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2-Day: Depression and Mood Disorder Certification Training: New Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Lasting Recovery

Your clients with depression, bipolar, and other mood disorders are counting on you. But successful treatment can feel like an impossible task.

Diagnosis is tricky, first-line treatments often fail, poor treatment compliance and destructive impulsivity feel like the norm, and recurrence seems the rule and not the exception. And you frequently need to work around medication use that comes with serious side effects, but often fails to offer real benefits. The litany of challenges can leave you feeling exhausted, ineffective, and troubled about the potentially devastating outcomes of treatment failure.

This training is exactly what you need to help your clients achieve a fuller recovery from depression and bipolar disorder, all without resorting to potentially risky and ineffective medication use.

Watch depression and mood disorder expert and author Chris Aiken, MD, and get cutting-edge therapeutic techniques, skills, and practical guidance so you can assess for and effectively treat mood disorders better than ever before. Attend and discover:

New assessment tools for your practice – demystify the DSM-5™ for mood disorders
The latest psychotherapy techniques including Rumination-Focused CBT, Social Rhythm Therapy and CBT for Insomnia
Nutritional psychiatry and the first clinically proven diet to treat depression

Best of all, upon completion of this live training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Depression & Mood Disorders Treatment Professional (CDMDTP) through Evergreen Certifications.
Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of treating depression and other mood disorders in clients. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CDMDTP for details.

*We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.

Purchase today and leave confident that your treatment toolbox has the right combination of clinical interventions so your clients can find relief and live the lives they deserve!

Program Information

Objectives

Conduct a collaborative assessment that avoids the stigma clients often associate with mood diagnoses.
Differentiate among the affective temperaments of dysthymic, cyclothymic, hyperthymic, and irritable types.
Assess how psychological trauma affects mood disorders differently.
Distinguish between borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder.
Catalogue the more common cooccurring disorders of the depressed client.
Demonstrate how to create a more effective and practical mood chart for clients to complete as homework.
Analyze how to improve behavioral activation results by incorporating the client’s values.
Evaluate how ruminative thinking drives depression.
Categorize the evidence-base for the Rumination Focused CBT model.
Apply techniques that mange countertransference to mania and depression.
Appraise the therapeutic alliance and ethical issues around including family members in therapy sessions.
Devise an emergency plan with clients and family in readiness for mania, hospitalization and suicidality.
Create an attainable treatment plan that derived from Social Rhythm Therapy.
Summarize the neuroscience of inflammation and insomnia with depression and bipolar disorder.
Integrate the known risks and often contraindicated use of antidepressants in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
Manage behavioral approaches that address medication adherence.

Outline

The Mood Spectrum: Diagnosis in the DSM-5™ Era

Major Depressive Disorder
Persistent Depressive Disorder
Depression with Mixed Features
Cyclothymic Disorder
Bipolar II Disorder
Bipolar I Disorder

Specifiers: Anxious distress, melancholic, atypical, seasonal & peripartum moods
Mania, hypomania, mixed states: How to recognize each
Differential diagnosis: Anxiety, addiction, ADHD, eating disorders, substance abuse
Bipolar Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder?

Assessment: Practical Tips, Evidence-Based Tools, and Subclinical Features

How to avoid over-diagnosing
Evidence-based measures: MINI-7; PHQ-9, MDQ, Bipolarity Index, & Hypomania Checklist
Why traditional mood charting doesn’t work – and what to do instead
Affective temperaments: Depressive, Hyperthymic, Cyclothymic and Irritable
Rumination, cognitive deficits, and early warning signs
Conceptualizing mood through the lens of energy, not emotion
Classic v. atypical Bipolar Disorder
When mood is shaped by trauma

THERAPY FOR MOOD DISORDERS: FROM EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENTS TO A PERSONALIZED PLAN

Mood Disorder Must-Haves for Every Treatment Plan

Psychoeducation – reduce stigma, identify causes, focus on prevention
Psychotherapy – how to match mood with the approach
Concrete interventions – create a “menu” the client can choose from
Positive psychology: the unique strengths of mood disorders
Family therapy – communication skills, boundaries, crisis plans
Remediation strategies for building back cognitive skills deficits

Behavioral Activation: More Than Building a Busy Schedule

Neuroscience: Turning down the brain’s default mood network
Integrating values and meaning in behavioral change
How behavior challenges depressive beliefs
Strategies: Opposite action, approach-avoidance, mindful media

Rumination-Focused CBT (RF-CBT)

How is RF-CBT different from traditional CBT?
Useful v. dysfunctional rumination
The benefits of rumination
Shift from avoidant rumination to absorbing action
The neurobiological basis of RF-CBT
Strategies: Chain analysis, habit changing, immersion, mindfulness and compassionate thought

Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP)

An attachment-based approach to treating mood disorders
Preoperational thinking: Why chronic depression is slow to change
Positive and negative reinforcement in chronic depression
Evidence to support CBASP for chronic depression
Strategies: Interpersonal inventory, situational analysis, interpersonal discrimination

Social Rhythm Therapy

Therapy with a biological basis
Four routines that stabilize the biological clock
Circadian rhythms, neurohormones and neuroplasticity
Strategies: Brisk awakening, zeitgebers, social rhythm chart

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia

How a therapy for sleep treats depression
Sleep drive and circadian rhythms
The vicious cycle of anxiety and insomnia
Basic steps: Sleep hygiene
Advanced moves: Bed restriction
Special situations: Screen time, jet-lag, napping, night owls, and shift work

