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REGISTER FOR SATURDAY ONLY OF OCA Mid-Winter 2010!
The OCA Mid-Winter Conference will be February 5-6, 2010 at The Biltmore Hotel, Oklahoma City. Check back often for information about this great event.
Oklahoma Counseling Association Welcomes Back
Dr. Christine Moll
Mid-Winter Keynote: How Tall Are You on Your Professional Growth Chart? Have you Stretched or Shrunk Lately?
Dr. E. Christine Moll joined the Counselor Education faculty in the fall of 1996. Prior to her full time faculty position, Dr. Moll served Canisius College as the Director of the Counseling Center and a member of the Counselor Education adjunct faculty. Dr. Moll is a past president of the New York Counseling Association and national representative to the North Atlantic Region of the American Counseling Association. She is a graduate of the Canisius Counselor Education program. Her research interests are in the use of technology in the counseling profession, supervision of counselors, and the counseling issues of college age students. She has taught Foundations of Counseling, Psychological & Educational Assessment, the Counseling Practica, Research Methods and Women's Issues in Counseling.
Before January 29th:
$80 Members
$100 Non-Members
FREE Student Members and Retiree Members
After January 29th:
Add a $25 Late Fee
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Location: Biltmore Hotel-Oklahoma City
6.0 CEU's Pending Approval for LPC-LMFT-LADC
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM - DIVISION MEETINGS
8:00 - 8:20 AM
QUARTER HORSE: OAMCD (Oklahoma Multicultural Counseling & Development)
MORGAN HORSE: OCCA (Oklahoma Christian Counseling Association)
PALOMINO: OSCA (Oklahoma School Counseling Association)
8:20 - 8:45 AM
QUARTER HORSE: OACES (Oklahoma Association of Counselor Educators & Supervision)
MORGAN HORSE: OMHCA (Oklahoma Mental Health Counseling Association)
PALOMINO: OAAOC (Oklahoma Association of Addictions & Offenders)
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM - BREAKOUT SESSIONS
(1) Ethical Standards Needed to Maintain Positive Professional Growth
Location: Morgan Horse
This presentation will focus on the importance of being current with new rules and guidelines dealing with ethics and how to maintain your professional ethics to ensure professional growth. This session meets ethics CEU requirements.
Presenter: Dr. Daniel Weigel, LPC, LADC
1.5 CEU's
(2) Cultural Sensitivity and Personal Responsibility in Treatment of Individuals Affected by Trauma
Location: Quarter Horse
Working within a culturally sensitive framework in working with traumatized individuals, current treatment modalities will be covered along with handouts on self care and secondary dramatization.
Presenter: Teressa Huff-Garrett, LPC
1.5 CEU's
(3) Leisure: A Necessity or Luxury across the Developmental Domains of Life
Location: Palomino
Leisure is defined as that "time in our lives where there is an absence of work." In a world of 24/7 is leisure possible? Let's talk about leisure for the "health of it" across the various areas of our lives in which our life can be directly impacted by the presence (or absence) of leisure.
Presenter: Dr. Christine Moll
1.5 CEU's
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM - Health Break/Visit the Exhibits/Vote
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Break-Out Sessions
(1) Ethical Standards Needed to Maintain Positive Professional Growth
Location: Morgan Horse Continued with Dr. Daniel Weigel
1.5 CEU's
(2) Developmental and Therapeutic Uses of Poetry
Location: Palomino
The goals of the National Association for Poetry Therapy will be highlighted. The three recommended components of poetry therapy will be discussed as well as the history of poetry therapy. Current applications of poetry therapy will be applied via activities and audience participation. Researchers such as Leedy, Koch, and Applet will be reviewed.
Presenter: Dr. Karn S. Linstrum
1.5 CEU's
(3) Transitioning War Zone Skill's
Location: Quarter Horse
This presentation emphasizes normal readjustment difficulties and facilitates engagement into more formal mental health services if that is needed. It identifies skill areas associated with war zone survival that become problematic at home and provides skills to assist returning Vets and families.
Presenter: Dr. Connie Jung Fox, LPC
1.5 CEU's
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
Visit the Exhibits: Appaloosa Room & Lobby of South Bldng.
Vote for OCA President Elect - Elect in Allegheny Room
Announcements: Election results and any other business will be made at the beginning of Breakout Sessions, at 1:00 PM.
1:00 - 2:30 Breakout Sessions
(1) "The Pipeline: A Journey into the Military's Medical Mega-ride"
Location: Quarter Horse
The pipeline: A journey into the military's medical mega-ride takes a behind-the-scenes look at blast injuries as they occur on the battle front in Iraq. Through the voices of service members and medical teams, we learn about physical, psychological war traumas and challenges faced by returning Vets.
Presenters: Michael Mason & Connie Moore, LPC
1.5 CEU's
(2) "Ethical Supervision & Counseling Practices"
Location: Palomino Horse
This session will address best practices for supervisors as well as ethical rules and regulations required for professional supervisors. If you are a certified supervisor; or if you plan to become a supervisor this workshop will be an excellent resource.
Presenters: Sherry Bynum, LPC, LADC, NCGC-II & Laressa Beliele, LPC. (Both Sherry & Laressa are current members of the LPC Licensure Advisory Board)
This session will count for Ethics or Supervision but not both.
1.5 CEU
(3) "The Military Deployment Cycle and Family Process"
Location: Quarter Horse
Military deployment is a cyclical process and predictable family stress follow this cycle. Attendees will be introduced to this cycle and the concurrent effects/affects on the military family. Participants focus will be given to children during deployment and the process of family reintegration after deployment.
Presenter: Dr. Ben Noah, LPC
1.5 CEU
3:00 - 3:15 Health Break/Visit the Exhibits
2:45 - 4:15 Break out sessions
(1) "Veterans' Families United-Resources for Veterans and Families Facing Invisible Wounds of War" Participants will be familiarized with a comprehensive on-line resource that includes veteran readjustment, PTSD & common diagnoses, resistance and intervention where to get help and healing resources. Cynde Collins-Clark, mom of an Iraqi War Veteran with PTSD weaves her story into her presentation.
Presenter: Cynthia Collins-Clark, LPC, NCC
1.5 CEU
(2) "Ethical Supervision & Counseling Practices"
Location: Palomino Horse
Continued with Laressa Beliele and Sherry Bynum
(3)"Come Out! Come Out! Where Ever You Are!"
Location: Morgan Horse
This presentation will discuss the "coming out" process to include strategies for coming out as well as strategies to use when someone "comes out" to you. Graduate students will participate in this presentation by presenting current research and sharing personal experiences.
Presenters: Dr. Richard Williams, John Ayers, Elizabeth Buchner, Rhonda Weaver, Jeff Wilson.
CEU