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    • Friday, May 02, 2025
    • 8:30 AM - 12:15 PM
    • Courtyard Lebanon 300 Corporate Drive Lebanon, NJ 08833
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    Somerset, Hunterdon, and Warren Psychological Association (SHWPA)


    David Krauss, Ph.D., NJ Licensed Psychologist

    NJ Lic#35SI-00283200


    In-person only: Solution-Focused Therapy:  Integrating Strengths, Competencies, and 

    Resilience Focused Approaches into Your Practice.

      Friday May 2, 2025

                          Courtyard Lebanon 300 Corporate Drive Lebanon, NJ 08833

                       Registration 8:30AM – 9:00AM. Presentation 9:00AM-12:15PM

    Includes 15-minute mid-morning break and buffet breakfast-snacks

    3 Continuing Education Credits (via NJPA)


    Program Narrative: 


    Almost all modern-day therapist-clinicians have learned the importance of identifying, highlighting, and using client strengths, resources, and competencies.  We may, though, struggle to consistently put these intentions into practice.  We, like our clients, have been wired by evolution, and perhaps by some of our training, to focus our attention quickly-and-automatically on client weaknesses, deficits, and pathology.  It can take much deliberate effort to consistently respect and use our clients’ skills and talents, their natural problem-solving abilities and solution patterns.  Solution-focused therapy interventions can help us do better - and can be readily integrated into the work of clinicians practicing from a wide range of orientations, perhaps especially cognitive-behavioral, accelerated experiential dynamic (AEDP), adaptive information processing (EMDR), and family therapies. This workshop will first review some of key principles underlying this collaborative, client directed, strengths-based approach. It will then teach strategies and techniques for eliciting and amplifying exceptions to problems and individualizing solutions while enhancing clients’ sense of agency and self-efficacy.  This in-person workshop will include demonstrations and small group practice. 


    Learning Objectives. This workshop is designed to help participants:


    1. Summarize what solution-focused therapists mean when they say ‘leading from behind‘, ‘a vision of a preferred future’,  ‘treasure hunting for exceptions’, ‘if it works do more of it’, ‘a difference that makes a difference’, and ‘make it interactional’; as well as be able to apply these solution-focused principles in their practice.
    2. Understand how seeing the client as (a) an expert (on themselves, their situation), and (b) likely already having the strengths and skills upon which to build solutions; can (c) help generate solutions that are more likely to fit the client and their situation (compared to therapist generated solutions), and (d) that this might be especially true for clients whose ethnic, racial, and/or socioeconomic background differs from their own.
    3. Describe how the times and places the problem does not manifest, or manifests less, especially what the client themselves is thinking and doing at those times, is important information – data that can be used to build on exceptions and other resources and generate individualized solutions.
    4. Be able to list five questions that can elicit exceptions (to the problem), five that can identify competencies and mastery experiences, five that can develop a sense of agency and self-efficacy, and five that can instill hope; and know ways to integrate these into their work with clients in their practice.   
    5. Know ways to integrate these questions (exceptions, competencies, agency, hope) into work with clients who have experienced trauma.
    6. Know ways to integrate these questions (exceptions, competencies, agency, hope) into their work with children (e.g., neurodivergent) and their parents (e.g., parent management training).
    David Krauss, Ph.D. has been working for over 35 years with neuro-developmentally atypical children, adolescents, and adults along with their parents and families.  He trained at Yale’s Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy, the Yale Child Study Center, in the New Haven Public Schools, and at The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).  Dr. Krauss worked in UMDNJ’s adolescent inpatient unit and School Based Youth Services program at New Brunswick High School before moving to independent practice.  He was a clinical field supervisor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) for many years.  He is a past-president and long-time board member of the Mercer County Psychological Association.  Dr. Krauss has an independent practice in Hopewell, NJ and writes the “Atypical Children-Extraordinary Parenting” blog at Psychology Today. 

    Dr. Krauss does not have any commercial support and/or conflict of interest.

