Upcoming Medical Conferences in Anaheim

EMDR 3-Day Intensive Training: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: Including Neuroscience, Diagnosis, and Effective Practices for Successful Trauma Treatment is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Sep 10 - 12, 2018 at Anaheim Majestic Garden Hotel, Anaheim, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is intended for masters- and doctoral-level clinicians experienced in working with trauma. In this course, you will learn and practice alternating bilateral stimulation into two distinct types of psychotherapy sessions; development and installation of internal resources; and reprocessing of traumatic material. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 19.0 Credits. Course Description: Join trauma specialist, author and national trainer, Linda Curran, BCPC, LPC, CAC-D, CCDP, for this intensive 3-day EMDR training that will provide you the knowledge and skills needed to use EMDR safely and effectively with your trauma clients. Through lecture, live and videotaped demonstrations, and experiential exercises, this training will provide participants with an in-depth knowledge of trauma theory, principles, diagnosis, and treatment. Beginning with an overview of the physiological nature of trauma, through current research on neuroscience, Linda will guide you through the traumatic stress disorders – those included in and excluded from the DSM-5 newly-created classification, Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders: • Acute Trauma Disorder • Simple PTSD • Complex PTSD • PTSD Dissociative Subtype • PTSD Preschool Subtype • Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) For all but single-incident trauma, the tri-phasic model is today’s state-of-the-art treatment approach. You will learn each phase of the treatment including its therapeutic goals and the clinical tools to reach those goals. Most importantly, you will: • Learn EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Skills • Practice using these new tools in a safe and supervised environment • Learn this dynamic, comprehensive training equipped to improve outcomes with traumatized clients Course Objectives: • Evaluate the biological nature of trauma and how trauma is stored in the body and limbic system, creating physical and psychological symptoms to better understand your clients. • Differentiate between sympathetic (activated) freeze response and the parasympathetic (deactivated) dorsal vagal immobilization response your clients experience. • Distinguish between the following types of traumatic stress: normal, prolonged, complex and developmental and articulate treatment considerations for each. • Ascertain the clinical implications of traumatic stress symptomology, including hyperarousal, affect dysregulation, dissociation, body memories, and flashbacks. • Employ effective somatic techniques to reduce/eliminate client’s body memories, “flashbacks” and dissociation. • Summarize the landmark study: Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and understand the ten adverse childhood experiences studied as they related to clinical diagnosis and assessment. • Evaluate the clinical presentation of the following attachment styles as it relates to your clinical assessment: secure vs insecure; insecure; organized vs insecure disorganized. • Designate two different treatment strategies, once attachment style has been ascertained, based on your client’s attachment style. • Demonstrate strategies to help clients build skills to be prepared to process trauma via EMDR, including safety within the therapeutic alliance and skills for self-regulation. • Determine when/if your client is prepared to safely process trauma memories via EMDR. • Create and employ client-driven imagery for safety and containment during trauma processing. • Utilize clinical techniques to help with grounding and centering traumatized clients in-session. • Prepare clients with various trauma tools; mindfulness, guided imagery and meridian-based techniques to decrease client’s arousal levels and modulate affect. • Analyze and critique the original eight phases of EMDR’s standard protocol (Shapiro) as it relates to clinical treatment. • Determine Parnell’s four essential elements of each EMDR session and how it relates to client treatment. • Practice under supervision Parnell’s Modified EMDR protocol to prepare for work with your clients in-session. • Practice under supervision the skill for resourcing a client with imaginal resources prior to processing traumatic material. • Practice under supervision the trauma processing modality and EMDR tools for processing traumatic memories with your clients. • Utilize and practice two “cues of safety” with your clients based on Steve Porges’ Polyvagal Theory.

