PRE-CONVENTION WORKSHOPS

The new workshop below Applying Research and Theory in Practice is jointly sponsored by APA Division 13 and the APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology.

All of the below workshops will be held on Tuesday, July 27, 2004.

Applying Research And Theory In Practice:
Diagnosing Culture (10am – 1pm)
Assessing Leadership (2pm – 5pm)

A two-part workshop designed to provide training for relatively experienced consulting psychologists in two assessment tools

The workshops below are jointly sponsored by APA Division 12 and the APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology. To register for any of these workshops, please visit Division 12 or phone them at (303) 652-3126

A.     Contemporary Family Psychology Practice: Theories and Technique
This workshop will help participants to expand their knowledge base about current key family system theories which undergird practice.  They will become more familiar with the major family empirically supported treatment in functional family therapy.  The workshop will increase their knowledge about treatment techniques and interventions and about which strategies are associated and flow from which theories.  They will be able to incorporate ideas to form a sound foundation for selectivity and integration amongst and between the plethora of extant theories and techniques..
PRESENTERS: Florence Kaslow, Ph.D., is Board Certified in Family, Clinical, and Forensic Psychology; a Past President of Divisions of Family Psychology and Media Psychology, of American Board of Family Psychology and American Board of Forensic Psychology; first President of International Family Therapy Association, immediate Past President of International Academy of Family Psychology; author or editor of 25 books, 60 additional chapters, 165 referenced articles; in independent practice as a clinician and family business consultant; Visiting Professor, Duke University Medical Center and Florida Institute of Technology.
DATE:  Tuesday, July 27     8:00am-12:00pm     4 CE CREDITS        FEE: $95 member/$105 non-member 

B.      Teaching "Diversity" in Graduate Mental Health
This workshop will address factors that facilitate and/or hinder the teaching of diversity and/or cultural differences. It will focus on structural information about course design, content, and assessment of students for educators who teach these courses or those who may be required to do so with no previous experience. It will contextualize course content in socio-political contexts that include a consideration of social privilege and disadvantage and its role in institutional mental health. Participants will learn to manage forms of resistance, dynamics and other challenges that can routinely occur when teaching or learning this material.
PRESENTERS: Beverly Greene, Ph.D. ABPP, Professor of Psychology, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY, Practicing Clinical Psychologist, Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of numerous national awards for extensive publications on cultural diversity issues in mental health. Gladys Croom, PsyD., Director, Center for Intercultural Clinical Psychology, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, Il, and sole proprietor, Delwe Psychological Services. Both presenters have extensive experience in the design and implementation of cultural diversity courses in agencies and graduate mental health.
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 8:00am-12:00pm 4 CE CREDITS FEE: $95 member/$105 non-member

C.      Child and Adolescent Anger Management
This anger control training program includes various cognitive, motoric, and physiological self-regulatory responses that can be taught to explosive, acting-out children and their families. Participants will receive training in techniques of self-instruction, relaxation, coping skills, appropriate assertion, and self-monitoring of anger and conflict experiences. Through the use of didactic presentations, group discussions, demonstrations, video, and role-play exercises, participants will learn: theory and conceptualizing of aggressive behavior in cognitive-behavioral terms; methods of assessment of the frequency and severity of aggressive and impulsive behavior; self-control techniques used to control impulsive anger; implementation of these procedures with either individuals or groups of children and adolescents; and evaluation of the anger control intervention package.
PRESENTER: Eva Feindler, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Long Island University Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. As Coordinator of the Specialty Track in Family Violence and as Director of the Psychological Services Clinic, she is directly involved in programs to help children and families manage their anger and resolve conflict. She has authored several books, such as Adolescent Anger Control, Cognitive Behavioral Strategies, and Handbook of Adolescent Behavior Therapy, numerous articles on parent and child anger, its assessment and treatment, and has conducted professional training workshops across the United States and Canada.
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 8:00am - 12:00pm 4 CE CREDITS FEE: $95 member/$105 non-member

