Mark your calendars now
for the 1998 9th Annual AOOP Meeting

From Clinician to Consultant: Obstacles and Opportunities

January 16-18, 1998
Four Seasons Olympic Hotel, Seattle, WA

To register, contact George Degnon.
703 556-9222
Fax: 703 556-8729

Meeting Chair: C. Donald Williams, M.D., CGP Co-Chair: Steven Heidel, M.D.

Friday, January 16, Parliament Room

Developing Skills in Organizational Consultation

John D. Wynn, M.D., and David A. Van Liew, M.D., Pre-Meeting Workshop Leaders, both clinical faculty, University of Washington Department of Psychiatry

The workshop is divided into three parts:

1. A didactic program of 1.5-2 hours, covering conceptual and practical issues in transitioning from clinical to management consulting work. The conceptual portion will emphasize relevant psychiatric skills; their natural extension into the management arena; and ideas and skills less familiar to most psychiatrists. Conceptual material will be covered in overview, with an emphasis on group dynamics and leadership issues. The practical section will look at the process of marketing and selling your services.
2. A personal look at how the workshop leaders have entered and developed in the field of management consultation. John Wynn and David Van Liew will take turns interviewing one another to explore how this extension took place over time.
3. An experiential program: Wynn and Van Liew will present "cases"–problems arising in consultation settings–for the workshop attendees to analyze and address in a consultative mode.

Saturday, January 17, Metropole Room

Breakfast on your own–room service or Georgian Room

7:30–8:00 a.m. Registration

8:00–8:15 a.m.
Helping Business and Psychiatry to Understand Each Other–Introduction

Brian L. Grant, M.D., President, AOOP

8:15–9:15 a.m.
John D. Wynn, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Washington Department of Psychiatry
Work and Home: The Interface of Business and Personal Relations
in Consultation to an Entrepreneur

What is corporate psychotherapy? How can business and family issues be addressed in complementary fashion? The initial consultation and psychotherapy of a gentleman with relationship distress in work and home settings will be reviewed. Dr. Wynn will examine parallels between home and office leadership, and mentoring roles, with a focus on how early relationships, current home roles, and work tasks interact to cause distress and dysfunction in all settings.

9:15–10:15 a.m.
Brian Schulman, M.D., Private Practice, Bethesda, MD
Boundaries and Borders: A Relational Model for Occupational Psychiatry

Dr. Schulman will describe the psychiatric, occupational, and other skills required for developing an occupational psychiatry practice. He will then present a relational model as an organizing construct, and discuss its utilization in professional interaction with medical directors, human resources, risk management, disability management, executives and attorneys.

10:15–10:30 a.m. Break

10:30–11:30 a.m.
Martin G. Tracy, JD, ARM, Senior Vice President, Professional Risk Management Services, Inc., Arlington VA
Liability in Consultation Psychiatry–What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

The practice of organizational/occupational psychiatry presents some loss exposures unique to this subspecialty. The presentation will discuss these exposures in the context of US tort law and compare and contrast these exposures with those encountered by psychiatrists working in direct patient care. Finally, attendees will be urged to take specific steps to reduce loss exposures and to ensure that they have appropriate liability coverage for their loss exposures.

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Miguel Leibovich, M.D., CGP, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
Integrative Group Psychotherapy; a Growth Promoting Option for Executives

Dr. Leibovich has practiced group therapy for more than a decade, and will describe his experience as a group therapist for male executives. The particular practical and theoretical advantages of group therapy as a treatment method for resistant patients will be addressed. Means of obtaining training and experience with groups, as well as how to start groups, will be discussed.

12:30–2:00 p.m.
Formal Luncheon, Spanish Ballroom Foyer (included in registration)
Business meeting and elections.

2:00–3:00 p.m.
William Ayer, President, Alaska Airlines, Seattle, WA
Thriving in Unfriendly Skies

Alaska Airlines might best be called the "little airline that could." From its beginnings 65 years ago in the Alaska bush, Alaska Airlines has just come through the most difficult period in the history of commercial aviation, and not only survived, but thrived. Ayer will describe recent competitive battles, why the carrier is able to fend of some of the industry's giants and what's in store for the future.

Dr. Brill will present two case studies from his practice of organizational consultation, using them to illustrate the model he developed to both analyze and intervene in dysfunctional corporate cultures. This will introduce the attendee to a new model of corporate consultation, one that was described in his book by the same name, which was awarded the American Management Association's 1996 "Book of the Year" award.

4:00–4:15 p.m. Break

4:15–5:15 p.m.
Kathy J. Marshack Ph.D., Executive Director, Associated Psychotherapists of Oregon and SW Washington, Vancouver, WA
Entrepreneurial Couples: Making it Work at Work and at Home

Entrepreneurial couples are very different than their dual-career counterparts. The most significant difference is that their work and home lives overlap considerably, raising unique concerns for these couples and their consultants. Understanding these distinctions has enabled Dr. Marshack to develop a consulting practice to entrepreneurial couples, as well as to the professionals who work with these couples. She will discuss in theoretical and practical terms the needs of these couples and how to help them. Dr. Marshack is author of a 1998 Newbridge Executive Program Book Club selection, Entrepreneurial Couples: Making It Work at Work and at Home, to be published in May 1998 by Davies-Black, Palo Alto, CA.

