- 07:00 AM - 08:00 AM PST
Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors
- 08:00 AM - 10:05 AM PST
KN1 - Welcome Remarks: Co-Chairs with guests Yael Koenig and Kathy Marsh, Ph.D., RN, USD Examining the Impact of Social Media on Children and Adolescents: A Balanced Approach
Speaker:
Ann-Louise T. Lockhart, PsyD, ABPP
Description:
Welcome Remarks by the Co-Chairs with guests Yael Koenig and Kathy Marsh, Ph.D., RN, USD Keynote Session In this rapidly evolving era of social media, a thorough overview of its impact is imperative. To fully comprehend its role in society, we must adopt a balanced perspective that takes into account both its advantages and drawbacks for the children and teens who use it. This comprehensive inquiry can aid in identifying the benefits and risks of social media, while also providing valuable insights into the underlying mechanisms that drive it.
Learning Objective:
- Identify at least 5 benefits and risks of social media presence and use for children and teens.
- Explain appropriate, healthy, and realistic guidelines around social media for children and teens.
- Describe 3 practical and engaging ways to use social media as a professional.
CE Credit Hours: 1.50 Hybrid Session
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PST
Break
- 10:30 AM - 12:05 PM PST
A1 - Providing LGBTQI+ and Gender Diverse Affirming Parent Support: Practical Tools and Research
Speaker:
Abi Weissman, PsyD
Description:
Dr. Weissman will define common vocabulary used in working with the LGBTQI+ populations, including gender dysphoria and gender euphoria. They will provide examples of mental health concerns seen in the LGBTQI+ population. They will describe typical gender identity and sexual orientation developmental stages and stages of coming out as LGBTQI+. Dr. Weissman will discuss LGBTQI+ affirming parent/caregiver and patient support. They will share how to acknowledge burgeoning adolescent sexual orientation and gender identity while addressing parent or familial concerns. The training includes information about practical strategies, tools, current research, and resources.
Learning Objective:
- Identify three common terms that are used to describe gender identity.
- Explain two parent or familial concerns as related to gender diversity and sexual orientation.
- Describe three ways to assist parents in supporting their gender diverse and/or LGBTQI+ teens.
A2 - Eating Disorders: Temperament Traits and Treatment
Speaker:
Andi Drouin, LPCC; Karlee McGlone, LMFT
Description:
This course will review current diagnostic nuances of eating disorders as they relate to presentations in children and adolescents (Anorexia, Bulimia, ARFID, USFED, BED). Presenters will identify historical myths associated with eating disorder diagnoses, review how known neurobiological underpinnings and temperament traits impact the presentation of eating disorders in clinical practice, and discuss how to effectively evaluate symptom severity. Presenters will identify associated psychiatric comorbidities, evidence-based interventions including Family Based Therapy (FBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), as well as review levels of care available in the community to consider when evaluating a child/adolescent for an eating disorder diagnosis. Attendees will review clinical assessment techniques and complete breakout group exercises during the course of the presentation.
Learning Objective:
- Describe a minimum of two differential eating disorder diagnoses and their associated temperament traits.
- Identify two assessment techniques when evaluating severity of eating disorder symptoms.
- Identify two evidence-based treatment modalities for children and adolescents with eating disorders.
A3 - The Power of Racial Socialization in Evidence-Based Practices
Description:
Community-based organizations and services including behavioral health programs, Children’s Advocacy Centers, hospitals, schools, social services exist to help youth and families prevent and treat the negative consequences of abuse and trauma. However, current services do not systematically consider both interpersonal and racial stress and trauma in their understanding of youth, which impacts mental health and academic outcomes, to name a few. In addition, diverse youth and families rely on strengths and values to reduce negative mental and behavioral health outcomes that can result from interpersonal and race-related stressors. Racial socialization is the protective process of transmitting cultural behaviors, attitudes, and values to prepare diverse youth to cope with racial stressors, and is associated with positive outcomes including increased resilience, coping abilities, and decreased anxiety and delinquency. This breakout will highlight efficacious evidence-based trauma informed treatment strategies that utilize racial socialization to improve cognitive and behavioral outcomes for clients who experience trauma.
Learning Objective:
- Describe 1 protective and promotive role of racial socialization on behavioral and mental health outcomes for Black youth.
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate racial socialization into 2 PRAC (psychoeducation, relaxation, affect identification and modulation, cognitive restructuring) strategies in clinical care with diverse youth and families.