Resident Assessment Instrument Minimum Dataset (RAI-MDS) 101 - Clinical is organized by California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF) and will be held on Sep 12, 2018 at Hyatt Place at Anaheim Resort/Convention Center, Anaheim, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is assisting nurses, administrators, therapists, and social workers. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7 CE hours (NHAP 7; BRN - 7). Topics Include: • Managing OBRA Assessment schedule • ARD Selection • Vital Link Between the MDS and Care Planning: Care Area Assessments (CAAs) • Resident Care Planning • Baseline Care Plans • MDS Correction Process • Anatomy of a Quality Measure Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Resident Assessment Instrument Minimum Dataset (RAI-MDS) 201 - Medicare is organized by California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF) and will be held on Sep 13, 2018 at Hyatt Place at Anaheim Resort/Convention Center, Anaheim, California, United States of America. Who Should Attend: This advanced course is intended for MDS Coordinators and IDT members who participate in the RAI process but seek advanced knowledge in how the MDS impacts RUGs and other forms of reimbursement, Quality Measures, and Five-Star program, and overall care of the resident. The participant must have one year of experience as a facility-based MDS Nurse, Administrator, or Director of Nursing, or have completed QCHF's RAI/MDS 101 program. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 7 CE hours (NHAP 7; BRN - 7) Course Description : This class focuses on Medicare Prospective Payment System and how the MDS coding directly impacts reimbursement and the Quality Reporting Program. Topics Include: • Medicare Program Overview • PPS Medicare A Program Criteria • Managing the PPS MDS Schedule • Combining OBRA and PPS Schedules • Nuts & Bolts of the RUG Classifications • Quality Reporting Program Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

19th Annual Conference for the California Academy of Audiologists is organized by California Academy of Audiology (CAA) and will be held from Sep 14 - 15, 2018 at Hilton Anaheim, Anaheim, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

SDBP and NAPNAP Symposium: Developmental Behavioral Diagnosis is organized by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) and will be held on Sep 14, 2018 at Anaheim Marriott, Anaheim, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 8.0 Contact Hours. Course Description : This full day intensive workshop at the SDBP National Conference, is a jointly sponsored education event by NAPNAP and SDBP. It is ideal for pediatric primary care nurse practitioners, those preparing to make the transition into developmental behavioral pediatrics specialty care and those working in developmental behavioral pediatrics. Spend your day learning from two teams of three faculty members including, a nurse practitioner, developmental behavioral pediatrician and psychologist. The teams will walk the participants through two engaging case studies, each addressing a unique diagnosis, both designed to review the diagnostic presentation and appropriate assessment tools, formulation of diagnosis with interpretation of developmental and behavioral assessment measures, treatment options including psychopharmacology, family support and ongoing monitoring of a child with multiple common developmental and behavioral concerns. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP) Annual Meeting is organized by Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP) and will be held during Sep 14 - 17, 2018 at Anaheim Marriott, Anaheim, California, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

