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Course List
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10 Steps to Remarkable Relationships: Improving Communication and Understanding in Anxious Times
Course Presenter | Harriet Lerner, PhD
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Course Description |
Discover and practice the 10 key steps to clarity and relational courage. Help your clients do the same! Dr. Lerner brings her integrated wisdom and clinical expertise to this Featured Training Course. She explores 10 key steps to clear communications with family and difficult people, and identifies the challenges of defining a bottom line in relationships, and distinguishing between defensive and pure listening. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List the key steps to finding your voice.
- Compare defensive and pure listening.
- Describe the challenge of respecting differences while defining a clear bottom line in marriage and family.
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CE Credit: 2 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-03
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Effective Therapy: A Major Force in Enhancing Moral Development
Course Presenter | John Bradshaw, MA,MSP,THA
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Course Description |
n this cutting-edge lecture, John brings forth a strong case for the role of therapy in forming moral intelligence. In his latest book, Reclaiming Virtue, John draws the conclusion that humans possess a unique innate moral intelligence — defined as “right practical reasoning in making good choices.” John argues that this ability to choose well is marred by addictions and emotional illness. Focusing on the critical part played by emotion and volition in making mature choices, he offers specific ways in which effective therapy can invigorate and restore one’s moral intelligence in this Featured Course. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Name the nine affects/emotions that are the core of the affect system as described by Silvan Tompkins.
- Describe how emotional containment is critical to the development of emotional literacy.
- Discuss the idea that 'human will' is a mental force that can change the structure of the brain.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-09
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Healing the Self when Forgiveness seems too Generous: A Radical Approach
Course Presenter | Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
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Course Description |
Forgiveness is good for us and good people forgive – right? But are some interpersonal traumas – infidelity, abuse, neglect – simply unforgivable? This new way of thinking about forgiveness may be described as radical. In this Featured Course Dr Abrahms Spring gives us an alternative to forgiveness called Acceptance, which spells out ten steps hurt parties can take to rise above a violation; such as refusing to live in a grudge state, de-shaming the injury, taking a fair share of responsibility for what went wrong, and giving up a need for revenge but not a need for justice. It will also help them forge a relationship with the offender that makes sense and serves their best interest. This could mean cutting off from that person or full engagement. In the end, hurt parties will learn to heal themselves – with or without forgiving an unrepentant offender. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Critique popular assumptions about what it means to forgive.
- Create a recovery plan which allows healing without forgiving an unapologetic offender.
- Describe techniques to help hurt parties overcome their obsessive preoccupation with the injury.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-01
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Appreciating Gender Differences in Treatment and Recovery from Chemical Dependency
Course Presenter | Robert Ackerman, PhD
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Course Description |
Develop an appreciation for gender differences in the treatment and recovery from alcohol and drug addiction and other problems in e-Summit's Addiction Course with Dr. Ackerman. Investigate how dysfunctional families effect gender development and, in turn, how this development effects personal change for females and males. Dr. Ackerman's approach is not to treat women and men from dysfunctional families or addicted individuals as victims, but rather as survivors who have strengths as a result of the adverse conditions they endured.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe how dysfunctional families effect gender development.
- Describe recovery challenges related to stereotypical gender identies.
- List common gender specific issues in the treatment environment.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-25
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Denial Management Counseling: The DMC Model in Action
Course Presenter | Terry Gorski, MA, MAC, NCAC II
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Course Description |
Help clients unlock their own potential to stop living in denial and take ownership of their recovery! In this Addiction Course, recovery pioneer Terry Gorski illustrates how to use techniques from the Denial Management Counseling (DMC) model to talk with clients who are exhibiting strong denial and treatment resistance. By watching Terry role play with audience members, you’ll see how patient education and structured DMC exercises lead clients to reveal their own denial patterns and participate in the development of strategies to prevent denial from continuing to pervade their lives. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss the dynamics of denial.
- Describe the 'Denial Pattern Identification' process.
- Create a treatment plan that includes psychoeducational sessions about self-management strategies.
