Friday, May 1, 2020
Morning Workshops
- FMA
"Morning Yoga"
6:00 am - 7:30 am
- F1
"Domestic Violence"
8:00 am - 11:00 am
- F2
"Toilets, Genitals, and Hair
What I've Learned About Treating
the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum"
8:00 am - 11:00 am
- F3
"Sexuality Through the Lifecycle-
Clinical Implications"
8:00 am - 11:00 am
- F4
"Body Bias: Sizing Up Our Clients"
8:00 am - 11:00 am
- F5
"The Revised CAMFT Code of Ethics:
Everything You Need to Know"
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
- F6
“The Intersection of Diversity,
Mindful Facilitation, and Group Process”
8:00 am - 5:45 pm
- FKEY
“Pink Lemonade”
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
- FSL
"Media"
12:15 pm - 2:15 pm
- FPS
Processing Session
12:00 pm - 2:15 pm
- F7
“Intakes & First Sessions:
What Leads to a Second Session?”
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- F8
“Suicide Assessment: Tough Questions”
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- F9
“Cyberinfidelity: Treatment & Conceptualization”
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- F10
"Adolescence & Cannabis"
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- PAC Reception
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Morning Activity - Yoga
Presenter: To Be Determined
1.5 CE Hours
All Learning Levels
Description to follow
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"Domestic Violence"
Presenter: Tarane Sondooz, PsyD, M.Ed., CEAP
3 CE Hours
Workshop Description to Follow
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"Toilets, Genitals, and Hair: What I've Learned About Treating the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum"
Presenter: Dr. Ali Mattu
3 CE Hours
The Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum of disorders can be one of the most challenging and rewarding specialties for a therapist. In this workshop, clinical psychologist Dr. Ali Mattu shares his experience treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hoarding Disorder, Hair-Pulling Disorder (trichotillomania), and Skin-Picking Disorder (excoriation). Dr. Mattu will describe the ways these disorders present, how to distinguish these problems from similar disorders (e.g. Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Tic Disorder/Tourette’s syndrome), and effective treatments for these problems. Case examples will be provided to highlight ethical, practical, and motivational challenges to treating the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum.
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand clinical presentations of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum disorders.
- Identify shared interventions from evidenceābased treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum disorders.
- Understand ethical, practical, and motivational barriers to implementing interventions for Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum disorders.
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"Sexuality Through the Lifecycle - Clinical Implications"
Presenter: Dr. Marty Klein, AASECT
3 CE Hours
All Learning Levels
We develop our ideas about sexuality while young — when our bodies are relatively strong, flexible, and pain-free, and we have plenty of time. But our bodies and lifestyles keep changing, requiring a model of sexuality, desire, and attractiveness that doesn’t depend on youthful bodies.
Without that evolving model, and changes in our expectations and choices, we’re vulnerable to sexual and relationship difficulties. We’ll address what patients can expect regarding sexuality as they age, including hormones, menopause, erection drugs, sexual side effects of medications, and the desire to feel attractive while living in a culture that glamorizes youth and defines beauty narrowly.
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- List three ways we can help clients address the impacts of chronic pain on sexuality.
- Explain how sexuality can remain stable through the lifecycle despite physical changes in sexual function.
- Describe three common ways menopause can change sexual experience.
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“Body Bias: Sizing Up Our Clients”
Presenter: Laura Westmoreland
3 CE Hours
Learning Level Intermediate
As therapists, we receive diversity and cultural awareness training on topics related to religion, gender identity, and ethnicity. Current training is silent on body diversity. In this workshop, we will explore how we size up our clients with our body biases. Are we, unknowingly, causing harm to our clients who live in larger bodies? Let’s examine the conflation of health and body size, the adoption of BMI as an indicator of health, and the subsequent impacts of weight stigma. We will explore how weight inclusivity can promote overall well-being by utilizing Health At Every Size Principles®.
