JASON SCHIFFMAN, Ph.D.

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 9:00am – 11:00am (PST)

CE Credits: 2 hours (will only be granted to those who attend the entire program and complete an evaluation)

Inspired by the growing recognition that early intervention leads to better outcomes among people along a continuum for psychosis, efforts to identify people at clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis have grown exponentially in the past decade. Gains in identification and assessment have been propelled by advanced statistically derived formulas based on large samples. Although this macro-level process has been productive for many, this approach has focused primarily on White people, evolving from a mental health system grounded in White culture. Typical CHR interview practices such as those employed with the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes (SIPS) may in some cases not fully honor individual differences of those being evaluated. As a result, existing practices can fail to identify some individuals from marginalized communities who are at risk for psychosis, while at the same time misdiagnose others. Evidence suggests that conditions associated with marginalized identities such as the stress of immigrant status, being “othered” as an ethnic/racial minority, and exposure to neighborhood crime and trauma increase risk for developing psychosis-spectrum disorders. Simultaneously, contextual or environmental factors can lead to endorsing items – particularly those related to suspiciousness – on CHR assessment tools when the underlying mechanism is unrelated to psychosis. Whether potentiating the development of psychosis, or creating a context where measurement error leads to over/mis-pathologizing, or both, accurate conceptualization of a person’s situation through the use of psychometrically valid strategies across diverse populations is critical. This talk grapples with contemporary factors related to the disparate assessment of psychosis across racial/ethnic groups, discussing how responses to discrimination, crime, and/or trauma may be causally or concurrently (or concurrently that leads to causality) linked to psychosis risk symptoms. The validity of common assessment measures is described among Black people, and in the context of high-crime neighborhoods, with findings suggesting a need for focused attention towards intercultural and contextual responsivity. Further, assumptions inherent in certain risk assessment questions are scrutinized to assess if behaviors or beliefs considered problematic if observed among White people are equally predictive among minority groups (e.g., belief in superstitions, déjà vu, having special talents, religious convictions). Ultimately, this talk asserts that a lack of cultural/contextual consideration, as well as a lack of validated measures for marginalized groups, can lead to diagnostic confusion, false-positives, and large-scale health disparities, especially in the context of federal funding that is actively encouraging growth to scale in this area. The talk concludes with steps clinicians, researchers, and leaders can take to challenge the status quo in the service of making assessment of risk more inclusive and accurate.

See our Cultural and Contextual Considerations in the Early Identification of Risk for Psychosis flyer for more information.

JESSICA ELDRIDGE, Ph.D.

Thursday, September 21, 2023, 10:30am – 12:00pm (PST)

CE Credits: 1.5 (will only be granted to those who attend the entire program and work at UCI)

In this 90-minute continuing education session, participants will experience one part of the workshop series (Stitch to Advocate) along with the accompanying embroidery project. Participants will be provided supplies and instruction to begin a simple embroidery project to stitch throughout the session. Stitch to Advocate presents information on the use of handmade crafts in advocacy and social justice work. Crafting provides an avenue for people to use their voices to bring awareness to and/or express dissent with issues. It is a way to feel connected with one’s authentic self and to ground oneself in times of chaos, and a way to bring people together and express the strength of their collective voices. Participants will learn how crafts can be used to raise awareness about issues of concern as well as to connect with and express their authentic selves in relation to their causes and through their use of craft.

See our Why Make Things? Part 3 – Stitch to Advocate flyer for more information.

YLENA SHAYNE, PSY.D.

Friday, July 7 2023, 9:00am – 11:00am (PST)

CE Credits: 2 (will only be granted to those who attend the entire program and work at UCI)

As an increasing number of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder transition into college and university settings, it has become increasingly import for University and College Counseling clinicians to understand the unique nature of those students’ experiences in order to support their successful completion of associate and/or undergraduate degrees. This presentation will help clinicians better understand the experience of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder while on college/university campuses, including clinical presentation and barriers to seeking assistance, general therapeutic interventions that have shown to be effective when working with this population, and provision of sensitive, supportive, and empowering clinical care.

See our Working with Students with ASD flyer for more information.

