In This Issue

• President’s Message

• AMCAP Leadership

• New Officers and Member Spotlights

• Clinician’s Corner: Fall Convention 2007 Summaries - Tamera Smith Allred, M.A. - Douglas E. Brinley, Ph.D. - Corydon Hammond, Ph.D., E.C.N.S., relationship with clients. However, I also understand Q.E.E.G.-D., B.C.I.A.-E.E.G. the cumulative effect that living gospel principles - Lane Fischer, Ph.D. - Kaye Espenschied Smith, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. President’s can have on increasing counselor utilization. In - Marleen S. Williams, Ph.D. Message extending our gospel centered approach beyond clients to other professional relationships, we • Student Reflections become a better, more attractive resource. - Wesley Bertagnole, University of Wyoming - Tabitha Harper, Brigham Young University AMCAP President - Brent Melling, Brigham Young University The way we live the gospel permeates our being - Matthew Reiser, Brigham Young University Rebecca Jorgensen, Ph.D. and informs our choices of practices and procedures with clients and colleagues; we • New Mentoring Program heighten our ability to be empathetic and forgiving. • Spring Convention 2008 Information Dear AMCAP Members, Practicing gospel principles in the office should result in outcomes that are more Christ-centered • Call for Presentation Proposals Recently I've been corresponding with an AMCAP and family oriented. As our work shows the fruit of the gospel, Bishops will have more confidence in colleague who is attempting to improve the image • What’s Up in Your Area? of L.D.S. Mental Health Professionals in his area. our profession. Specifically, he hopes his local church leaders will • Convention CD Order Forms feel more confident in referring members to L.D.S. At the Spring 2006 Convention, President Thomas Mental Health Professionals. After one discussion, S. Monson gave us an Apostolic Blessing wherein • Advertisements he blessed us to have "kindness in [our] interactions when he mentioned that many Bishops he'd talked • BYU Position Announcement to were hesitant to refer out at all. I remembered with others . . . sympathy . . . [and] love." The Elder Morrison's 2005 Ensign article, "Mental gospel calls for something more than gut reactions. • BYU Conference Announcement Illness," which encouraged members to seek It calls us to live by higher laws. It teaches us to mental health assistance from professionals who judge righteously, to be forgiving, to live by and with • Membership Application Form follow "practices and procedures compatible with the spirit. I know we each face professional gospel principles." Originally when I read this difficulties and challenges that can be alleviated article, I related it to our capacity to benefit clients through kindness and understanding. through our mutual value system. Belief in change, growth, and hope makes our clinical application The theme of our upcoming Spring Convention is easier. "Healing, Hope and the Spirit of AMCAP." I hope to see you there as we all work to fill our professional As you know, part of our AMCAP mission is to meet cups with practices and procedures consistent with the call in D&C 81:5: "be faithful; stand in the office gospel principles. As we step closer to them, I am which I have appointed unto you; succor the weak, confident we will see more success in our work, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen both with clients, colleagues, and in community the feeble knees." In turn we're assured the relationships. What a wonderful blessing that the Spring Convention 2008 capacity to "do the greatest good unto [our] fellow peace and hope we feel can influence and impact April 3-4, 2008* beings, and . . . promote the glory of him who is those we work with. Joseph Smith Memorial Building [our] Lord" (D&C 81:4). 15 E. South Temple, SLC, Utah

Naturally, this scripture and Elder Morrison's *Pre-Convention April 2, 2008 counsel relate most obviously to our working Rebecca Jorgensen, Ph.D. Location determined by session attending.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 1 AMCAP Leadership

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dianne Nielsen, Ph.D. Michael Gardner, M.S.W. Continuing Education LDS Family Services Representative Rebecca Pack Jorgensen, Ph.D. W: 801-422-3035 H: 801-224-4287 H: 801-295-4022 W: 801-422-3692 AMCAP President [email protected] [email protected] Spring 2007 – Fall 2009 W: 619-964-6433 GeriLynn Vorkink, Doctoral Student John Livingstone, Ed.D. [email protected] Student Representative Convention AV Committee Chair W/H: 801-235-9911 H: 801-224-9908 W: 801-422-3692 Shane Adamson, L.C.S.W. [email protected] [email protected] Vice President Jan Scharman, Ph.D. Membership and Area Coordinator ASSISTANTS TO THE BOARD General Authority Representative Spring 2007 – Fall 2009 H: 801-277-4021 W: 801-378-2387 H: 801-996-8397 W: 801-747-2300 Kristin Douglas, M.A., L.P.C., B.C.I.A.C. [email protected] [email protected] AMCAP Networker – Editor Spring 2008 Convention Co-Chair Rebecca Gray Kristine Plummer, L.C.S.W. Fall 2008 Convention Chair Convention Consultant Treasurer W: 307-778-1311 H: 307-638-2129 H: 801-295-5566 W: 801-295-8765 H: 801-582-8311 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Barbara Gearig, L.C.S.W., C.T.L.C., P.C Volunteers and Elections W: 801-280-2571 H: 801-280-2681 AREA COORDINATOR EXECUTIVE SECRETARY [email protected] SUPERVISORS B.J. Fullmer John Rector, Ph.D. George Paulsen, M.Ed. Executive Secretary AMCAP Journal – Associate Editor Area Coordinator Assistant H: 801-583-4497 W: 801-583-6227 W: 208-496-1100 H: 208-359-0609 Supervisor– Western U.S., Pacific & FAX: 801-583-1305 [email protected] Asia [email protected] H: 801-250-2823 COMMITTEE CHAIRS POSITIONS OPEN BOARD MEMBERS Carrie Wrigley, L.C.S.W. Website AMCAP Board Member – One year A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D. W: 801-566-2556 H: 801-572-1125 assignment Spring 2008 Convention Chair [email protected] Bookstore Convention Committee Chair H: 801-756-9189 W: 801-240-3386 [email protected] REPRESENTATIVES TO THE BOARD Area Coordinator Assistant Supervisor Eastern United States LoriLee Critchfield, Ph.D., D.A. Dean R. Bender, C.P.A., M.A., M.F.T.I. British Isles Fund Raising Financial Consultant Europe H : 208-736-7178 W: 208-736-7178 C: 916-300-4543 [email protected] [email protected] WHAT IS THE NETWORKER? Robert L. Gleave, Ph.D. Jonathan Chamberlain, Ph.D. Publications Assistant Historian The AMCAP Networker is an official publication of By-Laws H: 801-225-2598 the Association of Mormon Counselors and [email protected] Psychotherapists. It is published at least twice/year. Fall 2008 Convention Co-Chair Subscriptions are free to AMCAP members. W: 801-422-3035 H: 801-224-7464 [email protected] Rachel E. Crook Lyon, Ph.D. Note that opinions expressed in the Networker do not AMCAP Journal – Editor necessarily reflect the view of AMCAP members, officers, AMCAP Networker editorial staff, or officers H : 801-407-6414 W: 801-422-4375 Kristin Lang Hansen, Ph.D. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [email protected] Fall 2007 Convention Chair Submissions are welcome. Send all submissions via H : 617-365-1013 W: 617-365-1013 Vera Ivie email to Kristin Douglas, Editor. Please include author contact information. [email protected] Convention Photographer H: 801-476-1959 Kristin Douglas, M.A., L.P.C., B.C.I.A.C. Edward Martinelli, Ph.D. Laramie County Community College By-Laws Burton C. Kelly, Ph.D. 1400 East College Drive W: 801-863-8643 H: 801-785-1057 Historian Cheyenne, WY 82007-3299 [email protected] W: 307- 778-1311 H: 307-638-2129 H: 801-225-2046 [email protected]

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 2 New AMCAP Board Members

LoriLee Critchfield, Ph.D., D.A., has two doctoral degrees, one in Political Science from Idaho State University and one in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in political science, public administration and sociology as adjunct faculty for Idaho State University and the College of Southern Idaho.

LoriLee is a licensed psychologist and maintains a private psychology practice in Twin Falls and Burley, Idaho, where she works with children, adults, and couples. LoriLee Critchfield, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist She teaches criminal justice and clinical psychology for Kennedy-Western University and Boise State University. She also does forensic work for local law enforcement and continues to write and publish.

Dianne L. Nielsen, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in the Counseling and Career Center at Brigham Young University. She received her Ph.D. from Brigham Young University in 2001. Dianne has specialty interests in biofeedback and in neuropsychology. She is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (A.B.C.T.), has received specialized training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy from Marsha Linehan, and specialized training in Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy from Albert Ellis.

Dianne L. Nielsen, Ph.D. In her personal life, Dianne likes to read books (“Middlemarch” is this year’s Clinical Psychologist favorite), and run marathons (11 so far). She is the mother of four sons, and the proud owner of two border collies.

GeriLynn Vorkink earned her B.S. in Psychology from Brigham Young University and is currently a 3rd-year graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Brigham Young University. She has been serving as Assistant to the Editor of the AMCAP journal, Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy, for the past 1 ½ years. GeriLynn is the new student AMCAP board representative.

GeriLynn is originally from Southern California and spends her summers there GeriLynn Vorkink, B.S. working as the Human Resource Manager over counselors and teachers at a Doctoral Student performing arts day camp for children. She is the mother of six children and enjoys spending time with her family, playing the piano, organ, and harpsichord, swimming, dancing and reading.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 3 News from AMCAP Headquarters

We want to welcome the following 82 members who joined AMCAP during the year 2007. They consist of 48 Professionals, 29 Students, and one Retired member. We hope your experience with AMCAP a rewarding one! It is a pleasure working with such wonderful AMCAP members and a tremendous leadership council. It is helpful to keep records current. Please inform me of any address or email changes you may have. Also, if you aren’t familiar with our webpage, check it out at www.amcap.net. Here you can locate and connect with other members in your area, read past issues of the newsletter and journal as well as gather information about upcoming conventions. If you have any questions about AMCAP or benefits for members, do not hesitate to contact us! Hope to see you at this April’s convention! B.J. Fullmer

Welcome New Members Robert Durkin, B.A.C.P. David Opper, M.D., F.C.F.P.,C.C.F.P. Amy Ellis, M.S., M.F.T. Ray Orbin, L.P.C., M.A. Robert Allred, Student Robert Fletcher, M.A. Jackie Pack, L.C.S.W. Jenilee Ashcraft, Student Nathan Gibbons, L.C.S.W. Bonnie Perkins, M.A. Sanie Baker, L.C.P.C., M.Ed. Michelle Glenetski, M.S. Ryan Poulson, Student Carol Bartlett, B.A. Starling Hall, L.C.S.W. Carol Ramsey-Scott, L.C.S.W. Steven Behling, M.A. Tabitha Harper, Student Matthew Reiser, Student Jennie Lyn Bingham, Student Patricia Hatala, Ed.D. Heidi Richards, Student Ruth Blair, R.N. Kato Haws, L.M.S.W. Benjamin Rolph, Student Raquel Bowman, Student Pamela Heathco, L.P.C. Diane Rowe, L.C.S.W. Lisa Bradford, L.C.S.W. Carol Hendricks, C.S.W. Heather Severn, M.S., M.F.T.I. Thayne Brewster, Student Deborah Henrie, M.C. Erin Sipherd, M.A., M.F.T.I. Melody Brimhall, L.A.S.A.C., L.A.C., F. Michele Hooper, C.S.W. Daniel Sorensen, L.C.S.W. M.A.P.C. James Jackson, M.A. Sondra Southers, L.C.S.W. Isaac Brown, L.C.S.W. Jason Jacobia, L.C.S.W. Bonnie Starr, M.S., L.P.C. Andra Bruce, L.C.S.W. Nancy Jenkins, L.P.C. Alan Strong, Ph.D. Elaine Brummer-Hill, L.C.S.W. Brian Jensen, Psy.D., L.P.C. Brent Taylor, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. Melinda Buchanan, M.S. Anna Mae Jorgensen, M.S. Rebecca Taylor April Carlson, M.S.W. Matthew Kahler, Student Norman Thibault, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. Christine Casey, M.A., L.A.C. Christy Kane, M.C., C.P.C.I. Richard Tripp, Student Miramar Recovery Center Cheryl Kelstrom-Smith, C.S.W. R. Clifford Turnbow, M.S., C.P.C. Carol Chaffin, M.S.C., L.P.C. Brynley Lazar, Student Nicole Turville, L.C.S.W. Jascha Clark, Student Diane Longoria, M.C., L.A.C. Lawrence Vingoe, Dip. Psych Christy Cox, C.S.W. Felice Lotito, M.Ed. Charles Vorwaller, L.C.S.W. Sean Creighton, Student Lane Wardrop, L.P.C.I. Elaine Davis, M.F.T.I. J. Tekulve Martial-Vann, C.F.L.E. Ken Weir Angela Dixon, L.C.S.W. Brent Melling, Student Vicki Doud, M.A., R.C. Mona Merz Whitney Worthen, Student David Dunning, M.S., M.F.T. Cari Mitchell, M.S. Darrell Wright, M.A.

