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Thursday Afternoon • May 17, 2012
1:30 - 3:00 PM Concurrent Workshops 38 through 45
Resolving Ambivalence and Reducing Resistance
Participants will learn to develop discrepancy that will lead to resolving ambivalence and also learn to enhance
individuals’ motivation to change.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to: 1) Demonstrate skills, strategies and techniques to resolve
ambivalence and reduce resistance; 2) Identify the strength of an individual’s motivation to change. CONTENT IS
BEST SUITED FOR PARTICIPANTS AT ALL LEVELS; 25% DIDACTIC, 25% PARTICIPATORY, AND 50%
EXPERIENTIAL.
Presenter: Frances Yokley, LMSW, CAADC, Program Manager, Community Network Services, Inc., Waterford,
Michigan
Verbal Threat Assessment – Is it real? How do you know?
Have you ever been threatened at work? Did you wonder if it was a credible threat – and what to do about it? This
interactive session gives you a framework for quickly deciphering the dangerousness of a threat, and recommends
specific steps to reduce the likelihood of the threat being carried out.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to: 1) List the most common profile of a serial threatener; 2)
Explain how the language of a threat and the logic of the situation make it more or less serious; 3) Explain how
the relationship between the threatener and the threatened alters the meaning of the threat. CONTENT IS BEST
SUITED FOR PARTICIPANTS AT ALL LEVELS; 60% DIDACTIC AND 40% PARTICIPATORY.
Presenters: Mark Buck, Master Trainer, NAPPI International, Sheffield, Massachusetts
Training and Quality Improvement for ACT Teams: What Works?
Building the capacity of ACT teams to provide evidence-based practices within the ACT framework cannot
be achieved with didactic trainings alone. Collaborative quality improvement efforts to identify problems and
solutions and focus on in-the-field, ongoing support, increase the adoption and impact of trainings. Goal setting
and continual monitoring help sustain momentum. Allegheny County, Pennsylvania will share their approach to
ongoing training in supported employment and IDDT, and preliminary effects on fidelity scores and outcomes.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to: 1) Develop training initiatives and supervision strategies
to improve ACT; 2) Describe plans to monitor the impact of training on service provision and outcomes.
CONTENT IS BEST SUITED FOR PARTICIPANTS AT AN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, PARTICULARLY FOR
TEAM LEADERS, SUPERVISORS, MANAGERS, AND ADMINISTRATORS; 75% DIDACTIC AND 25%
PARTICIPATORY.
Presenters: Deborah Duch, MPH, Program Manager, Community Care Behavioral Health Organization; Kim
Patterson, MSW, LSW, Manager of Clinical Consultation, Allegheny Health Choices, Inc.; Emily Heberlein, MS,
Manager of Evaluation and Outcomes, Allegheny Health Choices, Inc., all of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A Comparison of Three ACT Teams in Maine and New Zealand
This workshop will discuss the structure and function of three ACT teams: 1) a traditional team that served
clients between 1997 and 2009; 2) a team in New Zealand, adapted to the needs of a multidisciplinary clinic; 3) a
new team designed to meet standards for ACT as established by Maine DHHS, which emphasizes recovery and
intentional peer support. Teams are compared using the Dartmouth ACT fidelity standards.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to: 1) Describe the application of the Dartmouth Fidelity
Standards in assessment of ACT team functioning; 2) Identify how different ACT programs can maintain fidelity;
3) Examine the unique role of the peer support specialist and intentional peer support within ACT. CONTENT IS
BEST SUITED FOR PARTICIPANTS AT ALL LEVELS; 40% DIDACTIC, 30% PARTICIPATORY, AND 30%
EXPERIENTIAL.
Presenters: Julie Keller Pease, MD, DFAPA, Psychiatrist, Assertive Community Treatment Team and Adult
Outpatient Medication Management; Alexander Veguilla, AA, CIPSS (Certified Intentional Peer Support
Specialist), Peer Support Specialist, ACT Team, both of Sweetser, Brunswick, Maine
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