2026 IN-PERSON CONFERENCE
SESSION DESCRIPTIONS



Georgia Society of Adlerian Psychology
ADLERIANS IN ACTION 2026 CONFERENCE






The Georgia Society of Adlerian Psychology has been Approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6816. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Georgia Society of Adlerian Psychology is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.


PSYCHOLOGISTS:
GSAP is seeking approval from Georgia Psychological Association for Continuing Education hours for select sessions.
Those sessions are listed on the Psychologist's page.

VIRTUAL:
Select sessions are being offered synchronously/virtually.
Please see Virtual tab for sessions available virtually.

The conference provides skill & education at the INTRODUCTORY, INTERMEDIATE, and ADVANCED levels and is intended for mental health professionals in a variety of settings, as well as students. You do not need to be at a particular level of experience to attend intermediate or advanced level sessions.


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE LINK

FRIDAY
AUGUST 21st



(Lunch 12PM-1PM)



MORNING PLENARY
8:30AM-9:30AM
(1 CE HOURS)





Encouragement in Discouraging Times
(INTRODUCTORY)

Tara Overzat, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS



Increasingly, our clients report feeling discouraged by current events. This workshop presents practical, relational tools to reframe setbacks, strengthen social interest, and cultivate a sense of belonging, to encourage healthy behaviors in clients. Courage, encouragement, and striving will be explored.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe the challenges contributing to feelings of significant discouragement among current clients.
2. Apply Adlerian therapeutic techniques, with a focus on courage, encouragement, and striving, to case studies of clients struggling with feelings of discouragement and insignificance.
3. Synthesize current therapeutic modality with Adlerian techniques to treat discouragement and encourage healthy striving.





choose from half day or full day sessions



MORNING HALF DAY SESSIONS
9:45AM-12PM
(2 CE HOURS)
Choose from the following sessions:





When Lifestyles Intertwine:
How to Use the BASIS-A with Couples

(INTRODUCTORY)

Susan Belangee, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS, DNASAP



This presentation will demonstrate how practitioners can use the BASIS-A Inventory with couples. Participants will receive an overview of the lifestyle concept in Adlerian psychology, a brief introduction to the BASIS-A instrument, and then the presenter will conduct a demonstration with a couple.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe how lifestyle is formed according to Adlerian psychology.
2. Explain the BASIS-A Inventory scales.
3. Discuss how lifestyle dynamics affect relationships.





Neuroplasticity Through an Adlerian Lens

(INTRODUCTORY)

Kristen Aycock, PhD & Tiana Rouse, APC



This presentation explores neuroplasticity through an Adlerian framework, integrating contemporary neuroscience with culturally-informed psychotherapy. Adlerian interventions leading to neuroplastic change will be highlighted.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Identify brain mechanisms underlying neuroplasticity.
2. Explain how culture influences neural connectivity.
3. List two Adlerian techniques that promote neuroplastic change.





AFTERNOON HALF DAY SESSIONS
1PM-5:30PM
(4 CE HOURS)
Choose from the following sessions:





Courage, Connection, and Ethics:
Adlerian Insights for Modern Practice

(INTRODUCTORY) ETHICS

David Markwell, PhD, LPC, LCMHC, CPCS, ACS



This presentation reviews counseling ethics, including confidentiality, boundaries, dual relationships, and cultural considerations. Participants examine ACA, APA, AMHCA, NBCC and state ethical codes, laws, and rules learn practical decision-making models and explore how Adlerian concepts support compassionate, responsible ethical choices.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. List three common ethical issues in counseling/psychology.
2. Delineate key differences between professional laws, rules, and ethical requirements across counseling and psychology practice.
3. Discuss the elements of ethical decision-making models with a distinctive look at an Adlerian Theory model.
4. Describe a real-life ethical situation and apply codes to aid in solving it.





Clinical Supervision of Mental Health Providers and Para-professionals

(INTERMEDIATE) CLINICAL SUPERVISION

Willie Cameron, PhD, LPC, MAC, CPCS



The purpose of this presentation is to provide best practices for the clinical supervision of mental health professionals and paraprofessionals in reference to addressing the needs of first responders in the state of Georgia.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Identify how to provide clinical supervision to a diverse group of providers.
2. Apply professional ethics to paraprofessionals.
3. Apply theory-related concepts to paraprofessionals.
4. Explain how to use a collaborative model of clinical supervision for paraprofessionals and mental health professionals.





