Creating lasting change in therapy is hard work – especially when your client is distracted, disengaged, or lacks the necessary skills to retain therapeutic interventions …
If you’re struggling to make progress with your young clients, you’re not alone! Social media, reality TV, and influencer culture immersion have caused a critical thinking drought. And it’s making therapy harder.
Understanding how social media and reality television impact your clients - decreased self-esteem, increased anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation - is vital for the whole picture of mental health and has a direct impact on you as the professional.
Join Janine Oliver, PhD, LCSW, clinician and researcher of reality tv and social media as she demonstrates the connection to critical thinking decline and shares ways to improve your efforts as a therapist to make your interventions more effective, efficient, and durable. You’ll get:
Register now and walk away confident and grounded in new skills and research to navigate social media, virtual reality and external influences impacting people today!
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| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
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| Manual - Social Media, Reality TV & Influencer Culture (3.8 MB) | 43 Pages | Available after Registration |
Janine Oliver, PhD, MSW, LCSW, RYI200, CH, CCATP, is a psychologist, author, and licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years’ experience counseling in the mental health field. She has researched social media and reality television’s impact on critical thinking for over 10 years and has been studying generational changes for two decades. Her specific area of research focused on how these mediums, reality TV & social media, have impacted critical thinking ability in America.
Dr. Oliver is trained in cognitive psychology and uses cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy and logotherapy as primary interventions in treatment to help with grief, loss, anxiety and depression. Dr. Oliver is a certified yoga instructor, acknowledging the connection between body, mind and spirit as a holistic approach to overall health and well-being. She is also a certified hypnotherapist, meditation instructor and EFT practitioner; using these modalities to focus on the subconscious and emotion centers as a means of treating a variety of issues, such as habits, phobias, inner child work, pain and regression. In addition, Dr. Oliver is a certified clinical anxiety treatment professional, using the most current interventions to treat anxiety and enhance the lives of those suffering with crippling anxiety to lead healthy active lives. She is a psychology professor and presenter for continuing education credits for mental health professionals.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janine Oliver has employment relationships with Estadt Psychological and Delaware County Community College. She receives compensation as a yoga and certified meditation/hypnosis/EFT instructor. Dr. Oliver receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janine Oliver has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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