5th Annual Conference

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1 5th Annual Conference Sponsored by Fily Support Line & Widener University's Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, Post Graduate Center, & Center for Social Work Education Wednesday, June 11 & Thursday, June 12, 2008 at Widener University, Chester, PA

2 Conference at a Glance Child Sexual AbuseTreatment Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Thursday, June 12, :30 9:00 10: :00 2:45 4:00 Noon Registration, University Center Plenary Session: Working with Co-Occurring Trauma, Addictions and Self-Sabotage, Dusty Miller, EdD Break Lunch - Join us for a complementary box lunch and Silent Auction Plenary Session continues Break Close 8:00 8:45 9:00 10:30 11:00 12:30 1:45 3:15 3:30 5:00 Registration, University Center Opening Remarks Keynote Presentation: Sue Kleiner Grew, MSS, LCSW Break Workshops Session A Lunch and Silent Auction Workshops Session B Break Workshops Session C Conclusion and auction winners announcement Attendance at all sessions will earn 6 hours continuing education credits for each day. Widener University along with Fily Support Line is pleased to offer our 5th Annual Child Sexual Abuse Treatment: Opening Pandora s Box Conference. Our goal is to build the comfort and competency of professionals working with the issue of child sexual abuse. Our speakers bring with them years of experience in child sexual abuse treatment and research. We are excited to present you with a wide range of topics and the latest in techniques. We look to build a network of support for professionals who face the many challenges treating this difficult problem. Register early as seating is limited. Take advantage of early bird rates. Fily Support Line Widener University, Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, The Post Graduate Center, and The Center for Social Work Education For conference information Call visit [email protected] or

3 Presenters Susan Carswell, PhD, PsyD PhD, Molecular Genetics, PsyD, Clinical Psychology;Therapist in private practice, Media, PA; and Adjunct Professor, Institute of Graduate Clinical Psychology,Widener University Marc V. Felizzi, LCSW Therapist, Delaware Guidance Services, Wilmington, DE and Adjunct Professor, Widener University Center for Social Work Education Francine Gibson, MSW, LCSW Board Member, Pennsylvania Sex Offenders Assessment Board and Therapist in private practice, Media, PA Anthony Goldsmith, MA, BCETS Licensed Psychologist; Clinical Director, Fily Support Line; and Therapist in private practice, Media, PA Mary Hove, MS Education and Training Director and Parent Support Group Co-Leader, Fily Support Line, Media, PA Sue Kleiner-Grew MSS, LCSW Licensed Psychotherapist; Founder of Relaxation Creation; and Adjunct Professor, Widener University Center for Social Work Education Donna Landis Brubaker, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S Supervisor and Therapist in private practice, Philadelphia, PA and Registered Play Therapist Dusty Miller, EdD Clinical Psychologist and writer, trainer, and internationally-recognized expert in trauma, addiction, and self-sabotage Kenneth Maguire, PsyD, MEd Psychologist; Certified Sex Therapist; Clinical Associate Member,Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers; Supervising Psychologist,The Joseph J Peters Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Director of the Duel Degree Doctor of Psychology and Master of Education in Human Sexuality,Widener University Laurel Silber, PsyD Clinical Assistant Professor,Widener University Institute of Graduate Clinical Psychology and Therapist in private practice, Rosemont, PA

4 Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Plenary Session 8:00 Conference Registration, University Center 9:00 Plenary Presentation (6 credits) Working with Co-Occurring Trauma, Addictions and Self-Sabotage Dusty Miller, EdD, is a clinical psychologist, writer, trainer, and internationally-recognized expert in the areas of trauma, addiction, and self-sabotage including relationship selfsabotage such as distancing. She is the director of the ATRIUM Institute in Northpton, MA. Miller trains and consults with professionals and para professionals who work with traumatic stress, substance abuse and relational challenges. She is author of Women Who Hurt Themselves, Addictions and Trauma Recovery and Your Surviving Spirit. This presentation helps participants understand and work with the co-occurrence of trauma and self sabotaging behavior, including addictions, compulsions, and negative selfimage. Using exercises for healing mind, body and spirit, Dr. Dusty Miller describes her treatment model, which blends psychoeducational process and expressive activities. She also teaches methods for strengthening community building for clients alienated by past trauma experiences. Participants will learn about the range of addictive behavior related to trauma from substance abuse, disordered eating behavior, sexual addiction, addiction to dangerous behavior, self-injury, and understand the role of traumatic stress in connecting the problems of trauma, addiction and mental health. 1. Identify self-harming behaviors and compulsions related to childhood trauma. 2. Implement cognitive interventions that transform self-efficacy and self-image. 3. Teach clients body-based interventions that will decrease self-harming behavior. 4. Implement interventions to help clients increase support networks. This special in-depth plenary session counts as 6 elective credits toward our new Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Certificate Progr. Please indicate on the registration form if you are or would like to be enrolled in the certificate progr. Visit or

