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Louisiana Counseling Association 2020 Virtual Conference, October 4-6, 2020How Do We Know We Are Good at What We Do?Sunday, October 4 8:00-9:30 1.5 CE clock hours Sessions Impact on Mental Health Following a Pandemic Krystal Vaughn, Ph.D.; LPC-S; NCC; CRC; RPT-SDana Abisamra, M.S., B.S.This presentation aims at addressing anticipated mental issues in both adults and children because of a global pandemic. Furthermore, this presentation will provide strategies and interventions that may be utilized by mental health professionals following a global pandemic. The workshop will offer a summary of available research on pandemics and their effect on adults, children, and the family system. The areas of daily life that may ve affective include social, career, school, family, and necessities. Strategies and interventions for adults and children will be discussed and some will be demonstrated.Audience: Clinical Mental Health professionals, students Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C , LAC Diagnosis Erin’s Law: Are You Prepared Emily Williams, M.E.; LPC; NCCTamara Keys, M.Ed., NCC, NCSCRaney Chambers, M.A.Reynauda Ardie, M.Ed. Is your school prepared to implement Erin's Law? If you are questioning anything about developing a comprehensive, sexual abuse prevention program in your school, this session is for you. Erin's Law is a federal law requiring public schools to implement a prevention-oriented, child sexual abuse program that teaches students, teachers, and parents about the signs of sexual abuse, procedures for reporting, and supportive information for parents. Louisiana passed Erin's Law legislation in 2014. Many school counselors around the state will be given this task, but many do not know where to start. We will show you a simple, yet thorough, plan to take with you on how to begin, and how you can implement this program in your school.Audience: School Counselors, LSCA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LAC General Ethical Considerations for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Terri Campesta, M.A., LPC, LMFTLMFT Ethical Standards will be presented regarding licensee responsibilities to clients, confidentiality, professional competence, professional evaluations, and financial integrity. Vignettes will be presented to the audience for discussion of the application of the Ethical Standards presented. Participants will gain knowledge of how to apply LMFT Ethical Standards to their practice including the development of informed consent and ethical decision making.Audience: LMFT, LPC Approved: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G , LMFT, LAC Ethics Addiction and the LGBTQ+ Community Christopher Lacefield, LPC LGBTQ+ clients face an alarming disparity in both the access to care and the clinical outcomes related to care when it comes to mental health, particularly with substance use disorders. This session will explore patterns of prevalence in substance use disorders among the LGBTQ+ population, and provide practical solutions in allowing providers to become more adept in providing competent, client-centered care to a population who often face unique challenges relative to their gender identity and/or sexual orientation.?Audience: LAAOC and Saige-L Tracks Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LAC, LMFT, NASW-C, LAC General Ethical Practices in LPC Supervision Christine Ebrahim, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC T’Airra Belcher, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, CCMHC Section F of the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics (2014) outline several codes that pertain ethical practices during supervision. But when was the last time you read through this section? As LPC supervisors, faculty supervisors, clinical supervisors, and even supervisees, we all need to know and understand the expectations and guidelines for ethical behavior. This interactive program will review the more common, but often forgotten about, ethical practices in supervision including Supervisor Competence, Informed Consent, Gatekeeping and Remediation, Online Supervision, and Boundary Setting and when it might be appropriate to extend the boundaries of the supervisory relationship. On-line supervision will also be addressed. Tips on how to ensure that both the supervisor and supervisee are practicing ethically, will be shared.Audience: LACES Tract Approved for: LPC, NBCC , NASW-G, LAC Supervision Improving Efficacy in Home-Based Counseling Alycee Naquin, M.A., LPCVictoria Rodriguez, M.A., PLPC Home-based counseling is considered one of the more challenging settings in which to work, and yet few masters programs have a home-based counseling educational component. This workshop will review the many challenges specific to home-based counseling in community mental health settings and suggest possible interventions to improve counseling efficacy and prevent burnout in this modality. We will also review case studies and discuss ethics and supervision in home-based counseling.Audience: Students, PLPC, LPCs in community mental health Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-G, LACGeneral I am the 1 in 4: Bringing the Conversation of Pregnancy Loss Out of the Shadows Krystyn Dupree, M.A., PLPC, NCC The presentation is designed to help mental health professional work with those that have experienced pregnancy loss. This is a loss that can often go overlooked, as this loss is often invalidated by family, friends, medical professionals, and society. By the end of the presentation, professionals will have a better understanding of what pregnancy loss is and how to better help those that have experienced itAudience: Private Practice or university setting Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LACGeneral Integrating Expressive Art & Play Based Interventions with Children Experiencing Acute Traumatic Stress Wendy Q. Durant, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC, BC-TMH Expressive arts and play therapy have been used extensively to promote the psychological health and well-being for children and youth. These interventions facilitate a way for young clients to express feelings, thoughts, memories, and experiences that are often challenging to express verbally. There is significant evidenced-based research that suggests expressive arts and play therapy assist in healing those impacted by trauma and aids in improved mental health. This session will equip Louisiana play therapists, school counselors, and all mental health professionals in attendance with screening instruments to accurately assess for acute stress, strategies to successfully integrate expressive art in their play therapy practice, and assist young clients with improved communication and coping, to? achieve a higher level of social-emotional and behavioral functioning.Audience: Clinical professionals, school counselors Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LAC Diagnosis9:45-11:15 General Session Sacred Serotonin: The Intersection of Diet and Pharmacology Wendy Eckenrod-Green, Ph.D. The alarming rate of Americans, one in six, prescribed antidepressants warrants a deeper understanding of how serotonin is manufactured, the raw materials needed for serotonin productions, and how lifestyle and diet decisions can increase our clients' well-being. It is critical to understand how serotonin and SSRI's impact well-being to help our clients lead high quality lives. Long-term SSRI use and counseling implications will also be discussed.Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LAC General 11:20-12:00 Lunch 12:00-1:30 1.5 CE clock hours Sessions COVID-19 Calls the Career Counselor Inside You Mary Feduccia, Ph.D., LPC-S Address your client's needs related to job loss by helping them process their emotions, understand career turning points and how to make an effective decision about a career change, and know the job search steps and industry-standard resources for successful job transition. Audience: LCDA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LACGeneral Utilizing Superhero and Villain Metaphors in Play Therapy with Children with Trauma Exposure Wendy Q. Durant, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC, BC-TMH Superheroes often have traumatic backstories like many of the child-adolescent clients we serve in the play therapy space. Integrating superheroes into the therapeutic space can aid children in utilizing metaphors to protect themselves and project lived experiences onto another subject in a nonthreatening manner. In play therapy, the construction of metaphors is important for articulation, communication, and the ability to cope with traumatic experiences. The use of metaphors in play therapy can be either directive or nondirective. This presentation will equip play therapists, school counselors, and all mental health professionals in attendance with practical strategies that combine directive and nondirective storytelling with play therapeutic interventions to assist children with communicating, coping, and? achieve a higher level of social-emotional and behavioral functioning.Audience: Clinical professionals, School Counselors, Play Therapist. Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LAC DiagnosisI Don’t Remember that One: The Often Forgotten About, But Equally Important ACA CodeChristine Ebrahim, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC Most of us are familiar with the “main” codes of the ACA Code of Ethics; the codes that help guide us on topics related to confidentiality, duty to protect and warn, managing non-counseling roles and relationships, and informed consent. But what about the ones we do not talk about as often? For instance, we know the importance of consultation, but how do we do it ethically? How should we set prices for our services and what to do if clients can longer pay? Can we barter with clients? Can we do telehealth? What do we do with our client files when we retire? What do we do with our client’s file if a client die? These and other not- so- often talked about ethical topics will be discussed during this presentation.Audience: LPCs Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LAC Ethics Exposing Threat to Intimacy Among African American Couples Rashunda Miller-Reed, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT, NCC Counselors are expected to continuously improve their knowledge to provide culturally appropriate services to diverse clients (Remley & Herlihy, 2020). In this session, we explore six threats to intimacy among African American couples as described by Allen & Helm (2013). By exploring threats, counselors can promote empowerment in couples that is needed to regain intimacy. Specific Multicultural Competencies (AMCD, 2015) will be identified. In addition, ethical codes related to values, discrimination, and confidentiality will be identified (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, 2015; American Counseling Association; 2014; International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, 2017).Audience: LAMFC Track and LAMCD Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC. LMFT, NASW-C, LACGeneralIntegrating Process in Group Tele-Supervision through Experiential Activities and FacilitationMichelle de la Paz, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFTSola Kippers, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT Telehealth has evolved based on necessity and ingenuity, therefore, it is prudent for supervisors to provide experiences to supervisees that will foster self-exploration, professional identity, and skill development. Essential components of group supervision include the stages of group development, a here-and-now focus, and the facilitation and discussion of process and group interactions. These interactions can be transcended through the on-line formats. Presenters will provide a framework and strategies for supervisors interested in providing tele-supervision from a process-oriented perspective.Audience: LACES Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-S Supervision Assessing, Diagnosing, and Treating Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders Christian Dean, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT-SC, NCC The presentation will identify and review different appraisal instruments used to assess and help diagnose Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders along with assessment/interview techniques to help in the differential diagnostic process. The integration of family systems and collaborative informants will be addressed. Clinical and systemic interventions to treat different Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders will be reviewed, modeled, and applied.Audience: Clinical professionals Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW- C, LAC Diagnosis Counselor Self-Care: Challenge and Revitalization Through a Multicultural LensVicki Guilbeau, M.S., LPC, NCC, NCSCJulius Austin, PhD, LPC, NCC. Roy Salgado, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT-S, NCCThomas Fonseca, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, NCSCTasha Todd, Ph.D., LPC, NCC An open discussion format will be utilized during this program that necessitates attendee participation. Panel members will guide a professional conversation about contemporary issues facing today's counselors. Invited topics are current crisis considerations, professional challenges, and personal concerns. How have you faced the challenges brought by social unrest and the pandemic? How have you tackled professional and personal challenges? What could you share about self-care that has been your springboard to vitality?Audience: All, LAMCD track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-G, LAC General How Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Handles Barricaded Individuals in a Mental Health Crisis James Arey, Ph.D.This presentation?will review Louisiana Mental Health Law with an emphasis on Orders of Protective Custody (OPC) ,Physicians Emergency Certificate (PEC), Judicial Commitment and No Knock OPCs.Audience: Clinical professionals Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LAC General Working with LGBTQ+ Students: Why Language Matters Sharae Vicknair, MS Research shows higher rates of mental health issues among LGBTQ+ population when compared to majority populations. In this session you will learn why language is important and how to use language as a tool to better serve the LGBTTQ+ population. Service providers will learn up-to-date information on the