Southeastern to sponsor mental health conference Dec. 8
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
by: Rene Abadie
SLU CONFERENCE SPEAKER – Philip Hemphill, chief clinical officer at Lakeview Health of Jacksonville, Fla., will be the keynote speaker at Southeastern Louisiana University’s inaugural Terrell Conference for Mental Health Professionals in December. The conference honors longtime Southeastern counseling director Tom Terrill.
HAMMOND – The University Counseling Center (UCC) at Southeastern Louisiana University
will sponsor the inaugural Terrell Conference for Mental Health Practitioners on Friday,
Dec. 8, in the university’s Student Union.
“We saw a need to establish a stronger network and roots with our mental health
community partners, especially after last year’s flood,” said Annette Baldwin, outreach
liaison for the Southeastern UCC. “It is the right time to establish a professional
networking opportunity for our students and community health partners.”
The conference honors Tom Terrell, former director for the UCC, for his work
with students, faculty and staff at Southeastern, as well as the leadership roles
he played with the Louisiana Professional Counseling Association. Terrell was instrumental
in developing the Louisiana licensure law for mental health professionals and played
a key role in achieving accreditation of the Southeastern UCC with the International
Association of Counseling Services.
Baldwin said the conference will offer a full day of continuing education units
to counseling and other mental health professionals in the areas of supervision, ethics
and diagnosis.
“Participants will have the opportunity for one-on-one conversations with local
mental health practitioners, faculty, staff and counseling students,” Baldwin said.
“The Conference Expo will showcase area mental health partners dedicated for various
aspects of mental health treatment and recovery.”
Registration costs, which include special rates for students, and other details
can be found on the website southeastern.edu/terrellconference or by calling 985-549-3894.
Keynote speaker Philip Hemphill will present “New Boundaries and Ethics: Are
You Ready?” The chief clinical officer of Lakeview Health, an addiction treatment
facility in Jacksonville, Fla., and a Southeastern alumnus, he is responsible for
planning, implementing and directing behavioral health and clinical services using
cost effective methodologies while ensuring clinical efficacy.
Hemphill, who served as an adjunct professor at Tulane University School of Social
Work and assistant clinical professor at LSU Health Sciences Center’s Department of
Psychiatry, has presented papers and workshops at national conferences and published
numerous articles in the fields of trauma, personality disorders and addictions. He
recently was appointed to the adjunct faculty at Jacksonville University.
