Boston, MA: Pre-APA Convention

August 13, 2008: APA Division 12 - Professional Development Institutes
Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel

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Expand or improve your practice. Consider a workshop with one of the leaders in the field. This year's workshop topics are:

WORKSHOPS:

• A. Ethical Issues in Forensic Practice
  – Alan Goldstein, Ph.D., P.C.

• B. Assessment of Personality Pathology with the SNAP
  – Lee Anna Clark, Ph.D.

• C. Introducing the MMPI-2-RF (Restructured Form)
  – Yossef S. Ben-Porath, Ph.D.

• D. Update on a Unified Treatment for Emotional Disorders
  – David H. Barlow, Ph.D.

• E. Buried in Treasures:  The Nature and Treatment of Compulsive Hoarding
  – David F. Tolin, Ph.D., ABPP

• F. Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia
  – Scott D. Temple, Ph.D.

• G. Individualities:  Implications of Personality for Psychotherapy
  – Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D

The APA Division 12 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. APA Division 12 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Contact: Lynn Peterson

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

TEL: (303) 652-3126
FAX: (303) 652-2723
E-MAIL: div12apa@comcast.net
www.apa.org/divisions/div12/

WORKSHOPS:
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 9:00am-4:00pm

A. Ethical Issues in Forensic Practice

This workshop explores ethical conflicts that psychologists encounter when working in forensic contexts.  Topics include:  considering one’s competence to practice; confidentiality; roles of the expert; issues in assessment; responding to subpoenas; release of test data; and ultimate opinion testimony.  Emphasis is on reducing the likelihood of ethics complaints and malpractice actions.
            
 PRESENTER:  Dr. Goldstein is board certified in forensic psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology and is on the faculty of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  He serves on the American Board of Forensic Psychology and directs the continuing education program for the American Academy of Forensic Psychology.  He is editor of Forensic Psychology (2003), and Forensic Psychology: Emerging Topics and Expanding Roles (2007), both published by John Wiley & Sons.

DATE:  Wednesday, August 13     9:00am – 4:00pm    6 CE CREDITS
FEE:  $180 Div 12 member/$200 non-member
(student pricing also available - see registration form)

B. Assessment of Personality Pathology with the SNAP

Scientist-practitioners who want improved personality disorder (PD) assessment in the clinic and/or research setting will learn (1) five major limitations of the DSM-IV PD diagnostic system, (2) how focusing on maladaptive personality traits for PD assessment addresses those limitations, (3) about the 15 important PD-relevant scales of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP) and their psychometric properties, plus the SNAP’s six validity scales, (4) how to interpret high and low SNAP scale scores, (5) about the wide variety of construct-validity evidence supporting the SNAP scales, and (6) how SNAP-assessed traits combine into seven nonadaptive and adaptive PD-relevant clusters.

PRESENTER: Lee Anna Clark, a University of Minnesota Ph.D., is Professor and DCT at the University of Iowa, where she recently received Iowa’s most prestigious Regents’ Award for Faculty Excellence.  For over 20 years, her research has focused on trait-dimensional assessment of personality disorder, and she authored the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality, which measures personality traits across the normal-abnormal spectrum.  She is one of only twelve members of the DSM-V Personality Disorders Workgroup.  She has over 100 publications, and is one of ISI’s “most highly cited” psychologists.         

DATE:  Wednesday, August 13     9:00am-4:00pm     6 CE CREDITS
FEE: $180 Div 12 member/$200 non-member
(student pricing also available - see registration form)

C. Introducing the MMPI-2-RF (Restructured Form)

The MMPI-2-RF is a new, 338-item version of the MMPI.  It includes eight Validity Scales, three Higher-Order Scales, the nine Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales, twenty-three Specific Problem Scales, two Interest Scales and revised versions of the PSY-5 Scales.  The workshop is designed for individuals familiar with the MMPI-2 who will learn about: 1) Development of the MMPI-2-RF;  2) The 50 scales of the MMPI-2-RF:  3) Psychometric features of the scales;  4) Documentation for the test;  5) A recommended strategy for interpretation; and 6) Use of the MMPI-2-RF, illustrated with cases from various settings, including mental health, medical, forensic, correctional, and pre-employment.

