Wednesday, June 11 &
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wednesday, June 11 &
Thursday, June 12, 2008
5th Annual Conference
Sponsored by
Family Support Line &
Widener University's
Institute for Graduate
Clinical Psychology, Post
Graduate Center,
& Center for Social Work
Education
at Widener University, Chester, PA
at Widener University, Chester, PA
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
8:30
9:00
10:30
12
1:00
2:45
4:00
8:00
8:45
9:00
10:30
11:00
12:30
1:45
3:15
3:30
5:00
am Registration, University Center am Plenary Session: Working with
Co-Occurring Trauma, Addictions and Self-Sabotage, Dusty Miller, EdD am Break
Noon – Lunch - Join us for a complementary box lunch and Silent Auction pm Plenary Session continues pm Break
pm Close
am Registration, University Center am Opening Remarks
am Keynote Presentation: Sue Kleiner Grew, MSS, LCSW
am Break
am Workshops Session A pm Lunch and Silent Auction pm Workshops Session B pm Break
pm Workshops Session C
pm Conclusion and auction winners announcement
Widener University along with Family
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.
Family Support Line
Widener University, Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology,
The Post Graduate Center, and The Center for Social Work Education
Attendance at all sessions will earn 6 hours continuing education credits for each day.
For conference information
Child Sexual AbuseTreatment
Conference at a Glance
Conference at a Glance
Call
610-499-1209
Email:
visit
or
[email protected]
Susan Carswell, PhD, PsyD
Marc V. Felizzi, LCSW
Francine Gibson, MSW, LCSW
Anthony Goldsmith, MA,
BCETS
Mary Hove, MS
PhD, Molecular Genetics, PsyD, Clinical
Psychology;Therapist in private practice,
Media, PA; and Adjunct Professor, Institute of
Graduate Clinical Psychology,Widener
University
Therapist, Delaware Guidance Services,
Wilmington, DE and Adjunct Professor,
Widener University Center for Social Work
Education
Board Member, Pennsylvania Sex Offenders
Assessment Board and Therapist in private
practice, Media, PA
Licensed Psychologist; Clinical Director,
Family Support Line; and Therapist in private
practice, Media, PA
Education and Training Director and Parent
Support Group Co-Leader, Family Support
Line, Media, PA
Presenters
Sue Kleiner-Grew MSS, LCSW
Donna Landis Brubaker, MSW,
LCSW, RPT-S
Dusty Miller, EdD
Kenneth Maguire, PsyD, MEd
Laurel Silber, PsyD
Licensed Psychotherapist; Founder of
Relaxation Creation; and Adjunct Professor,
Widener University Center for Social Work
Education
Supervisor and Therapist in private practice,
Philadelphia, PA and Registered Play Therapist
Clinical Psychologist and writer, trainer, and
internationally-recognized expert in trauma,
addiction, and self-sabotage
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
Clinical Assistant Professor,Widener
University Institute of Graduate Clinical
Psychology and Therapist in private practice,
Rosemont, PA
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Plenary Session
Working with Co-Occurring Trauma,
Addictions and Self-Sabotage
Working with Co-Occurring Trauma,
Addictions and Self-Sabotage
This presentation helps participants
under-stand and work with the co-occurrence of
trauma and self sabotaging behavior, including
addictions, compulsions, and negative
self-image. Using exercises for healing mind,
body and spirit, Dr. Dusty Miller describes
her treatment model, which blends
psycho-educational 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.
Objectives:
Dusty Miller, EdD, is a clinical psychologist,
writer, trainer, and internationally-recognized
expert in the areas of trauma, addiction, and
sabotage including relationship
self-sabotage such as distancing. She is the
director of the ATRIUM Institute in
Northampton, MA. Miller trains and
consults with professionals and para
professionals who work with traumatic
stress, substance abuse and relational
challenges. She is author of
,
and
.
Women Who
Hurt Themselves Addictions and Trauma
Recovery
Your Surviving Spirit
This special in-depth plenary session counts as 6 elective credits toward our new Child
Sexual Abuse Treatment Certificate Program. Please indicate on the registration form if
you are or would like to be enrolled in the certificate program.
Visit www.familysupportline.org
or
www.postgraduatecenter.org
8:00 am Conference Registration, University Center
9:00 am Plenary Presentation (6 credits)
Thursday, June 12, 2008
8:00 am Conference Registration, University Center
8:45 am Opening Remarks
9:00 am Keynote Presentation (1.5 credits)
Caring for Yourself as
You Care for Others
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.
Objectives:
1. Identify symptoms of vicarious trauma.
2. Understand the role of neurophysiology in the development 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.
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.
