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Listed Items:

Bath Office Space Available (posted August 20, 2008)

Bath office space available, part time. Large office space available to share—cheerful, bright. Fully equipped, but plenty of room for your own stuff. Right downtown. Liz Ware (207) 443-1166.


Testing Kits Available (posted August 20, 2008)

Testing kits for sale: Bayley-III, never used. Bought new for $895. Will sell for $500. Vineland, never used. Bought new for $125, will sell for $75. Proof of appropriate licensure required. Liz Ware (207) 443-1166.


Waterville Office Space Available (posted August 18, 2008)

Office space with four small rooms on first floor, 650 sq.feet, professional building, on Silver Street in Waterville near downtown area. Quiet, small, older building, with front porch, near social services in Waterville. Current tenants include psychiatric practice and a separate counselor. Heat, electricity, parking included. The building is owned by the Universalist Unitarian Church of Waterville. The church uses the basement for storage but does not use the building for programs. The church is adjacent to the office building. $800/month. Contact Tina after September 1 to arrange to see the space. 207-399-7978. For questions in the meantime, contact Karen at karen.kusiak@colby.edu.
Workshop: Introduction to Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) (posted July 29, 2008)

Presenters: Joel Guarna, PhD and Elizabeth Kubik, PhD
  • Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
  • Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm EST
  • Fee: $99
  • 6 CEs (Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors) in Maine. Please call for details.
  • Sponsored by the Health Education & Training Institute (HETI) at 25 Middle Street in Portland
  • To register, contact: (207) 773-3275 or visit www.hetimaine.org
  • Questions? email to joel@whitepinepsych.com
  • More info about this training: www.ACTinNewEngland.com

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a contemporary form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that has shown much promise in helping clients with a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. ACT introduces a creative set of metaphors and experiential exercises to help clients (a) move away from unworkable change strategies, (b) make healthy contact with thoughts, feelings, and other private reactions they have feared and avoided, (c) re-connect with their deepest values to set a direction for change and to motivate change, and (d) experience their struggles differently and in a manner that permits them to move forward with their lives now. This one-day training will introduce participants to this exciting form of therapy. The instructors will describe the ACT model and explain how it compares to and differs from traditional CBT. The instructors will review the rapidly-growing body of research on ACT and its processes. Attendees will learn to conceptualize client problems from an ACT perspective and how to apply basic ACT interventions. Attendees will be invited to participate in a variety of exercises to help experience ACT processes and to better understand their clients' perspectives and struggles. Lastly, attendees will leave this training with many resources should they wish to further develop their proficiency with ACT.

Therapy Group Forming for Socially Anxious Teens (Ages 13 to 17) (posted June 2, 2008)

Co-therapists: Gordon Street, PhD, and Lee Fitzgibbons, PhD

We’re seeking referrals of socially anxious teens for a therapy group we plan to start in early July. It’s a CBT group that provides social skills training, cognitive restructuring, and exposures (both in-session role plays and between-session in-vivo trials). The therapy group will meet once a week for 1.5 hours here at our offices (Anxiety Solutions) in Raymond, Maine. Our program is adapted in part from Biedel & Turner’s Social Effectiveness Therapy for Children and Adolescents (SET-C), so it is not a “pure” group therapy but also includes some individual sessions (at least once every other week) as well as a group activity once a week outside the offices (to be chaperoned by parent volunteers).

Our target start date is early July, so we need parents to contact us soon so we can determine what day and time would work best for as many members as possible. We will also need to schedule an intake assessment and (if needed) a few individual therapy sessions to prepare members for beginning the group.

Members already identified range in severity from moderate social phobia (generalized subtype) to severe with co-morbid selective mutism, and we expect most members to have at least some co-morbidity. It will be a closed group with an initial 6 week commitment. After that, we will open the group to a few new members and seek an additional 6- to 8-week commitment from group members. That way, members will continue in therapy and continue having support into the beginning of the next school year.

Our standard rate for 1.5 hour group sessions is $60, but we do offer discounts on a sliding scale for payment at time of service as well as a 10% discount for prepayment (so we don’t have to collect payments at the beginning of each session). We are also now on the Anthem BC/BS provider panel, and we also accept TriCare, MedNet, and Behavioral Health Care Program (BHCP).

If you or a parent has any questions (or suggestions), please feel free to contact us at 655-2737 or gpstreet@anxietysolutions.net.

Call for Student Poster Proposals
Maine Psychological Association
2008 Fall Conference, November 21
5:15 PM-6:15 PM
Bates College Lewiston, Maine

Submission Deadline for Proposals: September 30, 2008

Proposals are now being accepted for a student poster session to be held at the Maine Psychological Association’s Fall Conference. This event is designed to highlight research that students are conducting in psychology programs across the State of Maine. Students may be in graduate or undergraduate programs. The first author on the proposal must be a student (or the first author must have completed the project while a student or intern).

Poster proposals should include a cover sheet and a 500-word summary of the study in APA style. The abstract should include some description of the nature of the presentation (empirical, theoretical, technique) and primary findings. Summaries of empirical studies should include a brief literature review, statement of the problem (hypotheses or research questions), participants, procedures, results, and conclusions. Summaries of other presentations should include enough detail for reviewers to judge the overall format and contribution of the scholarship. The proposals will be subjected to masked review. Please do not include identifying information in the proposal (only on the cover sheet).

Please submit your proposal and completed cover sheet as attached files in MS Word or Rich Text Format to the Maine Psychological Poster Review Committee at mepastudentposter@yahoo.com. This email must also be “cc’d” to Karen Mook, Ph.D., at kcm@tidewater.net. Finally, please identify in the subject line of the email: “MePA student poster proposal.”


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Notifications of proposal status and presentation instructions
will be sent via email on or before October 19, 2008.

All students, regardless of their participation in the poster session, are eligible to enroll for the Maine Psychological Association’s Fall Conference for a significantly reduced rate. We’d love to have you attend!

Proposal Checklist (for your use—do not send with proposal):
     ___ 500 word summary of work completed as a student
     ___ Complete cover sheet with all presenters contact information (provide in separate file from proposal)