Anyone for Controversy?
Let's face it. Sometimes conferences are boring! But not this one, and that's why I am calling your attention to the CAMFT's May 1-4 2008 Annual Conference: Controversy: Current Debates Within a Changing Profession
http://www.camft.org/Conf_Workshops/2008Con/Greeting.htm This conference is really taking on the big ones: evidence based practice (EBP) and kids and psychiatric drugs. I am debating Thomas Sexton of Functional Family Therapy fame (he came down with a bad back and was unable to attend our scheduled debate at the Networker a couple of years back) who will be arguing for EBP while I will be highlighting the pitfalls of EBP and the benefits of practice based evidence.
I will also be presenting a keynote about the risks and benefits of psychiatric drugs based on the thorough review of the APA Working Group on Psychoactive Drugs for Children and Adolescents as well as the risk/benefit analysis conducted by Jacqueline Sparks and I that will soon be available on this website. If my recent experience in Colorado Springs is in any indication, sparks will likely fly!
I think this conference is a cut above most. So if you live in the Los Angeles area, check it out and look me up and say hi.
And don't forget to register now for the Heart and Soul of Change conference in Phoenix, June 5-7. Both of the above topics are covered as well as many others of note. For example, Noted school psychologist John Murphy will address how schools can become outcome informed by using the Child Outcome Rating Scale and the Child Session Rating Scale. Register at:
www.ti-sbh.org/displayconvention.cfm
Hope to see you at one or both of these events.
Barry
http://www.camft.org/Conf_Workshops/2008Con/Greeting.htm This conference is really taking on the big ones: evidence based practice (EBP) and kids and psychiatric drugs. I am debating Thomas Sexton of Functional Family Therapy fame (he came down with a bad back and was unable to attend our scheduled debate at the Networker a couple of years back) who will be arguing for EBP while I will be highlighting the pitfalls of EBP and the benefits of practice based evidence.
I will also be presenting a keynote about the risks and benefits of psychiatric drugs based on the thorough review of the APA Working Group on Psychoactive Drugs for Children and Adolescents as well as the risk/benefit analysis conducted by Jacqueline Sparks and I that will soon be available on this website. If my recent experience in Colorado Springs is in any indication, sparks will likely fly!
I think this conference is a cut above most. So if you live in the Los Angeles area, check it out and look me up and say hi.
And don't forget to register now for the Heart and Soul of Change conference in Phoenix, June 5-7. Both of the above topics are covered as well as many others of note. For example, Noted school psychologist John Murphy will address how schools can become outcome informed by using the Child Outcome Rating Scale and the Child Session Rating Scale. Register at:
www.ti-sbh.org/displayconvention.cfm
Hope to see you at one or both of these events.
Barry
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