unique needs and challenges associated with the LGBTQ+ identity. We will create a safe and educational space to discuss difficulties and challenges working with LGBTQ+ students, especially as it relates to language and labels. Attendees will improve their ability to practice affirmatively with the LGBTQ+ population.Audience: Clinical professionals, LSCA Track; Saige-L Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LACGeneral 1:45-3:45 Opening Session/ Awards Celebration/Keynote Improving client outcomes and counselor effectiveness Using Routine Outcome Monitoring.?Michael Lambert, Ph.D. When?counselors add monitoring their clients’ treatment response?on a session-by-session basis positive outcomes are maximized. This presentation will illustrate how to measure, and?monitor client well-being, and how large the impact of such a practice is. Furthermore, improvements in counselor efficacy?will be identified.Audience: AllApproved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-G, LAC Diagnosis 4:00-5:30 1.5 Content Sessions Trauma Response in Schools: What School Counselors Need to KnowStephanie Eberts, Ph.D.The world has been experiencing a pandemic which has been traumatic to many students. School counselors are asked to respond to the needs of students, but with the whole world struggling, it is hard to know how to best meet the needs of traumatized students. This presentation will cover both signs of students struggling with trauma and evidence-based interventions for school personnel to use in response.Audience: LSCA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LACGeneral FAFSA: What You Need to Know Chauntreniece Davis, M.ED., Professional School CounselorJuterh Nmah, Ph.D.Brittani Williams, M.Ed. Encouraging students to complete the FAFSA can be overwhelming! Getting parents to attend a workshop can feel impossible. The goal of this workshop is to help counselors navigate smoothly through FAFSA while changing the negative culture that can sometimes surround the financial aid process. School counselors will receive resources to support financial literacy and the completion of this initiative at their respective campuses.Audience: LSCA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-GGeneral Do You Feel Me? Creating Connections with African American Students Maya Galathe, M.Ed., PLPC Counselors can often overlook important facets of what makes a client who they are, namely race and culture. In the African American client, this often leads to feeling unseen or invisible (Butler & Shillingford-Bulter, 2014). Numerous articles in the counseling field discuss how practitioners feel inadequately prepared to work with African American clients. According to the most recent American Community Survey, the Black population in Louisiana is 1,492,230 --that is 32.0% of the total population of Louisiana. However, African Americans are significantly less likely to seek out mental health treatment. Each culture has its own nuances and differences. While our profession lends a lot of discussion to appreciating these differences, little discussion is given to understanding and utilizing these differences in a way that will propel a student and counselor relationship forward. While a course on multiculturalism is required in most counselor education programs, is that enough? Lack of understanding often leads to breakdowns in communications and relationships, which are both at the core of our professions. This presentation will provide counselors of all backgrounds with practical skills needed to better engage with African American populations. Although the research surrounding this presentation is based in college campuses, the information is applicable to therapists in all settings. Counselors must have an open dialogue surrounding research on best guiding theories and practices when working with African American students. This session will close with a safe-space discussion amongst participants, facilitated by the presenter, where those hard to breach topics can be addressed. Audience: High School and College Counselors NOT of African DecentApproved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-GGeneral 4:00-7:00 3.0 Content Session LPC Board and LMFT Advisory Committee Annual Review LPC Board Members Town Hall MeetingGovernment Relations Committee PAC Meeting Cindy Nardini, LPC, President of the PAC The Representative of the LPC Board and LMMFT Advisory Committee will discuss the Rules and Regulation for LPCs and LMFTs. Following immediately, Katie Blum, the LCA GR Committee Chair will conduct the annual Town Hall meeting. Legislative Action for 2020-2021 will be discussed. Following the Town Hall Meeting, there will be a meeting of the LPC PAC. Katie Blum, GR Chair will discuss specific advocacy efforts for LPCs.Audience: LPC, PLPC, LMFT, PLMFT Approved for: LPC, LMFT, NBCCGeneral (Town Hall and PAC approved for only LPCs and PLPCs, NBCC) Monday October 5, 2020 8:00-12:30 4.5 CE clock hour Sessions Racial Equality, Unpacking the “R Factor” and the Foundations of Racial Equality(Beloved Community is a non-profit consulting firm focused on implementing regional, sustainable solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Through individualized and personalized support, Beloved Community fosters open lines of communication and realistic plans to create and implement tangible, measurable systemic change at work, at home, and in schools. Our approach is universal, achieving results for organizations in the not-for-profit sector, hospitality, school administrations, affordable housing and beyond.)Nicole Caridad Ralston, Ph.D.Leslie Brown Rawlings This session is focused on establishing a common understanding of racial equity for all participants in order to build sustainable strategies for diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizational practices. In this session, we will introduce how Beloved Community frames diversity, equity and inclusion, and will dive into the key concepts of racism, bias, social identities, intersectionality, and white supremacy culture. This session includes interpersonal conversations with other attendees and intrapersonal reflection to ensure that attendees leave with tangible ways to operationalize racial equity into workplace policies and practices. Following this presentation, the conference participants will be asked to break into one of two different focus groups: Affinity Processing Group: Black Clinicians, Indigenous Clinicians, Clinicians of Color and Affinity Processing Group: White Clinicians. Following the focus groups the participants will return to the large group for follow up.Caucus & Affinity GroupsWhite people and people of color each have work to do separately and together. Caucuses provide spaces for people to work within their own racial/ethnic groups. For white people, a caucus provides time and space to work explicitly and intentionally on understanding white culture and white privilege and to increase one’s critical analysis around these concepts. A white caucus also puts the onus on white people to teach each other about these ideas, rather than constantly relying on people of color to teach them. For people of color, a caucus is a place to work with their peers on their experiences of internalized racism, for healing and to work on