Full Course Description
Finding a Faster Way to Treat Trauma: A Neurobiologically Informed Approach
Increasingly, therapists are under pressure to provide short-term treatment for long-term issues. But how can we possibly treat trauma briefly? After all, many trauma treatments focus on helping the client remember and articulate what happened to them. It’s also especially difficult to provide short-term care for clients who exhibit suicidal or self-destructive behaviors, or for dysregulated clients who often find quick methods difficult to tolerate. So, what’s a trauma therapist to do? The answer lies in new, neurobiologically-informed treatments. Rather than treating traumatic events, neuroscience teaches us to treat their effects. In this recording, you’ll discover how to:
- Pace the treatment to fit the demands of managed care
- Capitalize on the body’s innate capacity to heal
- Focus on traumatic effects rather than events
- Apply a safe, neurobiologically informed brief therapy model that offers hope to trauma survivors
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Objectives
- Evaluate the theory of trauma-related autonomic dysregulation.
- Construct a “phase-oriented” treatment of trauma and create treatment tasks for each phase.
- Utilize mindfulness-based treatment techniques with traumatized clients.
- Practice three (3) somatic and cognitive interventions that directly address the neurobiological effects of trauma.
Outline
- Understanding the neurobiological ‘living legacy’ of trauma
- Implicit versus explicit memory
- Survival-related defensive responses
- Autonomic dysregulation
- Implications for brief therapy
- Phase-oriented treatment
- Pacing the tasks of treatment for a time-limited model
- Tasks of the three phases of treatment
- Approaches and interventions appropriate for a short-term model
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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03/12/2022
The New World of Psychopharmacology: Essential Updates for Mental Health Professionals
How many of your clients are taking psychotropic medicines prescribed by other healthcare professionals? Do you always know what they’re taking. Or understand why? And if it’s working or doing more harm than good? Despite who wrote the script, it’s your responsibility to know your clients' symptoms and reactions to medications, and to coordinate their care. This session focuses on providing practical and useful information about antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and medication for insomnia, as well as the tools to handle the ethical decisions that surround psychopharmacology. Get to the bottom line on the most prescribed antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and medication for insomnia on the market today, and learn how to discuss scope of practice with your patients in order to optimize their care. The goal is for you to leave better prepared to communicate with your clients as well as the prescribers. You’ll discover:
- The most effective ways to help your clients taking psychotherapeutic medications
- Understand the research behind common medications used for the treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and insomnia
- Recent advances in the medications for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and insomnia
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Objectives
- Investigate the proper role of mental health professionals who treat clients receiving both psychotherapeutic medications and psychotherapy.
- Determine the traditional medications used for the treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and medications for insomnia.
- Assess recent advances in the medications for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and insomnia.
Outline
- Why (and what) you should know about psychopharmacology
- Questions you can expect from clients and prescribers and how to answer them
- Latest information and newest medications for depression, anxiety, and insomnia
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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02/15/2021
Nutrition and Integrative Methods for Trauma: Enhancing Mood, Sleep, and Well-being
Evidence-based research suggests that there are significant limitations to pharmaceutical interventions for PTSD. Nutritional and integrative strategies can offer an effective alternative. Yet how do we help clients understand the connections between their physical well-being and traumatic etiologies? What methods and interventions do we choose, at what stage of recovery, and who is a viable candidate? This session will explore the latest research and clinical application of culinary, nutritional, herbal, and psychedelic medicine. You’ll discover how to ethically incorporate these methods into your practice and learn reliable tools to help your clients improve their well-being. You’ll explore:
- How and when to introduce clients to integrative and nutritional methods to enhance well-being
- How to provide your clients with a comprehensive overview of nutrition, food preparation, and mindful eating
- Specific yogic, somatic, and breathing exercises to improve digestion, anxiety, and panic
- What research tells us about psychotropic medication and viable alternatives
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Objectives
- Organize 4 integrative and nutritional strategies that enhance mood and sleep in PTSD.
- Utilize stage based methods to assist in the treatment of trauma.
- Apply 3 clinical strategies to introduce and incorporate integrative and nutritional methods.
