MENTAL HEALTH & MISSIONS Conference
November 18-21, 2010 - Potawatomi Inn, Angola, Indiana

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Since 1980, mental health professionals have been meeting each Fall at Potawatomi Inn & Conference Center in Indiana’s Pokagon State Park. 200+ people now attend each year with people traveling from all around the globe to benefit from the fellowship, the relaxing atmosphere and the professional presentations.

This year's theme:

Hot Topics:
Contemporary Concerns and Challenges Facing Mental Health Providers in Missions

The 31st annual conference theme will focus on the critical issues, concerns, and challenges facing mental health providers in missions today. It will also focus on how mental health providers can significantly advance the cause of seeing cross-cultural messengers of the gospel of Christ experience effectiveness, endurance and personal vitality.

What is the purpose of the conference?

Mental Health and Missions (MHM) was founded and designed to meet the needs of mental health providers who work with missionaries. MHM focuses on the needs for mutual encouragement, fellowship, and professional development.

Who should attend?

MHM is meant for counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and any other mental health providers. Such individuals will find this conference relationally rich and professionally invigorating. Although member care personnel and leaders from mission agencies are welcome, please recognize that presenters will be targeting mental health practitioners.

What will be some of the focal points of the plenary sessions and workshops?

PLENARY SESSIONS PRESENTERS

When and Why to Depart from Professional Guidelines: Values and Needs in Faith-based Care of Cross-Cultural Workers

Lois Dodds

Hot Topics in MHM:  A Field Perspective

Nancy Crawford

Addressing a Global Pandemic: Spiritual Anemia Amongst Cross-cultural Workers

Scott Shaum

Attraction and Attrition:  What Brings People into Missions, What Holds Them, and What Causes Them to Leave?

Dave Wickstrom
 
 
RESEARCH AND RESOURCE FAIR
 
 
WORKSHOPS PRESENTERS
Repatriating Successfully for University: Confronting the Challenges
Lois Bushong and Tina Quick
When Trauma is Not Simple: Identifying and Treating Complex Trauma in Missionaries
Heather Gingrich
Lessons from Attachment Theory and its Clinical Applications for Member Care and Counseling
Fred Gingrich
Mental Health and Missions: Young Graduate and International Student Perspectives
Tamara Koch, Rameses De Jesus, Sara Newhard, Monica Schindler, Staff sponsor: Dr. Richard Butman
Significant Issues Facing Ministry Professionals

Mike and Kari MacKenzie

Landing on Your Feet: 
An Assets Based Model for Moving Back to the U.S.

Denny Morrow

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies: Helping Teams Respond to Conflict, Change and Stress

Evan Parks
Driven in Ministry?  Evaluating Ministry Pressure and Deepening Trust and Rest in God
Patrick Repp
PTSD in Missionaries and Tentmakers: Diagnosis, Spiritual Dimensions, and Treatments
Esther Schubert, Ann Hamel, and Roni Pruitt

Jesus Wept: Translating Research into Practice for Re-entry Loss and Grief

Susan Selby

Unmasking Trends in Self-Harm in Children and Teens

Jodi Top

Trauma and Spirituality in Urban Ministry Workers: Preliminary Results

Dow-Ann Yeh and Cynthia Eriksson
Lost In Translation:  Examining the Realities of Mental Health Amongst Nonwestern Missionaries 

Hannah Im

Shattered Dreams and Shattered Vows: Healing Marital Sexual Betrayal
Lisa Sinclair

Research Presentation: Impact of Family System Variables on Intercultural Adjustment

Len Cerny and Katie Rosenbusch
Integrating Mental Health Concerns into Effective Short-Term Missions Don and Cherilyn Johnson
Introducing the Mental Health and Missions Conference:  
How Do I Get Involved in Mental Health Services to Missions?
Roni Pruitt

Are CEU's Available?

The Mental Health and Missions Conference is pleased to offer up to 14 CEU credits for attendees through the National Board of Certified Counselors.  The maximum number of credits is obtained by attending the introduction to the MHM conference, five plenary sessions, and four workshops.

Please note that each State has different CEU requirements.  Please contact your State licensing board to find out whether they receive NBCC credits.

 

Who are the conference planners?

Although MHM is hosted and administrated by Mission Training International, the genius and meat of this conference rests on the shoulders of the program coordinators who choose each year’s theme and speakers.

The program coordinators for 2010 are:
Dr. Roni Pruitt
Dr. Duncan Westwood
Dr. Charlie Schaefer
Dr. Jeanne Jensma
Dr. Steve Sweatman

What is the Schedule?

Thursday
3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Registration
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Welcome Dinner and Plenary Session held in Lake James Room
8:30 p.m."Introducing the Mental Health and Missions Conference:  How Do I Get Involved in Mental Health Services to Missions?"

Friday
Morning: Plenary Session followed by Workshops
Afternoon: Workshops
Evening: Plenary Session

Saturday
Morning: Plenary Session followed by Workshops
Afternoon: Workshops
Evening: Research and Resource Fair

Sunday
Morning: Worship and Plenary Session
Sunday Brunch
12:00 noon Conference ends

Dates & Rates:

MHM 2010 – November 18 - 21 Conference, Materials, and all meals

Early Registration through September 30, meals and lodging
$432
Registration October 1-31, meals and lodging
$458
Late Registration November 1 and after, meals and lodging
$473
Add for Single Occupancy
$140
   

* Prices are per person for a shared room for all three nights. Add $140 for single occupancy if you prefer a room alone. (Individuals choosing single occupancy will be assigned rooms with only one bed. The expectation is that a single room reservation is for one person only.)
ALL ROOMS IN THE INN ARE NOW SMOKE-FREE!!

+ Early registration fees apply for payments received before October 1, 2010.
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Late registration fees apply for payments received after November 1, 2010.

Payment in full is required at registration.

Cancellation Policy:
If cancellation occurs before October 1, $30 administration fee is non-refundable.
If cancellation occurs before November 1, $145 fee is non-refundable.
Total conference cost is non-refundable if cancellation occurs after November 1.

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