MANNY TAU, Psy.D., CTM

Thursday, September 21, 2023, 8:30am – 10:00am (PST)

CE Credits: 1.5 (will only be granted to those who attend the entire program and work at UCI)

Dr. Manny Tau is a clinical & forensic psychologist specialized in threat assessments and active threat management, and a Certified Threat Manager by the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. He has been extensively used as a workplace/school-place/personal violence and threat management consultant throughout the United States. He also works with many recognized federal, state, county, city and private organizations in the development of their violence prevention programs and the implementation of Threat Management Teams, along with providing expert consultation and testimony for attorneys in the labor & employment, civil, criminal and family law arenas. Dr. Tau has over 25 years of experience performing threat assessment and threat management services in the private and public sectors, which included support of law enforcement agencies and professional security firms. Dr. Tau has provided trainings related to threat assessments and threat management, which included seminars/trainings for the California Bar Association, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the Supreme Court of Nevada, the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department Threat Assessment Group, the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals Annual Threat Management Conferences, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has appeared in newsprint, radio, television and Internet media. Dr. Tau was also an invited TED Talk speaker for TEDx Mission Viejo in October 2016. More information can be found at NoThreat.com.

See our A Primer on Threat Assessments for Targeted Violence flyer for more information.

JENNIFER BESSEL, PH.D.

Friday, January 6 2023, 9:00am – 10:30am (PST)

CE Credits: 1.5 (will only be granted to those who attend the entire program and work at UCI)

This presentation will help clinicians to understand the world of a Division I Student Athlete. Mental health is an important dimension of student athlete well-being and exists on a continuum from resilience that facilitates functioning to mental health disorders that can moderately to severely disrupt functioning (NCAA, 2017). Recent studies show college athletes are susceptible to problems such as depression, suicidal ideation, alcohol and substance use, and disordered eating (NCAA, 2017). However, studies suggest that college athletes are reluctant to seek help for these problems, placing them at higher risk for behavior health problems (Barnhard, 2016). Providing culturally competent services that strives to understand how mental health is experienced and viewed in the sport world is an important aspect in working with student athletes (Prior, et al, 2022). At the conclusion of the workshop, participants should be familiarized with key aspects of being a student-athlete, how stress and demands of athletics play a part in student-athlete mental health and assessing for mental health disorders in student-athletes.

See our Working with Student Athletes flyer for more information.

MICHAEL FIRST, M.D.

Monday, October 3, 2022, 9:30am – 11:00am (PST)

CE Credits: 1.5 (will only be granted to those who attend the entire program and work at UCI)

The DSM-5 text revision (DSM-5-TR) is the first published revision of DSM-5 since its original publication in 2013. This presentation will cover the rationale for the DSM-5-TR as well as the revision process, and will then focus on the most clinically important changes. These include addition of diagnostic categories (prolonged grief disorder; stimulant-induced mild neurocognitive disorder, unspecified mood disorder, and a category to indicate the absence of a diagnosis), the provision of ICD-10-CM symptom codes for reporting suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behavior, modifications of selected the diagnostic criteria (persistent depressive disorder, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, delirium) and updates in terminology (e.g., replacing “neuroleptic medications” with “antipsychotic medications or other dopamine receptor blocking agents” throughout the text and replacing “desired gender” with “experienced gender” in the text for Gender Dysphoria).

See our DSM-5 TR Training Flyer for more information.

YURI CHOI, PH.D. & SHUCHANG KANG PH.D. 

Friday, August 27, 2021, 8:30am-11:50am

Eating disorders (ED) are serious conditions that can have a profound mental and/or physical impact, however, recovery is achievable with good prognosis being associated with early intervention (Chesney, Goodwin, & Fazel, 2014). ED commonly begin during adolescence or young adulthood (APA, 2013), which overlaps with the age of the majority of the college population. Hence, it is important for mental health providers working at university counseling centers to be able to understand common issues related to disordered eating and ED, accurately assess, and provide short-term service (e.g., ED therapeutic assessment) as appropriate and/or provide referrals for ED treatment (i.e., following the American Psychiatric Association Level of Care Guidelines; APA, 2006). Additionally, ED affect everyone regardless of gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other identities (e.g., Eisenberg et al., 2011) with marginalized populations being disproportionately impacted (e.g., Diemer et al., 2015; Marques, et al., 2011; Wade, Keski-Rahkonen, & Hudson, 2011). As our college population is becoming more and more diverse, it is crucial for mental health providers working at university counseling centers to provide culturally sensitive assessment and interventions for ED. At the conclusions of the workshop, participants should be familiarized with ED assessment, intervention, and common issues related to disordered eating and ED, including multicultural considerations, within the college mental health context.

Navigating Eating Disorders Workshop Flyer

CARMEN CRUZ, PSY.D.