Gender Identity, Suicide, and Empathy: Using Dungeons and Dragons with Clients from an Adlerian Play Therapy Perspective

(INTERMEDIATE)

Jacob "JD" Dreiling, LPC, ACS, RPT, GTC, NCC &
Erika Walker, LSCSW, LCSW, LICSW, RPT-S™, CAdPT-A, GTC



Adlerian play therapy has been described as the best theoretical fit for incorporating Dungeons & Dragons into therapeutic work. What makes Adlerian theory so flexible? Join with presenters as we take a deeper dive into how beneficial TTRPGs can be for some of our most vulnerable populations.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe how social interest shows up in a D&D campaign.
2. Identify how a client’s phenomenology informs their play style.
3. Apply Adlerian principles (social interest, lifestyle, belonging, and encouragement) to therapeutic role-playing game interventions 4. List three Adlerian principles that can be Integrated into therapeutic role-playing games to address feelings of inferiority, mistaken beliefs, and striving for significance in play therapy sessions.





FULL DAY SESSIONS
9:45AM-5:30PM
(6 CE HOURS)
Choose from the following sessions:





Changing Adverse Childhood Experiences Through Adlerian Re-Orientation

(INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED)

James A. Holder III, MA, LPC, MAC



Negative early recollections, also known as Adverse Childhood Experiences, impact a person’s entire life, setting them up for all forms of dependencies. This master level training will center upon re-orientation assisting clients in learning to change Felt Minus memories thus reducing negative feeling states and helping clients to develop new choices.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Identify the primary feeling in early recollections.
2. Critique one demonstration of an early recollection process and assessment tool.
3. Be able to identify the parts of an early recollection.
4. Identify 2 client strengths from an ER.
5. Discuss how early recollections are metaphorical.
6. Explain the steps and process in changing early recollections.





The Private Logic of Desire:
An Adlerian Understanding of Sex, Intimacy, and Meaning

(INTERMEDIATE)

Lindsay K. Hill, MEd, LPC-SC, DNASAP



Sexual desire reflects deeply held private logic about safety, worth, and connection. This experiential workshop uses Adlerian theory, the Crucial Cs, and live demonstration to help clinicians understand intimacy concerns as meaningful strategies, expanding graduate-level models beyond diagnosis and performance-based frameworks.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe sexual desire and avoidance as expressions of private logic rather than symptoms or traits.
2. Identify how early experiences shape beliefs about intimacy, safety, power, and worth.
3. Demonstrate Adlerian assessment techniques to uncover intimacy-related private logic.
4. Apply the Crucial Cs to conceptualize sexual disconnection and relational fear.
5. Utilize encouragement to address shame and vulnerability in sexual conversations.
6. Integrate Adlerian interventions that promote courage and relational movement.





canceled
Engaging the whole person in Adlerian Psychotherapy

with Calvin Armerding, LPC-S, DNASAP

Has been cancelled

We apologize for any inconvenience and Calvin sends his regrets he is unable to PRESENT due to a prior engagement.





FRIDAY EVENING PLENARY
5:45PM-6:45PM
(1 CE Hour)





Dream a Little Dream: The Importance of Sleep for Good Mental Health

(INTRODUCTORY)

Jody Housker, PhD, NCC, ACS, NBCCH, LPC



A good night's sleep can do wonders for our mental health and wellbeing. In this session we will review the science of sleep, discuss the impact of sleep deprivation on mental health and add to our knowledge of interventions helpful to promoting good sleep hygiene.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe "normal" sleep patterns across the life-span.
2. Identify potential impacts to mental health related to sleep deprivation.
3. List interventions which may be helpful in promoting sleep hygiene.






SATURDAY
AUGUST 22nd
(Lunch 12PM-1PM)





SATURDAY MORNING PLENARY
8:30AM-10AM (1.5 CE Hours)





Addressing Lifestyle Dynamics in Clinical Supervision

(INTRODUCTORY) CLINICAL SUPERVISION

Susan Belangee, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS, DNASAP



This session is geared toward clinical supervisors and uses interactive teaching methods to present how lifestyle traits influence the counselor-client relationship as well as the clinical supervisory relationship. Clinical supervisors will gain useful insight into why/how they approach clinical supervision and how supervisees' lifestyles affect their work with clients.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe the lifestyle concept from Adlerian psychology.
2. Discuss how lifestyle dynamics affect the counselor-client relationship.
3. Discuss how lifestyle dynamics affect the supervisory relationship.





