Convention Sessions for CE Credit
Sunday, August 25, 2002

Other Listings: Thursday 8/22 | Friday 8/23 | Saturday 8/25

141 Behavioral Sleep Medicine: Clinical Practice
This INTRODUCTORY workshop will provide an overview of the field of behavioral sleep medicine. The widespread nature of sleep problems in society requires psychologists faced with clients affected by such to have some familiarity with advances in sleep testing, treatment options available for patients with chronic sleep problems, and the complex relationship between physical and psychological disorders that affect sleep and daytime performance.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Evaluate physical and psychological aspects of sleep-related complaints;
   
2. Apply principles of behavioral medicine to the treatment of sleep disorders;
   
3. Utilize specific protocols for the non-pharmacologic management of chronic insomnia; and
   
4. Work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary group in treating sleep disorders.
   

Faculty: Paul Saskin, PhD, Regional Center for Sleep Disorders, Las Vegas, NV; Edward Stepanski, PhD, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Jack D. Edinger, PhD, VA Medical Center, Durham, NC; James Wyatt, PhD, Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Fees: Member--Advance $100, On-site $140      Nonmember--Advance $140, On-site $180
Enrollment limit: 75
CE Credits: 4
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 1p                         

142 Introduction to Cognitive Ability and Personality Testing for Employment Decision-Making
This INTRODUCTORY level workshop will provide an overview of the use of cognitive ability and personality tests in employment decision-making. Aimed at individuals interested in retooling to work in organizational settings, this will cover problems and pitfalls unique to testing in an employment context. We will provide an overview of the key steps in developing assessments for selection purposes. The legal experts on our team will discuss the basic legal issues associated with employment testing.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Identify the major concerns in using tests for employment decision-making purposes;
   
2. Understand key legal concerns with the use of cognitive ability and personality tests in such settings;
   
3. Familiarize yourself with important guidelines, such as the Principles for Validation & Use of Personnel Selection Procedures & The Uniform Guidelines; and
   
4. Become more aware of particular issues in testing in these settings, such as adverse impact analysis, applicant faking.
   

Faculty: Ann Marie Ryan, PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Wanda J. Campbell, PhD, Edison Electric Institute, Washington, DC; R. Lawrence Ashe, JD, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LPP, Partner; Nancy E. Rafuse, JD, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LPP, Partner
Fees: Member--Advance $100, On-site $140      Nonmember--Advance $140, On-site $180
Enrollment limit: 25
CE Credits: 4
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 1p                         

143 TEEN: Techniques for Enhancing Engagement through Negotiation for High-Risk Adolescents
Many adolescents referred for treatment often initially resist entering therapy. The first portion of this INTERMEDIATE workshop will outline the problem of premature treatment termination by adolescents including specific risk factors such as anger, difficulties with affect identification, and lack of parental support. The role of engagement is essential to the understanding of treatment dropout. Demonstration tapes, clinical vignettes and discussion of specific techniques and approaches will be emphasized throughout the workshop, and participants will have the opportunity to present case problems.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Identify potential impediments to treatment engagement with adolescent patients;
   
2. Explain the rationale for negotiation-based training as a treatment engagement facilitating strategy;
   
3. Identify specific negotiation-training techniques for use with adolescents at high-risk for treatment dropout; and
   
4. Incorporate the negotiation-based TEEN techniques in clinical practice with adolescent patients.
   

Faculty: David Castro-Blanco, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Fees: Member--Advance $100, On-site $140      Nonmember--Advance $140, On-site $180
Enrollment limit: 35
CE Credits: 4
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 1p                         

144 Advanced Assessment and Treatment of Complicated Attention Deficit Disorders (ADHD)
This is an ADVANCED workshop for clinicians who have special interest and experience in assessment and treatment of ADHD. New models emphasizing "executive function" and "working memory" impairments in ADHD will be presented. Advanced clinical problems discussed will include "unmanageable" preschoolers, ADHD with bipolar disorder, documentation of ADHD/LD in high school/college, OCD and social impairment in ADHD with Asperger’s, options for treatment of ADHD in individuals with substance abuse history, and other complex cases of ADHD with comorbid disorders.
This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Become aware of clinical implications of recent findings regarding ADHD and its treatment;
   
