2008 CAPS Conference: Schedule
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Thursday 5:00- 6:45 pm
Volunteer Training Session and Pizza Party in PAVON ROOM (outside and downstairs); this is a required meeting for student volunteers, where you will receive training, get your job assignments, and enjoy a meal with your fellow volunteers.
Thursday 7:00-9:00 pm
Opening Plenary Session…..join us in Kiva Ballrooms B&C for a time of worship and praise, and announcements about this year’s conference. Hear internationally known speaker, author, and therapist, Dr. John Trent, and start accumulating your continuing education credits. Stay afterward for our Welcome Reception!
PL1
The Blessing: Implications for Building Strong Relationships as an Adult from the Presence or Absence of Demonstrated Love and Affection in One’s Home as a Child
Kiva Ballroom B & C (1 CE) All Levels Paper
John Trent, Ph.D., President, The Center for StrongFamilies
This presentation links five clinically substantiated traits of strong families that can become elements for parents and key care-givers to provide a child a foundation of trust, connection and closeness in early life, significantly and positively affecting later life relationships. Implications for counselors and therapists working with both individuals, and couples, will be shared.
Learning objective 1: Participants will learn about five, specific, positive elements that are shared traits in studies of strong families.
Learning objective 2: Case studies and clinical literature will be shared that demonstrate the negative impact on later life relationships when a child “misses” their parent’s “blessing” – those five core elements present in strong families.
Learning objective 3: Implications, tools and techniques for those doing individual as well as marriage counseling will be shared, to provide a framework for dealing with those who received or missed those core elements.
Thursday, 9:00-10:30 pm
WELCOME RECEPTION….please join us in the foyer and atrium areas outside the Kiva Ballrooms and inside Kiva Ballroom A for food and fellowship. Visit the bookstore and exhibits in Kiva Ballroom A.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Friday 7:00-8:30 am
All CAPS Regional Boards will meet in various sections of the Zuni Grill restaurant off the hotel lobby.
Friday 8:45-10:00 am
PL2….Plenary Session
What are Bodies for?: Exploring the Implications of Embodiment
Kiva Ballroom B & C (1 CE) Introductory Paper
Elizabeth Hall, Ph.D., Rosemead School of Psychology
In exploring what healthy embodiment looks like, this presentation will survey psychological research which explores the functionality of the body, including its role in perception, emotions, sexuality, and in placement. In addition, distortions in the experience of the body will be examined, primarily through the lenses of self-objectification theory (Fredrickson & Robert, 1997, Psychology of Women Quarterly), a psychological theory that has received much attention in recent years because of its ability to explain a variety of psychological symptoms in women. A case study will illustrate how paying attention to bodily issues can enhance psychological treatment.
Learning objective 1: Participants will be able to describe modern and postmodern conceptions of the body and the resulting distortions in embodiment.
Learning objective 2: Identify psychological/theological answers to these problems through understanding the telos of bodies.
Learning objective 3: Understand the implications of this model for clinical work, pedagogy, and self-care.
Friday 10:00–10:30 am….Coffee Break in Kiva Ballroom A sponsored by Remuda Ranch
Friday 10:30-11:30 am…Breakout Sessions
F1 Academic Invited Distinguished Scholar Whatever Became of Theology?
Pavon (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Paper
Mark McMinn, Ph.D., George Fox University
Carter and Narramore’s now-classic text on integration is titled, “The Integration of Psychology and Theology.” Around the same time, several doctoral programs were established to teach students both theology and psychology in order to equip them to do the work of integration. This was a countercultural notion in those days, one that was controversial in mainstream psychology because of its religious nature. But times change. As mainstream psychology has become more open to spirituality, Christian psychologists have gained voice in a variety of professional journals, clinical training priorities, and in decision making processes within the American Psychological Association. In the process, the integration movement seems to have become increasingly focused on experiential and personal forms of spirituality while maintaining a commitment to empirical psychology. There are many benefits to this, but one risk is that we might easily neglect the theological foundations upon which the Christian faith is established. After setting this brief historical frame for the importance of theology in the integration enterprise, I will illustrate the importance of theology by considering a Christian anthropology and the doctrines of sin and grace.
Learning Objective 1: To consider trends in mainstream psychology that have led to growing awareness and interest in spirituality.
Learning Objective 2: To revisit the historical emphasis on theology evident in the Christian Association for Psychological Studies.
Learning Objective 3: To establish a rationale for why theology is still important for integrative work.
Learning Objective 4: To illustrate the importance of theology by considering a Christian anthropology and the doctrines of sin and grace.
F2 Academic Quarter-life spirituality: Pastoral Care for Post-College Young Adults
Pueblo A (1 CE) Introductory Paper
Bonnie Zahl, A.B. & Nicholas Gibson Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Practical, social and psychological needs and concerns relevant to Christians facing quarter-life crises are discussed with implications for pastoral ministry to this age group.
Learning Objective 1: To become more aware of the needs of Christian post graduates.
Learning Objective 2: To consider ways in which the church can support Christians facing quarter-life crises.
Learning Objective 3: To understand spiritual issues that may accompany quarter-life crises.
Learning Objective 4: To be more aware of potential predictors and buffers of spiritual quarter- life issues.
F3 Academic The Effects of Premarital Sexual Experience on Marital Sexual Satisfaction
Pueblo B (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Paper
Jaime Goff, Ph.D.; Danielle Chase, B.A.; Steve Eller, B.S.; Christina Luben, B.A.; & Rebekah Scott, B.A., Abilene Christian University
Shame related to past sexual experiences has been assumed to be an influential factor in the sexual satisfaction of married couples. In this presentation, results of a research study investigating the relationships between shame, sexual history, and marital sexual satisfaction will be discussed. Clinical implications based on the research findings will also be presented.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how sexual abuse/assault affects marital sexual satisfaction.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn how pornography use by either one or both spouses affects marital sexual satisfaction.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how consensual premarital sexual experiences affect marital sexual satisfaction.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how sexual messages affect marital sexual satisfaction.
F4 Practice Love, Life, and Psychotherapy
Pueblo C (1 CE) Intermediate Seminar
Al Dueck, Ph.D., Elizabeth Welsh, B.A.; & Scott Grover, B.A., Fuller Theological Seminary; Marie Hoffman, Ph.D., Private Practice
We will explore the language of love in the work of Emmanuel Levinas as need and transcendent desire. We then build using Julia Kristeva’s reflections on love in pathology and in psychoanalysis. Finally, we suggest that self-disclosure is a form of self-emptying love given as a gift to the client.
Learning Objective 1: The notion in Levinas that love as need is insatiable and that love as transcendent desire begins with the other.
Learning Objective 2: To understand with Julia Kristeva how the therapeutic relationship can move a person from a state of absence to one of presence of life-giving love.
Learning Objective 3: That the notion of self-disclosure as discussed by Lewis Aron can be a key dimension of Christian psychotherapy.
Learning Objective 4: How self-emptying kenosis can be the Christian context of self-disclosure.
F5 Church African-American Pastoral Expectations: Relationships and Barriers to Mental Health Services
Kachina A (1 CE) Introductory Paper
Vickey Maclin, Psy.D.; Christopher Adam Love, B.S.; & D. Fredrica Brooks, M.A., Regent University
African-American pastors know their communities need mental health services. However, barriers prevent them from seeking services and can inhibit non-African-American providers from considering ways to provide services. This seminar considers possible ways to build bridges so that African-American church communities can receive mental health services.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how the African-American culture creates natural connections and environments of relating.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn to develop sensitivity, understanding, and appreciation for the African-American pastor’s role when relating to African-American communities.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn potential barriers that can prevent African- Americans from seeking to relate to mental health professionals.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn culturally relevant ways to build spiritual connections with African-American church communities.
F6 Church Essentials of Church Disaster Preparedness and Response
Fiesta (1 CE) Introductory Seminar
Jamie Aten, Ph.D., Sharon Aten Ph.D., & Ryan Denney, M.A., The University Of Southern Mississippi
The purpose of this seminar presentation is to demonstrate how mental health professionals can collaborate with pastors and church leaders to equip churches and faith communities for disasters. Participants will learn about disaster stages (e.g., response, recovery), how to develop pre-and-post disaster plans, church-based interventions, and disaster resources and agencies.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn about disaster stages (e.g., response, recovery).
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about strategies for developing pre-and-post disaster plans.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn about church-based interventions for responding to disasters.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn about disaster resources and agencies.
F7 Church Dancing with the Divine: A Spirituality and Psychology of Transcendence
Kachina B (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Seminar
Shawn Hofer, Ph.D., Bethel University
This presentation explores our experiences of Transcendence, and offers a theological and psychological understanding of these experiences. Particular attention will be paid to the concepts of recognition, surrender, and love and their impact on the relational space necessary for these experiences. Clinical, pastoral, and teaching applications will be presented.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to articulate a working definition of transcendence.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to conceptualize the role that recognition, surrender, and love have in creating the space necessary for these experiences.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to understand and utilize this framework in clinical, ministry, and teaching settings.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to understand and begin to practice specific spiritual disciplines that foster the capacities of recognition, surrender, and love.
