The 17th Annual Childhood Development and Behavior Conference
July 11–12, 2013
Location: Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Costs: The all-inclusive registration fee includes tuition, two lunches, breaks, and handouts. $259 for MD's and $189 for PhD's and others. One-day tuition for MDs is $150 and for others $125.
Who Should Attend: Psychologists, physicians, social workers, counselors, therapists.
 Best practices and current concepts in the field of developmental and behavioral pediatrics.
Colby College presents the seventeenth annual Childhood Development and Behavior Conference, a two-day program for professionals working with children and teens with emotional, behavioral, developmental, and mental health problems. The program will be particularly useful for primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, psychologists, social workers, teachers and counselors. Strategies that work in the home, school and community to help children and families experience their world as a better place will be provided. The program features interactive sessions, case studies, didactic and small group presentations.
Maine's experts will describe and discuss evidenced-based practices in the early recognition, evaluation and treatment of the most common and, at times, perplexing behavioral, emotional, learning, social and psychiatric conditions affecting children. Attendees will be given the opportunity for focused learning with knowledgeable speakers and plenty of time for questions, answers and informal discussion in a comfortable atmosphere.
Children with Neurodevelopmental Challenges: A Life Course Approach
This year's conference will focus on challenges shared by families with children who are experiencing a wide range of neurologically-based diagnoses, including intellectual disability, autism, behavior disorders, cerebral palsy, neuromuscular disease and other sensory motor difficulties from infancy through adulthood.
As a result of attending this course, participants will
- be able to identify neurodevelopmental challenges
- learn specific interventions to help the child and family manage these challenges
- provide input to shape policy for individuals with neurodevelopmental challenges from infancy to adulthood
Contact Information
Special Programs
4730 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901-8847
phone: 207-859-4730
fax: 207-859-4734
e-mail: summer@colby.edu
Room and Board
Course Directors and Faculty Stephen Meister, M.D. Medical Director Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center, MaineGeneral Medical Center Waterville/Augusta Maine Nancy Ponzetti-Dyer, Ph.D.Psychology Director Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center, MaineGeneral Medical Center Waterville/Augusta Maine
Course Assistant
Patricia S. Engdahl, L.C.S.W.
Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center, MaineGeneral Medical Center
Waterville/Augusta Maine
Featured Presenters
Neal Halfon, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health and Public Policy Director,
UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
Catherine Schuman, Ph.D.
Director of Behavioral Medicine and Behavioral Medicine Training,
Cambridge Health Alliance
Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
Faculty Staci K. Converse, Esq.
Disability Rights Center Alan Kurtz
Coordinator for Education and Autism, Center for Community Inclusion and
Disability Studies, University of Maine
Laurie Mouradian, ScD, ATR, OTR/L
Program Director and Associate Professor, School of Occupational Therapy,
Husson University
John Salvato, M.D., FAAP
Maine's Center for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
Matthew Siegel, M.D.
Director, Developmental Disorders Program, Spring Harbor Hospital
Stephen Meister, M.D.
Medical Director, Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center
Anne Uecker, Ph.D.
Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center
Dick Watson, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center
The Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center
The Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center at MaineGeneral Medical
Center provides a wide array of top-quality evaluation and treatment services
for children and families. The center is committed to an interdisciplinary
model of care, and services are comprehensive and trauma-informed. Patients are seen at Seton in Waterville,
and in Augusta at 271 Water Street and 15 Enterprise Drive.
Colby College designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Colby College is approved by the Maine Board of Examiners of Psychologists as a sponsor of continuing professional education activities for licensed psychologists and psychological examiners. Psychologists and psychological examiners who attend this program may earn up to 12 hours of continuing professional education credit.
For non-physician health professionals, 1.2 C.E.U. credits will be awarded.
CME and ME Psychology credit is issued with certificates on the last day of the program. C.E.U. credit will be awarded through Colby's office of the Registrar as an official transcript and will be mailed to the registrant. Please allow 8-10 weeks to process.
Colby College is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
Program Schedule
Classes will be held in the air-conditioned Diamond Building
on the Colby campus.
Thursday, July 11
7:30 am
Registration
Diamond Building lobby
8:15 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Stephen Meister, M.D., Nancy Ponzetti-Dyer, Ph.D. and Jacques Moore
8:30 am
Life Course Health Development : The Integration of Research, Health Care and Policy
Neal Halfon, M.D., M.P.H.
10 am
Break
Noon
Lunch
1:15 pm
Interventions for Providers in Integrated Settings: Sleep
Catherine Schuman, Ph.D.
2:45 pm
Break
3 pm
Small group presentations
Friday, July 12
8:30 am
Interventions for Providers in Integrated Settings: Pain
Catherine Schuman, Ph.D.
10 am
Break
10:30 am
Small group presentations
Noon
Lunch
1:15 pm
Transforming Early Childhood Systems and Services
Neal Halfon, M.D., M.P.H.
2:45 pm
Break
3 pm
Panel: Presenters and Audience as Experts - Implications for Future Policy
Moderator: Nancy Ponzetti-Dyer, Ph.D.
Panel members: Conference Presenters
Small Group Presentations
Thursday 10:30 am to Noon:
Interventions That Make a Difference in the Brain (Part 1): Exercise - and More!
Anne Uecker, Ph.D.
Five Parenting Skills You Can Teach at Your Next Session
Dick Watson, LCSW
Elimination and Alimentation
Stephen Meister, M.D.
When a Parent Goes to War: Effects on Children and Ways to Cope
John Salvato, M.D. FAAP
Thursday 3 pm to 4:30 pm:
Interventions That Make a Difference in the Brain (Part 1): Exercise - and More!
Anne Uecker, Ph.D.
Five Parenting Skills You Can Teach at Your Next Session
Dick Watson, LCSW
Elimination and Alimentation
Stephen Meister, M.D.
The Challenge of Supporting Connection in the NICU: Building on the Strengths of
Vulnerable Infants and Families
Laurie Mouradian, ScD, ATR, OTR/L
Friday 10:30 am to Noon
Psychotropic medications in autism: evidence and best practice
Matthew Seigel, M.D.
Transition Planning and Guardianship: Helping Families
Alan Kurtz and Staci Converse, Esq.
The Challenge of Supporting Connection in the NICU: Building on the Strengths
of vulnerable Infants and Families
Laurie Mouradian, ScD, ATR, OTR/L
Case Studies in Integrative Care
Catherine Schuman, Ph.D.
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