Youth Mental Health First Aid
2024-08-15 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Brook Lane Community Room, 13121 Brook Lane, Hagerstown, Maryland, 21742
YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID (YMHFA) is an 8 hour program designed to teach adults how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions related challenge or crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD) and eating disorders. Mental Health First Aid uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to assess a mental health crisis; select interventions and provide initial help; and connect young people to professional, peer, social, and self-help care.

Presenter: Chris Herman, Certified Instructor
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Registration will close on Wednesday, August 7, 2024.
The next training will be offered on October 10, 2024.

Adult Mental Health First Aid
2024-09-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Brook Lane Community Room, 13121 Brook Lane, Hagerstown, Maryland, 21742
The Adult Mental Health First Aid course is an 8-hour program appropriate for anyone 18 years and older who wants to learn how to help a person who may be experiencing a mental health related crisis or problem. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, psychosis, and addictions. The adult course teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help an individual in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Mental Health First Aid uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to assess a mental health crisis, select interventions and provide initial help, and connect people to professional, peer, social, and self-help care.

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Presenter: Curt Miller, Certified Instructor
Registration will close on Tuesday, September 3, 2024.
The next training will be offered on November 20, 2024.

Frederick News Post Summer & Fall Fairs
2024-09-25 11:00 - 14:00 | Goodwill Industries of Monocacy Valley, 1750 Monocacy Blvd. Suite B, Frederick, MD, United States
Join us on September 25th, 2024 from 11AM – 2PM at Goodwill Industries of Monocacy Valley, 1750 Monocacy Blvd. Suite B, Frederick, MD.

75th Anniversary Fall Festival
2024-09-28 11:00 - 15:00 | Brook Lane, 13121 Brook Lane, Hagerstown, Maryland, 21742

Mental Health Law and Ethics: Day-to-Day Treatment Challenges
2024-10-02 08:30 - 12:00 | Beaver Creek Country Club, 9535 Mapleville Rd, Hagerstown, MD, 21740, United States
Annual Clinical, Legal and Ethics Seminar
This program will provide 3 hours of continuing education in ethics, law, professional conduct and risk management to satisfy Maryland licensure requirements.
A suicidal patient refuses treatment. A therapist meets a client for coffee. Divorced parents disagree about a therapist’s recommendation for their child. A client asks to see progress notes. An attorney wants a progress letter. Threats of harm. Out of state clients. Terminating treatment. Complaints to a Licensing Board. The internet sexual exploitation of children and the vulnerable. Join this annual review of what is required ethically and legally in each of these and other day-to-day treatment situations. Judge Dana Moylan Wright will add insights from a legal and judicial point of view. Guests from the State’s Attorney’s Office, the Department of Human Services and the Sheriff’s Department will discuss, from their experience, the mind and strategies of sexual predators to assist therapists as advocates of patient safety.
Participant Learning Objectives:
• Understand the ethical concepts of autonomy,privacy, fidelity and public good as underlying mental health treatment and Codes of Ethics
• Apply the Ethics Codes of the Boards of Social Work Examiners and of Professional Counselors to every day treatment challenges
• Identify Maryland and Federal laws and regulations governing mental health practice
• Respond to the HIPAA mandate of patient access to the full treatment record
• Understand the thinking and strategies of sexual predators to assist therapists as advocates of patient safety
Featuring:
J. Emmet Burke, PhD, JD, Clinical Psychologist, Brook Lane. Dr. Burke holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland
School of Law.
The Honorable Dana Moylan Wright, Circuit Court, Washington County, Maryland. Judge Wright has a special
interest in mental health and has participated in Brook Lane’s annual clinical, legal and ethics seminars for the last
10 years to share with clinicians some of the court’s insight regarding issues of mental health.
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Youth Mental Health First Aid
2024-10-10 07:30 - 17:00 | Brook Lane Community Room, 13121 Brook Lane, Hagerstown, Maryland, 21742
YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID (YMHFA) is an 8 hour program designed to teach adults how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions related challenge or crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Topics include anxiety, depression, substance use, disorders in which psychosis may occur, disruptive behavior disorders (including AD/HD) and eating disorders. Mental Health First Aid uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to assess a mental health crisis; select interventions and provide initial help; and connect young people to professional, peer, social, and self-help care.