F8 M & F Hindu Culture and Spirituality in Individual and Family Therapy
Poblano (1 CE) Introductory Seminar
Stephen Lambert, Psy.D. (ABD), M.Div., Azusa Pacific University
Our Nation’s population has recently swelled to over 300 million, and many Americans are recent immigrants from the Nations of India and surrounding countries. With a growing demand for therapy that is culturally and spiritually informed by Hindu faith, this presentation explores Hindu culture and spirituality in individual and family therapy.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, participants will realize a need for greater understanding of Hindu spirituality in therapy sessions.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, participants will realize compatibilities and incompatibilities in Christian and Hindu spiritual worldviews affecting families.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, participants will learn more about Hindu deities that promote moral teachings similar to Christianity.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, participants will become better aquainted with Hindu culture, promoting better relational integrity when counseling Hindus.
F9 Addictions The Missing Peace: Comprehensive Integrated Treatment of Addictions and Compulsive Disorders
Serrano (No CE) Intermediate Seminar
Donald Durham, Ph.D., Durham Psychological Services
This workshop will present a proven model of addictions treatment that incorporates community-based 12-Step recovery work with cutting-edge psychological treatment, fully integrated with a Christian world view and an active use of the Bible. The goal of this treatment model is to fully apprehend the shalom of God.
Learning Objective 1: Be able to explain the core principles and practices of Biblically-based 12-Step recovery work.
Learning Objective 2: Be able to explain the core principles and practices of Biblically-based psychological treatment of addictions and compulsive behavior.
Learning Objective 3: Be able to understand and apply the fundamental principles of community and shalom.
Learning Objective 4: Understand application of specific modalities of therapy in working with an addictions population.
Friday 11:30 am – 12:30 pm LUNCHEON and CAPS Business Meeting in the Atrium area of the hotel lobby
This Luncheon is included in your Registration. Attendees who pre-registered for the conference are guaranteed a meal; however, if you registered on site, please wait to see if there are available seats for a meal. Winners of the CAPS Student Paper Competition will be introduced during the luncheon. A brief business meeting will be conducted, and members of the CAPS International Board and the Phoenix conference planning committee/track coordinators will be introduced. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet up with former friends and meet new ones. Join us afterward in Kiva Ballroom B&C for a rich plenary session, featuring Dr. Siang Yang Tan.
Friday 12:30-1:30 pm
PL 3….Plenary Session
Wounded Healers: Suffering and Stress-Related Growth
Kiva Ballroom B&C (1 CE) All Levels Seminar
Siang Yang Tan, Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary
This Plenary Address will cover the role of suffering in our lives as counselors and therapists who are involved as wounded healers in helping others in their pain and suffering. It will include how shattered dreams, brokenness, the dark night of the soul, and suffering in general can help us grow in spiritual maturity and personal character, with deeper humility, compassion, empathy, and healing grace, as well as paradoxically greater joy and fulfillment. Such positive outcomes of redemptive suffering will be related to the recent literature on benefit finding, posttraumatic growth, and stress-related growth.
Leaning Objective 1: Learn about the role of suffering in our lives as counselors and therapists who are involved as wounded healers in helping others.
Learning Objective 2: Learn more about specific processes such as shattered dreams, brokenness, and the dark night of the soul in redemptive suffering that can lead to growth in spiritual maturity and personal character.
Learning Objective 3: Learn about the positive outcomes of redemptive suffering, including deeper humility, compassion, empathy, healing grace, joy, and greater fulfillment, and their relationship to the recent literature on positive effects of highly stressful or traumatic events, or benefit finding, posttraumatic growth, and stress-related growth.
Friday 1:45-2:45 pm…Breakout Sessions
F10 Academic Invited Distinguished Scholar Thriving & Resiliency: Strength Based Clinical Work with Youth
Pavon (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Paper
Linda Mans Wagener, Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary
This presentation begins from the premise that “problem free is not fully prepared.” By integrating the theoretical assumptions of the Positive Youth Development and Child Theology movements this model of clinical work with youth can help to balance the predominant deficit oriented medical model.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will demonstrate the ability to think developmentally and theologically about clinical issues in the age span from early childhood through adolescence.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be prepared to integrate spirituality into their work with youth from diverse cultural, religious, and social backgrounds.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be equipped to facilitate positive youth development.
F11 Academic Imago Dei: Integration, Anthropology, and Worldview
Pueblo A (1 CE) Intermediate Seminar
Kenneth VanWyk, Ph.D.(cand), M.B.A., Christian Counseling Services; Brian Eck, Ph.D., Azusa Pacific University; & James Olthuis, Ph.D., Institute for Christian Studies
Christians in the field of Psychology differ on fundamental theoretical assumptions about Theology, Integration, Anthropology and Worldview. This seminar will explore how models of difference can help us to appreciate and learn from the various voices within the Christian Psychological community; in particular the voices of Gary Collins and Miroslav Volf.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn to distinguish among the models of Integration using the format developed by Brian Eck as “Integrating the Integrators” (1996).
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn the Philosophical Models of Anthropology developed by James Olthuis to distinguish basic theoretical assumptions about the nature of humanity.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how Worldviews influence the process of building theoretical models in Psychology.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be exposed to the differences in the Theological understanding of Imago Dei and its influence on Christian Psychology.
F12 Academic Parents’ Perceptions of the Emotional Impact of Hurricane Katrina
Pueblo B (1 CE) Introductory Paper
Renata Nero, Ph.D., Houston Baptist University & Claudette Ligons, Ed.D., Texas Southern University
The city of Houston was among the first responders to New Orleanians who left New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Though the evacuees’ immediate needs for food and shelter were addressed, the need for a structured long-term response to the emotional effects has not been fully recognized. The current research study identifies strategies for addressing parents’ perceptions of their children’s emotional needs from a Christian perspective.
Learning Objective 1: How to identify parents’ perceptions of their children’s emotional well-being following a trauma using existing checklists.
Learning Objective 2: How to design didactic workshops from a Christian perspective that address concerns identified from parents.
Learning Objective 3: How to enhance parents’ capacity to support their children’s recovery from trauma.
Learning Objective 4: How to connect parents to information and resources to facilitate their children’s educational and emotional adjustments.
F13 Practice Rediscovering Voice: Restoring Imago Dei through Relational Self-Awareness
Pueblo C (1 CE) All Levels Seminar
Janelle Kwee, Psy.D.; Ariel Oleari, M.A.; & Amanda Blackurn, M.A., Wheaton College
The interpersonal nature of women’s development is discussed in relationship to how personhood is informed by Imago Dei. Consistent with literature addressing women’s psychological development, the presented group model utilizes the idea of knowing and using one’s voice as a metaphor for self-understanding and expression and further growth through relationship.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be given opportunity to consider how Imago Dei applies to the relational self, particularly related to women’s development.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will gain familiarity with literature addressing “voice” in women’s development in a relational theoretical model.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be equipped with a model for developing a feminist-informed process group for women in their clinical practices.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will become acquainted with group therapy outcomes, including quantitative ratings of the “ways of knowing” and narrative descriptions.
F14 Practice Relating in the Image of God: Neuroscience and the Counseling Process
Kachina A (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Seminar
Stephen Stratton, Ph.D. & Arthur Nonneman, Ph.D., Asbury Theological Seminary
Neuroscience has become a helpful partner for the practice of counseling. For Christian practitioners it is even more exciting for its ties to Trinitarian theology with its relational focus on the nature of God and humans. This session will provide a brief introduction to neuroanatomy and then consider implications for a theologically informed counseling process.
Learning Objective 1: Introduce basic neural structures related to relationality.
Learning Objective 2: Understand the nature of God and human beings as reflected in Trinitarian theology.
Learning Objective 3: Present selected current research concerning neuroscience and counseling process.
Learning Objective 4: Consider a call for a “two-person” perspective for Christian counseling theories and practice.
F15 Church Psychologists in Missionary and Humanitarian Service
Serrano (No CE) Introductory Seminar
Steve Allison, Ph.D., Abilene Christian University; Debbie Hawker, Ph.D., Oxford University; Tim (Ph.D.) and Tammy Friesen, Cornerstone Counseling Center, Thailand
Join these four mental health professionals as they discuss their work and opportunities for others to serve missionary and humanitarian organizations. Positions with Cornerstone in Chiang Mai will be discussed.
F16 Church Pursuing Spiritual Development Alone or in a Group: Does It Really Have Any Impact on Our Relationship with God?
