When Life Hands You Teenagers: An educational conference for parents and people who work with teens
When: Wednesday, September 22  9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Where: Communities Foundation of Texas  5500 Caruth Haven Lane  Dallas, Texas 75225
$20 (includes lunch)
Presented by the Grant Halliburton Foundation

What do you do when that sweet, innocent child you once knew turns into a moody, rebellious, unpredictable teenager? Get answers and guidance from the experts at this enlightening half-day conference for parents and people who work with teens.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Inside the Teenage Brain: Why They Act That Way Karen Williams, MSSW Rainbow Days.   Did you know that the average human brain takes 25 years to mature? Even then, it’s just getting started on the road to real maturity. In this eye-opening presentation based on the latest research of leaders in the field of brain studies, you will learn how the adolescent brain develops and how differently it works during the teen years.

I Hate You! What’s for Dinner? How to Resolve Conflict and Keep the Peace: Kim Humphries, LCSW, ACSW, BCD  Kim Humphries and Associates:  Melodrama and mixed signals are trademarks of the teenage years—but oh, the strain they put on families! Learn how to tone down the turbulence and tune in to the underlying, unspoken needs of teens, using practical, proven strategies based on years of experience with family counseling, mediation and motivational teaching.

Panel Discussion: What Parents Need to Know A panel of young people talk candidly about their personal experiences with stress, depression, eating disorders, and suicide attempts, as well as the challenges of family, stigma, and finding help during the teenage years.

Bully-Proof! 10 Ways to Protect Teens from the Invisible Assault: Beaux Wellborn, The Bully Suicide Project, and Brooks Gibbs, Author and Teen Life Strategist.  An estimated 30 percent of American teens—over 5.7 million—are involved in school bullying as either a bully, a target of teen bullying, or both. And the Internet has helped drive the danger to epidemic levels through cyberbullying. How do you know if your teen is involved? Learn how to recognize the early signs of bullying and 10 critical steps to take to protect your teen.

Decoding Teen Chaos: Is My Kid’s Moodiness Normal? Or Should I Worry About Depression? When to be concerned. How to intervene.  Melanie Wells, LPC, LMFT, and Chris Jones, LPC, The Lifeworks Group.   Anyone who has spent more than 15 minutes in the company of an adolescent knows that moodiness is inevitable (theirs, not yours!). But how do you distinguish between typical teenage ups and downs and clinical depression—a medical condition that too often goes unrecognized and undiagnosed in this age group? Left untreated, teen depression can have serious long-term and even life-threatening consequences. This presentation provides important information for parents and anyone who works with teens. You will leave the presentation knowing when to be concerned and how to get the help and relief that you and your teen may need.

CEU credits will be available.

Speaker bios:

Brooks Gibbs Author and Teen Life Strategist:  Brooks Gibbs is a national bestselling author and youth motivational speaker. For the last decade he has spoken to over 1 million students, hosted radio/tv shows, and been featured as an expert in publications like The Washington Post, Teen People Magazine, Inc. Magazine, and CBS.com. His career as a youth worker started shortly after the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. In the aftermath of that tragedy, Brooks traveled extensively with surviving Columbine students who shared their story of hope to audiences across the USA.  Since then, he has been called upon as a counselor and keynote speaker to other schools experiencing tragedy including the Santana High School Shootings in San Diego, and the recent South Hadley High School tragedy in Massachusetts. His latest book entitled LOVE is greater than HATE recently made a TOP 10 list on Amazon.com. “The Top 10 Books to Help Teens.”

Kim Humphries, LCSW, ACSW, BCD Kim Humphries and Associates.  A frequent speaker at conferences and retreats, Kim has counseled individuals, couples, teens and families for over 15 years in her private practice. In 2001, she founded Kim Humphries and Associates, which focuses on counseling, family enrichment, team-building, leadership development, coaching, and ministry to clergy and spouses.  Committed to serving her community, she has worked within the court system as a facilitator for parents and kids, in addition to serving on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations. She has played a leading role in I AM H·E·R·E, the only coalition in North Texas focused solely on teen and young adult mental health, since its inception in 2009.   Kim is a Board Certified Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master of Science in Social Work from University of Texas Arlington. She is a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work and a Certified Christian Mediator. In addition, Kim serves as an adjunct professor in the counseling program at Dallas Theological Seminary.

