Introduction to Traumatic Brain Injury

October 7, 2011 in Trauma, WEB Training, All, Client Care by admin

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There are very few injuries or medical conditions that can impact every aspect of a person. Brain injury does not just impact the individual, it impacts their family members and their loved ones. Learn the prevalence, causes, and consequences of traumatic brain injury as well as diagnosis and treatment options.

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Thomas A. Martin, Psy.D., ABPP is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Health Professions at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Martin is board-certified in Clinical Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is a Fellow in the National Academy of Neuropsychology and in 2008 was the recipient of this organizations’ Early Career Service Award. Dr. Martin has numerous publications related to the assessment and management of central nervous system dysfunction and he is currently conducting research in the area of traumatic brain injury. He is co-editor of the text, Geriatric Neuropsychology: Practice Essentials and serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals, Brain Injury and Rehabilitation Psychology. Dr. Martin is Immediate Past President of the Brain Injury Association of Missouri and he recently served as an expert member of an invited task force that was established to develop a comprehensive report for the U.S. Congress that outlined recommendations to address the traumatic brain injury and psychological needs of returning military personnel.

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Youth at Risk

September 20, 2011 in All, WEB Training, Family, Mental Illness, Client Care, Child and Adolescents by admin | 5 comments

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The goal of this training is to give clinicians an overview of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Reality Therapy in working with angry, aggressive clients. Viewers will learn practical strategies on how to work with millennium youth to help them be more academically and socially successful. This training will be especially helpful to those who work with adolescents in a school setting or in a private practice.


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Dacia L. Moore, MA, LPC, NCC, President and founder of Second Wind Counseling & Consulting, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, author, trainer and motivational speaker. She has a Masters Degree in Counseling from Webster University and is a National Board Certified Counselor. As an adjunct professor, Dacia teaches Master’s level courses at Webster University and also serves as a Board Member for the American Counseling Association of Missouri and the Kansas City Chapter of the American Counseling Association. Before starting her company, Dacia was V.P. of Programs at a residential treatment facility where she routinely dealt with difficult diagnoses such as ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Depression and Bipolar Disorder. Dacia has had the honor of studying REBT under Albert Ellis, PhD and holds an advanced REBT certification from the Albert Ellis Institute.

Dacia specializes in professional development training for those who work with angry, aggressive youth. Her modality is using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which is very effective in treating youth with mood disorders. Dacia conducts a variety of training sessions, teaching participants how to reduce angry aggressive classroom behavior.

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Suicide Among African American Teens and Young Adults - A Discussion for People In A Position To Help

September 20, 2011 in WEB Training, Suicide, All, Family, Client Care, Mental Illness, Child and Adolescents by admin | 5 comments

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Stigma often prevents individuals from gaining awareness and understanding of suicide. Talking candidly about suicide with parents and caregivers can be difficult barrier to overcome when cultural stigma exist. Common misconceptions or cultural beliefs discourage many from seeking treatment, and many educators and individuals in helping professions are not convinced that suicide is a genuine health concern for African American communities. This educational training aims to raise awareness and understanding of suicidal behavior among African American adolescents (ages 14-24 years), as well as to provide individuals with strategies and resources to appropriately intervene with a young person considering suicide.


Program Presenters:

Brian Evans is the Associate Program Director for Suicide Prevention Education Programming at the Mental Health America of Eastern Missouri. He facilitates the suicide PREV, a Prevention, Response, Education and Victory educational training for educators, parents, agency staff and faith communities. He completed his Masters of Social Work degree at Washington University St. Louis in August of 2010. His studies include suicide in African Americans and other marginalized populations. He has 15 years career experience in social services for an urban elementary and middle schools.

Justin Idleburg joined the Independence Center in St. Louis after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He sits on the Independence Center Development Board and the Missouri Department of Mental Health’s Consumer Conference Committee. He has spoken at the United Nations and as a Torch Light Speaker in the Combined Federal Campaign.