5 Thursday, June 12, :00 Conference Registration, University Center 8:45 Opening Remarks 9:00 Keynote Presentation (1.5 credits) Keynote Address Caring for Yourself as You Care for Others Sue Kleiner-Grew, MSS, LCSW Licensed psychotherapist for over 20 years, Sue Kleiner-Grew, MSS, LCSW specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders, bereavement counseling and relaxation training. She is the Founder of Relaxation Creation which provides stress management training and offers a variety of resources including CD's and DVD s and public education seminars. Sus is an Adjunct Professor at Widener's Center for Social Work Education. During her keynote address, Sue will provide an introduction to how vicarious trauma may develop in the course of work with clients, followed by a discussion of methods to employ to improve coping skills and promote self care. Awareness of the impact of our client's stories is important as it will enable the clinician to maintain their own mental health while modeling excellent self care behavior during their work. Specific methods for therapists to improve coping skills and promote self care will be discussed. 1. Identify symptoms of vicarious trauma. 2. Understand the role of neurophysiology in the develoent of symptoms of PTSD and vicarious trauma. 3. Recognize when vicarious trauma is interfering with self care and/or provision of care to clients. 4. Identify methods to support and increase personal resilience.

6 Workshop Session A 11:00 Each workshops provides 1.5 Credits A-1 Helping Strengthen Fily Healing Processes from the Crisis of Child Abuse Therapists enter a fractured fily system when a child suffers abuse. All members of the fily are impacted. Often complicating the healing process the current trauma triggers past traumas. To prevent secondary trauma, the child's fily system needs help to be able to support their frightened child. Expanding one's therapeutic lens to include the child's context for the purposes of restoring the attachment system will be the subject of the workshop. Laurel M. Silber, PsyD 1. Inform treatment strategies to take into consideration the multiple levels of trauma when working with the fily of a child who has sustained abuse. 2. Delineate the problem of secondary trauma for the child who has sustained abuse. 3. Increase understanding and use of reflective functioning in re-stabilizing the attachment system. A-2 Unlocking Trauma: Play Therapy with Sexually Abused Children This workshop introduces play therapy and fily therapy as a therapeutic model for sexually abused children. Case exples will demonstrate phases of play therapy, play therapy metaphors, and play/fily therapy skills and techniques. Donna Landis Brubaker, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S 1. Learn the fily and play therapy model. 2. Identify common trauma metaphors. 3. Develop play therapy language and skills. A-3 Stopping Stress and Creating Relaxation As a follow up to the Keynote presentation this workshop explores in more depth the causes and effects of vicarious traumatization. Specific and personalized methods to combat the impact and reduce stress will be reviewed. Sue Kleiner-Grew, LCSW 1. Identify the neurophysiologic impact of vicarious trauma of treating trauma survivors. 2. Teach participant specific techniques to reduce stress from working with traumatized clients. 3. Enable participants to develop their own plan to combat the effects of vicarious traumatization.

7 Workshop Session B 1:45 Each workshops provides 1.5 Credits B-1 Understanding Child and Adolescent s Sexual Behaviors This workshop will focus on the sexual behaviors that are a normal and healthy part of sexual develoent of childhood and adolescence. Participants will explore their own feelings and values regarding these sexual behaviors, paying special attention to how personal values regarding sexuality affect the ways we view them through our clinical lenses. Kenneth Maguire, PsyD, Med 1. Identify three normal childhood sexual behaviors. 2. Identify three normal adolescent sexual behaviors. 3. Identify personal values regarding these behaviors. 4. Begin to appreciate how these values can impact clinical judgment. B-2 Finding What Works: The Special Needs of Parents Who Adopt Sexually Abused Children Mary Hove, MA Sexually abused adoptive and foster care children can be particularly difficult to understand and help. However, there is a way forward! Come hear the hard-earned wisdom of parents who are working through these issues with great love and hope! 1. Increase awareness of issues specific to adopted and foster care children and filies. 2. Identify the common feelings of these children. 3. Recognize likely inappropriate behaviors. 4. Describe effects on parents and fily. B-3 The Impact of Offender Thinking on Sexual Abuse Victims Anthony Goldsmith, MA, BCETS This presentation will delve into the idea that the distorted thinking of an offender plays a role in the symptom develoent of victims, how that thinking enters the mind of the victim, what role trance induction might play in this interaction and how to address breaking the trance through theraphy. 1. Identify distorted thinking of sexual offenders. 2. Link offenders' thinking to the symptoms of victims. 3. Understand the role of trance in the relationship between offender and victim. 4. Incorporates therapy techniques to help victims break the trance and reduce associated symptoms.

