2018 Program Final

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WELCOME TO THE ISIP 2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2 & 3
Welcome to ISIP Membership. Membership is included in your registration.
Please read the following announcements!
1. As a courtesy to the presenter and your neighbors, please turn off your cell phone.
2. ISIP bylaws provide for the election of ISIP board members for the year 2018-2019 on
Saturday of this Annual Conference. A ballot is included in your packet.
3. Friday lunch is included in your registration and will be served in this room. If you
requested a Veggie lunch, a Veggie ticket should be in your packet. If not, please notify
your server. Please display it on your table so the server can see it and serve you.
4. We ask that you wear your name badges to all sessions. It will help you become
acquainted with new folks as well as let us know that only registered participants are here.
5. CE certificates will be available upon conclusion of each day and Friday evening sessions.
Look for the alphabetical section with the first few initials of your last name. There will be
assistance in getting them distributed.
6. If you are seeking CE for NBCC and Social Worker hours it is important that you sign in
at the beginning of each session. We are required to report attendance verification to CE
providers upon request. ISIP is an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP)
for the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) and an Authorized Provider for
Social Workers.
7. When you are ready to leave the conference, please complete the light blue Evaluation
form Included in you packet. Your board really wants to know how you feel about this
experience to guide them in responding to your interests for future conferences. We
would appreciate it if you would drop it off at one of the tables as you exit.
8. DVDs of the last three conferences are available in the Aspen Room, near the Bookstore.
9. ISIP is looking at applying for grant funding. If you know of anyone providing quality grant
writing, please contact Tom McIntyre - adleridaho.com or 208-841-1048.
You are invited to visit our website – adleridaho.org – frequently. We welcome your input
and comments regarding the site.

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Your name badge is yours, of course. However, if you have no further use for it, please drop if
off on the table outside the doors as you leave. Thank you for helping us recycle them.
We hope you have a great experience and make
new friends during these few days.
The Objectives of I.S.I.P
1. Provide an opportunity for people to share in
applying individual psychology to education,
medicine, business, family, and mental health.
2. Encourage personal and professional growth.
3. Encourage research in and stimulate the further scientific development of individual
psychology.
4. Assemble a library relating to Adlerian psychology for use by the members.
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James Robert Bitter, Ed.D.
James Robert Bitter, Ed.D., is Professor of Counseling and
Human Services at East Tennessee State University in
Johnson City, TN. He is a Diplomate in Adlerian Psychology
(NASAP, 2002), and the former Editor of the Journal of
Individual Psychology. He is the current President of the
North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP),
a position he will hold through 2018. Jim is the author or
co-author of 4 books, including Adlerian Group Counseling
and Therapy: Step-by-Step (2004); Contributions to Adlerian
Psychology (2011); and The Theory and Practice of Family
Therapy and Counseling (2nd ed., 2014) – as well as more
than 60 journal articles, chapters, and videos.
He is the featured master therapist on the video for Adlerian
family therapy on the Psychotherapy.net series Family
Therapy with the Experts. Jim was privileged to study, write,
and work with Virginia Satir for more than ten years, and
he has also studied with the master Gestalt therapists, Erv
and Miriam Polster, and the founder of Narrative Therapy,
Michael White.
Starting with his early work at Idaho State University with Dr. Tom Edgar and later with his mentor,
Dr. Manford Sontegard, Jim has participated in establishing and supporting five family education
centers in the United States, and contributing to the development of another five throughout the
world.
Jennifer Obenshain, MSW, LCSW
Jennifer Obenshain, MSW, LCSW received her Master’s
Degree in Social Work from Boise State University and has
been a clinical social worker in the community since 2000.
Between 2000 and 2015 she worked in the medical setting
as a social worker, a clinical educator and as a bioethics
consultant. As a medical social worker Jennifer worked in the
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and then as a Clinical Educator
for St. Luke’s Health System, overseeing education and
clinical competency development for all social workers within
the system.
Jennifer completed advanced training in bioethics and has
served as a bioethics consultant for the health system,
specializing in pediatric ethics, for the past 7 years. She
presents extensively on both Bioethics and Social Work
ethics locally and nationally and is currently the chair for the
Idaho Chapter of NASW ethics committee.
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ISIP Position on Ethics
Adler believed that teaching his psychology to a wide audience would increase the mental
health of the general population, and that is a good thing. However, Adler and ISIP recognize
that knowledge should not be confused with competence. Each person attending the ISIP
workshops and the conference needs to be reminded that the practice of psychotherapy
in any profession is governed by the ethics and standards established by the profession. It
is imperative that each person attending is required to apply the Adlerian tools within the
scope of practice established by the person’s profession. ISIP is concerned about how the
tools are applied. The utility of Adlerian Psychology makes it tempting for trainees to use
them even if that trainee’s profession would not normally recognize the person’s competence.
ISIP is aware of the need to respect the professional standards and practice limitations
of all mental health providers. Because ISIP training is not specifically designed to
apply to any profession, it runs the risk of being seen as an alternative to developing
the competencies and standards of the professions utilizing it. Rightly or wrongly, that
can easily be viewed as threatening to the goals and purposes of various professions.
Because of the concerns stated above, this statement, and a statement similar to the
one below will be included in all training to alert attendees and prospective attendees
of the need to be conscious of and guided by each attendees ethics and state laws.
“It is the individual responsibility of each attendee to be knowledgeable of the particular
ethics and state laws of their profession with respect to areas of authorized practice, as
well as those areas of practice that are beyond the scope of the attendees credentials. ISIP
is not responsible for any misunderstanding, or misapplication of the training received.”
As far as the ethics training provided at our annual conference, ISIP does not believe the ethics
presentations should be profession-specific since most of us have to be sensitive toward two
or three different Codes anyway. The differences are fairly small and usually apply to a limited
number of issues or work settings. Since ISIP is committed to promoting Adlerian theory and
practice, it only makes sense for our conference to offer training that is Independent from any
specific profession. Our goal is to promote ethical practice, regardless of one’s profession or
licensing. Therefore, it only requires that we present material that is more universally applicable.
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