The Metropolitan Area Career/Life Planning Network invites you to:

Career Counseling Challenges:

Clients with Mental Disorders

^{by Linda Seligman, Ph.D., LPC, NCC}

Career counseling can be a particularly challenging process when clients have both professional concerns and significant personal issues. This presentation will review personality disorders and other mental disorders that are often encountered in the career counseling context. Information will be provided to help counselors better understand people with both personal and career issues and will describe strategies that can be used to facilitate career counseling with these clients.

Highlights of Presentation:

• Ten common mental disorders and their probable impact on career development
• The challenges of counseling people with personality disorders
• Determining whether a mental disorder is present
• Using the intake interview and the mental status examination to better understand our clients
• Short-term treatment interventions
• Guidelines for when and how to make a referral
• Cases for discussion

Dr. Seligman is an academic, clinician and world recognized lecturer. She is now a professor emerita at George Mason University, a faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University, and a faculty member at Walden University where she has a joint appointment in Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology.  With a private practice in Fairfax, VA, she has experience in a variety of other clinical settings including psychiatric hospitals, college counseling centers, community mental health centers, substance abuse treatment programs, foster care, and corrections. She has written nine books, including Systems, Strategies, and Skills of Counseling and Psychotherapy, Selecting Effective Treatments, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling, Developmental Career Counseling and Assessment, and Promoting A Fighting Spirit: Psychotherapy for Cancer Patients, Survivors, and Their Families.

DATE:  Friday, April 4, 2003

TIME:  8:30 – 9:30 a.m.  Registration, Networking, and Announcements

9:00 - Noon  Program

PLACE: The George Washington University Marvin Center , 800 21^st St NW, Room 310 Elliott (which is in the Cafritz Conference Center), Washington DC 20052

COST:  $25, NO WALK-INS (make checks payable to MAC/LPN)

QUESTIONS: Call Susan Waters at 703-241-2620

CLICK HERE FOR THE REQUIRED REGISTRATION FORM

DIRECTIONS:

By Metro:  Take Blue line towards Franconia-Springfield, or the Orange Line towards Vienna.  Exit at the stop marked "Foggy Bottom-GW." You will be at 23rd and I Streets.  Cross 23rd Street, and continue walking on I Street approximately two blocks.  Turn right onto 21st Street.  The Marvin Center will be on your right on 21st Street between H and I Streets.  Go up to suite 204.

By Car:

From North:  Take I-95 South to I-495 (Capital Beltway) toward Silver Spring.  Take exit 33, heading south on Connecticut Ave. for about 9 miles.  Turn right onto Florida Avenue (just past the Washington Hilton) and turn left immediately onto 21st Street and proceed through thick traffic to the GW campus. Turn right on H Street.  The entrance to the parking garage is on the right between 21st and 22nd Streets.

From West:  Interstate 66 and Route 50 btoh connect with the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge.  Cross the bridge and exit left at E Street.  Turn right on 23rd Street and continue a few blocks to campus.  Turn right on H Street.  The entrance to the parking garage is on the left between 21st and 22nd Streets.

From South:  Interstate 395 to Arlington Memorial Bridge exit.  Cross the bridge and bear left at the Lincoln Memorial.  Turn left onto 23rd Street NW and continue a few blocks to campus.  Turn right on H Street.  The entrance to the parking garage is on the left between 21st and 22nd Streets.

Parking:  The Marvin Center Garage does not have reserved parking for people attending events.  If it is full, try the University Visitor's Parking Garage on I (Eye) Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets.  Parking is $11 for two hours and $13 after the second hour.  Individuals needing transportation may want to use their MAC/LPN Directory to locate others from their area with whom to carpool.