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CE Credit: 3 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-07
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Internet Gaming and Addiction
Course Presenter | Jack Kuo, MD
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Course Description |
Most people know of it, but how much do you know about it? In this Addiction Course you will learn the compelling forces behind Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG) and the neuroscience that is affected by excessive play. You’ll discover the psycho-social factors of play that are promoted by the gaming industry and can lead to maladaptive behaviors by users. You’ll learn the proposed criteria for defining on-line gaming dependence and learn about treatment programs available in the U.S. and around the World. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss the extent to which “videogame addiction” conforms to currently accepted scientific definitions of addiction
- Describe the epidemiology of “videogame addiction”
- Outline existing and suggested modalities for treatment of “videogame addiction”
- Debate the evidence-based support for inclusion of “videogame addiction” as a formal diagnosis
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-08
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Interventions with Clients with Co-occuring Disorders
Course Presenter | Dirk Eldredge, CADC
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Course Description |
If you have ever thought that the Interventionist was therapy’s version of a paratrooper, this Addiction Course will change your mind. Assessment, team preparation, arrangement of details, and after-care follow-up are all essential phases of the intervention process that Dirk will walk you through. He has orchestrated hundreds of interventions across the nation using an intervention style that places equal attention on all family members making it a process and not an event. This course, by itself, will not prepare you to become an Interventionist. It will, however, prepare you to work effectively as part of an Intervention Team. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the Family Intervention Process.
- Discuss the dynamics of co-occurring disorders and chemical addictions.
- Describe how the therapist's personal relationship with addiction can contribute to the effective treatment of others.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-09
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Lettermans, Tigers and Sanfords, Oh My: Understanding the Treatment of Serial Infidelity, Sex, Porn and Love Addiction
Course Presenter | Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
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Course Description |
In his typical candid and witty style, Rob Weiss, LCSW, CSAT, presents an overview of sexual addiction behaviors and root causes in his e-Summits Addiction Course by using examples straight from the latest weekly headlines. Inviting audience interaction, he gives therapists a peek at the day in the life of a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT), and shows how to assess clients for sexual addiction who present with other mental and behavioral symptoms. This session provides an overview of the history of the diagnosis of compulsive sexuality, Internet sex and the challenges faced by spouses and couples who present with these concerns. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe differences between sex addiction to recreational sex.
- Describe differences between a sex addict and a sex offender.
- Describe how sex addiction fits into the broader category of process addictions.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-21
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Pharmacological Treatment of Addiction Disorders
Course Presenter | David Sack, MD |
Course Description |
Learn about the dynamic and surprising history of neuropharmacology, as it relates to addiction treatment in this e-Summits Addiction Course. Dr. Sack takes a closer look at combining non-pharmacology approaches with pharmacological practices in the treatment of substance abuse. This training also focuses on FDA approved treatments for alcohol dependency, opiate dependency and nicotine dependency. In addition, Dr. Sack reviews treatments currently in development for cocaine and psychostimulant dependency together with new options currently under development for pharmacological treatment of addiction disorders. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss FDA-approved treatments for alcohol and opiate dependency.
- Summarize treatments in development for cocaine and psychostimulant dependency.
- Compare the value of current pharmacological treatments with non-pharmacology treatments for substance dependency.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: OTH-01
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Stress and Trauma Management: Implications for Addiction and Relapse
Course Presenter | Terry Gorski, MA, MAC, NCAC II
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Course Description |
For addicts in recovery, the symptoms related to relapse become worse with the increase of stress. Conversely, as symptoms intensify the level of stress increases. This creates a viscous cycle of painful dysfunction that often ends in relapse. High stress can have such severe adverse effects that it can interfere with the client’s ability to respond to treatment. Therefore, it is of critical importance that one of the first tasks in helping addicts to recover is to teach them how to manage stress without having to use mood or mind altering chemicals. In this Addiction Course, you will see how the Gorski-CENAPS approach to Stress Management can be used with your clients to build their stress management skills and improve their treatment outcomes. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe how the Stress Thermometer® can be used as a tool for stress self-monitoring.
- Utilize the Stress Management Flow Diagram® to teach clients how to manage stress.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-11
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Hidden Addiction: Sugar!
