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Continuing Education Classes

Professional Treatment Services prides itself in providing free Continuing Education classes to the Lawrence and Northeast Kansas community as part of its services. To enroll, please click on the enroll icon next to the presentation of your choice and complete the enrollment form. You will receive a confirmation or your request within twenty-four hours.

Classes are scheduled on Friday from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM. Sign-in is at 1:45 PM. Unless otherwise noted each class is 2 hours of CEU’s. Certificates of attendance will be provided.


7-15-2011 “Applying Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Adolescents”

Objectives:

1. Participants will learn the history and development of SFBT
2. Participants will be able to define basic tenets of SFBT
3. Participants will be able to describe the theoretical underpinning of SFBT
4. Participants will learn the empirical support for SFBT

Presenter: Johnny S. Kim, Ph.D. LICSW; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


8-19-2011 “The Serenity Model of Recovery”

Objectives:

1. Participants will gain new theoretical framework for understanding addictions.
2. Participants will learn how to utilize this theoretical model for assessment and recovery planning.

Presenter: Duane L. Olberding, LSCSW; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours.


9-16-2011 “Core Concepts of Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment”

Objectives:

1. Participants will understand the principle elements of the diagnostic process.
2. Participants will understand the importance of the therapeutic alliance and learn how to cultivate the alliance.
3. Participants will understand how the therapist's feelings towards and about the patient can be an important source of information about the patient.

Presenter: Ira Stamm, Ph.D., ABPP; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


11-18-2011“Multicultural Considerations in Addictions Counseling”

Objectives:

1. Participants will increase understanding of various multicultural perspectives on addiction
2. Participants will learn intervention strategies for various multicultural populations.
3. Participants will learn engagement strategies for multicultural populations in substance abuse treatment

Presenter: Heidi Whiteaker Duderstadt; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


1-20-2012 “12-Step Programming in Early Recovery”

Objectives:

1. How do I not hate myself?
2. What is a higher power?
3. Teaching patience and tolerance.

Presenter: Clay Kucza; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


2-17-2012 “Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation”

Objectives:

1. Participants will perform all the objectives for both adult and pediatric basic life support courses
2. List three causes for stroke
3. Demonstrate the following skills on a manikin:
a. Mouth-to-mask ventilation
b. One-rescuer adult and pediatric CPR
c. Two-rescuer adult and pediatric CPR
d. Relieving foreign body airway obstruction
e. Proper usage of barrier devices

Presenter: Barb Feldkamp, American Red Cross Instructor, EMTI; CEU’s provided: 3.0 hours


3-16-2012 “Writing Effective Behavioral Contracts”

Objectives:

1. Specify and define target behaviors
2. Select effective consequences
3. Design data collection strategies
4. Negotiate terms with stakeholders
5. Identify the elements of an effective behavioral contract

Presenter: Dr. Deborah Altus; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


4-20-2012 “How Psychological Testing Aids in Treatment Planning”

Objectives:

1. Participants will learn several basic types of assessments.
2. Participants will learn several situations when psychological assessments are especially beneficial for treatment planning.
3. Participants will learn how to apply common assessment information to treatment planning.

Presenter: Dr. Patrick Nicholas, Ph.D.; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


6-15-2012 “Trends in Substance Abuse”

Objectives:

1. To increase participant awareness of substance use trends.
2. To increase participant awareness of how to utilize CTC data to track those trends in adolescents.
3. To increase participant awareness about the most current research regarding adolescent brain development and the impact that substance use has on brain development.

Presenter: Dena Dean, MSW, BAS, CPP, CADC, KCGC; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


7-20-2012 “Anxiety: Effects and Maintenance”

Objectives:

1. To increase participants awareness on biological and psychological effects of anxiety.
2. Participants will gain awareness of different strategies to cope with anxiety without participation in substance abuse or compulsive behaviors.

Presenter: Rebecca Cornett; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


8-17-2012 "HIPAA and Part 2 in the Age of E-Health Records."

Objectives:

1. Participants will learn about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ("HIPAA"), including the promulgated Privacy and Security Rules.
2. Participants will learn about the 42 CFR Part 2 ("Part 2") and how it contrasts, if at all, with HIPAA.
3. Participants will learn about HIPAA and Part 2's impact on electronic health records.

Presenter: Jeff Heiman; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


9-21-2012 "Problem Gambling Specialists in Gaming Zone Communities"

Objectives:

1. Participants will receive an update on expansion of gambling in Kansas
2. Participants will learn the role of the Problem Gambling Specialists in Kansas
3. Participants will learn about specific community based strategies incorporated by the Problem Gambling Specialist in Dodge City, KS

Presenter: Jean Holthaus, M.Ed., LSCSW, KCGC, LCAC CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


10-19-2012 "Morita Therapy: Practical Applications for Addictions Treatment"

Objectives:

1. Participants will gain general knowledge of Eastern approaches to
well-being
2. Participants will able to define basic principles of Morita therapy
3. Participants will learn key methods of Morita therapy
4. Participants will learn how to apply key Morita methods to addictions
treatment
5. Participants will learn how Morita therapy defines treatment progress
and recovery

Presenter: Dr. Brian Ogawa; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


11-16-2012 “Raising Rock Bottom for the Addict/Alcoholic: Facilitating Professional Interventions”

Objectives:

1. Participants will learn about the advantages of using professional interventions to motivate the addict/alcoholic into treatment.
2. Participants will learn the basic components involved in facilitating an intervention.
3. Participants will learn about common pitfalls to avoid in facilitating a professional intervention.

Presenter: Kendall Heiman, LSCSW; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


1-18-2013 “Anti Social Personality Disorder- Part 1”J

Objectives:

1. The participant will increase awareness of the cultural diversity of anti-social beliefs, thinking patterns, and behavior.
2. The participant will identify how anti-social beliefs, thinking patterns, and behavior are integrated into consumerism (in particular, the adolescent target market).

Presenter: Clay Walters, NCAC II, CADC III, KCGC, CPP; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


2-15-2013 "Gambling and Anxiety Disorders: Assessment and Treatment Planning Techniques"

Objectives:

The participant will
1. Increase their knowledge on the etiology of anxiety disorders including neurochemistry, psychodynamic, and trauma causes.
2. Increase their diagnosing skills for anxiety disorders.
3. Increase their treatment planning ability for clients presenting with co-occurring disorders of gambling addiction and anxiety disorders.

Presenter: Duane L. Olberding, LSCSW; CEU’s provided: 2.0 hours


 

 
   

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