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Being the Change: Embracing Antiracism in the Therapy Room

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Assess the clinical implications of racial experiences leading to trauma symptomology.
Evaluate how historical, cultural, and individual trauma may or may not fit into a DSM-5 framework.
Employ interventions that address traumatic experiences with racism in trauma treatment sessions.

Copyright : 03/12/2020

Using Positive Neuroplasticity for Change That Lasts

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Utilize the neural mechanisms of social-emotional learning to create durable cognitive changes in client stress management.
Teach clients three methods for heightening the neurological internalization of therapeutic experiences.
Mitigate the impact of the brain's negativity bias on mood and anxiety levels.

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How Understanding the Neuroscience of Depression Can Improve Outcomes

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Determine issues for using the “chemical imbalance” explanation of depression.
Analyze challenges with genetic risk for depression.
Appraise scientifically valid models of depression.

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How Internal Family Systems Therapy is Helping Us Understand the Human Mind & How We Heal

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Effectively integrate IFS conceptualizations with current therapeutic modalities.
Develop a deep understanding of how neuroscience informs therapeutic decisions in IFS therapy.
Integrate the IFS model into your clinical practice and accelerate healing for PTSD, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and eating disorders.

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The Keys Behind How Cognitive Processing Therapy Heals PTSD | Kate Chard

How exactly do people get stuck in traumatic events and PTSD, and how can they recover? 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 PTSD, often without the need to go back and even talk extensively about the traumatic event.

Join co-developer of CPT, Kathleen Chard, PhD, for a fascinating recording that will address many common myths around PTSD recovery and what research has shown helps. 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.

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Analyze the empirical evidence supporting the use of Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and related conditions.
Determine common myths around PTSD that can interfere in treatment and worsen outcomes.
Utilize 3 keys from CPT that help clients understand how to overcome “stuck points”.

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Helping Clients Live Mighty Lives with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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Analyze the 6 core processes of ACT.
Determine psychological flexibility (the main goal of ACT).
Utilize at least one metaphor or experiential practise with clients.

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What Twentysomethings Really Want from Therapy

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Argue four unique developmental factors that make the twenties a developmental “sweetspot” rather than a developmental downtime.
Extrapolate on why finding work and love is a mental health issue for most “twentysomethings” and how to make it part of their treatment plan.
Determine why "anxiety is the new depression" in this age group as well as delineate three effective ways to address these concerns.

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Coming to Our Senses: Trauma & the Embodied Self

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Evaluate the varied impacts of trauma across developmental stages.
Apply recent neurobiological research results to the conceptualization of trauma.
Employ dance, movement, play and theatre interventions for the treatment of trauma.

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Clinical Tools from Somatic Experiencing: How to Rewire Implicit Trauma Memory through Physiology

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Determine the psychobiology of trauma and the survival responses of fight, flight, freeze as it relates to clinical treatment.
Analyze how implicit memory shapes our physiological and psychological responses to trauma and recovery.
Utilize three skills to work with the Autonomic Nervous System. Learn clinical tools about how to access the polyvagal system to increase resilience and rebound from trauma and overwhelm.

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How Interpersonal Neurobiology Can Help Shape our Work and our World

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Support how clinicians can work with their own presence to better support clients in therapy.
Practice with your clients how to integrate body and mind for improved well-being.
Evaluate the latest research on how awareness can shape connections in the brain towards in that includes meaning, connection, and emotional balance.

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Safe & Connected: A Polyvagal Guided Path for Re-Imagining our World

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Determine how to use your own autonomic nervous system to create an environment of safety for your clients and others.
Practice how to help your clients listen to their internal state and let go of their problem story.
Analyze how to reliably guide your clients from state to state and enhance their capacity for self-regulations.

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Using the Science of EFT with Individuals: Bringing Your Clients to Life and Restoring Their Ability to Live Well

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Build core emotional experiences to promote emotional balance in your traumatized, anxious, and depressed clients.
Evaluate the EFT model as a secure base for effective therapy with individual clients.
Analyze the three stages of the EFT model as an approach that offers clients a way out of destructive patterns.
Employ evidence-based stages to increase closeness, safe attachment, and connection.
Construct corrective emotional experiences for the individual client that create real forward movement in a single session.