- Describe the scientific literature on psychotropic medicine for PTSD and complex trauma.
Outline
- Core Integrative and nutritional strategies that enhance mood and sleep in PTSD
- Clinical assessments in nutritional psychology and their utility for PTSD
- Stage-based integrative methods for PTSD recovery
- Clinical strategies to introduce and incorporate nutritional support
- Scientific literature on psychotropic medications for PTSD symptoms
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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03/16/2023
Working with Trauma Survivors: Critical Variables when Identifying Trauma in Clients for Mental Health & Healthcare Professionals
Whether you’re a therapist or healthcare provider, missing client’s trauma cues can leave them with no path forward in life…
Co-occurring symptoms, complex trauma and other factors muddy the waters even more.
Gain the education to identify and assess critical variables with trauma survivors. Join Robert Lusk, PhD, and get training to:
- Spot the differences between developmental, complex & other trauma types
- Simplify diagnosis with updates from DSM-5-TR™
- Assess for co-occurring disorders
- Interpret current research for improved clinical outcomes
- Conceptualize treatment through a trauma phase framework
Don’t miss the signs of trauma – help your clients get the treatment they need from the first visit.
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Objectives
- Determine the development of trauma and a trauma treatment framework.
- Analyze DSM-5-TR™ criteria and assessment of trauma disorders and comorbidities.
- Appraise trauma research and phases of trauma treatment.
Outline
Critical Variables in Clinical Work with Trauma Survivors
- Risk Factors for worse effects of trauma
- Personal risk factors
- Event-related risk factors
- Big T vs. little t trauma and toxic stress
- Recovery environment factors
- Survival Mode
- Helping clients without physical/emotional safety
- Developmental factors & complex trauma
- Current research
- Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders: Main symptoms & common pitfalls
- A new disorder in 2022: Prolonged Grief Disorder
- My “favorite” trauma diagnosis
- Dissociative Disorders
- Assessment skills & scales
- Managing co-occurring disorders
- DSM-5-TR™ diagnostic criteria & how to use it
- Trauma symptoms commonly addressed in treatment
- NCTSN data (Youth)
- Adult samples
- Common effects and problems in addition to PTSD (including the pandemic)
- 5 Common trajectories of trauma symptoms
- Prevalence of trauma and PTSD
- Phases of treatment
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Physicians Assistants
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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07/19/2022
The Craft of Treating Trauma: Applying Core Skills
How do we navigate the emotional landscape with a client when their present is more about the painful past or dreaded future? In this workshop, you will learn core skills to assist your clients in navigating the delicate balance of present, past and future. These valuable tools will strengthen your client’s sense of agency while they work to put past experiences in perspective, be more fully in the present, and instill hope for the future. In this session, you will discover how to:
- Help clients approach and observe their emotional responses without getting overwhelmed
- Identify and work with parts of self that get activated in the present
- Develop a future vision beyond symptom relief, with more adaptive ways of thinking, feeling, and responding
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Objectives
- Apply three strategies to facilitate dual attention in order to regulate the client’s affect.
- Practice at least one strategy to help the client identify and observe parts of self that get activated under certain circumstances in the present.
- Demonstrate how to guide clients in creating a vision for the future including at least one situation or a time where they will think, feel, and respond more adaptively to similar situations.
Outline
- How to facilitate emotion regulation using dual attention, non-verbal cues and reflection
- Strategies for working with parts of self to process present challenges
- Using the Observe Self to increase emotional awareness
- Skills to guide your clients beyond symptom relief, towards motivation, readiness for change and a sense of agency for managing future challenging situations
- Limitations of this strategy based on limited research
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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03/18/2023
Helping Clients Who Can’t "Feel"
Nothing defeats a therapist more than a client who’s numb or disconnected. When you ask why they’ve come for help, they may say, “I’m depressed” or “I’ve lost all hope,” but they can’t describe how they feel.
How can we help clients like this deepen into the work of therapy?