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AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 4 Member Spotlights

Victor B. Cline Nathan Gibbons Christina Hibbert Psychologist Licensed Professional Social Worker Clinical Psychologist

Victor B. Cline, Ph.D., is a psychologist Nathan Gibbons, L.C.S.W., is currently Christina Hibbert, Psy.D., is a Clinical specializing in family and marital working as the Clinical Supervisor in the Psychologist who specializes in Perinatal counseling, and treatment of sexual Provo Agency of LDS Family Services, after Mental Health and Women’s Issues. She addictions. He is one of the founding 6 years as the Agency Director of the earned her doctorate degree from California members of AMCAP and well known for Colorado Agency. Prior to moving to School of Professional Psychology in 2003. his work treating pornography and sexual Colorado in 2001 to accept this Christina is the Founder and President of addictions. He has provided numerous assignment, Nathan worked as a The Arizona Postpartum Wellness Coalition, seminars and workshops across the caseworker for five years in Farmington a past board member for Postpartum United States over the past 30 years on Utah. Nathan earned his Bachelor’s of Support International (PSI) and a past PSI marriage and family related topics, Science and Master of Social Work Degrees coordinator for the state of Arizona. including the Marriage Enrichment from Brigham Young University in Provo, Weekend seminar. Utah. Christina is the co-creator and producer of the video Postpartum Couples, and creator Victor has a Ph..D. in Clinical Psychology With a heavy educational background in of the brochure “Postpartum Mood from University of California- Berkeley Social Work, Nathan’s training allows him Disorders: What every new parent should and is Professor Emeritus of Psychology to work with many different populations of know.” She is an experienced trainer and at the University of Utah. He is the clients. A sampling of Nathan’s recent work frequently provides professional and former President of Marriage and Family assignments includes time spent in community training on the evaluation and Enrichment (a nationwide seminar group) Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Mississippi and treatment of perinatal mood disorders and and the accomplished author and editor Louisiana and weekend telephone work other women’s mental health issues. In of 84 publications, including articles and staffing the Church’s Abuse Hotline. 2006, Christina received the Postpartum books on parenting and media related Nathan’s treatment specialties include Support International Jane Honikman subjects. Victor has been the primary working with people suffering from anxiety, Award for outstanding service in perinatal investigator on research projects depression, trauma, addictions and familial mental health. sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education, conflict in individual, couples, and group National Science Foundation, National settings. Christina recently left her group practice to Institute of Mental Health, National be home full-time with her children. “My Institutes of Health Biomedical Research, Nathan is happily married and has five sister and brother-in-law recently died, Utah Law Research Institute, Office of children: three boys and two girls, ranging leaving their two young sons. These boys Naval Research, University of Utah in ages from 4 to 14. Nathan’s favorite became our new sons in late October and I Research Committee, and Richardson pastimes (in addition to being the local gave birth to a beautiful baby girl in mid- Merrell, Inc. Scoutmaster) include spending time with his November, doubling our family from 3 to 6 family, being in the outdoors, and children. I am so grateful I have this He is married to Lois Lowe Cline and the participating in most sporting events. opportunity to be home with them for now.

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AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 5 Clinician’s Corner Body awareness is simply applying the practices of mindfulness to the body. This means increasing attention within and around. The “Clinician’s Corner” is a section of the Networker where AMCAP members share ideas they find helpful in their own Scripture and writings on meditation by prophets and clinical practice. This particular “Clinician’s Corner” is apostles support it as a practice that will help the individual devoted to presentation summaries from the AMCAP Fall access the blessings of personal revelation, the atonement, Convention 2007. and peace. (A few, but not all of the examples used in the presentation are below). We want to hear from you! AMCAP members are invited to x "Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord… submit their clinical ideas for inclusion in future issues of the The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace" Networker. Please send submissions to Kristin Douglas, (Exodus 14:13 – 14). Editor, at [email protected]. See www.amcap.net for additional ideas from past AMCAP publications. x "And while we meditated upon these things, the Lord touched the eyes of our understandings and they were Note that the opinions expressed in the “Clinician’s Corner” opened . . ." (D & C 76:19). do not necessarily reflect the view of AMCAP members, officers, AMCAP Networker editorial staff, or officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. x “President David O. McKay would frequently suggest the need for us to turn from the hectic day-to-day schedule filled with letters to answer, calls to be made, people to see, Be Still & Know: Bringing Mindfulness, meetings to attend, and take time to meditate, to ponder, and to reflect on the eternal truths and the sources of the joy Meditation, & Body Awareness into and happiness which comprise each person's quest. . . L.D.S. Mental Health Practice When we do, the mundane, the mechanical, the repetitious patterns of our lives yield to the spiritual qualities, and we Tamera Smith Allred, M.A., R.C. acquire a much-needed dimension which inspires our daily Private Practice living” (Thomas S. Monson, "Gifts," Ensign, May 1993, ------p. 59). The following summary is from a presentation given by Tamera Smith at the AMCAP Fall Convention 2007. Emotions and Mindfulness ------In this model emotions are viewed as merely physical sensations in the body, which can be observed. Clients are In 2002, I felt impressed to contemplate one scripture throughout encouraged to be present to the physical sensations and just the year -- D. & C. 101:16 which included the phrase “Be still notice what is happening to them. Often the tendency is to get and know that I am God”-- and implement moments of stillness overly attached to the emotion thus amplifying it. For example into my life instead of setting goals as I usually do. As a result of when a client is anxious they may begin to believe this is their my experience with a year of reflection and contemplation, I new reality – forever! Then they develop thoughts about the began researching mindfulness, meditation, and body awareness sensations such as, “I’m going to die, this will kill me.” In this and implementing it in my work as an L.D.S. counselor. Clients model they are observing the sensations of the emotions. experienced relief and healing. I use these practices with all clients, but have found it especially helpful with treating PTSD, anxiety, and addiction.

Definitions Mindfulness means turning the thoughts fully to what is happening in the moment – being present to what is. It is an objective awareness of an ongoing experience – what we hear, smell, see, taste, and feel (Kabat-Zinn,1994).

Meditation is a way of being in relationship to the present moment, to one’s own mind and body, and one’s own experience. It is an awareness of the content of our experience, especially factors that influence and drive the unfolding of that experience and more importantly a way those factors liberate us or imprison us moment-by-moment, year-by-year (Kabat-Zinn, 1994). It is thought of as a specific practice used to implement mindfulness. It is also described as reflecting on or pondering over something.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 6 Clinician’s Corner Guided Imagery (Continued) Guided imagery is a powerful self-calming tool that also assists in balancing the biochemical balance in the body which is disrupted by trauma. I use the guided imagery scripts from Invisible Heroes, Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal I encourage them to tell themselves something like, “Oh, there’s (Naparstek, 2004) along with especially composed music, that again. Isn’t that interesting.” As they learn to do this they Inward Journey, by Steven Mark Kohn. Both of these, along wear their emotions more loosely, and the emotions leave more with recordings of the guided imageries can be ordered online quickly. In this model, emotions are viewed like weather, they at Health Journeys.com or by calling 1-800-800-8661. come and they go.

Meditation Specific practices to implement mindfulness, meditation, and body awareness: Clients can be taught and encouraged to take even just five minutes a day outside of counseling to sit still and practice observing what they are experiencing inside, just noticing The Four Questions thoughts, physical sensations, and the breath. An excellent These are presented in The Gift of Our Compulsions (O’Malley, guide is Wherever You Go There You Are, Mindfulness 2004) and are an excellent guide for helping clients to become Meditation in Everyday Life (Kabat-Zinn, 1994). mindful of their experience and to develop body awareness. Using these questions helps clients slow down and abate compulsive and addictive patterns, gain insight into their Body Awareness process, and develop compassion for themselves. They can be used in a session with the therapist guiding the client. Clients I teach clients body awareness by observing their bodies while can practice them between sessions when anxiety, addictive or they are talking. If they start to manifest noticeable body compulsive urges, or P.T.S.D. symptoms arise. I have found it symptoms such as shivering, tears, or twitching, I will gently helpful to have clients write the answers out in a notebook as call their attention to their bodies and ask them to just notice they are learning how to do them. The questions are: what is happening and encourage them to stay with it for a few moments. This gives them the opportunity to attend to their 1. “In this moment, what am I experiencing?” bodies and for the body to release what it is holding and be 2. “For this moment, can I let this be here?” healed. More information on these practices is available on the 3. “In this moment, can I touch this with compassion?” convention CD. 4. “Right now, what do I truly need?”

Case Example

Three case examples were shared in the presentation. I have included one here. (The client gave permission for his story to be used and his name has been changed.).

Timothy came to counseling to work on his fear of flying. He had to travel for his work and could not take medication because he was required to carry a concealed weapon for his work. His life had become organized around the next time he had to fly and dealing with enormous emotional responses that were almost debilitating to him. He had tried other methods where he was taught about how a plane works, and why flying is relatively safe, but it didn’t calm his fears. He had tried using positive thinking and thought replacement -- that also didn’t work. I asked him to imagine flying and describe to me the body sensations he was experiencing. Just thinking of flying caused him to begin to experience pronounced symptoms of anxiety. I pointed out to him that it sounded like in actuality it wasn’t flying he was afraid of, it was the anxiety he experienced when he flew that was the problem. This idea had never occurred to him. I explained that the task was to help him to form a different relationship to the anxiety through mindfulness, meditation and body awareness.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 7 Clinician’s Corner References (Continued) Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). Wherever you go there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life. New York: Hyperion.

I had him practice just experiencing his anxiety and allowing it Kohn, S. M. (2003). Inward journey. Akron, OH: Health Journeys. to “be” during sessions. Between sessions I encouraged him to actually write out the answers to the questions to help him stay O’Malley, M. (2004). The gift of our compulsions: A revolutionary on task as he followed their instructions. For his next assigned approach to self-acceptance and healing. Halifax, Nova Scotia: work travel he wasn’t ready to fly. I supported him in trusting New World Library. his own process. Naparstek, B. (2004). Invisible heroes: Survivors of trauma and how they heal. New York, New York: Bantam Books.

Tamera Smith Allred, M.A., has been in private practice since 2003, after graduating from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR with a M.A. in Counseling Psychology. Prior to this mid-life career change she had worked as a personal growth writer and workshop leader for over 20 years. Her B.A. was received from Brigham Young University in Communications and Journalism. She has written for The Ensign, The Church News, The Deseret News, The Oregonian, The Oregon Journal, and The Columbian and won first prize in the National Press Women’s Association for Personal Column Writing for her popular column “On the Homefront” which appeared weekly in This Week Magazine. While at The Deseret News she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her work on the famous Gary Gilmore case. She has been a presenter at BYU Education Week and for schools, hospitals, government agencies, parent groups, and church groups. She can be reached at [email protected].