Poblano (No CE) Introductory Paper
Charles Dickens, Ph.D. & Joaquim Braga, M.Div., Dallas Theological Seminary
The present study explored whether participant’s pursuit of a deepening spiritual relationship with God can be facilitated more effectively in a group or alone. This study evaluates the premise that a spiritual relationship with God cannot be significantly developed apart from relationships with people who are on a similar journey.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, participants’ will develop a fuller scope of spiritual development that includes community with other believers.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will understand what group experiences can facilitate one’s spiritual relationship with God.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each attendee will become familiar with how the Spiritual Transformation Inventory can be utilized in educational settings.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each attendee will become familiar with how the Spiritual Transformation Inventory can be utilized in pastoral care settings.
F17 Church Ministry Assessment: Practices of U.S. Churches
Kachina B (1 CE) Introductory Paper
Amy Dominguez, Psy.D., Regent University & Mark McMinn, Ph.D., George Fox University
Reports the findings of a national survey of ministry leaders. The focus of the survey was to assess what sort of outcome evaluations are currently being used in church settings, how satisfied leaders are with their evaluation strategies, and what sort of assistance they would find most helpful if partnering with Christian professionals with expertise in outcome evaluation.
Learning Objective 1: To review the pressures the church is currently facing with regard to organizational change and cultural relevance.
Learning Objective 2: To learn what sort of organizational assessment is currently being done within churches.
Learning Objective 3: To discuss current levels of satisfaction with existing organizational assessment strategies.
Learning Objective 4: To consider what sort of assistance might be offered by Christian mental health professionals as churches continue to enhance their organizational assessment efforts.
F18 M & F Marriage Is for Lovers: 10 Ways to Stay “In Love”
Fiesta (1 CE) Introductory Seminar
Douglas Rosenau, Ed.D.; Debra Taylor, M.A., Sexual Wholeness, Inc.; & Gary Barnes, Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary
Couples often state: “I love him/her but I don’t feel in love anymore,”---fearing their marriage is doomed. This seminar will go beyond the magic of feelings to helping mates engage in behaviors that deepen marital connection. Skills like the art of surprises, wasting time together, and sexual flirting will be explored and participants will be given practical ways to utilize this material with couples.
Learning Objective 1: An understanding of the concept of being “in love.”
Learning Objective 2: The importance of deliberate choices and skills for deepening marital love.
Learning Objective 3: 10 ways to become better lovers and stay ‘in love.”
Learning Objective 4: Ways and settings for teaching couples this material in both a counseling and church context.
Friday 3:00-5:15 pm… (Two Hour) Breakout Sessions
F19 Practice Minding Incarnation: A Step-by-Step Case Study in Relational Psychodynamic Integration
Pavon (2 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Invited Symposium
Brad Strawn, Ph.D., Southern Nazarene University; Jeffery Terrell, Ph.D., Psychological Studies Institute; Susan Parlow, Ph.D., Private Practice; & Marie Hoffman, Ph.D., Private Practice
Through the use of case study, this presentation narrates an incarnational approach to integration in psychotherapy. The patient’s presenting problems are conceptualized from both psychological and theological perspectives, emphasizing the universal human need for relationship and the intergenerational aspects of sin.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to conceptualize a model of integration that emphasizes the incarnational nature of therapeutic relationship.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be able to compare and contrast the diagnostic framework of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006) with the symptom based nosology of the DSM-IV-TR.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to explain the specific uses and benefits of transference and countertransference within contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to therapy.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will understand and acquire clinical knowledge pertaining to relationship enactments and their utilization in the process of therapeutic repair of dysfunctional relational patterns.
F20 Church Psychology in Global Mission: Case Studies from China, Mexico and Rwanda
Pueblo B & C (2 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Invited Symposium
Fred Gingrich, D.Min., Denver Seminary; Bradford Smith, Ph.D., Care and Counsel International; Saul Cruz, M.S., Armonia Ministries; Wei-Jen Huang, Ph.D., Northwestern University; & Linda Marcell, Ph.D., Agape Global Missions
Utilizing case studies from China, Mexico and Rwanda, this symposium will demonstrate the potential for applying psychology to global human need. The case presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion highlighting the critical and challenging task of integrating theology, psychology, and culture in the task of responding to human suffering and woundedness.
Learning Objective 1: Learn how the resources of Christian counseling and psychology have been adapted to diverse cultural contexts and populations.
Learning Objective 2: Reflect on the role psychology plays in global mission and responding to needs in other parts of the world.
Learning Objective 3: Understand the three circles of global influence in which Christians in psychology can be involved.
Learning Objective 4: Meet others who are engaged in, or desire to be involved in, global efforts to share the resources of psychology.
F21 Addictions When Your Clients Can’t Get Enough of What They Really Don’t Want: 21st Century Technology for the Integrative Treatment of Sexual Addiction
Fiesta (2 CE) All Levels Invited Symposium
Ralph Earle, Ph.D., Marcus Earle, Ph.D., & Ken Wells, M.A., M.Div., Counseling Services, Ltd.
The workshop introduces that latest treatment processes that have proven effective in the treatment of sexual addiction. The design of the workshop is to identify the latest technology for intervention and incorporate each into an integrative treatment program. Treatment suggestions will highlight a multi-modal approach arranged to accelerate therapeutic healing.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn methods for clearly identifying and assessing sexual addiction.
Learning Objective 2: Ability to describe sexual addiction and treat it from a systems perspective.
Learning Objective 3: Their own treatment philosophy about sexual addiction
Learning Objective 4: At least one intervention used in treating sexual addiction.
Friday 3:00-4:00 pm….Breakout Sessions
F22 Academic The Effects of International Travel on Counselors’ Multicultural Competencies
Pueblo A (1 CE) Introductory Seminar
David Lawson, Psy.D.; Michelle Gorgol, M.S.; & Zuleida Aleman, B.S., Palm Beach Atlantic University
Counseling ethics require programs to train in cultural and ethnic awareness. However in a multicultural environment and a quickly changing world, programs must address how counselors can best increase their understanding of other cultures. Most fulfill the need by prescribing a traditional classroom setting; however we propose alternatives including an experiential class using international travel to stimulate cultural awareness.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn the significance of multicultural counseling and the breadth of training in colleges and universities.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn the current research concerning effective multicultural counseling.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be familiar with the opportunities that exist for experiential multicultural learning.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be able to effectively judge the impact of international travel on multicultural counseling competencies and its impact on counselors’ thinking styles.
F23 Academic Forgiveness and Relational Spirituality
Poblano (1 CE) All Levels Paper
Don Davis, M.A., Virginia Commonwealth University
The present studies offer evidence for the psychometric adequacy and construct validity of new scales of Relational Spirituality (Shults & Sandage, 2006). Results are discussed according to how forgiveness occurs in a spiritual relationship context. Furthermore, the model may help address the lack of longitudinal research on forgiveness and spirituality.
Learning Objective 1: What Relational Spirituality is.
Learning Objective 2: Why a new measurement strategy is needed in order to study how spirituality affects forgiveness.
Learning Objective 3: Initial evidence for how Relational Spirituality affects forgiveness.
Learning Objective 4: A brief overview of scale development (e.g.,conducting exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, establishing evidence for construct and criterion validity, etc.).
F24 Academic Beliefs and Practices of CAPS Members Regarding Ethical Issues Related to Christianity-Psychotherapy Integration
Kachina A (1 CE) All Levels Seminar
John Eric Swenson, Ph.D.; Gregory Schneller, Ph.D.; Heath Blankenship; Kimberly Patterson, McMurry University; & Randolph Sanders, Ph.D., Private Practice
How aware are Christian therapists of the ethical problems that confront them when practicing Christian-oriented therapy or in Christian settings? What do Christian therapists actually do when confronted with these problems? In this study, which is the first of its kind, we surveyed CAPS members who provide counseling services to determine their beliefs and behaviors regarding ethical issues in Christian-oriented therapy or settings. This presentation provides some preliminary findings gleaned from survey results and provides suggestions relative to the training and continuing education of therapists.
Learning Objective 1: Several ethical issues of specific concern to therapists who practice Christian-oriented interventions or in Christian settings.
Learning Objective 2: What Christian therapists believe about the appropriateness of certain clinical behaviors.
Learning Objective 3: What Christian therapists say they actually do when confronted with certain ethical issues.
Learning Objective 4: Possible reasons why Christian therapists are more likely to engage in multiple relationships than their secular counterparts.
