Upcoming Medical Conferences in Raleigh

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy: 2-Day Intensive ACT Training is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 14, 2020 at DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel Raleigh - Brownstone - University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.6 contact hours / 12.5 clock hours of continuing education instruction / 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: • Counselors • Psychologists • Psychotherapists • Psychiatrists • Social Workers • Addiction Counselors • Therapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Case Managers • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Description: Looking to improve your therapy approach? How often do you review your appointment calendar and start wondering how you’re going to, finally, help a regular client who seems to progress for a while – and then regress? Each time he/she arrives, you use the same tools and techniques you’ve used for so long – and mostly successfully – but this one client is testing your skills. Now you can begin to integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into your practice – and see improved outcomes. Researched and developed by world-renowned researcher, speaker and author Steven Hayes, PhD, ACT is fast becoming the treatment approach that gets to the heart of therapeutic relationship. Join ACT expert, trainer and co-author with Steven Hayes of ACT in Practice, Daniel J. Moran, Ph.D., BCBA-D, for this workshop where you will develop highly practical, evidence-based skills, case conceptualization techniques and powerful strategies that will improve outcomes for the following: • Anxiety Issues • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • Mood Disorders • Substance Abuse • Anger Management • Eating Disorders • Trauma • Personality Disorders Attend this intensive, engaging and transformative workshop and start a new path for healing you can use with your most difficult clients. Objectives: • Demonstrate effective use of the six core processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients advance psychological flexibility. • Illustrate clinical techniques for increasing psychological flexibility in clients using ACT. • Utilize acceptance approaches with avoidance problems to strengthen a client’s willingness to have emotions. • Implement clinical skills to help client effectively handle automatic cognitions. • Utilize effective ACT exercises in therapy to aid clients with developing new skills to engage in the present moment and move past struggles. • Assess and clarify a client’s values in order to develop an effective treatment plan and avoid potential clinical problems. • Integrate ACT into different therapeutic styles and methods as an approach to managing symptoms. • Create committed action plans for clients with anxiety disorders to improve level of functioning. • Use metaphors to undermine language-based avoidance repertoires to improve client engagement. • Utilize clinical strategies to develop an ACT-based behavior therapy plan as it relates to treatment outcomes. • Implement emotional, behavioral willingness and exposure techniques with clients to reduce experiential avoidance. • Apply ACT techniques to the treatment of specific disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and personality disorders.

Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias Essential Training Program is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 17, 2020 at DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel Raleigh - Brownstone - University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 Contact Hours. Target Audience: • Social Workers • Counselors • Psychologists • Psychotherapists • Case Managers • Marriage & Family Therapists • Nursing Home Administrator • Speech-Language Pathologists • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners • Licensed Practical Nurses • Certified Nurses Assistants • Homecare Workers • Other Rehab, Medical and Mental Health Professionals Course Description: This one-day program is vital for anyone who works with dementia and needs skills and proven strategies to provide optimal care!  Join Dr. Sherrie All as she provides you with the assessment tools and critical interventions you need to identify and differentiate between dementias, prevent and reduce difficult behaviors, and improve your ability to communicate with cognitively impaired patients!  More than just an overview of dementia and Alzheimer’s, this program will offer practical solutions to some of the most challenging real-life situations you face and bring you up to speed on the latest medications, preventative treatments, and advances in early detection that could impact your work.  Better still you’ll build essential skills, better understand the complexities of the disease, and discover how you can employ safe and effective best practices to provide quality care in just one day.  Objectives: • Communicate how the manifestations of each type of dementia impacts identification and prognosis. • Provide a synopsis of 2 assessment tools that can be employed to screen for possible cognitive difficulty. • Specify how non-verbal communication skills can help professionals identify meanings behind gestures when working with patients who have dementia. • Characterize how patient safety can be enhanced with strategies to redirect wandering and manage paranoia. • Establish how the latest medications, preventative treatments, and advances in early detection could impact care of people with dementia. • Explore end of life issues and elder abuse and correlate how the ethics of dying impact the clinician, client, and their family.

