Haymarket Center - Presentations

Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D ., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and is presently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Miami. He is Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment of Victims of Violence. (For more information, please see www.melissainstitute.org and www.teachsafeschools.org). He is one of the founders of Cognitive Behavior Therapy and in a survey of North American clinicians reported in the American Psychologist, Dr. Meichenbaum was voted “one of the ten most influential psychotherapists of the century”. He has published extensively including two clinical handbooks, Treating Adults with PTSD and Treating Individuals with Anger-Control Problemsand Aggressive Behaviors. He has lectured and consulted internationally for varied health care providers who work with returning combat veterans, torture victims, native populations, individuals with Traumatic Brain injuries, deaf children and youth, developmentally-delayed populations, batterer’s programs, and various psychiatric populations with dual diagnoses.

Katie Evans, Ph.D., CADC III, NCAC II, is an international expert in treating individuals with dual diagnosis. She has a Ph.D. and Master’s Degree in clinical psychology from Capella University. Dr. Evans is nationally certified and is Oregon State certified as an addictions counselor. She is credentialed as both drug and alcohol and mental health professional by several organizations. Dr. Evans has a private practice in the Portland, Oregon area where she offers counseling, consultation, and supervision services. A member of NAADAC’s National Training Academy, all three of her home study courses are NAADAC approved as well as certified by numerous state boards. Dr. Evans is adjunct faculty at Portland State University, and has been an instructor at several national colleges.

Dr. Evans is co-author of Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma (Guildford Press) as well as Dual Diagnosis--Counseling The Mentally Ill Substance Abuser (Guildford Press), Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Workbook, along with Depression And Addiction. Dr. Evans’ dissertation on Conversation Experience: What Helped Addicted Adolescent Survivors Of Trauma Change contributed valuable original research supporting her models for change with dual-disordered individuals. During her 29 years in the treatment field, she has been a clinician, program developer, and consultant for CSAT, Hazelden, along with numerous state agencies and professional organizations. Dr. Evans’ warmth and humor provides enthusiasm in her trainings. Role-played demonstrations and client videos create a workshop of therapy in action. Dr. Evans weaves innovative clinical approaches with evidence-based practices.

Jerry Moe, M.A., is Vice President, National Director of Children’s Programs at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, and Denver, Colorado. An Advisory Board Member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics, he is internationally known as an author, lecturer, and trainer on issues for young children from addicted families. Jerry received the 2005 America Honors Recovery Award from the Johnson Institute, the 2000 Ackerman/Black Award from NACoA for his outstanding work on behalf of children of alcoholics, and in 1993 he was awarded the Marty Mann Award for outstanding communication in the alcoholism and addiction field. He is featured in the documentary, Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family, currently showing on PBS stations across the United States. Jerry’s books include: Kid’s Power: Healing Games for Children of Alcoholics; Conducting Support Groups for Elementary Children; Discovery…Finding the Buried Treasure; Kid’s Power Too: Words to Grow By; The Children’s Place…At The Heart of Recovery, the Beamer Series for Kids; and Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child’s Eyes.

Kathryn Icenhower, Ph.D., LCSW, is the Executive Director of SHIELDS for Families, a private non-profit organization that comprises 29 programs for families who reside in South Central Los Angeles. Dr. Icenhower incorporated SHIELDS in 1991 with Dr. Xylina Bean and Norma Mtume, MA. Since that time the organization has grown to employ 270 staff with $19 million dollar annual budget to provide comprehensive services to over 2000 families annually. Kathryn received her BSSW from Ohio State University and her MSW and PH.D. from the University of Southern California. She has worked in the substance abuse and child welfare fields for over twenty-nine years in both clinical and administrative positions and has remained at the forefront of the field as an advocate for comprehensive and collaborative services for high risk communities. Kathryn has extensive experience managing and administering comprehensive collaborative services and sits on numerous local, state, and federal coalitions and advisory boards, including the National Center for Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, providing direct input into policy initiatives regarding social welfare issues. Under Dr. Icenhower’s guidance, SHIELDS programs have been nationally recognized and used as models by federal, state and local entities including HUD, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. In 2005, Dr. Icenhower was given an “Innovator Award” from CSAT for her work in Family Centered Treatment.

Kenneth Minkoff, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist with a certificate of additional qualifications in addiction psychiatry, a dedicated community psychiatrist, and currently is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a senior systems consultant for Zialogic in Albuquerque, N.M. He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on integrated treatment of individuals with co-occurring psychiatric and substance disorders (ICOPSD) or “dual diagnosis”, and on the development of integrated systems of care for such individuals, through the implementation of a national consensus best practice model for systems design: The Comprehensive Continuous Integrated System of Care (CCISC), referenced in SAMHSA’s Report to Congress on Co-Occurring Disorders (2002). He has developed an integrated conceptual framework for treatment of co-occurring disorders based on application of a disease and recovery model – with parallel phases of treatment and recovery – for each disorder, and co-edited, with Robert Drake, MD, Dual Diagnosis Major Mental Illness and Substance Disorder (1991).

Dr. Minkoff’s major professional activity is the provision of training and consultation on clinical services and systems design for individuals with co-occurring disorders. With his consulting partner, Christine A Cline, MD, MBA, Dr. Minkoff has developed a systems change toolkit (see www.zialogic.org) for CCISC implementation.

Ernie Kurtz, Ph.D., received his degree in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University in 1978. His doctoral dissertation was published as the book, Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous. Since then, he has published the booklet, Shame and Guilt, now freely available on line (see www.hindsfoot.org/eksg.html), and with Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection. He has also published a number of articles, both scholarly and popular, and has lectured nationally and internationally on subjects related to the academic study of spirituality. Some of his articles have been published in the soon-to-be-re-issued book, The Collected Ernie Kurtz.

Dr. Kurtz taught American History and the History of Religion in America at the University of Georgia and Loyola University of Chicago. From 1978 to 1997, he served on the faculty of the Rutgers University Summer School of Alcohol Studies and from 1987 to 1997, as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Board of Social Service Administration. After a brief stint as Director of Research and Education at Guest House, at the time an alcoholism treatment facility for Catholic clergy, Ernie retired to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where since 2002 he has served as Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist (than which rank there is no lower) in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Michigan School of Medicine, a responsibility that has led to further co-authored articles.