F25 Church Globalization: Its Rewards and Risks to our Human Functioning
Mesa 504 (1 CE) All Levels Seminar
Naji Abi-Hashem, Ph.D., Independent Scholar
This presentation will attempt to define modern globalization, describe its major trends, and explore its nature and scope of impact on the human condition, interactions, and psychosocial-spiritual functioning. What are the benefits and the risks of internationalizing economy, education, systems, cultures, and other lifestyles? Implications for counselors and caregivers will be also reviewed and discussed.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will identify the many trends of globalization and the many levels of its impact, including raising the overload of information and global fears and worries.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will gain insight about the rapid mixing of cultures and the dissolving of physical boundaries on one hand and the increase of fragmentation and alienation on the other hand.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn about the widening of gaps between those who have plenty and those who have a little, of nothing at all, like modern resources or even the basics---food, clothing, shelter, etc.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will formulate a new strategy to deal with negative impact of globalization on our families, congregations, clients, students, colleagues: (existential anxiety, identity crisis, emotional stress, cultural confusion, etc.).
F26 Church Silent Seething and Repressed Rage: Christian Women, Anger, and Spiritual Growth
Kachina B (1 CE) Introductory Seminar
Gwen White, Psy.D., Eastern University
This seminar examines possible links between women’s anger and spiritual development. Reports of women’s experience of anger and spiritual well-being are presented along with theoretical discussion of the potentially troubling consequences of conscious and unconscious choices made by Christian women when dealing with anger. Intervention strategies will also be discussed.
Learning Objective 1: Each participant will learn recent theories in the literature associated with women’s anger.
Learning Objective 2: Each participant will explore links between research in women’s anger and implications for populations of Christian women.
Learning Objective 3: Each participant will examine possible links between women’s anger research and literature on spiritual growth and its potential blocks.
Learning Objective 4: Each participant will learn intervention strategies for helping Christian women who are experiencing arrests in their spiritual growth.
F27 M & F Our Failing Marriages: A Look Inside
Serrano (1 CE) Introductory Seminar
John Buri, Ph.D., University Of St. Thomas
How likely is it that young people will stick it out if their marriage becomes difficult? New evidence suggests that the answer to this question depends upon a belief in their own ability to influence life circumstances (i.e., an Internal Locus of Control). Serving as a backdrop for this discussion will be recent evidence that this type of thinking among young people has been decreasing over the past 30 years.
Learning Objective 1: Each participant will be encouraged to think about interior factors that impact marital success.
Learning Objective 2: Each participant will learn about new evidence surrounding one such factor --- Internal versus External Locus of Control.
Learning Objective 3: Each participant will learn about clear evidence that young Americans increasingly think that their lives are controlled by outside forces.
Learning Objective 4: Each participant will learn strategies for developing a more Internal Locus of Control, especially within the context of marriage
Friday 4:15-5:15 pm…Breakout Sessions
F28 Academic Linguistic Effect on Felt Crises Leading to Conversion
Serrano (1 CE) Intermediate Paper
Tin-Cheng Chan, Ph.D., Independent educator and researcher
The theory of conversion by Rambo (1989) was challenged as not covering conversions in evangelistic meeting. It is hypothesized that the crises produced are internally evolved with the help of terms newly acquired. This hypothesis was confirmed in an experiment suggesting a possible route for the improvement of evangelistic meetings.
Learning Objective 1: The process of formulating and conducting a research from formulation of a research question to data analysis.
Learning Objective 2: The process in constructing scales and exercises used as instruments in the experiment.
Learning Objective 3: The existence of concomitant psychological processes in spiritual change.
Learning Objective 4: To appreciate the effect of language as a tool to change the psychological state of a person.
F29 Academic A Collaborative, Creativity-Driven Model to Stimulate Personal & Spiritual Growth for Therapists in Training
Pueblo A (1 CE) All Levels Paper
Gay Patton, M.S.; M. Kathleen Hayden, B.S.; & Terri Watson, Psy.D., Wheaton College
This presentation proposes a model designed to stimulate personal and spiritual growth for Therapists in Training. It suggests a collaborative therapeutic context which balances guiding structures with creative expression, based on the premise that intentional healing communities can transform people to become more effective ambassadors and agents of change.
Learning Objective 1: Examine how structured, creative growth processes can restore inherent aspects of persons created in the image of God.
Learning Objective 2: Learn a therapeutic model which uses peer collaboration in a structured, creativity-driven format to facilitate an individual’s reconceptualization of self.
Learning Objective 3: Conceptualize the application of this proposed model with Therapists in Training for developing the person of the Therapist.
Learning Objective 4: Envision ways this model can be effectively adapted to and applied in therapeutic practice and/or skilled lay settings.
F30 Practice Child Trauma and the Benefits of Expressive Therapy
Kachina B (1 CE) Intermediate Seminar
Daniel Sweeney, Ph.D. & Amy Taylor, B.A., George Fox University
Trauma eventuates in significant effects in child victims. These effects point to the need for therapeutic interventions which recognize these realities, as well as honor the developmental level of children. Expressive therapies have both neurological and developmental benefits. This workshop will explore the theory and practice of trauma therapy.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn about the fundamental psychological effects of trauma.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn about the fundamental neurobiological effects of trauma.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn about the neurodevelopmental benefits of expressive therapies.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn about specific expressive therapy interventions.
F31 Church From Local to Global: A Distributed Model of Church-Psychology Collaboration
Poblano (1 CE) Introductory Paper
Vitaly Voytenko, Psy.D.; John Tardonia, M.A., Northland, A Church Distributed;* & James Coffield, Ph.D., Reformed Theological Seminary
Northland, A Church Distributed of suburban Orlando has developed a unique model of cooperation with a local seminary to provide counseling services to their parishioners and the greater community in a comprehensive and cost-effective manner. The flexibility of the model allows for generalization to a variety of settings.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn a unique model of church-psychology collaboration.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn about the “Distributed Church” philosophy of ministry.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn about training applications of the model.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will be exposed to examples of international counseling outreach.
F32 Church An Outcome Evaluation of Marble Retreat’s Psychotherapy Program
Kachina A (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Paper
Scott Koeneman, M.A. & Rodger Bufford, Ph.D., George Fox University
An outcome evaluation of Marble Retreat’s psychotherapy program revealed it provided solid treatment gains for its participants. Significant treatment gains were attained from pre-treatment to post-treatment in all three domains; emotional well-being, marital adjustment, and spiritual well-being. In addition, the emotional well-being and spiritual well-being treatment gains were maintained at a 6-9 month follow-up, while the marital adjustment treatment gains were not maintained.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn the specific treatment needs of clergy in crisis.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will gain an understanding of how Marble Retreat and Brief, Intensive Psychotherapy are uniquely suited for treating clergy.
Learning Objective 3: Each participant will learn the moderators of change and symptom maintenance in clergy health as it relates to this study.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will increase their understanding of marital satisfaction for clergy couples.
F33 M & F A Longitudinal Analysis of Missionary Marital Satisfaction
Mesa 504 (1 CE) All Levels Paper
Christopher Rosik, Ph.D., Link Care Center
This study examined the marital satisfaction of 28 missionary couples from candidacy until their second furlough. Longitudinal analyses revealed time effects for many dimensions of marital functioning with few effects for gender. Implications of these and other findings for member care intervention will be discussed.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how levels of missionary marital satisfaction evolve during the first two terms of overseas service.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn the value of including validity scales in the assessment of missionaries.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn when missionary couples may most need monitoring by member care professionals.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how entrance into parenthood may impact missionary marital satisfaction
CONTINUING EDUCATION STATION CLOSES AT 6 PM….REOPENS SATURDAY at NOON!
Friday 6:00-7:00 pm
Reception in Pueblo B & C to honor attendees and presenters from outside the United States. All are invited to meet and fellowship with our friends from the international community. Hosts are the members of the CAPS International Board and CAPS Staff.
Friday 6:00-7:30 pm
Reception in the Fiesta Room for Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology graduates, faculty, and friends.
Friday Night on the Town
We want you to relax and enjoy some of the sights and sounds of Phoenix on Friday evening, so no conference presentations will be scheduled this evening. Connect with friends, go out to dinner, take in a sporting event or theatrical production…or stay at the hotel for dinner and then enjoy a free concert that will be provided by musicians from Scottsdale Bible Church.
Friday 8:00-9:30 pm
Free Concert by Kim Larson and Family in Kiva Ballroom C
Kim Larson, an Arizona native, has been a Christ follower nearly all of her life. Music has been an important part of her life almost as long. Kim became the pianist of her small church at the age of 13 and has been involved in church music ever since. Kim studied music education and is currently one of the worship leaders at Scottsdale Bible Church. She and her husband of 25 years, Jim, have seven children, a struggling garden, and a few erstwhile cats. Kim and Jim and some of their older children enjoy singing and playing together a mix of bluegrass, gospel, worship songs, and indie music. Currently, everyone is happy and no one is in jail! Come be blessed by the Larsons!
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Saturday 7:00-8:30 am
CAPS International Board Hail and Farewell Breakfast Meeting in Kachina A&B…all current, outgoing, and incoming members of the Board are invited.
