Here is a listing of our current topics. REMEMBER- we will be HAPPY to develop NEW ONES just for your needs!
Responding to Reimbursement Changes in
Your Clinical Practice: Economic Survival Through Advocacy, Market Development, and Professional
Connections
Pharmacology for Rehabilitation Professionals Made Seriously
Simple: From Autism to Spinal Cord Injuries to Alzheimer’s,
with Stops in Between!
PHARMACOLOGY OVERVIEW: - Challenges & Complexities of Treating the Baby Boomer Generation…and Their Parents *Pharmacotherapy, Psychopharmacological, and Psychotherapy Issues
◙ Dissociation- It's NOT Multiple Personality
Disorder! The Patients Who Confuse Therapists
◙ Psychopharmacology made REALLY simple!
◙ The Efficacy of Pharmaceuticals on AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER –What Health Care Providers Need to Know
◙ So You Are Going to be a Witness! When the Legal System and Your Therapy Practice Collide (or, What You Didn’t Learn in Graduate School!)
◙ The Efficacy of Pharmaceuticals on AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER –What Parents and Caregivers Need to Know
◙ Pain and Addiction: Understanding “Why” Pain Occurs -and- “Why” Patients in Pain May Become Addicted to Their Treatments. - A Comparison of Treatment Effectiveness.
◙ Incorporating Complementary and Alternative Therapies into Modern Medicine
◙ The Child with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Your Classroom
◙ What all the legalese means to the practicing educational professional- A review of current legal issues, acronyms, and terms pertaining to persons with AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
◙ Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy: Opportunities, Controversies, and Outcomes. -Understanding Mental Health Medications From a Pathophysiological Approach
◙ A TRANSLATION FROM THE LEGALESE FOR PARENTS AND GUARDIANS: No Child Left Behind, The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act IN LAYMAN’S TERMS
◙ War Trauma: Helping Our Veterans Truly “Come Home” -Interventions for the Family, the Neighborhoods, the Schools, the Employers, and the Religious Community
◙ Your Clinical Practice- Smart, Ethical, Legal
◙ Bipolar Disorder- The Diagnosis du Jour? Nature vs. Nurture- Current Therapeutic Concerns and Interventions
◙ What’s in Your Toolbox? Understanding Antipsychotics, from CATIE to CUtLASS
◙ What’s in Your Toolbox? Mood Stabilizers Demystified
◙ Psychopharmacology of the Now and the Future
◙ Ethical Quandaries in Your Clinical Practice: Legal Exposure and How to Possibly Limit That Exposure
◙ Integrative Therapies: So Much More Than “Complementary and Alternative” Therapies
◙ Co-Occurring Disorders: Mental Health Conditions Not Mutually Exclusive of Substance Abuse Disorders. Separating the Diagnosis and Treatment of Co-Morbid Pathophysiological Disease States (Parts 1, 2, and 3 of a three-part presentation)
◙ ASD and Bipolar Disorder in Our Schools- A Journey from Beginning to Present (or from a Forest Grove Classroom to the U.S. Supreme Court) -When the DSM-IV Gets Tangled with IDEA ____________________________
◙ Maximizing Your Professional Income in a Rotten Economy: New and Exciting Non-Traditional Practice Venues
◙ The Dance of Dissociation: When Your Patient’s Clinical Presentation Confounds You- Intervention Strategies and Treatments
◙ Suicide Response for 911 Dispatchers.
◙ Diversity Training- from Impairment to Ethnicity to Religious Beliefs to Mental Status
◙ The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990- Where We Are 20 Years Later
We have had some requests for a copy of Tom's booklet- Aromatherapy for Health Professionals- the Essential Guide to Essential Oils This is available through this website as either a download or as hard copy booklet. The download (you will need to send us a note through the "Contact Us" link) is $9.95, and will be in a Word or PDF format (your choice.) If you want the hard copy black and white, It's $11.95 plus shipping. The color version is $69.95 plus shipping (we make 36 cents on this- printing is expensive in color!)