Therapeutic Dimensions of

He arranged to travel by train and told his supervisor he had a Treating L.D.S. Clients: L.D.S. fear of flying, but was working on it in counseling. His Doctrine as Help or Hindrance to supervisor commended him for his honesty and told him that he had had numerous employees over the years with the same Therapeutic Intervention issue, but many of them were not willing to address it. His train ride was miserable because it lasted so long. That experience Douglas E. Brinley, Ph.D. helped increase his motivation to prepare to fly as soon as Brigham Young University possible. ------Soon he was ready and picked a place to fly on his own. When The following summary is from a presentation given by Dr. Brinley at he went to the airport his flight was delayed twice. He told me the AMCAP Fall Convention 2007. that before his work with mindfulness/body awareness, that ------alone would have caused him to leave the airport. Instead he practiced the four questions as he waited in the airport. It Three Issues Commonly Faced by LDS Clients: helped him stay. Guilt. L.D.S. clients who do not behave in ways congruent When he got on the plane he had to begin practicing again, but with Church beliefs often feel guilt. These feelings create he made it through the flight and was euphoric about his barriers that make it difficult for these clients to reveal their success. He reported that it was very important to him to have real intent to counselors trying to assist them. been taught that it is o.k. to feel anxious or afraid, that a person can notice those things, allow himself to have those feelings and Perfection Complex. In L.D.S. scripture, Christ's mandate to still do what is important to him. As he relaxed about feeling be perfect is frequently interpreted to mean that to achieve anxious, the anxiety also relaxed. He said, “I feel more free exaltation, one must be perfect now, instead of recognizing right now. I felt like I was in a bottle, limited, restricting perfection as a process of becoming whole or complete, a myself. Now I’m able to take advantage of opportunities. The better translation of the Greek. leash is off and I am free to roam and wander the skies.” Failure to get Outside Help when Needed. Though not This is just one example of how clients can be assisted in their limited to L.D.S. members, the idea that we should be able to healing by using mindfulness and body awareness. These resolve differences or difficulties ourselves often leads to a practices help them develop a new relationship with their failure to seek competent outside help when the emotions thus reclaiming their power. situation warrants it.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 8 Clinician’s Corner (Continued)

Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

President Boyd K. Packer has said on three occasions: "True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior" (Boyd K. Packer, "Do Not Fear," Ensign, May 2004, p. 79). In 1971, the Church Board of Education made a listing of Church doctrines - ten of them which turn out to be elements of the plan of salvation. Each of these doctrines have application to marriage and family if we like being married; if we like being parents. God even relations. 'loans' us some of His spirit children for us to 'practice' on, to learn how to become parents in preparation for eternity and Doctrine of the Godhead. All ordinances of the gospel are done exaltation. in the name of Jesus Christ with the exception of baptism and temple sealings, including marriage. These two ordinances, Doctrine on Lucifer. Physical bodies permit us to exercise celestial ordinances, are done in the name of the entire godhead. powers of procreation in giving life to others; spirits, however, Each member of the godhead cares about our success as married are unable to procreate, hence the great damnation of Satan is partners. Only L.D.S. doctrine reveals that God the Father that he will never be a husband or father - ever. No wonder is married and is a parent. He desires our success as marriage he fights against those who marry in the temple and try to be partners. He wants us to be successful in marriage and effective parents. parenthood because that is his 'work and glory' (Moses 1:39). Exaltation for L.D.S. means that we live among other exalted Doctrine on the Fall and the Atonement. Adam and Eve had couples. The atonement and resurrection of Jesus Christ makes physical bodies in the Garden of Eden. After being cast out of this all possible. The Holy Ghost, as a spirit, inspires us and the garden they were now capable of procreative powers. provides counsel and direction in fulfilling marital and parental However, subject to death, an atonement was necessary to responsibilities and obligations. restore them back to eternal marriage partners. Christ's atonement made this possible, for death was abolished. Doctrine on Man. Each person is a son or daughter of Heavenly parents, so each of us has the potential to become as Doctrine on the Agency of Man. Satan was cast out to the they are. By living gospel principles we can attain, in time, what earth to provide us an opportunity to choose between good or they have attained. evil, to see if we want to progress toward exaltation. This is the first time for us to marry and experience the blessings of a Doctrine on the Purpose of Earth Life. This doctrine explains family of our own. Through obedience to divine laws, we are our purpose in coming to mortality. In the pre-mortal life we able to achieve exaltation. were brothers and sisters to each other, sons and daughters of God, but not until this life are we able to marry and become Doctrine on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The elements of the parents ourselves. Thus we are apprenticing in mortality to see gospel plan are given us so that we might apprentice in marriage and family life. The highest ordinance of the gospel of Jesus Christ is marriage. Thus everything we do in the family and church is to prepare young men and women to be mentally, socially, spiritually, and physically capable of attracting a mate, consummating a marriage, and then rearing stable children who will be a credit to the parents and the Kingdom of God.

Doctrine on the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God on the earth is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is a kingdom of order. By living by the laws of that kingdom, we may qualify for exaltation.

Doctrine of Accountability and Judgment. We will be judged based on how we exercise our agency, and we will be held accountable for how we treat both spouse and offspring. We live laws pertaining to stewardship over family members.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 9 Clinician’s Corner the brain. Ordinarily we are unable to reliably influence our brainwave patterns because we lack awareness of them. (Continued) However, when we can see our brainwaves on a computer screen a few thousandths of a second after they occur, it gives us the ability to influence and change them through operant Doctrine on Salvation and Exaltation. Salvation is immortality conditioning. With continued feedback sessions and coaching, while exaltation is the kind of life that God lives. Jesus Christ healthier brainwave patterns can usually be retrained in most provided the way by which couples can be together forever and people. create eternal families of their own through the principles of the gospel. Neurofeedback is now being used with a wide range of problems. Further research is still needed with regard to many areas of Final Thoughts: Clinicians who understand these central application, but some good research already exists. For instance, doctrines that comprise elements of the L.D.S. faith can help studies (Sterman, 2000) have shown that on average 82% of the clients who are active members of the Church. Clinicians can most severe cases of uncontrolled epilepsy are able to assist from the perspective of respect and understanding of significantly reduce the frequency of seizures with clients’ willingness or unwillingness to make changes and the neurofeedback. Research (e.g., Burkett, Cummins, Dickson, & best way to help them conform to their own belief system. Skolnick, 2005; Peniston & Kulkosky, 1989, 1990) thus far with Clinicians can better assist those they help because of an alcoholism and drug abuse suggests that instead of the typical understanding of basic gospel principles that are a part of the 25% sobriety rates from traditional treatment, outcome rates may education of every Latter-day Saint from primary through improve to 65-80% when neurofeedback is added as a component adulthood. of treatment. Neurofeedback has also shown positive research support for its effectiveness in treating anxiety.

Douglas E. Brinley, Ph.D., is a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Several researchers including Lubar, Monastra, George, and Brigham Young University. He earned his Ph.D. in Family Studies and is the author others (Lubar, 1995; Monastra, 2005; Monastra, Monastra, & of several books including, but not limited to Strengthening Your Marriage and Family, and Building a Better Marriage, Eternal Companions. He has co-authored George, 2002; Fuchs et al., 2003; Rossiter, 2005; Rossiter & several books including the popular L.D.S. book Between Husband and Wife: Gospel LaVaque, 1995) have documented significant improvement with Perspectives on Marital Intimacy. He and his wife are the parents of six children. A.D.D./A.D.H.D. in close to 80% of cases. Recently an exciting, randomized pre- and post-treatment functional MRI study (Levesque, Beauregard, & Mensour, 2006) verified positive Retraining the Brain with changes in the treatment group, not only in behavior, but also in brain function following neurofeedback with A.D.H.D. Although Neurofeedback medication treatment has its place, most clinicians are not aware of the fact that the average stimulant medication study only has a D. Corydon Hammond, Ph.D., E.C.N.S., follow-up that is three weeks long, and long term improvements Q.E.E.G.-D., B.C.I.A.-E.E.G. from medication treatment of A.D.D./A.D.H.D. have not been ------documented. Medication treatment is also often associated with The following summary is from a presentation given by Dr. Hammond at side effects, and in fact, a recent preliminary study (El-Zein, the AMCAP Fall Convention 2007. Abdel-Rahman, Hay, Lopez, Bondy, Morris, & Legator, 2005) ------with ritalin found that 100% of children experienced chromosomal aberrations after only 3 months on ritalin, We are all aware that in our temporal state we may have struggles potentially increasing their future risk of cancer. In contrast, due to the imperfections of our bodies. This can include genetic follow-ups at 1 and 10 years have found maintenance of inheritances that are problematic such as A.D.D., learning improvements from neurofeedback (Lubar, 1995) and side effects disabilities, or a predisposition to depression. With innovative from neurofeedback not frequent. It should also be noted advances in computers and electronics, we now have available to us cutting edge technology that offers a treatment alternative to only relying on medication to assist brain-related problems.

In the late 1960's and 1970's research showed that it was possible to recondition and retrain brainwave patterns. Some of this work began with training to increase alpha brainwave activity to increase relaxation, while other work originating at U.C.L.A. focused on uncontrolled epilepsy. This brainwave training is called E.E.G. biofeedback or neurofeedback. In the past 15-20 years the field of neurofeedback has advanced tremendously.

During typical neurofeedback training, a couple of electrodes are placed on the scalp and one or two are usually put on the earlobes. Then the E.E.G. biofeedback equipment provides real-time, instantaneous audio and visual feedback to patients about their brainwave activity. The electrodes measure the electrical patterns coming from the brain--much like a physician listening to your heart from the surface of your skin. Electrical current is not put into

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 10 Professionals wishing to receive training in neurofeedback, or persons Clinician’s Corner seeking to identify certified practitioners may consult the website for the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (www.bcia.org). Further (Continued) information, including a comprehensive bibliography of outcome literature in the field of neurofeedback, may be obtained from the website of the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research that medication treatment for depression, although sometimes very (www.isnr.org) and from the Association for Applied Psychophysiology helpful despite side effects, has on average been shown to only have and Biofeedback (www.aapb.org). an 18% effect over and above placebo effects (Hammond, 2007). Neurofeedback holds potential as a promising alternative or References adjunctive treatment (Hammond, 2005 a,b). Burkett, V. S., Cummins, J. M., Dickson, R. M., & Skolnick, M. (2005). An open clinical trial utilizing real-time EEG operant conditioning as an adjunctive therapy The author has used neurofeedback to work with a wide variety of in the treatment of crack cocaine dependence. Journal of Neurotherapy, 9(2), 27- other clinical problems including learning disabilities, depression, 48. insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, head injury and concussions, stroke, autism, fibromyalgia, to improve physical El-Zein, R. A., Abdel-Rahman, S. Z., Hay, M. J., Lopez, M. S., Bondy, M. L., Morris, D. L., & Legator, M. S. (2005). Cytogenetic effects in children treated balance, for cognitive and memory enhancement in normal with methylphenidate. Cancer Letters, 230(2), 284-291. individuals (often referred to as “brain brightening”), to counter effects of normal aging, and even schizophrenia. In my clinical Fuchs, T. Birbaumer, N., Lutzenberger, W., Gruzelier, J. H., & Kaiser, J. (2003). Neurofeedback Treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children: experience we obtain significant improvements in these conditions A comparison with methylphenidate. Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback, in 75-80% of cases, which is most gratifying. 28, 1-12.