Course Presenter | Rebecca Cooper, MFT
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Course Description |
For some people different types of sugar can be addictive. Alcoholics are most susceptible to sugar addiction because alcohol is assimilated in the body the same way as sugar. Some research findings go so far as to say "sugar is a gateway drug." In this presentation in the e-Summit's Addiction Course you will learn the research behind the phenomenon that recovering people have known for years. Sugar is addictive! This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians
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Learning Objectives |
- Assess clients for food addictions
- Explain current scientific research about sugar addiction
- Utilize a method of internalizing healthy eating behaviors with clients
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CE Credit: 2 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-12
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Synchronicity of Mindfulness Practices and Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Addiction and Co-Morbid Affective Disorders
Course Presenter | Shari Corbitt, PsyD
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Course Description |
Neurofeedback uses sound and visual frequencies to correct areas of hyper- (over) and hypo- (under) arousal in brain activity. Over time, neurofeedback sessions help correct symptoms of attention-deficit disorder, sleep disturbances, depression, and anxiety, which in turn helps correct vulnerabilities for relapse. Neurofeedback can also help improve people’s attention by improving concentration and one’s ability to focus, which is critical in early recovery. When neurofeedback treatment is complemented by an active mindfulness practice, results improve dramatically. In this Addiction Course Dr. Corbitt will use case examples to show how these modalities have worked. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe how neurofeedback supports the practice of mindfulness in individuals with addictions and affective disorders.
- Describe the relationship between neurofeedback, mindfulness-based meditation and the first and third steps of the 12 step recovery model.
- Describe how the above relationship can be used to help clients.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-28
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Treating the Dually Diagnosed in the Outpatient Setting
Course Presenter | Dennis Ortman, PhD
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Course Description |
Treating the Dual-Diagnosed can work in an out-patient setting. In this Addiction Course Dr. Ortman discusses the prevalence and nature of dual diagnosis complications in addictions and psychiatric disorder treatment; using the model of out-patient settings. Dr.Ortman sites specific examples of accurate assessment tools utilized in diagnosis of patients/clients. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss dual diagnosis complications in addiction treatment.
- List two assessment tools utilized in dual diagnosis of patients.
- Describe common characteristics of a dually diagnosed patient being treated in an outpatient setting.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-02
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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When God Becomes a Drug: Understanding Religious Addiction and Abuse
Course Presenter | Leo Booth, MTH
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Course Description |
In this Addiction Course Rev. Leo Booth makes a careful distinction between spirituality and religion. “Spirituality is a healthy relationship between body, mind, and emotions that empowers choice, responsibility, and change. Unhealthy use of religion often separates people from themselves, others, and God. Spirituality always unites us.” In this course, Rev. Leo reveals common dysfunctional religious messages that are symptomatic of Religious Abuse. He talks about the spiritual link with “God energy” that activates our spiritual empowerment, and he shows us how attachment to toxic religious messages stops us from realizing that we are all children of God. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List 5 examples of toxic religious messages.
- Explain how these messages create division within the self, between self and others, and between self and God.
- Discuss one method to help clients activate spiritual empowerment.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-04
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring For An Aging Parent
Course Presenter | Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
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Course Description |
Seventeen million Americans currently care for their elderly parents, with more than 44 million baby boomers in the wings. This talk will give a language to this intergenerational, ordinary, extraordinary journey and help caregivers feel more normal – less crazy, helpless and alone. This Aging Course will teach them to calm their inner critic when their resources run dry and help them muster up all the compassion they deserve. With unsparing honesty, and humor, Dr. Spring will address the joy and the imposition, the blessing and the heartache of the job: the guilt over placing a parent in a facility, resentment over sibling interference, shame over money anxieties, angst in making healthcare and end-of-life decisions. She’ll also highlight the inspiration that accompanies those everyday moments of grace and offer universal lessons about caring for an aging parent and growing old gracefully. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss the strain of caregiving on individuals.
- Discuss common challenges to sibling relationships over caregiving issues.
