"Making a Difference: Treating Trauma and Behavioral Health Care issues in Children and Adolescents"

Presented by:

Patricia Calabrese PMHNP
Leah Claire Bennett, Ph.D.
Christina Williams, Ph.D.
Ted Crawford, LMFT
Mallory Malkin, Ph.D.

Saturday, April 8th, 2017
Registration: 7:45 am - 8:45 am
Conference: 8:45 am - 4:15 pm

Forrest General Hospital Cafeteria, Tree Room
6051 US 49, Hattiesburg, MS 39401

$75 fee ($25 employees & students)

Online registration is closed for this event, please contact at kjarrell@forrestgeneral.com or 601-288-4962 for more information.

Continuing Education:

Psychology: (6 CE Hours) Pine Grove is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Pine Grove maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Mississippi Social Work: 6 CE Hours (Provider DP #SWB12013) Pine Grove is approved as a provider for continuing education by the MBOE & MFT (08/24/16 through 08/24/18). Social workers will receive 6 CE hours in participating in this course (Clinical 4.5 Supervision___ /Cultural Competency___/ Ethics 1.5_ /General ___).

NBCC: (4.5 CE hours and 1.5 CE hours for Ethics) Pine Grove has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6392. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified, Pine Grove is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Alabama Social Work: (6 Contact Hours) Provider #0336 through ABSWE.

Louisiana Social Work: (6 Contact Hours (Clinical: _4.5 contact hours / Supervision___ /Cultural Competency___/ Ethics _1.5_ contact hour /General ___). Continuing education credit for partial attendance will not be issued. This program is approved for 6 contact hours by Pine Grove as authorized by the Louisiana State Board Of Social Work Examiners.

Mississippi LMFT: 6 General Hours: Pine Grove Behavioral Health Provider #TCE0003. Approval number MS17-016.

Nursing: 6 Contact Hours.

Target Audience for All Speakers:

The target audience will be nursing staff, social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, and other mental health therapists or graduate students in those fields. Information will be presented at an intermediate level.

Ethical Disclosures for Speaker(s):

1. Mallory Malkin, Ted Crawford, Pat Calabrese, Leah Claire Bennett, and Christina Williams are employees of Forrest General Hospital.
2. There is no commercial support of any of the speaker(s), the content of the talks or anything that might be a conflict of interest beyond the speakers being paid by FGH.
3. The speaker(s) are not promoting any books; medications or training that will be for sale at the talk that might constitute a conflict of interest.
4. The speaker(s) will cover any potential limitations and risks of the treatment or topics being discussed during the talk.
5. Some of the material covered is of a sensitive nature about addictions, ethical dilemmas and/or other clinical disorders.

Those in attendance must stay for the entire duration of the workshop; partial credit for partial attendance will not be awarded.

APA CE Statement:

Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Pine Grove maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Disability Statement:

Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services complies with the ADA. This facility is handicapped-accessible. If any conference participant is in need of reasonable accommodation, please contact Samuel Rosa at 601-288-4915 prior to the event.

Grievance Procedure:

Please contact Samuel Rosa at 601-288-4915 at Pine Grove Behavioral Health & Addiction Services, 2255 Broadway Drive, Hattiesburg MS 39401 to submit a complaint, or if you have additional questions.

Nursing:

Forrest General Hospital is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Mississippi Nurses Foundation, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Refund/Cancellation Policy:

Refunds will be given to paying attendees who feel that the program was not what was advertised, or if the program is canceled.

Segment 1: "Why Bullies Bully"

Presented by Patricia Calabrese PMHNP

Purpose:

This presentation will discuss issues in recent research regarding bullying behaviors. Discussion will explore character profiles, family make-up and the importance of power and control. Emphasis will be on extinguishing bullying aggression in children.

Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify 4 types of bullying.
• Participants will be able to list 3 characteristics of bullies.
• Participants will be able to identify 2 commonalities of bullying and sexual violence.

Segment 2: "Coloring Inside The Lines: How to Maintain Boundaries When Working with Children"

Presented by Leah Claire Bennett, Ph.D. and Christina Williams, Ph.D.

Purpose:

This seminar will focus on the recognition, teaching and understanding of professional boundaries involved in working in a clinical setting with children.

Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify and discuss boundaries within the child and adolescent population.
• Participants will be able to use concepts to apply to case examples of boundaries.
• Participants will be able to explain professional boundaries in working within a child’s support network.

Segment 3: "Parenting Adolescents: Encouraging Compliance, Minimizing the Power Struggle"

Presented by Ted Crawford, LMFT

Purpose:

To aid professionals in teaching parents how to increase compliance in their teenagers while decreasing the level of power struggle that normally goes with it.

Objectives:

• Instruct a parent in how to encourage open communication from their teenager.
• Instruct a parent in how to avoid “triangulation” when giving expectations to their teenager.
• Identify the two essential questions parents are to consider when implementing effective discipline.
• List five steps to negotiating compliance from teenagers.
• Explain ways that parents can increase their chances of following through with the 5 step negotiating process.

Segment 4: "Setting the Course of Treatment following a Natural Disaster: Clinical Implications and Approaches for Children and Adolescents"

Presented by Mallory Malkin, Ph.D.

Purpose:

To inform the treatment and approach to children and adolescents suffering from adjustment disorder and trauma, specifically related to experiencing natural disasters.

Objectives:

• Describe a general overview of the diagnostic criteria for Adjustment Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and more specifically address these diagnoses as they relate to the experience of natural disasters for children and adolescents.
• Describe evidenced based approaches and discuss tools with regard to the treatment of children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. For instance, the utility of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) will be discussed in detail.
• Explain the clinical implications with regard to the impact of the recent tornadoes in the Southern Mississippi and New Orleans areas.