extrinsic rewards. The research is stated more strongly: any system of learning new behaviors which uses heavy authority, position, threats, rules, punishment and rewards will, over the long run perpetuate the very behaviors it is trying to eliminate. The research tells us what to avoid but doesn’t tell us what to do. DISCIPLINE WITHIN will teach you new skills and strategies to manage children and adolescents, especially those with addictions, without fear and coercion and in a need-satisfying environment. Dr. Jeff Grumley HE SHOVES ME… HE SHOVES ME NOT. HELPING TEENS OUT OF VIOLENT DATING RELATIONSHIPS - In the United States as many as 9% of male and 20% of female adolescents have experienced physical or sexual abuse by their dating partner. The occurrence of dating violence increases the risk for a variety of behavioral and psychological health concerns for both boys and girls. In this workshop, Dr. Ackard will discuss the pervasiveness of dating violence, and make recommendations for how individuals in caring roles can screen for detrimental dating situations. Because adolescents’ health risks are lower when they have outlets to discuss sexual and physical abuse, attendees of this workshop will learn how to facilitate forums for discussions on this sensitive topic. Dr. Diann Ackard KIDS TODAY: WORKING WITH OUR URBAN YOUTH - In this workshop, participants will peek into the lives of urban youth near and afar. We will examine risk and protective factors for these youth as well as examine our own assumptions and values around adolescence. Jenny Oliphant 2:45-4:15 Session III Workshops THE TRIGGER FACTOR: MENTAL ILLNESS OR POOR COPING SKILLS? - What causes someone to snap? The recent trend in school massacres is setting off alarm bells across the nation. Most of the shooters are middle class males. Is it possible to recognize the warning signs in someone who appears to be normal? Key characteristics of the Trigger Factor, and how to disarm it will be discussed. Dr. Jeanne Schur DELIGHTFUL DAD: PARENTING WITHOUT MADNESS (FOR PARENTS, AND THOSE WHO WORK WITH THEM) - A few things to share from raising 4 kids, counseling hundreds of children and adolescents, and making more than a few mistakes from which I learned three essential parent qualities -- "don't take the bait", "duct-tape fathering", and "what's truer than truth". This workshop is for parents or those who assist them in raising respectful, responsible, and safe children and adolescents. Adults learn, and learn how to teach, time-honored means of self-evaluating, modeling, and talking with children and adolescents. Dr. Jeff Grumley STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR TEENS AND PARENTS – CREATING A COMMON LANGUAGE - This presentation focuses on techniques and strategies for teaching stress management to teens and their families. In this workshop you will learn how to teach stress management skills in language that both teens and parents can easily understand. The concepts presented can be easily adapted to a large range of populations and are usable in both in office and in home settings. Concepts and skills are integrated from several different therapeutic models. Hans Skulstad |
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