Workshop Session A
11:00 am
Each workshops provides 1.5 Credits
11:00 am
Each workshops provides 1.5 Credits
A-1 Helping Strengthen Family Healing Processes
from the Crisis of Child Abuse
Therapists enter a fractured family system when a child suffers abuse. All members of the family are impacted. Often complicating the healing process – the current trauma triggers past traumas. To prevent secondary trauma, the child's family 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.
1. Inform treatment strategies to take into
consideration the multiple levels of trauma when working with the family 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.
Objectives:
Objectives:
Objectives:
Overview:
Overview:
Overview:
Laurel M. Silber, PsyD
A-2 Unlocking Trauma: Play Therapy with
Sexually Abused Children
This workshop introduces play therapy and family therapy as a therapeutic model for sexually abused children. Case examples will demonstrate phases of play therapy, play therapy metaphors, and play/family therapy skills and techniques.
1. Learn the family and play therapy model. 2. Identify common trauma metaphors. 3. Develop play therapy language and skills.
Donna Landis Brubaker, MSW, LCSW, RPT-S
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
Workshop Session B
1:45 pm
Each workshops provides 1.5 Credits
1:45 pm
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 development 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.
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.
Kenneth Maguire, PsyD, Med
Objectives:
Objectives:
Overview:
Overview:
B-2 Finding What Works: The Special Needs of Parents
Who Adopt Sexually Abused Children
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!
Mary Hove, MA
1. Increase awareness of issues specific to adopted and foster care children and families.
2. Identify the common feelings of these children. 3. Recognize likely inappropriate behaviors. 4. Describe effects on parents and family.
Objectives:
Overview:
B-3 The Impact of Offender Thinking on
Sexual Abuse Victims
This presentation will delve into the idea that the distorted thinking of an offender plays a role in the symptom development 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.
Anthony Goldsmith, MA, BCETS
C-1 Inappropriate Sexual Behaviors in Children and Youth:
What to Look for and How to Treat
An overview of healthy sexual development for children and youth with tips and strategies for spotting and treating inappropriate sexual behaviors. How to work with families and children regarding healthy sexual development will be discussed.
1. Identify inappropriate sexual behaviors in children and youth.
2. Develop skills and strategies for treating inappropriate behaviors.
3. Engage families in discussions of inappropriate behaviors and develop prevention strategies. 4. Learn how to discuss appropriate sexuality
development with children and youth.
5. Determine appropriate vs. inappropriate sexual behaviors.
6. Learn where to find information for healthy sexuality development.
Marc V. Felizzi, LCSW
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. dynamic 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 familiar 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.
Workshop Session C
3:30 pm
Each workshops provides 1.5 Credits
3:30 pm
Each workshops provides 1.5 Credits
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.
Objectives:
Objectives:
Overview:
Overview:
Objectives:
Overview:
Silent Auction
Special Needs Policy:
Don’t forget our Annual Silent Auction to benefit Family Support Line’s work to heal the hurt
of child sexual abuse and the James 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
If you have any special needs related to your participation in our conference, please contact
Dennis Debiak, PsyD, at 610-499-1219 or at [email protected].
Continuing Education and Act 48 Credits
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
program 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
Family Therapists and Professional
Counselors to offer continuing education
credits for licensed social workers.
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Registration Form
Fees Early Bird Rate* Regular Fee Group Rate** Total $110 $135 $88
Wed., June 11 Plenary Session only
Wed., June 11 Plenary Session & Thurs., June 12 Conference Thurs., June 12 Conference only
Current Widener Student
$220 $270 $175 $110 $135 $88
Less -$60
Subtotal Conference Fees
Widener Alumni 10% Discount. Year of Graduation _______ Degree _________________ Total Conference Fees * 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.
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, 2008.
HOTEL RECOMMENDATION:
Renaissance Philadelphia Hotel (Airport)
500 Stevens Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19113
Phone: 610-521-5900
Fax: 610-521-4362
www.renaissancehotels.com
DIRECTIONS:
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 Program.
Session A
1st choice _________
2nd choice _________
Session B
1st choice _________
2nd choice _________
Session C
1st choice _________
2nd choice _________
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)
Check www.widener.edu for more information
about driving directions and parking.
1. Take I-95 South
2. Get off I-95S at Exit 6 (Rts 320 & 352)
3. Turn right at top of ramp
4. Follow curve to left onto 13th St.
5. Go one block & turn right onto Walnut St.
where the main campus begins
To Widner University from Philadelphia
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 campus begins
Send registration and payment payable to Widener University to: Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology
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