KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - ADOLESCENTS CONFERENCE
MICHAEL S. ROBBINS, PHD
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Dr. Michael S. Robbins has been on
faculty in the University of Miami School of Medicine's Center for
Family Studies since June 1995. Dr. Robbins' primary research interest
is in examining process and outcome in family-based interventions
with drug using, behavior problem adolescents. He currently is principal
investigator on four research projects funded by the National Institute
on Drug Abuse. He also is principal investigator on a clinical service
project that provides parent training and family therapy services
to more than 100 severely delinquent youth per year. For the past
5 years, Dr. Robbins has led two of the most unique studies in the
family therapy field. The first study is a clinical trial study
comparing an ecological approach to traditional family therapy services.
This study represents the first attempt to |
determine if multisystemic interventions
outperform traditional family therapy. The second study is a process
study that is examining in-session therapist interventions and family
processes that predict dropout from family therapy. Using data from
three empirically-validated family approaches, this study seeks
to identify core processes that cut across clinical models and ethnic
groups.
Dr. Robbins has published several articles and chapters in the area
of family therapy process and outcome research, and he is currently
co-editing the next Handbook of Family Therapy. |
CONSTANCE BURGESS
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Constance T. Burgess is head of C.
Burgess Consulting & Associates and a family partner, consultant,
keynote speaker and national provider of training and technical
assistance. On the national front, her talents and skills are frequently
contracted by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for Children's
System of Care technical assistance, federal grant peer review committees
and federal strategic planning sessions. She was instrumental in
the shaping of United Advocates for Children of California, a statewide
family organization, steering its development into an entity with
a first of its kind nationwide scope in family organization development.
Her areas of effective experience include wraparound, systems of
care development, learning organizations, |
| family involvement, cultural competence
and interagency collaboration. |
MARSHALL SWENSON, MSW, MBA
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Marshall E. Swenson, MSW, MBA received
his MSW in Clinical Social Work from the University of Arkansas
at Little Rock in 1978 and his MBA from Centenary College of ;Shreveport,
Louisiana in 1987. He currently serves as Manager for Program Development
for Multisystemic Therapy Services (MST). In addition, he is a Clinical
Instructor at the Medical University of South Carolina, Department
of Psychiatry, Family Services Research Center. Prior to joining
the MST team, he developed and served as administrator/social worker
of a children's day treatment program. Prior to that, he was the
state coordinator of a community assistance program. He has also
worked with adolescents and young adults as a school social worker,
a group home social worker, a half-way house administrator/social
worker, and as an institutionally-based case management supervisor.
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WORKSHOP SPEAKERS - PREVENTION CONFERENCE
JAMES ALEXANDER, PHD
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James F. Alexander, PhD is Professor
of Psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He is Co-Principal Investigator for the Center for Treatment Research
on Adolescent Drug Abuse and Co-Director for NIDA Post-Doctoral
Research Training Program. His research Interests include the development
and empirical refinement of family therapy model for work with juvenile
delinquents and their families and process and outcome studies.
Along with B. V. Parsons, he developed Functional Family Therapy
(FFT), a nationally and internationally acclaimed and empirically
demonstrated intervention model for juvenile delinquents, oppositional
and conduct-disordered youth, and substance abusing youth. Along
with being designated a Blueprint Program by the Center for the
Study and Prevention of Violence, FFT also |
| received similar designations as
an "Exemplary Program," "Best Practice," and
"Evidence-Based Effective Program." |
BARBARA ANGER-DIAZ, PHD
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Barbara Anger-Diaz, PhD
has been with Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California
since 1991 and has co-directed its Latino Brief Therapy Center since
1994. She received her doctorate at the Universidad Iberoamaricana
in Mexico City in 1987. Of particular interest to her is the question
of how to "motivate" or influence clients to change and
the therapist's therapeutic stance, i.e., "position" while
interacting with clients. |
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CONSTANCE BURGESS
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Constance T. Burgess is head of C.
Burgess Consulting & Associates and a family partner, consultant,
keynote speaker and national provider of training and technical
assistance. On the national front, her talents and skills are frequently
contracted by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) and Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for Children's
System of Care technical assistance, federal grant peer review committees
and federal strategic planning sessions. She was instrumental in
the shaping of United Advocates for Children of California, a statewide
family organization, steering its development into an entity with
a first of its kind nationwide scope in family organization development.
Her areas of effective experience include wraparound, systems of
care development, learning organizations, |
| family involvement, cultural competence
and interagency collaboration. |
ROLLIN MCCRATY, PHD
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Rollin McCraty, PhD is Director of
Research for the HeartMath Research Center at the Institute of HeartMath.
Dr. McCraty is a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress, and
member of the International Neurocardiology Network, the American
Autonomic Society, the Pavlovian Society and the Association for
Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Dr. McCraty and his research
team regularly participate in collaborative studies with other U.S.
and international scientific, medical and educational institutions;
they have worked in joint partnership with research groups at Stanford
University, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Southampton
General Hospital (England) and the Miami Heart Research Institute,
among others. Research has been published in journals such as the
American |
| Journal of Cardiology, Journal of
the American College of Cardiology, Stress Medicine, Biological
Psychology and Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science.
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DAVID MEE-LEE, MD
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David Mee-Lee, MD is
a board-certified psychiatrist with a Certificate of Added Qualification
in Addiction Psychiatry. In the past twenty years, he has focused
on developing and promoting innovative behavioral health treatment
that values clinical integrity, high quality and cost-consciousness.