liberation.White people are often uncomfortable with the idea of white caucuses as part of racial equity work. A typical comment is “if we are working on racism, isn’t it better for us to learn together?” It does feel awkward to separate by race. Yet such separation occurs all the time in real life, and many times that reality is not understood or interrogated as it is when participating in a caucus. Since white people often find learning about?whiteness and white privilege?a steep learning curve, taking advantage of caucus time to do this work can be extremely useful.?Groups that use caucuses in their racial equity work generally meet separately and then come back together for collective work.? Accountability?is a key principle of this work.?Ref: Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-G, LAC General 12:30-1:00 lunch 1:00-4:00 General Session 3.0 CE Content Session Challenging Ethical Dilemmas Dr. John Simoneau, Ph.D. Difficult ethical dilemmas will be discussed. These cases will involve scenarios that are not obviously answered by any specific ethical code or, in some cases, are problematic due to conflicts between ethical codes and law, or between ethical responsibilities and moral concerns. Participants will be directed toward solutions to such ethical dilemmas through the careful use of consultation, review of legal precedents, and careful study of ethical codes and practice laws. Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-E , LAC Ethics 4:15-5:45 1.5 CE clock Sessions A New Age for Experience for Mental Health Counseling Viveca Johnson, M.A., LPC, NCC, BC-TMH Jerrilyn Dixson, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, BC-TMH, RPT-S This session will assist counselors with integrating Telemental health services within their practice and/or agencies using best practices. The session will cover client suitability, legal and ethical aspects, documentation, and HIPPA compliant platforms.Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-G, LACTelehealth There’s More to the Story: Uncovering Bias as Graduate Students, Are you Up for the Challenge Reshelle Marino, Ph.D., LPC-SSamantha Carey, Graduate Student, SoutheasternJennifer Ladd, Graduate Student, Southeastern This presentation will explore different biases concerning race, gender, religion, criminal history, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. We will emphasize the importance in graduate students working to recognize their intrinsic biases. Our values affect our counseling styles and services. The more we get to know ourselves as counselors, the better we can serve our clients.Audience: Graduate Students Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G General Counseling Children of Divorce: Managing the Legal Challenges Theodore Remley, Ph.D., JD, LPC-S, NCCAlex Becnel, M.A., LPC, NCCLisa Surrency, M.A., LPC, NCCTobias Robertson, M.A., PLPC, NCC Professional counselors who counsel children whose parents are going through a divorce or are engaged in a custody dispute often have to manage legal issues that arise including responding to subpoenas, being contacted by lawyers, being asked to testify in court by a parent, or being accused by a parent of biased in favor of the other parent. In this session, professional counselors will be given guidelines about how to manage these difficult issues.Audience: Clinical Practitioners Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-G, LAC Ethics Align Your School Counseling Program with Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Wendy Rock, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, NCSC Comprehensive school counseling programs (CSCPs) can be strengthened to better serve students, schools, and communities when the overlap between CSCPs and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) are well understood. This session will describe the overlap between CSCPs and MTSS, explain how to integrate school counseling and MTSS, and provide examples of evidence-based interventions at the tier-one, tier-two, and tier-three level.Audience: LSCA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-CGeneral Top Hats, Magic Wands and a Bag Full of Tricks: Creativity in Counseling Wendy Eckenrod-Green, Ph.D. Take Your Clients Deeper. Learn to identify client readiness for introducing creativity in counseling. This is a hands on and experiential session that will facilitate client breakthroughs via the written word, drawing, painting, and collage that you can readily apply in your next counseling session. Core counseling skills and ethical implications will also be addressedAudience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, LAC, NASW-CDiagnosis Ethical Practices in Supervision and the importance of the Supervisory Relationship Michael Leeman, Ph.D., LPCKristen Dantin, M.S.Laura Squires, B.S. The supervisory relationship has been identified as the most critical element in supervision by supervisees. Negative supervisory events can undermine the supervisory relationship, supervision process, and supervisee development. We will demonstrate how to facilitate and maintain an ethical supervisory relationship and present case studies to illustrate the importance of an ethically sound relationship.Audience: LACES Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-S SupervisionAddiction Treatment Virtually in Intensive Outpatient Programs Brian Hirsius, M.A., LPC, NCC, LPC Board Credentialed Tele-therapist. The purpose of the presentation is to assist clinicians in facilitating Intensive Outpatient Group (IOP) therapy across virtual platforms. The goals of the presentation are as follows:?Introducing patients and families to IOP during the online intake processWhat determines if a patient is appropriate for IOP in addiction treatment?Assessing for appropriateness of IOP in an addiction treatment settingConducting groups with respect to timing, patient engagement, and case managementQ&A on the benefits and disadvantages of care through the Therapist's perspective Audience: Clinical Practitioners, LAAOC Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LAC, NASW-C DiagnosisTuesday, October 6, 2020 8:00-9:30 1.5 CE clock hour Content sessions Supervision Reimagined: A Model for Distance Supervision Laura Fazio Griffith, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC Sola Kippers, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, Christian Dean, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT-SC, NCC This program will provide an overview of the supervision process and the move to distance supervision in light of the COVID 19 pandemic. Participants will learn different models of supervision and how these models can be applied to a virtual platform. Interventions for supervisors providing clinical and university supervision utilizing a virtual platform will be discussed. The unique challenges of providing distance supervision including some ethical considerations will be addressed. The presenters will discuss how supervisors can respond to the unique issues faced by supervisees during the distance supervision process due to the COVID 19 pandemic.Audience: LACES Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-SSupervision Not Just Baby Blues: Learning about Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Kelle