“Comprehensive Treatment for Eating Disorders”

Debbie Hawker is a Ph.D. psychologist from England, whose dissertation research at the University of Keele was entitled, “Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: An Investigation of Vulnerability Factors”. From September 1997 until May 2006, she was the principal psychological investigator in longitudinal studies on eating disorders at the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry. She has numerous publications in the area of cognitive behavior therapy and eating disorders. Her co-presenters, Dena Cabrera, Psy.D and Kari Anderson, M.S., L.P.C. are clinical staff members at Remuda Ranch’s programs for eating disorders in Wickenburg, Arizona.

Description: This intensive workshop offers a comprehensive overview of outpatient and inpatient treatment techniques for eating disorder patients. It is rich with illustrative case examples, demonstrations, and take-away tools for clinicians to use in their own practice. Dr. Hawker will describe evidence-based treatments for eating disorders in outpatient settings, using exercises to demonstrate components of the treatment and giving particular attention to the latest developments in cognitive behavioral therapy for eating disorders. Dr. Cabrera and Mrs. Anderson will then present the Remuda Model, a comprehensive inpatient bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach designed to address the severity and life-threatening nature of inpatients with eating disorders.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn definitions and prevalence of eating disorders.
• Understand commonly-used, evidence-based outpatient and inpatient techniques for treating eating disorders.
• Learn the intensive, bio-psycho-social-spiritual needs of patients with eating disorders.

“Respect for the Person in the Ethical Practice of Psychotherapy”

Randolph Sanders, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and former Executive Director of CAPS (1994- 2005). Dr. Sanders is currently in private practice in New Braunfels, Texas. He has conducted ethics workshops for CAPS and other organizations and institutions all over the country. Sanders has authored many journal articles and books, including Christian counseling ethics: A handbook for therapists, pastors and counselors and Speak up! Christian assertiveness.

Description: This workshop offers practical suggestions on a number of critical, ethical issues pertinent to the care of patients as persons. Informed consent, confidentiality with different patient groups (individuals, minors, collaterals, couples), and documentation in light of HIPAA will be considered. We will look at ethical, risk management and personal concerns to consider when treating high risk patient groups. The workshop will also consider ethical concerns related specifically to the practice of Christian therapy.

Learning Objectives:

• Current information about confidentiality with special regard to dealing with individuals, couples, minors and collaterals.
• Written and oral methods for insuring good informed consent.
• Issues to consider when determining whether to treat different kinds of high-risk patient populations.
• Ethical issues to consider when providing explicit Christian therapy.

“When Your Clients Can’t Get Enough of What they Really Don’t Want: 21st Century Technology for the Integrative Treatment of Sexual Addiction”

Ralph Earle, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist practicing family therapy, individual, marital & sexual therapy at Psychological Counseling Services, Ltd. in Scottsdale, Arizona. He holds the Masters of Divinity Degree from Harvard. He was Past-President of the American Association For Marriage and Family Therapy (1989-90). In addition to being a popular speaker, he has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles and books, including Lonely All the Time and Recognizing, Understanding and Overcoming Sex Addiction. Marcus Earle, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist, currently working as a therapist at Psychological Counseling Services. Ken Wells, MA, M.Div. is also a therapist at Psychological Counseling Services. Ken is licensed as a professional counselor and substance abuse counselor, as well as a certified sexual addictions therapist.

Description: This workshop introduces the latest treatment processes that have proven effective in the treatment of sexual addiction. The design of the workshop is to identify the latest technology for intervention and incorporate each into an integrative treatment program. Treatment suggestions will highlight a multi-modal approach arranged to accelerate therapeutic healing.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn methods for clearly identifying and assessing sexual addiction.
• Ability to describe sexual addiction and treat it from a systems perspective.
• Their own treatment philosophy about sexual addiction.
• At least one intervention used in treating sexual addiction.

“Furnishing the Soul”

Todd Hall, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is also the Director of the Institute for Research on Psychology and Spirituality at Rosemead. Dr. Hall serves as editor for the Journal of Psychology and Theology. He has authored and co-authored many journal articles and two books, Spiritual Psychology: A Transformative Model for Psychology and Christianity and Spiritual Formation, Counseling, and Psychotherapy.

Description: This workshop will present the Furnishing the Soul (FS) model comprised of five big ideas about a relational approach to spirituality, and an overview of the Furnishing the Soul Inventory (FSI)--a web-based assessment measure based on the FS model.