This recording offers a body-centered approach to helping clients access emotion and connect to themselves in a way that can’t be defeated by numbing. You’ll learn to use simple movements and sensations as a therapeutic entry point to help clients appreciate how their bodies prevent them from experiencing the emotions they’re entitled to feel.
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Outline
Why therapists need clients to ‘feel’
- What the client cannot feel is not available for treatment
- Therapeutic models emphasize emotional connection
The role of the autonomic nervous system
- Numbness and avoidance as autonomic symptoms
- How emotional numbing helps children survive
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: a somatic approach
- Addressing numbness and ‘avoidance’ as somatic issues
- A somatic approach to increasing the sense of safety
- Using ‘feeling’ alternatives
- Integrating movement and play into psychotherapy
- Empowering clients to self-connection
Objectives
- Reframe emotional and somatic numbing as a body phenomenon to improve clinical outcomes.
- Discuss the role of emotional numbing in the client’s survival or adaptation to trauma.
- Describe the autonomic arousal model and its role in emotional numbing.
- Identify body-centered interventions that increase sensation or energy.
- Implement strategies that increase autonomic arousal.
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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03/22/2019
Bringing the Body into Therapy: Clinical Tools from Relationship Repair and Somatic Experiencing
When it comes to tapping into clients’ natural resources for healing from trauma, the body is an invaluable tool. Not only does it store information about our early attachment experiences, but it shows the signs of epigenetic and transgenerational influences. The body reveals how trauma negatively impacts relationships with friends, partners, colleagues, and loved ones. But research and experience show that trauma behaviors aren’t set in stone. Pulling from the latest developments in Somatic Experiencing and neuroplasticity, this recording will teach you a dynamic toolkit of body-oriented approaches for treating early developmental trauma as well as helping clients improve nervous-system regulation and repair relationships. You’ll explore:
- The neurophysiological and embodied underpinnings of healthy relationships
- How to create a vibrant experience of resilience and wholeness in your work
- How implicit memory shapes our physiological and psychological responses to trauma and recovery
- Three skills to work with the autonomic nervous system to rebound from trauma and overwhelm
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Objectives
- Appraise the concepts of attachment theory, interoception, and the window of tolerance in the treatment of psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Evaluate the theory that traumatic memories are stored primarily in implicit memory.
- Formulate a treatment process based on the approach of Somatic Experiencing for the treatment of trauma and discuss risks and limitations.
- Practice three skills to work with the autonomic nervous system to rebound from trauma and overwhelm.
Outline
- Introduction to Rupture and Repair cycles in attachment relationships, Interpersonal Neurobiology from a somatic perspective
- Present Somatic Experiencing and the Window of Tolerance in the Autonomic Nervous System Model
- Introduce interoception-based tracking and stabilization tools
- Utilizing interoception in Relational repair models with demonstration
- Explore attachment theory from a physiological lens
- Mirroring intervention for attachment disruption
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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03/11/2022
IFS and Polyvagal Theory: Healing Through Compassionate Connection
Despite the diversity of content that brings clients to therapy, difficulty regulating their emotional experience is at the heart of their struggles. Clients can feel hijacked by extreme emotional states, uncomfortable in their own skin, and think or behave in ways they wish they wouldn’t. Polyvagal Theory helps us understand what’s happening on a biological level when our clients are emotionally dysregulated. And IFS therapy offers a compassionate, non-shaming approach to healing the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of clients’ systems and increasing internal harmony and connection. In this session, you’ll:
- Discover how IFS therapy allows us to work in a Polyvagal-informed way to help clients heal
- Learn IFS strategies to shift your clients’ nervous systems towards regulation and help them access their own capacity for healing
- Explore how to help your clients develop attuned, trusting relationships with their hyperaroused and hypoaroused parts
- Discuss real video examples of how to seamlessly integrate IFS therapy and PVT in treatment
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
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Objectives
- Develop skills to help clients foster attuned, trusting relationships with their hyperaroused and hypoaroused parts, as well as parts that strategically utilize adaptive survival responses, such as fight, flight, freezing, and numbing, for protection.
- Theorize how Polyvagal Theory can help therapists implement IFS more safely and effectively, especially in the systems of clients with complex trauma.
