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.
MORNING SESSION 9:45AM-12PM (2 CE HOURS)
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 SESSION 1PM-5:30PM (4 CE HOURS)
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.
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 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 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 A. 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 SESSION 8:30AM-11:45AM (3 CE Hours)
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.
