Hosted by the Society of
Indian Psychologists
American Indian Psychologists &
Psychology Graduate Students
June 24 - 25, 2019 | Utah State University
32nd Annual Convention
Agenda & Program
Monday, June 24
8:00 am
Continental Welcome Breakfast &
Silent Auction Opens
8:30 am
Opening Prayer
Welcome to USU and Introductions |
Carolyn Barcus, & Melissa Tehee
9:10 am
CE
Invited Keynote Workshop:
Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy
Workshop for Trauma | Shirley Turcotte
11:25 am
Honoring of Alberto Figueroa-Garcia &
Wiping of the Tears Ceremony | SIP &
Richard Moves Camp
11:10 am
Break
12:10 pm
Lunch on your own
Native-to-Native Mentorship Program
Strengthening Our Native Psychology
Community | Anita L. Mihecoby, Robert
Ryan, Loye Ryan, Linda Forrest, &
Denise Newman
2:15 pm
CE
1:15 pm
CE
Book Talk: Counseling Native American
Indians: Insights from Conversations with
Beaver | Gene Hightower
3:15 pm
Break & Final Bidding
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5:00 pm
Closing Prayer
3:45 pm
Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP)
Business Meeting | President Gayle Morse
7:00 pm
Movie Pre-Release Screening of Necessity:
Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance in the TSC
Auditorium (More information on pg. 11)
Silent Auction Closes
3:30 pm
I am Psyched!
In late 2018, the SIP Executive
Committee decided to honor Alberto
Figueroa-Garcia for his unwavering
support
for
American
Indians/
Alaskan Natives in training and in the
profession of psychology. We planned
to honor Dr. Figueroa-Garcia at the
2019 SIP convention. Sadly, Alberto
passed unexpectedly. Throughout the
years, Alberto mentored Indigenous
psychologists
with
his
wisdom
and guidance as they navigated the
American Psychological Association.
His clarity of purpose in supporting diversity helped to give us
courage to be in APA governance positions. We choose to honor
him absentia and support his family and the many grieving with a
Wiping of the Tears ceremony.
In Memorium of
Alberto Figueroa-Garcia
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast (East Ballroom)
8:30 am
CE
Opening Prayer
An AlterNative Vision for American Indian
Mental Health Services: Centering Indigenous
Perspectives | Joseph Gone
9:30 am
Break
9:40 am
Breakout Sessions
10:40 am
Break
10:50 am
Breakout Sessions
Facilitators of Diné (Navajo)
Student Access, Enrollment, and
Persistence in Postsecondary
Education: An Economical
Systems Perspective | Christina
Hartman (CE)
(Academic) - West Ballroom
American Indian Therapist
Dynamics with American Indian
Clients | Jeff King & Brooke
Sullateskee-Rincon (CE)
(Practice) - East Ballroom
Culturally Appropriate
Education Intervention: What
Variables Contribute to Native
American Student Success? |
Tammie Barrett (CE)
Agenda & Program
Tuesday, June 25
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9:40 am
10:10 am
9:40 am
Suprahuman Indigeneity in
Academia: Invisibility, Tokenism,
and Responses | Melissa
Wheeler (Steve Fund Award
Presentation) (CE)
A Viking’s Journey into Native
America: Ethical Dilemmas,
Practical Strategies, and
Implications for Multicultural
Supervision | Christopher
Johann Margeson (CE)
American Indian/Alaska Native
Cultural Values and Beliefs that Predict
Psychological, Physical, Social, and
Environmental Quality of Life in a
Western Urban Population | Tamara
Strong-Chavez & David Peterzell
(CE)
West Ballroom
Partnership for American
Indian Retention| John
Gonzalez (CE)
Supervision of Indigenous
Students by
Non-Indigenous Supervisors |
Christina Cruz & Tamara
Strong-Chavez (CE)
Depressive Symptoms
and Protective Factors:
A Qualitative Analysis of
Native American Older
Adults and Elderly | Kristen
Pyke &
Ashton Smith (CE)
12:15 pm
Lunch compliments of the USU
Psychology Department (East Ballroom)
Poster Session & I am Psyched (East
Ballroom)
(Academic) - West Ballroom
(Practice) - East Ballroom
East Ballroom
1:00 pm
A Qualitative Analysis of Pain Meaning: Results
from the Oklahoma Study of Native American
Pain Risk (OK-SNAP) | Meredith Ehrhardt
& Joanna Shadlow (CE)
10:50 am
11:20 am
1:30 pm
Breakout Sessions
11:20 am
10:50 am
1:30 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
Tuesday continued...
2:30 pm
2:45 pm
Break
Convention Gratitude Circle
3:30 pm
Closing Prayer
Monday at 1:00 pm
Associations Between Impulsivity, Inflammation, and
Cortisol Among Overweight/Obese Adults | Cassidy
Armstrong | Oklahoma State University
Can Native American/Indigenous Cultural Identity Predict
Commercial Tobacco Use Among Native Adolescents in
California? -- A Proposed Study | Christina Cruz & David
Peterzell| John F Kennedy University
Coping Styles as Mediators Between American Indian
Cultural Identification and Life Satisfaction | Micah L.