Copyright : 04/12/2020

When the Body Says “No”: Listening to Our Stress & Re-connecting with Our Self

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Determine the neurobiological underpinnings of stress and its effect on the body.
Analyze the three major stressors that exist for humans and their effect on our biology.
Evaluate ways of recognizing stress and preventing it.

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Little Treatments, Big Effects: Single-Session Interventions That Create Lasting Change

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Analyze advances in research on single-session interventions (SSIs) for youth mental health problems, including characteristics of effective SSIs that have shown positive effects.
Employ components of SSIs that may help reduce internalizing symptoms and improve likelihood of pursuing mental health treatment.
Determine strategies for evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of SSIs implemented in clinical and/or research settings.

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The New Exposure Therapy: How Inhibitory Learning Can Improve Outcomes for OCD and Anxiety Disorders

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Evaluate exposure and response prevention and its efficacy.
Determine the inhibitory learning model of exposure therapies.
Analyze how exposure works from the perspective of inhibitory learning.
Design and conduct exposure exercises that support inhibitory learning.

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Clinical Virtual Reality Treatments: A Brief Review of the Future

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Analyze Virtual Reality (VR) and the different ways that people can engage and interact with VR environments.
Distinguish the specific rationales for the use of VR in the assessment and rehabilitation of a wide range of clinical disorders (i.e., ADHD, PTSD, Alzheimer's, Phobias, Stroke, addictions, etc.).
Determine the relevant issues involved in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of virtual environments for use in assessment and rehabilitation.

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Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: The Psychotherapy Whose Time Has Come

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Appraise research related to psychedelic-assisted therapy and efficacy across diagnostic categories.
Evaluate the growing utilization of mental health professionals in the use of psychedelic-assisted therapies.
Investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of psychedelic facilitation of psychotherapy.

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Tapping into our Brains to Break Anxiety Cycles and Other Habits

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Assess how anxiety forms as a habit.
Catalogue how mindfulness affects reward valuation in the brain.
Analyze how mindfulness approaches can help change addictive habit patterns.

Copyright : 04/12/2020

Psychopharmacology: Essential Updates for Mental Health Professionals | Kenneth Carter

If you are like a lot of therapists, many of your clients are taking psychotropic medicines prescribed by a number of different health care professionals. Despite who wrote the script, it is your responsibility to know your clients' symptoms and reactions to medications, and to coordinate their care.

This intensive 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.

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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.

Essential Mindfulness and Meditation Tools for Today’s Stressed World | Donald Altman

In a world facing unprecedented levels of stress, anxiety and depression, clinicians need a set of effective, easy-to-use tools that can help clients create space from the negativity and distraction that are often constant companions in our tech-laden 21st century. In this highly experiential 3-hr. intensive recording, you will learn targeted mindfulness and meditation tools designed to increase emotional regulation, problem-solving skills, and overall wellbeing. These tools, which are designed to be taught and applied in just one session, can help reduce anxious thinking and rumination, enhance present moment awareness, increase one’s locus of control, and build resilience. Based on Donald Altman’s award-winning The Mindfulness Toolbox, 101 Mindful Ways to Build Resilience, and his new book Simply Mindful, these research-based tools are easy to use and give clients a set of portable, effective skills to carry with them daily.

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Demonstrate how to use the breath to quiet down the brain's alert and alarm system.
Support the research behind "security primings" and how it can increase feelings of safety, trust, and building relationships.
Assess the risks of stress at the cellular level and integrate evidence-based experiential exercises to reduce risks.

Getting off the Couch: How to Incorporate Walking Therapy in your Practice | Jennifer Udler

Now, more than ever, clinicians and clients alike, are seeking creative alternatives to telehealth. How can we safely provide individual therapy in person during the pandemic? Walking therapy – or “walk and talk” therapy may just be the answer to this challenging question. Clinicians will learn the ins and outs of walking therapy. What is it? How does it work? What are the benefits? What does it mean as a therapist, and what will clients likely experience during a walk and talk session?

