Spring Education Workshop "Live Your Life Well"

May 21, 2009 Montgomery, AL

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Registration:  8:30 am – 9:00 am 
Fee:  $35.00 per person  
Workshop:  9:00 am – 3:15 pm

Location:
Capital City Club
201 Monroe Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
(Below, please see parking instructions.)

Agenda/Presenters:
  9:00 am   Dr. John Kline
                  Positive Mental Health: Breaking an Eight-Day
                  Clock out of a Six-Day Case
10:00 am   Break
       10:15 am   Larry Davidson, M.Div.
                  Positive Spiritual Aspects of Mental Health
11:30 am   Lunch            
12:45 pm   Marc Riker, MSS and Ronnie Floyd, M.Ed.
                  How Physical Activity, Sports, and Nutrition
                  Help Enhance and Maintain Mental Health  
        1:45 pm   Break      
        2:00 pm   Judy Johnson, LCSW, PIP
                  Life’s Journey to Emotional Wellness 
3:00 pm   Wrap Up and Evaluations
          3:15 pm   Dismissal   

Continuing Education Credit:
This program is co-sponsored by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and Mental Health America in Montgomery.  The Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and a co-sponsor of this event/program.  The Alabama Department of Mental Health Mental Retardation may award NBCC approved clock hours for events or programs that meet NBCC requirements.  The ACEP maintains responsibility for the content of this event:  is approved as a provider of continuing education in Nursing by the Alabama Board of Nursing; ABNP05150, Expiration Date July 5, 2009; is an approved provider of continuing education for Social Workers in the State of Alabama through the Alabama State Board State Board of Social Work Examiners.  This program offered for 4.5 contact hours (clock hours) and 5 for Nurses.

The “Live Your Life Well” program has been designed to explain how striving for recovery from mental illness is multifaceted.  By exploring different areas including physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual we will encourage health care providers to do the same when treating their clients/patients.

Workshop Objectives:  Participants will be able to…

• Describe how prevention and rehabilitation play a roll in

mental health.  Also, explain how physical activity and
nutrition can be addressed in treatment planning.

• Explain the positive mental health benefits of encouragement,  of  belonging and  listening in order  to discuss how to utilize these attributes when interacting with mental health clients
• Discuss how spirituality and religious beliefs can contribute

        to mental health recovery and ways to include this in
        treatment planning

• List steps for building resiliency to achieve flexibility and

        balance for positive emotional health

Audience*:

• Currently eligible certified mental health professionals
• Nurses
• Social Workers
• Counselors

For additional information or special accommodations please contact:
Mental Health America in Montgomery
1116 South Hull Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
Phone: 334.262.5500

*Eligible participants must be in attendance for the full program to receive credit for completing the course.