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Trauma 101: Understanding the Impact of Trauma

August 27, 2010 in Abuse, WEB Training, Trauma, Corrections, All, Forensic Services, Self Help Support, Client Care by admin | 32 comments

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Many people, children and adults alike, suffer experiences that meet the definition of trauma. The impact of traumatic events on individuals varies but approximately one third of people experiencing trauma will require professional intervention. A definition of trauma is presented; the impact that trauma has on individuals described; and various ways to treat trauma introduced. Several evidence based interventions are included among the various treatment modalities discussed.

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Margaret Comford is the founder of the Midwest Trauma Treatment Center with over 20 years experience working in the field of trauma. She is trained in the three identified best practices in treating traumatized youth and is committed to the spread of these interventions. Margaret provides individual and family therapy utilizing the evidence-based interventions. She continues to increase awareness and understanding of trauma, evidence-based treatments and other relevant topics by providing trainings to the community, mental health providers and agencies.
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Emotional Skills: A Key to Successful Behavior

January 27, 2010 in All, Client Care, Communication Skills, DVD Training by admin | 25 comments

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Emotional fitness is a set of skills that allow the user to experience the full range of human emotion and respond appropriately and effectively. Sandra Martin explains the implications of recent neurological studies indicating the brain’s ability to modify itself through repetition, and outlines the steps necessary to make permanent, positive changes in the ways that we handle emotions.

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Sandra Martin has been an RN for over 30 years. She has been in wellness for over twenty years. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Master of Health Science, and is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Adult Education. Her research topics include spirituality, motivation, overeating and the limbic brain. Sandra began her career in hospital nursing. Her fascination has always been in understanding what makes people behave the way they do. This focus has led her to completing her degrees as well as multiple certifications that include Myers Briggs Type Inventory, Solution skills, and Equine Assisted Growth and Learning

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Diabetes Management for Persons with Mental Illness and Developmental Disabilities

February 4, 2009 in Family, All, Developmental Disabilities, Support Groups, Self Help Support, Client Care, Eating Disorders, Mental Illness, Case Management by admin | 66 comments

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The diagnosis of diabetes is serious, and of particular concern when an individual also has a mental illness or a developmental disability. People need to take an active role in the management of diabetes just as they do with a mental illness. In this presentation, Ms. Farley explains how diabetes is recognized and managed, and shares her experiences caring for people who have diabetes along with a developmental disability or a mental illness.

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Take Charge Training: Exercise and Nutrition for Individuals with Mental Illness

February 3, 2009 in All, WEB Training, Mental Illness, Eating Disorders, Client Care, Case Management by admin | 25 comments

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Individuals with mental illness die an average of 25 years younger than the general population. Often these early deaths are attributable to medical factors such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension. These other medical factors can be prevented and/or managed with the implementation of good nutritional habits and proper exercise.
In this training, Ms. Kincade takes us through the experiences of the Independence Center in St. Louis which set up a Wellness Program for its members. She discusses the challenges faced in various settings–the mental health center, the home and the community–while trying to help people develop good habits, and several practical tips and solutions.

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Empowering People with Mental Illness through Treatment Planning

November 3, 2008 in All, WEB Training, Mental Illness, Client Care, Communication Skills, Case Management by admin | 41 comments

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People have the right to participate in their own lives to the extent they can, and this applies to people with mental illnesses and other vulnerable populations. In this presentation, Dr. Linhorst defines empowerment, lays out the conditions and circumstances under which empowerment is likely to take place, and provides concrete examples of applying the principles of empowerment.

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Sustaining Appropriate Clinical Boundaries in Home and Community Care

August 26, 2008 in Family, All, WEB Training, Mental Illness, Management, Communication Skills, Client Care, Human Resources, Case Management by admin | 18 comments

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Due to the home and community-based location of their work, community support staff and other in-home care providers have unique challenges in maintaining appropriate clinical boundaries with their clients. In this session participants will explore numerous potential pitfalls that can ensnare well-meaning professionals. The Code of Ethics for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioners will be used to demonstrate how an ethics code can be beneficial in guiding practice.

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The Challenge of Validation

July 11, 2008 in WEB Training, Evidence Based Practices, All, Mental Illness, Client Care by admin | 12 comments

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Validation is a critical component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and a skill which practitioners will need to learn, practice, and fine tune in order to be truly effective. Dr. Ronda Oswalt Reitz talks with us about who benefits most by the use of validation. She also explains in detail the Six Levels of Validation as proposed by Dr. Marsha Linehan, the architect of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Understanding and practicing these validation levels will help you as a clinician and the people you serve to engage each other in an open, trusting, therapeutic environment.