Camelford, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, NCSC, RPT Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders may affect women of all races, ages, religions, and socioeconomic status levels. Perinatal symptoms may appear any time during pregnancy and/or within a year after delivery. Although most people refer to sadness after birth as the baby blues or postpartum depression, there are several forms of disorders that women may experience related to the perinatal time period. Most perinatal mood disorders are temporary and treatable with appropriate professional help. The purpose of this workshop is to define a variety of perinatal mood disorders, asses prenatal and postnatal risk factors, and identify appropriate treatment modalities for working with perinatal mood disorders. Audience: All, LACES Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LACDiagnosis Assessment Strategies for Disruptive, Impulse-Control and Conduct Disorders in Children George Hebert, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist Lauren Herbert, BA, Graduate Student LSUHSC While there continues to be growing concern with the over-diagnoses of disruptive behavioral conditions and disorders in children, it is also quite important for mental health practitioners to accurately assess these individuals for both eligibility and treatment decisions. However, over-diagnoses and misdiagnoses will only increase unless mental health practitioners employ better assessment strategies for these disruptive, impulse-control and conduct disorders in children. This presentation will review evidenced based strategies for the assessment of disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders in children. Strategies addressed will include global behavior rating scales, disorder specific rating scales, systematic behavioral observations, and structured interviews. Additionally, decision trees will be shared to differentiate these different types of disorders. Finally, the use of a multi-method approach of assessment data in making better diagnostic decisions will be explored that leads to better treatment recommendations. Participants will be asked to share their successes and frustrations in properly identifying the various categories consistent with the current nomenclature in both clinical and educational settings. Audience: ACAC-L Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LAC Diagnosis Legal and Ethical Issues in School Counseling Wendy Rock, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, NCSC Verna Estoque, M.S. COVID-19 brought to light the importance of ethical decision making as school counselors struggled with meeting the needs of their students in a virtual environment. School counselors are confronted daily with ethical dilemmas and may make quick decisions based on professional judgment or moral reasoning. Ethical decisions may have to be defended in the event of unwanted or unintended consequences. This session will review an ethical decision-making model for school counselors, common and uncommon ethical dilemmas, and attendees will apply the decision-making model to several case studies. There will be an opportunity for discussion and Q and A. Audience: LSCA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G Ethics Social Emotional Foundations: Managing your Self Lydia Giordano, M.A., LPC, LCDC Randy Guttenberger, B.A. Learn how our brains are wired to mislead us and how we are also wired to heal! The Managing Your Crazy system integrates discoveries about the brain with planned solution-focused therapy to engage and empower clients, teaching key concepts that result in symptom improvement from the first session! Then quickly and painlessly identify and heal their core emotional wounds for lasting results! MYCS is structured solution-focused integrated behavior therapy with a neuroscience foundation. Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LACGeneral Our Brain’s Response to Gambling and Similar Addiction cancelled Janet Miller, M.S., LAC, CCGC, CCDP-D This session will provide research and counseling skills to help in practices with co-occurring disorders of GD & other similar disorders/addictions.Audience: All, LAOC Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LAC Diagnosis Panel 2020: Transgender and Gender non-Conforming (TGNC) Communities: Responding to Pandemics, Understanding Barriers to Access, Mental Health and Health Services and Celebrating Resiliencies Jasmine Davis, Moderator Chris Beamon, PLPC Camilla Marchena Cody Smith, LPC Malaysia Walker Participants will increase understanding of the trifecta of pandemics facing in the TGNC communities, including health risks/concerns, TGNC-targeted and systemic racism, and cissexism. Participants will increase understanding of the stigmatization of mental health, barriers to access to mental health and health resources, including family of origin and counselor competencies, education, and counselor identities relevant to responsive services. Participants will increase awareness of TGNC resilience, formation of chosen families and community and self-advocacy, including creation of TGNC-specific community resources.Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LAC, LMFTGeneralGrief Deprived: COVID-19 Effects on our Grief June Williams, Ph.D., LPC-S Jennifer Ladd, Graduate Student, Southeastern Claire Wyly, Graduate Student, Southeastern COVID-19 has affected the entire world and disrupted grief experiences across the globe. This session will use the lens of disenfranchised grief to help participants recognize how individuals/society have been deprived of opportunities to fully grieve the many losses experienced during the pandemic and provide interventions to help facilitate a healthy grieving process for clients. Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C GeneralCareer Counseling: Challenges and Opportunities Joyce Fields, M.A., LPCLisa Hibner, M.A. During this interactive session, the presenters will guide the participants in a review of the impact of the pandemic on career counselors and their clients. The growing field of articles and surveys will provide knowledge and insights for those engaged in career work. Opportunity for discussion will additionally provide insights to be shared among the participants.Audience: LCDA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LACGeneral 9:45-11:15 1.5 CE clock hour Content sessions Teletherapy & Couples Counseling: Techniques for SuccessMatt Morris, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT-S Tanya Radecker, PhD, LPC, NCC, RN Providing mental health service via teletherapy present both exciting opportunities and new challenges. Counseling individuals, couples, families, children, and groups all present their own unique technical hurdles. This workshop will explore the challenges of conducting couples therapy sessions via teletherapy, and participants will be invited to share their experiences. Techniques for increasing the effectiveness of couples’ therapy sessions will be presented, discussed, and practiced.Audience: Clinical Practitioners Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LACTelehealth Are you Hoarding PPE? Shallene Joseph, M.S., M.Ed., PLPC, NCCJanet Lopez, M.S., CNP During this presentation, we will engage in conversations around