Clinical Evening Meetings 2008 - 2009
October 21: Social Work Within Diverse Agency Settings
Room 305, UW School of Social Work, 4101 15th Avenue NE Seattle, WA
Lydia Herbert, LICSW, Downtown Emergency Service Center; Cornell Cebrian, LICSW, Harborview Mental Health Services; Keith Meyers, LICSW, Vice President, Clinical and Training Services, Family Services.
This panel of highly experienced and distinguished Clinical Social Workers will cover a range of topics about providing direct service in today’s mental health agency environment.
November 18: Neurobiology of Trauma and Abuse
Room 305 UW School of Social Work, 4101 15th Avenue NE Seattle, WA
Evan Kanter, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, UW School of Medicine; Staff Psychiatrist, Seattle VA Medical Center, President-elect, National Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Member, Asylum Network of Physicians for Human Rights
Dr. Kanter’s neurobiologic and developmental presentation on the effects of abuse and trauma integrates physiology, endocrinology and behavioral psychology. One of our region’s prominent neuroscientists, he offers a fascinating, multi-level understanding of PTSD, enriched by case presentation and graphic displays.
January 20th: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy with Adolescents
Downtown YMCA, 909 4th Avenue Room #120, Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 382-5010
Jennifer Gross, MA, LMHC Jennifer Gross, MA, LMHC has been working in Child Mental Health for over 20 years. She is currently at Children’s Hospital, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Outpatient, co-administering the Adolescent Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Program, and in private practice
Jennifer will focus on how DBT teaches positive coping skills, effective behavioral principles, and some specialized parenting tools in a warm, caring atmosphere that treats both teen and family.
February 24: Self Care for Private Practice Clinicians: Nurturing Ourselves
Downtown YMCA, 909 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104 . (206) 382-5010
Carolyn Sharp, LICSW is in private practice seeing children, adolescents, adults and families. She worked at the YMCA of Seattle as a Child & Family Therapist in the Treatment Foster Care program, and then as the Clinical Director.
Carolyn will review the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and problematic counter-transference, and techniques for healing using case examples She will offer brief exercises with potential for healing.
March 24: Mindfulness: Within the clinical hour and beyond – Varied clinical perspectives
Room 305, UW School of Social Work, 4101 15th Avenue NE Seattle, WA
Cristina Mullen LICSW, Jane Tillman LMHC, and Maureen Sawyer LICSW
These three clinicians will discuss the applications of mindfulness in psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults from a psychodynamic, family systems and cognitive behavioral perspective. Teaching will be done through case vignettes, modeling and experiential exercises that will allow participants to leave with practical ideas they can immediately put to use.
Cristina Mullen, LICSW is in private practice in Seattle and works half time at Harborview in a Specialized Clinic providing DBT. She has a particular interest in Mindfulness Based Therapies and Evidenced Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Her practice is exclusively with adults. Jane Farley Tillman, LMHC is in private practice on Queen Anne. Her practice includes families, children, adolescents and adults. She incorporates Art and Play therapy, mindfulness, CBT, DBT and many other modalities in her work. Maureen Sawyer, LICSW are both in full-time private practice in Seattle, Madison Valley and works with individuals and families and considers her specialty to be with couples.
April 22: Negative Therapeutic Reaction: Why we sometimes bite the hand that feeds us
Bellefield Office Park, Conference Center Building, 1150 114th Avenue SE, Bellevue WA
Freud coined "negative therapeutic reaction"to describe the allergic reaction in some patients to feeling understood by the therapist. Caron will explore this overlooked phenomenon and suggest new ways for understanding this difficult but ubiquitous response.
Caron Harrang, LICSW, is in private practice in downtown Seattle working with adults, couples, and mother-infant dyads. She is a senior candidate with the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and President-Elect of the Washington Association for Infant Mental Health.