D.      Designing and Evaluating Strengths-Based Programs for Adolescents
Policy makers, service providers, and youth are faced with an unparalleled array of innovative, but untested, prevention and treatment programs. There is a clear need to build research partnerships that can collaborate with service providers and policy makers to improve the evidence-base for making informed funding and treatment choices. In this workshop you will learn how to: 1) Apply principles of strengths-based research to the development and evaluation of community-based youth prevention programs, 2) Design program objectives for your own programs that you can evaluate, 3) Evaluate ethical considerations in programs for youth (informed consent, dual roles, reporting requirements, including high-risk or marginalized youth, dissemination work), and 4) Make the most of the university-community alliances for program development and research.
PRESENTER: Bonnie Leadbeater, PhD, joined the University of Victoria's Department of Psychology in 199y, after nine years at Yale University. She is Co-Director of UVic's Centre for Youth and Society which focuses on research and programs promoting resilience and youth well-being through community-research partnerships. She is the PI for an interdisciplinary project entitle, "A Healthy Youth in a Healthy Society: A Community Alliance for Reducing Risks for Injury in Children and Adolescents", and is co-editor of a new APA publication, "Investing in Children, Youth, Families, and Communities: Strengths-based Research and Policy."
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 8:00am-12:00pm 4 CE CREDITS FEE: $95 member/$105 non-member

E. Meditation: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
This workshop is appropriate for both beginning and experienced meditators. It will provide a conceptual and experiential introduction to basic meditative approaches used in therapy, including concentrative, mindfulness, and guided meditations. It will provide a review of the conceptual and theoretical models for meditation effects and an overview of evidence-based applications of meditation techniques in treating various disorders, including anxiety, binge eating disorder, and depression. Finally, it will provide a consideration of more advanced practice issues in both group and individual settings.
PRESENTERS: Jean L. Kristeller, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for the Study of Health, Religion and Spirituality at Indiana State University. She has used a range of meditation approaches in therapy and conducted related research for 25 years. James W. Jones, Ph.D., PsyD., is Professor of Religion and Clinical Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, and has several books addressing spirituality and meditation practice within both Buddhist and Christian traditions.
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 12:30pm - 4:30pm 4 CE CREDITS FEE: $95 member/$105 non-member

F. Treating Cocaine and Methamphetamine Abuse with Integrative Psychotherapy
This workshop will review the clinical presentations of cocaine and methamphetamine abusers and dependent patients and present a comprehensive method of approaching treatment. Clinical example will be used to illustrate decision making strategies for selecting research informed treatments and integrating them in accordance with empirically supported principles of therapeutic change. Critical dimensions for assessing patient fit with treatment will be presented along with methods for identifying these qualities and dimensions and criteria for applying interventions.
PRESENTER: Larry E. Beutler, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Faculty Chair, and Director of Clinical Training at Pacific Graduate School. He is also Co-Director of the National Center of Disaster Psychology and Terrorism, a joint program of Pacific Graduate School, Stanford University, the Palo Alto VA Health Care System, and the U.S. Navy Post Graduate School. He is also a Consulting Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stanford University of Medicine in Palo Alto, CA. He has written over 350 professional papers and published 15 books. For 12 years he has been supported by NIAAA and NIDA to study and develop new and effective treatments for patients with chemical abuse and dependence.
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 12:30pm - 4:30pm 4 CE CREDITS FEE: $95 member/$105 non-member

G. Using Appetite Awareness Training Within Interventions for Eating Disorders and Weight Concerns
Dr. Craighead will describe the rationale for including Appetite Awareness Training (AAT) within interventions for eating and weight concerns. Some clients overrely on food monitoring and typically report obsessive thoughts about food that keep them from feeling that their eating has truly normalized. AAT provides an overall rationale for treatment which specifies how to focus on normalizing eating behavior within the context of also addressing the more general affect dysregulation that is significant in many cases.
PRESENTER: Linda W. Craighead, Ph.D.,
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 12:30pm - 4:30pm 4 CE CREDITS FEE: $95 member/$105 non-member

