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Continuing Education Conferences
for Professionals
Most conferences held at the Children's Health Council meet qualifications
for continuing education credit as required by the California Board of
Behavioral Sciences and for Mandatory Continuing Education for Psychologists
(MCEP).
We are in process of obtaining accreditation to provide CME credits
for physicians.
For more information, please contact Teresa Borden at (650) 617-3806
or tborden@chconline.org
Upcoming Conferences
Mental Health Needs of Children in Foster Care
Patricia J. Van Horn, J.D., Ph.D.
May 16, 2008, 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
This intermediate course will describe issues in providing mental health treatment
to children in foster care. The training will focus on the ways in which trauma and separation/loss intersect to impact the mental health of foster children, with particular emphasis on young children in care. It will also take a systems approach, discussing how therapists for children in foster care can serve their clients by collaborating with child welfare workers and others who are involved in placement decisions involving the child and in the child's care. Finally, the training will consider the benefits of involving caregivers in the child's treatment and will look at special issues involved in treating children in kinship foster care. The training will be interactive and will make use of vignettes and/or video to help participants formulate interventions.
Goals:
Participants in this course will learn:
1. How both trauma and loss impact the mental health of young children
in foster care.
2. How to interact with systems responsible for the care of foster children
to enhance the effectiveness of mental health interventions.
3. Techniques for working with foster caregivers and kinship providers
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
1. Provide safety and structure within sessions with foster children, particularly around separations and termination.
2. Consult collaboratively with child welfare workers to help minimize the anxiety
and ambiguity of life in foster care.
3. Name and implement three ways to intervene with foster care providers in the interest of the child's mental health.
4. Name four issues involved it working with kinship providers.
Time Outline:
9 - 10:00 How the interaction of trauma and separation/loss issues
affects children's mental health, using a developmental model.
10 - 10:35 Interventions that promote safety and structure for foster children
10:35 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:30 Consulting with systems that serve foster children
11:30 - 12:00 Issues around visitation: preparing children/preparing parents
12:00 – 12:10 Break for lunch
12:10 – 1pm Video & discussion: emotional forces at work on children
and families from foster care and adoption
1:00 - 2:00 Helping to promote a "co-parenting" relationship between foster parents and reunifying biological parents
2:00 - 2:30 Handling separations and termination
2:30 - 3:00 Issues in kinship care
3:00 - 3:15 Conclusion and evaluations
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Assessment and Treatment of Early Psychosis
in Children & Adolescents
Demian Rose, MD, PhD (Primary Instructor) and
Rachel Loewy, Ph.D. UCSF
June 4th, 2008, 12 pm to 3 pm
The UCSF Prodrome Assessment Research and Treatment (PART) Program is dedicated to the diagnosis, education and treatment of persons at high risk of developing a chronic psychotic disorder. This advanced level course will involve reviewing assessment & treatment of high risk children & adolescents. Use of complicated and challenging cases will highlight integrating current scientific knowledge and evidence-based treatment recommendations for early and
prodromal psychosis.
Goal:
To educate and integrate the research findings on assessment and treatment
of high-risk populations into routine clinical care
Objectives:
By the end of this three hour training program, participants should be able to:
1. Compare and contrast current scientific conceptions of psychosis with
older, less evidence-based models of psychosis
2.
Be able to understand the basis and criteria for current definition of ultra-high
risk (UHR) states as they apply to chronic psychos
3.
Be able to integrate these criteria into usable clinical screening questions
4.
Be able to identify targets of intervention in at risk states
5
Be able to describe current best practices in the treatment of chronic psychosis
Time Outline:
11:45 pm Register
12-12:50 pm Psychosis Facts, Myths and Clinical Pearls
12:50 - 1 pm Break
1:00 - 1:20 pm Case examples
1:20 - 1:50 pm Experiential exercise related to psychosis
1:50 - 2:00 pm Break
2:00 - 3:00 pm Case discussions
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LAW / ETHICS and RISK MANAGEMENT
FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Steven Frankel, Ph.D., J.D.
Mental health professionals need ongoing training on ethical & legal issues. As the mental health field is constantly changing, professionals need to be prepared to contend effectively with the challenges of professional life and not place themselves at risk for lawsuits or ethical complaints. This course, for mental health professionals of all levels, will provide the mental health participant with: 1) an overview, including hypothetical examples, of the ethical and legal changes affecting mental health practice; 2) a discussion regarding professional records; 3) a review of coping
with threats by patients; and 4) areas of high risk for the clinician.
Goals:
To update participants in the ethical and legal issues in mental health services. At the end of the course, the participant will have reviewed the ethical and legal issues that most mental health professionals address and be aware of appropriate methods to resolve them.
Objectives:
Review changes in laws affecting mental health practice. Discuss professional records: content, management (including HIPAA), access.
Review patient risk management.
Address areas of high risk for clinicians (child abuse reporting, supervision
and high conflict divorce/custody
9:00 – 9:15 INTRODUCTION & THEME FOR THE WORKSHOP
9:15 – 10:00 COPING WITH THREATS BY PATIENTS
A. CONSULT!!!
B. IF YOU TRY TO SETTLE...
C. THREATS OF HARM
D. PATIENT REPORTS OF THREATS BY OTHERS
E. SUICIDE THREATS
10:00 – 11:00 MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL & THE LAW
A. SUBPOENAS
1. MOST FREQUENT TYPES
B. CONFIDENTIALITY & PRIVILEGE
C. DO’S (& DONT’S)
D. COURT ORDERS
11:00 – 12:00 THE MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL AND THE LAW
A. FORMS OF TESTIMONY
B. FACT/PERCIPIENT WITNESS
C. EXPERT WITNESS
D. TREATING EXPERT
E. WITNESSES & FEES
F. SAMPLE AGREEMENT FROM WWW.APAIT.ORG - “RESOURCES”
G. SHOULD WITNESSES RETAIN COUNSEL?
12:00 – 12:15 Break to Gather Lunches
12:15 – 1:00 RECORD-KEEPING: Selected Issues
A. “PROFESSIONAL WILL”
1. APA ETHICS CODE
2. NASW CODE OF ETHICS
3. AAMFT ETHICS CODE
4. EXAMPLE
B. RECORD RETENTION
C. S.O.L.S:WHEN CAN YOU START BREATHING AGAIN?
1. S.O.L. FOR CIVIL SUITS
2 . S.O.L. FOR BOARD ACTIONS
3. S.O.L. FOR BOARD ACTIONS
D. ACCESS TO RECORDS
1. RECORDS OF ADULTS
2. RECORDS OF MINORS
E. POST-PAYMENT AUDITS
1:00 – 2:15 SUPERVISION
http://www.e-psychologist.org/index.iml?mdl=examExams.mdl&Exam_ID=33
LABOR LAW
VICARIOUS LIABILITY
NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION
2:15 – 3:15 CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS
A. THE “SUPREMES” SPEAK: Jaffe v. Redmond
1. FACTS
2. OPINION BY JUSTICE STEVENS
3. DISSENT BY JUSTICE SCALIA
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