- Assess the impact of the therapist’s internal state on clinical work and how clinicians can use this awareness to facilitate client regulation and healing.
- Analyze, through observation and discussion of real video examples, how to integrate IFS and PVT in treatment.
Outline
- How Polyvagal Theory can help therapists implement IFS more safely and effectively, especially in the systems of clients with complex trauma.
- Helping clients develop attuned, trusting relationships with their hyperaroused and hypoaroused parts, as well as parts that strategically utilize adaptive survival responses.
- Recognizing the impact of the therapist’s internal state on clinical work and how clinicians can use this awareness to facilitate client regulation and healing.
- Case studies
- Discussion
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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02/02/2022
The Many Faces of EMDR Therapy: An Integrative Approach
People don’t often think of EMDR as psychotherapy. But these two paths to healing can coexist. So how do we reconcile EMDR therapy as a breakthrough treatment for PTSD and an attachment-based psychotherapy approach? Whether your client is struggling with a major single PTSD event or ongoing issues with self-esteem and relationships difficulties, the root cause is the same—memory, which informs our present-day experience. Through videotaped illustrations of actual clients, you’ll learn about the different ways EMDR can be applied to treat disturbing life experiences that have a lasting impact, and how the psychotherapy of EMDR can transform life-long difficulties with self and others, resulting in a more authentic sense of sense of self. You’ll discover:
- How to identify past–present connections relating to the client’s current difficulties
- How to treat a PTSD episode that has roots in developmental trauma
- How EMDR psychotherapy evolves over time beyond the remission of symptoms
- The relational component of memory work as part of the journey toward healing
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Objectives
- Categorize the key components of the Adaptive Information Processing model of EMDR therapy.
- Apply the Floatback Technique to identify the past-present connections to the client’s current difficulties.
- Organize the three components of EMDR’s Three-pronged Approach.
- Demonstrate the 8 phases of EMDR therapy.
- Appraise 2 social experiences or conditions that can contribute to racial or gender-based trauma.
- Apply 2 relational strategies that facilitate the client’s processing experience.
Outline
- Overview and Evolution of EMDR therapy
- AIP Model of EMDR therapy
- The 8 phases of EMDR
- Cultural and racial contexts
- Case examples
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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03/11/2022
Transcending Trauma with IFS Therapy: Mending the Wounds We Carry
Hopeless, anxious, isolated. For many clients with complex PTSD, life can be a draining march of negative feelings and rejection. And for the therapists who treat them, it’s often difficult to cultivate hope while addressing trauma-related volatility and vulnerability. Fortunately, incorporating Internal Family Systems techniques into treatment has been shown to reduce relational trauma and early attachment wounds, allowing therapists to create that elusive, hopeful path forward. In this session, you’ll discover how to:
- Unload distorted thoughts and beliefs; discharge troubling physical sensations; and release feelings of unworthiness, loneliness, and unlovability
- Address protective client parts in a trauma-specific manner, and gain their permission to access hidden vulnerabilities
- Clarify which cognitive, body-centered, and emotional tools release deeply engrained pain
- Apply neuroscientific understanding to therapeutic decisions about extreme symptoms, and address common adaptations of relational trauma, like neglect, shame, and substance use
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
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Objectives
- Differentiate types of traumatic stress including those from early attachment ruptures.
- Distinguish the ways IFS is different from traditional phase-oriented treatments for traumatic stress.
- Demonstrate how IFS works with protective inner parts to access traumatic ruptures.
- Integrate IFS principles with other psychotherapeutic models of treatment.
- Evaluate common clinical setbacks to recovery from traumatic stress.
