Originally published: . Volume 12, No. 6. Source pages: 16.
Professional Training Resources and Dr. John Simoneaux, will present the 19th Annual Mental Health Summer Symposium, to be held July 14 through July 16 online. This year's topic is Mental Health: Balancing the Pandemic.
Featured this year are John C. Simoneaux, PhD & Alan Taylor, PhD, who will present "Diagnosing and Treatment: Preserving the Past/Embracing the Future."
Presenters will help participants predict the changes that may emerge in diagnosing and treating minors and adults secondary to the global pandemic, assess ideas and practices in mental health that now must evolve and describe fundamental values and techniques that must be preserved in evaluation and treatment settings, and explain the need to recalibrate mental health services for all ages to post- pandemic requirements, with an eye toward preserving and utilizing past valuable practices.
Also featured is Leslie Todd, LCSW, ACSW, speaking on "The Pandemic and Professional/ Personal Self-Care."
She will help participants be able to list and describe three ways (compassion fatigue, social supports, internet misuse) that interpersonal neurobiology affects well-being across the life span, describe and discuss ways in which overwork and stress may affect practitioners’ ability to maintain ethical boundaries during the delivery of clinical services, and design three habit-building techniques they can be applied in assertive self-care in office management and private life.
Byron Simoneaux, PhD will also be among the presenters and will speak on "Pandemic Related Traumas." He will help participants describe how the pandemic involves “mass trauma” and provide examples for the significance relating to the diagnoses and treatment of trauma disorders across age spans, explain emerging research regarding the mental health impact of mass trauma on minors and adults, discuss the assessment and treatment of children and adults affected by mass trauma – translating what we know to current needs, and describe assessment and treatment resources available for clients and clinicians related to mass trauma and its effects.
Dr. John Simoneaux will also be speaking on "Ethical Hazards Post Pandemic."
Dr. Simoneaux will help participants predict how fundamental ethical principles such as confidentiality, boundaries, and standards of care have been altered as a result of the worldwide pandemic, demonstrate, through clinical examples and reviews of published ethical codes, trends and conflicts faced by mental health clinicians secondary to the pandemic and its aftermath, and plan and create an approach to resolving ethical concerns when professional ethical codes have yet to specifically address unexpected challenges.
For more information, go to PTR website.
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