Friday, February 22

Tangled Up in Food and Binge Eating

Presenters: Julie Friedman, Ph.D
9am-11am

This program will review diagnostic considerations, neurobiological foundations, and treatment strategies for patients presenting with comorbid traumatic stress and binge eating pathology.  Specific attention will be paid to interventions that can be used in outpatient practice as well as higher levels of care with a case study presented at the end for further illustration of a new, evidence and exposure-based treatment for trauma.

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Friday, February 22

Legal Issues for the Business of Your Professional Practice Workshop

Presenter: Jessica Oldhani, JD of Oldhani Entrepreneurial Law
1:00-3:00pm

This workshop will guide attendees through an interactive discussion covering numerous legal topics essential to the business of running a professional practice, such as choice of entity, hiring others, and ownership of materials. Bring your questions.  The legal issues covered include Corporations, LLCs, Employees vs. Independent Contractors, Ownership of Work Product, Service Agreements, Business Signatures, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets.

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Registration and additional information will be available soon on the workshops below.

Friday and Saturday, April 5 & 6

Foundational Competencies with Older Adults

Presenter: Erin Emery-Tiburcio, Ph.D.
This two day series leads to an APA Certification
Program and Registration Information coming soon.

Friday, May 3rd

Spring Institute – Psychological Wellness and Self-Care
in Everyday Life: A Reality-Based Approach

Presenter: Presenter: Jeffrey E. Barnett, PsyD, ABPP

Working as a mental health professional can be challenging, demanding, and stressful. With some clients, it can be traumatizing to the clinician. Self-care, the promotion of wellness, and the prevention of burnout are essential for every mental health professional in order to maintain our competence and clinical effectiveness. The ethical obligation to do so is addressed, ways to assess our own individual self-care needs and effectiveness, and specific strategies for the effective practice of self-care are presented. Important issues such as personal and professional challenges, vulnerabilities, and blind spots are addressed. The limitations of self-monitoring and self-assessment are reviewed and recommendations for proactively and effectively addressing these challenges are presented, to include the effective use of colleagues and other resources. Practical strategies are presented in this interactive workshop and personal reflection and group activities are integrated into the workshop so that each participant can develop a personal wellness-promotion plan that they can implement moving forward. Challenges and common pitfalls are discussed, and alternatives presented. A realistic approach to ongoing self-care and the promotion of wellness is presented that each mental health clinician can integrate into their daily lives, for their own benefit, and for the benefit of their clients.

Location: Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, IL.

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Friday, June 14th

Risk Management Workshop, Sequence IX: Complex Clinical Conundrums: Ethics & Risk Management

Presenter: Amanda D. Zelechoski, PhD., JD
9am-4:30pm

For almost 25 years, The Trust has been providing continuing education workshops and individual consultations, with a focus on improving psychologists’ risk management skills and strategies. These workshops have evolved from basic concepts and strategies, to a more applied, integrated, and strategic approach to help you protect yourself fromadverse disciplinary and legal actions.

For this newest workshop, The Trust Risk Management Program reviewed data from 70,000 consultations provided to date in order to determine which issues and questions are most pressing for today’s psychologists. Topics will include boundaries and multiple relationships, challenging terminations, working with children in the midst of family
conflict, coping with disciplinary complaints, psychotherapy patient requests for legally-related documentation, and, time permitting, working with clients in other jurisdictions.

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