MHREN-Sponsored Events & Registration
All workshops will be held at the Smullin Center at Rogue Valley Medical Center, 2825 E. Barnett Rd, Medford, OR, from 9:00-4:30 with check-in at 8:30. Location/Travel info
February 10, 2012
Escaping the Porn Trap: Identifying
and Treating Problems Caused by Pornography
The Internet has made pornography easily accessible and more seductive than ever. Some 40 million Americans now regularly cruise porn sites, and about 40 percent of troubled marriages because of a partner’s use of porn. In this workshop, sex and relationship therapist examine the powerful aspects of Internet pornography that draw people so deeply into it and make it so difficult to quit.
Wendy will help you identify the most serious consequences of porn use, including major mood disturbances, disruption of family and work life, full-blown sexual compulsions and addictions, and the harmful impact on sexual functioning and intimate relationships. Using a dynamic model for recovery, Wendy will present a wide variety of treatment strategies and interventionsthat are effective in facilitating individual and couples healing; including exercises to strengthen motivation, action steps for quitting porn relapse prevention techniques, and sexual healing exercises.
Early registration - save $40 if you register before January 27
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April 13, 2012
Psychiatric Medications, the
way forward: Historical and current perspectives with a conversation
about solutions.
Robert Whitaker and Ted Sundin, MD
6 CEUs
Many controversies are arising regarding the appropriate use, possible overuse, misuse and significant potential harmful effects of psychiatric medications in our culture. At the same time there are alternative/complementary treatments for especially depression and anxiety that are being under-utilized.
In the morning, Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic will address the dramatic increase of the US population receiving federal disability due to severe mental illness. Could our drug-based paradigm of care, in some unforeseen way, be fueling this epidemic of disabling illness? Do psychiatric medications improve or worsen long-term outcomes?
The afternoon will be a panel discussion including the author and containing members from a group of primary care and mental health providers led by Ted Sundin, MD., who have met regularly for 6 months to look at possible solutions to the dilemmas Whitaker’s book are posing.
Learning Objectives:
- Review the history of the outcomes literature to help us understand how medications affect the long-term course of psychiatric disorders.
- An overview of how long-term outcomes in mood and anxiety disorders have changed in the past 40 years.
- A dialogue on the impact of this information, and how we as a community can start collaborating across disciplines to improve mental health care and patient care outcomes in Southern Oregon.
- For participants to explore their own role in effecting change in mental healthcare
Robert Whitaker is an award winning journalist and author of four books. Much of his writing has focused on psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry, and medical histories. Two notable books are Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill and Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America.
Ted Sundin, MD, works as the Medical Director for Jefferson Behavioral Health and a psychiatrist in private practice specializing in treating healthcare professionals and is a consumer himself living with bipolar disorder.
Early registration - save $40 if you register before March 30
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June 15, 2012
The Many Benefits of Applying
Hypnosis and Directives in Strategic Psychotherapies: How Hypnosis
Enhances Treatment
Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D.
6 CEUs
NOTE: Workshop held at Ashland Masonic Lodge #23, 570 Clover Lane, Ashland
The study of the science and art of clinical hypnosis begins with the recognition that influence is inherent in the therapy process. Far more complex, though, are the deeper questions related to how one person can instill a belief in someone else that his or her distressing symptoms can diminish, resulting in a recovery, or how someone can suggest to another that he or she evolve a frame of mind that makes success possible in some desired domain.
This one day workshop provides many insights into the dynamics of integrating patterns and principles of hypnosis with the core skills of effective psychotherapy. Specifically, we will focus on identifying and developing some of the key skills necessary to design and deliver meaningful psychotherapeutic interventions hypnotically. How hypnosis meshes with other experiential approaches, most notably mindfulness, will also be considered.
Learning Objectives:
- The participant will be able to identify common, repetitive themes of therapy and discuss their implications for treatment planning.
- The participant will be able to describe the role of a client’s cognitive style in the onset of disorders and how hypnosis might be used to enhance it.
- The participant will be able to describe the role of selective attention in the onset and course of disorders and how hypnosis might be used to create an internal shift in the quality and direction of focus.
- The participant will be able to identify at least two specific overlapping points across effective psychotherapies and how to integrate hypnosis with them in specific goal-oriented ways.
- The participant will be able to cite at least three recent research studies providing evidence for the merits of applying hypnosis in psychotherapy.
Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist. He is internationally recognized for his work in advancing clinical hypnosis and outcome-focused psychotherapy, routinely teaching to professional audiences all over the world. His workshops are well known for being practical as well as enjoyable. Dr. Yapko is the author of 13 books and editor of three others, as well as numerous book chapters and articles on the subjects of hypnosis and the use of strategic psychotherapies. www.yapko.com
Early registration - save $40 if you register before June 1
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