Topic: Behavioral Health and Addictive Disorders

Lectures address the issues of behavioral health and addictions. Instruction includes:

Trauma and its Treamtent
Co-Occurring Disorders
PTSD
Resilience
Sexuality, Spirituality & Intimacy
The Media and Addiction
The Brain, Neuroscience & Therapy

and more

Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: Advances in Conceptualization and Evidence-Based Treatments

CHRISTINE COURTOIS

This presentation will first offer an overview of conceptual advances in defining and understanding traumatic stress disorders. It will review elements of the traumatic stressor, common responses from a developmental lifespan perspective, advances in evidence-based treatments and offer a sequencing of treatment and the application of integrative treatment approaches.

$10.00 (USD)

Assessment of Risk, Self Destructive Behaviors and Suicidality

Patrick DeChello

This presentation will provide clinicians with an overview of tools to perform accurate and effective mental status examinations and suicide assessments. These assessments will lead to accurate diagnosis and therefore effective treatment planning. A review of four major mental status assessment methods – Observation, Conversation, Exploration and Testing will provide clinicians with the knowledge necessary to perform these assessments accurately and effectively. In addition, clinicians will be given several suicide assessment methods and de-escalation techniques including interviewing techniques, approaches and protocols for use in their practice.

$10.00 (USD)

“Echoes” of a Reflected Self: The Psychodynamics of Narcissism

Rokelle Lerner

Pathological narcissism develops from wounds developed in the interpersonal bonding and connection phase of development and manifest in a hunger for perfect attention and admiration that can never be satisfied. For the narcissist, these childhood deficits create a persistent and distorted belief that they are entitled to adoration simply because they exist. This presentation will examine the neurological and psychodynamic consequences of narcissism and offer tools to clinicians who treat this disorder.

$10.00 (USD)

Erotic Intelligence: Raising Your Sexual IQ

Alexandra Katehakis

Erotic Intelligence is the ability to make sexual choices that affirm life in healthy, imaginative and exciting ways. In healthy sexual relationships, eroticism is the deliberate seeking of pleasure for the sake of connection with oneself and others without sex necessarily being the end point. One of the great challenges of living a recovered life is to experience this kind of sex with a partner with whom one feels safe, secure and connected with, while revealing the depths of our erotic, sexual selves.

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Recognizing and Treating Dissociation in Complex Trauma and PTSD

CHRISTINE COURTOIS

Dissociative responses and defenses are commonly seen in clinical practice, especially in those who suffered chronic traumatization and/or attachment disturbances in childhood. Despite this, many clinicians have not received training to help them to recognize and treat dissociative responses and conditions. This presentation will describe and demonstrate: some of the manifestations of dissociation in the clinical setting and elsewhere, tools and strategies for the assessment of dissociative experiences and disorders, and practical approaches to working with dissociative responses in clinical practice.

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Affect-Based and Relational Healing Approaches to Complex Trauma

CHRISTINE COURTOIS

Complex trauma involves chronic and pervasive exposure to traumatic experiences usually over the course of critical development periods. Interpersonal victimization in a family relational context is the most common precipitant that, unfortunately, usually renders the child victim susceptible to a host of other victimizations across the life span. The capacity to trust others and to form close interpersonal bonds is often severely compromised by this form of trauma. This presentation will focus on the interpersonal/relational distress that often accompanies this type of trauma as a focus for affective and relational/attachment-based interventions.

$10.00 (USD)

At the Heart of Loneliness: The Quest for Meaning, Connection and Community in Our Times

PATRICIA LOVE

This presentation will distinguish between loneliness and depression and explore two sources of loneliness. Loneliness and co-morbidity will be discussed as well as the challenge of connecting in a disconnected world and common treatment mistakes.

$10.00 (USD)

Why Integrating Mental Health and Substance Abuse is Hard and What to Do About It

David Mee-Lee

The addiction and mental health treatment fields have arisen from very different roots. This has accounted for the ongoing fragmentation that has been aggravated by different training, systems and funding. Clients and clinicians are separated by ideology and treatment orientations that do not serve well those affected by co-occurring disorders. Too often children, families, adults and older adults fall between the service and system cracks. This will present an integrated treatment model that incorporates evidence-based practices that have been found effective for people suffering from mental health and substance use problems.

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Co-Occurring Disorders: Critical Advances in Assessment and Treatment Strategies

David Mee-Lee

A large proportion of individuals suffering from alcoholism and drug dependence also suffer from psychiatric problems and vice versa. Because clinicians often lack training in both addiction and mental health treatment, clients with co-occurring mental and substance-related disorders frequently receive inadequate care, caught in the gap between the mental health and addiction treatment systems. Clinicians can feel ill equipped to face the increasing population of multi-problem and dual diagnosis patients. This presentation will address clinical dilemmas in treating clients with the dual problems of psychiatric and addiction illness.

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Affect and Emotional Self Regulation: Clinical Skills and Strategies for Therapists

PATRICIA LOVE

Self-regulation is the ability to control one’s thoughts, emotions, and actions. It is also learning to pay attention to the consequences of your behavior. The goal of emotional self-regulation is to use emotions to move you toward well-being and happiness, to cultivate the ability to activate good feelings built into your nervous system and healthy emotional development. This presentation will also discuss the dopamine connection and treatment approaches.

$10.00 (USD)

Attachment and Bonding Revisited: Impact on Children and Adults

PATRICIA LOVE

This presentation will describe the purpose of attachment and common therapeutic mistakes related to attachment. Also discussed will be attachment styles, the biggest obstacles to attachment and strategies for improvement.

$10.00 (USD)

Keeping Your Soul Alive in Your Work: Using the Latest Clinical Research to Decrease Resistance and Improve Therapeutic Outcomes

Bill O'Hanlon

Recent research has shown that there are predictable ways that people make decisions and are persuaded. Using this research can make your work more effective. In this presentation, clinicians will learn the latest research findings and get suggestions for how to apply them in their work to help people change more quickly and more readily and to notice and resist people’s attempts to influence you in ways you don’t want to be influenced.

$10.00 (USD)

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therapy , addictive disorders , behavioral health