Learning Objectives:

• Come away with an understanding of the five big ideas about relational spirituality and how they are interrelated.
• Become familiar with potential uses of the Furnishing the Soul Pack (FSI individual feedback report) and the executive summary report for Christian schools and colleges, and churches. This will include applications for small groups, leadership development, institutional/church-wide assessment, spiritual formation classes/programs, mentoring, spiritual direction, and pastoral counseling.
• Be provided a login/link to take the FSI and receive a Furnishing the Soul Pack. Participants will be oriented to the Furnishing the Soul Pack, and will be provided the opportunity to use the feedback to develop a personal Furnishing the Soul plan.

“Leading From Your Strengths”

John Trent, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, and the President and founder of StrongFamilies, Inc. and The Center for Strong Families in Scotttsdale, Arizona.

He is a best-selling author and a highly requested speaker; some of his books are The Blessing, The Language of Love, The Gift of Honor, Love is a Decision, and LifeMapping. In addition to speaking at ministry events, Dr. Trent regularly addresses corporate America and is a frequent guest on radio and television.

Description: Participants in this session will learn a model for understanding strengths, and valuing differences, reflected in The Leading From Your Strength Online Assessment. This tool, and the construct behind it, illustrate four predictable areas of conflict prevalent in homes and workplace settings, as well as strategies, tools and techniques for increasing acceptance, trust and valuing of differences.

Learning Objectives:

• This session begins with and explanation of the Leading From Your Strengths online assessment, including it’s creation, differentiation between other selfmeasurement tools, validity information and categories for measurement
• Participants will learn how this online assessment highlights four predictable areas of conflict that every family, and workplace team, consistently face.
• Strategies are shared for moving these four common areas from conflict to cooperation.
• Implications are drawn from the “core” and “adapted” sections of the LFYS online report, helping illustrate what people tend to believe they need to do to be successful in the environment they’re in.
• The “Insights Wheel” is illustrated as a tool for looking at group (family or workplace) strengths, with application suggestions for increasing closeness, even between classic “opposites.”

“Spiritually-Oriented Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: A Christian Approach”

Rev. Dr. Siang Yang Tan, originally from Singapore, was Director of the PsyD (Doctor of Psychology) program in Clinical Psychology (1989-1997) and is now Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is a licensed psychologist with a PhD in Clinical Psychology from McGill University and a Fellow of APA. He has published articles on lay counseling and lay counselor training, intrapersonal integration and spirituality, religious psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy, epilepsy, pain, and cross-cultural counseling with Asians and Hispanics, as well as twelve books. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity. Dr. Tan currently serves as Senior Pastor of First Evangelical Church Glendale in Glendale, California.

Description: A Christian approach to spirituallyoriented cognitive-behavioral therapy will be described including the appropriate and ethical use of spiritual or religious resources such as prayer, inner healing prayer, and the Bible, especially with religiously committed clients. Empirical data from 10 outcome studies will also be reviewed.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about a Christian approach to spirituallyoriented cognitive-behavioral therapy that includes the appropriate and ethical use of spiritual resources such as prayer, inner healing prayer, and the Bible.
• Be aware of the ethical guidelines for the appropriate use of spiritually-oriented cognitive-behavioral therapy.
• Learn about the empirical data available from 10 outcome studies on the efficacy of spiritually-oriented cognitive-behavioral therapy.

“Doctor, I had a dream last night: Tools for interpreting and utilizing dreams in clinical practice”

Marie Hoffman, Ph.D. and Lowell Hoffman, Ph.D. are both licensed clinical psychologists and candidates in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at New York University. They are co-directors of Brookhaven Center for Counseling and Development in Allentown, PA and New York, NY.

Description: This workshop will provide practical tools for clinical usage of dream material. Following an overview of basic concepts of dream interpretation, the presenters will proceed to differentiate how various orientations assess dream material. Practical steps for interpreting and utilizing dream imagery will be illustrated through ample clinical examples.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn current perspectives on the experience of dreaming.
• Be able to differentiate how various orientations approach and interpret dream imagery.
• Be able to utilize a particular orientation’s approach to give narrative meaning to dream action.
• Learn to utilize dream interpretation clinically through practical guidelines on correct timing, emphasis, integration of dream material into the patient’s general session material.