LANE COUNTY PSYCHOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION
LANE COUNTY PSYCHOLOGISTS ASSOCIATIONMinutes of June 2013 (Corrected 9/11/13)
Newsletter for 8/20/13
January 2009 Newsletter
Next Meeting: Wed., Sept. 11, 2013.
Note new location:
Unitarian Universalist Church, 13th & Chambers, Eugene.
6:00 p.m. Social Hall for potluck dinner (bring a food dish of some sort); 7:00 to 8:30 Meeting room #6 at for continuing ed. program by Amy Athey, Ph.D., Working with Athletes: Mental health, culture, and the hot topic of sports concussions.
8:30- 9:00 Business meeting.
June meeting minutes:
Attending: Bob Ozwoeld, Joy Lum, Kim Delaney, Ruth Braun, Dennis Viene, Carol Carver, Bill McConochie, Beth Hunt, Peter Powers, , Jon Davies, Ron Lechnyr, Shannon Young, Maria Sophia Aguirre, David Baldwin, Matt Fleischman, Diane Hediger, Kari Primo-Liddy, Ben Bock, Others?______
June Meeting:
1. Meeting called to order by Beth Hunt @ 7:15.
2. We all introduced ourselves and mentioned our current activities.
3. We did the business meeting, waiting on a projector screen.
Business meeting.
•Minutes from the prior meeting were approved.
•Shannon Young reported a current balance of $1728.03.
•Maria Sophia Aguirre announced that OPA will be holding a training on the DSM-IV in Portland in September.
•We presented Lifetime Achievement Awards to Jon Davies and Ron Lechnyr. Melanie was not present to receive the Community Service Award for the OWL Program, but will be invited to attend the September meeting.
•The elected officers for the upcoming year were announced:
President - Maria Sophia Aguierre
President Elect - Peter Powers
Secretary - William McConochie
Treasurer - Amy Athey
LCPA Representative to OPA - Shannon Young
•Dennis Viene shared some details about relocating our meetings to the Unitarian Universalist Church located on 13th and Chambers. The space is nice and open with plenty of seating. Rent would be $50.00 per meeting. We would plan on starting the meeting at 6:45 (after the first September meeting) and would have more time to linger after the meeting. Members approved the contract and voted to change to the new location.
•Members voted to continue to hold the Town Hall Meeting at the Hilton because that has been “part of our identity”. Members also voted to contribute $500.00 to OPA for the Town Hall meeting next year.
•Members voted to raise our annual dues to $50.00 with a $30.00 hardship/student dues option, which people will self-select.
•The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 11th at 6:00 at the Unitarian Universalist Church.
4. Dr. Matthew Fleischman presented the program, introduction and update regarding neurofeedback.
He described the discovery and history of neurofeedback. He explained how neurofeedback provides the means to map how the brain communicates with itself through neural network, discover the areas of the brain that are relevant to the clients problems, and retrain the brain networks. He provided a variety of case examples including an elderly woman with a long history of migraines; a child with ADHD, OCD, and anger problem;s and a disabled man dependent on pain medication. During the presentation, he demonstrated the process of neurofeedback using the equipment.
Dr. Fleischman believes that recent research on neural networks in the brain and their sensitivity to feedback could point to an entirely new direction for behavioral health providers that would allow us to treat conditions that we can’t currently treat and reach populations that we can’t currently reach. Dr. Fleischman believes that the disease models is not working well for psychologists, that we tend treat primarily the “worried well” and do not do as well at reaching populations that are poor, highly disturbed, or minorities. He believes that there are advantages to therapy that is not as heavily reliant on talk therapy. Dr. Fleischman also believes that psychopharmacology is not evolving and that neurofeedback is more empowering for clients than medication. He values it as a clinician because it can be scaled to the individual, is easily taught, is dynamic, and is clinically rewarding.
Respectfully submitted, Bill McConochie, Secretary.
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