SATURDAY MORNING SESSIONS
10:15AM-11:45AM
(1.5 CE Hours)
Choose from the following sessions or choose the longer (4.5 CE Hour 10:15am-4:15pm) session:





Rebuilding Belonging: An Adlerian Lens on Modern Suicide Theory

(INTRODUCTORY)

David Markwell, PhD, LPC, LCMHC, CPCS, ACS



This presentation integrates Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology with Thomas Joiner’s Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide to enhance clinical understanding of suicide risk and prevention. It examines belonging, discouragement, and perceived burdensomeness, highlighting assessment strategies, warning signs, and strengths-based, culturally responsive interventions that promote connection, encouragement, and ethical suicide prevention.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Identify the core components of the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide and describe how these concepts align with Adlerian principles of social interest, inferiority feelings, and discouragement.
2. Apply an integrated IPTS - Adlerian framework to assess suicide risk, including evaluation of belonging, burden, meaning, and access to means, using clinically-appropriate language.
3. Define at least two Adlerian-informed intervention strategies that reduce suicidal risk by restoring encouragement, belonging, and purpose in clients experiencing suicidal ideation.





Chronic Illness Impact on Adler’s Tasks of Life and Utilizing Concepts of Strengths and Crucial C’s To Aid Clients with Self Advocacy

(INTERMEDIATE)

Stacy Sampson, MS, LPC, NCC, CPCS



Chronic illness makes navigating Adler’s Tasks of Life difficult and has a significant impact on mental health. The application of the Adlerian concept of Crucial C’s and focus on client’s strengths will aid in the empowerment of clients’ managing these chronic conditions within the maze of our medical system.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1 Examine the Adlerian concept of Tasks of Life and how chronic illness impacts every life task area.
2. Discuss the Adlerian focus on one’s strengths and how this can be applied to working with clients with chronic illness.
3. Apply an Adlerian framework of Crucial C’s to aid with clients’ ability to self-advocate and manage their own health effectively.





But Did You Die? - Complex Trauma, Survival, and Belonging Through an Adlerian Lens

(INTRODUCTORY)

Monique R. Darnell, LPC, LMHC



This session introduces Complex PTSD through a trauma-informed Adlerian framework, reframing symptoms as purposeful survival strategies shaped by early life conditions, meaning-making, and disrupted belonging. Participants will explore how trauma, culture, and faith influence lifestyle formation and private logic. This session provides a strong foundation in Adlerian concepts that deepen trauma assessment and normalize survival-based behavior without pathologizing the client.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe CPTSD symptoms as purposeful survival strategies.
2. Identify how trauma, culture, and faith shape lifestyle and private logic.
3. Apply meaning-making concepts to trauma assessment.





Technology Integration in Adlerian Focused Counseling

(INTRODUCTORY)

Timothy Pierce-Tomlin, MS, LPC



Ever increasingly, people build their personal identities in online spaces. During this session, you will work to further develop your abilities to meet clients at the intersectionality of their real and digital selves and join the discussion to determine where the lines between technology adoption and ethics interact.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Identify and compare various forms of technology available for use in a clinical setting.
2. Discuss and critique technology as it has been used in the past and predict where it may be used in the future within counseling.
3. Analyze the benefits of certain technologies through an Adlerian framework and design therapeutic interventions based on the presented case studies.





Desire as Movement: An Adlerian Perspective on Sexual Pursuit, Avoidance, and Courage

(INTERMEDIATE)

Lindsay K. Hill, MEd, LPC-SC, DNASAP



Desire is not a fixed trait but a relational movement shaped by courage and safety. This session reframes sexual pursuit and avoidance through Adlerian psychology and live demonstration, offering clinicians a dynamic alternative to static libido-based models taught in graduate training.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Conceptualize sexual desire and avoidance as movement toward or away from perceived belonging and safety.
2. Identify how courage and safeguarding shape intimacy patterns.
3. Demonstrate Adlerian interventions that encourage relational movement.





