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Veterans Week 2010
Celebration
November 8 -12, 2010
Please go to http://www.sage.edu/veterans/ for more information!
Proudly co-sponsored by The Sage Colleges and New York Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region.
A commemoration and celebration of veterans and their families.
Featuring:
* Community Resource Fair
* Full Day Clinical Mental Health Conference
* National speakers
* International arts and films
* Veterans Quilt Display
* Commemorative Art and Oral History Project
* And more...
Open to the Public!
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 The Professional Development Program at Samaritan is offering a new series:
The Professional Development Program is offering a series of consultation groups in an effort to provide a systems framework for gaining a clearer understanding of how to integrate and apply theories such as Object Relations and Family Systems Theory. The groups will enable clinicians to better help their clients focus on relationships with the individuals, families and the larger systems surrounding them.
These groups offer participants:
-Forums for discussing the application of multiple theories
-An opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of themselves in relationship to their clients
-Small group contexts in which to learn not only from their own experiences but also from other professional’s parallels and difference
-Structure to allow each participant the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with both the group leader and to share reflections with specific application of theoretical concepts
Mental health professionals interested in furthering their clinical skill through the use of a supervisory study group will have an opportunity to participate in a facilitated process of case presentation and the application of theory. This will include suggestions for readings providing for in-depth exploration of how the particular theoretical concepts are applicable to varying client systems. There will be specific emphasis on the integration of systemic theories including but not limited to object relations, structural family therapy, strategic therapy and Bowen family system theory as a means of helping professionals to think systemically in their work environments with both clients and colleagues
Begins Monday, September 20, 2010 and will meet monthly
6 pm - 8 pm
Cost $35 per session
Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region
220 North Ballston Ave.
Scotia, NY 12302
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This group will allow for the exploration of major theoretical bases of clinical supervision as it pertains to the mental health field. There will be specific focus on the skills, theory and most effective means of providing clinical supervision to mental health professionals entering the field. Attendees will have an opportunity to explore fully their processes with supervisees including a developmental understanding of the supervisory process along with an opportunity to formulate a clear philosophical basis for providing supervision in their setting. There will be special attention given to the importance of contracting to adjust for developmental shifts: over time; supervisory case reviewsfocused onprocessing presenting issues in current supervisory relationships with theoretical applications and the ethical and legal issues specific to supervision.
Begins Monday, September 27, 2010 and will meet monthly
6 pm - 8 pm
Cost $35 per session
Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region
220 North Ballston Ave.
Scotia, NY 12302
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It is imperative that we attend to the issues we face specifically as mental health professionals that only others in these fields can understand. This is a setting that will allow for group members to process personal and professional challenges and to be challenged to address those in a warm, empathic environment. We will attend to issues pertaining to the use of self and emphasis on the use of self as a tool in treatment. This is meant to facilitate personal growth for the clinician both personally and professionally.
Begins Monday, October 4, 2010 and will meet monthly
6 pm - 8 pm
Cost $35 per session
Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region
220 North Ballston Ave.
Scotia, NY 12302
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Workshops
(None scheduled at this time)
Consider bringing the one of our workshops to your church or agency. We can help you tailor the workshop to the specific needs of your group. Please contact the main office at (518) 374-3514 for information about scheduling a workshop.
Children and Teens with Mental Health Issues
Do children and teens seem more complex than ever? This workshop is designed to address new research and treatment techniques that have been developed to identify, understand and manage the highened emotions and maladaptive behaviors seen in mental health conditions such as ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety, Depression and Asperger’s Disorder.
Are You Losing Control of Your Teen?
Long before children become adolescents they begin leaving their parents. The child squirming on your lap to’ get down’ and the defiant seventeen year old coming home past curfew are both sending you the same message. At the same time, they need you and (believe it or not) want you to set boundaries. This workshop will look at the developmental stages of independence and how parents can be ‘graceful’ as they let go.
