Friday, January 17, 1997

Mental Health in the Workplace: Where we have been and where we are going?
Workplace Violence
Corporate Therapy and Consultation
Executive Coaching
Authority, Succession and Psychosomatic Illness in an Executive Manager
Family Business Succession: A Case Study
Healing the Wounds from Re-engineering and Downsizing

Saturday, January 18, 1997

Traitors, Industrial Espionage, and Pre-Employment Screening
From the Glass Slipper to the Glass Ceiling
From Clinician to Entrepreneur/Consultant: Managing the Transition
Strategic Planning Meeting for the AOOP

Friday, January 17

8:00-8:15 a.m.

Helping Business and Psychiatry to Understand Each Other
Introduction
Brian Grant, M.D.
President, AOOP
Medical Consultants Network, Inc., Seattle, WA
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA

8:15-9:15 a.m.

Mental Health in the Workplace: Where we have been and where we are going?
Maury Lieberman
Chief of the Special Programs Development Branch
Center for Mental Health Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Federal Government, Rockville, MD
The evolving nature of work and the workplace over the past quarter century will be explored by Dr. Lieberman. These changes require a new emphasis in professional skill development for clinicians who work in the field. Dr. Lieberman will present an overview of the field, with an historical perspective based on twenty five years of administering work, mental health funding and service programs in the federal government. Worker and employer expectations as they relate to authority have changed radically, as has the meaning of work. This has necessitated a change in the way consultants must approach occupational problems, whether rooted in organizational or individual pathology.

9:15-10:15 a.m.

Workplace Violence
Ron Schouten, J.D., M.D.
Director
Law and Psychiatry Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Dr. Schouten will present case examples of his clinical experience with threat assessment and therapeutic interventions in corporate consultation. Legal considerations will be given special attention, as they relate to recently enacted federal statutes concerning employment.

Break 10:15-10:30 a.m.

10:30-11:30 a.m.

Corporate Therapy and Consultation
Len Sperry, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Division of Organizational Psychiatry and Corporate Health
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences
Medical College of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
The practical challenge of finding a niche in corporate consultation, marketing, developing specific skills in the provision of consultation to corporations will be the focus of Professor Sperry's presentation. The author of many professional publications, Dr. Sperry's most recent book, Corporate Therapy and Consultation was published in August, 1996. Dr. Sperry has for years been recognized as a scholar of national stature in the field of consultation to businesses and organizations, and has developed original models which are widely employed by professionals in the field.

11:30a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Executive Coaching
Gary Ranker, Ph.D.
CEO
Transinfo, Inc.
Private Practice; Santa Monica, CA, and New York
Dr. Ranker, for the last seven years, has counseled hundreds of senior executives to modify interpersonal behavior which interfered with productivity. His method involves in depth interviewing of persons who know the client best. Several assessment phases result in focused behavioral themes for action planning towards the personal goal of increased productivity and effectiveness.

Lunch 12:30-1:30 p.m.

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Authority, Succession and Psychosomatic Illness in an Executive Manager
John Wynn, M.D.
Private Practice of Psychiatry and Organizational Consultation; Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Washington School of Medicine
Chairman
Department of Psychiatry
Providence Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Dr. Wynn will present a specific case consultation to an executive manager, beginning with the initial presentation, the psychosocial differential diagnosis, the negotiation of the contract, and the actual consultation. Emotional distress and somatic symptoms were present. Dr. Wynn will demonstrate how he helped the client become aware of how he replicated his personal authority constellation in his workplace, and how he then learned to manage changes in the balance of power at work more realistically and effectively.

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Family Business Succession: A Case Study
Robert Gordon, M.D. and Henry Evans, M.D.
Analytic Consultants, Ltd.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Drs. Gordon and Evans, both psychoanalysts, will present a continuing case in which psychoanalytic principles are employed in both the formulation and intervention in a complicated family succession conflict. This case consultation is ongoing, with the outcome as yet undetermined.

Break 3:30-3:45 p.m.

3:45-4:45 p.m.

Healing the Wounds from Re-engineering and Downsizing
Howard Eisenberg, M.Sc., M.D.,
CEO, Syntrek, Inc., Synectia Productions, Inc.
Private Medical Practice, Stowe, VT
Dr. Eisenberg will share his extensive corporate expertise in employee opinion surveys, managerial coaching, team building, and stress management training for contending with the demoralization that results from the trauma of corporate restructuring and downsizing.

Traitors, Industrial Espionage, and Pre-Employment Screening
Richard Ault, Ph.D.
The Academy Group, Manassas, VA
Dr. Ault will describe how principles developed in his work in national security are applicable in business settings. He will explore the psychodynamics and personality types of individuals most likely to become disloyal and damaging to businesses. With case examples he discusses how to prescreen for high risk personnel, and how to trap them afterwards if the screening is unsuccessful.

Break 10:00-10:15 a.m.

10:15-11:15 a.m.

From the Glass Slipper to the Glass Ceiling
Sandra K. Cohen, M.D.
The New York Psychoanalytic Society
Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY
Dr. Cohen will describe her work with corporations where in spite of apparently genuine commitments to foster the promotion of women to senior executive rank, little success was realized. Utilizing psychoanalytic understanding, she will demonstrate how the individual dynamics of senior management was expressed in corporate practices and culture, and the steps which were necessary to resolve the conflicts which interfered with the achievement of those goals.

11:15a.m.-12:15 p.m.

From Clinician to Entrepreneur/Consultant; Managing the Transition
Steve Heidel, M.D.
CEO
Health and Human Resource Center
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Brian Grant, M.D.
CEO
Medical Consultants Network, Inc., Seattle, WA
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
John Wynn, M.D.
Private Practice of Psychiatry and Organizational Consultation
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Providence Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Drs. Heidel, Grant, and Wynn have developed professional careers extending beyond exclusively clinical practice. They will share their experiences, including how they achieved the professional and personal transition from clinician to entrepreneur and/or consultant.

Lunch 12:15-12:45 p.m.

12:45-1:45 p.m.

Strategic Planning Meeting for the AOOP

 
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