SATURDAY LONG SESSION
10:15AM-4:15PM
(4.5 CE Hours)





From Lifestyle to Intervention: Applying Personality Priorities in Therapy

(INTRODUCTORY)

Kristen Aycock, PhD



Assessment of Adlerian lifestyle is foundational to clinical change, yet personality priorities are often underutilized. This workshop introduces the four Adlerian personality priorities and demonstrates their application across the lifespan. Participants learn to assess priorities and apply them to case conceptualization, relational dynamics, and intervention with diverse clients.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Identify and describe the four Adlerian personality priorities.
2. Assess your own dominant personality priority.
3. Delineate your personality priority’s associated strengths, growth edges, and implications for self-awareness and therapeutic presence.
4. Demonstrate the clinical application of personality priorities.
5. Integrate a culturally-responsive, ethically-grounded case formulation for a case study/demonstration.





SATURDAY AFTER LUNCH SESSIONS
1PM-2:30PM
(1.5 CE Hours)
Choose from the following sessions:





canceled

Beyond Technique: Style & Authenticity in Counseling
with Calvin Armerding, LPC-S, DNASAP

Has been cancelled

We apologize for any inconvenience and Calvin sends his regrets he is unable to Present due to a prior engagement.





The Inner Script: Integrating John Bradshaw’s Inner Child Work and Alfred Adler’s Early Recollections and Private Logic with Erik Erikson’s Developmental Stages

(INTRODUCTORY)

David Markwell, PhD, LPC, LCMHC, CPCS, ACS



This presentation integrates Adler’s Early Recollections, Private Logic, and the Crucial C’s with John Bradshaw’s Inner Child work and Erikson’s psychosocial stages. It demonstrates how early memories reveal core beliefs, relational expectations, and developmental disruptions, enabling clinicians to identify unresolved conflicts and apply a cohesive, lifespan-informed treatment framework.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Explain Adler’s concept of early recollections viewed as reflections of an individual’s unique lifestyle and core beliefs along with the Crucial C’s and Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, in identifying how each framework contributes to understanding personality formation of John Bradshaw’s inner script and psychosocial challenges in counseling.
2. Utilize client’s early recollections as diagnostic tools by mapping these memories onto Erikson’s developmental stages. This will enable counselors to recognize patterns in client’s narratives that reflect unresolved developmental conflicts or strengths, thereby informing targeted intervention strategies.
3. Design and apply counseling interventions that combine insights from early recollections with developmental stage analysis. Participants will practice crafting session plans that use client’s personal histories to foster self-awareness, resolve psychosocial conflicts, and promote adaptive coping strategies throughout various life stages.





Who Survival Taught Me to Be — Identity, Shame, and Belonging

(INTRODUCTORY)

Monique R. Darnell, LPC, LMHC



Building on Adlerian principles and trauma theory, this session examines how chronic trauma shapes identity, shame, and belonging across the lifespan. Participants will explore how stigma, cultural context, and faith-related experiences contribute to trauma-based identity formation and disconnection. This offers clinicians tools to support identity repair and reduce shame through Adlerian encouragement and meaning-centered intervention.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Explain the relationship between trauma, identity, and shame.
2. Analyze how stigma disrupts belonging.
3. Support identity repair using Adlerian principles.





SATURDAY AFTER LUNCH 3 HOUR SESSIONS
1:00PM-4:15PM
(3 CE Hours)





Consensual Non-Monogamy from an Adlerian Perspective

(INTRODUCTORY)

Timothy Pierce-Tomlin, MS, LPC



Consensual non-monogamy is an increasingly recognized form of relationship. As clinicians are likely to work with non-monogamous clients at some point, it can be helpful to understand the unique dynamics of poly groups. Participants will practice engaging with multi-partner relationships and helping clients determine a course of action within an Adlerian framework.

This workshop is designed to help you: 1. Discuss relevant and appropriate vocabulary to relate to clients in non-monogamous relationships (hinge, metamour, comet, etc.)
2. Demonstrate the ability to identify and assess behavioral patterns or attachment styles contributing to conflict and be able to articulate the impact of patterns on the relationship.
3. Apply an Adlerian framework to navigate common challenges facing polyamorous and non-monogamous partners.