Sunday, January 18, Metropole Room

Breakfast on your own–room service or Georgian Room

7:00–8:00 a.m. Board Meeting

8:00–9:00 a.m.
Kenneth M. Settel, M.D., Partner, Spectrum, OED, Inc., Brookline, MA
Challenges in Consultation to Professional Service Partnerships

The nature of a professional partnership is that each member has professional training and expertise in their unique field, usually no partner is an expert in management or leadership, and each partner has an equal share of ownership of the organization. The partnership most values their professional skills and is usually reluctant to reward or give up power and authority to someone to manage and lead. Professional partnerships have unique organizational problems associated with their structure and with their participants. There are unique challenges in accessing and consulting to such a group.

This talk will focus on the challenges in building an alliance and then consulting to professional service organizations. The unique structure of the professional partnership requires unique engagement and unique feedback and follow through. A case example of a consultation to a large national law firm will illustrate the process of forging an alliance with the client and the process of carrying out the consultation. The speaker will talk about negotiating the initial engagement and effectively and successfully reaching the organization through the consultation.

9:00–10:00 a.m.
Tracy M. Miller, Esq., Attorney, Karr Tuttle Campbell, Seattle, WA
Through the Looking Glass: Courts Grapple with "Reasonable" Accommodation of Mental Disabilities in the Workplace

The presentation will focus on recent judicial interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the extent to which employers are required to accommodate mental disabilities in the work place. In light of recent EEOC guidance on the subject, employers are struggling with how to comply with the legal requirements of the ADA while maintaining traditional standards of performance, decorum and safety. Of particular interest to employers is how courts distinguish mental "disabilities" from personal traits or characteristics upon which an employer can legitimately base employment decisions, what constitutes sufficient notice of a mental disability to trigger an employer's duty to provide reasonable accommodation, whether mentally disabled employees are otherwise qualified to perform the essential functions of their jobs, and the extent to which certain mental disabilities can and should be accommodated.

10:00–10:15 a.m. Break

10:15–11:15 a.m.
Strategic Planning Meeting All interested attendees and members of AOOP
Tom Valk, M.D., M.P.H., AOOP President, will lead the group in discussing future plans and development of the Academy of Occupational and Organizational Psychiatry. This will include future meeting locations, topics for future speakers, and feedback regarding the just completed meeting.

11:15–11:30 a.m. Summary and Farewell

Four Seasons Olympic Hotel

The Four Seasons Olympic Hotel is Seattle's premier hotel. It is the first and only Washington State hotel to receive the Mobil Five-Star Award. It is ranked #17 in U.S. hotels by Condé Nast Traveler magazine, and #21 in hotels worldwide by Institutional Investor magazine.

Hotel amenities include a fully equipped health club with pool, sauna, whirlpool, and massage. Twice daily housekeeping and 24-hour room service, 24-hour laundry and dry cleaning, in-room computer/fax capability, two-line phones, and a location within walking distance of Seattle's finest downtown attractions make the Four Seasons an elegant, convenient choice for visitors to Seattle.

A special conference rate of $125 moderate, $135 deluxe king, $150 executive king, per night single or double occupancy, is guaranteed, on a space-available basis from 3 days before to 3 days after the conference. Call the hotel at 206 621-1700 by December 29, 1997 and mention the AOOP Conference to receive this heavily discounted rate.

Sea-Tac International Airport is located south of downtown Seattle and is about a half-hour trip from the hotel. Gray Line buses provide convenient and inexpensive transportation direct to the hotel. Taxi and limousine service are also available. Rental cars are available at the airport and should be reserved in advance to obtain the best rates. Hertz and National are particularly convenient, and provide competitive rates. Off-airport rental companies are not recommended. The hotel is centrally located to most amenities in downtown Seattle. Public transportation services in Seattle are frequent and convenient, and unless you plan to travel outside the Seattle area, a car is unnecessary.

Seattle

Seattle is a delightful place to visit year-round. The weather is usually mild with occasional drizzle and dazzling sun breaks. Seattle's average temperature in January is 45º. For maximum comfort, dress like the natives and layer your clothes. Downtown Seattle boasts an abundance of restaurants, shops, theatres, coffee of every imaginable variety on every street corner, and hand-crafted beer. The city is a great place to spend an extra day exploring.

CME information

The aims of this program are: to provide basic skills training in organizational consultation (pre-meeting workshop); to develop an understanding of the different conceptual and theoretical histories of organizational development and psychiatry; to acquire knowledge of the skills needed to develop an occupational psychiatry practice; to acquire knowledge of potential ethical conflicts and pitfalls in consulting to organizations; and to become familiar with the different sub-disciplines within organizational and occupational psychiatry.

CME credits available

9.15 CME credits are available for the Saturday and Sunday sessions only. The Friday pre-meeting workshop does not qualify for CME credits. The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine grant credits.

AOOP Officers

Conflict of Interest Policy

The conflict of interest policy of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry (AOOP) requires that faculty participating in a CME activity disclose to the audience any relationship with a pharmaceutical or industrial concern which might pose a potential or real conflict of interest with regard to their contribution to the program.

 
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