Culture in Treatment

Working from their mutual foundation and years of experience working within a diverse community, Doctors Strauss and Grajeda will review the importance of cultural awareness and clinician cultural competency. Additionally, participants will obtain a brief overview Latino-specific therapeutic culture concepts which have become increasingly critical knowledge within the helping fields.

Educational Objectives:

• Participants will review the definition of cultural awareness and the concepts behind it;
• Participants will understand necessity of clinician cultural competency;
• Participants will obtain a brief overview of Latino culture concepts that are valuable in providing therapy.

Presented by:

Kristine Strauss, PsyD, CADC and Sergio Grajeda, MD, PhD, LCSW, CADC, LSOTP, LSOE

Ethics in the Workplace

Ethical Standards are used to give direction to counselors in making decisions concerning their relationship with their clients, peers and society. Each discipline has it’s own, but all share some commonalities. This workshop will review the Ethical Standards of the National Association of Social Workers, American Counseling Association and the Illinois Certification Board and provide the opportunity to discuss and practice applying the standards in various scenarios.

Educational Objectives:

• Participants will be able to demonstrate knowledge on current ethical standards for being a counselor;
• Participants will be able to apply ethical standards to real life situations and identify the reasoning behind such application;
• Participants will be able to demonstrate clear decision making in situations where ambiguity exists regarding ethical standards

Presented by:

Robert Snipes, CADC

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6 CEU’s available for

ICB, LSW, LCSW, LPC, & LCPC’s

(ICB was formerly known as IAODAPCA)

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Presenter Bios:

Kristine Strauss, PsyD, CADC has been involved in the development, implementation and participation in specialty/problem solving courts. She has provided sex offender and domestic violence specific evaluations and treatments, restoration to fitness evaluation and treatment, substance use evaluation and outpatient treatment, anger management assessment and treatment, facilitation of parenting classes, and psychological testing. Dr. Strauss also has experience in creating and facilitating psychosocial rehabilitation groups for the chronically mentally ill. Additionally, she has conducted emergency department assessments for behavioral health admissions. Dr. Strauss has provided trainings for clinicians, Illinois public defenders, probation officers, and various officers of the Court. a co-develop the skills and attitudes necessary for major life changes.

Sergio Grajeda, MD, PhD, LCSW, CADC, LSOTP, LSOE has extensive training in adult and juvenile forensic treatment including sex offender specific treatment, sexually reactive children, survivors of sexual abuse, substance use and anger management treatment. Additionally, Dr. Grajeda has worked in the medical field, both as a practitioner and a social worker. Most recently, he began working with the homeless veterans population. Dr. Grajeda has worked for numerous years in the under-served Latino community in the Chicago-land area.

Robert Snipes CADC is a graduate of the Addictions Counseling program at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn IL in 2000. He has worked as Recovery Home Manager, Counselor at the Illinois Department of Human Services, Lead Counselor for a DUI Service Provider, Director of Outpatient Services and currently Director of Intensive Residential Treatment at Stepping Stones in Joliet IL. He has been directly involved in developing policy and procedures, presentations on Recovery Planning, Continued Stay Reviews based on ASAM Criteria and has been instrumental in developing procedures and modalities for working with individuals addicted to Heroin and other opioids.

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