The workshop is suitable for all levels of clinicians. It is designed to encourage open conversations about the biases we hold about body shape and weight, how those biases can influence our responses to clients who express dissatisfaction with their body, and whether we are unknowingly causing harm with our responses. The goals are to increase awareness of the impacts of weight stigma, encourage weight inclusivity, and utilize Health At Every Size Principles® when working with clients in larger bodies.
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify two ways to create a weight-inclusive space.
- Explain three effects of weight stigma.
- Articulate three of the five Health At Every Size Principles®.
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"The Revised CAMFT Code of Ethics: Everything You Need To Know"
Presenter: Mike Griffin, JD, LCSW
6 CE Hours
All Learning Levels
In August 2015, the CAMFT Ethics Committee, in collaboration with CAMFT legal staff and expert consultants, embarked on a comprehensive review of the CAMFT Code of Ethics. After input from members and the Board of Directors, the CAMFT Board of Directors ultimately approved numerous substantial revisions to the Code in December 2019. This six-hour workshop is intended to provide a review and discussion of the CAMFT Code of Ethics, with a particular focus on understanding the numerous changes.
>Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify and describe at least three areas in Part I of the CAMFT Code of Ethics (The Standards) that have undergone substantial revision.
- List the changes to the CAMFT Code of Ethics regarding the issue of Dual/Multiple Relationships in Part I.
- Identify and describe changes to the CAMFT Code of Ethics regarding the issue of Bartering and Gifts in Part I.
- Explain the changes to the CAMFT Code of Ethics regarding the issue of Telehealth in Part I.
- Describe the rationale behind the proposed revisions to the CAMFT Code of Ethics.
- Identify the changes to Part II of the CAMFT Code of Ethics.
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“The Intersection of Diversity, Mindful Facilitation, and Group Process”
Presenter: Lee Mun Wah, MS, M.A.
6 CE Hours
All Learning Levels
For most of us, our education as therapists has lacked adequate training from a diversity perspective. Therapists receive “awareness training” but almost no practical skills training when it comes to dealing with diversity-related issues or confrontations when working with groups from diverse populations. In this training, we will demonstrate the myriad ways that facilitation, when practiced using Mindful Techniques developed by Lee Mun Wah, can become a useful tool in helping counseling students, faculty, and staff to become culturally competent and skilled in processing individual and group issues through a diversity and therapeutic lens. Through the use of filmed vignettes, role plays, and personal stories, trained therapists will learn to draw from a broadened skill set.
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Use mindful listening and responsive techniques.
- Understand the Art of Mindful Facilitation.
- De-escalate a conflict within seconds.
- Identify the roots of our disconnections and how to reconnect.
- Notice what is missing.
- Create a sense of community and belonging among diverse groups.
- Describe 21 ways a healthy diversity conversation can be damaged.
- Facilitate advanced empathetic interventions.
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"Pink Lemonade"
Presenter: Tarane Sondoozi, PsyD, M.Ed., CEAP
1 CE Hour
All Learning Levels
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"Media"
Presenter: Dr. Ali Mattu
2 CE Hours
All Learning Levels
Workshop description to follow
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Processing Session
Presenter: Karen M. Wall, Ed.D., RN-BC, LMFT
1 CE Hour
Bring your lunch and join us for this information-packed session. Wall will facilitate a conversation to support connection and integration among the different Annual Conference disciplines. She will provide inspiration, non-judgment, and the freedom to participate by sharing and/or listening in an intimate, friendly setting.
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe an immediate application of a concept or practice.
- Assess and rate the content of each program.
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“Intakes & First Sessions: What Leads to a Second Session?”
Presenter: Dr. Marty Klein, AASECT
3 CE Hours
All Learning Levels
There’s an inherent tension in first sessions. We want to collect information from patients they may not want to discuss and may not have thought about for years (or ever). At the same time, we want to demonstrate our sensitivity, caring, and understanding that this is a difficult process for clients. We want clients to experience our skill and imagine trusting us while we establish the cooperative therapeutic relationship indispensable to clinical success.
How do we pursue these hard-to-reconcile goals simultaneously? How do we do enough therapy to get people to return without doing so much that they’re scared away?
