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About the Zarrow Mental Health Symposium

The Zarrow Mental Health Symposium is an annual conference designed to provide state-of-the-art research and practical information about current issues related to mental health and mental illness. The conference celebrates it's 13th year in 2007.

Learning Differences and Mental Health: Implications that Can Impact a Lifetime
October 4-5, 2007
Tulsa Mariott Southern Hills

Purpose:

The 2007 Zarrow Symposium will bring together local, state, and national leaders to discuss best practice and research-based programs in mental health treatment and prevention. The Symposium will focus on current clinical, neurodevelopmental, and educational research, best practices, and model programs that address the diagnosis and treatment of children, adolescents, and adults who live with learning differences. Biological, psychosocial, family support, and cultural related concerns will also be incorporated.

Emphasis will also be made on best practices, model programs, resources, and supports that can be applied in a school setting by counselors, teachers, administrators, and those providing special education related services. The conference qualifies for the use of IDEA 621 Project Funds.

Objectives:

Participants in the Symposium may pursue one or more of the following objectives:

Describe the relationship between learning differences and the impact they can have on the mental health of children, as well as adults.

Discuss the ethics of language and labeling and the relationship between word choice and stigma.

Describe recent clinical research, best practices and model programs related to the identification and treatment of learning differences, and corresponding mental health related treatments and supports.

Discuss competency related concerns related to culture, ethnicity and socio-economic related factors that can influence successful identification and treatment of learning differences and related mental health disorders.

In addition to 6 plenary sessions, the conference will offer 32 90-minute workshops combining innovative approaches to treatment, best practice models, and ethical professional practice. Content will be focused on the concerns of social workers; licensed professional counselors; physicians; psychologists; teachers; school administrators and counselors; certified alcohol and drug counselors; and other professionals engaged in social services, education, law enforcement, and the judicial system.

The Symposium will also feature Grand Rounds on the Thursday evening of the event. Area pediatricians, psychiatrists and family practice physicians will be invited to participate.

Updated 7/26/2007


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