8 Workshop Session C 3:30 Each workshops provides 1.5 Credits C-1 Inappropriate Sexual Behaviors in Children and Youth: What to Look for and How to Treat An overview of healthy sexual develoent for children and youth with tips and strategies for spotting and treating inappropriate sexual behaviors. How to work with filies and children regarding healthy sexual develoent will be discussed. Marc V. Felizzi, LCSW 1. Identify inappropriate sexual behaviors in children and youth. 2. Develop skills and strategies for treating inappropriate behaviors. 3. Engage filies in discussions of inappropriate behaviors and develop prevention strategies. 4. Learn how to discuss appropriate sexuality develoent with children and youth. 5. Determine appropriate vs. inappropriate sexual behaviors. 6. Learn where to find information for healthy sexuality develoent. C-2 Risk Assessment Tools and the Sexual Offender This workshop is about risk assessments and the different tools used when reviewing risk and the sexual offender. The workshop will review the different factors that are used in assessing risk as well as the static vs. dynic variables. Francine Gibson, MSW, LCSW 1. Gain knowledge of the recidivism rates of sexual offenders. 2. Identify factors related to sexual offender recidivism. 3. Become filiar with the actuarial tools used to assess risk on convicted sexual offenders. 4. Develop knowledge of the Static 99; the most widely used risk scale with sexual offenders. C-3 The Effects of Childhood Trauma on the Body and Brain This workshop will use lay terminology to describe the changes in the body and brain that result from childhood trauma. The focus will be on providing the practical implications of these biological findings for clinical work. Susan Carswell, PhD, PsyD 1. Understand how traumatic experiences in childhood disturb bodily functions both transiently and chronically. 2. Understand the ways that trauma alters developing brains. 3. Gain knowledge about how mental health interventions can enhance the functioning of the brain and body.

9 Continuing Education and Act 48 Credits Psychologists: The Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology of Widener University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Widener University maintains responsibility for this progr and its content. Social Workers: The Center for Social Work Education of Widener University is a pre-approved provider by the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Fily Therapists and Professional Counselors to offer continuing education credits for licensed social workers. Act 48 Credits are also available. Silent Auction Don t forget our Annual Silent Auction to benefit Fily Support Line s work to heal the hurt of child sexual abuse and the Jes Wolf Scholarship Fund, which supports Widener s PsyD students who have encountered special challenges during their graduate education. Look forward to a wonderful array of items to bid on and win! Themed baskets Baskets of cheer Jewelry Autographed books Artwork Restaurant and entertainment certificates Home décor Personal care items Special Needs Policy: If you have any special needs related to your participation in our conference, please contact Dennis Debiak, PsyD, at or at [email protected].

10 Registration Form Ne: Degree: Company: Address: City: State: Zip: Day Phone: Work Phone: Discipline: Years in the Field: Wed., June 11 Plenary Session only Wed., June 11 Plenary Session & Thurs., June 12 Conference Thurs., June 12 Conference only Current Widener Student Fees Early Bird Rate* Regular Fee Group Rate** Total $110 $135 $88 $220 $270 $175 $110 $135 $88 Subtotal Conference Fees Widener Alumni 10% Discount. Year of Graduation Degree * Before May 11, 2008 ** Group rate will be given to any employer or organization sending 3 or more staff. All registrations must be submitted together. $60 Total Conference Fees Workshop Choice: Please indicate your first and second choice for each of the 3 workshop sessions. Use the number identified with each workshop. (Preferences will be accommodated by the date of the registration) Session A 1st choice 2nd choice Session B 1st choice 2nd choice Session C 1st choice 2nd choice I wish to attend the Networking Lunch on Wednesday, June 11th. Please reserve a box lunch for me. I require a vegetarian lunch or have other dietary restrictions. I wish to enroll in the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Certificate Progr. Send registration and payment payable to Widener University to: Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology Widener University One University Place Chester, PA Less - Form of payment: Check or Money Order Visa Mastercard Account Number: Signature (necessary for processing) Exp. Date: CANCELLATION POLICY: Prior to May 28, 2008 registration fees will be refunded upon request, minus $20.00 administrative cost. No refunds will be made after May 28, HOTEL RECOMMENDATION: Renaissance Philadelphia Hotel (Airport) 500 Stevens Drive Philadelphia, PA Phone: Fax: DIRECTIONS: Check for more information about driving directions and parking. To Widner University from Philadelphia 1. Take I-95 South 2. Get off I-95S at Exit 6 (Rts 320 & 352) 3. Turn right at top of rp 4. Follow curve to left onto 13th St. 5. Go one block & turn right onto Walnut St. where the main cpus begins From Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC 1. Take I-95 North 2. Cross the PA/DE border 3. Get off I-95 at Exit 6 (Routes 320 and 352) 4. At first traffic light, turn left over bridge 5. Bear right at fork on other side of bridge onto Providence Rd (Routes 320/252) 6. Go to 2nd traffic light & turn right on 15th St. 7. Go to stop sign & turn right onto Walnut St. where the main cpus begins