PRESENTER:  Yossef S. Ben-Porath is a Professor of Psychology at Kent State University.  He received his doctoral training at the University of Minnesota and has been involved extensively in MMPI-2 research for the past 22 years.  He is a co-developer of the MMPK-2-RF and a coauthor of test manuals and numerous books, book chapters, and articles on the MMPI instruments.  He is editor of the journal Assessment.

DATE:  Wednesday, August 13     9:00am – 4:00pm    6 CE CREDITS 
FEE:  $180 Div 12 member/$200 non-member
(student pricing also available - see registration form)

D. Update on a Unified Treatment for Emotional Disorders

This workshop will review the evidence supporting and discuss recent applications of a transdiagnostic, unified approach to treating emotional disorders to both adults and children.  Workshop participants will learn how to apply treatment components to a wide range of emotional disorders through instruction, case examples, and clinical vignettes.  You will learn: a) Evidence supporting a unified conceptualization of emotional disorders; b) Case conceptualization from a unified perspective; c) Application of core components of the Unified Treatment protocol; d) Challenges of applying treatment concepts to diagnostically diverse populations; e) Strategies for preventing emotional avoidance and altering action tendencies; and f) How to create effective emotion exposures.

PRESENTER:  David H. Barlow is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University.  He has published over 500 articles and chapters and 60 books mostly in the area of the nature and treatment of emotional disorders.  He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology from the American Psychological Association.  Laura Allen is Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Pediatric Pain Program at UCLA School of Medicine.  Tina Boisseau, Chris Fairholme, and  Kristen Ellard are doctoral students at Boston University.

E. Buried in Treasures: The Nature and Treatment of Compulsive Hoarding

This presentation is intended for clinical and research psychologists with at least an introductory familiarity with cognitive-behavioral therapy.  Following this workshop, participants will be able to 1) describe the symptoms of compulsive hoarding and its associated features, 2) review recent research on the social impact of compulsive hoarding, 3) discuss biological aspects of compulsive hoarding, 4) discuss cognitive, emotional, and behavioral underpinnings of compulsive hoarding, 5) identify pharmacological and psychological treatment options for patients who hoard, and 6) conduct individual cognitive-behavioral treatment for patients who hoard.            

PRESENTER:  Dr. Tolin is the Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at The Institute of Living and Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University School of Medicine.  Dr. Tolin’s research is funded by the national Institute of Mental health.  Dr. Tolin has been a recurrent guest on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.  Dr. Tolin is the author of Buried in Treasures:  Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding.

F. Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia

This workshop is intended for practicing clinicians, who are interested in learning about new developments in CBT for schizophrenia.  It will be both didactic and practical, including opportunities for role plays.  Participants will learn rationale for inclusion of CBT as a treatment for schizophrenia, overview of research findings supportive of CBT’s efficacy, review engagement strategies, from a CBT perspective, learn strategies for treating auditory hallucinations, delusions, and negative symptoms, and learn about new developments in DBT for psychosis, including acceptance-based and mindfulness strategies.

PRESENTER:  Dr. Temple is a clinical psychologist and professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Iowa.  He has a longstanding interest in understanding and treating psychotic disorders, and has conducted clinical research in cognitive-behavior therapy for schizophrenia, in addition to training staff in community settings, where work is conducted with persons struggling with psychosis.

G.  Individualities: Implications of Personality for Psychotherapy

Drawing from both research and clinical literature, this workshop will help therapists of all orientations and experience levels to improve their tailoring of psychotherapy to each individual patient.  Participants will (1) Understand differences between and respective clinical implications of, categorical and dimensional approaches to describing individual differences, (2) Learn clinically relevant ways to conceptualize personality organization and disorder, both typologically and in terms of overall mental health, (3) Master therapeutic implications of differentiating between self-in-relation and self-definition versions of personality and psychopathology, and (4) Apply the contributions of attachment research to the treatment of psychological problems rooted in personality.

PRESENTER: Nancy McWilliams teaches at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and practices in Flemington, New Jersey.  She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999) and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004); associate editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006); president of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association, associate editor of the Psychoanalytic Review, and on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology

DATE: Wednesday, August 13    1:00pm – 4:00pm    3 CE CREDITS
FEE:  $90 Div 12 member/$100 non-member
(student pricing also available - see registration form)

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