privilege, power, and equity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion will emphasize how privilege, and power disparities within our current societal structure create inequitable outcomes and career opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants will be invited to identify personal experiences of privilege and power experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will offer a framework to guide career decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic.Audience: LCDA Track, LAMCD Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LACGeneralComprehensive Program Building Tara Washington, M.A., NCC, NCSC, BCPCLindsay Carlino, M.A., LPC With over 20 years of experience as school counselors, we have developed a RAMP program for our school. Helping school counselors design and deliver comprehensive school counseling programs will improve student learning and behavioral outcomes. School counseling programs are collaborative efforts between the school counselor, families, community stakeholders and other educators. Counseling programs that is comprehensive, preventive, and developmental will create an environment resulting in a positive impact on student achievement.Audience: LSCA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G GeneralDisability-Related Competencies for All Counselors: Standards to Strengthen Your Ethical Practice. The Disability-Related Counseling Competencies (DRCCs) are the newest set of competencies approved by ACA and uploaded to its website as a resource for all counselors to learn and embrace. In this session, the DRCCs will be reviewed, explained, and related to specific elements of the ACA Code of Ethics. Then, in small groups, attendees will reflect on and share: (a) ways in which selected items from the DRCCs will enhance their practice; and (b) some additional information or resources they’d like to access to apply these competencies more confidently.Toni Ann SaiaZeynep Sule YilmazAudience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LAC EthicsBeginnings and Ending: Supervisor-Initiated Termination with Counselor Supervisors Joseph Pistorius, MA, LPC, NCC This presenter will provide an overview of professional issues commonly found when supervisors terminate a supervisory relationship. This presentation will explore fundamental considerations, practical safeguards, and offer guidelines for best practice when clinical supervisors initiate termination with a counselor supervisee prior to licensure. Audience: LACES Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-S SupervisionBuild Approach Motivation: Enhancing Wanting, Liking and Reward LearningGary Gintner, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCCAbigail Gazvoda, Graduate Student, LSUKayla Clancy, Graduate Student, LSU A number of disorders including anxiety disorders, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and substance use disorder show dysregulation in the brain’s two motivational systems: the avoidance motivation systems that detects danger and is associated with negative emotions and the approach motivation system that seeks out reward and is linked to positive emotions. However, our current treatments tend to focus primarily on aspects of the avoidance system such as negative emotions and avoidant coping strategies, with scant attention to reward motivation. This may be why these treatments show poor durability over time. In recent years, several protocols have been developed and tested that target components of approach motivation such as reward seeking (wanting), reward enjoyment (liking), and reward learning. The program reviews these treatments and discusses techniques for cultivating positive interest, behaviors, and emotions. Case examples are used to illustrate applications with clinical and diverse populations.Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LAC Diagnosis Utilizing Play Therapy and Expressive Art Interventions with Human Trafficking Survivors Reshelle Marino, Ph.D., LPC-SLaura Fazio-Griffith, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT, RPTS Rebecca Gill, Graduate Student, SoutheasternDalina Dahlmans, Graduate Student, Southeastern The presentation will present current literature that supports the use of expressive arts and play therapy interventions for human trafficking survivors. Presenters will discuss how clients who are survivors of trafficking need a treatment plan that is specific to human trafficking. Expressive arts and play therapy interventions will be facilitated with the program participants with a direct link to the influence on individuals who are human trafficking survivors. Clinicians and counseling students should be well-equipped with interventions to work effectively with this population. If clinicians and students can develop effective interventions for working with clients who are survivors of human trafficking, the counseling field can benefit from additional effective interventions with a targeted population.Audience: All Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT , Play Therapy, NASW-G, LACDiagnosis 11:20-12:00 Lunch12:00-1:30 1.5 hour content sessions Orientation and Gender and Race…Oh My! A Conversation About Intersectionality Tyree Oredein, Ph.D., Health Educator, LGBTQ+ Diversity, Equality Facilitator This workshop provides an opportunity for an interactive discussion surrounding the various challenges of having multiple minority identities including but not limited to race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, country of origin, religion, and ability. In addition to the importance of considering multiple identities when working with marginalized, vulnerable populations, the workshop considers the impact of family structure and varying family dynamics when providing levels of care. Discussion also covers privilege, power, cultural appropriation, implicit bias, and micro and macroaggressions.Audience: All, Saige Tract and LAMCD Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LAC, LMFTGeneralTeletherapy and Supervision Kellie Camelford, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, RPTKrystal Vaughn, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, RPT-SThis presentation will provide an overview of Teletherapy and Tele-Supervision as outlined by the LPC Board of Louisiana. The ACA Code of Ethics (2014) will also be reviewed as related to supervision standards.Audience: Supervisors Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, LAC, NASW-G Telehealth Necessary Components of Parent Training Program to Modify Child Behavior Problems George Hebert, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist Parent Training Programs have become an important therapeutic intervention to best address disruptive child behavior. Drawing direction from the professional literature, this presentation will review various parenting programs consistent with Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) and highest common components that appear necessary to make them effective. Specifically, these components will be identified and discussed regarding their proper implementation as they relate to child behavior problems.Audience: ACAC-L Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LACGeneralMulti-generations in the Workplace: Bridging the