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PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND SEMINARS

The following presentations are ones that the professional staff have made before or would be interested in making. Many of the didactic presentations include detailed outlines to assist the audience with note taking and to encourage them to interact with the content being presented and to identify questions. The experiential presentations will require audience participation though no one will be forced to participate in a way that is uncomfortable, that is it is possible to participate as an observer. However no written material will be handed out at these presentations, except for the one on Bible Learning for which guidelines for using this method are available. We would be available to develop new presentations on related topics. The initials of the presenters are listed in parentheses after the title.


DIDACTIC PRESENTATIONS

Protecting Yourself and Your Church from Being Used: Recognizing and Responding to Persons with Antisocial Personality Disorder (VKT)


Protecting Yourself and Your Church from (Emotional) Crisis: Recognizing and Responding to Persons with Borderline Personality Disorder (VKT)


Boundary Setting and Moving Toward Assertiveness (KJ)


Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect (MBR)

  1. All citizens have a legal responsibility to report child abuse
    a. What is it?
    b. How to identify the signs
    c. When NOT to discuss concerns with a parent or care-giver
  2. How to make a report
    a. What to expect when making a Child Protective Service (CPS) report
    b. Level system
    c. Unaccepted reports
  3. What happens during a CPS investigation
    a. Confidentiality
    b. Yours and your client’s
    c. “Supported” and “Unsupported”
    d. Police investigations
  4. Services available for families with issues of abuse or neglect
    a. Child and Family Team meetings
    b. Family Preservation Services
  5. The court process
    a. When a child is removed
    b. The Christmas Box House
    c. When services to the family are ordered by the court
  6. Foster Care
    a. Adoption requirements
    b. Caring for the child and parents
    c. Becoming a foster parent
  7. "When parents know better, they do better.”


What is Christian Counseling (VKT)


Hope for Those with Chronic Illness and Their Families (MBR)


Depression and the Christian (RFP)

  1. Biblical references to Depression and Suicide
  2. Classification Issues
  3. Diagnostic Signs and Symptoms
  4. Epidemiology
  5. Models of Depression and Treatment (Presentation, Causes, Model, Treatment, and Coping):Biological, Psychological, Interpersonal, and Spiritual


Dissociative Disorders (RFP)

  1. Definitions - Diagnostic Issues
  2. What causes it - Etiology
  3. Can it be helped - Prognosis
  4. Stages of Therapy
  5. The use of hypnosis
  6. What lay counselors (support persons) can do
  7. Characteristics and Symptoms to Recognize


Divorce Care (VT)


Divorce Coping for Children/Adolescents (KJ)


Divorce Coping for Parents/Adults (KJ)


Christian Perspective on Domestic Violence (MBR)


God, Accountability and Forgiveness (MBR)


Grief Counseling, How to Do (RFP)

  1. Introduction: By Jesus' example and Biblical truths believers are encouraged to reach out to the bereaved.
  2. Biblical References to Grieving
  3. The Four Tasks of Grieving
  4. Manifestations of Normal Grief
  5. Abnormal Grief
  6. The Counselor's Own Grief


Grief and the Process of Mourning (RFP)


Mediators of Mourning: Why Some Losses Are Harder (RFP)


How to Get a Job (MBR)

  1. Facing reality
    a. Is discrimination legal?
    b. Jobs that you can’t get
    c. Assessing career interests
  2. Turning struggles into strengths
    a. Where to turn for help.
    b. Bonding
    c. Phone calls
  3. Interviewing -- What to say and what NOT to say
  4. Hope for the future


Understanding Mental Illness (VKT)


Understanding Older Adults (VKT)


Christian Parenting Tips: How Children Develop an Understanding of God and Right and Wrong (RFP)


Parenting Children (KJ)


Parenting Teenagers (KJ)


Understanding the Culture of Poverty (And The Government Agencies That Help) (MBR)

  1. The hidden class system in America
    a. Research
    b. Culture tests
    c. Poverty traits are not about race
  2. Poverty – Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse
  3. Children of Poverty
    a. Learning to learn
    b. Risk of abuse or neglect
  4. When your client is involved with the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS).
    a. Risks
    b. Benefits
  5. When your client is involved with Utah State Department of Workforce Services. (DWS).
    a. Risks
    b. Benefits
  6. Community resources that can help.


When, How, and To Whom To Make a Professional Mental Health Referral, and What To Do Afterward (RFP)

  1. When: Signs and Symptoms Indicating Need for Referral
  2. How: The Process of Referral
  3. To Whom
  4. What to do afterwards


Sexual Abuse Presentation (RFP)

  1. Introduction
  2. Issues faced by adult survivors
  3. The process of healing
  4. Spiritual damage and forgiveness

Stress and the Christian (RFP)
  1. Do we, as Christians, have Biblical instruction/injunctions about stress?
  2. Stress is a significant problem
  3. How the body works
  4. What to do
  5. Spiritual antidotes


Building a Community Support Structure for Your Client (MBR)

  1. Why build a community support structure?
    a. What it is?
    b. How it will help your counseling
    c. How it will help the client when counseling is over
  2. Helping your client decide who should be on their team
    a. Genograms
    b. Eco-maps
    c. An over-view of community resources
    d. Safety concerns
  3. Confidentiality Issues
    Planning a meeting
  4. Structuring a meeting
    a. Strengths
    b. Concerns
    c. Plan
  5. Potential Outcomes


Team Building for Businesses, Community Groups, and Churches (KJ)

 

EXPERIENTIAL PRESENTATIONS

Healing Post Abortion Syndrome: An Action Methods Contribution (RFP)


Bibliodrama: Learning Personally and Deeply from Bible Stories (RFP)

The purpose of the Greek historical present tense was to transport the reader "in imagination to the actual scene at the time of the occurrence." This session will demonstrate how this can be done using Action Methods including role reversal, doubling, auxiliary egos, concretization, surplus reality, warm-up, action, and sharing.


Evaluating (and Changing) Your Relationship with God (RFP)

This session will demonstrate how to use Action Methods in identifying, working on, and finding resolution to issues one has with God. Past participants have found this approach and focus to be particularly helpful and valuable.


Growing Through Grief and Loss Using Action Methods (RFP)

This session will demonstrate how to use Action Methods in addressing and working through issues of loss whether they be the result of death, divorce, loss of employment, loss of a dream, abortion, or loss of physical functioning.


Memory Healing Through Action Methods (RFP)

This session will use a learning through teaching and experience format. It will include a brief review of the healing of memories framework and introduce and demonstrate how to use Action Methods to address difficult memories.


Remembering Significant Experiences Using Action Methods (RFP)

Many of the Psalms recount God's mighty acts. This session will focus on recalling personally meaningful experiences of God in times of trouble as well as times of praise using Action Methods.

 

 

 

 

 


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