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 |
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Hot Topics in MHM: A Field Perspective |
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Addressing a Global Pandemic: Spiritual Anemia Amongst Cross-cultural Workers |
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Attraction and Attrition: What Brings People into Missions, What Holds Them, and What Causes Them to Leave? |
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| RESEARCH AND RESOURCE FAIR |
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| WORKSHOPS |
PRESENTERS |
| Repatriating Successfully for University: Confronting the Challenges |
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| Lois Bushong and Tina Quick |
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| When Trauma is Not Simple: Identifying and Treating Complex Trauma in Missionaries |
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| Lessons from Attachment Theory and its Clinical Applications for Member Care and Counseling |
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| Mental Health and Missions: Young Graduate and International Student Perspectives |
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| Tamara Koch, Rameses De Jesus, Sara Newhard, Monica Schindler, Staff sponsor: Dr. Richard Butman |
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| Significant Issues Facing Ministry Professionals |
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Landing on Your Feet:
An Assets Based Model for Moving Back to the U.S. |
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With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies: Helping Teams Respond to Conflict, Change and Stress |
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| Driven in Ministry? Evaluating Ministry Pressure and Deepening Trust and Rest in God |
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| PTSD in Missionaries and Tentmakers: Diagnosis, Spiritual Dimensions, and Treatments |
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| Esther Schubert, Ann Hamel, and Roni Pruitt |
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Jesus Wept: Translating Research into Practice for Re-entry Loss and Grief |
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Unmasking Trends in Self-Harm in Children and Teens |
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Trauma and Spirituality in Urban Ministry Workers: Preliminary Results |
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| Dow-Ann Yeh and Cynthia Eriksson |
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| Lost In Translation: Examining the Realities of Mental Health Amongst Nonwestern Missionaries |
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| Shattered Dreams and Shattered Vows: Healing Marital Sexual Betrayal |
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Research Presentation: Impact of Family System Variables on Intercultural Adjustment |
| Len Cerny and Katie Rosenbusch |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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* 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.
+ 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.
Register
Now for MHM
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