Frank H. Duffy, M.D., a Professor and Pediatric Neurologist at Hammond, D. C. (2007). Hypnosis, placebos, and systematic research bias in Harvard Medical School, stated in an editorial in the January 2000 biological psychiatry. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 50(1), 37-47. issue of the journal Clinical Electroencephalography that scholarly Hammond, D. C. (2005a). Neurofeedback with anxiety and affective disorders. literature now suggests that neurofeedback “should play a major Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 14, 105-123. therapeutic role in many difficult areas. In my opinion, if any medication had demonstrated such a wide spectrum of efficacy it Hammond, D. C. (2005b). Neurofeedback treatment of depression and anxiety. Journal of Adult Development, 12(2/3), 131-137. would be universally accepted and widely used” (p. v). “It is a field to be taken seriously by all” (p. vii). Lubar, J. F. (1995). Neurofeedback for the management of attention- deficit/hyperactivity disorders. Chapter in M. S. Schwartz (Ed.), Biofeedback: A For neurofeedback training to be successful and negative reactions Practitioner's Guide. New York, Guilford, 493-522. avoided, it is vitally important for an assessment to be performed Levesque, J., Beauregard, M., & Mensour, B. (2006). Effect of neurofeedback and the training individualized to the distinctive brainwave patterns training on the neural substrates of selective attention in children with attention- and symptoms of each person. Everyone does not need the same deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. training at the same locations, and research has shown that a Neuroscience Letters, 394(3), 216-221. person’s brainwave patterns cannot simply be discerned by merely Monastra, V. J. (2005). Electroencephalographic biofeedback (neurotherapy) as a observing the person’s behavioral symptoms. Thus I do a treatment for attention deficit disorder: Rational and empirical foundation. Child quantitative E.E.G. brain map on all patients so that we have a & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 14(1), 53-82. scientifically objective evaluation of how their brain is functioning Monastra, V. J., Monastra, D. M., & George, S. (2002). The effects of stimulant prior to beginning treatment. therapy, EEG biofeedback, and parenting style on the primary symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Applied Psychophysiology & Although F.D.A. regulations state that neurofeedback equipment Biofeedback, 27(4), 231-249. should only be sold to licensed health care professionals or with Peniston, E. G., & Kulkosky, P. J. (1989). Alpha-theta brainwave training and their written prescription, unfortunately some individuals who are beta-endorphin levels in alcoholics. Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research, not licensed are obtaining equipment. Professional organizations 13(2), 271-279. are now working with the F.D.A. to remedy this problem. Lay Peniston, E. G., & Kulkosky, P. J. (1990). Alcoholic personality and alpha-theta practitioners who seek to change brain functioning using brainwave training. Medical Psychotherapy, 2, 37-55. neurofeedback with clinical problems pose a risk to the public. They are basically illegally practicing psychology and medicine Rossiter, T. R. (2005). The effectiveness of neurofeedback and stimulant drugs in without a license and should be reported to state regulatory treating AD/HD: Part II. Replication. Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback, agencies. 29(4), 233-243. Rossiter, T. R., & La Vaque, T. J. (1995). A comparison of EEG biofeedback and psychostimulants in treating attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders. Journal of Neurotherapy, 1, 48-59.

Sterman, M. B. (2000). Basic concepts and clinical findings in the treatment of seizure disorders with EEG operant conditioning. Clinical Electroencephalography, 31(1), 45-55. ______

Dr. Corydon Hammond, Ph.D., ECNS, QEEG-D, BCIA-EEG, is a Psychologist and Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine, practicing in University Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is board certified in EEG and quantitative EEG brain mapping and neurofeedback, and is a past President of the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research. His e-mail address is: D.C. [email protected].

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 11 an iron rod was the most current technology available to Lehi. Clinician’s Corner For me, the iron rod is a symbol not only of the word of God as contained in the scriptures, but the most current word of the (Continued) Living God to the living prophet. Lehi’s discourse to his son Jacob in 2 Nephi, chapter 2 is a very powerful treatment of the fundamental question of human being. While we often hear Prophets as Philosophers Lehi’s statement that there is an opposition in all things as solace or justification for encountering difficulties in life, I Lane Fischer, Ph.D. ------think Lehi was actually dealing with a very different question. His whole line of reasoning leads to a proof of sorts for the One of the strands of the October, 2007 AMCAP conference was the next existence of God and a foundation for human existence. installment of Turning Freud Upside Down. The introductory plenary session included talks by Richard Williams, Aaron Jackson, and Lane According to Lehi, without certain conditions in place, all Fischer. A condensed version of Dr. Fischer’s talk, “Prophets as things must have vanished away. Lehi is dealing with the Philosophers,” is presented here. fundamental question of existence. His reasoning is elegant ------and has as much intellectual heft (or more) than any other Turning Freud Upside Down began as a response to Richard exposition I have encountered. Lehi was a highly educated, Williams’ address to AMCAP in which he articulated what was brilliant thinker. His writings are as valid a foundation for our required of an L.D.S. approach to psychotherapy. AMCAP work as any other philosopher’s. (My chapter in the next sponsored a symposium that resulted in a book published by installment of Turning Freud Upside Down will be based on BYU Press. The approach we took in the symposium and book Lehi’s necessity of defining good and evil in any definition of was to address fundamental philosophical issues through the human being.) eyes of the gospel. For example, every model of psychotherapy must deal with the nature of law, change, agency, and human Another brilliant prophet who also dealt with the nature of being. While most models of personality and psychotherapy rest human beings was Mormon. Few people in the history of the on philosophical positions (whether explicitly acknowledged or world can match Mormon for intellectual ability. Mormon’s not) to respond to these questions, we wanted to start from the acumen was so apparent that the national archivist, Ammaron, foundation of the Restored Gospel. My opinion is that the essentially transferred 1,000 years of records to him when he Restored Gospel has more intellectual heft than any philosophy. was a child. Mormon understated, “I being about ten years of Similarly, the prophets, while being holy, are also brilliant age, and I began to be learned somewhat after the manner of thinkers. I don’t restrict the implications of their writings to learning of my people and Ammaron said unto me: I perceive “religious” issues. I find that they have wrestled with the same that thou art a sober child, and art quick to observe…” Indeed fundamental issues as any other philosopher and I am impressed Mormon was “quick to observe.” Look at all that he with their inspired answers to those questions. Treating them as accomplished. He eventually took possession of the archive philosophers does not discount their holy callings as prophets. and abridged 1,000 years of records into a single text that Let me give a few examples of the intellectual brilliance of condenses testimony and doctrine into a powerfully unified ancient prophets. tome. That alone was an immense intellectual task. In the meantime however, at age 15 he was recruited to serve as the Nephi stated that he was taught “somewhat in all the learning” general of all the nation’s armies. Somehow between the ages of his father, Lehi. Nephi and Lehi were indeed brilliant of 10 and 15, Mormon was identified as a brilliant strategist scholars. They lived in the Middle East around 600 years B.C. and officer whom the adult soldiers and political leaders The Iron Age began at different times around the world. It is would trust and follow. At age 15! As Mormon led the estimated that the Iron Age emerged in the Middle East around armies and abridged the national archive, he would also serve 600 years B.C. The use of iron was the most cutting-edge as spiritual leader of the entire nation. Mormon was brilliant. technology available to Nephi and Lehi. They would have needed the most current education to understand how to work iron. When Nephi was commanded to build a ship (another very demanding intellectual task) he asked the Lord, “Whither shall I go that I may find ore to molten, that I may make tools?” After the Lord told Nephi where to find ore, Nephi made “a bellows wherewith to blow the fire.” Nephi knew what iron ore looked like. He knew how to mine it. He knew how to infuse oxygen into the fire to obtain the necessary temperatures to smelt the iron. He knew how to mold it into tools. He knew how to sharpen iron tools. He knew how to make substantial axes to fell the trees and shape the timbers of curious workmanship. Nephi was using the most current information and technology available. He and his father were very highly educated men. They were brilliant.

It is interesting to me that an important image in Lehi’s dream is the iron rod. We are so familiar with iron and the interpretation

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Given all of Mormon’s brilliance, I have no problem trusting his approach to fundamental philosophical questions that must underlie our psychotherapy. For example, one of the so-called curative factors of group psychotherapy is “instillation of hope.” When people find hope through their group experience, they tend to improve their lives. Mormon saw ample reason to lose hope. His sad lot was to watch his culture self-destruct. His loved-ones; his wife, children (except Moroni), parents, and friends would eventually be killed in a violent world. If anyone had justification to become cynically despairing, it was dear, sensitive Mormon. And yet he asked, “What is it ye shall hope for? …Ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise.”

Mormon was no modern existentialist dealing with despair and Meditation, Affect the nothingness of death. He understood human existence very Regulation and Free Will deeply with all of its anguish and terrors and he solved our common dilemmas with a philosophy that rested on a Savior. In Kaye Espenschied Smith, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. fact, Mormon’s discourse in Moroni Chapter 7 dovetails exquisitely with Lehi’s discourse to explicate the nature of ------human being. These are fundamental questions that underlie our The following summary is from a presentation given by Kaye Smith at the AMCAP Fall Convention 2007. work as psychotherapists. The prophets have pondered these ------questions as effectively (or more) as any philosopher. I believe that their words are a valid foundation for our work. I have great My presentation focused on parallel principles which are both faith in the Restored Gospel and trust it more than anything else part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and consistent with proven as a foundation for all my life’s work. clinical practice modalities.

References We can choose what to remember:

Jackson, A., & Fischer, L. (2005). Turning Freud upside down: Gospel 1. As human beings we can choose what we “attend to” perspectives on psychology’s fundamental problems. Provo, UT: BYU or give our attention to. Press. 2. What we choose to “attend to” influences the blood Lane Fischer, Ph.D. Fischer served as the president of AMCAP from 1999-2001. flow, brain waves, synaptic patterns and even the He currently serves as an associate professor of Counseling Psychology and Special structure of our brains. Education at BYU. He also serves as the president of the Hobble Creek 15th (YSA) Branch in Springville, Utah. He is a member of the Utah Jewish Genealogical 3. When we act on our perceptions their influence on Society. our brain is augmented.

We can choose how we remember:

1. Selectively employing our five senses in remembering an event can increase our perceived freedom of choice.

2. A visual trigger can enable a positive feeling state to be accessed and maintained.

3. Creating an objectification of a feeling state can be used to modulate affect.

Human beings can choose what they attend to or pay attention to: 1. Schwartz and Begley (2002) in their book, The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity of the Power of Mental

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Force, postulates a “third force of nature” in addition to environmental influences and bio-chemical predisposition that affects our development as human beings. He calls this third force of nature “mental force” or the ability of human beings to choose what they will attend to.

2. President Henry B. Eyring (1989) in his October 1989 General Conference address entitled “Remembrance and Gratitude” spoke about the effects of choosing to remember God’s blessings. “You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into you mind….You could try to do the same thing as you write an entry in your book of remembrance….As you start to write, you could ask yourself, “How did God bless me today?” (Eyring, 1989, pp. 78-79). If you do that long enough and with faith you will find yourself remembering blessings. And sometimes, you will have gifts brought to your mind which you failed to notice during the day, but www.amenclinics.com, which shows the difference which you will then know were a touch of God’s hand in blood flow to the brain before and after gratitude. in your life. Interestingly in President Eyring’s Sunday morning General Conference address given two days 3. Dr. Corydon Hammond (2007) provided ample after my AMCAP presentation he reiterated and research from the field of neurofeedback that amplified his understanding of these concepts. “I suggests that what we choose to attend to influences realized that trying to remember had allowed God to our brain waves (www.isnr.org). show me what He had done” (Eyring, 2007, p. 11). When we act on our perceptions their influence on our 3. President Eyring also affirmed that the Spirit of Christ brain is augmented. provides all people with spiritual experiences. “So, even before people receive the right to the gifts of the Holy 1. Schwartz & Beyette (Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Ghost, when they are confirmed as members of the Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior, 1996) and Church, and even before the Holy Ghost confirms truth Schwartz and Begley (The Mind and the Brain: to them before baptism, they have spiritual experiences. Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, The Spirit of Christ has already, from their childhood, 2002), emphasized the importance of acting on invited them to do good and warned them against evil. what you choose to attend to if you want to increase They have memories of those experiences even if they the probability of your “mental force” having a have not recognized their source” (Eyring, 2007, p. 11). lasting effect on both the synaptic patterns and structure of the brain.

What we choose to “attend to” influences the blood flow, 2. From a gospel perspective Eyring (1997) writes that brain waves, synaptic patterns and even the structure of our “The effect of sincere prayer and of careful brains. scripture study is to always feel an urging to do things.” He encourages his listeners “simply to be 1. Schwartz and Begley (2002), in The Mind and the obedient” [to those promptings to do things] Brain, present clinical research which demonstrates that (Eyring, 1997, pp.151-152). what we choose to attend to can influence not only synaptic patterns but the actual physical structure of the Both the gospel principles and the clinical principles noted brain. above proclaim that we have the power to choose what we will “attend to” and act on and that what we choose 2. Daniel G. Amen, M.D. presents an image on his website powerfully impacts our perceptions and brain functions.

