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Selected Training and Consultation Specialties of Michael Mayer
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Most Recent Presentation Topics

Alternative Service Models: Helping People Get Real Lives

Balancing Choice, Health Care, Safety & Crisis Responses

Best Practices in Dual Diagnosis:  An Introduction to the Mental Health Issues for People 

  Who Have Intellectual Disabilities

Beyond Medication, Isolation and Restraint:  Building Community Crisis Supports

Building Wrap-Around Community Supports to Prevent Institutionalization

Coaching Your Staff to Excellence

Crisis Prevention and Intervention:  Who is in Crisis?

Crisis Services Crisis: It’s Not Too Late for an Intelligent Response

Developing and Implementing Person Centered Plans of Crisis Response:

  Integrating a Comprehensive Local Approach

Developing Basic Skills for Direct Support Staff

Dual Diagnosis + 1:  Substance Abuse in People with MH and MR Diagnoses

Family and Consumer Self-Governance Approaches

Implementing Person Centered Crisis Supports

Improving Services and Results:  Evidence Based Interventions

Introduction to Cognitive and Related Disabilities

Introduction to MH Needs for People with DD: "Which Side of the Hyphen Are You On?"

Issues in Service Delivery/Policy/Planning/Coordination

Person Centered Thinking

Person Centered Planning

Preventing and Managing Crises in the Community

Refining Crisis Services

Rethinking Training for the 21st Century:  Critical Workforce Issues

RSVP: Reciprocal Supports for Valued People

Solving the Staffing Crisis

So You Are A Supervisor of Supervisors…

Supervision for New Supervisors

Supporting Friendships and Other Natural Supports

Supporting People Who Use Atypical Behavior as Communication

The Development of Community Based Crisis Services

Value Based Care Giving

Workforce Development in Human Services: Avoiding More Failures

 

Administration & Management

Coaching for Excellence

Empowering your Staff to “Do the Right Thing”

Improving Staff Quality, Safety and Retention

Legal and Ethical Issues of Service Delivery                                            

Local Management Entity and Provider Partnerships

Responding Well in Changing Times

Supervision for New Supervisors

Teamwork

Management Training

 

Dual Diagnosis

Addressing Mental Health Needs of People Who Have Cognitive Impairments

Advanced Issues in Dual Diagnosis (includes DSM IV and Other Diagnostic Issues)

Best Practices in Dual Diagnosis Services

Bipolar and Other Mood Disorders                                   

Borderline Personality Disorder

Co-occurring Disorders: Integrating Treatment to Make Success a Reality

Dealing With the Emotional and Behavioral Issues of Persons Who Have A Dual

Designing the Unified System for People Who Have DD and MH Needs Diagnosis

Dual Diagnosis: Advanced Issues and Practices

Dual Diagnosis: Community Service Issues

Introduction to Dual Diagnosis

Introduction to MH Needs in People with DD 

 

Crisis & Emergency Services

Crisis Prevention and Management

Dealing With Degrees of Crisis: What’s Rational?

Developing Crisis Service Options

Mobile Crisis Services

The Crisis Services Crisis

 

Individual Assessment

Assessing Axis IV in People Who Have Mental Retardation

Assessing Essential Motivation, Tension, and Resistance

 

Individual Clinical and Other Special Needs

Advanced Non-Aversive Behavior Supports          

Aggression and Self-Injury Among People Who Have MR         

Anxiety and Related Disorders                                          

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder                            

Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders  

Changing Inappropriate Sexual Expression: Clinical and Practical Considerations

Cognitively Impaired Offenders:  What is Safe?  What is Smart?

Effective Communication With Consumers

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Growing Not Getting Older

Healthy Sexual Behavior

Human Sexuality for People Who Have DD

Introduction to Psychopharmacology and Pharmacokinetics     

Introduction to Therapeutic Behavior Issues and Interventions   

Issues Associated with the Aging Process in People Who Have Mental Retardation

Learning: The Process

Personality Disorders                                                          

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Prader-Willi Syndrome                                

Psychosocial Stressors:  What to Do?

Psychotropic Medications: An Overview for Non-Medical Personnel

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders                

Seizure Disorders: Causes, Effects, and Responses                 

Stress and Anxiety in People Who Have DD

Substance Abuse Treatments for People Who Have a Dual Diagnosis (SAMIR’s)

Tourette Disorder

 

Intervention/Treatment/Programming

Acuity of Need: Knowing What To Do First

Behavioral Support Plans

Community Supports: Integration Considerations

Embracing Family Support

Frontal Lobe: How to Avoid Being Theirs

Intensive Therapeutic Community Services

Interdependent Collaboration: Reconciling Person Centered Planning with

Introduction to Ethical and Therapeutic Interventions

Introduction to Non-Aversive Behavior Support Strategies

Issues and Application for Inclusion and Friendship Training

Legal and Ethical Issues of Value Based Support

Making Person-Centered Planning Work with Limited Resources

Non-Aversive Behavior Supports

Person Centered Thinking

Person Centered Planning

Recognizable Psychological Issues to Be Addressed for Individuals Who Have DD

Recovery from Sexual Abuse for People with Developmental Disabilities

Relaxation Training and Other De-Escalation Techniques for Persons with DD

Rights & Responsibilities / Choices & Consequences: The New Skill Domains

RSVP:  Reciprocal Supports for Valued People (friendship and other relationships)

Self Determination

Understanding and Supporting Atypical Behavior

 

DD

Mental Retardation: Causes, Effects, and Responses    

 

Issues in Service Delivery/Policy/Planning/Coordination

Addressing Legal and Ethical Issues of Support

Best Practices in Community Services

Blending and Coordination of Services

Building for the Future

CAPE: Cluster Analysis, Planning and Evaluation

Case Coordination and Case Management

Community Safety Nets for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in the Community

Community Services: What’s Next?

Contingency Plans for Failed Community Placements

Depressive Disorders                                             

Designing Services for People Who Have MR and Borderline Personality Disorder

Effective Consumer Based Planning

Effective Cross Agency Planning and Service Delivery

Ethics for Providers

Future of Services

How Will Providers Protect Your Rights?

Implementation of Intensive Therapeutic Community Services

Implementing a Competency Based Support System

Improving Self Determination Efforts         

Individual Functional Support Model

Institute Assessment of Essential Motivation, Tension and Resistance: Making Data Work

Inter-Agency Community Services for People Who Have A Dual Diagnosis

Introduction to Service Concepts

Life Coaching

Person Centered Thinking

Person Centered Planning

Safety Nets for People Who Have a Dual Diagnosis

Spirituality and Sexuality: The Last Taboo’s

Stealth Behavioral Health: Integrating Community Supports

Stealth Mental Health: The Secrets of Effective Therapy for People Who Have a Dual

Therapeutic Community Supports

Value Based Care Giving                           

Valued Lives and Valued Options

Working Effectively with Medical and Mental Health Personnel

Working with Families

 

Staff Development

Coaching for Success

Cost-Effective Training

Effective Training

From Enthusiasm to Punishment in 5 Easy Steps: Stress Management

Issues and Application for Direct Service Personnel

Six C Skills of Professional Masochists (motivational/stress management)

Staff Stress and Coping Strategies                       

Stress Management for Human Services Professionals            

Thinking Differently

Time Management

 

 

 

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