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- List three things we wish to assess in every first session.
- Explain why too much therapy in the first session can prevent would-be clients from returning.
- Identify two skills or abilities we offer clients, in a language that most clients understand.
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“Suicide Assessment: Tough Questions”
Presenter: Bindu Khurana-Brown, LMFT
3 CE Hours
All Learning Levels
Attendees will learn questions and methods for conducting a suicide assessment. This will include recognition of signs of suicidal thoughts or urges, including behaviors that the individual may have engaged in. Attendees will learn engagement strategies to establish safety in the assessment process while reflecting on reactions arising within the clinician. Attendees will have an opportunity to practice these questions and methods as well as observe techniques for regulating clients during the process. Information will be presented in a format that can be integrated with therapeutic orientation and aligned with cultural competency best practices.
This training will provide attendees with information related to the methods and nature of suicide assessment. These tools are appropriate for all clinician learning levels and are applicable to students in graduate programs, trainees, AMFT/ACSW/LPCCs, and LMFT/LCSW/LPCCs. Attendees will engage in a variety of learning modalities, including lecture, role play, and self-assessment, as a component of integrating the skills presented.
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Use methods to develop a safe space for suicide assessment to occur.
- Describe three methods of suicide assessment.
- Identify no fewer than three aspects of countertransference that can impact the therapeutic relationship.
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“Cyberinfidelity: Treatment & Conceptualization”
Presenter: Talal H. Alsaleem, PsyD, LMFT
3 CE Hours
The advances in technology and the evolution of new mediums for social interactions have been a powerful external force with great influence on couples’ interactions in committed relationships. These technological advances have positive and negative effects on dyads and the quality of their relationships. The significant impact of such advances on dyadic interactions warrants further exploration of their link to infidelity. This workshop explores the unique treatment challenges of cyberinfidelity as well as preventive measures to safeguard against its occurrence.
Completing this workshop will expand participants’ understanding of the impact advances in technology and social media platforms have on fidelity in committed relationship as well as the clinical challenges associated with online infidelity. The workshop was designed to introduce participants to tools and interventions that are essential for effective clinical formulation and treatment of cyberinfidelity.
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify how technological advances increase access to and opportunity for infidelity behavior.
- List the factors contributing to the lack of agreed-upon boundaries for online behavior.
- Identify the different mediums for cyberinfidelity.
- List the clinical milestones needed to recover from cyberinfidelity.
- Identify the unique therapeutic challenges related to cyberinfidelity.
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"Adolescence & Cannabis"
Presenter: Dr. Seth Ammerman
3 CE Hours
All Learning Levels
With cannabis now legal medically in 33 states and Washington, D.C., and recreationally in 11 states and Washington, D.C. — with more likely to come — health care providers are being asked regularly about the safety of medical and recreational cannabis use by adolescents. This workshop will review the stages of adolescent bio-psycho-social development; discuss the latest research on adolescent brain development; examine the facts, fictions, and controversies around both the medical and the recreational use of cannabis; and give practical tips on counseling parents and teens about medical and recreational use of cannabis.
Upon conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand the stages of adolescent bio-psycho-social development and the latest research on adolescent brain development.
- Discuss facts, fictions, and controversies concerning both the medical and the recreational use of cannabis.
- Explain practical tips on how to counsel parents and teens about the medical and recreational use of cannabis.
- Describe the three phases of adolescent development and key aspects of adolescent brain development.
- Discuss cannabis core definitions; describe cannabinoid basics; and list evidence-based medical indications for cannabis.
- Identify effective ways to counsel patients and parents about the use of cannabis.
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PAC
CAMFT members, CAMFT’s PAC needs your support to help the LMFT profession thrive! Your $49 admission is a donation. All proceeds will directly benefit the CAMFT PAC, so why not attend and learn all about CAMFT’s advocacy efforts and how you can get involved in the PAC and its grassroots efforts?
Join CAMFT’s Board of Directors and fellow CAMFT members for the opportunity to meet and network with a special guest speaker over a complimentary cocktail and hors d’oeuvres.
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