Gaps with Modern Perspectives on Career Therapy Christopher Belser, Ph.D., NCC Lauren F. Landry, MS, LPC, NCC The present-day workforce now has more generations working side-by-side than at any point in our nation’s history, and the gap between our oldest workers and youngest workers continues to widen. As this circumstance presents both challenges and opportunities for employers and workers, counselors in all settings are positioned to support clients and students as they navigate the world of work. In this session, participants will learn about observed differences among generations in the US workforce, the application of modern career theories to generation gaps, and strategies to help clients and students navigate workforce issues.Audience: LCDA Track, LSCA Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LACDiagnosisDiagnosis and Treatment: Schizophrenia Spectrum and other Psychotic Disorders Vicki Guilbeau, M.S., LPC, NCC, NCSCPriscilla Delgado, M.A., PLPC, NCC Whether in private practice or in a community-based setting, do you sometimes question your differential diagnostic skills in psychotic disorders? This presentation will help you build confidence in your professional counseling ability to differentiate presenting symptomology and to provide appropriate services to clients with psychotic disorders.Audience: Clinical Practitioners Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LAC DiagnosisPlay Therapy A-Z Adrianne Frischhertz, Ph.D., LPC-S, RPTS This session will introduce those new to play therapy to a brief history of the field, foundation skills, key figures, and must have resources (tools, toys) Attendees will leave with an overview of play therapy including ideals for telehealth sessions.Audience: Clinicians new to Play Therapy Approved for: LPC, NBCC, Play Therapy, NASW-C, LACDiagnosisAddressing the Grief of Getting Sober:?Understanding the Role Grief Plays in your Client’s Decision to Get Sober and Live a Life in Recovery.Allison Durant, M.Ed., LPC In this presentation, the 5 stages of grief will be applied to the recovery process to demonstrate how deciding to recover can look like facing a death.? The necessary tasks of mourning will be outlined to assist the clinician in helping their client move through their own grief once they give up their addiction.Audience: LAAOC Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, LMFT, NASW-C, LACGeneral1:45-3:15 Building Bridges: Strategies for Identifying and Developing Partnerships within Career Development WorkChristopher Belser, PhD, NCC This presentation will introduce participants to community asset mapping as a strategic tool for identifying partnership and resource ideas that will benefit clients in career development settings. During the session, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their own community assets, as well as brainstorm potential opportunities to boost collaborations that will ultimately benefit clients.Audience: LCDA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC , NASW-G, LACGeneral Is your School’s Multi-Tiered System of Support Trauma Informed Kelle Falterman, M.Ed., CES, Doctoral CandidateJill Guss, M.S., PLPC Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) is the latest “buzz” in PBIS, with increased support of tier 2 and 3 students. This presentation will provide school counselors with a rationale for implementing a Trauma-Informed MTSS. Participants will gain an understanding of the benefits of a Trauma-Informed approach to MTSS, the key components of a Trauma-Informed MTSS, and the school counselor’s role in this system. Interventions to improve student behavior will be explored.Audience: LSCA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G General Colorism Bullying in Schools A’Rean Thornton-Williams, M.A., Professional School Counselor Participants will discuss colorism and how it affects school age children. Colorism will be defined and how it affects Black American communities specifically how it turns into bullying in the schools. Open discussion about how to reach students coping skills to deal with the anxiety and depression due to colorism as well as teaching students about self-acceptance.Audience: LSCA Tract; LAMCD Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LAC GeneralHow COVID-19 May Help to Improve Equality and Access in Schools Stephanie Eberts, Ph.D. As of 2018, 29% of Louisiana youth are living in poverty. Though all students should have access to a fair and equal education, it is impossible to ignore the inequities that students living in poverty face. After school closures in March of 2020, many students were disconnected from their schools completely because of lack of access to electronics, while wealthier students were able gain valuable resources for their continued education. While equity and access for all students has always been a priority for school counselors, the lessons learned from the pandemic can aid in future preparation and systemic change for improved support for all students. The presentation will focus on how school counselors can use knowledge from the stay-at-home order to improve equity and access for all students.Audience: LSCA Tract; LAMCD Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-GGeneral Forensic Mental Health: An Understanding of the Balance Between Client Welfare, Civil Liberties and Public Safety Keith Wilkerson, Ph.D., LPC The purpose of this presentation is to review issues regarding forensic mental health. Specifically, we will discuss the importance of insight into the issues of client welfare, the civil liberties of forensic clients, and the protection of the public safety, and how this insight is needed to successfully navigate between the criminal justice and mental health systems. We will examine the historical perspective regarding the treatment of individuals with serious mental illness, and how these systems function today. Finally, we will consider barriers to effective collaboration between the criminal justice and mental health systems, and we will offer insights to improve such collaborative efforts.Audience: Individuals who work with clients in jail setting Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LACGeneralSuicide or Autonomy: Navigating Our Own Values When Working with Clients Contemplating End of Life Decisions Christine Ebrahim, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC Maria Klaffky, MS, Graduate Student Loyola UniversityKelly Bojan, MS, Graduate Student Loyola University Code B.2.b. (Confidentiality Regarding End-of-Life Decisions) of the American Counseling Association' s (ACA; 2014) Code of Ethics states that counselors who provide services to terminally ill individuals who are considering hastening their own deaths have the option to maintain confidentiality, depending on applicable laws and the specific circumstances of the situation. For those counselors working with older adults who may be living with or recently diagnosed with a terminal illness and want to have control over their death, how do we ensure that we are practicing within the ethical guidelines and not letting our own values cloud our judgement? Since the ethical code has shifted on what is considered ethical when it comes to clients' end of life decisions, it would be helpful to review the codes regarding