- Demonstrate the ability to utilize 2 TICE (trauma narrative, in-vivo exposure, conjoint parent-child sessions, enhancing safety) strategies in clinical care with diverse youth and families.
Hybrid CE Credit Hours: 1.50 Hybrid Session
- 12:05 PM - 01:00 PM PST
Lunch
- 01:00 PM - 02:35 PM PST
B1 - Improving Mental Health Care is Within Our Reach: Translating Knowledge into Action
Description:
Heightened public awareness of the current youth mental health crisis provides a critical opportunity to advocate for improved access to care and effectiveness of care. One of the many frustrations about this crisis is that we actually have significant collective knowledge about how to improve care, but we have not done a good job of translating this knowledge into action through policy and practice. The goal of this session is to help bridge this gap by identifying some of the evidence-based ways in which mental health care could be improved, and to discuss strategies to overcome barriers in implementation. A public health framework, including concepts such as primary, secondary and tertiary prevention, will be used to highlight existing knowledge about effective interventions. Participants will be encouraged to explore how they can integrate such interventions into their own practice and advocate for essential improvements in the broader system.
Learning Objective:
- Explain how a public health model of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention could be applied to reduce mental health challenges among children and families.
- Identify three evidence-based approaches to improving access to mental health care.
- Identify three evidence-based approaches to improving the effectiveness of community-based care.
B2 - Reimagining a Child and Family Well-Being System of Care
Description:
In July 2023, San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency embarked on a journey of redesigning child safety and family strengthening work in San Diego County. This presentation provides an overview from local leadership of the process of reimagining what is now the Child and Family Well-Being Department and how all community partners can be part of this transformation. We will focus on the shift from mandated reporting to community supporting, the integration of First 5 San Diego and Child Welfare Services to establish the Child and Family Well-Being Department, and the creation of the new Office of Child and Family Strengthening to support prevention work in San Diego County.
Learning Objective:
- Describe one technique involving community partners and those with lived experiences that is utilized to support family strengthening work.
- Identify one shift from mandated reporting to community supporting locally and statewide.
- Identify two changes in San Diego’s child and family well-being system of care.
B3 - Sparking Joy in Telehealth: Making Virtual Mental Healthcare Fun and Engaging
Description:
As virtual sessions have become a more normalized method of mental health service delivery post-COVID, this course seeks to inform participants on how to best navigate clinical, legal, and ethical issues that may arise when providing psychiatry and psychotherapy services to minors via telehealth. This breakout session focuses on how we can provide effective, engaging evidence-based psychotherapy and psychiatry services to clients ages 6 to 18 via telehealth. We will review factors to consider when determining the appropriateness of telehealth as a platform of care, strategies for enhancing engagement, and methods for effectively delivering treatment interventions from common evidence-based practices and theoretical perspectives. Benefits and risks of using telehealth as well as developmentally appropriate strategies to help increase engagement and reduce resistance with both younger children and adolescents will be reviewed. Possible obstacles that may arise when providing psychiatry and/or psychotherapy to minors via telehealth will be explored and troubleshooted. Lastly, the role of parental involvement and how that may shift as a result of telehealth service delivery will be discussed.
Learning Objective:
- Describe 2 risks and 2 benefits of providing mental health services to youth via telehealth
- Identify 2 strategies to enhance client engagement and enjoyment and address client resistance when providing psychotherapy to children and teens via telehealth
- Describe 2 legal and ethical issues that may arise when providing psychiatry or psychotherapy via telehealth
CE Credit Hours: 1.50 Hybrid Session
- 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM PST
Break
- 03:00 PM - 04:50 PM PST
Speaker:
Isha W. Metzger, PhD, LCP
Description:
The negative consequences of trauma take a disproportionate toll on diverse youth due to the compounding stress of unique race related stressors including microaggressions, witnessing police brutality in the media. This keynote will provide an overview of interpersonal and racial trauma, present research on organizational barriers and facilitators to treatment and service utilization at community mental health facilities, and discuss strategies for fostering resilience for diverse youth and families. The keynote will conclude with a call to action to encourage conference attendees to increase their utility in responding to and treating interpersonal trauma, integrate and address cultural factors such as system mistrust, implicit bias that are likely to influence diverse clients’ ability to navigate the system, and to utilize existing strategies and supports for diverse youth and families.
Learning Objective:
- Identify three ways that interpersonal and racial stress and trauma impact development for diverse youth.
- Describe two barriers and facilitators to service utilization for diverse youth, families, and adults.
- Utilize one strategy to make culturally informed decisions pertaining to engagement, assessment, and treatment of diverse youth.