- Discuss ethical dilemmas involving end-of-life decisions.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-14
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Growing Yourself Back Up: Understanding Emotional Regression
Course Presenter | John Lee, MA
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Course Description |
In Growing Yourself Back Up, you will explore and expand the term “regression”—the best kept secret in Psychology and Recovery— in a way that most clinicians and lay people have never heard it discussed. Regression is a main factor in inappropriate anger and rage, misunderstanding, miscommunication and creates distance, disasters and divorce. In this Anger Course clinicians will learn to identify regression in their clients and themselves and what to do in both instances and what to say and not say. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss the causes and pre-conditions for regression
- Identify the red flags of regression
- List the five things that will grow you or your client back up every time
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: TP-08-01
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Missing Peace: Solving the Anger Problem for Alcoholics, Addicts and Those Who Love Them
Course Presenter | John Lee, MA
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Course Description |
In this Anger Course peace that has been missing in most people’s recovery will finally be attained. Most people learned that anger causes people pain. Hard as we may try not to get angry – anger is part of any relationship. This presentation will forever change how you feel about anger and you will clearly see how anger held in long enough finally hurts friends, family and loved ones. Don’t hold yours in any longer. Join John Lee for an extremely safe encounter with the most misunderstood emotion. It will change all of your relationships for the better. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List nine things people do or say when they think they are expressing anger.
- Compare anger with rage.
- Use the Detour Method™ to deal with anger appropriately.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: TP-08-02
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Better than Prozac: Using the New Brain Science to Relieve Depression and Anxiety
Course Presenter | Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT
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Course Description |
New research shows the important contribution that movement, especially regular aerobic exercise, plays in helping people decrease depression and anxiety levels and increase cognitive functioning and the ability to take in new learning. This Anxiety Course and training will give you a clear and compelling overview of this exciting new research that will help you jumpstart stuck clients. You will also get some simple strategies to get your patients started in their exercise routines. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List three research results that support the benefits of exercise in mental health treatment.
- Describe three methods of helping people begin exercise programs.
- Describe ways to strengthen 'brain fitness' with exercise.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-01
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Brain Imaging in Anxiety Disorders
Course Presenter | J. Douglas Bremner, MD, PhD
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Course Description |
The field of brain imaging has invaded and taken over the currency of psychology. This Anxiety Course and training provides a perspective on the meaning of brain imaging for psychiatry from someone with a dual training and clinical and research experience in Psychiatry and Nuclear Medicine. Practical information about when and how the mental health professional should use brain imaging in their clinical practice, and a summary of research findings and current state of knowledge in the area of anxiety disorders are included. Images are used to illustrate key clinical findings in specific disorders. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Apply brain imaging technology to psychiatry research and describe the pathophysiology.
- Discuss key findings from brain imaging studies related to anxiety disorders.
- Use brain imaging in differential diagnosis with neurological disorders.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-10
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Brief Strategic Treatment for Anxiety Disorders: Winning the Anxiety Game!
Course Presenter | Reid Wilson, PhD
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Course Description |
In this Anxiety Course and training, Dr. Wilson will share practical methods that enable clients to find the courage and motivation to challenge their old beliefs and attitudes by ignoring the content of their worries and exploring uncertainty rather than fleeing from it. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List the major themes that people with anxiety disorders most-commonly struggle with.
- Describe how those stances will change as clients take control of fearful situations.
- Discuss interventions that can shake up the anxiety disorder 'game' within a therapeutic context.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-23
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Handling OCD: The Five Primary Homework Assignments
Course Presenter | Reid Wilson, PhD
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Course Description |
This Anxiety Course will help clients challenge their dysfunctional beliefs by reframing the nature of OCD through five simple but provocative guidelines. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the primary shifts in thinking that the therapist requests of the OCD patient.
- List the four primary homework assignments for OCD patients.
- Describe six paradoxical interventions in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-24
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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A Perfect Biopsychosocial Storm: Gender, Culture and Eating Disorders
Course Presenter | Margo Maine, PhD, FAED
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Course Description |
The single best predictor of risk to develop an eating disorder is simply being born female. What does this gender discrepancy tell us about the cultural impact on the etiology of eating psychopathology? This Eating Disorder Course challenges the dominance of the medical or biogenetic model as simply too objective and too linear to answer the obvious questions: Why Women? and Why Now? It integrates what research and practice teach clinicians about the importance of gender in the development and progression of eating disorders and the ensuing implications for treatment. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the elements of a biopsychosocial approach to eating disorders.
- Describe the multi-determined etiology of eating disorders.