Chris Jones, LPC. Adolescent Specialist.  The LifeWorks Group.  Though Chris has extensive experience working with people of all ages on a wide variety of issues, he specializes in the most powerful force of nature known to man–the adolescent!  A Licensed Professional Counselor, Chris has years of experience working with teens who have adjustment disorders, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder (including kids on parole or probation), and ADHD. He also works well with the frazzled parents of teenagers, couples working out the kinks, and families adjusting to change. In addition to working with clients at the Dallas office of The Lifeworks Group, he also serves as clinical director of the Fort Worth office.

Beaux Wellborn The Bully Suicide Project.  Beaux Wellborn has a heart for teens and he puts his heart into every aspect of his work as a volunteer for Youth First Texas and a motivational speaker with Campus Harmony.  In 2009, he worked with Campus Harmony to launch the acclaimed Bully Suicide Project, an inspiring project that promotes awareness of and action against the threat of bullying. The project provides education about the lingering after-effects of bullying that can lead to depression, anxiety, and suicide. Through online video interviews, it relates the powerful personal testimonials of scores of people who have been victims and survivors of bullying.  The mission of the Bully Suicide Project is to shift the paradigm and change the climate to eliminate bullying in all aspects of life, in all corners of the world, and to prevent the needless suicides that result from bullying behavior.  Beaux’s connection to bullying prevention is personal. “I was bullied myself and almost committed suicide,” he says. “As a speaker, I had enough of seeing kids come in beat up or with bruises.”  In addition to his work and leadership in bully suicide prevention, Beaux was featured in an episode of MTV’s MADE series, which chronicled his motivational coaching of a teenage girl to overcome her self-defeating behavior and achieve her aspirations.

Melanie Wells, LPC, LMFT. Founder and Director The LifeWorks Group.  After eight years in conventional counseling practices, Melanie Wells founded The Lifeworks Group in 2000 to offer clients an innovative approach to the everyday problems of life.  She attended SMU on a music scholarship and graduated with an English degree. While earning a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary, she took her first counseling course and was hooked. She later helped to found and develop DTS’s Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling program and taught in the counseling department there. She also holds a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology, specializing in Marriage and Family Therapy, from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, where she also taught as a member of the adjunct faculty.  Melanie is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, specializing in “last-ditch” marital cases and working with troubled families (many of whom are dealing with those difficult teenage years), as well as other issues, including spousal abuse, depression, chronic illness, and divorce recovery.  In addition to leading The LifeWorks Group, Melanie is the author of several novels, including the Dylan Foster trilogy: When the Day of Evil Comes, The Soul Hunter, and My Soul to Keep.

Karen Williams, MSSW Director of Special Projects  Rainbow Days.  Karen Williams is a national writer and speaker on child and adolescent brain development and is noted for her ability to explain the latest neuroscience and apply it to real-life situations.  Her current focus is on three areas: brain development and behavior; the impact of substances, traumatic stress, and traumatic brain injury on development and behavior; and the developmental readiness of youth to protect themselves.  Her presentations provide a fascinating overview of the latest findings on the adolescent brain and behavior, based on the 15-year study by Dr. Jay Giedd (NIH) and Dr. Paul Thompson (UCLA) and on the research of other leaders in the field of brain studies. She is the curriculum developer of Protecting You/Protecting Me, a SAMHSA Model Program based on the latest brain research, and a founding member of Brain Trust Alliance®, which brings together researchers, educators and youth service professionals dedicated to making the latest research accessible to non-researchers.  Karen holds a Master of Science in Social Work and is Director of Special Projects for Rainbow Days, Inc.

