Welcome to the Texas Council  25th Annual Conference!

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Featured Speakers

Cliff Richey, US Davis Cup Champion, author

In the new book “ACING DEPRESSION: A Tennis Champions Toughest Match,”
Richey calls depression among adult males “the silent tragedy in our culture today
and details his life-long battle with the disease that afflicts approximately
121 million people around the world.
 

Dr. Hendrie Weisinger, world renowned psychologist and New York Times Bestselling author 

Author of Emotional Intelligence at Work, The Emotionally Intelligent
Financial Advisor, and the New York Times Bestseller, Nobody’s Perfect
among others, Dr. Weisinger has spent three decades helping individuals
and their organizations enhance their personal and work effectiveness through
innovative applications of clinical, social, organizational, and
most recently evolutionary psychology, with the publication of his latest
book, The Genius of Instinct.
 

Program Highlights

This year’s presentations are organized around five (5) tracks.

Session titles include:

Wellness and Recovery

• Cease-Smoking Initiative (CSI) – Assisting People with Chronic Mental Illness and/or Substance Abuse to Quit Smoking 
• Engage the Unengaged

Professional Development/Technology

• Ethics: A Musical Comedy In Two Acts
• Legalities, Policies and Procedures for Social Networking
   

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

• Brain Play in Later Life
• Project Integrity: A New Vision of Service
   

Early Childhood Intervention

• Using Developmental Theories to Address Issues of Infant and Toddler Sleep
• Auditory Brain Development: The Key to Listening, Language and Literacy

 Behavioral Health

• Emotional Intelligence at Work
• Mental Health Jail Diversion Strategies in Central Texas