8535 Tom Slick, San Antonio, TX 78229

210.616.0300 / Toll free: 877.676.KIDS

www.claritycgc.org/claritycon2014
CONF E RE NCE S CHE DUL E
Day 1 Thursday, June 12, 2014
7:30 AM REGISTRATION & EXHIBITORS OPEN
8:15 AM Breakfast/Welcome & Introductions
Fred Hines, President & CEO, Clarity Child Guidance Center
8:30 - 9:50 AM 1. Keynote Address - Understanding Children with Learning & Behavioral
Challenges: Successful Approaches to Supporting Students
Ellen Braaten, PhD
10:00 AM BLOCK ONE
10:00 - 11:20 AM 2. Session - Bright Kids Who Cant Keep Up
Ellen Braaten, PhD
10:00 - 11:20 AM 3. Session - Nervous about DSM-5 Fear Not! Everything a Child & Family
Mental Health Professional Should Know
Melissa Deuter, MD
10:00 - 11:20 AM 4. Session - Neuroscience and Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
Rowland Folensbee, PhD
10:00 - 11:20 AM 5. Session - Building Bridges: How to Build Collaboration Between
Mental Health Workers and Schools
Krista Garcia - Principal and John Reynolds, LSSP, BCBA - Holmgreen HS
10:00 - 11:20 AM 6. Session - Ethics in the 21st Century
Bernadette Solrzano, PsyD
11:30 - 12:15 PM LUNCH
12:15 - 1:15 PM 7. Luncheon - Post Luncheon Speaker
Kay Warren - A Mothers Journey
1:30 PM BLOCK TWO
1:30 - 3:00 PM 8. Session - Adolescent Brain Development
Jeannie Von Stultz, PhD
1:30 - 3:00 PM 9. Session - A Time Between: Adolescence and the Emergence
of Suicidal Behaviors
Charles Mathias, PhD
1:30 - 3:00 PM 10. Session - Autism and Aggression: Strategies for Success
Steven Gonzalez, PhD, BCBA-D
June 12 & 13, 2014
El Tropicano Riverwalk, 110 Lexington Ave., San Antonio, TX 78205.
8535 Tom Slick, San Antonio, TX 78229
210.616.0300 / Toll free: 877.676.KIDS
www.claritycgc.org/claritycon2014
June 12 & 13, 2014
El Tropicano Riverwalk, 110 Lexington Ave., San Antonio, TX 78205.
CONF E RE NCE S CHE DUL E
Day 1 Thursday, June 12, 2014
1:30 - 3:00 PM 11. Session - Speaking to the Unconscious: Psychosis and Psychotherapy
Jeffrey Grimes, PhD
1:30 - 3:00 PM 12. Session - Sand & Stone - Using Mandalas in a Therapeutic Environment -
An Introduction to the Works of Registered Art Therapists Joan Kellogg
and Susanne Fincher
Melissa Dilworth, LPC-AT/S, ATR-BC, RPT/S
3:15 PM BLOCK THREE
3:15 - 4:45 PM 13. Session - Sand & Stone - Using Mandalas in a Therapeutic Environment-
An Experiential and Play Intervention Creating Mandalas Using Natural
Elements in a Circular Sandtray
Melissa Dilworth, LPC-AT/S, ATR-BC, RPT/S
3:15 - 4:45 PM 14. Session - Chaos to Connection: Theory and Method of Process
Oriented Adolescent Group Therapy
Joshua Essery, PsyD, Toby Lynch, MA and Schlomit Kirsch, MA
3:15 - 4:45 PM 15. Session - Mental Health Disorders in Latinos
Soad Michelsen, MD
3:15 - 4:45 PM 16. Session - Bullying and the Impact on Childrens Mental Health
Faith Harper, PhD, LPC-S, QMHP-CS, QIDP
3:15 - 4:45 PM 17. Session - Navigating the Addicted Teen: Information, Strategies, and
Resources for Professionals Working with Adolescents
Chad Warner, LCDC and Noral F. Armstrong, LPC
Day 2 Friday, June 13, 2014
7:30 AM REGISTRATION & EXHIBITORS OPEN
8:15 AM Breakfast/Welcome & Introductions
Fred Hines, President & CEO, Clarity Child Guidance Center
8:30 - 9:30 AM Keynote Address - 18. Session - ADHD: Managing Complicated
and Difcult-to-Treat Cases
Steven Pliszka, MD
8535 Tom Slick, San Antonio, TX 78229
210.616.0300 / Toll free: 877.676.KIDS
www.claritycgc.org/claritycon2014
June 12 & 13, 2014
El Tropicano Riverwalk, 110 Lexington Ave., San Antonio, TX 78205.
CONF E RE NCE S CHE DUL E
Day 2 Friday, June 13, 2014
9:40 AM BLOCK FOUR
9:45 - 11:15 AM 19. Session - Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care:
Best Practices to Help a Depressed Child - Panel -
Steven Pliszka, MD (Moderator), Eduardo Sanchez, MS, RN, CPNP, Clinica Del Norte,
Mercedes Vaughn, PROXIMA Therapist, Clinica del Norte, Karla Rivera, MD, University
Health System and Armando Garza, MD, La Altura Pediatrics
9:45 - 11:15 AM 20. Session - Chaos to Connection: Theory and Method of Process
Oriented Adolescent Group Therapy
Joshua Essery, PsyD, Toby Lynch, MA and Schlomit Kirsch, MA
9:45 - 11:15 AM 21. Session - Identifying Child Sex Trafc Victims -
A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Eliseo Mata and Scott Pool, Bexar County Juvenile Probation Dept Gang Unit
9:45 - 11:15 AM 22. Session - Therapeutic Approaches to Suicidal Ideation Among Children
and Adolescents
Lizette Nale, MA, LPC-S, NCC