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DAWP Second Saturday meetings 10 am to 12 noon (except Christmas party!) 
Dallas Area Women Psychiatrists Welcome all female psychiatrists and psychiatrists in training to these meetings

SAVE THE DATES from Co-President Inna Kogan MD 08.23.2010

DATE  SPEAKER  HOSTESS  TOPIC

Sept. 11  Eleonora  Szmuk MD  Rege Stewart  MD   OCD:  Psychodynamics and clinical remarks                                                                                   

Oct. 9    Madeline Harford MD    Prabha Sunderajan MD   Mythology & psychology

Nov. 13  Shashi Motgi MD   Geetha Shivakumar  MD   Psychiatry & community

Dec.    ?   Christmas Party   Inna Kogan MD

Jan. 8   Susan Delaney MD  Dawn Shogren MD Mixed Bipolar States

Feb. 12  Leonora Stephens MD  Manju Goyal  MD  Jacques Lacan, major concepts

March 12   Preety Malady MD  Bagya Arumugham MD   Bariatrics & psychiatry

April 9  Kathy Rishel MD  Rehka Pole MD Substance abuse  &  ADHD

May 14   Heidi Koehler PhD  Nicole Cooper  MD  Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

TARRANT CHAPTER TSPP MEETING: 2nd ANNOUNCEMENT   Thursday evening, August 26th, 6:30 P
“HISTORY OF DEMENTIA”   MIKE WEINER, M.D.    Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology, UTSWMC
 
Dr. Weiner is an esteemed, prolific, and cutting edge psychiatrist and educator, and his paired talks, to us as practitioners on the 26th and to the UNT-JPS psychiatric residents the next day, 12 noon, at Trinity Springs Pavilion (“Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) in Geriatric Patients”), are indeed lectures to look forward to.   Dr. Weiner has authored/coauthored nearly 200 articles, 50 book chapters, and 75 books, abstracts, and other writings.  His credentials include:         Coeditor, “The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook  of  Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias,” 2009.    Co-founder, Southwestern Clinic for Alzheimer’s and Related  Diseases.   Past President, TSPP.   Distinguished Life Fellow, APA
 
Mexican Dinner Buffet:  $25.00    Vegan meal may be ordered with RSVP    Retirees half price, residents free
       
 Please RSVP to Dr. Goggin, O (817) 338-0808, f (817) 338-0809, or email dagmdpafw@sbcglobal.net   Or, contact Dr. Joe Burkett @ O (817) 569-4430, f (817) 569-4499 or email joseph.burkett@mhmrtc.org.   Excellent location in Ft Worth available by email.

DAWP 2nd Saturday meeting:  All female psychiatrists and psychiatrists in training are warmly invited!

Sat Sep 11
10:00 am    Brunch, Confidential Fellowship, Business
11:00 am     Speaker and program (CME 2) 

Speaker:  Eleonora Szmuk MD   Program:  OCD:  Psychodynamics and clinical remarks.
Hostess:  Name of DAWPer and Her Address available by email already sent to DAWP e-list*

RSVP by Friday Sep 10 at 9 am to DAWPnews@gmail.com

 Please check the website www.ntspp.org for any last-minute changes in the program place or time (rarely happens but it’s hurricane season:))).

*Are you a female psychiatrist or psychiatrist in training not yet on the DAWP e-mail list?  Email DAWPnews@gmail.com to be added.

Find out more and register at http://www.namitexas.org/  APA Distinguished Life Fellow Joel Feiner MD is a luncheon keynote speaker!

Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010  7 – 9 pm:  On the Road to Raising Happy, Capable, Responsible Children: Why Children’s Earliest Feelings are Important.  Presenter: Paul Holinger, M.D.  Sponsored by the Dallas Foundation for Psychoanalysis.  Open to the General Public.  Location: Scottish Rite Hospital Auditorium

See http://www.txpsych.org for information and registration. 

