Professional Development Workshops
Idaho State University Department of Counseling has been approved by National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 3010. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Idaho State University Department of Counseling is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CEs for Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Teachers, Psychologists, and other Mental Health Professionals.
Please note: Clinicians are responsible for ensuring the CEs we provide fit the continuing education requirements of their particular licensing board.
2021 Schedule
APRIL
APRIL 17, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
Advanced Supervision: Practical Applications of the Discrimination Model
Timothy Hakenewerth, Ph.D. & William Lane, Ph.D.
6 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
This workshop will take an in-depth look at one of the most widely used supervision models in clinical work. The presentation will review the basic model, discuss additional theoretical applications, and focus on practical applications of this model in clinical context. This workshop will include didactic elements and have a high experiential component, paired with engaging dialogue.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn the basic tenets of the Discrimination Model of supervision and additional theoretical applications.
- Participants will be able to more effectively provide supervision to a diverse group of professionals.
- Participants will be able to integrate their personal supervisory style to the Discrimination Model and apply the model to specific supervisory issues.
Registration Fee: $100
Saturday, April 17, 2021 - 9:00am-4:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
APRIL 21, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
Transgender Mental Healthcare for the 21st Century: Therapeutic Innovations with the Gender-Diverse
Stacee L. Reicherzer, Ph.D.
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
If you’ve worked with transgender or gender nonconforming clients, it probably took some time to stop feeling very self-conscious about your use of correct pronouns. Or you got mired in the complexity of diagnosing gender dysphoria when other mental health concerns, substance abuse, or life challenges were occurring. Perhaps you even questioned your right to provide service with very limited transgender clinical experience. In this energizing webinar, Dr. Stacee Reicherzer will bring transgender and gender nonconforming experiences to life, guiding you through terminology, case conceptualization, and strength-based care for clients across the gender continua. We’ll talk drag, we’ll talk transsexual, we’ll talk gender fluidity; and all of the gender experiences that exist in-between. Additionally, audience members will be provided with templates for creating letters of diagnosis for medical referrals. You don’t want to miss this engaging and fun learning experience!
Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this session, audience members will be able to:
- Work from a trans-competent and strength-based framework in providing clinical services for transgender and gender nonconforming clients.
- Use the DSM-V and World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standards for diagnosis and medical referrals.
- Plan treatment with transgender and gender nonconforming individuals with complex mental health concerns.
Registration Fee: $60
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 9:00am-12:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
APRIL 23, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
No More Stages! Current Trends in Grief and Loss
Matt Niece, Ph.D. & Elizabeth Horn, Ph.D.
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Mental Health Practitioners will learn about the most recent trends in conceptualizing and working with clients experiencing grief and loss, including the recognition of everyday losses as grief. In addition, other forms of disenfranchised grief will be discussed and participants will learn how to identify and address these losses that are left unacknowledged by society at large. In an interactive format, attendees will gain a greater understanding of concepts related to grief and loss and learn strategies for working with clients experiencing these issues.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will learn about the current trends in the grief and loss literature.
2. Attendees will begin to accurately conceptualize more hidden forms of grief and loss and be able to apply this to clients.
3. Attendees will learn strategies and techniques for working with clients experiencing grief and loss.
Registration Fee: $60
Friday, April 23, 2021 - 2:00pm-5:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
MAY
MAY 7, 2021 - POCATELLO
Utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in the Treatment of Addictions
Chad Yates, Ph.D., LPC & Caroline Brown
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has grown in popularity in the recent decade. Research has documented its efficacy in treating a variety of mental health and addiction-related concerns. ACT belongs within the third wave of behavioral therapies. Third wave therapies emphasize mindfulness, emotions, acceptance, the relationship, values, goals, and meta‐cognition. ACT aims to help clients behave, or act in ways, that are flexible to their environment, their inner emotional states, with current thoughts, and to help them clarify and live within the value systems they hold.
ACT views addiction as a learned behavior that overtakes the healthy functioning of individuals. Using ACT with clients with substance use disorders can help clients explore how they behave to avoid pain and suffering associated with thoughts and emotions. Helping clients understand the connections between how they feel, think, and behave can help them change their relationship to previous behaviors like drinking and drug use.
This presentation will explore briefly the theoretical underpinnings of ACT, explore how ACT conceptualizes substance and process-related addictions, and include interventions that clinicians can use to introduce ACT practices within treatment.
Learning Objectives:
1.Attendees will learn the theoretical underpinnings of ACT
2. Attendees will learn how ACT conceptualizes substance and process related addictions
3. Attendees will learn ACT interventions to use within the treatment of substance use disorders
Registration Fee: $60
Friday, May 7, 2021 - 10:00am-1:00pm
Location: ISU, 1400 E. Terry Street, Pocatello, ID, Garrison Hall, Building 63, Room 726
MAY 14, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
Interdisciplinary Ethical Decision-Making for Emotional Support Animal Recommendations
Leslie Stewart, Ph.D.
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
The popularity of including animals in human healthcare is exponentially increasing, as are client/patient requests for Emotional Support Animals. When presented with a request for an Emotional Support Animal letter, many clinicians are uninformed about important legal, ethical, and treatment planning related considerations associated with such requests. Despite the growing popularity of animals’ roles in human healthcare, many providers and clinicians remain unaware of important role distinctions, access rights, liability concerns, and animal welfare considerations associated with different types of helper animals. In this workshop, the presenter will orient attendees to 3 vastly different helper animal roles: Service Animals/Assistance Animals, Therapy Animals, and Emotional Support Animals. Further, the presenter will provide evidence based best practice recommendations associated with each of the 3 helper animal roles.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and define 3 distinctive helper animal roles: Service/Assistance Animals, Emotional Support Animals, and Therapy Animals.
- Discuss legal, ethical, and best practices considerations relevant to all 3 roles discussed above.
- Generate informed decisions about including or formally supporting a helper animal in a client’s treatment plan.
- Describe documentation, policies and procedures appropriate to each helper animal role.
- Identify appropriate and ethical inclusion of animals in professional settings and respond to inappropriate or unethical inclusions of animals in a professional setting.
- Identify resources for developing provider competence in therapeutic human-animal interactions.
Registration Fee: $60
Friday, May 14, 2021 - 9:00am-12:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
MAY 15, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
The Human-Animal Bond in Counseling: Ethics and Applied Strategies
Leslie Stewart, Ph.D.
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Enthusiasm surrounding the therapeutic application of the human-animal bond is steadily growing among the general public, client populations, and mental health providers. While the popularity of these approaches is on the rise, few are aware of the unique ethical and professionalization considerations of this highly specialized and nuanced approach. In this workshop, the presenter aims to provide an introductory orientation to the complex world of human-animal relationships and other forms of biophilia in professionalized healthcare and discuss the myriad of ways to include such approaches into treatment planning and wellness optimization.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and define distinctive animal roles: Service/Assistance Animals, Emotional Support Animals, Therapy Animals, and Companion Animals.
- Understand and describe the theoretical underpinnings of beneficial human-animal relationships and interactions, and; the empirical basis for what kinds of human-animal interactions are beneficial, which are contra-indicated.
- Discuss unique ethical and professionalization considerations relevant to the therapeutic application of the human-animal bond.
- Generate a step-by-step plan towards integrating the human-animal bond into one’s own practice.
Registration Fee: $60
Saturday, May 15, 2021 - 11:00am-2:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
MAY 20, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
Using Disenfranchised Grief as a Lens to Work with Marginalized Populations Impacted by Racial Injustice
Olivia Ngadjui, Ph.D. & Elizabeth Horn, Ph.D.
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
This presentation provides an overview of disenfranchised grief, a form of grief that goes unrecognized by society, and the ways in which marginalized populations impacted by racial injustice may inherently experience it. This is in supportive response to the recent nationwide spotlighting of harm done to Black lives (e.g. Breonna Taylor, Tiffany "Dior" Harris, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery) to foster culturally sensitive consideration and care for clients who may grieve those public losses. Through conceptualizing both overt and covert forms of discrimination through the lens of disenfranchised grief, practitioners may be able to help clients recognize losses and grief reactions of which they were previously unaware. The recognition of disenfranchised grief can lead to greater adaptation and integration of losses and help clients to strengthen their identity and promote healing.
Learning Objectives:
1) Attendees will learn about the current trends in grief and loss as well as racial injustice
2) Attendees will learn about disenfranchised grief and the ways in which it manifests
3) Attendees will learn how to identify disenfranchised grief within marginalized populations impacted by racial injustice
4) Attendees will learn how to conceptualize and work with marginalized populations experiencing disenfranchised grief in order to promote adaptation, empower identity, and healing.
Registration Fee: $60
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 2:00pm-5:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
MAY 21, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
Unwanted Sex: Ethical Considerations and Essential Information for Counselors
Darleen Dempster, Ph.D.
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Ethics in Counseling Survivors of Sexual Violence
This presentation will integrate considerations of ethical practice when working with survivors of sexualized violence. It will review relevant ethical codes and fundamental principles of ethical behavior, relating to clinical work with sexualized violence.
Learning objectives:
This presentation will review content and activities designed to:
-Define ethics and ethical practice as it relates to counseling and serving survivors of sexual violence
-Define and describe the importance of professional boundaries
-Identify strategies to prevent boundary violations and address ethical dilemmas
Unwanted Sex Across the Continuum—Essential Information for Counselors
Learning objectives:
Explain the full continuum of unwanted sex (consensual unwanted sex, verbal coercion, substance related coercion, physical coercion)
Explain the psychological consequences of these various types of coercion for women and men
Explain counseling treatment options for adults and children
Discuss rape myths and how these result in victim blaming
Discuss self-blame and some ways to handle this
Registration Fee: $60
Friday, May 21, 2021 - 9:00am-12:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
MAY 22, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
Online Play Therapy Tools: Using the Oaklander Approach to Engage Across All Ages
Peter Mortola, Ph.D.
6 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
How can we help clients, young and old, engage in the therapeutic process online? How do we help clients stay embodied in this virtual world? In this highly experiential workshop, we will explore and practice with play and art therapy tools that are surprisingly effective online.
Learning objectives:
Using the Oaklander approach to Gestalt play and art therapy, participants in this day-long, Saturday workshop will:
1) gain a working knowledge of an array of online therapy tools including sand tray, puppets, drawings and images;
2) gain first-hand knowledge of how effective these tools are in the therapeutic setting;
3) learn how to use these tools as a practitioner using a model of therapeutic engagement developed by Dr. Violet Oaklander, author of Windows to our Children and Hidden Treasure.
Registration Fee: $100
Saturday, May 22, 2021 - 9:00am-4:30pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
JUNE
JUNE 11 & 12, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
15 Hour Clinical Supervision for Counselors
Hannah Brinser, M.A. & Amanda Arnold, M.C.
15 CONTACT HOURS OR 1 GRADUATE CREDIT
Workshop Description:
This workshop will satisfy the requirement of 15 hours of clinical supervision training needed for the Registered Supervisor designation with the state of Idaho Licensing Board of Professional Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists (IDAPA rule 24.15.01.200). Participants will gain knowledge regarding the roles and functions of a clinical supervisor; best practices; State of Idaho requirements; legal and ethical considerations; informed consent and documentation; relationship building; models of supervision; multicultural considerations; evaluation and gatekeeping; and supervisor self-care.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants become familiar with and discuss best clinical supervision practices.
2. Participants will learn about ethical standards of supervision practice as designated by IDOPL.
3. Participants will learn about relevant theories of supervision, including development models.
**PLEASE SEE WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM FOR MORE INFORMATION ON GRADUATE CREDIT
Registration Fee: $200
Friday & Saturday, June 11 & 12, 2021 - 8:30am-5:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
JUNE 18, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
What is Unconscious Bias and What do we know about it? A Reckoning for Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling Professionals
Bryan Austin, Ph.D. & Ne'Shaun Borden, Ph.D.
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Accurate clinical judgments are needed to make sound clinical decisions related to client assessment and service delivery. Unfortunately, counselors may unconsciously make biased judgments or judgment errors during key decision points that may interfere with achieving optimal client outcomes. Therefore, understanding the bias research as well as how counselors make judgments, while also applying a model of practice that recognizes this inherent limitation, but that includes a preventative stance such as intentionally integrating counselor debiasing strategies, may be important.
Opportunities to conceptualize and demonstrate empirically-supported strategies relevant for vocational rehabilitation and other counseling professionals to improve judgments and decision-making in professional practice will also be provided.
Learning Objectives:
- Bias research and why it’s important to know for practice
- Model of how counselors make judgments
- Application of empirically-supported counselor debiasing strategies
Registration Fee: $60
Friday, June 18, 2021 - 9:00am-12:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
JUNE 18 & 19, 2021 - MERIDIAN
Gestalt Marathon Group
Logan Lamprecht, Ph.D.
15 CONTACT HOURS OR 1 GRADUATE CREDIT
Workshop Description:
This workshop is designed for all levels of mental health professionals. Community members and other professionals are also welcome. This group experience engages participants in holistic, present-centered and process-oriented interactions by attending to both ‘What is being said’ and ‘What’s not being said.’ By attending to the ‘Here and Now,’ ‘I – Thou,’ and ‘What and How,’ awareness and contact is attended to in a manner that allows participants to experience authenticity and integrity in their personal and professional living. Past marathon group participants have reported fresh insights, creative adjustments, and life-changing awareness, thus experiencing a new or fresh sense of self, expanded potential for novel behavior and alternative ways of relating to others.
Participation in this workshop fulfills 15 hours Continuing Education (CEUs) in interpersonal processes, group dynamics and organizational applications.
We will be together as a group most of the day; however, there will be opportunities for sub-grouping and alone time. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch and small snacks (e.g. fruit, nuts, beverages, etc.) that may be shared during both days of the workshop.
Learning Objectives:
Participants completing this intensive workshop will be able to:
- Observe group dynamics and the principles of facilitating a group in an ethical manner;
- Develop self-awareness in relation to others in the present moment;
- Recognize the impact of one's actions and influence on others;
- Identify some barriers or gestalt resistances to contact with aspects of self and others;
- Practice principles of both giving and receiving feedback;
- Articulate the effects of others' behaviors upon themselves;
- Recognize cultural factors in interpersonal interactions in the present; and
- Explore creative processes as a means of addressing unfinished gestalts.
- Integrate gestalt-based concepts into their conceptualization of clients concerns, relational dynamics and therapy-centered approaches with clients.
- Will identify key concepts and terms based in gestalt psychology and understand complex processes such as, “I-Thou,” “Here-and-Now,” “Field Theory,” “Figure-Ground,” “Gestalt Resistance to Contact,” and “The Cycle of Awareness.”
**PLEASE SEE WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM FOR MORE INFORMATION ON GRADUATE CREDIT
Registration Fee: $200
Friday & Saturday, June 18 & 19, 2021 - (Fri. 8:30am-6:00pm & Sat. 8:30am-4:00pm)
Location: 1311 E. Central Drive, Meridian, ID, Room 682
JUNE 25, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
Overcoming "Addiction" to Pornography through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Cameron Staley, Ph.D., BCB
6 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is one of the few research supported treatments for compulsive sexual behaviors like unwanted pornography viewing. As an alternative to traditional “addiction” approaches which can interfere with behavioral change and healthy sexual development, ACT provides a comprehensive framework for addressing core underlying concerns that maintain problematic pornography viewing. This presentation will provide an overview an introduction to ACT as a treatment for unwanted pornography viewing.
Learning Objectives:
Describe limitations of addiction model for addressing unwanted pornography viewing
Evaluate ACT treatment outcome studies
Identify four main pathological processes underlying problematic pornography viewing
Apply ACT principles and interventions for unwanted pornography viewing
This 6 hour workshop will demonstrate how ACT principles effectively reduce unwanted pornography viewing by cultivating openness to experiencing urges to view pornography and by promoting value-directed behaviors instead of ineffective efforts to control inner experiences and perceived addiction. ACT provides a comprehensive framework for addressing core pathological processes underlying problematic pornography viewing including psychological inflexibility (rigid adherence to inner experiences including urges, thoughts, emotions;), low trait-mindfulness, emotion dysregulation and moral disapproval. The workshop will address the following core areas:
ACT as a Treatment for Problematic Pornography Viewing
1. Evaluate ACT treatment outcome studies
2. Identify four main pathological processes underlying problematic pornography viewing
3. Present rationale for process-oriented outcomes
Orienting to the “Problem”
1. Demonstrate how to motivate clients through “creative helplessness”
2. Describe the paradox of control
3. List strategies for enhancing willingness
Cultivating Awareness through Mindfulness
1. Explain the relationship between language and psychological inflexibility
2. Practice mindfulness exercises designed to enhance self as context
3. Summarize key aspects of emotional awareness and regulation
Finding Direction through Values
1. Define framework for healthy sexuality and personal boundaries
2. Develop plan for establishing connections
3. Compile exercises for clarifying and pursuing values
Registration Fee: $100
Friday, June 25, 2021 - 8:30am-4:30pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
JULY
August
AUGUST 6 & 7, 2021 - POCATELLO
15 Hour Clinical Supervision for Counselors
Kimberly Leishman, M.Coun. & Amirah Nelson, M.A.
15 CONTACT HOURS OR 1 GRADUATE CREDIT
Workshop Description:
This workshop will satisfy the requirement of 15 hours of clinical supervision training needed for the Registered Supervisor designation with the state of Idaho Licensing Board of Professional Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists (IDAPA rule 24.15.01.200). Participants will gain knowledge regarding the roles and functions of a clinical supervisor; best practices; State of Idaho requirements; legal and ethical considerations; informed consent and documentation; relationship building; models of supervision; multicultural considerations; evaluation and gatekeeping; and supervisor self-care.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants become familiar with and discuss best clinical supervision practices.
2. Participants will learn about ethical standards of supervision practice as designated by IDOPL.
3. Participants will learn about relevant theories of supervision, including development models.
**PLEASE SEE WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM FOR MORE INFORMATION ON GRADUATE CREDIT
Registration Fee: $200
Friday & Saturday, August 6 & 7, 2021 - 8:30am-5:00pm
Location: ISU, 1400 E. Terry Street, Pocatello, ID, Garrison Hall, Building 63, Room 726
AUGUST 13 & 14, 2021 - MERIDIAN
Strong Couples: Counseling Skills that Transform Relationships
Kirsten Murray, Ph.D.
15 CONTACT HOURS OR 1 GRADUATE CREDIT
Workshop Description:
Couples counseling skills are at the core of this workshop. Designed for practitioners seeking to strengthen the foundations of their couples counseling practice, this model will teach the integral skills counselors use to improve couples' relationships. Together, we will learn about the 10 guiding principles for effective couple work, apply these to complex cases, and practice the skills necessary to help couples change.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will understand the foundational model for couples counseling outlined in the book Strong Couples, the research it draws from, and the 10 trans-theoretical, integrated principles the model is based on. Each hour of learning will be dedicated to (1) Holding the work with couples, (2) leading a couples’ discovery process, and (3) enacting change for the couple. More specifically:
Holding the Work: How to (1) establish necessary boundaries, (2) define the client, and (3) co-construct the identified problem with couples.
Leading discovery: How to (4) foster self-awareness, (5) increase knowledge of family of origin patterns, and (6) foster congruent communication with couples.
Enacting change: How to (7) promote vulnerability, (8) increase empathic responding, (9) hold responsibility, and (10) share gratitude with couples.
**PLEASE SEE WORKSHOP APPLICATION FORM FOR MORE INFORMATION ON GRADUATE CREDIT
Registration Fee: $200
Friday & Saturday, August 13 & 14, 2021 - (Fri. 8:30am-6:00pm & Sat. 8:30am-4:00pm)
Location: 1311 E. Central Drive, Meridian, ID, Room 682
September
October
OCTOBER 29, 2021 - POCATELLO
Interdisciplinary Series Part I: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
Leslie Stewart, Ph.D., LCPC & Chad Yates, Ph.D., LPC
6 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centered interviewing style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change. MI is a collaborative partnership that respects the other’s autonomy, seeking to understand the person’s internal frame of reference (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). When practiced with appropriate training, MI is a valuable and empirically supported approach that enhances a provider’s ability to effectively work with diverse populations presenting with a full spectrum of readiness for change. MI is an empirically supported approach for mental health providers, medical professionals, and other human service professionals. In this workshop, the presenter will orient attendees to the philosophy and theoretical underpinnings of MI and introduce microskills specific to MI. A combination of lecture and experiential skill role-plays will be used to help attendees understand and apply MI skills and philosophy. Primary objectives include MI-compliant relationship building, microskills, assessment, and case conceptualization. The curriculum will also introduce relevant legal, ethical, and multicultural considerations. After completing this program, attendees will be prepared to engage in the Advanced Motivational Interviewing Workshop.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify and define theoretical foundations appropriate to Motivational Interviewing.
2. Discuss the role of client values, ambivalence, and discrepancies in Motivational Interviewing.
3. Differentiate between Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change Model, and understand how the 2 philosophies may be successfully integrated.
4. Identify and describe OARS skills.
5. Describe treatment planning, assessments, and other clinical documentations relevant to Motivational Interviewing.
6. Discuss Ethical and Multicultural considerations relevant to Motivational Interviewing.
Registration Fee: $100
Friday, October 29, 2021 - 9:30am-4:30pm
Location: ISU, 1400 E. Terry Street, Pocatello, ID, Garrison Hall, Building 63, Room 726
OCTOBER 30, 2021 - POCATELLO
Interdisciplinary Series Part II: Advanced Motivational Interviewing
Leslie Stewart, Ph.D., LCPC & Chad Yates, Ph.D., LPC
6 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centered interviewing style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change. MI is a collaborative partnership that respects the other’s autonomy, seeking to understand the person’s internal frame of reference (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). When practiced with appropriate training, MI is a valuable and empirically supported approach that enhances a provider’s ability to effectively work with diverse populations presenting with a full spectrum of readiness for change. This experientially-based workshop builds upon the foundation developed in the Introduction to Motivational Interviewing workshop. The primary objectives of this program include facilitation of participants’ skills in translating and integrating MI knowledge into MI practice. After a brief content refresher, participants will engage in live demonstrations, small group practice, and case studies.
Learning Objectives:
1. Practice applying theoretical foundations appropriate to Motivational Interviewing into live role-plays.
2. Engage role-play client/patient values, ambivalence, and discrepancies in Motivational Interviewing.
3. Integrate and apply both Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change Model.
4. Identify and demonstrate OARS skills.
5. Practice treatment planning, assessments, and other clinical documentations relevant to Motivational Interviewing.
6. Recognize and respond to Ethical and Multicultural considerations relevant to Motivational Interviewing.
Pre-Requisites: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing; or, successful completion of the Applied Theories course in the Pocatello Master of Counseling program.
Registration Fee: $100
Saturday, October 30, 2021 - 9:30am-4:30pm
Location: ISU, 1400 E. Terry Street, Pocatello, ID, Garrison Hall, Building 63, Room 726
November
NOVEMBER 6, 2021 - LIVE WEBINAR
Current Issues in School Counseling Ethics
Randy Astramovich, Ph.D. & Hannah Brinser, M.A.
3 CONTACT HOURS
Workshop Description:
Through an interactive presentation and discussion, presenters will address current school counseling ethical issues related to advocacy, confidentiality, case notes, and multicultural issues. This workshop will include a review of the ACA and ASCA Codes of Ethics and appropriate ethical decision making models in school counseling. Illustrative case examples will be utilized throughout the presentation.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Apply ASCA and ACA Codes of Ethics to current school counseling dilemmas including advocacy, confidentiality, case notes, and multicultural issues.
- Review ethical decision making models appropriate for school counselors.
- Identify and address barriers to school counseling ethical concerns.
Registration Fee: $60
Saturday, November 6, 2021 - 10:00am-1:00pm (Mountain Standard Time)
Location: Live Webinar using Zoom video conferencing platform (more on Zoom in the General Information)
December