- Create an effective, gender-informed clinical strategy for managing eating disorders.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-13
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Armed to the Teeth: Evidence-Based Nutrition Approches for Non-Nutritionists
Course Presenter | Marcia Herrin, EdD, MPH
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Course Description |
In this Eating Disorder Course Dr. Herrin will give a comprehensive synopsis of CBT, DBT, FBT, and MI techniques designed to address nutritional issues. Also provided are practical counseling suggestions and handouts. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe a nutrition technique based on Motivational Interviewing.
- Describe a nutrition technique based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
- Describe a nutrition technique based on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
- Design a nutrition-related technique that can be used in the attendee’s practice setting.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-11
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Body Talk: Using Metaphor to Treat Body Image and Eating Disorders
Course Presenter | Anita Johnston, PhD
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Course Description |
When working with eating disorders, body image issues are often the first to show up and the last to leave. This Eating Disorder Course shows how to use metaphor to help clients shift their attention away from how they look to how they see. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Identify the role of symbolic language in negative self-talk about the body.
- Explain how metaphor functions as a change agent.
- Utilize metaphor as a tool for understanding and treating body image issues and eating disorders.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-01
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Caloric Requirements and Food Choices for Restoration and Maintenance
Course Presenter | Walter Kaye, MD
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Course Description |
Research conducted by Dr. Kaye showed that patients with anorexia nervosa required greater than normal caloric intake to maintain a stable weight and had elevated activity levels during the 2 - 6 weeks following the weight restoration phase of treatment. By contrast, such patients studied 6 months or longer after weight recovery had normal caloric intake and activity levels. The prolonged delay in normalization of caloric intake and activity is mirrored by the slow return to normal of the neuroendocrine dysregulation that characterizes this disorder. This Eating Disorder Course will review the research findings and recommend a weight maintenance plan that incorporates them into a treatment plan that enhances the likelihood of permanent recovery. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the caloric requirements to gain weight.
- Describe the caloric requirements to maintain weight.
- Discuss the role of exercise as it relates to caloric requirements in weight maintenance.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-23
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Clinical Toolbox for the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Course Presenter | Pauline S. Powers, MD
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Course Description |
In this advanced, clinical Eating Disorder Course, Dr. Powers will provide a multidimensional view of the complexities of treating patients with eating disorders and co-morbid psychiatric disorders. Using actual cases and the treatment plans that were prescribed, she shows participants the effectiveness of various strategies that she has used by creating a unique combination of treatment techniques, integrative practices, and medication to fit each individual. She will share how she has utilized two structured interview methods (the MINI and MINI-KID) as well as a structured physiological evaluation tool to detect the potential presence of eating disorders and co-morbid conditions in clients. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List four psychiatric disorders that often co-occur with eating disorders.
- Describe two major treatment modalities that have been utilized for patients with eating disorders.
- Discuss the evidence base for the effectiveness of each of these modalities.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-09-01
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Digital Identity: The Pro Ana / Pro Mia Trend
Course Presenter | Dena Cabrera, PsyD
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Course Description |
Understanding the role of digital media in the formation of youthful identities is extremely important when working with adolescents and young adults with eating disorders. The growth of the Pro Ana/ProMia movements on the internet has coincided with more individuals claiming their eating disorder as their identity. Individuals are hosting, chatting, and even creating video diaries claiming that this is their "lifestyle." This Eating Disorder Course and workshop will explore these movements and provide up-to-date research on the impact of Pro Ana/Pro Mia websites. A treatment approach will be presented to assist parents and professionals to best respond to this growing trend. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Identify the role of digital media in the formation of youthful identities and its connection to eating disorders.
- Understand why eating disorder individuals create personal internet sites and the various attractions to pro eating disorder websites.
- Understand the impact of the Pro Ana / Pro Mia websites and how professionals and parents can effectively intervene.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-24
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Fathers, Daughters and Eating Disorders: What Hurts, Helps and Heals
Course Presenter | Margo Maine, PhD, FAED
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Course Description |
In his role as “first man” in a girl’s life, a father or stepfather sets the standard for male expectations, exerting a profound impact on his daughter’s body image and vulnerability for eating disorders. This Eating Disorder Course explores the impact of this oft-neglected relationship on both daughter and dad, describes ways to engage fathers in eating disorders treatment, and demonstrates the role fathers have in changing cultural body image attitudes in the societal “body wars” undermining girls. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the impact of the father-daughter relationship on girls.
