Adolescence is a 10-20 year period of transition from dependence on adults to independence from them.  Normal adolescence is characterized by increase in conflicts with family members, a desire to be with one’s friends, resistance to messages from authority, and irritability, risk taking, and proclamations of sheer boredom.  This presentation will review the emerging science that has begun to detail how the brain undergoes a considerable amount of development during the teen years.  This development provides insights as to why adolescents act the way they do.  The last brain region to develop is the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in planning, decision making, and impulse control.  Also, alcohol – and likely other drugs – affects the young person and the developing brain more profoundly than its impact on adults, suggesting that adolescents are more vulnerable to the effects of alcohol compared to adults.

  10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.     MORNING BREAK

            

 

A

            What’s Motivation Got To Do With It?  The Use of Brief I                 
            Interventions for Drug Abusing Adolescents;  Ken Winters, Ph.D.

In recent years, promising and encouraging results have been obtained by a range of research investigations on the intervention and treatment for adolescent drug use behaviors.  Brief interventions have potential to provide services for mild-to-moderate drug abusing teenagers in a wide range of settings, including schools, medical clinics and detention centers.  This workshop will review the theoretical underpinning and the clinical applications of a 3-session brief intervention model for use with adolescents.  The model is organized around motivational enhancement strategies. 

B

Counseling With Choice Theory:  The New Reality Therapy;  William Glasser, M.D. 

Since he developed his original reality therapy in 1965, Dr. Glasser has been continually updating and expanding the way he counsels.  At the present time all of his counseling is based on the Choice Theory he explains in his 1998 book, Choice Theory.  His  reality therapy has been upgraded in his 2001 book, Counseling with Choice Theory, the New Reality Therapy.  He will begin the session by explaining Choice Theory.  Choice Theory explains that we choose all of our behavior and that the purpose of counseling is to help clients to make better choices so that they can improve their mental health.  They then can keep using the Choice Theory to improve their mental health once they leave counseling.  Working this way, counseling time is shortened and is more effective. Further he explains that unhappiness is the cause of the clients’ symptoms, and that the cause is unsatisfied relationships.  At this workshop, you can find out how to counsel anyone with a DSM-IV diagnosis, including the symptoms called schizophrenia, without drugs.

C

            Treatment Guidelines for Pregnant Substance-Using Women;
            Diane Mariani, CADC, NCRS

This workshop will inform the audience of treatment guidelines and the need for a continuum of care with this special population.  Presenting guidelines that reflect the complexity of issues of women in recovery and addressing the specific needs of pregnant clients will be explored, such as:  prenatal and post partum medical; mental health; treatment; continuum of care; case management; and special considerations.  

Lunch (provided)   Noon  - 1: 00 p.m. 

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.   KEYNOTE SPEAKER II:  William Glasser, M.D.                                         Topic:  Treating Mental Health as a Public Health Problem: 
                                                      New Leadership Role For Counselors 

In this lecture, Dr. Glasser will offer counselors a new public health model to replace the medical model they are using now which focuses on diagnosing mental illness, prescribing brain drugs, and discounting counseling as a profession.  The new public health model focuses on improving mental health and separating it from mental illness.  It requires no drugs, is more effective and less expensive than the medical model to deliver, and offers counselors a leadership role in delivering mental health. 

                                    2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.          AFTERNOON BREAK

  

D

Counseling With Choice Theory: The New Reality Therapy  (continuation);
 William Glasser, M.D. 

This workshop is a continuation of Dr. Glasser’s morning session.  

E

            Problem Gambling and Youth;  Ken Winters, Ph.D. 

America is becoming a “Gambling Nation”.  This surge in popularity of gaming has implications for adolescent health.  Teenagers frequently gamble, including involvement in on-line poker.  This workshop will review the prevalence of gambling and problem gambling among youth, the psychosocial risk factors associated with youth problem gambling, and provide screening and prevention guidelines to aid youth-serving professionals.  

F

            Ethics; Bill R. Johnson, CSADC, CADP 

This workshop will explore a code of conduct for Mental Health and Substance Abuse professionals.  We will take an in-depth look at the “Nature of Verbal Communications” and the “Boundaries of Physical Touch”.  Participants will be offered the opportunity to explore the issues of professional boundaries.  Terms and tools for ethical decision-making will be reviewed.  Participants will be given the opportunity to analyze various complex ethical dilemmas, review actual ethical complaints made to different systems, and discuss appropriate responses to such cases

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