After the Crime: When Life Style Is Shaken

(INTERMEDIATE)

Lindsay K. Hill, MEd, LPC-SC, DNASAP



Crime disrupts not only safety but identity, belonging, and meaning. This workshop applies Adlerian psychology and the Crucial Cs to crime-related trauma, using live demonstration to conceptualize trauma responses as purposeful adaptations & expanding beyond graduate-level symptom-focused trauma models.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe how crime-related trauma disrupts Life Style, identity, and private logic.
2. Identify how crime impacts each of the Crucial Cs (Connect, Capable, Count, Courage).
3. Demonstrate Adlerian assessment strategies that reveal trauma-based safeguarding.





SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
2:45PM-4:15PM
(1.5 CE Hours)





Menopause Matters – Adlerian Tasks of Love and Social Empowerment

(INTRODUCTORY)

Stacy Sampson, MS, LPC, NCC, CPCS



For past generations perimenopause and menopause were downplayed, overlooked, and undertreated by medical practitioners and counselors alike. This presentation aims to educate and encourage counselors so we can work with clients to remove shame, treat the whole person versus symptom management, and empower our clients to navigate their health on their own terms.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Discuss Adler's concepts of Life Task of Love/Intimacy and Social Interest, focusing on how these concepts impact individuals navigating perimenopause and menopause.
2. Assess a myriad of physical, emotional, and psychological impacts of shifting hormones during perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause.
3. Analyze therapeutic strategies and resources to aid in client navigation and empowerment of this phase of a person’s life.





Suicide Prevention Through Connection: Exploring Adler and the Crucial C’s

(INTRODUCTORY)

Tara Overzat, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS &
Kishon Kelley, LPC, NCC



Suicide rates are increasing in the US. This interactive session will explore Adlerian strategies for suicide assessment and prevention. The Crucial C’s and other Adlerian techniques’ ability to reduce suicide risk will be highlighted and ways to connect these interventions to clinical practice will be explored.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe the challenges contributing to the increasing suicide rate among youth and the overall US population in recent years.
2. Apply Adlerian therapeutic techniques, with a focus on the Crucial C’s, to case studies on suicidal ideation and attempt.
3. Synthesize your current therapeutic modality with suicide prevention techniques and interventions through an Adlerian lens.





From Protection to Connection — Healing Through Social Interest

(INTRODUCTORY)

Monique R. Darnell, LPC, LMHC



This session focuses on relational patterns rooted in trauma-based protection and explores Adlerian social interest as a pathway toward healing and reconnection. Participants will learn to identify trauma-driven relational strategies and apply trauma-informed Adlerian interventions that support movement from survival toward connection and belonging. This session offers applied tools clinicians can immediately integrate into relational and trauma-focused treatment.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Identify trauma-based relational patterns.
2. Integrate Adlerian and trauma-informed interventions.
3. Facilitate movement toward social interest.





SATURDAY EVENING PLENARY
4:30PM-6:45PM
(2 CE Hours)





Two Styles for Assessing Early Recollections

(INTERMEDIATE)

Michele R. Frey, PhD, LPC, ACS, CPCS, DNASAP & James AA. Holder III, MA, LPC, MAC



Participants will be introduced to two different methods of assessing early recollections. Presenters will each demonstrate their individual ways of using strategies in understanding an individual through ERs. One demonstration will focus on participants learning how memory holds both conscious and unconscious information, and the other will focus on identifying strengths that serve as guiding goals for the individual. This workshop will help to fill a void in that few counseling programs address or teach the use of ERs in understanding individuals.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Identify parts of early recollections.
2. Assess client strengths found in an early recollection.
3. Describe different ways of assessing early recollections.





SUNDAY
AUGUST 23rd
(Lunch 12PM-1PM)





SUNDAY MORNING SESSIONS
8:30AM-11:45AM
(3 CE Hours)





Anxious Hearts and Worry Warts: Finding Rest Within Uncertainties

(INTERMEDIATE)

Gary Bauman, PhD, LPC, CPCS



Anxiety and worry infiltrate our existence. Individuals are often plagued with concerns that affect confidence in one’s future. Adlerian theory posits that perceptions determine one’s potential for navigating the challenges of life. This presentation will focus on empowering an individual’s social interest and self-confidence to handle the uncertainties of life.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe and assess the purposefulness of a client's anxiety and worry to anticipate the future.
2. Summarize and explain how an individual’s perceptions and choice of actions are often attempts to safeguard one’s self against anticipation of perceived threats.
3. Utilize the Adlerian concepts of Social Interest, Spitting in the Soup, and compensating as means of helping clients reorient their perspective on dealing with anxiety symptoms.