Outline
- Comparison of IFS with other models and phase-oriented treatments for trauma
- Understand risks and limitations of the approach
- Demonstrate how to identify and address clients’ protective parts
- How to gain permission from protective parts to access hidden vulnerabilities
- Differentiate between compassion and empathy and why both are important to trauma recovery
- The 6 F’s of trauma recovery in IFS and moving beyond the 6 F’s
- Addressing early attachment wounds, separation, and preverbal trauma
- Addressing dissociative and perpetrator parts
- Two subtypes of PTSD and how to address them differently
- Order of trauma recovery
- Common roadblocks to trauma recovery in clinical work
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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03/11/2022
Racial Trauma and the Polyvagal Response: Mind-Body Healing for African American Clients
Not only were African Americans disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 due to rampant socioeconomic disparities, but other brutal reminders of systemic racism continue to erupt across the country and in the news. Daily microtraumas and a feeling of not being physically safe or valued in our society lead to a state of stress, anger, hypervigilance, mistrust, shame, and fear. This recording explores how neuroceptions and the Polyvagal pathways shape the adaptive reactions of African Americas to race-based stress and trauma—and what clinicians can do to address them and the related emotional burdens we all carry. Discover how to:
- Create a safe, healing space for African American clients
- Identify triggers and symptoms of racial trauma, as well as how it’s processed in the brain
- Use mind-body techniques to deregulate the stress response and promote feelings of empowerment and safety
- Explore how therapy is affected by the emotional reactivity of both Black and non-Black clinicians when treating Black clients
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Objectives
- Evaluate the role the Polyvagal pathway plays in the African American client’s reaction to violence, police brutality, acts of racism, and discrimination.
- Investigate how microtrauma impacts the psychosocial development of African Americans from a historical perspective.
- Demonstrate how to identify and treat reactive symptoms and behaviors associated with the microtrauma of racisms, such as defensiveness and excessive worrying about safety and death.
- Assess how the therapeutic process can be affected by the emotional reactivity of both African American and non-African American clinicians when treating African American clients.
- Employ mind-body techniques in conjunction with Internal Family System theory to effectively deregulate the stress response and promote feelings of empowerment and safety.
- Analyze activated trauma memories involving violence and acts of racism.
Outline
Implement tools that address the impact of micro and macro-trauma on the psychosocial development of African American clients
- Introduction and application of self-soothing grounding, and deep breathing techniques as tools to de-escalate traumas.
- Application of the DBT describing skills to increase awareness of the present moment
- Review of how mindfulness can be used to increase awareness of symptoms and microtrauma reactions
Introduce Microtrauma as a fear-based conditional response to situations that elicit terror and powerlessness.
- Review literature on trauma and the brain response
Examine the role the sympathetic nervous system plays in their reactions to microtraumas.
- Review nervous system
- Discuss parasympathetic response (ventral vagal)
- Parasympathetic stress response immobilization
- Sympathetic Stress Response: Mobilization Flight/Fight Response
Provide clinical treatment interventions that determine levels of reactivity and offer treatment modalities.
- Reprocessing of memories
- Deep breathing techniques
- Grounding and tapping
- CBT thought stopping and disputing techniques
- Introduction of SUDS and Body scanning techniques
Incorporate trauma and shame reducing techniques in sessions to help African American clients access memories that keep them stuck in the narrative of victimization
- Recreating the shame
- Self-affirmations
- Creating a practice of self-compassion and non-judgmental stance
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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02/17/2021
Happily Even After: Fostering Well-Being and Resilience in Difficult Times
In recent years, research has shown that positive psychological principles can play an important role both in fostering well-being during good times, but also in cultivating resilience after life’s worst moments. As much of the world begins to emerge from a time of unprecedented crisis, we have an opportunity both individually and collectively to face the future with greater compassion, gratefulness, wonder, and kindness. Drawing from positive psychology, mindfulness-based approaches, and cutting-edge neuroscience, this recording will examine how positive psychological practices can help reduce suffering and foster greater well-being. You’ll explore:
- Common barriers to well-being and how the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated already-troubling trends
- The positive psychology literature on the impact of positive emotional states on health, relationships, creativity, and job performance
- How positive neuroplasticity can help strengthen the brain regions linked to well-being
- Key principles for increasing happiness and well-being, including awe, gratitude, compassion-based approaches, savoring, and psychological richness
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Objectives
- Identify the most common barriers to well-being and how the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated already-troubling trends.