Saturday 8:45-10:00 am
Plenary Session
PL 4 Distorted Body Image and Eating Disorders
Kiva Ballroom B & C (1 CE) Intermediate Paper
Debbie Hawker, Ph.D., Oxford University
Dr Hawker will speak from her experience as the principle therapist in Oxford University Psychiatry Department's eating disorder team, which has developed the internationally recognized transdiagnostic treatment for eating disorders, CBT-E. She will discuss the latest advances in the understanding of body image problems and the treatment of eating disorders.
Learning Objective 1: What are the evidence based-treatments for people
with eating disorders?
Learning Objective 2: What body image distortion is, and the major
causes and maintaining factors.
Learning Objective 3: Are there any links between religious beliefs and
behaviors (such as fasting) and eating disorders?
Saturday 10:00-10:30…Coffee Break in Kiva Ballroom A sponsored by CAPS International
Saturday 10:30-11:30 am…Breakout Sessions
S1 Academic Invited Distinguished Scholar Working with Spiritual Themes in Psychotherapy
Pavon (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Paper
Winston Gooden, Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary
Spirituality is a hot topic in our culture and one that, I believe, is frequently present in the stories therapists hear, yet the term is fuzzy and can refer to many different issues. For some, spirituality is synonymous with religion and so is seen as most relevant to clients who are religious. Others fear that spiritual themes, if pursued by the therapist, smack of attempts at conversion or run that risk and so has no place in therapy. In this lecture/workshop, I will explore definitions of spirituality to clarify its place in the therapy process and I will suggest a multi-dimensional model that can be used by therapists who address spiritual themes that may be latent or explicit in the client’s narrative. I will review several approaches to spiritual themes extant in the community of practice, and using case examples, describe how therapists may approach latent spiritual themes with clients who are not religious. Pitfalls inherent in therapeutic work when therapist and client convictions differ will also be discussed.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn to identify latent spiritual themes in clients’ narratives.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about the role of spirituality in everyday personal functioning and in recovery from emotional turmoil.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn various approaches and techniques for handling religious and spiritual issues in therapy.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will review ethical issues involved in addressing spiritual themes in therapy.
S2 Academic Relational Spirituality and Intercultural Development: Integrative Research, Training, and Clinical Practice
Fiesta (1 CE) Intermediate Paper
Steven Sandage, Ph.D.; Mark Harden, Ph.D.; Lauren Moore, B.A.; & Melissa Kucharski, B.A., Bethel Seminary
An integrative approach to relational spirituality and intercultural development is proposed, drawing on systems and relational psychoanalytic theories and the transforming spirituality model of change (Shults & Sandage, 2006). Results from empirical studies of graduate trainees are offered with implications for training and clinical practice.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, participants will learn connections between relational spirituality and intercultural development.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, participants will understand the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (Bennett, 1993).
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, participants will learn results of an empirical study of relational spirituality and intercultural development.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to strategize about training and clinical considerations based on intercultural development.
S3 Academic God Concept? Depends on How You Ask!
Pueblo A (1 CE) Intermediate Paper
Bonnie Zahl, A.B. & Nicholas Gibson, Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Traditional measures of God concepts do not clearly distinguish between professed and experiential God concepts. This paper explores differences between these two types of God concepts and the implications of such differences in relation to religious practices, relationship to God, and other methods of assessing individuals' God concepts.
Learning Objective 1: To be more aware of how instructional wording influences measurement.
Learning Objective 2: To encourage research into measures that examine both professed and operational theologies.
Learning Objective 3: To better understand psychological and spiritual implications of discrepancies between professed and operational theologies.
Learning Objective 4: To consider the possibilities of God-concept complexity research using theories and paradigms of self-complexity research.
S4 Practice Theologically-Informed Education about Masturbation: A Sexual Health Perspective
Pueblo B (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Seminar
Alex Kwee, Psy.D., Meier Clinics Foundation & David Hoover, M.A., Wheaton College/Meier Clinics
Based on the Single-Minded curriculum for college men, this presentation addresses misconceptions about masturbation by properly contextualizing relevant scriptures to show that the Bible offers less clarity on the topic than often presumed. Psychological and sociological dimensions are also incorporated to help Christians wrestle critically with this morally ambiguous issue.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn how to help clients work through difficult scriptures to reach an informed personal decision on masturbation.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn how to clinically nuance masturbation and make the distinction between developmentally normative masturbation, and compulsive masturbation.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how normalize the experiences of clients by contextualizing distress about masturbation to broader sociological currents.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how a discursive, educational approach can reduce shame by fostering critical thinking about morally ambiguous issues.
S5 Practice Emotional Regulation and Spiritual Development: Theological Reflections and Observations from a University Counseling Center
Poblano (1 CE) All Levels Paper
Connie Horton, Ph.D., Pepperdine University
Christian faith ideally informs a person's ability to cope with the difficult days of life; however, too often, clients who claim a strong Christian faith do not seem to be drawing on that faith in a way that adds resilience. This paper will address some theological reflections, observations from a university counseling center, and practical strategies that could be used by clinicians.
Learning Objective 1: To recognize emotional regulation and distress tolerance as critical psychological skills.
Learning Objective 2: Learn how sometimes clients of faith may not be drawing on their beliefs and spiritual life to add resiliency.
Learning Objective 3: Review biblical passages and theological concepts that could help inform clinical work in these situations.
Learning Objective 4: Learn practical strategies to help clients begin to bridge their spiritual life with their psychological life.
S6 Church Missionary Care Services During Professional Development
Serrano (1 CE) Intermediate Seminar
Jeffrey Holland, B.A.; Daniel Palk, B.A.; & Jackie Halstead, Ph.D., Abilene Christian University
Missionary professional development has often been ignored from both a policy and mental health standpoint. This presentation will analyze policies of churches and mission agencies concerning this issue and offer policy suggestions. The role of the mental health professional in the delivery of services during this training will be explored.
Learning Objective 1: The audience will be educated regarding the need for providing opportunities for professional development and continued education for missionaries.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about variations in policies of certain churches and mission organizations regarding missionary continued education and professional development.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn of the mental health needs of missionaries during periods of professional development and continuing education.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be educated regarding the types of services required to meet the needs of this specific group of missionaries.
S7 Church Counseling on the Moral Edge: Applied Christian Bioethics
Pueblo C (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Seminar
Stephen Greggo, Psy.D., Trinity International University
Biotechnological developments have brought critical moral decisions into the everyday lives of ordinary people: infertility options, eugenics, end of life decisions and biotechnological enhancements. Who can Christians turn to for assistance in discerning a God honoring direction in the midst of complex options and intense personal desires? Christian helpers grounded in a biblical anthropology and theological understanding of imago Dei will be encouraged to enter conversational territory that physicians and pastors may be reluctant to enter.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn to: articulate the centrality of imago Dei within Christian bioethical discussions;
Learning Objective 2: Explore the role of Christian helper as ethics consultants;
Learning Objective 3: Outline the limits and advantages for therapist/counselor engagement in this level of clinical and pastoral care; and
Learning Objective 4: Recognize the benefits of the therapeutic setting and tools for a multidisciplinary treatment team.
S8 Church Treatment for Shame Based Problems
Kachina A (1 CE) Intermediate & Introductory Seminar
Richard Shaw, D.M.F.T., George Fox University
Shame is at the core of a variety of psychological issues. You can change the behavior, manage the problem or treat the deeper core of shame. Come learn one set of techniques for treating shame based issues.
Learning Objective 1: To illustrate and define the concept of shame.
Learning Objective 2: Learn a concise, theory based therapeutic process for treating shame.
Learning Objective 3: Learn five interventions for treating shame.
Learning Objective 4: Develop empathy for clients struggling with shame by reflecting on their own experiences of shame.
S9 M & F Marriage Intensives: Getting Huge Changes in a Little Time
Kachina B (1 CE) Intermediate & Introductory Seminar
Donald Harvey, Ph.D., Trevecca Nazarene University & Jan Harvey, M.M.F.T., Private Practice
Marriage intensives can bring huge changes quickly. Though effective, they are not for every couple. This workshop explores how marriage intensives differ from other forms of intensive treatment, characteristics of couples who benefit the most from intensive work, why intensives programs are effective, and how the various treatment models differ.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how intensive marital treatment experiences differ from other intensive therapies.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn the prerequisites and suitability factors for couple eligibility for marriage intensives.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn the advantages and disadvantages of intensive marital treatment experiences.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how marriage intensives vary in orientation, modes, and structural formats.
Saturday 11:45 am-1:15 pm
Poster Sessions in Kiva Foyer and Atrium
Student Paper Competition Winners
1st place ... Solye Kim (Rosemead School of Psychology) -- Attachment to Parents and God: Implicit and Explicit Investigations of the Internal Working Model Correspondence
2nd place … Stephen Becker (Trinity International University) -- The Attachment Paradigm: A Secure Base for Counselor Education?
