UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
ALABAMA
Chi Sigma Iota
Upsilon Nu
Alpha Chapter
Spring Workshop
March 13, 2010
8:30 - 3:45
UNA Campus
Guillot Center
Banquet Halls A & B
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Morning Sessions
8:30 -
9:00
Registration and Refreshments
9:00 -
10:15
Treatment
Options for Troubled Teens
Susan Nix,
M.A., ALC
Collaboration between the Juvenile Justice System and Mental
Health Agencies can provide appropriate and effective
services for juveniles. This session will discuss local
treatment options varying from a multi-service family
approach to out of the home placement.
10:30 -
11:45
Applying
Magic into Counseling Sessions
Marlin
Johns, M.A. Ed., NBCT
This
session will demonstrate how to productively apply magic
into individual, small group, or even large group counseling
sessions. This session will use magic as a counseling tool
to build rapport, teach life skills, social skills,
therapeutic use, and fun attention grabbers. Participants
will be given resources for buying and making various
tricks.
Afternoon
Sessions
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch (Included if you register by March 3rd)
1:00- 2:15
Power and Control: Tactics of Batterers
Gail Fowler, M.S.
Participants will learn about the intricate dynamics of
domestic violence and the motivation of perpetrators of
domestic abuse. This session will discuss interventions
used within the Safeplace PEACE program.
2:30– 3:45
Multidisciplinary Management, Supervision and Outpatient
Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders
Del McElroy, M.A., LPC-S, JSOCC, Gail Swafford, M.S.W., LCSW-PIP,
JSOCC, & Blakely Hopper, B.S.
The objective of this presentation is for participants to
learn the elements of an intensive community based program;
the use of risk assessments; and the use of a
multi-disciplinary team model in combining clinical
treatment, legal monitoring, and active supervision of
adjudicated juvenile sexual offenders.
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Speakers
Susan Nix, M.A., ALC, is an Outpatient Therapist and
Juvenile Court Liaison for Lauderdale, Colbert, and Franklin
Counties through Riverbend Center for Mental Health.
Marlin Johns, M.A. Ed., NBCT, has been actively
involved with children and adolescents for 25 years as a
coach, educator, youth minister, and counselor. He currently
is the counselor at Weeden Elementary School in Florence,
Alabama.
Gail Fowler, M.S., is a Victims Services Manager and
has worked at Safeplace for the past 7 years. Currently,
she is over the Court Advocacy Program for Safeplace,
supervisor of the
PEACE Program, which is Safeplace’s State Certified
Batterers Prevention Program.
Del McElroy, M.A., LPC-S, JSOCC, Gail Swafford, M.S.W.,
LCSW-PIP, JSOCC, & Blakely Hopper, B.S. are employed at
Brooks’ Place—The Children’s Advocacy Center of Cullman,
Al. Del is the clinical coordinator for Brooks’ Place, and
Gail is the fulltime counselor. Blakely serves as the
juvenile liaison, case manager, and coordinator of the
multi-disciplinary policy and direct service teams.
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Workshop Fees:
Non-Members $45.00
CSI
Members $35.00
Students
$20.00
Please
Check One:
o
5 CEUs Counselor (NBCC#4321)
o
5 Contact Hours Social Work Licensing
available from UNA’s Social Work Dept.
PRE-REGISTRATION FORM
Name:
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Address:
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City:
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Zip Code:
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Email:
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Pre-Registration Form and Fee due by March 3, 2010 (to
guarantee lunch)!
Mail
Pre-Registration Form & Appropriate Fee to:
Chi Sigma
Iota
UNA Box
5327
Florence,
AL 35632-0001
For more
information contact: Dr. Quinn Pearson at
qmpearson@una.edu.
Dr. Quinn Pearson, Professor
Department of Counselor Education
University of North Alabama
UNA Box 5154
Florence, AL 35632
(256)765-4643