Using the BASIS-A Inventory in Clinical Supervision

(ADVANCED) Clinical supervision

Susan Belangee, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS, DNASAP



This session explores how lifestyle dynamics, as measured by scales on the BASIS-A Inventory, influence the supervisory relationship. Attendees will self-reflect on their own lifestyle traits and the impact, both positive and negative, they have had on past/current supervision relationships. A demonstration will be conducted to illuminate these connections.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Describe lifestyle from an Adlerian psychology perspective.
2. Analyze your own lifestyle dynamics and how they influence supervision.
3. Discuss how the counselor-client relationship is affected by the counselor's lifestyle dynamics.





Adlerian Psychology and Internal Family Systems: A Case Study - The Next Stage

(ADVANCED)

Michele R. Frey, PhD, LPC, ACS, CPCS, DNASAP &
Carla Jefferson, MA, APC



Part I of this workshop will introduce through lecture and interactive discussion the first 18 months of a case study and how Adlerian concepts and IFS concepts were used to help this client address complex trauma issues including her acceptance of her sexual identity as a lesbian. Part II will address the next stage in which this client now finds herself as she continues to work towards healing and acceptance of herself.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Verbalize the process for integrating Adlerian Psychology and Internal Family Systems (IFS).
2. Discuss the metaphorical importance of "parts", as described in IFS.
3. Explain stages of understanding and healing with victims of complex trauma, specifically those in the LGBTQ+ populations and the process for integrating Adlerian Psychology and Internal Family Systems (IFS).





In the Face of Loss and Trauma: Adlerian Use of Creativity to Heal the Whole Self

(INTERMEDIATE)

Stacy Sampson, MS, LPC, CPCS, NCC &
David Hough, CPS-AD



This presentation explores the use of Narrative Therapy and other creative strategies to aid in the healing process for those experiencing grief, trauma, or other difficulties. This highly participatory demonstration-based training will explore techniques for finding survivors’ voices, exploring meaning making for their lives while focusing on client's strengths, choices, and future goals.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Using Adlerian therapy concepts, discuss ways to aid clients with creating meaning for their lives and focus on growth from painful and difficult experiences.
2. Discuss brainstorming, journaling, and other methods to prepare clients for the deeper work of Narrative Therapy and other creative therapies.
3. Demonstrate narrative therapy strategies and use of art and other creative outlets for aiding in healing by telling their stories, with a focus on client’s goals, strengths, superiority, and choices.





Staying Ethical and HIPAA Compliant in a Telehealth Practice

(INTRODUCTORY) ETHICS/TELEHEALTH

Jody Housker, PhD, NCC, ACS, NBCCH, LPC



Telehealth is here to stay. This session will highlight the ACA and APA Codes of Ethics pertaining to the delivery of telehealth services, as well as the APA Guidelines for the Practice of Telepsychology through varied group activities. The connections of how the ACA & APA Codes of Ethics, APA Guidelines and HIPAA fit together in providing sound, ethical services to clients will be addressed.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Analyze the HIPAA Privacy/Security Rule as it pertains to your work.
2. Describe ethical risks in providing telehealth services and safeguards.
3. Apply relevant ethical codes from ACA and APA related to telehealth to common practice situations.





END OF CONFERENCE SUNDAY PLENARY
1PM-3:15PM
(2 CE Hours)





The Purpose of Pain: Embracing the Movement of Life

(INTRODUCTORY)

Gary Bauman, PhD, LPC, CPCS



Life is movement! During the ebbs and flows of one’s journey that we call life, each person will likely encounter transitional experiences of physical and emotional pain. At such times individuals may choose to either embrace or neutralize these powerful feelings which are intended to remind us all that life really is movement.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. Apply encouragement strategies to help clients embrace all emotions, even difficult ones, and view these experiences as opportunities to strengthen social interest.
2. Verbalize techniques of encouraging clients to see life as movement and to appreciate the highs and lows of the experiences found on the journey of life.
3. Apply the Adlerian concept of the Masculine Protest for assisting clients on how to redirect one’s experience of pain into areas that foster a greater sense of belonging and contribution.