Pre-Conference Institutes

• Supervision in Changing Times - Tuesday, September 28
• Clinical Supervisions Skills - Wednesday, September 29
• From the Baby's Point of View: Ensuring the Development of
  Mentally Healthy Children - Wednesday, September 29
  
  Tuesday, September 28 - 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
  Supervision in Changing Times
  xxxxxC.J. Johnson, LMHP, LCSW, LMFT - Region V Systems
  xxxxxAnita Kinsley, MA - MH Assoc of Southeastern Pennsylvania
  
  Although supervisors have a pivotal impact on the effective provision of services, they receive surprisingly little training in the skills necessary to carry out their function. Many training programs often concentrate on the managerial aspects of the job, such as budgeting, time management, report writing or setting objectives, but give little attention to the interpersonal skills needed for implementing supervisory functions and promoting change. Many times this lack of interpersonal skills training is a result of assuming that professionals who can do their jobs well as human services workers should be able to make the transition to supervisory positions on their own. Although there is some truth to the idea that direct practice experience with clients, patients and others can be useful, it is a fallacy to assume this parallel between practice and supervision.
  
  This session will focus on how to build skills that will promote growing leaders, individual and organizational change, and how to bridge generational gaps. Both new supervisors and experienced supervisors will benefit from this training by learning how to move the staff they supervise forward, how to help promote individual and organization change and how to address challenges. Additionally, experienced supervisors can utilize new and refreshed techniques to make adjustments to changing demands in the field of supervision.
  
  The workshop will be co-presented by Anita Kinsley, MA and C.J. Johnson, MSW, LCSW, LFMT. Anita Kinsley is the Bucks County Division Director at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and was previously an instructor for the Division of Behavioral Healthcare at Drexel University College of Medicine. Anita, once a case manager supervisor, is now a versatile educator who has developed well-researched curricula in many areas including supervision. C.J. Johnson has over 30 years in human services experience and is currently the Regional Administrator of Region V Systems which provides administrative and contractual oversight management for behavioral health services in southeast Nebraska. C.J., a highly praised speaker, has a well-established reputation of presenting topics such as supervision, time management and organizational change. He also provides consultation to other professionals and organizations.
  
  Learning Objectives for the Tuesday PCI (full day):
  • Identify the causes of compassion fatigue and how to address them.
  • Develop skills as a good employee into helping those you supervise self-manage.
  • Develop an understanding of motivators and potential limitations of different staff.
  • Identify individual and organizational change processes and how to support employees.
  • Develop practical techniques/tools to promote growing leaders and healthy change.
  • Examine strengths-based coaching techniques and corrective action planning.
  
  Tentative Agenda for the Tuesday PCI
  9:30-10:30 - Suddenly a supervisor: How do your skills help people become self-managed
  10:30-10:45 - Break
  10:45-12:15 - Matures, Boomers, Xers and Millenials- Understanding motivations
  xxxxxx xxx x and potential limitations of staff
  12:15-1:15 - Lunch
  1:15-2:15 - Individual and organizational change: How to make things go smoothly
  xxxxxxxxx (include how people experience change)
  2:15-2:30 - Break
  3:30-4:30 - Practical techniques/tools supervisors can use that promote growing
  xxxxxxxxx leaders and healthy change.
  4:30-5:00 - Coaching in changing times

 

Wednesday, September 29 - 8:30 to 11:30 am
Clinical Supervision Skills
xxxxxC.J. Johnson, LMHP, LCSW, LMFT - Region V Systems
xxxxxAnita Kinsley, MA - MH Assoc of Southeastern Pennsylvania

Supervision of mental health practitioners is a critical component of training to become a licensed mental health professional. This supervision is intended to help the mental health practitioner learn from his or her experiences and progress in expertise, as well as ensure good service to clients. Often times, professionals are put in the position of supervising a practitioner without any training on effective supervision. Learn tools and techniques to: effectively manage the supervision of mental health practitioners, help those you supervise grow from experiences, deal with ethical concerns and document clinical supervision.

The workshop will be co-presented by Anita Kinsley, MA and C.J. Johnson, LMHP, MSW, LCSW, LFMT. The two presenters have over 50 year of combined experience in the human services field both as direct line employees, supervisors and administrators. Both are versatile educators who have developed well-researched curricula.

Learning Objectives for the Wednesday PCI (half day):
• Review strength-based supervision techniques to improve supervision of Licensed
.xMental Health Practitioners.
• Describe ethical issues in supervision and how to deal with these issues.
• Identify documentation techniques for ensuring organizational and state standards
x.are being met for supervision of Licensed Mental Health Practitioners.

Tentative Agenda for the Wednesday PCI:
8:30-9:30 - Strength-based supervision
9:30-9:45 - Break
9:45-10:45 - Ethical issues in supervision
10:45-11:30 - Tools to ensure organizational and state standards are being met

 

Wednesday, September 29 - 8:30 to 11:30 am
From the Baby's Point of View: Ensuring the
Development of Mentally Healthy Children
xxxxx Terrie Rose, PhD - Baby's Space

Mentally healthy children refers to the developing abilities of young children to build relationships, manage their emotions, and learn. Early childhood mental health expert Terrie Rose debunks the fears and myths that keep young children from receiving adequate diagnosis and effective treatment. By encouraging participants to discard conventional thinking and out-moded prejudice, Dr. Rose will demonstrate how we can curb illness and develop mental healthy children and adults.

Always looking at the everyday moments of early childhood development from the baby’s point-of-view; participants in this session will gain knowledge of evidence-based, common-sense approaches that respond to each stage of a baby’s unique development. In addition, participants will gain an understanding of the toxic effects of childhood traumas and maltreatment and the lasting consequences of unrecognized and untreated mental illness. Gaining a fuller understanding the symptom expression by young children and appropriate diagnostic and intervention procedures, participants will enhance their practice across the lifespan.

The presenter will use case studies, video and research studies to illustrate the ways in which early childhood mental health is expressed and examine the ways in which providers can support health development and recognize and address mental health issues when they emerge.

Dr. Terrie Rose is a child psychologist, long-time leader in the field of early childhood development, a national trainer, and mother of three in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As the Founder and President of Baby’s Space in the Little Earth Learning Center in Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood, she’s now going national with her integrated, “one-stop” early childhood development model. Baby’s Space offers low-income children and their families sustainable, high-quality, culturally-relevant, neighborhood-based child development services and K-3 education. Dr. Rose became an Ashoka Fellow in 2008, joining an international group of social entrepreneurs who create system-changing solutions to the world’s most urgent social problems. She is also a ZERO TO THREE Leadership Fellow, and the recipient of the Minnesota Department of Health’s 2003 Betty Hubbard Award.

Learning Objectives:
• Develop understanding of early childhood mental health as the child’s abilities as related to
.xrelationship engagement, emotional regulation, and learning through exploration and play.
• Identify factors such as maltreatment, poverty, and trauma that may the expression of
. mental illness symptoms.
• Become acquainted with successful prevention, assessment, diagnostic and intervention
.. techniques that encourage mentally healthy children.