CME Scientific Program:  “Advances in Clinical Psychiatry:  Schizophrenia, Dementia, Bipolar Depression, PTSD, Borderline Personality and Ethics” 

NTSPP Secretary Carol North MD to receive TSPP Special Service Award and to present CME program “PTSD:  A Clinical Diagnosis in Need of Revision” on Saturday, November 13. 

Dr. Thomas Grugle and Dr. Tanishia Choice are recruiting patients for a new, adult, outpatient, mixed gender psychodynamic  group therapy.  Dr. Grugle is a private psychiatrist who has 20 years of experience in group therapy. Dr. Choice is a third-year psychiatry resident at UT Southwestern who is focusing her career in psychodynamic therapy and will be co-leading the group with Dr. Grugle.  The group is designed to assist patients in reflectively addressing their issues of concern with a focus on how the process of those issues present in the group setting. The group will not be issue-specific, no specific diagnosis is required for inclusion, and the group size will be between 5-8 patients.  The group will meet once a week on Tuesdays from 5:15 PM to 6:30 PM in Dr. Grugle’s office in Richardson, TX. Patients who are in a current crisis, have active substance abuse, or have acute psychosis are not candidates for this group.  Potential patients will need to have an intake evaluation by either Dr. Grugle or Dr. Choice prior to starting with the group.  For questions or to submit referrals, please visit http://www.cybercouch.com or contact Dr. Grugle or Dr. Choice at addresses below.

Thomas A Grugle, MD, PA
            Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
            tgrugle@mac.com
            275 W Campbell Rd Ste 121    Richardson, TX 75080
            972-671-3100                              972-671-3102  FAX
            http://www.cybercouch.com             

Tanishia Choice, MD
            Resident Physician, Department of Psychiatry,  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 
            5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Ste NC5.804        Dallas, TX 75390-9070
            Voice mail: 214-645-6878  ext 71153      Answering service: 214-648-5555

PSYCHIATRIST
Job ID# 1434
Southern Methodist University Student Affairs/Health Services CAPS
Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications

The primary purpose of the psychiatrist is to evaluate and treat students attending the University.   Collaborative team approach with rewarding student population.  Schedule for full-time is M-F, 8:30 – 5:00. Open to discussing a part-time schedule.  Limited after-hours call.

Primary duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: performing psychiatric evaluations (routine and emergency) and crisis interventions; conducting psychotherapy, family meetings, mandated evaluations, consultations, and coordinating of care; monitoring of psychoactive medications; consulting with other SMU departments about cases, particularly the Dean of Student Life office, Residence Life and Student Housing (RLSH), Law School, and Legal Affairs; working with other CAPS staff consisting of permanent and part-time psychologists, pre and post doctoral interns and fellows, and administrative staff; working closely with other health care providers in the Health Center and the community providing care to students; assisting with strategic planning and interaction with CAPS and Health Center staff; conducting campus consultation and outreach to the campus community. The psychiatrist will participate in the CAPS call schedule.

Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree is required. Board accredited psychiatric residency training program is required. Board Certification in Psychiatry is strongly preferred. Experience in a college counseling center is strongly preferred. Texas licenses or license eligible to practice medicine with appropriate registration in Texas is required. Clinical knowledge and expertise in crisis management, collaboration with psychologists, suicide prevention, psychopharmacology  and substance abuse and dependence is essential. Candidates must demonstrate strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work with diverse individuals/groups. Must also demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively in writing.

Candidates must possess basic computer skills and knowledge of MS Office products. Must also possess the ability to learn new computer applications quickly. Candidates must possess strong organizational and time management skills to effectively handle multiple tasks and prioritize.

Candidates must have a strong commitment to a high standard of confidentiality and discretion, as the person in this role will be called on to handle confidential information with discretion.

The position is open until filled.  Please visit our website  http://smu.jobs to apply for staff career opportunities.

Southern Methodist University will not discriminate in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or veteran status. SMU’s commitment to equal opportunity includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Posted 08.10.2010