He is chair of the Criteria Committee and Standards and Economics
of Care Section of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
and is chair of the Coalition for National Clinical Criteria. He
was one of the authors of the Cleveland Criteria; and has chaired
the development process of the ASAM Criteria from its beginning
with the first edition of the ASAM Criteria published in 1991; the
second edition of the ASAM Criteria, PPC-2, released in April 1995
and the current revision as well. |
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ROBERT A. REES, PHD
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Robert A. Rees, PhD is
Director of Education and Humanities, the Institute of HeartMath.
Before coming to HeartMath, Dr. Rees taught and worked in administration
at UCLA for twenty five years. He is the author of numerous scholarly
studies in the Humanities and is a published poet, playwright and
filmmaker. Dr. Rees is responsible for developing educational applications
of the HeartMath system and is the director of the HeartMath Discovery
Program for Substance Abuse. |
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MICHAEL S. ROBBINS, PHD
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Dr. Michael S. Robbins received his
clinical psychology Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1995. He
completed his internship at the University of Miami School of Medicine/Jackson
Memorial Hospital, and has been on faculty in the University of
Miami School of Medicine's Center for Family Studies since June
1995. Dr. Robbins' primary research interest is in examining process
and outcome in family-based interventions with drug using, behavior
problem adolescents. He currently is principal investigator on four
research projects funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
He also is principal investigator on a clinical service project
that provides parent training and family therapy services to more
than 100 severely delinquent youth per year. For the past 5 years,
Dr. Robbins has led two of the most unique
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studies in the family therapy field.
The first study is a clinical trial study comparing an ecological
approach to traditional family therapy services. This study represents
the first attempt to determine ifmultisystemic interventions outperform
traditional family therapy. The second study is a process study
that is examining in-session therapist interventions and family
processes that predict dropout from family therapy. Using data from
three empirically-validated family approaches, this study seeks
to identify core processes that cut across clinical models and ethnic
groups.
Dr. Robbins has published several articles and chapters in the area
of family therapy process and outcome research, and he is currently
co-editing the next Handbook of Family Therapy. |
ABRAM ROSENBLATT, PHD
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Abram Rosenblatt, Ph.D. is Associate
Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where
he serves as Director of Research for the Child Services Research
Group. He is also a Co-Investigator with the National Institute
of Mental Health-funded Center for Mental Health Services Research
at the University of California's Berkeley and San Francisco campuses.
Dr. Rosenblatt earned the B.A. degree in Psychology from the University
of California, San Diego and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Clinical
Psychology from the University of Arizona. He is an associate editor
of the Journal of Child and Family Studies, and is a member of the
editorial boards of Mental Health Services Research and the Journal
of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. He was a participant in the
recently released U.S. Surgeon General's Report on
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| Mental Health, was a member of the
California Little Hoover Commission's select mental health advisory
group, and has served on numerous national panels and Initial Review
Groups convened by the National Institute of Mental Health, and
the Center for Mental Health Services. He is the author or co-author
of over 40 publications, with a predominant focus on studies of
the costs and outcomes of children's mental health services. Dr.
Rosenblatt is currently the principal investigator of a series of
interwoven research projects evaluating the costs and outcomes of
the California System of Care Model for youth with severe emotional
disturbance that is being implemented across all of California's
58 counties. |
KARIN SCHLANGER, MFT
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Karin Schlanger, MFT
is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied clinical
psychology and received her degree from the Universidad de Buenos
Aires in 1982, where she first learned about the Mental Research
Institute and brief therapy as an approach to solving problems.
Currently, she is the Assistant Director of the Brief Therapy Center,
and codirector and founder of the Latino Brief Therapy Center at
MRI. Last year she co-authored the book Brief Therapy with Intimidating
Cases: Changing the Unchangeable. |
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THOMAS L. SEXTON, PHD
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Thomas L. Sexton, PhD is a Professor
in the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology at Indiana
University in Bloomington, Indiana. In that role he is the Director
of the Clinical Training Center, Director of the Center for Adolescent
and Family Studies, and teaches in the APA accredited Counseling
Psychology Program. Tom has written extensively in the areas of
outcome research and its implications for clinical practice and
training. In addition, he is a national expert on family-based treatment
interventions for at-risk adolescents. Tom is the author of four
books and over 35 professional articles and chapters in the areas
of marriage and family therapy and counseling outcome research.
He is also the Clinical Training and Externship coordinator for
the Functional Family Therapy Project. In that role, he has presented
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| workshops on Functional Family Therapy
both nationally and internationally. He is a licensed Psychologist,
member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the American
Counseling Association (ACA), and an Approved Supervisor in the
American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). |
MARSHALL SWENSON, MSW, MBA
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Marshall E. Swenson,
MSW, MBA received his MSW in Clinical Social Work from the University
of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1978 and his MBA from Centenary College
of Shreveport, Louisiana in 1987. He currently serves as Manager
for Program Development for Multisystemic Therapy Services (MST).
In addition, he is a Clinical Instructor at the Medical University
of South Carolina, Department of Psychiatry, Family Services Research
Center. Prior to joining the MST team, he developed and served as
administrator/social worker of a children's day treatment program.
Prior to that, he was the state coordinator of a community assistance
program. He has also worked with adolescents and young adults as
a school social worker, a group home social worker, a half-way house
administrator/social worker, and as an institutionally-based case
management supervisor. |
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