- Categorize the positive psychology literature on the impact of positive emotional states on health, relationships, creativity, and job performance.
- Catalogue key brain regions linked to well-being, and how positive neuroplasticity can help strengthen these areas.
- Demonstrate at least 4 key principles for increasing happiness and well-being.
Outline
- Explore common barriers to well-being and how the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated already-troubling trends
- Review the positive psychology literature on the impact of positive emotional states on health, relationships, creativity, and job performance
- Understand key brain regions linked to well-being, and how positive neuroplasticity can help strengthen these areas
- Explore key principles for increasing happiness and well-being, including awe, gratitude, compassion-based approaches, savoring, and psychological richness
- Discuss various strategies for enhancing well-being and provide easy to use skills that can be incorporated into treatment
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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03/10/2022
Untangling Shame: Brené Brown’s Approach to Fostering Resilience and Courage in Everyday Life
Even though shame is universal, how much did you learn about it in your training as a mental health professional? It’s critical that we help clients address this primitive human emotion, which is the intensely painful experience of believing that we are flawed, damaged, broken, or inferior—and therefore unworthy of love and belonging. Thanks to the 20 years of research conducted by Brené Brown, we understand that trauma, shame, and fear of vulnerability go hand in hand. In this session, based on Brown’s research, you’ll discover the four elements to shame resilience, including how to:
- Recognize shame and understand its triggers, exploring narratives that block us from deeply connecting with others, especially individuals from different cultures than our own
- Practice critical awareness by reality-checking the messages and expectations that are driving shame
- Own and share your story, to truly experience empathy and build courage and authenticity
- Use language and story to bring light to shame and allow yourself to get your needs met
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Objectives
- Appraise the relationship between authenticity, self-awareness, fear, shame, guilt, and self-compassion.
- Demonstrate how shame-based messages are obtained through Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), systemic oppression and intergenerational trauma.
- Appraise how shame is relationally projected from one person to another and understand key societal underpinnings that impact us collectively.
- Utilize specific shame resilience strategies to begin healing painful narratives regarding worthiness and vulnerability.
Outline
- How shame based messages are obtained through Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), systemic oppression and intergenerational trauma
- The most common shame triggers and correlating fears/limiting beliefs
- The role that self-awareness plays in courage building and shame resilience
- Personal narratives that block us from deeply connecting with ourselves and others
- Demonstrate effective strategies to provide an environment of healing for all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status
- Specific shame resilience strategies to begin healing painful narratives regarding worthiness and vulnerability
- Review limitations of current research
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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03/17/2023
Healing the Wounds of Trauma
FEATURING Dr. Gabor Maté comes an in-depth workshop based on his brand-new book The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture – a riveting follow-up to In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.
With SPECIAL GUEST Bruce Perry, MD, renowned child psychiatrist and co-author of the NYT Best-Selling What Happened to You? (with Oprah Winfrey) and The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog.
This all-new clinical workshop, based on the brand-new book The Myth of Normal, could powerfully shift your understanding of traumatic stress and how we, as therapists, can help people recover and heal.
Together, they’ll explore with you the most common misconceptions around trauma and chronic stress, how and why we get stuck, and the specific pathways to healing.
Gabor will specifically cover some of the most prevalent mental health diagnoses therapists are seeing today including: ADHD, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Self-Harm, ODD, Eating Disorders...
And how we should be treating them through the lens of developmental trauma.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate current theories around what are and are not traumatic experiences
- Extrapolate from the research seven different impacts of traumatic experiences on both physical and mental health
- Appraise 5 common mental health and psychiatric disorders through the lens of developmental trauma
- Demonstrate a process of inquiry that changes limiting beliefs as related to clinical treatment.
- Integrate knowledge of developmental trauma into supporting recovery from common mental health disorders.
Outline
Part 1: Making Sense of Trauma & Chronic Stress
Part 2: The Nature of Mental Illness & Suffering
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Depression
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ADHD
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Self-Harm
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ODD
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Bipolar Disorder
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Eating Disorders
Part 3: Supporting Healing & Creating Change
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addictions Counselors
Copyright :
09/16/2022