    This program’s level of learning is introductory, and the target audience is psychologists and other mental health professionals.

    ADA Accommodations available upon written request by emailing Virginia Walters, Psy.D. at virginiawaltersm4@gmail.com no later than April 25, 2025.

    SHWPA Program Fee:  SHWPA Member $75, Non–SHWPA Member $85, Students $15. Online registration & payment can be made at shwpa.org OR by mailing a check payable to SHWPA to Tracy Menzie P.O. Box 644 Lebanon, NJ 08833.  Please note – registration for this program will close on April 25, 2025.

    NJPA CE Credits/ Administrative Fee for 3 CE Credits (A separate fee paid to NJPA) must be paid online BEFORE the start of the program.  An NJPA payment link will be sent after registration and prior to the workshop.  NJPA administrative fees: Sustaining Member – Free, NJPA Member-$15, Non-NJPA Member- $25.   Note: if you are not an NJPA member you may create a non-member account at no charge.  A program evaluation must be completed within seven days of the program date in order to earn CE credits.  A program evaluation link will be provided at or around the time of the program.   




    • Friday, May 23, 2025
    • 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Zoom Webinar
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    • Somerset, Hunterdon, and Warren Psychological Association (SHWPA)

                Frederick Rotgers, Psy.D., ABPP                                NJ Licensed Psychologist #1969

         “Harm Reduction Approaches to Psychotherapy:

                         Meeting Clients Where They Are.”

            

       1.5 Continuing Education Credits (1 Opioid Credit)

      Friday May 23, 2025

       Zoom Webinar – Register at shwpa.org

        10:15 – Welcome, Presentation 10:30AM-12:00PM

       

      Program Overview:

      Harm reduction is a humane, person-centered approach to working with persons with substance use disorders that focuses on meeting them where they are at and promoting the individual's personal autonomy. It is in contrast to traditional abstinence-only approaches that ask the patient to initiate abstinence prior to treatment. The presentation will present a case of an opioid-dependent individual with whom this approach produced a positive outcome.

       

       

      Frederick Rotgers, Psy.D., ABPP is a licensed psychologist with over 40 years treating persons with substance use disorders. He obtained a PsyD from Rutgers GSAPP in 1983 and subsequently served as a research professor and faculty member at the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies (Now the Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies). He has published numerous books and articles on the treatment of persons with substance use disorders. He has also directed a substance use disorder treatment program affiliated with the Center and currently maintains a private practice specializing in substance use disorders, anxiety and depression. He also is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

       

      Learning Objectives:

      Participants will


    • 1.    Be able to describe the extent of opioid use and misuse according to most recent  data.

       2. Be able to describe the basic principles of harm reduction.

      3. Be able to list at least three basic techniques of harm reduction approaches.

      4. Be able to identify the ethical challenges when working within a harm reduction framework.       

     

    Dr. Rotgers does not have any commercial support and/or conflict of interest.

    This program’s level of learning is intermediate, and the target audience is psychologists.

    ADA Accommodations available upon written request by emailing Virginia Walters, Psy.D. at virginiawaltersm4@gmail.com no later than May 19, 2025.

    SHWPA Program Fee:  SHWPA Member $50, Non–SHWPA Member $65, Students $15. Online registration & payment can be made at shwpa.org OR by mailing a check payable to SHWPA to Tracy Menzie P.O. Box 644 Lebanon, NJ 08833.  Please note – registration for this program will close on May 19, 2025.

    NJPA CE Credits/ Administrative Fee for 1.5 CE Credits (A separate fee paid to NJPA) must be paid online BEFORE the start of the program.  An NJPA payment link will be emailed after registration and prior to the workshop.  NJPA administrative fees: Sustaining Member – Free, NJPA Member-$15, Non-NJPA Member- $25.   Note: if you are not an NJPA member you may create a non-member account at no charge.  A program evaluation must be completed within seven days of the program date to earn CE credits. 


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