Originally published: . Volume 12, No. 7. 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. 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. 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.. 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. For more information, go to PTR website.
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