2. Assess cases of ADHD complicated by various combinations of comorbid disorders, e.g. bipolar disorder, Asperger’s Disorder, anxiety disorders, learning disorders, OCD;
   
3. Recognize clinical adaptations needed for treatment of ADHD in special populations, e.g. preschoolers, substance abusers, children of divorced parents;
   
4. Utilize recently developed assessment instruments for comprehensive assessment of ADHD and related problems;
   
5. Conduct and report evaluations of patients with ADHD in ways that will help them get needed accommodations and treatments;
   
6. Assess related advantages and disadvantages of new medication options for ADHD treatment; and
   
7. Tailor multi-modal treatment plans for children, adolescents and adults who suffer from complicated cases of ADHD.
   

Faculty: Thomas E. Brown, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School, Hamden, CT
Fees: Member--Advance $175, On-site $245      Nonmember--Advance $245, On-site $315
Enrollment Limit: 75
CE Credits: 7
Time: 8/24, Sunday, 9a – 5p                         

145 Conducting Criminal and Violent Risk Assessment
This INTERMEDIATE workshop will provide a review of the theoretical underpinnings and applied issues related to conducting criminal risk assessments. Current risk prediction instruments will be reviewed (PCL-R, LSI-R, HCR-20, VRAG; & LCSF), providing guidelines for choosing and integrating various risk prediction instruments. In addition, integrating treatment responsivity with assessments of risk will be covered. The assessment procedure and recommended report content areas will be reviewed with attention given to the various ways of presenting risk conclusions.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Identify the scientific approaches that underpin criminal and violent risk assessment;
   
2. Construct the risk assessment report according to the various approaches, accounting for the etiology of criminal behavior, modifying and managing risk;
   
3. Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of the most recent published risk assessment instruments (basic training in risk instruments is assumed);
   
4. Provide guidelines for choosing the most appropriate risk assessment instruments;
   
5. Integrate various risk prediction instruments into making risk prediction statements;
   
6. Determine the role of self-report instruments in risk management and assessment; and
   
7. Derive individual judgments from the research and to communicate (group vs. individual) representations of risk in the report.
   

Faculty: Daryl G. Kroner, PhD, Pittsburgh Institution, Kingston, Ontario; Jeremy F. Mills, PhD, Bath Institution, Bath, Ontario
Fees: Member--Advance $175, On-site $245      Nonmember--Advance $245, On-site $315
Enrollment limit: 30
CE Credits: 7
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 5p                         

147 The Emotional Journey of Infertility and Its Treatments: What Clinicians Need to Know
This INTRODUCTORY workshop will describe the many ways in which the medical crisis of infertility affects the financial, social, spiritual, and emotional lives of individuals, couples, families, and friends. Through PowerPoint presentation, lecture, and panel discussion, different forms of family-building options will be described and personal experiences will be shared. In addition, literature will be presented describing follow-up studies that reflect how families formed through reproductive medicine are functioning. Finally, a summary of the psychological and educational needs of patients and medical teams will be discussed and a review of multiple community and on-line resources will be presented. Suggestions for integration of this important area of psychology into a private practice will be given.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Define infertility and several medical causes;
   
2. Explain several theoretical models of the emotional consequences of infertility;
   
3. Discuss various emotional needs of infertility patients;
   
4. Describe several family-building options such as in vitro fertilization, gamete donation, surrogacy;
   
5. Demonstrate short and long-term family issues involved in egg and sperm donation;
   
6. Articulate treatment models for meeting the emotional needs of infertility patients; and
   
7. Suggest ways to integrate infertility treatment into one’s practice.
   

Faculty: Patricia Mahlstedt, EdD, Independent Practice, Houston, TX
Fees: Member--Advance $175, On-site $245      Nonmember--Advance $245, On-site $315
Enrollment limit: 50
CE Credits: 7
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 5p                         

148 Ethics and Law for the Practicing Psychologist
This INTERMEDIATE workshop will address topics of relevance to psychologists engaged in practice. The workshop leaders will set forth a process for resolving ethical dilemmas, address the relationship between law and ethics, identify legal and ethical issues of particular interest to practitioners, and provide ample opportunity for participants to raise topics of special concern. The workshop will demonstrate how good clinical practice and good legal and ethical risk management bear a close relationship and as a rule reinforce one another.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Identify a process for resolving legal and ethical dilemmas;
   
