Empowering and Encouraging Those We Serve

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1 TCCA Texas College Counseling Association TCA Texas Counseling Association Empowering and Encouraging Those We Serve May 18-19, 2012 Fort Worth, Texas

2 rd 3 Annual College Counseling Conference Co-sponsored by TCCA Texas College Counseling Association and TCA Texas Counseling Association

3 TCCA Texas College Counseling Association and TCA Texas Counseling Association CONFERENCE OVERVIEW **Subject to change** Check onsite registration for conference updates. FRIDAY, MAY 18, :00 am 5:00 pm Onsite Registration Sheraton - 2 nd Floor, Foyer 10:00 am 11:30 am 3- Breakout Sessions Sheraton - 2 nd Floor 11:30 am 1:00 pm Lunch on Your Own 1:00 pm 2:30 pm Keynote Session Sheraton - 2 nd Floor College Counseling and Capitol Hill: Its Impact, Your Influence John Shirley and Jan Friese 3:00 pm 4:30 pm 3- Breakout Sessions Sheraton - 2 nd Floor 4:45 pm 6:15 pm 3- Breakout Sessions Sheraton - 2 nd Floor Dinner on Your Own SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 Breakfast on Your Own 7:00 am 10:00 am Onsite Registration Sheraton - 2 nd Floor, Foyer 8:30 am 10:00 am 3-Breakout Sessions Sheraton - 2 nd Floor 10:15 am 11:45 am Keynote Session Sheraton - 2 nd floor Crisis on Campus! The Rise in Mental Health Issues in College Peter Thomas 2

4 CONTACT HOUR MONITORING FORM College Counseling Conference Fort Worth, Texas May 18 & 19, 2012 List each session that you attend below. You must also sign in for each session within 15 minutes of the program start time to receive credit. Submit this form to the licensing or certification board(s) when required. All sessions are eligible for LPC, NBCC, LMFT, SBEC, LCDC, Social Worker, and Psychologist continuing education credits. TIME PROGRAM TITLE PRESENTER CREDIT HOURS INITIAL Friday, May 18, :00 11:30 AM 1.5 1:00 2:30 PM College Counseling and Capitol Hill: Its Impact, Your Influence John Shirley and Jan Friese 1.5 3:00 4:30 PM 1.5 4:45 6:15 PM 1.5 Saturday, May 19, :00 10:00 AM :15 11:45 AM Crisis on Campus! The Rise in Mental Health Issues in College Total Hours Peter Thomas 1.5 I certify that the information presented on this form is complete and accurate. Signature: Date: Printed Name: Address: City: State: Zip: Office Phone: Home Phone: Authorized by TCA Texas Counseling Association, -- to verify credits, call , ext. 10 3

5 Friday, May 18, :00 11:30 AM 1.5 CEUs 1. Ethics! Do No Harm Flat Creek Gay McAlister, PhD, LPC-S Knowledge of the applicable ethical codes, state law, and best practices are essential for responsible professional conduct. As licensees and ethical practitioners we are obligated to be informed of current standards and how to make informed decisions when confronted with dilemmas. Attend this 1.5 hr session for discussion and practice in practical application of current codes. 2. Re-Adjustment to College for Student Veterans Grape Creek Laura Jackson, MA, LPC-Intern As the war continues, veterans who experienced combat will enroll in colleges and universities. They will require a unique support system to their needs beyond processing financial aid paperwork. Combat inflicts mental and physical anguish. Colleges can help them to readjust and provide opportunities to be a source of support and connection. They need accommodation, physical and mental health resources to succeed in civilian life. There are strategies used in counseling veterans to eliminate the barriers and become productive and healthy students. We will learn ways to help them, i.e. support groups and other methods. Soldiers experience an extraordinary bond during wartime and colleges can create a welcoming environment for veterans that encourages creative and serious involvement. 3. Mental Health on a College Campus Presenters: Sister Creek Margaret Bloomer, MA, LPC-Intern Melissa Sutherland, MA, LPC-S Mental Health issues directly impact the success of college students. To what extent are colleges and universities addressing these issues? Join us for a conversation on how college counselors can address student mental health needs in a culture of increasingly limited resources. 4