AAPC Regional Conference is organized by American Association of Professional Coders (AAPC) and will be held during Sep 17 - 19, 2018 at Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 CEUs. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Post-Traumatic Growth for Loss, Grief and Related Trauma: Guide Your Clients through the Losses in Life and Help Them Reinvest Themselves in a Life Worth Living is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Sep 19, 2018 at Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Other Mental Health Professionals, Nurses, Chaplains/Clergy. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours. Course Description: Your clients are suffering, victims of the life-shattering effects of loss and trauma. Many have lost loved ones to disease while others lives’ have been devastated by the trauma of abuse and suicide. Still more face the agony of abstract losses like shattered dreams, unmet expectations, and the losses of love, trust, faith, and hope. Stories of grief and loss aren’t happy ones. They are not easy to tell – so your clients don’t. They bottle them up, push them down, and close-up shop. And their pain sits. Sometimes for decades. But you know how your clients respond to traumatic events determines what happens to their hearts – that part of the journey of recovering from loss is finding meaning and purpose. As clinicians, we long to connect our clients with the greater appreciation for life, improved relationships, and personal development that post-traumatic growth provides for those who find it. Rita Schulte is a licensed professional counselor, radio host, author, and suicide loss survivor. Rita lost her beloved husband to suicide in 2013 and approaches post-traumatic growth from the unique position of a counselor with lived experience. Through her own journey of loss and grief she has come to understand the targeted treatments and specific supportive measures needed to cope and transition to a life after loss as only someone who’s travelled the road to post-traumatic growth can. Transform the lives of your clients with: • Effective methods to calm the overactive brain and improve affect regulation. • The “Shattered Vase” and other imaginative exercises that open clients to new possibilities. • Practical tools to manage traumatic memories and address the toxic emotions of anger, guilt and shame. • Creative expressive and somatic interventions using art, writing, and remembered resources to facilitate post-traumatic growth Join Rita for this candid one-day seminar. She’ll show you how to honor your clients pain while gently planting the seeds of post-traumatic growth. Course Objectives are : • Specify how a case conceptualization based on the strengths of the client can tap into their potential for resiliency and improve clinical outcomes. • Analyze the neurobiology of the traumatized brain and effectively utilize clinical tools based in mindfulness and grounding to calm the biological stress response. • Articulate the relationship of shame to trauma and loss and communicate how cognitive restructuring can be used in-session to manage the emotions of clients and open them to new possibilities. • Employ powerful interventions informed by CBT, expressive therapies, and somatic psychotherapy to treat the devastating effects of loss and grief by reframing its associated meaning. • Characterize the impact on clients, as well as the relevance to clinical practice, of connecting individuals and families affected by loss with social support and grief groups. • Incorporate and individualize therapeutic interventions based in art and writing into treatment plans for loss, grief, and related trauma.

Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Medicine for Primary Care is organized by Medical Education Resources (MER) and will be held from Sep 21 - 23, 2018 at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, Anaheim, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Conference Objectives are : Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to: • Differentiate between inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint pain and the differential diagnosis of each category • Describe the technique of joint aspiration, joint injection, and synovial fluid analysis • Perform a musculoskeletal examination • Evaluate and treat osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, spinal pain, regional pain syndromes, osteoporosis, and gout • Utilize current evidence to design treatment strategies for rheumatoid arthritis Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain: Evidence-Based Techniques to Move People from Hurt to Hope is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Sep 24, 2018 at Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort, Anaheim, California, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors, Addiction Counselors, Occupational Therapists Psychotherapists, Marriage and Family Therapists Case Managers, Physical Therapists Physical Therapist Assistants, Nurses Nurse Practitioners, Other Helping Professionals. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours. Course Description: We are in the midst of a nationwide push to treat chronic pain and address our out-of-control opioid prescribing. At least 1/3 of the people we treat are dealing with this condition, yet most of us are ill-prepared to address this with skill and expertise. The CDC recently published recommendations for the treatment of chronic pain, specifically highlighting behavioral treatment as an approach that should be tried before opioids are prescribed. We are witnessing a devastating public health crisis that is ruining individual’s lives, tearing up families, and ripping through communities. We need to arm ourselves with the skills needed to offer our clients evidence-based behavioral interventions that will help them live healthy and productive lives. Come to this interactive and cutting-edge training and learn creative tools and techniques to transform your practice. Learn powerful mindfulness interventions and motivational interviewing techniques to move your clients toward behavior change. Master the four pain-changing CBT tools. You will leave with the skills and confidence to provide practical and life-changing help to help people move out of chronic pain and into active, healthy, and meaningful lives. Course Objectives: • Describe how the emotional aspect of client’s pain can be more problematic than the physical aspect. • Specify the differences in risks of opioid medications use in men, women and the elderly and the related treatment implications. • Assess the psychological, physical, social, and behavioral factors that contribute to chronic pain and articulate their treatment implications. • Implement motivational interviewing techniques to motivate clients toward behavioral change that reduce the symptoms of chronic pain. • Summarize the CDC recommendations for the treatment of chronic pain and communicate how that impacts clinical treatment. • Utilize mindfulness-based strategies to decrease symptoms of chronic pain in clients.