July 2007

PTI Nebraska’s Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports will be held in Omaha at the PTI Nebraska office, 3135 N. 93rd Street, July 31, 2007, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

This IDEA based workshop helps parents examine their family, school, and community attitudes towards kids in special education who have problems with behavior. The intent is to change perceptions from punishment as a consequence to identifying the need to teach positive behavior as a skill to be learned, determine why the behavior occurs and teach the child an acceptable replacement behavior.

Pre-registration is required. Please contact Joan at the PTI Nebraska office - (402) 346-0525 or (800) 284-8520, or by email at jjohnson@pti-nebraska.org, for more information or to register.

Nebraska Association of Behavioral Health Organizations and BryanLGH Medical Center 2007 Annual Conference: Moving from Research to Practice in Behavioral Health

The Nebraska Association of Behavioral Health Organizations and BryanLGH Medical Center 2007 Annual Conference: Moving from Research to Practice in Behavioral Health will be held August 3, 2007 at BryanLGH Medical Center West, 2300 South 16th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Participants of the conference will be able to:

• Discuss the interaction of circadian rhythm on the homoeostatic process of sleep and alertness.
• Apply cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia to the treatment care process of the chemically dependent patient.
• Examine the prevalence of diabetes in patients diagnosed with a mental illness.
• Review metanalysis research demonstrating the affect of patient apathy on the outcome of diabetes control and the relationship of diabetes to the development of dementia.
• Examine the current research developments in the treatment and care of the patient diagnosed with schizophrenia.
• Discuss assessment tools and techniques necessary to understand self injurious behaviors.
• Outline the choice/accountability model in relation to the triangle of treatment as it applies to the immediate and long term care of the patient with self injurious behavior and the family.

Conference presenters include Donald Belau, Ph.D., Leigh Heithoff, BS, RPSGT, R. EED T, Vishal Madaan, M.D., and Prasad R. Padala, M.D.

For more information or to register for the conference please contact Aubri Faustman at the NABHO Central Office at (402) 475-0727 or by email at afaustman@acgusa.net.

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