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Evidence-Based Practice in a Children’s System of Care

July 11, 2008 in Evidence Based Practices, WEB Training, All, Family, Client Care, Mental Illness, Child and Adolescents by admin | 14 comments

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In this presentation, Dr. Carter explains Evidence-Based Practices and how they apply to providing services and supports to children and families. She discusses how to select a practice, and how to apply it. Likewise, she explains when not to rely exclusively on Evidence-Based Practices. This is a frank, open conversation regarding the often challenging world of finding the right treatment strategies for the children you serve.

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What is Motivational Interviewing

July 11, 2008 in Evidence Based Practices, Motivational Interviewing, WEB Training, All, Treatment Interventions, Client Care, Forensic Services, Mental Illness, Case Management by admin | 15 comments

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Motivational Interviewing is a tool for use in helping people resolve their ambivalence, or internal conflict, about changing their behavior. This training covers what MI is, why you hear people talking about the Spirit of MI and why that that is so important. You will learn how MI works and why, and be given resources for further learning or finding information, and for comparing MI with other approaches.
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An Overview of Psychotropics Made Simple

February 27, 2008 in Front, All, WEB Training, Treatment Interventions, Substance Abuse, Forensic Services, Mental Illness, Personality Disorders, Client Care by admin | 28 comments

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Use of psychotropic medications has increased dramatically in this generation. Illnesses once thought hopeless and untreatable have been brought under control, and the people with these illnesses have been allowed to live healthy, productive lives. Bearing witness to the positive and negative aspects of psychotropic medications, and often faced with the brunt of day-to-day questions about these drugs are the case managers, social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, aides and other front line mental health care staff.

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Roger W. Sommi, PharmD, FCCP, BCPP, received his Bachelors in Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Utah in 1985, and completed a Clinical Services Fellowship in Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice at the University of Texas at Austin and Austin State Hospital. He is currently Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Psyhiatry at the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Research Director of the Psychopharmacy Research and Education Program at Western Missouri Mental Health Center.
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What Makes an Excellent Case Manager

December 12, 2007 in All, WEB Training, Mental Illness, Management, Communication Skills, Client Care, Case Management by admin | 28 comments

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This program is based upon the Dr. Iseminger’s research done for her Doctoral dissertation, and looks at the relationships between learning activities, domains of competence, and learning categories. Informal learning activities proved to be the best contributor to professional competence.Program Presenter:

Jan Iseminger, PhD , holds two Bachelor’s Degrees (Education and Therapeutic Recreation) a Master’s Degree in Social Gerontology and an Educational Specialist Degree from Central Missouri State University. She got her Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She’s worked in a community mental health center for the past 10 years as a case worker, and then as a supervisor of a case management team. And, she’s also taught for the State Fair Community College and Central Missouri State University as an Adjunct Professor for the past 6 years.
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Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health

September 26, 2007 in Evidence Based Practices, WEB Training, All, Family, Mental Illness, Client Care by admin | 16 comments

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We now know that people can and do recover from mental illness, and we know more and more about what treatment approaches work. An evidence-based practice has four key components: it must be a standardized treatment with guidelines or manuals; it must have been studied using a controlled research design; the research studies must have employed a variety of research teams; and, the outcomes must matter to the recipient of the care. Selection of an evidence-based practice must take into account not only the treatment, but the characteristics of the person and the desired effect. While evidence-based practices are proven, many good practices are still viable and should not be abandoned. In this presentation, Dr. Selleck discusses how a practice becomes evidence-based, what some examples of evidence-based practices are in the mental health field, and the ongoing evolution of mental health care.
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Virginia Selleck, PhD is the Clinical Director for the Division of Comprehenisive Psychiatric Services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. Prior to that, she spent fifteen years in Minnesota as the Supervisor of Adult Mental Health Services with the Mental Health Division’s Department of Human Services. That followed eighteen years in Chicago, at a psychiatric rehabilitation center called Threshholds, and time as a mental health counselor in rural Illinois.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Client’s Perspective