Monday, March 21, 2022, 9:00am-4:30pm

The purpose of this training is to review aspects of competency-based clinical supervision as well as multicultural and relational supervision models. Special attention will be provided to supervisor awareness and insight about how their own diversity identity variables impact supervisory alliances. Participants will also engage in self-reflection regarding how issues of power are explored, or not, within a supervisory relationship as well as bi-directional microaggressions in the supervision process.

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M. DAVID RUDD, PH.D., ABPP

Thursday Dec. 12th, 2019 9am-4:30pm

An empirically validated brief cognitive therapy (BCBT) for the assessment and treatment of suicide risk will be covered. A key part of the model is the construct of hope, recognizing that hope is a skill with identifiable component parts. The BCBT model applies to all aspects of clinical care, including assessment, day to day clinical management and ongoing treatment. Critical elements include an understanding of motivation to die and suicide intent, along with empirically validated clinical interventions including a commitment to treatment statement, crisis response planning/safety planning, methods restriction, and targeted skill development and self-management. Clinical cases will be integrated and particular interventions demonstrated.

KIMBERLY BURDINE, PH.D.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 1:00pm-4:00pm

The current U.S. political climate is ripe with leaders asserting ideas about and plans to help all citizens achieve the “American Dream”. This dream is predicated on what Franklin (1999) outlined as achieving visibility, which includes the pursuit of validation, legitimacy, respect, dignity, recognition, satisfaction, and identity. Systemic oppression, microaggression, marginalization, and culturally motivated violence disrupt visibility for people of color (POC) (Franklin, 1999). The cumulative effects of these factors significantly impact psychological wellbeing (Brownson et al., 2012; Bryant-Davis & Ocampo, 2006; Cabral & Smith, 2011; Franklin, 1999; Smith, Chesin & Jeglic, 2014). Pairing clients with clinicians of similar racial identity, modifying treatment conceptualization and approach to fit the POC experience, and honing non-POC clinicians’ diversity consciousness have been identified as effective strategies (Bryant-Davis & Ocampo, 2006; Cabral & Smith, 2011).

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MANDY MOUNT, PH.D., KATY DORSHEIMER, PH,D., AND LISSA LIM, PH.D.

June 21, 2017

Funded by US Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women Campus Grant to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking on Campus (Award #: OVW 2014-WA-AX-007). Sponsored by UCI Care Office and presented by UCI Counseling Center.

JEANNE MANESE, PH.D AND THEODORE BURNES, PH.D

June 27, 2018

The purpose of this six hour training is to examine a diversity of evidence-based approaches to conduct multicultural supervision. The training includes models, applications and interventions applicable to a wide variety of training situations in which social justice and multiculturalism are central. The Guidelines for Clinical Supervision in Health Service Psychology are also core principles for discussing various aspects of the supervisor role, including ethics, relationship building, addressing issues in competence and development, and assessment, evaluation, and feedback. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss important topics such as intersectionality, cultural humility, and mentoring as a foundational practice in multicultural supervision.

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KULWINDER (KARAN) SINGH, PH.D.

December 18, 2017

(BETTER TOGETHER – CULTURALLY MINDFUL PRACTICE)

December 15-16, 2016

The University of California, Irvine Counseling Center provided Continuing Education (CE) credit to all licensed mental health professionals who attended CE approved courses at the 2016 Mental Health Cultural Competency Summit.

BARBARA OLASOV ROTHBAUM, PH.D.

August 24-25, 2015

The Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) for PTSD training was presented by the UC Irvine Counseling Center. Funded by the O’Donoghue Foundation and sponsored by UCI’s Heroes at Home Program, the VA Desert Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center and the Long Beach VA Healthcare System. 

SUZY HARRINGTON, DNP, RN, MCHES, SONJA LYUBOMIRSKY, PH.D., AND AYDIN NAZMI, PH.D.

April 23-24, 2015

The University of California, Irvine Counseling Center in collaboration with Building Healthy Academic Communities, The Ohio State University and UCI Wellness, Health and Counseling Services offered continuing education opportunities for health educators and social workers.

DAVID M CIMBORA, PH.D.

December 17, 2014

THEODORE R. BURNES, PH.D.

September 23, 2014

EMIL RODOLFA, PH.D.

June 19, 2014

LAURA COPLAND, M.A, LMHC

January 7-8, 2014

Presented by the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) and hosted by the UC Irvine, Counseling Center.