Tied for 3rd place … Edie Moore (Phoenix Seminary) – A Survey of the Current Uses of Animal Assisted Therapy
Tied for 3rd place … Paulson Veliyahoor (Pacifica Graduate Institute) -- The Parable of a Father and Two Sons: A Jungian Hermeneutic
Academic
Namok Choi, Ph. D., Valparaiso University
Psychological Gender of Humans and God in Relation to Religiousness
Rodney Bassett, Ph.D.; Danielle Churpita, B.A.; Regina DeLeo, B.A.; Joseph Jackson, B.A.; & Richard Platt, B.A., Roberts Wesleyan College
Granting Forgiveness: The Power of Empathy and Grace
Rodney Bassett, Ph.D.; Heather Gavette; Morgan Lovejoy; Joshua Preston; & Katelyn Scott, Roberts Wesleyan College
Regarding Football and Worldview: Is Defensiveness the Best Offense?
Al Dueck, Ph.D.; Julia Langdal, B.A.; Joseph Barsuglia, B.A.; Steven Huett, B.A.; & Adam Ghali, Fuller Theological Seminary
A Christian Psychology: Ethical, Just, Indigenous and the Suffering of the Innocent
Douglas Kelley, Ph.D., Arizona State University
Communicating Forgiveness
Geoffrey Sutton, Ph.D., Evangel University
Personal Strengths, Learning, Spirituality, Hope, Forgiveness, and Meaning in Life: Stability and Validity of StrengthsFinder®
Jason Schickedanz, M.A., Rosemead School of Psychology
Christian Attitudes Towards Homosexual Orientation
Annalise Sherman, B.A. & Paul Young, Ph.D., Houghton College
Self Image, Other Image, and Transformation of Hope
Practice
Ryan Denney, M.A.; Jamie Aten, Ph.D., The University of Southern Mississippi; & Fred Gingrich, D.Min., Denver Seminary
Using Spiritual Self-Disclosure in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Susan Hall, Ph.D., J.D., Pepperdine University
Growing a CAPS Chapter
Mitchell Hicks, Ph.D., Roosevelt University
Tending the Flock in the Land of McDonald's: What Psychoanaltyic Theory Can Offer the Church
Charles Jantzi, Psy.D., Messiah College
Psychotherapy and Spiritual Direction: The Same or Different Activities?
Robyn Mowery, Ph.D., University Of Kentucky
Relational-Pain Management While Caring for Others at the End of Life
Scott Edwards, Ph.D., Pediatric Psychology Center
Parent Training as a Model of Integration in Clinical Child Psychology
Connie Ratliffe, Ph.D., Access Christian Counseling & Kenneth VanWyk, Ph.D.(cand), M.B.A., Christian Counseling Services
Faith Based Clinical Practice--Mission and Business
Kathleen Arveson, Ph.D., Regent University
Current Trends in Counseling in China and Mongolia
Church
Jamie Aten, Ph.D., University Of Southern Mississippi
The Church Disaster Mental Health Project
Myrna Pugh, M.A., Jan Anderson, B.A., Phoenix Seminary
Understanding Imago Dei in the Context of Sin and Sanctification: Implications for the Church and Ministry
Steven Dowdle, Ed.D., Pastoral Care Center-Casas Church
Helping the Hurting in Your Church: An Integrative Model
Marriage and Family
Judith Johnson, Ph.D.; Kelly McLeland, M.S.; & Jennifer Ripley, Ph.D., Regent University
Couples' Forgiveness and Marital Satisfaction
Walter Chung, Ph.D.; Gwen White, Psy.D.; Joshua Hostetter; Brian Crawford; & Jodi Krawlzik, Eastern University
God Image and Marital Satisfaction of Christian Couples
Saturday 11:45 am- 1:15 pm….Lunch on your own
Saturday 11:45 am-1:15 pm
Psychoanalytic Interest Group Luncheon
Psychoanalytic Interest Group members will meet (dutch treat) at lunch in the Zuni Grill. Anyone is welcome. Hosts are Drs. Marie and Lowell Hoffman.
Saturday 1:30-2:30 pm…Breakout Sessions
S10 Academic Invited Distinguished Scholar Understanding and Treating Spiritual Abuse
Pavon (1 CE) Intermediate Paper
Ed Cumella, Ph.D., Remuda Centers for Anorexia & Bulimia
Attendees will gain understanding into how spiritual abuse is a form of emotional/verbal abuse and how to identify clients who've been spiritually abused. Dr. Cumella presents a psychometrically reliable and valid questionnaire that detects spiritual abuse, and details psychotherapeutic methods to assist people in overcoming spiritual abuse, rebuilding trust, and rediscovering healthy spirituality.
Learning Objective 1: Understand how spiritual abuse is a form of emotional and verbal abuse, and how to identify it.
Learning Objective 2: Learn how spiritual abuse harms the abuse victim's spirituality.
Learning Objective 3: Learn how to use a psychometrically valid and reliable questionnaire to objectively determine if someone has been spiritually abused.
Learning Objective 4: Learn to apply specific psychotherapeutic techniques to help people heal from histories of spiritual abuse.
S11 Academic Perceptions of Religiously-Based Discrimination by Conservative Christian Students in a Secular versus Christian University Setting
Kachina A (1 CE) All Levels Paper
Christopher Rosik, Ph.D., Link Care Center
This study utilized an adaptation of Herek’s (1986) Sexual Orientation Survey to compare contemporary prevalence rates of various forms of perceived religiously-based discrimination among conservative Christian university students in public and private Christian settings with perceptions of sexual orientation based discrimination by sexual minority students in 1986.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn why it may be reasonable to expect conservative Christian students in a public university setting might perceive religiously-based discrimination.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn the extent to which conservative Christian students in a public versus a Christian university reported experiencing religiously-based discrimination.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how perceived religiously-based discrimination among Christian students in 2007 compared with the perception of sexual orientation based discrimination reported by sexual minority students in 1986.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn the extent to which perceived religiously-based discrimination among conservative Christian students was associated with self-reported depression and anxiety.
S12 Academic Survival Tips for the Cross-Cultural Researcher
Pueblo A (1 CE) All Levels Seminar
Heather Gingrich, Ph.D., Denver Seminary
In our increasingly multi-cultural contexts, researchers may be given opportunities to conduct research studies among diverse populations, either within North America or abroad. In this presentation I will illustrate some of the potential difficulties involved in conducting cross-cultural research, and offer suggestions and guidelines regarding how to successfully respond to such challenges.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will better understand the need for Christians to conduct cross-cultural research.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will identify various challenges faced by a Christian researcher conducting cross-cultural research.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to explore creative solutions to potential problems that a Christian cross-cultural researcher could face.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will reflect on suggested guidelines for conducting cross-cultural research.
S13 Practice Psychotherapy and the Image of God: A Relational Pursuit of Virtue
Pueblo B (1 CE) Intermediate & Advanced Paper
Earl Bland, Psy.D., MidAmerica Nazarene University & Daniel Sartor, Ph.D., Ebenezer Counseling Services
This paper explores how psychotherapy develops virtue, both as a desired therapeutic aim and as the unanticipated result of meaningful interpersonal engagement. We believe that the image of God is not contained in separate notions of the good or individual pursuits of virtue, but in the communal action of therapy.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will acquire basic familiarity with the classical understanding of virtue and its application to psychotherapeutic practice.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn how religion, virtue ethics, and morality contribute directly and indirectly to the establishment of therapeutic goals and outcomes.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will identify how the therapist’s personal and spiritual values and perceptions of virtue have an unavoidable influence on the therapeutic process and the ethical issues that necessarily ensue.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will understand points of integration among notions of personal virtue, the image of God, and the interpersonal process of psychotherapy.
S14 Church The Imago Dei in Two Religious Traditions
Serrano (No CE) Introductory Seminar
Part One: The Imago Dei in Wesleyan Tradition
David Lawson, Psy.D., Palm Beach Atlantic University
Wesleyan tradition has a rich history in understanding the importance of Imago Dei on the Christian’s life. With it’s tradition in emphasizing perfection in love, Wesleyans have the opportunity to inform faith and counseling on the impact of sanctification and personal growth as a key therapeutic endeavor.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will understand the Wesleyan view of Imago Dei and its holistic view of counseling.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will understand Wesley’s vision of the Imago shattered into 3 distinct parts, each with its own form and function.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will understand the importance of the Imago Dei in the Wesleyan tradition and its significance for healing.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will understand the role of sanctification in Wesleyan theology and counseling and its impact on the epistemology of pathology.
Part Two: Imago Dei: Rediscovering the Reformed View
David Wilcox, Ph.D., Palm Beach Atlantic University
Being made in God’s image evokes all kinds of ideas in contemporary culture. Various Protestant denominations and fellowships have emphasized over the centuries different aspects of what it means to be made in God’s image. This seminar explores the Reformed church’s understanding of the Christian doctrine of being made in God’s image.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn the context in which the Reformed view of being made in God’s image arose.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn the distinctive features of the Reformed view of being made in God’s image.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn reasons why the Reformed view is in the minority in contemporary American culture.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn how the Reformed view helps both counselor and client understand being made in God’s image.