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Investigate the scientific under-pinnings of walking-based format of psychotherapeutic treatment and which clients it may be appropriate for.
Categorize the significant elements that are applied during walk and talk, combining movement, nature, and therapy.
Propose how to conduct a session while outdoors; including seeing others on the trail, handling the various weather conditions, different terrain, and how to use nature to enhance the effectiveness of the therapy.
Apply 2 specific mindfulness-based strategies that can be used during outdoor and walking therapy.

Embodying Resilience: Using Movement to Navigate Anxiety and Build Personal Power in Children | Jennifer Cohen Harper

Our kids are living through a rising tide of anxiety as they navigate a challenging and ever-changing world. The symptoms of anxiety can easily overwhelm children, diminishing their joy and interfering with learning, relationships and overall wellbeing. But our kids have capacity, and through mindfulness-based movement they can learn to access their inner resources and tell their own minds a different story about their personal power. Join Jennifer Cohen Harper to explore how movement can transform how your young clients see themselves, and what they believe they are capable of.

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Build client capacity to identify rising anxiety before it becomes overwhelming or debilitating.
Learn to manage escalating emotions and intrusive thoughts with movement practices.
Enhance resilience through simple and accessible personal practices.

What’s New with Sex?: The Things Your Clients Don’t Talk About (But Want To) | Tammy Nelson

Sexuality issues can challenge a clinician’s skill set in a world where virtual reality, artificial intelligence, teledildonics, sex robots, online dating and pornography have changed our understanding of sexual behaviour and relationships. Our own beliefs, values and ideas can be challenged by the landscape of contemporary sexual behaviour and its changing definitions of open monogamy. Alternative sexual practices including BDSM and other fetishes have permeated our popular culture and are crucial to the understanding of today’s therapist. In this recording we will explore the new world of cutting edge and unconventional sexual practices and the innovative ways that therapists can work with couples and face their own issues around sex and intimacy.

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Apply effective communication skills to manage anxiety around topics of sex and intimacy.
Analyze the history and current field of sex and couple’s therapy understanding and awareness.
Analyze contemporary sexual knowledge and the importance in the role of treatment.
Assess the importance of sexual wellness and how sex-related stereotypes may affect treatment outcomes.

Trauma Focused DBT Skills for Adolescents | Eboni Webb

Our youth are living through a critical and pivotal watershed moment in global history. The global pandemic and racial unrest have introduced another layer of stress and trauma in developing youth across multicultural and ethnic experiences. If you’re not sure how to support these young people, you’re not alone! This recording focuses on applying the skills of DBT to adolescents and the specific traumatic and stressful situations they are facing.

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Investigate the specific traumatic stressors facing many adolescents that mental health clinicians should be aware of and know how to address
Analyze the role of racial injustice and race-based stress and trauma in adolescents
Utilize 3 trauma focused DBT skills for adolescents

Beyond Desire: Navigating Sex and Attachment in a Pandemic World | Emily Nagoski

The impact of social distancing, quarantine, financial stress, and everything that 2020 has brought is creating stress in relationships in unprecedented ways. In this session, renowned sex education expert will show you ways to address how stress impacts our sex lives and how to help your clients maintain sexual connections in a pandemic and beyond.

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Determine the differences between spontaneous and responsive desire among couples.
Devise ways to address and resolve difficult feelings and life stressors to strengthen couples’ relationships and rekindle desire.
Assess the relationship between mindfulness practices and enhanced physical sensation.

Seeking Safety: An Evidence-Based Model for Trauma and/or Addiction | Lisa Najavits

This recording provides an overview of the Seeking Safety model and how it fits within the context of trauma treatments. Clinicians will learn the key features of this practical model and as well as its format and content. We will cover implementation aspects such as client selection and adaptation to different settings. By the end of the recording, clinicians who choose to implement the model in their practice will be able to do so.

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Investigate three key clinical issues in treating trauma and substance abuse and the linkages between trauma and addiction
Evaluate the four key features of the Seeking Safety model
Utilize at least four resources for learning more about trauma and addiction