South Dakota Counseling Association
"Steps for Readiness" Fun Run Registration Form Download 2009 SDCA Spring Conference Registration Form Download 2009 SDCA Spring Conference Schedule
April 16-18, 2009 Sioux Falls Convention Center
Supervisors are charged with the responsibility for the development of the supervisee, the treatment of the supervisee's client, and the protection of the public from incompetent practitioners. Consequently, there are many ethical and legal standards that apply directly to supervision. The purpose of this workshop is to help supervisors in both school and mental health settings prepare to address ethical issues that arise in supervision. Participants will work through supervision cases to learn to identify ethical/legal concerns specific to supervision, learn how an effective supervisor would work through the case, learn how to respond to other ethical questions, and apply an understanding of evaluation methods that are consistent to legal and ethical concerns. Participation in this workshop will meet South Dakota licensure requirements. In addition, this workshop will meet a course requirement for the Approved Clinical Supervisor national credential provided through the Center for Credentialing and Education (http://www.cce-global.org/extras/cce-global/pdfs/acsapp.pdf).
12:00 - 4:00 PM, 4.0 Contact Hours. (meets SD Ethics Requirement for license holders) Members: $40 Student Members: $20 Nonmembers: $60 (includes 2010 SDACES membership)
Teenagers! It can often seem like aliens have taken over the body of a perfectly wonderful kid, but there is actually a biological reason behind what seems like completely irrational behavior. Dr. Sheryl Feinstein, author of the books "Secrets of the Teenage Brain: Research-based Strategies for Reaching and Teaching Today's Adolescents", "Parenting the Teenage Brain: Understanding a Work in Progress", & "Teaching the At-Risk Teenage Brain" will explain the biology of what makes teens act the way they do. She will also share practical research-based strategies and techniques intended to teach, support and guide teenage students. This workshop would be useful for anyone who works with or lives with teenagers (or teenagers in training). Join us for this timely and informative topic and leave with a glimpse inside the 'strange and mysterious' mind of the teenagers in your life.
Thursday, April 16 - 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, 4.0 Contact Hours. Members: $45 Student Members: $25 Nonmembers: $65
Motivatinal Interviewing is a client-centered and directive therapy style that enhances motivation to change. Motivational Interviewing has been shown to be effective with clients having co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse. This workshop will introduce participants to the Motivational Interviewing and discuss adaptations to be used with clients with co-occurring disorders. The workshop will include didactic presentation and experiential activities. Susan Littrell, LICSW, LADC, is a therapist with 40 years of experience working in outpatient psychiatric settings. For the last 10 years she has specialized in working with clients with co-occurring disorders. She was trained in Motivational Interviewing by William Miller, one of the founders of Motivational Interviewing. She is currently employed as a therapist and supervisor at the Hennepin County Mental Health Center in Minneapolis, MN.
Thursday, April 16 - 8:30 am to 4:00 pm, 6.0 Contact Hours. Members: $75 Student Members: $40 Nonmembers: $95
April 3-5, 2008, Rushmore Holiday Inn, Rapid City, SD
Click here for the 2008 Keynote Information
Click here for the 2008 Content Sessions
Exhibitors/Advertisers — Click here for ADVERTISER/EXHIBITOR INFORMATION
Interested in Registering? Click here for CONFERENCE REGISTRATION form
Pre-Conference
Presenter: Pamela Teaney-Thomas Thursday, April 3 – 8:30 to 4:00
Substance Abuse Prevention in schools and communities has been evolving for the past 25 years. It is time to revisit prevention strategies and programming we are offering in our workplace. This workshop will provide an introduction to the theories of prevention of substance abuse and high risk behaviors. Learn the steps and framework in prevention program planning. Communication strategies for effective leadership in prevention. Identify local and national resources.
Learn from local students who will discuss effective and ineffective prevention activities in schools. Information will be provided on counseling students who are exhibiting high risk behaviors and those who have returned from treatment type settings.
6.0 Contact Hours Members: $75 Student Members: $40 Nonmembers: $95
Presenter: Elizabeth Einstein Thursday, April 3 – 8:30 to 4:00
As America's family image has changed, Stepfamily Living has fast become the norm. Professionals who work with these complex families need to understand how the stepfamily system differs in structure, development, and process. And the more information families have, the better equipped they are to succeed.
This creative one-day workshop for professionals, and interested others, focuses on how to work with stepfamilies from a family systems developmental theoretical framework within four distinct teaching blocks. The day begins with introducing The Stepfamily Journey as a "trail map" for stepfamilies to understand their process and demonstrating the concept of "emotional baggage" in a unique way. A section on the adolescent in the stepfamily sensitizes participants to the challenges and emotions that children face as their family form changes. Examining bonds, boundaries and stumbling blocks to clinical challenges helps professionals come to understand better stepfamily issues. The importance of dealing with discipline with excellent parenting skills is addressed. People become part of a stepfamily through many transitions-death, separation, divorce, single- parent living and remarriage—so learning Virginia Satir's process Model of Change will help professionals guide these complicated families through these major life transitions.
Sponsored by: SDACES Presenters: Seth Olson, Chris Roseman, Jill Schoen, Michael Fellner, & Marla Muxen Thursday, April 3 – Noon to 4:30
Supervisors are charged with the responsibility for the development of the supervisee, the treatment of the supervisee's client, and the protection of the public from incompetent practitioners. Consequently, there are many ethical and legal standards that apply directly to supervision. The purpose of this workshop is to help supervisors in both school and mental health settings be prepared to address ethical issues that arise in supervision. To achieve this purpose, participants will work through ethical dilemmas on various topics and learn to identify ethical concerns specific to supervision, learn how an effective supervisor would work through the case, and learn how to respond to other ethical questions. Participants will receive a packet of condensed resources to take with them.
4.0 Contact Hours (meets SD Ethics Requirement for license holders) Members: $40 Student Members: $20 Nonmembers: $60 (includes 2009 SDACES membership)