6 Friday, May 18, :00 2:30 PM 1.5 CEUs KEYNOTE SESSION Flat Creek College Counseling and Capitol Hill: Its Impact, Your Influence Presenters: John Shirley, MEd, CSC, former member of State Board for Educator Certification Jan Friese, BA, Executive Director, Texas Counseling Association Explore the public policy challenges that college counselors currently face. Discuss specific advocacy strategies to help meet these challenges head-on. Learn how to use your existing skills and experiences as a counseling professional to become a successful advocate. Discover who is speaking, what is being said, and what you can do to positively affect the decisions being made about the issues important to professional college counselors. Policy discussion includes updates on the Texas Legislature, Congress, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, state licensing boards and other entities whose policies impact your work. 5

7 Friday, May 18, :00 4:30 PM 1.5 CEUs 4. Creating Meaningful Summaries and Decision-Making Rubrics Flat Creek Greta Davis, PhD, LPC-S Participants will learn how narrative therapy techniques can be integrated into traditional interest, personality and values assessment administration resulting in individualized assessment interpretations and tools to facilitate career development and enhance career decision-making. Using case examples, participants will explore ways to make meaningful connections between assessments and learn how to customize decision-making rubrics for individual clients. The presenter assumes attendees have advanced knowledge in administration of traditional interest, personality and values assessments. 5. Managing Eating Disorders in College Grape Creek Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CSSD, CEDRD Eating disorders are as common among college students as substance abuse and obesity, yet they are much harder to detect. Collegiate counselors need the skills to identify, approach, and appropriately refer students with eating disorders to additional care. This presentation will provide guidance for sensitively addressing eating disorders with students and families, as well as guidelines for finding and recommending outside treatment. 6. Creativity and Art of Counseling Sister Creek Kathleen Jones-Trebatoski, PhD, LPC-S Creativity is a psychotherapeutic technique. It allows the student to cope with emotional stress or trauma by utilizing an artistic media as a nonthreatening catalyst to process issues in symbolic formats of expression. In the creative realm, the student is able to manipulate his or her world in a safe, immediate environment by bringing emotional stressors to the surface. By symbolically bringing their inner world out into the surface in art, musical and written forms, the student is better able to achieve resolutions and coping mechanisms in order to improve their abilities to confront emotional stressors. 6

8 Friday, May 18, :45 6:15 PM 1.5 CEUs 7. Basic Nuts and Bolts of Suicide Assessment and Intervention Flat Creek John Hipple, PhD, LPC Suicide is alive and well among college students; it is the second most frequent cause of death in this population. It is not if you have a client who kills himself, it is when. So being prepared to assess and intervene are essential skills. This presentation will offer practical tips which will help you be more proactive as you work with clients who have suicidal thoughts, plans, and intent. An extensive and detailed handout will be provided. Dr. Hipple also encourages participants to feel free to contact him for further consultation after the workshop. 8. Outreach and the Greek Community Presenters: Grape Creek Stephanie Bluth, MA Jana McLain, MA, NCC Sorority members are one of the highest at-risk groups for sexual assault and violence on college campuses. This presentation will examine the utilization of a bystander intervention program and possible effects on harm reduction behavior in sorority members on university campuses. Research on sexual assault has found that women are three times more likely to be victims of sexual assault if they live in a sorority house, and sexual assault while intoxicated was significantly greater when the woman was a member of a sorority. 9. From Transitional Concerns to Transformational Learning: It s Not Classified! Presenters: Sister Creek SusAnn Key, MA, LPC Pamela Moss, MEd, LPC, LMFT Whether due to having Velcro parents, unrealistic expectations, or simply being underprepared, high school graduates today face multiple challenges in their transition to college. If it is our task to counsel, present workshops, facilitate groups, or teach a freshman first year- experience course, how do we engage these beginning students, ease their transition, create an environment which is conducive to building self-knowledge, and assist them in career exploration and planning? Join us in a College Success Investigation (CSI) and uncover secrets of dynamic, interactive, successful approaches that effect positive change. 7

