PRESENTER: Connie McReynolds, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, CRC, CVE

Course meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.  Registrants must attend the full 2 hours to receive CEs..

Educational Goals

This presentation is designed to expand clinical understanding of how auditory and visual processing differences may influence attention, communication, organization, follow-through, relational functioning, and treatment response. Following the workshop, participants will have an additional framework for considering why progress may be inconsistent or may not generalize as expected across settings and relationships.

The broader educational goal is to enrich case conceptualization and treatment planning by helping clinicians consider how processing differences may interact with presenting concerns and with the demands embedded in commonly used interventions. Participants will also gain a broader framework for considering when adaptations in intervention delivery may be helpful and when additional evaluation or interdisciplinary collaboration may contribute useful information to ongoing clinical work.

Presentation Outline

1. Recognizing recurring patterns when clinical progress does not consistently hold

2. Understanding how auditory and visual processing differences can influence client functioning

3. Integrating processing differences into case conceptualization and relational understanding

4. Considering processing demands in intervention fit, delivery, and generalization

5. Determining when additional evaluation or interdisciplinary collaboration may be clinically useful

Learning Objectives

In successfully completing and attending this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least three observable patterns that may warrant further exploration of auditory or visual processing differences affecting attention, learning, communication, organization, or follow-through.

2. Differentiate at least two ways processing differences can alter the clinical meaning of recurring difficulties with communication, follow-through, organization, and relational functioning.

3. Evaluate how processing differences can affect the fit, delivery, and generalization of commonly used therapeutic interventions.

4. Identify when recurring clinical patterns and inconsistent treatment response indicate a need for additional evaluation or interdisciplinary collaboration.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Connie McReynolds, Ph.D., CRC, CVE, is a licensed psychologist and founder of Morningstar Educational & Psychological Services, Inc., with more than 35 years of experience in rehabilitation psychology, counseling, assessment, neurofeedback, and interdisciplinary clinical practice. Her career has included approximately 25 years in university teaching and leadership, where she trained future professionals, developed clinical and educational programs, and founded a university-based neurofeedback institute.

Dr. McReynolds developed a patent-pending process for identifying auditory and visual processing differences that can affect attention, learning, memory, communication, organization, follow-through, and everyday functioning. Her work focuses particularly on cases in which individuals understand what is expected of them, yet continue to struggle with consistency, implementation, or lasting change despite insight, effort, or prior intervention.

Her clinical and educational work spans children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, with an emphasis on helping professionals look beyond surface-level interpretations of behavior and consider how underlying processing differences may shape functioning across settings and relationships.

Dr. McReynolds is also the author of Solving the ADHD Riddle and has presented and taught extensively on topics related to attention, learning, processing, rehabilitation, and neurofeedback.

Inland Empire Chapter of CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCS, AND/or LEPs. IE-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. CE Provider # 62278