Talking (yes, talking!) with your Teen
Sometimes it seems as though the communication between a parent and their teenager is either non-existent or goes from zero to sixty faster than a sports car. Either way the results are the same - nothing of much consequence is accomplished and all parties can leave feeling hurt, powerless, and not understood. This workshop will take a look at the common patterns of communication that evolve between parents and their teenagers and how those patterns can be changed and become part of a meaningful relationship.
When Helping Starts to Hurt: Understanding Professional Burnout
People in helping professions (clergy, teachers, social workers, etc.) often find their energy drained, and burnout setting in. The literature on burnout tends to focus on two causes: systemic (the problem is within the workplace) and intrapsychic (the problem is within the helper). This workshop, based on When Helping Starts to Hurt: Understanding Professional Burnout by David C. Olsen, PhD and William Grosch, MD, will look at how the interaction of these two issues produces burnout, and how burnout can be prevented. Note: This workshop can be modified for any helping profession
The Tipping Point: Getting Couples Back in Balance
Drawing on a variety of resources, including The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, this workshop will explore how pictures of partners become negative and rigid, which impacts communication, conflict and intimacy. New research on brain functioning will also be presented and participants will learn specific strategies to tip the marital picture back into balance. Note: this workshop can be modifed for an audience of couples or professionals or clergy.
Eyes Wide Open: Removing the Blinders from Sexual Satisfaction
Contrary to popular opinion, marriage and passion are not incompatible. Too often, as passion fades, women claim that more intimacy results in better sex, while men argue that more sex would lead to greater intimacy. Couples will learn the top five roadblocks to heightened passion and intimacy, as well as important keys to unlocking deeper emotional and sexual connection Note: this workshop can be modifed for an audience of couples or professionals or clergy.
From Conflict to Caring
This workshop focuses on practical principles for effective marital conflicts and healthy resolutions. We’ll give you five easy steps to help you “fight fair.”
Tune-up Your Relationship
This workshop will help you clarify the strengths of your relationship and the areas that “creak and grind.”
From Idolatry to Grace: The Spiritual Work of Marriage
Utilizing the principles of integrative couples therapy, participants will learn to recognize and treat the powerful spiritual themes that couples are unconsciously working on in their relationships, such as forgiveness, entitlement, grace and redemption. Note: this workshop can be modifed for an audience of couples or professionals or clergy.
Juggling Work and Family
“How can I keep everybody happy?” Too many people feel torn between the pressures of the workplace and the pressures of family. Burnout is often the result of feeling pulled in too many directions at once. This workshop will explore strategies for balancing work and family based on The Couples Survival Workbook (Olsen and Stephens). The workshop will focus on practical ways of addressing the needs of family and the workplace, as well as the need for personal time.
Boundary Awareness
Maintaining boundaries are an essential aspect of the practice of ministry and other caring professions such as social work. This workshop will explore the complexity of boundaries from a variety of perspectives. This workshop can be Note: this workshop can be modified for churches, judicatories, or business offices.
Leading Change
This workshop will focus on how clergy can lead change creatively in the midst of anxious times. It will draw on three authors: John Kolter, Leading Change and The Heart of Change; Edwin Friedman, Generation to Generation and Failure of Nerve; and Daniel Goleman, Primal Leadership. These three authors focus on three essential aspects of change: theories and strategy of organizational change (Kotter), differentiated leadership (Friedman), and the use of emotional intelligence in leadership (Goleman).
The Congregation as a Family System
This workshop will help participants identify congregational triangles, congregational projectiong, and multi-generational transmission in the parish setting. Strategies for addressing these situations in an effort to create a healthy church system will be presented.
Creating Healthy Clergy Families
This workshop examines the many facets of burnout as they pertain to clergy families. Strategies for self-care, an indepth examination of stressors, and burnout prevention will be carefully considered from both anecdotal and empirical reseach. Participants will learn to better access their own tendencies toward burnout to become proactive toward burnout prevention.
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