S15 Church Problems of the Will: Finding Common Ground Between Christian Spirituality and Psychoanalysis
Pueblo C (1 CE) All Levels Paper
Gregory Jensen, Ph.D., Palamas Institute
Through a dialogue with psychoanalysis (Horney, Erikson) and Eastern Christian spirituality (Maximos, Staniloae) I examine (1) how sin damages the human will, (2) how the damaged will obscures in us God’s image and (3) the healing of the will as central to humanity’s restoration to the likeness of God.
Learning Objective 1: From this presentation, each participant will learn about points of convergence between psychoanalytic theory and Christian spirituality.
Learning Objective 2: From this presentation, each participant will learn a pastorally/clinically relevant view of the person grounded in early church teaching.
Learning Objective 3: From this presentation, each participant will learn a pastorally/clinically relevant view of the person grounded in light of contemporary Eastern Christian.
Learning Objective 4: From this presentation, each participant will learn about the potential application of Eastern Christian spirituality to contemporary pastoral and clinical issues.
S16 Church Gender Issues in the Use of Spiritual Disciplines in Therapy
Kachina B (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Seminar
Miriam Parent, Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Given current interest in incorporating spiritual concerns into therapy relationships, it is important to consider the influence of gender on influence, appeal and effectiveness of various classical and contemporary spiritual disciplines.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be able to identify some of the issues that affect the use of spiritual disciplines in therapy for men and women.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be challenged to discern the role that gender and culturally defined gender roles play in the effective use of various spiritual disciplines.
Learning Objective 3: Some of the possible benefits of gender specific and gender inclusive approaches to the use of spiritual disciplines in therapy will be identified.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will be challenged to evaluate their own understanding and skill level in the use of spiritual disciplines and techniques as part of their clinical practice.
S17 M & F Christians’ Evaluations of Five Marital Counseling Theories
Poblano (1 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Paper
Kelvin Mutter, Th.D., Heritage Theological Seminary
This presentation will discuss recent research measuring the receptivity of evangelical Christians to five approaches to pastoral and Christian marital counseling (Howard Clinebell, Lawrence Crabb, H. Norman Wright, Everett L. Worthington, Jr., and a pastoral adaptation of Emotionally Focused Couple’s Therapy (EFCT).
Learning Objective 1: Participants will see how "consumers" rate their perceptions of five approaches to marital counseling.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn which aspects of these approaches resonate with conservative Christians.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how life experience affects how much these models appeal to the "consumer."
S18 Empirically Supported Relationships Elements and Spiritual Transformation in Addressing Addictive Issues: Encountering God and Others Psychodramatically
Fiesta (1 CE) All Levels Clinical Demonstration
Robert Pramann, Ph.D., Shepherd's Staff Christian Counseling Center
This experiential session will demonstrate and provide basic training in psychodrama, and specifically in role-reversal, deep empathy, and it use for purposes of reconciliation. As a condition of attending this session participants are required to commit to keeping confidentiality and to participate only to the degree that they are comfortable.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn and experience the technique of role-reversal.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn and experience deep empathy as it occurs in psychodrama.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, participants will learn how Psychodrama provides a medium to address issues of reconciliation.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn and experience an ethically sound approach to experiential training.
Saturday 2:45-5:00 pm…(Two Hour) Breakout Sessions
S19 Academic Christian Integration in Clinical Supervision: Strategies, Critical Issues, and Training
Pavon (2 CE) Introductory Symposium
Jamie Aten, Ph.D., The University Of Southern Mississippi; Joan Jones, Psy.D., Biola University; Michael Mangis, Ph.D., Wheaton College; Jennifer Ripley, Ph.D., Regent University; & Fred Gingrich, D.Min., Denver Seminary
The purpose of this symposium is to raise awareness and address issues of Christian integration in clinical supervision. Specifically, Christian integrative supervision case examples, training strategies, techniques, and developmental conceptualizations will be discussed.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn about advances in Christian integrative supervision.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn about Christian integrative supervision training strategies.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn a developmental approach to conceptualizing Christian integrative supervision.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn about strategies for integrating psychology and Christianity into clinical supervision by exploring critical case studies.
S20 Addictions My Name is Adam, I am a Child of God, and an Addict
Serrano (2 CE) Intermediate Symposium
Lee Wetherbee, Ph.D., Ashland Theological Seminary
The nature and course of addictions are areas of great pain and misunderstanding among both clergy and laity. This seminar will clarify and enlighten participants regarding the differences between chemical and process addictions and the most recent empirical data that helps account for the often deadly pattern of relapse. The presenter brings the unique perspective of a seasoned clinician, teacher, researcher and recovering addict to this often divisive topic.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation each participant will learn the important differences and similarities of chemical and "process" addictions.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will be more capable of differentiating among addictive, impulsive and compulsive sexual behaviors.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn practical interventions based on scriptural truth and Cognitive Behavior principles which can be applied to a range of addictive disorders and behaviors.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation participants will be able to articulate a theology of dependency that informs their work with dependencies in their own life or the lives of their clients or parishioners.
S21 Addictions Achieving Success by Understanding Failure: Relapse Prevention
Poblano (2 CE) Introductory & Intermediate Seminar
Justin Smith, Psy.D., Phoenix Seminary
Preparing clients for success often includes helping them understand their failures. This is especially true for clients struggling with addictions and besetting sins. Clinicians will learn how to guide their clients through the deceptions and distortions that underlie addictions and embrace a transparent lifestyle that intercepts temptations before giving in to them.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn a model of relapse that explains both how relapse occurs and how to prevent them.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn a Biblical model of sanctification that explains how besetting sin can occur and how Christians can be supported in their stand against giving in to temptation.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will learn how to begin using this model with clients.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will learn what the current research on relapse rates and intervention success rates are for alcohol, drugs, and sexual addictions.
Saturday 2:45-3:45 pm…Breakout Sessions
S22 Academic Why Metaphor Matters in Integrative Discourse and Instruction
Kachina A (1 CE) Intermediate Paper
Jeffrey Rutter, Psy.D., Colorado Christian University
This paper examines evidence of new ways of thinking about the important role of metaphor in psychology-faith integration. Following a critical review of the literature, a case example will be presented in order to bring the "how" of integration into greater focus alongside the "what".
Learning Objective 1: Become familiar with trends in the integrative literature suggesting that metaphor is indispensable to the integrative task.
Learning Objective 2: Appreciate the "how" of integration over against the "what" through a case example.
Learning Objective 3: Have insight into how psychology and theology entail multiple ways of knowing, not just literal and abstract but also figurative and performative.
Learning Objective 4: Understand the philosophical (particularly epistemological) presuppositions of the integrative literature as a whole.
S23 Academic A Trinitarian Reading of the Imago Dei
Pueblo A (No CE) Introductory & Intermediate Paper
James Wakefield, Ph.D., Salt Lake Theological Seminary
Accepting the claim that every theology implies a corresponding anthropology, this session explores recent Trinitarian theologies and corresponding shifts in theological anthropology in terms of the Imago Dei. Specifically, the presenter argues that a Trinitarian logic of self-giving love forms and informs our understanding of the Imago Dei.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn a brief history interpreting the imago Dei.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will have two criteria used to evaluate claims about the imago Dei.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn a Trinitarian model suggestive for understanding the imago Dei.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn a logic of discipleship defining the imago Dei within us.
S24 Practice Clinical Ethics and a Christian Worldview: Imago Dei in Clinical Practice
Pueblo B (1 CE) Intermediate Paper
Rodger Bufford, Ph.D., George Fox University
Worldviews address five questions of what exists, how we know it, how things work, right and wrong, and who we are. A Christian worldview can subtly or profoundly change our approach to ethical clinical practice. This presentation explores how each aspect of a Christian worldview may shape our practices.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn to identify the key elements of a worldview.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn to identify distinctive Christian positions on each worldview element.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn examples of ways in which A Christian worldview affects our approach to clinical practice.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how the image of God as it relates to worldviews.
S25 Church Sexual Ethics: The Theological Perspective of Stanley Grenz
Fiesta (1 CE) All Levels Seminar
Gary Barnes, Ph.D.; Dallas Theological Seminary & Doug Rosenau, Ed.D., Intimacy Counseling Center & Institute for Sexual Wholeness
"Because we are created in the image of God and our creation includes being formed as sexual beings, the sexual dimension of our existence must in some way reflect the divine reality. As a result, our sexuality offers insight into the nature of the Creator." Theological perspectives of Stanley Grenz will be presented.
Learning Objective 1: To identify how our sexuality offers insight into the nature of the Creator.