Presented by a Certified Instructor
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Registration will close on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

Psychiatric Pharmacology Update
2024-10-17 08:30 - 12:00 | Beaver Creek Country Club, 9535 Mapleville Rd, Hagerstown, MD, 21740, United States
This 3-hour psychopharmacology update will provide comprehensive information on the psychopharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders most commonly encountered in clinical practice. Discussion will include complex and challenging conditions as well as medication-assisted treatment of alcohol and substance use disorder. The latest advances in treatment will be presented.
Participant Learning Objectives:
• List major diagnosis of psychiatric disorders
• Describe the essential components of a psychiatric assessment
• Identify various types of psychiatric medications
• Summarize the management of depression and anxiety disorder
• Explain the importance of integrating psychopharmacology and psychotherapy into patient care
• Apply current evidence-based clinical treatment options for various psychiatric disorders
Featuring:
Jamal Fawaz, MD, LFAP, is an adult psychiatrist practicing with Brook Lane Health Services in Hagerstown, Maryland. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, and is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. His special interests include anxiety, depression, mood disorders, panic disorders, and psychopharmacology.
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Play Therapy: The What, The Why and the How
2024-11-08 08:30 - 12:00 | Beaver Creek Country Club, 9535 Mapleville Rd, Hagerstown, MD, 21740, United States
This hands-on seminar will discuss the history and development of play therapy as well as basic play therapy skills. It will explore numerous ways in which play therapy strategies can be incorporated in the therapeutic process, providing children with the opportunity to present and resolve psychosocial difficulties. Seminar attendees will learn diagnostic play themes, specific play therapy interventions and indicators for adjunctive or alternative services for treating children.
Participant Learning Objectives:
• State important milestones in the development of the play therapy field as an effective intervention
• Review the core principles of play therapy
• Identify and discuss four basic play therapy skills
• Identify basic tools for the playroom
• Recognize diagnostic play themes
• Identify five specific play therapy interventions
• Describe how play therapy can help with assessment, therapeutic goal setting and treatment.
Featuring:
Terri Lancaster, LCPC, NCC, RPT-S, is a licensed clinical professional counselor practicing at The Mental Health Center of Western Maryland in Hagerstown, Maryland. She is also a national certified counselor and a registered play therapist-supervisor and is an active member of the Association for Play Therapy. Terri has over 28 years of experience working with children, families and community mental health.
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Adult Mental Health First Aid
2024-11-20 07:30 - 17:00 | Brook Lane Community Room, 13121 Brook Lane, Hagerstown, Maryland, 21742
The Adult Mental Health First Aid course is an 8-hour program appropriate for anyone 18 years and older who wants to learn how to help a person who may be experiencing a mental health related crisis or problem. Topics covered include anxiety, depression, psychosis, and addictions. The adult course teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help an individual in both crisis and non-crisis situations. Mental Health First Aid uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to assess a mental health crisis, select interventions and provide initial help, and connect people to professional, peer, social, and self-help care.

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Presenter: Curt Miller, Certified Instructor
Registration will close on Tuesday, November 12, 2024.

The Neuroscience of Addiction and Prevention
2024-12-05 08:30 - 11:45 | Beaver Creek Country Club, 9535 Mapleville Rd, Hagerstown, MD, 21740, United States
The growing gap between biological and environmental evolution presents a unique opportunity for exploring the human brain, its strengths and vulnerabilities in an interactive and stimulating way. To really understand substance use disorders (and use that understanding to increase resiliency) we must first understand the brain, especially the evolutionary constraints that have shaped its fundamental structures and functions. This presentation builds on the growing neuroscientific understanding of human behavior to explain the intrinsic vulnerabilities that emerge from the interaction of biological and environmental substance use actors and the impact that drug abuse has on brain circuitry and behavior. It also will explore the rationale behind the development of evidence-based prevention and treatment approaches in addiction.
Participant Learning Objectives:
• Have a greater understanding of the structure, function, & evolution of the human brain
• Understand the effects of addictive drugs: focus on the dopaminergic synapse and the neurophysiological changes that underlie substance use disorders
• Explain inter-individual differences in risk: the multifactorial phenomena behind the fact that not every person exposed to an addictive substance develops a substance use disorder
• Recognize leveraging the current understanding of the brain and the allure & effects of addictive drugs to develop effective prevention strategies and programs
• Describe the nature & role of various evidence-based interventions designed to alleviate and/or reverse the devastating impact of addictive drugs
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Featuring:
Dr. Ruben Baler, PhD, joined the Science Policy Branch in NIDA’s Office of Science Policy and Communications in October 2004 as a Health Science Administrator. He has gathered critical insight from diverse disciplines, which he combines to advance NIDA’s scientific mission as it intersects with cellular and molecular biology, genetics, immunology, bioinformatics, neuroscience, and neuroethics. Dr. Baler’s many contributions to other dissemination efforts include scientific writing, teaching, public speaking to lay audiences, and fielding interview requests. He received his PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Biology from the University of Miami.