Prarie Chicken | University of North Dakota
The Development of a Student Club for Indigenous
Psychology Students: What’s the Effect on Perceived
Belongingness? | Olathe Antonio, Shaunelle Tsosie, &
Megan Wrona | Fort Lewis College
Poster Session
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A Cultural Adaptation of Interpersonal Skills and
Mindfulness | Erica Ficklin & Sallie Mack | Utah State
University
Shirley Turcotte is a Métis healer and knowledge keeper
who is currently involved in the Indigenous Focusing Oriented
Therapy Program and the Indigenous Tools for Living Program
as the lead instructor and clinical supervisor at the Center for
Counselling and Community Safety at the Justice Institute
of British Columbia.
Shirley is well-known
for the development of
Indigenous Focusing
Oriented Therapy
(IFOT). IFOT is focused
on using Indigenous
healing methods and
ways of thinking to
treat complex trauma
in Native communities.
IFOT has been shown to be an effective intervention for PTSD,
trauma, Residential School Syndrome, and more.
She is also a committed advocate for trauma survivors.
The most widely recognized action of advocacy is her film, To
A Safer Place, which brought attention to the Child Sexual
Abuse epidemic in Canada. Shirley is also deeply involved in
Indigenous communities; she has spent many years working
in private practice and developing IFOT, which is in its fourth
decade of being. She focuses on the collective experience and
advocates that becoming aware of this is an integral part of
decolonization. Shirley has been a restorative force in Native
communities, and her work will continue to be beneficial to
Indigenous peoples.
Shirley Trujillo, RCC, SFTT
Keynote Speaker
Thank You Presenters
Carolyn Barcus, EdD | Convention Co-Coordinators | Utah
State University | Blackfeet
Meredith Ehrhardt, MA | Graduate Student | University of
Tulsa
Gene Hightower, PhD | California Department of Corrections
Joseph Gone, PhD | Professional | Harvard University |
Aaniiih-Gros Ventre
Christina Hartman, PhD | Professional | Utah State
University
Jeff King, PhD | Professor | Western Washington University |
Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma
John Gonzalez, PhD | Professional | Bemidji State University |
White Earth Ojibwe Anishinaabe
Christopher Johann Margeson, PhD | Northern Arizona
University
Christina Cruz, MA | Graduate Student | John F. Kennedy
University | Chumash/Chiricahua Apache/Lenape
Linda Forrest, PhD | Professional | University of Oregon
Anita L. Mihecoby, PhD | Professional | Comanche
Tamara Barrett, MA | Graduate Student | Utah State
University | Chinook Indian Nation
David Peterzell, PhD | Professional | John F. Kennedy
University
Denise Newman, PhD | Professional | Ojibwe/Métis
Melissa Tehee, JD, PhD | Convention Co-Coordinators | Utah
State University | Cherokee Nation
Joanna Shadlow, PhD | Professional | University of Tulsa |
Osage
Brooke Sullateskee-Rincon, BA | Graduate Student | Western
Washington University | Cherokee Nation
Melissa Wheeler, MA | Graduate Student | Northern Arizona
University | (Steve Fund Award Presentation)
Tamara Strong-Chavez, MA | Graduate Student | John F.
Kennedy University | Chilkat Tlingit
Kristen Pyke, BA | Graduate Student | University of Montana |
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe
Ashton Smith, BA | Graduate Student | University of Montana
| Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
Loye Ryan, EdD | Professional | Portland State University |
Lakota
Robert Ryan, EdD | Professional | Portland State University |
Lakota
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6/10/19 8:47 AM
Movie Pre-Release Screening
Grounded in people and places at the heart
of the climate crisis, “Necessity” traces the
fight in Minnesota against the expansion
of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil
through North America. The story unfolds in a
setting where indigenous actives and non-
indigenous allies make use of the necessity
defense in making a oral case for acts of civil
disobedience.
Necessity: Oil, Water, and
Climate Resistance
APA is honored to bring the I am Psyched!
exhibit to Utah State University this year.
Get the I am Psyched! postcard set featuring these groundbreaking
women of color psychologists: Mamie Phipps Clark, Estefania Aldaba-Lim,
Martha E. Bernal, Carolyn Attneave, and Inez Beverly Prosser
To purchase, please stop by the I am Psyched! exhibit
or buy them online here: apa.org/IAP-postcards
Congratulations
to the 32nd Annual Convention
for American Indian Psychologists
and Psychology Graduate Students.
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Thank you to our sponsors and donors:
Save the date:
33rd Annual Convention:
Retreat - June 26-28, 2020
Program - June 29-30, 2020