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How we choose to remember.

Selectively employing our five senses in remembering an event can influence our perceived freedom of choice.

1. Our brains routinely delete incoming material which enables us to do things like attending to one conversation in a crowded room. It is also possible to delete information that is significant as when we don’t hear an important announcement or don’t notice our exit when driving on the freeway. Sometime the deleted material might be significant to the healing process. We can regain some of the deleted material by specifically employing each of our five senses (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and gustatory) in remembering. Bandler and Grinder (1975) in The Structure of Magic, present a chapter entitled “The Structure of Choice” in which they assert that when clients become aware of Creating an objectification of a feeling state can be used significant sensory input which has been deleted from to modulate affect. their perception of a problem situation they experience increased “freedom of choice.” This has also been the 1. A feeling state can be objectified in a way that writer’s experience with her clients. enables a traumatized individual to tolerate the affect associated with the trauma in the manner Visual triggers can be installed which enable positive feeling developed by Naparstek (2004) and described in states to be accessed. her book, Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal. Clients are instructed to 1. Traumatic memories are stored in the amygdala and describe their pain in terms of an object like an bypass the cerebral cortex such that a sight, sound or old corroded civil war cannon ball in the chest any sensory stimulation can trigger a survivor to relive where the heart should be. This is the final piece the trauma. By installing positive triggers the same in what was presented and developed by the mechanism can be used to heal. A positive affect state presenter as C.R.E.R.E., Choice, Remembrance can be maintained while reviewing a negative life event and Emotional Regulation Experience. such that the client does not collapse into the negative affect normally associated with that event. After reviewing both the gospel related and clinical material, the participants went through a series of exercises in which a positive experience was revivified using sensory input from all five senses, and the feeling thus generated was visualized and anchored as a trigger in the awareness. The anchored positive affect was maintained while the participants imagined viewing a past experience which was mildly problematic and noticed the way the anchored feeling affected their perception of the problem situation.

The participants were then invited to use a spiritual experience in which they were aware of God’s hand in their life and revivify that experience using all five senses while employing gratitude. The participants were again invited to notice how maintaining the spiritual affect impacted their perception of the problem situation

Finally, participants were invited to bring the positive affect into a Naparsteck type visualization of an object representing the problem situation and notice how maintaining the positive affect impacted their perception of the object.

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We can choose what we attend to, what we remember and what we act on. We can help our clients to remember in ways that create safety from re-traumatization. We can teach them how to remember, and use the positive experiences of their own lives and the feelings associated with those positive experiences. Anchoring those positive feelings enables them to tolerate and experience their own difficult moments in a new way. It creates a freedom of choice to understand, respond and act differently in the future.

I applied Elder Eyring’s teachings in managing my own clinical depression years before becoming a psychotherapist myself. I am profoundly grateful for what I have learned from him and for the influence of the gospel in my life. I am also grateful for my professional learning and understanding and I am grateful to have had the opportunity of sharing my experience and learning with other L.D.S. therapists through AMCAP.

References Bringing Light to Darkness

Bandler, R., & Grinder, J. (1975). The structure of magic I: A book about Marleen S. Williams, Ph.D. language & therapy. Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books. ------Eyring. H. B. (1997). To draw closer to God: A collection of discourses. The presentation summarized here by Dr. Williams was a plenary S.L.C., UT: Deseret Book. address given by Marleen Williams, Ph.D. and John Livingstone, Ed.D. at the AMCAP Fall Convention 2007. Eyring, H. B. (1989). Remembrance and gratitude. Ensign, 19 (11), 11. ------Eyring, H. B. (2007). O remember, remember. Ensign, 37 (11), 66-69. Many people present for counseling with common problems in Hammond, C. (2007). Retraining the brain with Neurofeedback. AMCAP living – self esteem, relationship concerns, conflicts over October, 2007 Workshop Presentation. values and other fairly common, mortal challenges. These people tend to respond well to counseling that builds skills, Naparstek, B. (2004). Invisible heroes: Survivors of trauma and how they heal. strengthens coping resources, reframes problems, builds New York: Bantam. spiritual and emotional strengths and enhances self esteem. Schwartz, J. M., & Beyette, B. (1996). Brain lock: Free yourself from Serious mental illnesses, however, are much more pervasive, obsessive-compulsive behavior. New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins. long lasting and involve changes in how the brain and body work. They are “whole body” illnesses. A person cannot Schwartz, J. M., & Begley, S. (2002). The mind and the brain: Neuroplasticity simply will themselves to get better. They need more and the power of mental force. New York, N.Y: Regan Books. comprehensive care than the struggles of the “worried well.”

Kaye Espenschied Smith, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. is currently in private practice in Historically, there has been a tremendous stigma against Farmington, Utah. She has over 10 years of experience working with survivors of people with mental illness. Studies have shown that much of childhood sexual abuse using mind-body modalities. Her desire is to take the gospel as a guide in choosing from the array of clinical methods available therapeutically the public still sees mental illness as a character weakness or a and enjoys encorporating the scriptures and general conference addresses into her consequence of poor parenting. In 1998 the Utah State practice when that focus is desired by her clients. She can be reached at Hospital commissioned a study on public perceptions of [email protected]. mental illness. Forty-three per cent of the respondents believed that it is primarily caused by sin and 60% believed that bad parenting was the primary cause. Forty-seven per cent also believed that the person chose to be ill. These beliefs persist in spite of the fact that a large number of those who live at the state mental hospital or receive care from its day treatment facilities hold temple recommends, attend L.D.S. services regularly and participate worthily in ordinances.

Because the stigma is so great, many people would rather suffer in silence than get the care they need or reach out to others for support and comfort. Families fear getting help because they believe they will be told they are to blame.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 16 x How to find accurate, doctrinally-sensitive L.D.S. Clinician’s Corner information, resources and treatment. x Understand how spirituality can help a person who (Continued) suffers from mental illness just as it can help a person who suffers from cancer, diabetes or other serious Those who are ill blame themselves for not being “good enough” health problems. to stop being ill. Many resources are available from L.D.S. sources to help Accurate information can help to dispel the myths and stigma and people have a more accurate view of mental illness. Many create a more compassionate, accurate and helpful understanding articles have appeared in L.D.S. sponsored publications that of mental illness. Helping clients understand what mental illness support appropriate treatment from competent professionals. is and what it is not can also facilitate treatment. The AMCAP presentation included a handout of resources, articles and internet sites. As with any health challenge to the People without mental illnesses may temporarily experience many body, spiritual resources can strengthen a person to be able to problems that appear similar to some symptoms of serious mental endure and grow from the challenges of mortality, including illnesses. However, when the brain is working properly, we have mental illness. Because our souls comprise both a body and a more resources for helping ourselves through the challenges of spirit, treating the whole soul makes sense. mortal life. This makes it easier to change a bad mood, cheer up, solve our problems, change behaviors or just carry on through References difficult experiences. Building spiritual and emotional resources are usually sufficient to help us through these difficult times. The Kidd, W., Sedgwick, J., Butters, H., & Hillman, C (1998). A survey spirit has power to command the body, and we can will ourselves analysis of Utahns’ perceptions on mental iIllness and the Utah State Hospital. Presented to the Utah State Hospital. to do things that are hard or we may not want to do.

Marleen S. Williams, Ph.D. is a Clinical Professor of Counseling Psychology at Brigham Young University (BYU). She earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from BYU. She has worked at BYU for 14 years and has published over 20 articles related to women’s mental health, eating disorders and spirituality and mental health. She has presented over 20 professional papers to local, national and international audiences. She has a strong interest in public education and advocacy concerning mental health. She is also an AMCAP past president.

With serious mental illnesses, however, there are changes in how the brain and body function. It becomes harder to simply will yourself to have energy, to stop a panic response or to think clearly. A good analogy is a spinal cord injury. If a person injures his/her spinal cord, the spirit may have a strong desire to move the body but the body may still have difficulty moving. The person may strongly desire to walk but the body may still have difficulty responding and moving the legs normally.

Some important information to share with L.D.S. clients and their families include:

x How mental illness differs from normal life challenges. x The medical causes of mental illness and how biological, psychological, spiritual and emotional factors work together to contribute to illness. x Understand that although the body and the spirit work together sometimes the body malfunctions. x Understand how biological interventions, such as medications, work; including the role of neurotransmitters and how they are affected by medication.

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Dear AMCAP Students! As the new AMCAP Student Representative, I am excited to be a part of AMCAP, whose mission is to provide information and support for LDS mental health professionals and students. One way we are trying to provide information and support for students is through our new graduate student mentoring program. Graduate students who sign up for this program will have the opportunity to be paired up with an LDS professional in the mental health field who can help answer questions related to faith and practice, how to publish and present, etc. What a great way to help us navigate our careers! For more information, see page 24.

Another way we are trying to provide information and support for students is by offering a special student session at our AMCAP Spring Convention 2008. "An LDS Mental Health Professional in a Secular World: Challenges and Successes" will be presented by Dr. Dean Byrd, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., a fabulous, well-known, L.D.S. Clinical Psychologist on Friday, April 4, 2008. It will be held early, at 7 am, so that you will also be able to attend the regularly scheduled convention sessions. You won’t want to miss this! This session is free and breakfast is served. Space is limited, so if you are interested, please email the AMCAP office: [email protected].

We want you to feel connected to and enthused about AMCAP and are hoping you will submit articles to the AMCAP Networker. Articles that will be considered for publication include book reviews, original research studies, theoretical pieces, and reflection essays. In addition, we encourage you to submit questions you may have for AMCAP, which will be spotlighted and responded to in the Networker. Please send submissions to Kristin Douglas, Editor, at [email protected]. Your thoughts and ideas are important to us! We want your voice to be heard!

Warmly, GeriLynn Vorkink AMCAP Student Representative

master’s degree. For as long as I can remember, I have Turning Points always wanted to help and counsel people. I was most inspired by watching my father, who served as the bishop, Wesley Bertagnole care for and love those around him. I observed how he Graduate Student, Counselor Education - Mental Health counseled and assisted the various people in our ward. Counseling People came to my father for help because they knew he University of Wyoming would offer advice and support without passing judgment or imposing his values on them. He understood that Fall semester 2007 served as a turning point for me as a change begins within the individual. Over the years, my counselor. At the beginning of the semester, I questioned father has been a great example to me. my knowledge, abilities, and readiness to become a counselor with graduation looming just around the corner. I continued my pilgrimage while serving my mission. However, over the course of the semester, I came to Those two years changed my life and fueled my desire to realize that I have the capability to be an effective become a counselor. I saw firsthand how people’s lives therapist. Often during the early stages of my education, could be changed for the better. I also realized that my fellow students and I were admonished to “believe in although I could teach and support them, I was not the one the process” - that through the process, we would be who made them change. They had to have a desire for taught, challenged and ultimately molded into good something different. They had to put forth the effort to counselors. The biggest transformation has been seeing alter their lives. Each person had the freedom to choose that process take hold and in discovering just how far I for themselves. I could only help facilitate that change. have come. At the same time, I have also realized that learning is a process - a journey in itself and not a One particular experience still sticks out in my mind. We destination. were visiting a family where the wife was a member of our church, but her husband, who was a local doctor, was This journey started long before I began work on my not. He agreed that we could visit with the family once a

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week and have dinner with them, if we did not ask him questions or try to teach him anything. We agreed. As the months went by, we kept our end of the deal. He was always very friendly and enjoyed showing us his “new toys.” He always made a point of telling us how much the item cost and reminded us that he could buy anything he wanted. The turning point came one afternoon when this wealthy, successful man called me, crying. He was asking me, a twenty-year old boy, for help. He wanted something more meaningful in his life. We talked quite a bit, and he made some significant changes in his life over the course of the coming months. Before I left to come home, he thanked me for all I had done, especially for listening to him. I realized then and there that I was not the one who had helped this man. It was the Lord. I had only followed feel like I am seeing the entire picture, yet as I continue - the prompting of the Spirit. thoughts and questions come into my mind, and I am able to implement techniques I have been taught in class. I The single greatest thing I learned while on my mission believe I am guided by unseen hands as the Spirit was how to recognize and use the power of the Holy whispers to me. It takes work, patience, and practice to Ghost. Doctrine and Covenants 121:26 states, “God shall listen to the quiet promptings. Sometimes it even takes give unto you knowledge by his Holy Spirit, yea, by the courage to act on those promptings, but there is no unspeakable gift of the Holy Ghost, that has not been denying the Lord’s guidance. Because I counsel people revealed since the world was until now.” The reason I, a who are not of our faith, I have also had to learn how to twenty-year old boy, was able to help this accomplished use the whisperings of the still small voice in ways my doctor was through the power of the Holy Ghost. Our clients will understand and not be offended. This semester Heavenly Father knows and loves his children and wants I have truly realized that the Spirit is always there, but I each of them – each of us – to succeed. As counselors have had to prepare and learn how to use it. For me it is a with knowledge of the restored gospel, we have the gift that is not used often enough. unique ability to use this gift our Father in Heaven has given us to help others. Along my journey, one of the most difficult things I have had to learn and accept is that I cannot do everything at During my counseling sessions, I often feel blind. I am once. I did not become a good counselor after one unsure what to do or how to proceed. Sometimes I don’t semester or even three semesters; instead it is a process that takes time and effort just like everything else worthwhile. 2 Nephi 28:30 reads, “For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little: and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom: for unto him that receiveth I will give more; and from them that shall say, We have enough, from them shall be taken away even that which they have.”