2. Describe the relationship between a psychologist's legal and ethical obligations;
   
3. Identify areas that present special legal and ethical concerns to practicing psychologists;
   
4. Identify concrete steps for psychologists to minimize their exposure to legal and ethical liability; and
   
5. Describe the relationship between clinical practice and legal and ethical risk-management.
   

Faculty: Stephen Behnke, JD, PhD, Office of Ethics, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC; Robert T. Kinscherff, PhD, JD, Massachusetts Juvenile Court, Boston, MA
Fees: Member--Advance $175, On-site $245      Nonmember--Advance $245, On-site $315
Enrollment limit: 75
CE Credits: 7
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 5p                         

149 Psychosocial Issues Near the End-of-Life: Considerations for Psychologists
End-of-Life concerns have been receiving increased attention by both individual psychologists and the American Psychological Association. This workshop is designed to help participants better understand the psychosocial issues involved, and their potential roles, in end-of-life situations. It requires an INTRODUCTORY level knowledge of the subject matter. Suggestions for clinical work with clients and significant others will be included, with special emphasis on cultural factors and on assessment considerations. Ethical and legal issues will be thoroughly reviewed.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Summarize the major end-of-life decisions facing individuals who are dying;
   
2. Identify at least five psychosocial issues often experienced by dying individuals and their loved ones;
   
3. Identify the roles of the psychologist in end-of-life discussions;
   
4. Identify at least three strategies the psychologist might use for each of the roles reviewed;
   
5. Outline the major areas to be examined when assessing a person (making end-of-life decisions) for impaired judgment;
   
6. Explain how cultural issues can affect end-of-life discussion and decisions; and
   
7. Outline the ethical and legal issues psychologists should consider when involved in end-of-life situations.
   

Faculty: James Werth, Jr, PhD, University of Akron, Akron, OH; John R. Anderson, PhD; APA Office on AIDS, Washington, DC
Fees: Member--Advance $175, On-site $245      Nonmember--Advance $245, On-site $315
Enrollment limit: 30
CE Credits: 7
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 5p                         

150 Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder
This INTRODUCTORY workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder and other Axis II Cluster B conditions with a manualized and empirically investigated psychodynamic treatment called transference focused psychotherapy (TFP). Participants will learn how to conduct an initial assessment of the Patient and how to apply a treatment contract. The basic concepts of an object relations theory and technique will be explained. The strategies, tactics and techniques of TFP will be illustrated with multiple clinical illustrations.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Describe the phenomenology and differential diagnosis of borderline personality disorder;
   
2. Identify the basic concepts of an object relations therapy as applied to these patients;
   
3. Utilize the strategies, tactics and techniques of TFP;
   
4. Identify and manage crises and complications of treatment; and
   
5. Explain the indication and appropriate use of pharmacology for these patients.
   

Faculty: John F. Clarkin, PhD, Pamela Foelsch, PhD, Frank Yeomans, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY
Fees: Member--Advance $175, On-site $245      Nonmember--Advance $245, On-site $315
Enrollment limit: 75
CE Credits: 7
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 5p                         

151 Treating Affair Couples: An Integrative Approach
This INTERMEDIATE workshop will provide an integrative approach to conceptualizing and treating couples recovering from an extramarital affair. Videotaped case materials will be used to demonstrate specific interventions comprising a three-stage model for (a) containing initial impact; (b) examining context and deriving a comprehensive formulation; and (c) moving forward with an informed decision to maintain or terminate the primary relationship. Consideration will be given to tailoring interventions to individual and couple differences.

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Understand couples' recovery from an affair from a trauma perspective;
   
2. Acquire specific skills for assessing couples recovering from an affair;
   
3. Contain the emotional turmoil accompanying discovery or disclosure of an affair;
   
4. Formulate a comprehensive model articulating factors contributing to an affair;
   
5. Assist couples in reaching an informed decision about how to move forward following an affair; and
   
6. Be familiar with outcome research examining a three-stage model of interventions with affair couples.
   

Faculty: Douglas K. Snyder, PhD, Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University; Kristina Coop Gordon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee
Fees: Member--Advance $175, On-site $245      Nonmember--Advance $245, On-site $315
Enrollment Limit: 75
CE Credit: 7
Time: 8/25, Sunday, 9a – 5p