- Discuss possible counter-transference issues related to clinicians’ own relationships with their fathers.
- Create treatment plans that engage fathers in treatment, prevention, and advocacy.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-14
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Food & Mood: When Food and Eating is a Problem in Life
Course Presenter | Ralph Carson, PhD, RD, LD
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Course Description |
There is a great deal of confusion among dieters over the concept of a food addiction and abstinence from sugar and white flour. Many emotions and behaviors are tied into the overweight and eating disorder patient’s relationship with food. This Eating Disorder Course deals with neurophysiological basis of how trigger foods may control a person’s life to the point it takes on characteristics of an addiction. Though there is little scientific evidence that one is addicted to sugar or white flour, the possibility of addiction to the sensory aspects of trigger foods will be explored. If those controlling foods are removed from the person’s diet, there needs to be similar constructive alternatives to take their place or recovery is short lived.
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Learning Objectives |
- Participants will be able to differentiate between a chemical addiction and a process addiction.
- Participants will be able to identify pathways through which emotions are transformed into neurochemical messages.
- Participants will be able to suggest substitutes for food cravings that elicit equal neurochemical responses.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-22
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Is Anorexia an Eating Disorder? New Understanding of Puzzling Symptoms
Course Presenter | Walter Kaye, MD
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Course Description |
There is a growing understanding of how powerful brain processes contribute to behaviors that create and sustain Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and Bulimia Nervosa (BN). Such knowledge has resulted in court rulings that have classified eating disorders (ED) as biologically based brain disorders. However, relatively little has been done to apply this new understanding of the biological component to develop more effective ED treatment. This Eating Disorder Course and training will use case examples to describe new treatment strategies that are based on science and research into the neurobiology of AN and BN. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Name circuits involved in gustatory stimuli processing.
- Describe temperament and personality traits common in people with eating disorders
- Describe typical eating behaviors in people with anorexia nervosa.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-18
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Major Elements of Treatment: Combining Medications and Psychotherapy
Course Presenter | Pauline S. Powers, MD
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Course Description |
In this Eating Disorder Course, Dr. Powers will review the medications commonly used to manage symptoms related to eating disorders including one that is currently approved by the FDA. Medications that are sometimes used to treat co-morbid psychiatric disorders and/or common physiological complications of eating disorders will be described along with potential benefits and risks of their use. Several case vignettes will illustrate common problems that can occur when developing a treatment plan for an individual, including how the client’s developmental stage and simple timing can affect the choice of therapist. A specific focus will be on integrating treatment for eating disorders with the treatment of substance use disorders utilizing the 12 step model. This is an advanced course.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss drugs currently approved for the treatment of eating disorders as well as off-label uses of various classes of medications that are often helpful.
- Identify the potential risks and benefits of combining medications and various psychotherapy techniques.
- Choose medications for the common co-morbid psychiatric disorders and physiological complications and integrate these decisions into a comprehensive treatment program that includes psychotherapy.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-09-02
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Mindful Eating and the Brain
Course Presenter | Donald Altman, MA, LPC
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Course Description |
This Eating Disorder Course and training explains how brain science and the new field of interpersonal neurobiology blend with ancient mindfulness to rewire the brain, as well as old eating habits.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the principles of 'mindful eating'.
- Explain the effects of food on brain chemistry.
- List the three primary neurocircuits affected by food.
- This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-07
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Soul Hunger: Treating Eating Disorders with Imagery and Metaphor
Course Presenter | Anita Johnston, PhD
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Course Description |
This Eating Disorder Course explores disordered eating behaviors as symbolic of deeper yearnings and longings and demonstrates how to use metaphor to uncover and address these hidden hungers in a therapeutic setting. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Use imagery and metaphor as a tool in a therapeutic setting.
- Explain how the symbolism of food cravings can be used to discover hidden emotional hungers.