An Antidepressant Lifestyle

Nutrition: The MediMod Diet, probiotics, caffeine, alcohol and sugar
Physical Activity: When, where, how much
Environment: Dawn simulation, light and dark therapies, nature, music, aromatherapy and air ionization

Medication

Why a clear diagnosis is crucial before starting any medication
Anti-depressants and mood stabilizers: New classes, old standards
Benefits, risks, side effects; how to recognize problems
How medication impacts therapy: State-dependent learning
The Medication Interest Model: A Motivational Interview for Medication Adherence
Top supplements for mood disorder
Beyond medication: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Electroconvulsive Therapy, esKatamine

Crisis Intervention

The therapeutic relationship with the suicidal client
A collaborative approach to risk assessment
Which symptoms warrant hospitalization?
CBT for Suicidality: How therapy can present suicide
Strategies: Hope box, coping cards, and distress tolerance skills
Emergency planning

Clinical Considerations

Countertransference issues in depression and mania
Staying within your scope of practice
Children and adolescents: DMDD v. Bipolar Disorder
Multicultural considerations

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Case Managers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Therapists
Nurses
Advanced Practice Nurses
Physician Assistants
Physicians
Addictions Counselors
Occupational Therapists
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 12/15/2020

Treating Suicide Risk with Competence and Confidence: How to Move Beyond Our Fears

The thought of a client dying by suicide can keep even experienced therapists up at night. Moreover, fear of malpractice liability often leads them to practice defensively, resulting in unnecessary hospitalizations that can significantly hurt therapy outcomes. This recording features evidence-based innovations in the assessment, management, and treatment of suicidal risk. Learn new suicide-focused clinical skills, such as how to evaluate different suicidal states and match them with the most effective interventions and treatments. You’ll discover:

How to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and an over-reliance on medications
Effective techniques to help suicidal clients manage states of acute risk through stabilization planning or use of technology
Evidence-based approaches to reliably assess, target, and treat clients’ suicidal risk and different suicidal states using frameworks such as Collaborative Assessment Management of Suicidality (CAMS), DBT, and suicide-focused CBT
How to use CAMS to differentiate direct vs. indirect patient-defined “drivers” of suicide and how to effectively target and treat drivers to decrease suffering and help save lives.

Program Information

Objectives

Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states.
Assess risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk.
Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states.
Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes
Develop practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability.

Outline

Apply evidence-based assessment approaches that help stratify risk and reliably identify different suicidal states.
Assess risk-management techniques that help a suicidal client manage states of acute risk.
Apply evidence-based treatments that effectively target and treat different suicidal states.
Assess how to avoid unnecessary hospitalization with suicidal clients, which can hurt therapy outcomes
Learn practices that help decrease the risk of suicide-related malpractice liability.

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 01/11/2021

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for Suicidality: Overcoming Stuck Points and Creating Mental Flexibility

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a rapidly growing model that is showing promising results and has uncovered key cognitive processes that, when addressed, can create lasting healing from suicidal ideation and behaviors that can often accompany PTSD.

Join co-developer of CPT, Kathleen Chard, PhD, where she will address how she approaches suicidality from a CPT perspective based on over 20 years of research around PTSD and suicidality. Learn the key processes behind this approach to trauma treatment that is endorsed by the U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, and the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a best practice for the treatment of PTSD.

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze the empirical evidence supporting the use of CPT for suicidality.
Determine common myths around suicidality among those with PTSD that can interfere in treatment and worsen outcomes.
Utilize three cognitive processing techniques to address “stuck points”.

Outline

Explore the evidence for positive results from CPT research studies on suicidality and PTD
Identify common myths around suicidality
Practice 3 CPT interventions useful for suicidal clients

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Sensorimotor Approach to Change

The very nature of depression often thwarts efforts to treat it. After all, it’s difficult to change when you have no energy, no hope, and no capacity to concentrate. How can we challenge these chronic states? Using interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, this recording will introduce ways to help clients relate to their depressive symptoms mindfully, rather than identifying with them, and to manage physical symptoms through changes in posture, breath, and energy. You’ll discover how to:

Help clients separate depressive thoughts from physical symptoms so that each can be treated separately
Counter cognitive beliefs that reinforce depressive states by experimenting with new words, new actions, and new habits
Use body-centered interventions, such as movement, to increase energy and focus in depressed clients
Facilitate development of an “antidepressant lifestyle” rather than habitual engagement in the opposite

Program Information

Objectives

Differentiate to clients depression as a somatic state, not just a psychological state.
Determine cognitive schemas that reinforce depressive states to improve client outcomes.
Appraise a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to understanding depression.
Assess three body-centered interventions that increase energy and focus in depressed clients.
Evaluate Sensorimotor interventions that transform depressive beliefs.
Evaluate the use of the social engagement system and its role in evoking an internal sense of safety as it relates to treatment.

Outline

Explain to clients about depression as a somatic state, not just a psychological state.

Depression and the nervous system
How depression aids survival in childhood

Identify cognitive schemas that reinforce depressive states to improve client outcomes.

Making meaning of depressive feelings and states
How negative beliefs affect the body and nervous system

Describe a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to understanding depression.

Teaching clients to become curious and interested
Studying the interaction of thoughts, feelings and body reactions

Identify three body-centered interventions that increase energy and focus in depressed clients.

Experimenting with movement and posture
Techniques for increasing energy in the body

Explore Sensorimotor interventions that transform depressive beliefs.

Beliefs condition the body
The body conditions and reinforces beliefs

Discuss the use of the social engagement system and its role in evoking an internal sense of safety as it relates to treatment.

The social engagement system as a neural or somatic system
How therapists can make use of somatic communication to enhance therapeutic effectiveness

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals