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TCCA Texas College Counseling Association

TCA Texas Counseling Association

Empowering and Encouraging Those We Serve

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3rd Annual College Counseling Conference • Co-sponsored by TCCA Texas College Counseling Association and TCA Texas Counseling Association Fort Worth, Texas • May 18-19, 2012 • www.txca.org

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TCCA Texas College Counseling Association and TCA Texas Counseling Association

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

**Subject to change**

Check onsite registration for conference updates.

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012

9:00 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

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CONTACT HOUR MONITORING FORM

College Counseling Conference

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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, 2012

10:00 – 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, 2012

8:00 – 10:00 AM 1.5

10:15 – 11:45 AM

Crisis on Campus! The Rise in

Mental Health Issues in College

Peter Thomas

1.5

Total Hours

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Address: _____________________________________________________________________________________

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Authorized by TCA Texas Counseling Association, www.txca.org -- to verify credits, call 512.472.3403, ext. 10

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Friday, May 18, 2012 • 10:00 – 11:30 AM • 1.5 CEUs

1. Ethics! Do No Harm

Room: Flat Creek

Presenter: 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

Room: Grape Creek

Presenter: 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

Room: Sister Creek

Presenters: 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.

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Friday, May 18, 2012 • 1:00 – 2:30 PM • 1.5 CEUs

KEYNOTE SESSION

Room:

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.

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Friday, May 18, 2012 • 3:00 – 4:30 PM • 1.5 CEUs

4. Creating Meaningful Summaries and Decision-Making Rubrics

Room: Flat Creek

Presenter: 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

Room: Grape Creek

Presenter: 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

Room: Sister Creek

Presenter: 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.

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Friday, May 18, 2012 • 4:45 – 6:15 PM • 1.5 CEUs

7. Basic Nuts and Bolts of Suicide Assessment and Intervention

Room: Flat Creek

Presenter: 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

Room: Grape Creek

Presenters: 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!

Room: Sister Creek

Presenters: 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.

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Saturday, May 19, 2012 • 8:30 – 10:00 AM • 1.5 CEUs

10. Rocking the Boat to Keep Students Afloat

Room: Grape Creek

Presenters: 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

Room: Sister Creek

Presenter: 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

Room: Flat Creek

Presenters: 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.

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Saturday, May 19, 2012 • 10:15 – 11:45 AM • 1.5 CEUs

KEYNOTE SESSION

Flat Creek

Crisis on Campus! The Rise in Mental Health Issues in College

Presenter: 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 1995. 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.

Empowering and Encouraging Those We Serve

TCCA Texas College Counseling Association

TCA Texas Counseling Association