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2011 AMCAP Convention

Return of Virtue to Psychological Care

September 29-30, 2011

Joseph Smith Memorial Building, 15 East South Temple - 9th Floor, SLC, Utah

Convention Co-Chairs:  Amy Curtis, LCSW, and Michael Gardner, PhD

Tentative Convention Schedule

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THURSDAY, September 29, 2011

8:00-9:00 am

Registration/Check-In

9:00-9:15 am

Welcome

9:15-10:15 am

Plenary Address (1.0 CE Hour)

  • In Defense of the Conjugal Family: The Natural Law perspective and an LDS response, Richard N. Williams, PhD

10:15-10:30 am

Break

10:30-12:00 pm

Workshops (1.5 CE Hours)

  • Clinical and Spiritual Solutions to Overcoming the Effects of Prolonged Pornography Use, Anne Brown, AMFT
  • Same-Sex Attraction: Helping LDS individuals to nurture healthy self-identities and family attachments through narrative therapy, Ty Mansfield, M.MFT, & Wendy Ulrich, PhD
  • Positive Psychology, Mindfulness, and the Brain, Russell Seigenberg, PhD

12:00-1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15-2:45 pm

Workshops (1.5 CE Hours)

  • Tools to Assist Clients with Intermittent Trauma Issues: Life happens while on the road to recovery, Barbara Gearig, MSW
  • Dealing with Religiously-Based Transferences and Countertransferences in Psychotherapy, Stephen B. Morris, PhD
  • Finding a Balance: Helping clients who experience same-sex attraction but also desire to maintain their religious beliefs and values, Jeffrey W. Robinson, PhD

2:45-3:00 pm

Break

3:00-4:00 pm

Workshops (1 CE Hour)

  • Treating Trauma Survivors through Emotionally Focused Therapy: How the inclusion of virtues increases attachment and enhances the EFT model, Michael Adams, PhD
  • Healing Power: A grief process intervention strategy founded on religious/spiritual principles, Tera B. Duncan, PhD
  • Utilizing Spirituality When Treating Pornography/Sexual Addiction, Michael Gardner, PhD

4:00-4:15 pm

Break

4:15-5:15 pm

Plenary Address (1 CE Hour)

  • Personal Callings: Bridging research and practice for LDS counselors, Greg Loebel, first year counseling psychology doctoral student, Colorado State University

5:15 pm

Closing Comments

 

FRIDAY, September 30, 2011

 

7:00-8:15 am

Graduate Student Session- Topic and Location TBA

8:00-9:00 am

Registration/Check-In

9:00-9:15 am

Welcome

9:15-10:15 am

Keynote Address (1 CE Hour)

  • Religion in the Public Square, President Michael K. Young, J.D.

10:15-10:30 am

Break

10:30-12:00 pm

Workshops (1.5 CE Hours)

  • ACT in a Nutshell: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Made Simple, Kraig L. Boyd, LPC, NCC, & Norma Boyd, MS in Psychology
  • Being Virtuous to the Self: How self-conscious emotions impact one being an adaptive versus a maladaptive perfectionist, Lisa M. Leavitt, PhD, Andrea Knestel, PhD, & Michael Adams, PhD
  • Creating a Therapeutic Relationship and Position that Enables Clients to Lower their Resistance, Eldon Solomon, MS, LMHC

12:00-12:30 pm

Poster Session

12:30-1:45 pm

Lunch

1:45-2:45 pm

Workshops (1.0 CE Hour)

  • Ethical and Legal Concerns for Therapists in the Context of Clergy-Collaborative Care: Is what I share really confidential?, Justin Zamora & Mark H. Butler, LMFT, PhD
  • The Sexual Addiction Cycle, Jeffrey J. Ford, LMFT
  • Baby Boomer's Resilience through Life's Second Half, Keith J. Karren, PhD, N. Lee Smith, MD, & Glenn Richardson, PhD

2:45- 3:00 pm

Break

3:00-4:00 pm

Workshops (1 CE Hour)

  • Addiction Recovery and the Return to Virtue: 12-Step programs as pathways to change, Ben Erwin, PhD, David Wood, PhD, Mandi Winterton, BA, Janice Nielsen, BA, & Kregg Rogers, BSW
  • A Map for Creating Stress Resilience: Utilizing a client's spiritual resources to cope with stressful events in life, N. Lee Smith, MD
  • Love You, Hate the Porn: Healing a relationship damaged by virtual infidelity, Geoff Steurer, MS, LMFT, & Mark Chamberlain, PhD

4:00-4:15 pm

Break

4:15-5:15 pm

Plenary Address (1.0 CE Hour)

  • Ethics and Risk Management: Issues to consider when supervising students and professional staff, Kevin Theriot, PhD

5:15 pm

Closing Comments

 

 

 

 
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