Trauma Informed Compassionate Classrooms: Strategies to Reduce Challenging Behavior, Improve Learning Outcomes and Increase Student Engagement is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Jan 22, 2020 at DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel Raleigh - Brownstone - University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.25 hours of continuing education credit. Target Audience: • General Educators • Special Educators • School Administrators • School Psychologists • Social Workers • Guidance Counselors • School Nurses • Directors of Special Education • Speech-Language Pathologists • Occupational Therapists • Paraprofessionals Description: As an educator, you are faced with the challenge of meeting the social and emotional needs of all your students. This can be challenging enough with typical learners but it is even more difficult with those who have experienced trauma or have mental health challenges. Students who have experienced trauma often present as difficult to engage and display problematic behavior such as a low frustration tolerance, angry outbursts or difficult social relationships. These behaviors all get in the way of teaching and learning. When a student has experienced trauma, he/she often spends much of the day in fight/flight/freeze mode which limits their capacity to learn. Their outwardly aggressive and irritable behaviors also disrupt the flow in the classroom, requiring your time and attention. Despite the amount of time you invest in behavior charts or incentives for good behavior, traditional behavioral approaches to classroom management and a punitive approach to discipline simply are not effective. Join Dr. Reese and learn how a trauma-informed approach will greatly reduce challenging behavior, improve student engagement and increase learning outcomes. Leave this seminar with new strategies, tools and resources to reduce students’ impulsiveness, aggressive behaviors and inattention and increase their focus, attention and compassion. While this positive approach is absolutely essential for students with trauma, it will also greatly benefit each and every student in your classroom. Return to your school with: • Research-based practices to establish a trauma-informed classroom • A plan to develop positive relationships and build trust with your hard-to-reach students • Prove techniques for communicating more effectively and collaboratively with challenging students • Cognitive skill-building strategies which incorporate the science of neuroplasticity and the strengths-based perspective of neurodiversity Objectives: Upon completion of this seminar, participants will be able to: • Analyze the ways in which poverty and mental health contribute to trauma responses thus informing your approach to working with all students. • Determine how trauma impacts a child’s development and develop strategies for meeting his or her needs. • Explore how exposure to adverse childhood experiences determines the likelihood of developmental trauma and its impact on level of functioning across the lifespan. • Establish a collaborative approach to discipline and demonstrate how this fosters intrinsic motivation for behavior change in the child. • Practice techniques to establish positive relationships and build trust with hard-to-reach students thus increasing their social and academic success. • Explore mindfulness activities that foster student self-awareness, self-regulation and the ability to focus as it relates to impulsive behavior and attention.

NC Dermatology Association - 2020 Annual Meeting is organized by North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) and will be held from Jan 24 - 26, 2020 at Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

2020 North Carolina Dermatology Association (NCDA) Annual Meeting is organized by North Carolina Dermatology Association (NCDA) and will be held from Jan 24 - 26, 2020 at Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Today's Best Treatments for the Upper Extremity: Rapidly Resolve Hand, Wrist & Elbow Problems with Ease is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 07, 2020 at DoubleTree By Hilton Hotel Raleigh - Brownstone - University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours/ 6.0 contact hours or 0.6 CEUs/ 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™/ 6.0 continuing education hours.  Target Audience: • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Athletic Trainers • Strength and Conditioning Specialists • Exercise Physiologists • Nurses • Nurse Practitioners • Physician Assistants Course Description: When you’re working with upper extremity patients, sometimes progress can feel like an uphill battle. Many patients have difficulty describing upper extremity symptoms, so localizing the problem can be a challenge. Scar tissue and edema often limit tissue gliding so much that it interferes with exercises and functional tasks. And when standard treatment protocols fall short of expectations, this can leave your patients frustrated, pained by activities that give them purpose, and resigned to surgical options. But with the latest advances in upper extremity rehabilitation, helping your patients achieve their functional goals is easier than ever. Sign up now for this hands-on training, and learn how to get to the root cause of impairment faster with a comprehensive assessment that combines the best evaluations currently available. Revolutionize your therapy toolbox with innovative interventions you can use immediately to accelerate progress. And design advanced plans of care for a variety of common upper extremity diagnoses, fluently combining techniques for optimal outcomes. Join the former president of the American Society of Hand Therapists, Kristin Valdes, as she guides you through a proven framework for upper extremity rehabilitation that has helped countless patients regain lost function and rediscover life without the pain. Objectives: • Evaluate the latest advances in upper extremity rehabilitation and their implications for your patients. • Demonstrate a comprehensive assessment, identifying and differentiating root causes of pain and impairment. • Integrate the most effective interventions for restoring function and improving ROM, strength, dexterity, mobility, stability, proprioception and sensation. • Combine multiple approaches for better outcomes, including provocative testing, neuromuscular reeducation, elastic taping, graded motor imagery, mirror therapy, eccentric exercises and more. • Design effective, innovative plans of care for a wide range of upper extremity diagnoses. • Apply the assessments and interventions discussed in this seminar to a series of interactive case scenarios. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

