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The Mormon Mental Health Association (MMHA)

The Mormon Mental Health Association (MMHA)

Last updated on: August 26, 2014 at 12:20 am by Natasha Helfer

The Mormon Mental Health Association (MMHA) 2014-08-26T00:20:25-05:00 Natasha Helfer

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Mormon Mental Health Association

FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE

our first annual conference is around the corner – please help spread the word!

The Mormon Mental Health Association (MMHA) is excited to announce their first annual conference in Salt Lake City Utah, July 31st from 6:00-9:00pm. Come join with other clinicians, educators and advocates working with the Mormon population to learn, network and collaborate. Our keynote speakers will be Dr. Jennifer Finalyson-Fife, PhD and Dr. Michael Buxton, PhD.WHAT IS THE MORMON MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION?The Mormon Mental Health Association (MMHA) is a newly formed professional association for mental health providers, clinicians, educators and advocates who are interested in or are working with the Mormon population. MMHA is interested in increasing training, research, strategy, collaboration and education in the mental health treatment of Mormons, helping ensure that this population’s needs are being met by trained professionals who adhere to their professions’ code of ethics. This would include the ability to respectfully and adequately treat/educate Mormons self-identifying at any point of a faith-belief spectrum, a sexual orientation spectrum, a gender identity spectrum, or any other concern they may find themselves in through an evidence-based, best-practice approach. MMHA wants to help provide professionals with the tools and resources they need to succeed in the work they engage in with Mormon clients, family systems and community programs. MMHA plans on hosting an annual training conference, as well as offer a referral list of professionals willing to sign our code of ethics for the public to use as a resource referral network. (please pardon our dust as we establish and grow with you :)About Us:MMHA was founded by Natasha Helfer Parker, LCMFT in June of 2014 under the support of the Open Stories Foundation. It is led by a Board of Directors that include:

President: Natasha Helfer Parker
President-Elect: Kristin B. Hodson
Treasurer: Martin Erickson
Secretary: Jennifer Rooney-White
General Board Member: Michelle Eakin
General Board Member: Jennifer Finlayson-Fife
General Board Member: Kevin Kloosterman
Student/Intern Representative: Adam Fisher

For more information, please contact Natasha Helfer-Parker at:[email protected]

mormon mental health association first annual conference

WHEN

thursday, july 31st, 6-9pm

WHERE

10695 auto mall dr

sandy

MORE INFORMATION

For more information and to purchase ticketsvisit the event page on Eventbrite.

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agenda

6:00-6:30 Opening and Welcome
6:30-8:00 Presentation
8:00-9:00 Association discussion, brainstorm and 2015 planning. We hope you will come and share your ideas with us on how this Association can be helpful for you, your practice and your professional goals.

PRESENTATION DETAILS

Drs. Buxton and Finlayson-Fife will be presenting on common ethical and professional concerns that can arise when treating a Mormon clientele. They will open the field to discuss current issues with which our LDS clients…and we…are heartily grappling with in a wide-open, information-rich, relationally-connecting world. How do we extract the best and most liberating beliefs and practices of the LDS religion from the most damaging? What themes do we need to be most aware of that may come up when working with LDS clients? How do mental health professionals navigate their own spiritual or religious journeys after years of empathizing with the marginalized? How do we check our own biases along the way? How do we manage when best-practice treatments do or seem to contradict LDS belief and practice?

Presenters:

Michael S. Buxton, Ph.D., MFT is an Associate Clinical Professor of Counseling Psychology in BYU’s Counseling and Psychological Services, and in private practice.

Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, Ph.D. is a private practice clinician in Chicago. She works primarily with LDS clients around issues of sexuality and desire.

Michael and Jennifer recently gave a presentation at the annual conference of the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists in Monterey, CA, entitled Help for the Godly: Resolving Impasses with Sexually Conservative Clients.

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