Dr. Jan Beauregard is the clinical director of the Integrative Psychotherapy Institute in Fairfax, Virginia. She is a trauma and addictions specialist, an educator and workshop presenter. She is certified in substance abuse, sexual compulsivity, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and a contributing author to the textbook Gender Issues in Counseling: Principles and Practices.
Tools for Transforming Trauma: Integrating the Affective Therapies
Clinicians are often stymied by the persistent affect regulation difficulties experienced by substance abusing clients who also have a history severe trauma. This workshop will provide participants with a variety of techniques from the emergent somatically based therapies so that they can revamp and expand their abilities to resource and empower their clients. Through lecture, experiential exercises and demonstration, this workshop will teach participants how to disrupt maladaptive behavioral patterns by using bottom-up techniques from DBT, Ego State Therapy, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Imagery and ritual. Emerging from the integration of developmental, neurological and social perspectives, this workshop will equip clinicians with a toolkit for assisting clients who often rely on habitual, reactive, and dissociative responses for managing intense emotions. Even the most dysregulated patient can incorporate some of these new patterns and increase their “window of tolerance” for modulating affect.
Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop participants will be able to:
- explain the “window of tolerance” concept to patients and help them design simple experiments to decrease hyperarousal and hypoarousal.
- use guided somatic imagery to assist patients in “installing” positive somatic anchors.
- utilize a variety of affect management skills exercises to reduce dissociation and increase patient resources.
Ethics in an Environment of Scarcity
This highly interactive seminar will present an overview of the most compelling ethical issues generated by limited resources in the behavioral healthcare environment. In addition to reviewing specific case studies, we will also examine a pragmatic approach to the rationing of care on both the micro and macro levels.
Objectives:
1. To review case studies involving the distribution of scarce healthcare resources.
2. To identify specific values that impact decisions about how to manage scarcity.
3. To provide a clear practical approach to the management of waiting lists and the prioritization of services on both a micro and macro level.
Jennifer Smith, LPC, received her M.S./Ed.S. combined degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1996. She has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 1999. She has worked with adults and children with mental health and substance abuse issues for the past 15 years. She is certified as a Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MET/CBT) clinician and supervisor, GAIN clinician and local trainer, and an ACRA clinician and clinical supervisor. She is also a competency to stand trial evaluator for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Additionally, she has worked at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke Counseling and Testing Center as a counselor and taught freshman seminar.
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach/Assertive Continuing Care (ACRA/ACC) for Substance Using Adolescents: Implementing an Evidenced-Based Treatment Model
Brief Description:
- Brief review of the research that made the CRA model evidenced-based/brief history of CRA – didactic/lecture
- Outline of the philosophy of the ACRA/ACC model – didactic/lecture
- Outline of the goals of ACRA/ACC – didactic/lecture
- Specific training on several of the techniques used in ACRA/ACC i.e. Happiness Scale, Communication Skills, Drug Refusal skills – participant role plays, video of client sessions to give examples of how techniques are used in session
- Review of our outcome data – didactic/lecture
- Focus will also broaden to discuss implementation of evidence-based adolescent programs, including funding strategies
Objectives:
- Participants will become familiar with a SAMHSA evidenced-based treatment model for adolescent with substance abuse/co occurring disorders
- Participants will be able to demonstrate several ACRA techniques
- Participants will understand the research and philosophy behind the ACRA model
- Participants will be given resources to further study and learn about ACRA/ACC
I am a Board Certified Clinical Sexologist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I have been working in the field of mental health for 24 years. I have worked with thousands of men and women of all religions, races, creeds and socioeconomic backgrounds. In my practice I assist individuals and couples who are struggling with sexual issues, dysfunctions and other psychiatric diagnosis such as depression, ADD, PTSD and substance abuse. I offer private, affordable, telephone counseling sessions. My atmosphere is friendly, accommodating, non-judgmental, compassionate but direct. I only have one goal in therapy; to help my clients help themselves!
I stand firmly on the belief that the results of your therapy session should be judged by you to be desirable and beneficial. The goal is to positively enhance and improve your quality of life based on your desires and your right of self determination; without judgment or criticism.
Family Healing
(Limited: 25 participants)The focus of this workshop is on intervention and treatment of families affected by substance use disorder. Many may also have co-occurring illness or military trauma. Another goal is to assist these families with the “process of forgiveness”; often, this is also a major concern. The “process of forgiveness” is mandatory in families where members feel a sense of betrayal, resentment, distrust and anger toward the addict; this ‘process’ leads to family healing and recovery.
This presentation provides information and education about various traumas, such as sexual trauma, interpersonal relationship violence, domestic violence, combat and physical abuse; all of which can lead to co-occurring illnesses which often affect many substance abusers.
The presentation will also explore the importance of forgiveness as a process with stations that impact the family system. Without help the family members often struggle and are trapped in a shameful destructive cycle which can affect the family for generations.
Goal: To educate participants/ providers about interventions and treatment that assist families with issues of substance abuse /co-occurring disorders (Military Trauma) to begin “Family Healing”
Objectives:
- Discuss and define substance abuse and co-occurring illness
- Discuss and define (PTSD; Military Trauma)
- Discuss family member roles/ and relationships in addiction
- Discuss impacts of military trauma on victims
- Discuss interventions and treatment for families
- Discuss and define family shame and it’s negative generational impact
Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist Training (SAPST)
Limited: 25 participants
(Cont. from Tuesday afternoon)
(You must attend all sessions from the beginning to end in order to receive credit)
Lunch -
Lunch Box Session:
*A Family Services Model of Intervention
Exploration of a model of intervention which involves families being encouraged to pursue their own recovery as a necessary part of the intervention process.
Presenter: John Walsh, CADC, VR II, Director of Intervention Operations,
Bradford Health Services
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*Creating a Wellness Vision
One of the most powerful things we can do as helpers is to practice wellness in our own lives. Take caring for yourself to a new level. Workshop will provide a tool for evaluating your current level of self care, assistance with creating a Wellness Vision and ideas for how to put that vision into practice in your life.
Presenter: Mary Ann Hanson, LCSW, SA Clinician, IOP,
Region Ten Community Services Board
Dr. Gillette attended Brandeis University as an undergraduate where he graduated magna-cum-laude with majors in philosophy and classical Greek and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He went to Brown University for his Masters and Ph.D. in Philosophy where he wrote a doctoral dissertation entitled “Paternalism in Psychiatric Medicine: A Philosophical Perspective”. Dr. Gillette has taught philosophy at several colleges and universities, received tenure at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, published several articles in the field of clinical ethics and has received numerous teaching awards. He is presently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and works full time as President of Bioethical Services of Virginia, Inc., a medical ethics consulting business. In addition to providing policy and case consultation services, Dr. Gillette is a dynamic speaker who presents to audiences around the country.
Ethical Issues in Co-occurring Disorders
The keynote presentation will provide an interactive discussion of ethical issues that emerge when dealing with individuals who present with co-occuring disorders. We will discuss the ethical challenges that develop from interactions with consumers as well as those that develop among various services providers.
Objectives: To identify specific ethical issues in dealing with co-occuring disorders. To discuss inter-agency conflicts. To present a mechanism for resolving these ethical issues.
