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Conversations on Adolescents Winter/Spring 2012

Treatment Team As Container: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Adolescent Care

Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012
Time: 09:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Place:
     TLC Child and Family Services
     1800 Gravenstein Highway North
     Sebastopol, CA 95473
Cost:
     Free Attendance
     3 CME./CE Credits are available for $30 (All SFCP and Fostering Connection Members and TLC Staff) or $36

The Conversations on Adolescent Series is proud to announce its Winter/Spring Program, a joint offering of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and TLC Child and Family Services. The morning will include presentations on models of treatment, both in-patient and outpatient.

Terrence Owens, Ph.D., Clinical Director and Co-Founder of the Masonic Center For Youth and Families in San Francisco will address the state of adolescent mental health treatment over the past 15 years from the vantage point of an acute in-patient setting. This perspective offers a view of alterations in treatment that have been occurring and the diagnostic trends that have accompanied some of these changes. He will describe the new center in San Francisco containing elements of multi-disciplinary treatment and the collaborative nature of this approach.

Jill Rees, Ph.D. and Scott Masuura, MSW will focus on TLC's work with transgender and gender nonconforming youth. Dr. Rees and Mr. Masuura will describe a team approach to meeting the needs of these adolescents, focusing on affirming their gender identity and integrating them into a residential, school and therapeutic program. Their approach emphasizes an understanding that being gender nonconforming or transgender is not in and of itself a pathology and the importance of creating a safe and open environment where each youth's mental health needs can be addressed and met. Family work as an important aspect of treatment with transgender and gender nonconforming youth will also be discussed.

The program will include discussion with the audience following the presentations.

Dr. Owens is a psychologist and psychoanalyst who treats adults and adolescents in his private practice in San Francisco in addition to Clinical director and co-founder of the Masonic Center for Youth and Families in San Francisco. Dr. Owens is a Graduate and Faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and is the former director of adolescent psychiatry at the McAuley Institute at St. Mary's Medical Center in S.F.

Jill Rees, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and gender specialist working in private practice with gender nonconforming youth and their families. She has been a part of TLC Child and Family Services since 2001, working in the capacities of therapist, social worker, and program developer. She is currently the Residentially Based Services Clinical Director and supervises the case management and residential treatment for all of the residential teens. In addition, Dr. Rees is a staff trainer and facilitator for a teambuilding and leadership training organization that utilizes an outdoor challenge ropes course

Scott Masuura, MSW, has a background of doing work with youth in therapeutic wilderness treatment programs. He has also worked as a behavioral aide, case manager, and therapist. After getting his MSW from Humboldt University in 2010, Mr. Masuura joined TLC as a residential social worker, and is a facilitator for an after school adolescent group.

This program is supported by a grant from Sophia Mirviss Foundation.

Course Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify recent changes and trends in the mental health treatment of children and adolescents
2. Expand their knowledge of multi-disciplinary and multi-modal forms of psychological treatment
3. Apply basic gender terminology to their understanding of gender
4. Analyze the most recent standards of care for gender non-conforming youth and how this is applied in the residential and school settings
5. Assess the unique needs of gender nonconforming and transgender teens and their families

The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

PHYSICIANS: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis designates this educational activity for a maximum of 3 credits as listed for each individual program, AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.

LCSWs/MFTs: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is a provider approved by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider Number PCE623, for 3 CE credits on an hour for hour basis.

PSYCHOLOGISTS: Psychologists attending SFCP events approved for CME credits may report AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward their CE requirements and are now able to directly submit their verification letters at the end of each renewal cycle using the MCEP credit reporting form that can be found on the internet at: http://www.cpapsych.org/associations/6414/files/mcepaa/files/MCEP_Reporting_Form.pdf

REGISTERED NURSES: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 02677, on an hour for hour basis.

SFCP is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SFCP maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

Commercial Support: None

Faculty Disclosure: The following moderators and planning committee members have disclosed NO financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with commercial companies who have provided products or services, relating presentation(s) or commercial support for this continuing medical education activity: Marilynne Kay Kanter, Ph.D., Terrence Owens, Ph.D., Scott Masuura, M.S.W. and Jill Rees, Ph.D.. All conflicts of interest have been resolved in accordance with the ACCME Updated Standards for Commercial Support.