H.      Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT, Linehan, 1993) is a systematic cognitive-behavioral approach to working with individuals who meet criteria for borderline personality disorder, especially those with chronic patterns of suicidal behavior, drop-out from treatment, hospitalization, anger, and interpersonal difficulties, and has been recently adapted to treatment of clients with both borderline personality disorder and substance abuse.
PRESENTER: Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Washington. She is also Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, federally funded research projects evaluating the efficacy of treatments for suicidal behavior, substance abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She has published numerous articles, including two books: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder and Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder.
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 8:00am-4:00pm 7 CE CREDITS FEE: $170 member/$190 non-member

I.       Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change
This workshop is designed to introduce psychologist to the clinical method of motivational interviewing (MI). Participants who complete the workshop should be able to: (1) describe the basic spirit and approach of MI, (2) differentiate MI from client-centered counseling, brief intervention, and MET, (3) characterize the four basic principles of MI, (4) explain the directive use of reflective listening (accurate empathy) in MI, (5) describe the crucial forms of client speech that guide the clinician in using and learning MI, and (6) identify several behavioral problem areas in which the efficacy of MI has been supported by randomized clinical trials.
PRESENTER: William R. Miller, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. He introduced the method of motivational interviewing in 1983, originally as an approach for enhancing motivation for change in problem drinking. His 30 books include Motivational Interviewing (2nd edition, 2002) with Stephen Rollnick. An APA Fellow, he is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Innovators Award and of the Jellinek Memorial Award for his research on treating addictive behaviors.
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 8:00am - 4:00pm 7 CE CREDITS FEE: $170 member/$190 non-member

J. Neuropsychological Assessment of Learning Disabilities Across the Lifespan
This workshop provides an overview of the neuropsychological basis of learning disorders and a conceptual model for neuropsychological assessment. A developmental perspective is emphasized, with case illustrations of evaluation and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults. Topics include subtyping of LD, nonverbal LD, and the social/emotional correlates of LD. The workshop uses lecture, discussion, and case presentation, and is intended for clinical, school, pediatric, and neuropsychologists with an understanding of basic functional neuroanatomy and learning disabilities.
PRESENTER: Jan L. Culbertson, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Director of Neuropsychology Services at the Child Study Center of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She is co-author of Neuropsychology for Clinical Practice (APA, 1996) and Testing Young Children (PRO-ED, 1993). She is Past Editor of the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, and Past-President of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology and the Division of Child, Youth and Family Services.
DATE: Tuesday, July 27 8:00am - 4:00pm 7 CE CREDITS FEE: $170 member/$190 non-member


PRE-CONVENTION WORKSHOP WITH DIVISION 13
Advanced registration for this workshop is now closed. Please register on site if you would like to attend this workshop.

These workshops will be held Tuesday, July 27 at the Sheraton Waikiki.

Applying Research And Theory In Practice: Diagnosing Culture (10am – 1pm)

Applying Research And Theory In Practice: Assessing Leadership (2pm – 5pm)

This two-part workshop is designed to provide training for relatively experienced consulting psychologists in two assessment tools: The Denison Organizational Culture Survey and The Denison Leadership Development Survey. Both of these tools are widely used around the world and are based on the presenter’s 20 year research program on the impact that culture and leadership have on organizational performance. By attending this workshop, participants will be familiar with the model, the research, the tools, their interpretation, and their application. The workshop will also give each of the participants an opportunity to discuss possible applications with the authors.

Participants may attend both sessions at a reduced rate, or choose to attend only the morning or afternoon session.

This workshop is designed to help you:
1. describe the theoretical model underlying the tools, and will understand how to interpret and apply the results from both the organizational culture survey and the leadership development survey.
2. become knowledgeable with the research background of this approach, and give you the ability to explain it to your clients.
3. know the dynamics of applying these tools with individuals and organizations.


Faculty: Daniel Denison, PhD
Sheraton Waikiki, Ni`ihau Room, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, July 27.
$95 member, morning or afternoon session (3 CE credits)
$175 member, entire workshop (6 CE credits)
$120 non member, morning or afternoon
$200 non member, entire workshop