- List 4 metaphoric categories of food cravings and/or phobias
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-02
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Teaching Parents to Feed their Eating Disordered Child at Home Using Maudsley Techniques
Course Presenter | Marcia Herrin, EdD, MPH
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Course Description |
In this Eating Disorder Course and training, the fundamentals of the Maudsley approach will be described, case examples will be provided, and the research will be reviewed. Participants will have opportunity to observe and to play a part in a coached meal experience - the cornerstone of the Maudsley approach. In addition, participants will explore other effective food-related interventions with families and with individual patients. This is an advanced course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe how parents can effectively use re-feeding methods.
- Demonstrate three techniques that improve a child’s eating behaviors.
- Create a treatment plan that is compatible with the Maudsley approach.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-12
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Feminine Cycle: The Role of Menstruation in the Etiology and Treatment of ED
Course Presenter | Anita Johnston, PhD
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Course Description |
This Eating Disorder Course explores how modern western culture’s disregard for the significance of menarche has contributed to the emergence of eating disorders and negative body image in girls and women. Ways of addressing this in a clinical setting will be given. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List the 3 archetypal transitions in the feminine life cycle.
- Describe how the devaluation of the menstrual cycle can contribute to negative body image & eating disorders.
- Discuss the challenges for women with eating disorders at different stages of the menstrual cycle.
- Describe the inner resources available at different stages of the menstrual cycle.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-03
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Mindful Eating Journey
Course Presenter | Donald Altman, MA, LPC
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Course Description |
This Eating Disorder Course and workshop shows how to engage clients in an inspiring and integrative view of food. You’ll explore the principles of mindful eating and discover what it means to eat mindfully.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the principles of 'mindful eating'.
- Recite the definition of hunger within the context of 'mindful eating'.
- Demonstrate the 4-mindfulness bite method for slowing down and sensing food.
- This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-06
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Weight Bearing Years: Eating Disorders and Body image Despair in Adult Women
Course Presenter | Margo Maine, PhD, FAED
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Course Description |
Contemporary women experience unprecedented pressures, multiple roles and stressors, and unreasonable standards for perfection. The Body Myth falsely promises that control of weight, shape, and eating, will satisfy their needs and appetites, resulting in increased eating disorders. This Eating Disorder Course and workshop addresses the unique clinical issues and needs of adult women. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss patterns of eating disorders and body image despair currently seen in adult women.
- Prepare clinical approaches to treat adult eating disorders and body image despair.
- Discuss the implications for prevention, outreach, and professional training.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-15
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Understanding and Treating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
Course Presenter | Ann Kearney-Cooke, PhD
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Course Description |
Ann Kearney-Cooke, psychologist and leading authority in body image and self-esteem issues, will discuss new and time-tested approaches from her years as a researcher and practitioner in the eating disorder treatment field in her Eating Disorder Course at e-Summits. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Integrate motivational interviewing into nutritional counseling.
- Discuss how body image and self-esteem issue contribute to the eating disorder pathology.
- Generate new practice ideas using research findings and lessons learned from evidence-based programs.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: LV-10-04
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Get A Grip: The Importance of Emotional Regulation
Course Presenter | Pat Love, EdD
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Course Description |
A common misperception regarding emotional regulation is that it is synonymous with anger management. The truth is, it is far more than that. Emotional regulation is the ability to feel good, positive, optimistic, centered and/or happy at any given point. Even when life goes against your plans, emotional regulation skills enable you to choose hopefulness rather than despair. But far more than a psychological practice, emotional regulation is a healthy behavior with powerful psychoneurological consequences. Explore the scientific rational for managing your emotions and teaching your clients to do the same by taking e-Summits Emotional Health Course with Dr. Love. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the practice of emotional regulation.
- List one common misconception related to anger.
- Describe the purpose of anger as it relates to emotional health.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-03
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Getting Your Life in Flow: The Essence of Happiness
Course Presenter | Reid Wilson, PhD
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Course Description |
Physician heal thyself! In this Emotional Health Course and training have fun with Dr. Wilson as you learn how to feel more satisfied about your past, optimistic about your future and engaged in the present. Find out how to avoid burnout….The goal – to help your clients do the same! This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List the proven benefits of happiness to health and well-being.
- Describe four dimensions of gratitude that can be strengthened.