9 Saturday, May 19, :30 10:00 AM 1.5 CEUs 10. Rocking the Boat to Keep Students Afloat Presenters: Grape Creek Tracey Fleniken, MA, LPC Desiré DeMange, MEd, LPC How can you provide the information and resources that first-time and non-traditional students need to truly thrive in college, even when they don t send out an SOS? How do you get everyone at your institution on board with creating an environment for student success, even when they don t think they are part of your crew? Find out what student-centered initiatives were mapped out, commandeered, cast away, and everything in between as experienced by counselors involved in a Title III Strengthening the Institution grant. Because sometimes, to stay the true course towards student success, it takes a pillage. 11. The Invisible Barrier: Learning Disabilities and the College Student Sister Creek Anita Peters, MA, LPC Some of the brightest and best in our colleges and universities have learning disabilities, many of whom have not been previously diagnosed. These students are at a significantly higher risk for repeating courses in an attempt to satisfy state standards and degree requirements only to experience frustration repeatedly, and too many of them end up giving up and dropping out. This presentation will discuss how to screen for, identify, and accommodate these students for increased retention and completion, and will emphasize how individuals who learn differently can be successful both in college and in life. 12. Resilience in Adventure Based Counseling Presenters: Flat Creek Carolyn Kern, PhD, LPC-S David Christian, MEd, LPC-Intern Resilience is the ability to overcome obstacles, trauma, and difficult life events. It can be defined as the capacity to spring back, rebound, successfully adapt in the face of adversity, developing social and academic competence despite exposure to sever stress. Understanding personal resilience and developing new strategies can help individuals navigate challenge. College is a challenging time in individuals lives. By learning new ways to overcome challenging or even traumatic events, students can succeed through the higher education process. Adventure Based Counseling is one strategy to enhance resilience and assist college student development. Adventure based strategies provide college counselors options. 8

10 Saturday, May 19, :15 11:45 AM 1.5 CEUs KEYNOTE SESSION Flat Creek Crisis on Campus! The Rise in Mental Health Issues in College Peter Thomas, PhD, LP They may not tell their roommates or even close friends, but on college campuses all across the United States, more students than ever before are seeking psychiatric help. And it s not just for homesickness and relationship problems, but campuses are seeing an increase in clinical depression, psychosis, anxiety and other acute psychological issues. The problem is a double wave of both increased numbers and increased acuity. This program will address those issues and help the counseling professional see just who is coming to college these days, how better diagnosis and treatment affects your center, the struggle of counseling centers to adapt and met the demand, and what we can do about it! These issues are addressed through a variety of learning styles and not just through a lecture format. Interactive discussion and experiential exercise are part of the program to better round out your personal learning experience. ABOUT KEYNOTE SPEAKER PETER THOMAS Peter Thomas, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist with the Holiner Psychiatric Group. A long time Texas resident, Dr. Thomas received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of North Texas. He has worked extensively with inpatient and outpatient clients in the Dallas/Fort Worth area since He completed his post-doctorate training at the DMCP at SMU and UTD. His clinical interests include: Adolescents and Young Adults, Adults, Couples, Depression, Anxiety, Self-Injury and Suicide, Self-steem Issues, Grief and Loss, and Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Support. Dr. Thomas is also known for his workshops and trainings and has presented on a variety of topics that include Diversity Trainings, Ally Training, Anger, Stinking Thinking and Communication. He primarily uses Interpersonal/Relational Psychotherapies along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is licensed by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists. 9

11 rd 3 Annual College Counseling Conference Co-sponsored by TCCA Texas College Counseling Association and TCA Texas Counseling Association

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