This is not only true of ourselves, but of our clients as well. Change is not easy nor does it happen over night. In the beginning, I often looked for that one miraculous session that would forever change my client’s life and often felt discouraged when it never happened. Over time I have come to understand that change takes place one small step at a time. There may never be that one astounding moment, because as our loving Father in Heaven understood, meaningful growth takes time.

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Just as becoming a good missionary requires learning and not have to immediately precede a crisis situation for a abiding by the rules and guidelines, the process of client. I had not thought about that before. It will be becoming an effective counselor is no different. My important to someday help clients understand that perhaps education has given me those tools. Now I must use them there are situations or thoughts that are several hours or to the best of my ability. Although I am nowhere near the even days old that can build and cause difficulty. counselor I would someday like to be, I am making Knowing more about triggers will someday better help me progress. That is all our Heavenly Father asks of us and understand my clients and identify issues to be worked on that is all we can ask of ourselves. Our journey through in therapy. life may be difficult and bumpy. There may be times when we are not really sure where to turn or how to Getting Involved in AMCAP proceed, but we must “believe in the process.” We can be assured that our Heavenly Father will test us and try us, There are several opportunities available to students in and ultimately guide us to those who need our help. AMCAP. Helping with the AMCAP bookstore at conventions provides students the chance to be exposed to psychology literature relevant to L.D.S. clinicians. It is Wesley Bertagnole, is a graduate student in the Counselor Education program at University of Wyoming. He is a Casper also a great way to meet L.D.S. professionals. By going to College Career Specialist at the Casper College Career Center convention presentations, students get a chance to see where he provides career counseling and team-teaches Career Orientation and Introduction to College Studies courses. He is what issues are important to L.D.S. professionals and how also doing an internship in a federal employee and family L.D.S. clinicians approach those issues. There is also a assistance program in Casper, Wyoming. Bertagnole is active in his professional community, presenting at the Wyoming student poster session at the convention. This gives Counseling Association annual conferences. For his many students a good opportunity to showcase their work. accomplishments, he recently received the J.R. MacNeel Award in remembrance of the first Counselor Education Department Getting involved is not only fun and rewarding, but also head at the University of Wyoming. looks great on a vita.

AMCAP Fall Convention 2007 Reflections

Tabitha Harper Undergraduate Student, Psychology Brigham Young University

Why Attend?

AMCAP conventions provide an atmosphere of fellowship that incorporates psychological theories with L.D.S. perspectives. Being around other L.D.S. therapists gave me the encouragement that I needed to focus my studies with the knowledge that I can be a force for good in the world.

Presentations with a Bang! One of the presentations that impacted me the most was by Dr. Dianne Nielsen and Dr. Marleen Williams on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (D.B.T). In this workshop, they discussed the work that they do with students in a D.B.T. group therapy setting. They discussed triggers and the skills that clients are taught in D.B.T. to help override the effects of those triggers. What I found most enlightening during this presentation was that triggers do

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Book Review

Brent Melling Graduate Student, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Brigham Young University

Book Reviewed: Why Psychology Needs Theology: A Radical-Reformation Perspective Author: Alvin Dueck and Cameron Lee Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (2005)

Summary Do Mormons need Theology in their psychology? With a title as intriguing as Why Psychology Needs Theology it was hard for me to resist reading this recent book that originated from the 2003 Fuller Theological Seminary’s lectures on the integration of psychology and theology. The featured speaker for this lecture series, and the main contributor of the book form, was Nancy Murphy, a professor of Christian Philosophy.

In the first segment (three chapters) of this book, Dr. Murphy argues for a hierarchy of sciences that places theology at the top. In this system theology would inform psychology of things beyond the latter’s scope, namely what our goals in life should be. She uses her own Anabaptist tradition as an example of how a specific religious tradition could inform and be Making a Difference to Clients informed by psychological research. In her model, theology suggests a core ethic and purpose for human Going to the October 2007 AMCAP convention really life (in her tradition the core is: “Self-renunciation for provided me with some wonderful tools and knowledge the sake of the other is humankind’s highest good” p. that will continue to impact my interactions with others, 42). A research program is then built around the core especially as I prepare myself to work with clients. The with a number of peripheral but engaging subtopics for atmosphere was incredibly amazing! I was not only a researcher to operationalize (p. 64). In Murphy’s growing professionally, but also spiritually. I want to be example these include submission to God, nonviolence a force for good in this world and positively influence others. AMCAP offers me professional and spiritual and an acceptance of suffering. As a concrete example growth opportunities to achieve this goal. of psychological research that engages these ideals, Murphy invokes C. Daniel Baston’s work on altruism and Everett Worthington’s research on forgiveness.

Tabitha Harper is an undergraduate student at BYU, The next four chapters form the second segment of the majoring in Psychology. Her academic goal is to obtain book, entitled “Extensions of the Model.” In these a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, then work at BYU’s Counseling and Career Center. Tabitha’s hobbies chapters several contributors comment on Murphy’s include playing piano, flute, and ukulele, writing songs model. Mari Clements and Alexandra Mitchell share and stories, playing soccer, reading, cooking, and some intriguing thoughts on how Christian families collecting bookmarks. might function in a model of self-renunciation,

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touching on issues of abuse, power struggles and The last two chapters that form the final segment of the parenting styles. Cynthia Kimball then applies the model book focus on the philosophical underpinnings of to the loss of voice experienced by girls and boys in integration between psychology and theology. Brent Slife adolescence, which in turn not only hampers their forming focuses on issues of methodological compatibility. He of healthy relationships, but also prevents them from argues that Murphy’s theology is basically incompatible having a self to sacrifice. with the psychological science she wants to integrate with. Specifically, theistic beliefs are incompatible with the The next two chapters offer some subtle critiques of assumptions of reductive naturalism, including an Murphy’s theory while extending it to other implications. emphasis on replication and operationalization. Kevin Reimer suggests “psychological realism” to inform studies of altruism. He argues both that Baston’s research Frank Richardson takes on the idea of integration itself. is too abstracted from usual experience (i.e., too His concern is that merely using theological ethics and minimalist) and that case studies of exemplar saints are psychological methods won’t serve either very well. He too idealistic, again too far from the experiences of suggests that theology might not be similar enough to a “altruism in the trenches.” He explores narrative theory science to allow them to so easily fit together. He and a computational program for analyzing stories from alternatively suggests a hermeneutic dialogue in which the ordinary altruists. dialogue members recognize the uniqueness of their partners’ positions. This would suggest that psychology Derek McNeil offers a needed extension of the integration cannot merely incorporate a few religious variables and enterprise into the barely charted waters of call the work of integration done, but rather both multiculturalism. His argues that distinctive cultural disciplines must continually refine their understandings of traditions are inseparable from religious and scientific the other. traditions. Furthermore, because of the varieties of cultural situated-ness there is not a “generic” Christianity Reflections to integrate with a generic psychology; rather there are As the AMCAP bylaws state that one of the central numerous readings of both religion and psychology that purposes of our organization is to promote psychology can base discussions of integration. McNeil uses the that is compatible with Church doctrine, AMCAP biblical stories of Babel and Pentecost to illustrate how members should be keenly interested in publications God works in multicultural systems, not against them. involving integration issues. This book and the scholars associated with it serve as an excellent introduction to the integration project in general Christianity. While L.D.S. psychologists would certainly have a somewhat different theology than Murphy’s Radical-Reform Anabaptist version, there are valuable insights that can be gained by seeing how she integrates her faith tradition with the research programs of psychology. Furthermore the alternative voices that make up the remainder of this work will serve to illustrate alternative ways of allowing our psychology to be informed by our religion. Thus the later half of the book is a valuable corrective to Murphy’s vision, allowing the readers to determine for themselves how a theistic psychology (informed by their own faith traditions) should develop.

Additionally, the book is very well supplied with references and sources for further reading on the issues discussed. The numerous examples of research programs at the intersection of religion and psychology further make the book an engaging read. This book has an excellent balance between theoretical and practical issues and interested readers of many backgrounds should find insights particular to their expertise. While

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the book might not finally and satisfactorily answer its thought processes as he wrestles with his own title (Why Psychology Needs Theology?) it remains a dilemmas in their therapy sessions. valuable contribution to the dialogue between religion and science. Impressions I felt this was a fascinating read as Dr. Yalom is an intriguing author dealing with many dilemmas likely to Brent Melling is a Doctoral Candidate in Theoretical and be encountered in therapy. I was not expecting some of Philosophical Psychology at Brigham Young University. He is interested in theistic psychology and personality the strong insights or personal reactions he had to some theory. He is an avowed eclectic in his personal hobbies, of his clients. He shares the perspectives of client and interested in ancient apocrypha, genetic genealogy and therapist, and many times those perspectives are quite comic books. opposite.

Clinical Applications The applied value of this book in working with clients Book Review lies in the analytical and full spectrum picture described by Dr. Yalom in each chapter. I personally will use this Matthew L. Reiser knowledge learned in this book to help me be a better Graduate Student, Counseling Psychology clinician by examining my own personal reactions and Brigham Young University biases to my clients’ thoughts, feelings, and even physical attributes. I will strive to form a strong therapeutic alliance with them and appropriately Book Reviewed: Love’s Executioner & Other Tales of disclose my feelings in the room if they are beneficial Psychotherapy Author: Irvin Yalom, Ph.D. to the work I am doing with my clients. I will seek for Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2000) greater awareness for myself and my clients in the process of therapy.

What’s it all about? Matthew Reiser is a doctoral student in This collection of ten absorbing tales by master Counseling Psychology at Brigham Young psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, University. Resier’s academic goal is to teach and provide counseling at a university. His hobbies frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the include sports, music and spending time with therapeutic encounter. He discusses their difficulties and family and friends. dilemmas and provides us with his insight into the therapeutic process. Yalom (2000) states, “I do not like to work with patients who are in love…yet I never hesitated to accept her for treatment” (p. 17). Having established his own very successful private practice, Dr. Yalom, and all clinicians must make decisions of when to take on new clients and when to refer clients to another clinician.

This book brings up many different therapeutic questions that are not easily answered. Yalom (2000) mentioned in one case, “I felt overwhelmed with so many promising leads I didn’t know where to start” (p. 136). Often times it is normal for a therapist to feel a little overwhelmed or to be somewhat confused as to how to conceptualize the case and which direction in therapy would be most beneficial to the client. Some therapists take a more directive approach and others feel inclined to be less directive. He provides many glimpses into his own

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 23 New AMCAP Graduate Student and Professional Mentorship Program!

For Members and Graduate Students! We are starting a student mentoring program for AMCAP members and hope you will sign up!