Learning Objective 2: To identify ethical guidelines for marriage as an expression of human sexuality.
Learning Objective 3: To identify ethical guidelines for singleness as an expression of human sexuality.
Learning Objective 4: To identify how human sexuality can become an integral part of the life of the church.
S26 Church Spiritual and Religious Implications of Terror Management Theory: Recommendations for Church Leaders
Pueblo C (1 CE) Introductory Paper
David Bruce Rose, Ph.D., M.Div., Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary
People attempt to avoid of the terror created by awareness of mortality caused by events like 9/11 (Pyszcynski, et al. 2003). Even when repressed, that awareness affects behavior, strengthening stereotypes and aggression toward those different. This paper discusses ways to address that fear that may increase faithful loving behavior.
Learning Objective 1: The content of and research supporting terror management theory.
Learning Objective 2: Ways that religion, spirituality, and faith effect and do not effect responses to the awareness of mortality.
Learning Objective 3: How existential faith and intrinsic faith can increase the resilience to fear created by increased awareness of mortality.
Learning Objective 4: How the construct of “the fear of the Lord” in the psychology of religion is helpful in addressing the fear of mortality.
S27 M & F Psyche and Spirit in Couples Counseling
Kachina B (1 CE) Introductory Paper
Delores Friesen, Ph. D., Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary
Mutual address and accountability are two avenues for healing both the psyche and spirit of couples in distress. Conflict transformation requires openness, compassion, and the ability to speak the truth in love. These skills can be learned in both therapeutic and congregational settings.
Learning Objective 1: Practitioners will learn how mutual address and accountability can assist in the transformation of conflicts between partners.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will learn how marital interaction and conflict can be transformed.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will recognize the importance of developing new interaction patterns of mutual care and responsiveness in intimate relationships.
Learning Objective 4: This presentation will provide some ways to affirm and validate both the psyche and spirit of clients who come for couples therapy.
Saturday 4:00-5:00 pm…Breakout Sessions
S28 Academic How to Make Space at the Table of Diversity without Giving Up Your Seat: The Meta-Ethics of Ethical Practice
Kachina A (1 CE) All Levels Seminar
Robyn Mowery, Ph.D., University Of Kentucky
Is there a place for moral conviction when professional codes of ethics demand respect for diversity? Does respecting differences automatically imply that all moral positions are equally valid? How can professionals dialogue about ethical practice without using polarized terminology or compromising their convictions? We will refer to the philosophical language of meta-ethics to explore possible answers to these complex questions.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will learn about the nature of meta-ethics and its heuristic value in professional ethics, especially respect for diversity.
Learning Objective 2: Participants will gain insight about seven meta-ethical assumptions that are embedded in our professional debates about what constitutes ethical behavior.
Learning Objective 3: Participants will be able to distinguish between descriptive relativism and moral relativism.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will increase awareness their own moral assumptions and have the opportunity to role-play respectful dialogue with those with whom they disagree.
S29 Academic The "I-Thou" of Attachment and Intimacy
Kachina B (1 CE) Intermediate Paper
Betsye Robinette, Ph.D. & B.J. Fratzke Ed.D., Indiana Wesleyan University
Early childhood attachment has been repeatedly demonstrated to be vital to emotional and physical health. These bonds and relationship to God have also been correlated ("I-Thou" relationship). The current study investigates attachment, faith development in both the individual and their parents and considers whether these influence adult relationships and emotional intelligence.
Learning Objective 1: Participants will be introduced to an assessment for Emotional Intelligence.
Learning Objective 2: Presented research will expand on attachment and faith development studies by examining both parent and child images of God.
Learning Objective 3: Research on experiences in close relationships as an adult will be discussed in light of childhood attachment and faith development.
Learning Objective 4: Participants will gain understanding in how adult relationships and Emotional Intelligence are based on early parental and God attachment issues.
S30 Practice Health At Every Size: Caring for our Bodies as God Designed
Pueblo A (1 CE) Introductory Seminar
Juliet Zuercher, B.S. & Diane Summers, B.S., Remuda Ranch
Health At Every Size (HAES) is a unique, Biblically sound approach to wellness in God's image, not the world's. This program challenges current cultural beliefs about fatness and obesity, discusses the real costs of dieting, and teaches how to apply HAES principles personally as well as professionally.
Learning Objective 1: The misconceptions about obesity and fatness in our current culture; health is not measured by appearance.
Learning Objective 2: Health comes in all shapes in sizes; the variety of our species is a creational norm.
Learning Objective 3: How our own weight biases may affect our personal self care as well as our recommendations to clients.
Learning Objective 4: Biblically-based assessment, counseling and education strategies for clients dealing with weight issues and disordered eating/eating disorders.
S31 Church Dementia and the Art of Pastoral Care
Pueblo B (No CE) Intermediate Seminar
Philip Jamieson, Ph.D., University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Various forms of dementia carry particular challenges for caregivers. Furthermore, many of these challenges are based in what appears to be the diminishing of the personhood of the person suffering from dementia. This presentation will seek to show how dementia can help us see that a Christian theological anthropology is founded in relationality.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will gain an increased understanding of the challenges for caring for a person suffering from dementia.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn that the human potential for relationship is what primarily defines one's personhood.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will gain an increased understanding of the power of art in the healing process.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will increase their understanding of theological anthropology.
S32 Church Knowing When and How to Refer a Congregant
Pueblo C (1 CE) Introductory and Intermediate Seminar
Jeff Walker, D.Min., Psy.D., Riverside Co. Dept. of Mental Health
This presentation will assist clergy and other spiritual caregivers in developing skills to recognize when a congregant would best be served by being referred to a mental health professional and how to make such a referral without diminishing the pastoral or spiritual caregiving relationship.
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how to determine when a congregant/counselee may need to be referred from pastoral care/counseling to a mental health professional.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how to qualify mental health professionals in their geographic area which will be suitable to treat people of faith.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how to effectively refer a congregant to an appropriate clinician while maintaining their spiritual formation/pastoral counseling role with that individual.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each participant will learn how to support the congregant during their clinical mental health treatment and how to re-integrate them into pastoral care/counseling when treatment is terminated.
S33 M & F Family of Origin and Current Couple Relationships’ Influence on Spiritual Relationality.
Fiesta (1 CE) Introductory Paper
Charles Dickens, Ph.D.; Donna Loukas, B.S.; & C. Gary Barnes, Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary
The present study explores the possible relationship among participants' family of origin types (as measured by the FACES IV), current couple functioning (as measured by the PREPARE/ENRICH), and current spiritual relationship patterns (as measured by the Spiritual Transformation Inventory).
Learning Objective 1: As a result of this presentation, each attendee will learn how attachment theory can be useful in understanding one's spiritual relationship with God.
Learning Objective 2: As a result of this presentation, each attendee will gain understanding how relational patterns experienced in one's family of origin influence spiritual relationality.
Learning Objective 3: As a result of this presentation, each attendee will gain an appreciation for how human relationships provide insight into our current relationship with God.
Learning Objective 4: As a result of this presentation, each attendee will gain an appreciation for how one's spiritual relationship may influence a couples' current functioning.
CONTINUING EDUCATION STATION CLOSES AT 5:30 pm; REOPENS BRIEFLY AFTER THE BANQUET TONIGHT; FINAL HOURS ARE SUNDAY 10:30-11:00 (AFTER WORSHIP); PLEASE DROP YOUR CONFERENCE EVALUATION FORM IN THE DESIGNATED BOX AT THE REGISTRATION DESK!
Saturday 5:15-6:15 pm
Academic and research psychologists are invited to meet with Dr. Mark McMinn in Kachina A to nominate Distinguished Scholars to speak at CAPS 2009 in Orlando.
Saturday 6:30-10:00 pm
Student mixer, hosted by students from Phoenix Seminary. All undergraduate and graduate students are invited to meet in the hotel lobby at 6:30 pm, to group up in cars and go to a nearby restaurant for an evening of food and fellowship.
Saturday 7:00-9:30 pm
Banquet in Kiva Ballroom C
Tickets must be pre-purchased on-line or at the Registration desk, in order for you to have a meal. Join us for some great food, fellowship, and musical entertainment by Kim Larson. The recipient of the Narramore Award will be introduced, and the first announcements about CAPS 2009 in Orlando, Florida will be made.
Our after dinner speaker is Dr. Darryl Tippens, Provost of Pepperdine University; his message, “Worlds We Have Lost: Recovering Ancient Sources of Soul-Care for Today” is guaranteed to enlighten and challenge us on the last eve of our conference. You won’t want to miss this banquet or Dr. Tippens talk.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Sunday 9:00-10:30 am
Worship Service in Kiva Ballroom A
Come be blessed by a time of worship and the message of Dr. Darryl Delhousaye, President of Phoenix Seminary, as he speaks to us on the topic, “The Main Thing” from 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20