this and discuss how to make sure our own values aren't playing into our decision to break or not break confidentiality.Audience: Professional Clinicians, LACES Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LCA Ethics Managing Your Crazy Self: Neuroscience and Assessments in Counseling Lydia Giordano, M.A., LPC, LCDCRandy Guttenberger, BA Managing Your SELf! is based on a cutting-edge therapy modality which incorporates neuroscience, therapy, life coaching. and management techniques to create a neurobehavioral model. It is solution based, trauma-informed, brief, and highly effective. Our fun characters simplify concepts for students and staff, and formatted lessons are easy to implement. Learn how adding neuroscience to the equation can equal success in your school!Audience: LSCA Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LACDiagnosis Anxiety Diagnosis for Adolescents in the Time of COVID Alexis Mueller. Ph.D., LPC-S, NCCMelissa Walker-Fleming This presentation will address the diagnostic criteria and symptoms exhibited by adolescent in this unprecedented year of pandemic stressors. We will discuss triggers, treatment goals, case studies, and assessments for anxiety in adolescents. Coping techniques based on cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness will be provided and discussed in relation to Telemental health. We will also discuss emotional regulation as it pertains to clients, parents, and counselors in the time of a pandemicAudience: ACAC-L Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LAC Diagnosis3:30-5:00 Content Sessions LPC/LMFT Supervision Renewal and Orientation Course Ron Cathey, M.A., LPC-S, LMFT-SKathy Steele, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT-SClaude Guillotte, MA, LMFT-SKelly Tyner, Ph.D., LMFT-S This workshop will include the following: 1. An orientation of LPC / LMFT Supervision rules. 2. A review of the MFT Supervision Handbook. 3. An explanation of the academic requirements for LPC / LMFT license and requirements for the registration and supervision of PLPCs and PLMFTs 4. A description of the necessary qualifications and responsibilities of the Board-Approved Supervisor and Registered Supervisor Candidate (LMFT-SC) 5. A description off the ethical responsibilities in the supervisor / supervisee relationship and possible problems and solutions. 6. An analysis of some best practices in the supervision relationship.Audience: LPCs and LMFTs Approved for: LPC, LMFT, NBCC Ethics Wondering What Telehealth Activities to use: Play Therapy for Behavioral Issues Krystal Vaughn, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, RPT-S Many therapists wonder what activities to use to engage children when using telehealth services. This session will demonstrate how directive play therapy techniques which may be modified to meet the needs of young children exhibiting behavioral challenges. Additionally, participants will gain insight into locating evidence-based practices and discuss how one may determine if said practice is recommended for telehealth.Audience: Play Therapy Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-C, LAC, Play Therapy Telehealth The Importance of Self Care and Positive Self-Talk Tara Washington, M.A., NCC, NCSC, BCPCAlice Cryer-Sumler, Ph.D., LPC, NCC Many school counselors preach self-care to others but often fail to follow their own advice. With over 20 years of experience meeting the high demands of our students and their families, faculty members and administration will often leave feelings of emotional and physical burnout. When we feel overwhelmed, self-care is usually the first thing that goes out of the window. The ASCA Ethical Standards state that school counselors should monitor their emotional and physical health and practice wellness to ensure optimal professional effectiveness. Having Self-Care and Positive self-talk is about reframing how you view things. If left unaddressedAudience: LSCA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LACGeneral Case Conceptualization: Collecting the Dots and Re-Connecting the Dots for Effective Counseling Practice David Spruill, Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT-S Taylor McCauley, BA, Graduate Student, ULL Case conceptualization refers to how we understand the nature of clients’ concerns. It includes assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning, and a theoretical orientation, but at its core, case conceptualization involves collecting the relevant parts of client’s stories, separating what they do, how they do it, and their meaning and significance, and then piecing it all back together in a cohesive and clinically useful manner. Only then can we begin the counseling process. Only then can we clearly understand and define problems, develop goals, and create meaningful treatment plans. Effective case conceptualization, therefore, may be the most critical element in achieving positive counseling outcomes, and also the least well-developed counseling skill. In this interactive program, participants will learn about case conceptualization, the importance of fully understanding the problem before applying treatment. They will learn to isolate the what of a client’s story and develop a deeper understanding of the how and the meaning/significance of a client’s story as a means of fully understanding the problem, how it is maintained, and the power it has over the client. Participants will have an opportunity to apply these skills with several actual cases supplied by the presenters. Participants will then share their own cases and learn how a limited perspective can lead to limited client success. Participants will learn to apply these new skills to develop a deeper, more complex way to understand their cases, and to use these new perspectives to explore new treatment perspectives.Audience: Practicing PLPCs and PLMTs Approved for: LPC, NBCC. LMFT, NASW-C, LAC Diagnosis Recall Healing: A Mind-Body Medicine Model to Consider for the Future of the Counseling ProfessionMarc D’Aunoy, M.Ed., LPC, LMFT The counseling field is on the cusp of an opportunity to be a key player in preventative medicine. Studies continue to show how stress plays a key role in illness. Assessments such as the ACE-Keisser study show a direct link to many health outcomes. Counselors need to be prepared and educated to the future of integrated medicine and our place at the table. Audience: Clinical Practitioners Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LAC Diagnosis Elements of Well-being During COVID-19: LCDA Networking Meeting Lauren Landry, M.S., LPC, NCCShallene Joseph, M.S., M.Ed., LPC, NCC Join this session to explore, reflect and share. Participants will have the opportunity to explore different elements of well-being, reflect on one’s own individual state of well-being amid the current COVID-19 pandemic, and share individual takeaways from this experience while seeking support among peers. The LCDA Division Meeting will directly follow this session, and all are welcome to attend.Audience: LCDA Track Approved for: LPC, NBCC, NASW-G, LACGeneral5:10-6:00 Division Membership Meetings or Executive Board meetings:LCSJ Business meeting LCCA Business meeting LAMFC Executive Board meeting ................
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