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• Annual Conference Saturday - 6 CEs Member Special Various Presenters

  • When
    August 29, 2020
  •  
    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    DoubleTree Hilton Skokie, 9599 Skokie Blvd, Skokie, IL 60077
  • Registered
    45 registrants

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  IMHCA Annual Conference - Saturday
  Saturday - August 29, 2020
  9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  6 CEs
  
  

  Accommodations:

  DoubleTree Skokie. Mention you are attending the Illinois Mental Health Counselors Annual Conference and receive a special room rate of $109.00 (Standard King or Double Room). Special room rates are available until March 5, 2020. Call 800-222-8733 to make reservations.

  2 Choices

  9:00 am - 12:00 pm
  Room A - Lower Level Versailles Ballroom
  
  Empowering the African American Client:  Demystifying Mental Health
  Angela D Jackson, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC
  Bio: Angela Jackson is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor experienced working with diverse youth, adults, couples, and families. A graduate of Virginia Tech, she has a Ph.D. in Counselor Education with a concentration in Race & Social Policy. She focuses on building rapport with clients from their cultural context and clarifying the basis for their presenting issues. As a Core Faculty member in the Townsend Institute Master’s Counseling Program, Dr. Jackson enjoy empowering students to recognize their strengths and utilize their God-given gifts purposefully. She has gained a unique cultural awareness of the family dynamics and cultural dispositions, particularly with the African American population.
  
  Workshop Description: Client Welfare, Informed Consent, and Avoiding Harm and Imposing Values are ethical standards to consider when empowering the African American client!!  Culturally responsive techniques such as cultural sensitivity, building rapport, and clarifying counseling expectations will be explored via visual media.  Tips for demystifying mental health will be highlighted.
  

  9:00 am-12:00 pm
  Room B
  12th Floor Monaco Ballroom

  Examining How Clinicians Integrate  Mindfulness Practices with  High-Risk Adolescents
  

  Lili Burciaga, EdD, LCPC
  Bio: Dr. Lili Burciaga is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience in the field in hospitals, community mental health, corrections, and integrative care.  Dr. Burciaga is also assistant professor and core faculty in the child and adolescent track of the clinical mental health counseling graduate program at Lewis University. She teaches in the Undergraduate Psychology Program as well.  Her areas of expertise and interest include mindfulness, trauma, family dynamics, and clinical supervision.
  
  Workshop Description: This workshop looks at a study that explored the lived experiences of clinicians who have integrated mindfulness practices into their clinical work with high-risk adolescents.  The study aimed to explore specific mindfulness integration strategies that are beneficial to high-risk adolescents, based on the experiences of the individuals who participated in the study.  The participants of the study discussed their challenges, successes, and their perception of effective mindfulness techniques with this population.  Three superordinate and 11 subordinate themes and four categories were identified.  The essence of the participant’s experiences provided knowledge and considerations for other clinicians interested in using mindfulness in therapy with high-risk adolescents.
  
   

  12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch: is on your own.
  

  
  

    2 Choices

  
  1:00 PM - 4:00 PM 

  Choice 1
  
  Room B
  12th Floor Monaco Ballroom
  
  
  Couples Counseling: The Essential Frameworks
  Sara Schwarzbaum, Ed.D, LCPC, LMFT;
  Bio: Sara Schwarzbaum, EdD, LCPC,  LMFT is the founder of Couples Counseling Associates in Chicago where she works with couples who want to improve their relationship. She provides couples counseling consultation, supervision and training for counselors, private practices and agencies. Dr. Schwarzbaum is Professor  Emerita at NEIU, where she was a faculty member in the Counselor Education Department and the Coordinator of its Master’s in Family Counseling Program.
  
  Workshop Description:

  Couples counseling is a complex and challenging activity even for the most experienced counselors. Counselors who wish to enhance their skills for working with couples have a variety of models to choose from. This workshop will present an overview the most commonly used frameworks for couples counseling, including EFT, Gottman, Imago, Solutions Focused, and psychodynamic models. The advantages and limitations of the major frameworks will also be addressed, along with treatment sequencing and practical interventions derived from the models.

  Choice 2
  

  Repeat of AM Session
  
  Room A - Lower Level Versailles Ballroom
  

  Empowering the African American Client:  Demystifying Mental Health
  Angela D Jackson, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC
  Bio: Angela Jackson is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor experienced working with diverse youth, adults, couples, and families. A graduate of Virginia Tech, she has a Ph.D. in Counselor Education with a concentration in Race & Social Policy. She focuses on building rapport with clients from their cultural context and clarifying the basis for their presenting issues. As a Core Faculty member in the Townsend Institute Master’s Counseling Program, Dr. Jackson enjoy empowering students to recognize their strengths and utilize their God-given gifts purposefully. She has gained a unique cultural awareness of the family dynamics and cultural dispositions, particularly with the African American population.
  
  Workshop Description: Client Welfare, Informed Consent, and Avoiding Harm and Imposing Values are ethical standards to consider when empowering the African American client!!  Culturally responsive techniques such as cultural sensitivity, building rapport, and clarifying counseling expectations will be explored via visual media.  Tips for demystifying mental health will be highlighted.
  

  
  

  
  

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