September 5, 2007 in WEB Training, All, Client Care, Anxiety Disorders by thom.pancella | 24 comments

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Discussion in this video focused on Ms. Tarter’s experience of OCD. This experience involves a repetitive cycle of overwhelming obsessions that causes great anxiety and elicits her attempts to decrease this anxiety through the use of rituals that are only briefly satisfying in decreasing the anxiety. Ms Tarter explains that there is no cure for OCD and iterates the idea that folks must learn how to cope with the illness through techniques such as controlled breathing, the use of coping statements, tactile strategies and finally, medication.
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Amanda Tarter was diagnosed with OCD and PTSD after an accident involving her brother. Ms. Tarter has been treated for both OCD and PTSD for the past 5 years. She is currently a student at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville studying special education. In addition to her studies, Ms. Tarter serves as a volunteer with special needs children. Ms. Tarter and her family are currently involved in a research study which is examining genetic links for OCD.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Family’s Perspective

September 5, 2007 in Family, All, WEB Training, Support Groups, Self Help Support, Community Resources, Child and Adolescents, Client Care, Anxiety Disorders by thom.pancella | 30 comments

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Mr. Bahr, founder of the St. Louis OCD Support group discusses his process of identifying and utilizing a system of support for his son who was diagnosed at an early age with OCD. This process involved educating himself and his family, educating the public, and guiding families and clients to seek information, and treatment resources within their communities.Program Presenter:
Bernie Bahr is the father of a son diagnosed with OCD in 1979, Mr. Bahr, along with his wife began educating themselves on OCD from 1979-1990. In 1990 attended the National OCD meetings, Mr. Bahr and his wife started the St. Louis OCD support group in 1990. They are still very much involved in this effort.
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FAS Examination

September 4, 2007 in All, WEB Training, Substance Abuse, Client Care, Child and Adolescents, Alcohol by thom.pancella | 15 comments

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When conducting a physical exam to assess for FAS Physicians should focus their attention on Occipitofrontal Circumference, the Supraorbital Ridge, the Palpebral Fissures, the Filtrum and assessing for Clinodactyly.
Dr. Braddock conducts an examination on an 11 year old African American male to assess for fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Stephen Braddock, MD. Dr. Braddock teaches at the University of Missouri – Columbia School of Medicine in the Child Health Department. He is a Geneticist and Dysmorphologist who received an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and University of Missouri, Columbia School of Medicine 1984-88. Dr. Braddock completed his internship in Pediatrics at the University of Utah, Affiliated Hospitals in 1989. Dr. Braddock completed a Residency in Pediatrics at the University of Utah, Affiliated Hospitals in 1991. He completed a Medical Genetics Fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at UCLA and a Dysmorphology Fellowship in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego in 1994.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Clinical Intervention

August 24, 2007 in WEB Training, All, Treatment Interventions, Client Care, Anxiety Disorders by admin | 23 comments

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OCD is characterized by the experience of obsessions and compulsions that greatly affect the quality of an individual’s life. Obsessions are thoughts, feelings, and urges that result in great discomfort. Compulsions are the strategies that people use to decrease or neutralize discomfort experienced by the obsessions. In order to meet the criteria for a diagnosis of OCD, a person must spend 1 hour a day in either mental or behavioral ritual or the obsession must cause great distress and/or it must cause significant problems in their life. Furthermore, OCD has an impact of the individual’s family and other systems of support.In this video, Mr. Mitchell describes Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and identifies the criteria for its diagnosis. In addition, Mr. Mitchell describes how OCD is manifested in behavior and identifies treatment options for the disorder. Further discussion centers on how family and other support systems are affected by the person with OCD.
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Gary Mitchell, MSW, LCSW is a clinical social worker who has expertise in the treatment of children and adults with anxiety disorders and related problems. He is the Assistant Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center of St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute, which specializes in the treatment of refractory and complicated cases. Mr. Mitchell has also worked in residential treatment providing Cognitive, Behavioral and Family Therapy for emotionally disturbed children. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the St. Louis University School of Social Services, where he teaches Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy.
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