Friday, March 1, 2019

Self-Injury Train­ing for Men­tal Health Professionals

Men­tal Health Pro­fes­sion­als, join KYC’s Clin­i­cal Train­ing Com­mit­tee in a train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty about self-injury. Speak­er Ani­ta A. Madley, MS, LCPC, Direc­tor of Adult Ser­vices and Dialec­ti­cal Behav­ior Ther­a­py at the Cen­ter for Con­tex­tu­al Change, will present this top­ic at Ken­neth Young Cen­ter’s Elk Grove Office. This event is co-spon­sored by the Illi­nois Asso­ci­a­tion for Behav­ioral Health (IABH).

Embrac­ing the Com­plex­i­ty of Self-Injury and Mov­ing Towards Mastery

In this course, Ani­ta Man­d­ley, MS, LCPC will help clin­i­cians devel­op a deep­er under­stand­ing of the com­plex­i­ty of self-injury and pro­vide a frame­work for how men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als can guide clients to imple­ment strate­gies to improve reg­u­la­tion, safe­ty, and sta­bi­liza­tion. This course will explain how clin­i­cians can help clients learn new emo­tion­al man­age­ment pat­terns to trig­ger­ing events. Encour­ag­ing clients to expand aware­ness of their expe­ri­ence in the moment of a trig­ger­ing event can help lead to last­ing improve­ments in the client’s health and safety.

About Ani­ta Man­d­ley, MS, LCPC

Ani­ta Man­d­ley earned her Mas­ters of Sci­ence in Coun­sel­ing from Nation­al-Louis Uni­ver­si­ty and has been the Direc­tor of Adult Ser­vices and Dialec­ti­cal Behav­ior Ther­a­py at the Cen­ter for Con­tex­tu­al Change since 2001. She spe­cial­izes in work­ing with clients with com­plex post-trau­mat­ic stress dis­or­der and with sui­ci­dal and self-inju­ri­ous clients. Before join­ing the Cen­ter for Con­tex­tu­al Change, she held Psy­chi­atric Clin­i­cian posi­tions at Evanston Hos­pi­tal and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go, Billings Hos­pi­tal. She has also led many work­shops dis­cussing Dialec­ti­cal Behav­ior Ther­a­py (DBT), self-injury, and com­plex post-trau­mat­ic stress dis­or­der for local uni­ver­si­ties, health care cen­ters, and com­mu­ni­ty organizations.

Event Infor­ma­tion

CEU’s Pend­ing for LCPC/LCSW and CADC

Date: March 1, 2019

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM 

Loca­tion: The Com­mu­ni­ty Room on the first floor of KYC’s Elk Grove Vil­lage Main Office at 1001 Rohlwing Road Elk Grove Vil­lage, IL 60007 

RSVP: Non-KYC Staff Men­tal Health Pro­fes­sion­als are wel­come to join. The cost of atten­dance is $60.

Ken­neth Young Cen­ter Staff Mem­bers are encour­aged to attend at no cost.

Please con­tact Cheri Seley to RSVP or with ques­tions. Con­ti­nen­tal break­fast will be pro­vid­ed. Please bring your own lunch.