The program will pair mentors with counseling or psychology graduate students to help provide students a place to ask questions to our AMCAP professionals. Many students struggle with how to practice in the mental health field with LDS values. We believe mentoring relationships will help our graduate students learn from the experiences of their future colleagues.

Mentors - this is a great opportunity for you to teach the younger generation what you have learned about mental health practice as a Gospel-centered therapist. Please complete the form below to get involved! For more information contact your local area coordinator or Kristin Hansen, Ph.D. at [email protected].

What is it? - Personalized mentoring by professionals in the mental health field - Pairing of graduate students and mentors based on information we receive from you

Who should sign up? - Professionals wanting to help young L.D.S. professionals navigate their careers - Graduate students in the mental health field wanting some guidance and direction for their future careers

What’s the commitment? The commitment level will be up to each mentor and graduate student. Mentors are asked to contact each graduate student and make arrangements. Suggested forms of contact include: email, phone, and/or in-person meetings (perhaps 2 a year if possible). Mentors can provide answers to questions students may have such as how to begin a clinical practice, how to present at professional conferences, how to publish, how to become more involved in the professional community, questions related to faith and practice, and any related questions students may have. Mentors and students are expected to respect the professional nature of the collaboration. Students or mentors that wish to end the relationship or change mentors/mentees can discuss this with each other and/or the program coordinators.

How to get involved: Complete the forms below or contact Kristin Hansen at [email protected] or (801) 422-1298 or GeriLynn Vorkink at [email protected] or (801) 235-9911.

Sign up now! Please send the following information to Kristin Hansen (if you want to be a mentor) or GeriLynn Vorkink (if you are a graduate student interested in being mentored).

‰ Mentor ‰ Graduate Student Contact Information (address, email, phone numbers): ______

If you are a graduate student, please indicate preference to work with a professional who is: ‰ In your local area ‰ Anywhere ‰ Specific Location (Identify location: ______)

Mentors: What are your mentoring preferences? Graduate Students: What do you want mentoring in? ______

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 24 AMCAP SPRING CONVENTION 2008

Healing, Hope and the Spirit of AMCAP April 3-4, 2008*

Joseph Smith Memorial Building, Salt Lake City, Utah

Keynote Speaker Elder Cecil O. Samuelson, M.D. President, Brigham Young University

Distinguished Service to Humanity Award Elder Jon Huntsman and Sister Karen Huntsman

Plenary Speakers Vaughan Worthen, Ph.D. and Richard Isakson, Ph.D. John Livingstone, Ed.D. Panel Discussion: Kristin Hansen, Ph.D. - Moderator Panel Members - Dean Byrd, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., Kristin Douglas, M.A., L.P.C., B.C.I.A.C., Robert Gleave, Ph.D., and Marleen Williams, Ph.D.

Special Social Hour Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, JSMB 9th Floor LDS Comedy by John Bytheway Silent Auction Poster Session Fault Line Barbershop Quartet Networking, Mentoring and Socializing!

*Pre-Convention Workshops -- April 2, 2008 Location Determined By Session Attending.

CE Credits Available Check out the AMCAP website at www.amcap.net for Convention Bulletin and Registration Forms

AMCAP Ɣ Winter 2008 Ɣ 25 Upcoming Convention Highlights

Keynote Speaker: Elder Cecil O. Samuelson, M.D.

Elder Cecil Samuelson, M.D., began his tenure as the 12th President of Brigham Young University on May 1, 2003. Elder Samuelson is a Salt Lake native. He has three degrees from University of Utah including a bachelor’s of science degree, a master's degree in educational psychology and a doctor of medicine degree. He fulfilled his residency and held a fellowship in rheumatic and genetic diseases at Duke University Medical Center. He has served as a Professor of Medicine at University of Utah, Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice President of health services. He has authored or co-authored 48 publications, and eight books or book chapters.

Dr. Samuelson was called in 1994 to serve The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. His church callings have been many and include Regional Representative, Stake President, Stake High Councilor, Branch President and Missionary. He has served as the president of two areas of the Church: the Utah North Area and the Europe North Area. He and his wife, Sharon, are the parents of 5 children.

We are excited to have Elder Samuelson speak at the convention! Don’t miss out!

Special Social Hour! Thursday Evening – April 3, 2008 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Joseph Smith Memorial Building, 9th Floor

Silent Auction! Free Event Bring a Guest

Place a bid on wonderful art, books, Fabulous music CDs, hotel getaways, symphony by the tickets and other great items! Fault Line If you have items you are interested in donating to the silent auction, Barbershop please contact Kris Plummer at 801-295-5566 or [email protected] Quartet! Poster Session!

This year, the poster session Is not just for students! LDS comedy If you are interested in doing a poster session contact by popular speaker GeriLynn Vorkink at [email protected] or John Bytheway! Rachel Crook Lyon at [email protected] Bonus! Poster session presenters receive free convention registration for Thursday April 3, 2008.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 26 Distinguished Service to Humanity Award

Elder Jon M. Huntsman and Sister Karen Huntsman

The Distinguished Service to Humanity Award is the highest honor given by our organization. Elder Russell M. & Sister Wendy Watson Nelson received this award last year. Other recent awardees and convention attendees include Elder Thomas S. Monson, Elder Richard G. Scott, Elder Jeffrey R. and Sister Patricia Holland, Elder Alexander Morrison, Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Sister Chieko Okazaki, Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone, and President and Sister Hinckley.

Every year AMCAP’s Board of Directors extends an award to a person or persons we feel truly exemplify service in the church and throughout the world. This year we are pleased to extend the Distinguished Service to Humanity Award to Elder Jon M. and Sister Karen Huntsman at the convention on Friday, April 4, 2008. Please join us in honoring them for countless hours of service given all over the world!

AMCAP Convention Fees

Convention Fees* Both Days One Day

Professional Members $ 140.00 $ 95.00 Spouses, Retired Members $ 110.00 $ 75.00 Non-AMCAP Members $ 170.00 $ 120.00 Students $ 66.00 $ 33.00 Students without Lunch $ 40.00 $ 20.00 Special Social Hour Free Event!

Pre-Convention Fees** $ 50.00 If Registered for Convention on Thursday/Friday (April 2, 2008) $ 25.00 1/2 Day Pre-Convention Only $ 70.00 Pre-Convention Only $ 25.00 Student Pre-Convention Rate if Registered for Convention on Thursday/Friday $ 30.00 Student Pre-Convention Only *Price includes lunch. Pre-Registration is due March 28, 2008. Registration increases $20.00 after March 28, 2008. Register Early! ** Location determined by session attending.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 27 Selling or Distributing Items at the Convention

AMCAP members who would like to sell/distribute books, CDs, DVDs, Tapes, Brochures or Program Announcements at the AMCAP Bookstore during semi-annual conventions should forward a request with a copy of the display materials (which can be retrieved at the convention) to:

A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.P.H. Thrasher Research Fund Gateway Tower West 15 W. South Temple Street, Suite 1650 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 [email protected]

All requests to display need to be sent no later than 30 days prior to the convention. Once reviewed, and a decision is made, notification of acceptance will be sent via letter or email.

Call for Posters!

Call for posters: We are soliciting abstracts for the AMCAP Spring Convention 2008 poster session. This year’s poster session will be held during the special social hour on Thursday evening from 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Joseph Smith Memorial Building, 9th Floor). What is a poster? Posters are excellent ways to summarize research or single case studies and to present a conceptual model or innovative interventions in therapy. Key information (brief paragraphs, bulleted outlines, diagrams, tables, graphs) is posted on a bulletin board (usually provided by the convention), usually in large print (to make it easier to read). Easels will be available. Presenters stand by their posters at the specified time Thursday, April 3, 2008 between 6:30 - 7:00 pm to answer questions and dialogue with others who are interested in the content, and often provide handout summaries for interested convention attendees. Posters typically remain up throughout the convention. To submit a poster for consideration:

1. Submit a cover page with the title and names, degrees, professional titles, affiliations, & contact information for each presenter. Contact information should include: address, phone, fax, and email address.

2. Submit a separate page with the poster title and a 250 word abstract of the content of the poster. Ideally, an abstract should highlight the key content that will be presented, research methods (if a research study is the subject of the poster), place this content in context (in terms of what is known/not known) and highlight any key implications for practice and/or future research.

3. Submissions can be sent electronically to GeriLynn Vorkink at [email protected] in a Word or Rich Text attachment. Questions can be directed to Dr. Rachel Crook Lyon at 801-422-4375 or [email protected].

4. Poster session submissions must be received no later than March 8, 2008.

Notification: You'll be notified about the status of your poster by March 15, 2008. Bonus: The convention fee, including lunch, is waived the day of your poster presentation!

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 28 AMCAP FALL CONVENTION 2008 October 2-3, 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah

Peace, Hope and Strength: Finding Refuge from the Storms of Life

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:2

“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40: 31

Call for Presentation Proposals

Share your knowledge and expertise with us! We invite you to submit your ideas for presentations relating to our conference theme above. Presentation options include workshops, panel discussions, plenary addresses and round-table discussions. Hands-on, theoretical, research and application-based presentations are strongly encouraged.

Possible Topics

ƒ Therapeutic interventions that foster hope and healing ƒ The role of hope in the healing process ƒ The healing power of the therapeutic relationship ƒ Inviting spirituality to be a part of the therapeutic process

Submission of Proposals

Proposals should include the following information: 1. Presenter information (affiliation, email, phone, fax, address) 2. Presentation title and format (plenary address, panel discussion, workshop, etc.) 3. Preferred length (45 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, two hours) 4. Presentation abstract (no more than 100 words) and learning objectives for a professional audience 4. Presenter qualifications (100-word biosketch, names of 3 references) 5. Specification of audiovisual equipment requested

Proposal Due Date: May 1, 2008 Send proposals to Kristin Douglas ([email protected]).

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 29 What’s Up in Your Area?

Area Highlights Shane Adamson, AMCAP Vice President

We feel as an AMCAP board that the general AMCAP membership has an interest in what is happening with AMCAP throughout the world. AMCAP Area Coordinators provide a vital role in strengthening and broadening the AMCAP influence worldwide. At this point, my goals for the AMCAP Area Coordinator network continue to be the following:

1) Identify AMCAP members who are interested in being AMCAP Area Coordinators. 2) Identify the strengths and/or struggles of AMCAP in the areas where AMCAP members reside and practice. Also, learn of AMCAP members’ vision and ideas for AMCAP.

3) Open lines of communication. I am working to become a strong liaison between area coordinators and the board. This is a two-way communication process. I share a summary of important items of business from our monthly AMCAP board meeting to Area Coordinators. Area Coordinators share insights and challenges to myself which I then report to the AMCAP board.

Thanks you Area Coordinators and general AMCAP members for making this organization a treasure! Shane Adamson, L.C.S.W., AMCAP Vice President

Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia Highlights Area Coordinator for Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia: Brent L. Bowen

The 9th Annual AMCAP conference for Stake and Ward Leaders was held late October at the Washington, D.C. Stake Center next to the Washington, D.C. Temple. The conference was a great success! Thank you to all those that came out to the conference! We especially appreciated Shane Adamson for joining us from Headquarters and for his evaluative comments.

Recognizing how meaningful connections and relationships are, we have monthly meetings (except for summer) at Dr. L. Marlene Payne’s office in McClean, Virginia. We often have a presenter lead discussions on various topics from Asperger’s to trauma therapies, parenting to ADHD, various addictions to healthy sexuality, brain scans to counseling singles, and more.

Marie Johnson presented on Neurolinguistic Programming in January. Dr. Payne will lead a discussion on Counseling Couples in February.

Brent L. Bowen, M.B.A., M.S., C.F.E., L.M.F.T.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 30 WHAT’S UP IN YOUR AREA? (Continued)

A business meeting was held in which the way forward for AMCAP UK was discussed. Nine attendees offered help to our current coordinators, Marion Allen and Rosa Hubbard- Ford. Unfortunately, Marion Allen will no longer be serving as co-coordinator. We appreciated the hard work she did to set up the inaugural meeting and also appreciated her enthusiasm and flair!

