Our 2010 Meeting Dates are Jan 20, April 21, July 21 and October 20. All meetings will be held at Webster University, Columbia Campus. The address is 8911 Farrow Road. Click here for map
The Cost for the training is $20 for members and $25 for non members. There is no need to pre-registrer prior to the meeting date.
Meetings/Trainings begin at 10:00 so plan to arrive early to register. The schedule for each meeting is as follows:
9:30-10:00- Registration
10:00-12:00- Training Part 1
12:00-1:00 Lunch and Business Meeting
1:00-3:00 Training Part 2
All meetings provide 4 PDH's and 4 hours of CEU's for SC LPC, LMFT and Social Work
July 21st Training
SBIRT and MI (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment and Morivational Interviewing)
Presented by Dr. Tracy McPherson and Cathy Jaggers
This training will illustrate an evidence-based alcohol SBIRT approach which can be integrated into EAP practice to identify and manage hazardous and harmful alcohol use, and dependence among workers and their families. Dr. McPherson will identify brief, easy-to-use screening tools and levels of brief intervention based on alcohol use risk; share pilot test results; and discuss the Brief Intervention Group ("BIG") Initiative focused on moving the EAP industry toward adoption of evidence-based SBIRT as part of standard practice.
Learning Objectives:
Attendees will learn about evidence-based brief alcohol screening tools that can be integrated into routine EAP practice in their internal EAPs to identify alcohol use risk levels, and receive a copy of the AUDIT-C/AUDIT tools.
Attendees will be able to relate appropriate levels of brief intervention to level of alcohol use risk, and will learn to use NIAAA developed resources to assist EAP clients to commit to change unhealthy drinking patterns.
Attendees will learn about user-friendly SBI program performance metrics/benchmarks they can use in their EAP to evaluate their own SBI program
Attendees will learn about opportunities in the BIG Initiative to participate in a learning collaborative with other EAPs to institute routine alcohol screening and brief interventions in their EAPs.
The Second part of our training will focus on Motivational Interviewing. Motivational interviewing is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. Compared with nondirective counseling, it is more focused and goal-directed. The examination and resolution of ambivalence is its central purpose, and the counselor is intentionally directive in pursuing this goal.
Learning Objectives:
Attendees will gain a better understanding of seeking to understand the person's frame of reference, particularly via reflective listening
Attendings will be able to express acceptance and affirmation of clients
Attendees will better understand how to Monitor the client's degree of readiness to change, and ensuring that resistance is not generated by jumping ahead of the client.
Attendees will be able to affirm the client's freedom of choice and self-direction
Tracy L. McPherson, PhD
Dr. McPherson, over the last 12 years, has served as Project Director on numerous workplace alcohol and drug abuse prevention R&D projects funded by NIH, NHTSA, and involving the development and evaluation of substance use prevention and health promotion education and training programs for both workplace practitioners and employees. Over the last four years her research has focused on improving access to alcohol screening, brief intervention, referral to treatment, and follow-up care through evidence-based practice change in EAP and other workplace settings. Dr. McPherson has successfully worked with Aetna, ValueOptions, Optum-United, First Advantage and other employee assistance programs (EAPs) to adapt medical SBIRT protocols, implement and evaluate SBIRT pilot programs with client businesses, and to adapt systems and infrastructure to build capacity for dissemination across their book of business. She currently serves as Project Director on the Workplace SBI Project sponsored by NHTSA/CSAT and co-leads with Dr. Goplerud the “BIG” Initiative which brings together employers, business coalitions, all major EAPs and behavioral healthcare companies, pharmaceutical companies, EAP professional associations, clinicians, researchers, and federal government representatives. The overarching aim of BIG is to change the way the EAP profession addresses alcohol use problems, by moving alcohol SBIRT into routine practice across the entire EAP industry.
Cathy Jaggers,
Ms. Jaggars has worked in the addictions field for over 25 years. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC; a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management from Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA; and a Master’s degree in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University Maryland in College Park. She is credentialed through the state of South Carolina as a Certified Clinical Supervisor, and nationally as a Master Addiction Counselor. She retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps, and has worked in addiction treatment both in military and civilian settings.