2 Day Intensive Course: Clinical Supervision: Providing Effective Supervision, Navigating Ethical Issues and Managing Risk is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Feb 10 - 11, 2020 at Hilton Garden Inn Raleigh /Crabtree Valley, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.5 hours of continuing education credit / 12.5 CE.  Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists < /li> • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors • Marriage & Family Therapists • Psychotherapists • Other Mental Health ProfessionalsCourse  Description: This two-day course was developed for experienced, post-graduate, licensed clinicians who are interested in or have been providing clinical supervision. It is an intermediate level course designed to introduce practitioners to best practices for providing clinical supervision. The presentation reviews models of clinical supervision and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each model, details building blocks for the provision of competent supervision, discusses individual versus group supervision, suggests various observation models to enhance feedback and demonstrates constructive feedback strategies. As supervision is often a multicultural experience, potential supervisors are taught to identify personal values, biases and expectations and utilizes skills, techniques and strategies for supervising diverse populations. Every discipline recognizes the importance of clinical supervision in training new practitioners and has established specific guidelines related to supervision, this course reviews the major ethical issues involved in supervision, discusses key legal issues associated with supervision and provides specific risk management strategies to address these ethical and legal issues This experiential, in-depth seminar details the supervisory process, answers your questions about ethical issues, risk and liability, and prepares you to deliver competent clinical supervision. Objectives: • Develop best practices for providing clinical supervision, including the use of a written supervisory contract and thorough documentation procedures. • Analyze models of clinical supervision, including advantages and disadvantages of each. • Apply the six building blocks of providing competent supervision. • Conduct a self -assessment of your competencies as a supervisor. • Demonstrate the use of constructive feedback strategies as they relate to clinical supervision practice. • Utilize various observation methods for the purpose of providing ongoing feedback for supervisees to improve their clinical skills. • Create a detailed professional development plan for supervisees. • Establish standards for identifying and addressing cultural or contextual bias within both the supervisory and the therapeutic relationship and developing “cultural humility”. • Identify personal values, bias and expectations and use skills, techniques and strategies for supervising diverse populations. • Use specific strategies for dealing effectively with an impaired supervisee. • Provide timely, clear, descriptive feedback to supervisees using multiple formats, methods and techniques. • Recognize the key legal issues and risks involved in being a clinical supervisor, particularly vicarious liability. • Articulate the major ethical issues involving supervision including: Competence, due process, informed consent, confidentiality, and multiple/dual relationships. • Summarize risk management strategies for supervision.  Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

2020 North Carolina Neurological Society (NCNS) Annual Meeting is organized by North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) and will be held from Feb 21 - 23, 2020 at Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. Description: Healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and other vendors are invited to participate as exhibitors and Supporters of the meeting. The NCNS extends opportunities for tabletop displays, sponsorship of specific aspects of the meeting (such as resident participation), and CME speaker underwriting during the meeting. Supporter opportunities are available at different monetary levels to fit all types of needs and budget constraints. Networking and recognition opportunities are abundant for health-related and consumer businesses that participate.  Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

NC Neurological Society 2020 Annual Meeting is organized by North Carolina Medical Society (NCMS) and will be held from Feb 21 - 23, 2020 at Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Recognizing & Treating the Emerging Epidemic is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 28, 2020 at Hampton Inn & Suites Raleigh/Crabtree Valley, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours or 0.6 CEUs / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: • Social Workers • Psychologists • Counselors • Teachers • School Administrators • Occupational Therapists • Speech-Language Pathologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children Course Description: Anxiety disorders are now recognized as the most common emotional problem in 10 out of 17 countries surveyed by the World Health Organization, including the United States. The increasing rate of stress and trauma to children, which includes divorce, family breakdown, violence in society, the media, and a failing school system, has produced a “shell shocked” generation suffering from anxiety in many cases. The challenge for clinicians is to recognize anxiety in children and help them cope. Dr. Paul Foxman will present a template for how and why anxiety develops in children and adolescents. He will present practical treatment strategies that can be applied immediately. The seven key anxiety disorders along with case examples to be addressed include: • Separation anxiety disorder • Panic disorder • Overanxious disorder • Obsessive-compulsive disorder • Social anxiety disorder • Phobias • Post-traumatic stress disorder Other co-occurring disorders (e.g. behavior problems, medical conditions, depression, ADHD, learning disabilities, selective mutism) will also be discussed. Emphasis will be on creative interventions involving insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, biological, mindfulness, expressive arts and family systems approaches. Objectives: • Apply the “Three Ingredients” framework for understanding how, why and when anxiety occurs in children. • Draw from 10 specific stress-management strategies to target the "when" factor in child and adolescent anxiety. • Recommend 8 steps teachers can take to reduce anxiety in the classroom for more focused attention. • Implement at least one effective treatment strategy for each of the 7 key anxiety disorders to modify sources of stress. • Designate 3 steps that schools can take to create a safe, calm environment for meeting the needs of anxious students. • Create a therapeutic alliance with parents to improve the effectiveness of clinical treatment with anxious kids.