Much help was given also by Brother Ken Weir, who travelled all the way from Scotland to attend our meeting. He has continued to be supportive, helpful and encouraging from the time he first contacted us. He is still there as a valuable and pro-active support. It was noted that many people had travelled from north, south, east and west within the UK! We appreciated the shared enthusiasm for scheduling future meetings. Thank you!

Rosa Hubbard-Ford, MA UK Highlights Area Coordinator for the UK: Rosa Hubbard Ford

Our inaugural meeting of AMCAP UK was held at the Hyde Park Chapel, South Kensington, London, on November 10, 2007. People interested in counseling and being involved with AMCAP were notified via a short article placed in the central pages of The Ensign in August 2007. These pages carry news of L.D.S. members specifically within the United Kingdom.

There was a good response to the article! Twenty six people, including two general practitioners, joined our interest in supporting counseling services and attended our inaugural meeting. Also in attendance were two members out of the three counselors who currently work for L.D.S. Family Services in the UK. We appreciated their support in our efforts.

There were three excellent presentations as well as a keynote address by President Brian Martin, Poole England Stake President, who said what a great blessing it is to now have this organization in the UK. He believed it would become a tremendous resource and support to bishops and stake presidents here in our nation.

We want to hear from you!

If you are an Area Coordinator and have news to share, please contact us! Please send submissions to Kristin Douglas at [email protected]

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 31 AMCAP’s Mission Statement

AMCAP’s mission is to provide information and support for the LDS mental health professional in four areas:

1. Spiritual Focus 2. Clinical Application 3. Networking and Outreach 4. Research, Theory, and Publication

As AMCAP members, we strive to center our personal and professional lives upon Jesus Christ by serving our brothers and sisters in need.

Call for Submissions for the 2008 Journal

Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy: The Journal of the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists

I am delighted to continue serving as the journal editor and wish to invite all AMCAP members to consider the journal as an outlet for their scholarly work. I will work to continue improving the journal so that we can all be proud of our organization's publication. When I became journal editor, I outlined two main goals: to increase the number of submissions to the AMCAP Journal and to streamline the peer review process.

Over the past year, the editorial board and I have made significant progress on the second goal in providing high-quality reviews and expediting the review process. Regarding the first goal, although the number of submissions has increased, I encourage clinicians and academicians alike to “submit early and submit often” to the AMCAP Journal. If you have presented at an AMCAP convention, please consider reworking your presentation into a scholarly article format as a sole author or in collaboration with another author. I would like to foster scholarly collaborations between clinicians and academicians, so please contact me if you are interested in this possibility.

The deadline for manuscripts to be considered in the 2008 Journal is June 1st, 2008. Again, I am excited to continue in this capacity and I look forward to working with you.

Sincerely, Rachel E. Crook Lyon, Ph.D.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 32 FALL CONVENTION 2007 C.D. ORDER FORM

BODY, MIND, SPIRIT: New Developments in Mental Health Practice October 4-5, 2007

All presentations are on CD for this convention. (Some handouts are also included). CHECK TOPIC PRESENTER(S) # OF CDS HERE Susan Easton Black, Ed.D. & Harvey Black, 1. Trumping the Carnal Man Ph.D.

2. Turning Freud Upside-Down II: Toward Christian-Friendly Richard Williams, Ph.D., Aaron Jackson, Ph.D. Psychotherapy and Lane Fisher, Ph.D.

3. Turning Freud Upside-Down Panel #1 Richard Williams, Ph.D. & Robert Gleave, Ph.D.

4. Remembering Differently the Relationship between Randy Moss, Ph.D. Meaning and Healing in Therapy

5. Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder: Old Questions, New W. Dean Belnap, M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.P.A. Answers 6. Enneagram and Self Development Personally and William Ng, M.S.W., R.S.W. Professionally

7. Turning Freud Upside Down-Panel #2 Tim Smith, Ph.D., Matthew Draper, Ph.D. & Aaron Jackson, Ph.D. 8. Overcoming through Suffering: Acceptance and Mike Buxton, Ph.D., Kirk Dougher, Ph.D., Jane Commitment Therapy in a Religious Context Lawson, Ph.D., & Rick Moody, Ph.D. 9. Retraining the Brain: Neurofeedback for Psychological & D. Corydon Hammond, Ph.D., A.B.P.H., Medical Problems E.C.N.S., B.C.I.A.-EEG

10. Be Still and Know: Bringing Mindfulness, Meditation & Tamera Smith Allred, M.A. Body Awareness into L.D.S. Mental Health Practice

11. Therapeutic Dimensions of Treating L.D.S. Clients: Douglas Brinley, Ph.D. L.D.S. Doctrine as Help or Hindrance to Therapeutic Intervention

12. Bringing Light to the Darkness: Helping Latter-Day John P. Livingstone, Ed.D., & Marleen Williams, Saints Understand Mental Illness Ph.D.

13. A Profession in Transition – Therapy and Beyond David Whitehouse, M.D., M.B.A.

14. Turning Freud Upside-Down – Panel #3 Randy Moss, Ph.D., Lane Fischer, Ph.D., Ed Gantt, Ph.D., & Stan Knapp, Ph.D.

Dianne Nielsen, Ph.D., & Marleen Williams, 15. The Fundamentals of Dialectic Behavior Therapy Ph.D.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 33 16. Meditation, Affect Regulation and Free Will Kaye Espenschied Smith, L.C.S.W.

17. The Body, Mind and Spirit of LDS Single Adults: How Christine Packard, M.C., L.P.C. Therapists Can Help

18. Turning Freud Upside-Down, Panel #4 Kristin Hansen, Ph.D., Marleen Williams, Ph.D. & Jeffrey Reber, Ph.D.

19. The Use of Mind/Body Interventions to Reduce the Edward W. Kinghorn, Ph.D., Paul Buckingham, Symptoms of Stress Ph.D., & M. Gawain Wells, Ph.D.

20. Parent Training in a New Key: The Circle of Freedom M. Gawain Wells, Ph.D. and Responsibility and Other “One-Liners”

C.D. FEES

Members: $ 90.00 for complete set or $ 8.00 per presentation Non-members: $ 120.00 for complete set or $10.00 per CD

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AMCAP 2450 East 1700 South Salt Lake City, UT 84108 Fax (801) 583-1305 Email: [email protected]

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AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 34 Advertisements

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Private Practice Advertising Ownership or Directorship in the Networker

Family First Counseling ------525 East 4500 South F200 Advertising contained in the Networker Murray, Utah 84107 and other AMCAP publications should Contact: 801-633-8485 not be interpreted as a reflection of AMCAP policy, nor an endorsement by This is a turn-key counseling business with an office manager its officers or editorial board. and five clinicians on staff. Two therapists are employees, two therapists are contract therapists, and one is a second year Advertisements must be approved by master’s student intern. the editor and must be congruent with AMCAP’s statement of purpose. The mission of the agency is “Helping and Healing Families.” Family First Counseling has a contract with Department of Advertising fees for the Networker: Child and Family Services, Medicaid, and is a provider for leading insurance companies. The salary to be expected is 70K Full page $100 plus a year. Responsibilities include: maintaining a caseload of Half page $ 50 20 clients, directing weekly staff meetings, and managing all Quarter page $ 25 agencies contracts and grants. Demonstrate leadership by administering programs, marketing the clinic, and developing new programs to respond to the needs in the local community. ------For more information contact B.J. Fullmer at [email protected] or Kristin Apply by submitting a resume to: [email protected] or Douglas at [email protected]. call Shane Adamson by cell phone at 801-633-8485.

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 35 BYU Internship Opportunity

Brigham Young University Counseling and Career Center* 2008-2009 Internship

*Fully Accredited by the American Psychological Association

Stipend of $27,750 To Begin August 18, 2008

Benefits Rotations x Vacation and Sick Leave x Sports Medicine x Holidays x Behavioral Medicine Unit x Medical and Dental Insurance x Women’s Services and Resources x Life Insurance x Career Services x Library Privileges x Campus Housing x Bookstore Discount x Teaching x Discount Tickets to University Events x Biofeedback and Stress Management

Faculty Innovative Treatment x 27 Doctorates in their Disciplines Approaches x 23 Licensed Psychologists x Acceptance and Commitment Therapy x 3 ABPPs x Dialectical Behavior Therapy x 2 Licensed Marriage and Family x Positive Psychology Therapists x Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy x 1 Certified Developmental Educator x Other Standard Therapeutic Approaches

Primary Work x Individual Therapy Services x Group Therapy Services For more information visit x Marital/Couples Counseling our website at x Intake Interviews http://ccc.byu.edu/apa x Psychological Assessment or x Providing Supervision contact Kirk Dougher at x Crisis Intervention Services [email protected] or x Student Health Center call 801-422-3035. x Consultation and Outreach x Various Committee Work

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 36 Position Announcement

Brigham Young University Counseling and Career Center ------

Description: Brigham Young University’s Counseling and Career Center seeks candidates for two (continuing status) track counseling faculty positions (10-month contracts). Positions at assistant, associate, or full clinical professor, depending on experience, are currently open and applications will be accepted until positions are filled.

Qualifications: Doctorate required, but will consider ABD. Degree must be clinical or counseling related. Eligibility for Utah psychologist license perferred as is experience in university setting with experience in counseling, training, teaching, consulting, assessing, and advising.

Brigham Young University: Brigham Young University, an equal opportunity employer, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with disabilities. All faculty are required to abide by the university's honor code and dress and grooming standards. Preference is given to qualified candidates who are members in good standing of the affiliated church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Successful candidates are expected to support and contribute to the academic and religious missions of the university within the context of the principles and doctrine of the affiliated church.

Application: Submit electronic faculty application, current vita, and three letters of recommendation on university application system: https://yjobs.byu.edu

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 37 BYU COUNSELING CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Brigham Young University’s 39th Annual Counseling Workshop March 6-7, 2008

William Glasser, M.D. and Carleen H. Glasser, M.A.

“Choice Theory: Explanations, Public Health Implications, and Applications for Creating a Happier Marriage”

Program Description:

In this unique opportunity, attendees will be able to hear one of the world’s best known psychiatrists, Dr. William Glasser discuss his latest thinking on reality therapy and choice theory, especially on how these ideas are applied to public mental health and quality relationships. He will explain his latest ideas on quality relationships in counseling, teaching and managing, as well as explain why many of the people we manage/counsel are unhappy. Dr. Glasser will spend a half-day discussing and conducting role plays pertaining to choice theory and marital therapy.

Carleen Glasser, a Senior Instructor in the William Glasser Institute, joins her husband to demonstrate choice theory and explain how to teach others the concepts of successful relationships using choice theory vs. external control. She is an excellent teacher and counselor, and both she and Dr. Glasser work very effectively together not only in his speaking engagements, but also in co-authoring at least 4 books, including their recent book, Eight Lessons for a Happier Marriage.

Registration Information:

Register Early! For more information, or to register for the conference, call 801-422-2568, email [email protected], or download registration forms at http://ce.byu.edu/cw/cwcounse/. Also, refer to wglasser.com for more information on Dr. William and Carleen Glasser.

Sponsored by the BYU Counseling and Career Center and BYU Conferences and Workshops

AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 38 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION OR RENEWAL FORM 01-2007

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I am applying for the following membership category: [ ] Professional member - $60 annual fee, $750 lifetime membership fee (add $10.00 fee for www.ldscouselors.net listing) [ ] Student or [ ] Retiree - $30 annual fee (add $10.00, one time only fee for www.ldscouselors.net listing) [ ] Associate member (non-voting) - $60 annual fee [ ] Bishop [ ] Other: ______[ ] International Associate member (non-voting) - $30 annual fee in U.S. funds (Note: Category available outside the U.S. and Canada only.) [ ] Institution (single, non-voting representative) - $60 annual fee

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Specialties: ______ ‰ Please send mail to my work address. ‰ Please send mail to my home address.

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Send application & fees, payable to AMCAP in US funds only to: AMCAP 2540 East 1700 South AMCAP email: [email protected] Salt Lake City, UT 84108 (801-583-6227) You may pay with a credit card on our website or Fax form with credit card information to: 801-583-1305.

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