- Compare the traits of optimism vs. pessimism.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-22
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Practicing Empathy with Difficult Clients
Course Presenter | Brene Brown, PhD
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Course Description |
As helping professionals, regardless of our field of practice, empathy and use-of-self are our primary tools. Our success depends on our ability to develop meaningful and deep connections with our clients. In this Emotional Health Course and workshop, we will discuss some of the major barriers to practicing empathy - especially with clients who use disconnection as a primary strategy for self-protection. We will also talk about the critical role that empathy plays in shame resilience and what specific strategies can be used to address disconnection and increase empathy and connection. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Demonstrate the skills associated with practicing empathy.
- Describe the differences between empathy, sympathy and sympathy-seeking.
- List four barriers to practicing empathy.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-05
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Re-Purposing in Dual Disorder Patients: Using Coaching Tools to Rapidly Generate Perspective, Hope and Momentum
Course Presenter | Robert Johnson, DO
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Course Description |
Working on impairments is important and necessary, but by itself is insufficient for sustained growth and sobriety. To sustain one’s initial passion for recovery, individuals need to uncover a clear and compelling sense of purpose, and discover the blessing of a new, vital assignment for their lives. They also need the ability to grapple with what their life's larger calling is at each subsequent stage of their lives. In this Emotional Health Course, participants will explore how strategies from the coaching adult developmental model can be used to work creatively in the “gap” between the patient’s current state and their desired state. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Compare the traditional medical model with the coaching/adult-developmental model.
- Utilize simple graphs and other coaching tools to improve client motivation, engagement and enthusiasm.
- Explain how the “gap” between patient’s current state and desired state can be used as an assessment tool.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-13
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Neurobiology of Misbehavior: Addiction, Risky Thrill Seeking, and Dry Drunk Behavior
Course Presenter | Robert Johnson, DO
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Course Description |
We don’t change when our life depends on it, but will risk everything for a brief high. This Emotional Health Course will enhance participants' understanding of seemingly risky and faulty decision-making in substance abusers, and show how common neurobiological pathways involved in the thirst for adventure and meaning can be leveraged in the service of long-term recovery. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss brain-based factors that can derail recovery momentum.
- Explain how normal brain development predisposes susceptible individuals to addicting behaviors.
- Utilize a treatment pathway that promotes resilience in the face of inevitable future challenges.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-07
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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What Resilient Individuals Do: Implications for Psychotherapists
Course Presenter | Don Meichenbaum, PhD
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Course Description |
“What do resilient individuals do”? What behaviors do they have and what behaviors do they not engage in? This advanced Emotional Health Course and training explores the dynamic nature of resilience, in both children and adults, and how it relates to people in the world today. It will examine the implications for Psychotherapists, as a way to bolster resiliency. Dr. Meichenbaum stresses key concepts of resilience as they relate to interventions. Following a focused discussion of the evidence of resilience in traumatized adults, Dr. Meichenbaum will also consider the factors that contribute to post-traumatic growth and the implications for treatment. He sites specific examples of psychotherapeutic recommendations from his work he is presently conducting with returning soldiers and their families. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe and give examples of resilience.
- Discuss possible interventions to facilitate post-traumatic growth.
- Discuss ways to reduce vicarious traumatization in mental health providers.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-08
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Law, Ethics and Risk Management
Course Presenter | A. Steven Frankel, PhD, JD, ABPP
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Course Description |
The extent of the legal statutes that pertain to mental health practitioners can be overwhelming. In this Ethics Course Dr. Frankel makes the topic approachable by taking a Risk Management approach and teaching participants where to focus their efforts to reduce their exposure to criminal and civil lawsuits. As both a lawyer and psychologist, he provides a multi-dimensional presentation that is informed, practical, and digestible. This Ethics Course is particularly relevant for those practicing in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington because specific statutes are referenced. However, resources for practitioners from other states are provided to facilitate the finding of state-specific details of the laws that are presented. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe how ""apology statutes"" can be helpful to clinicians.
- Discuss the important principles applicable to therapeutic self-disclosure.
- List the steps recommended for terminating difficult clients.
- Describe the major elements of an ""abuse of transference"" lawsuit.
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CE Credit: 5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-15
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Sorting Through the Toughest Legal and Ethical Issues
Course Presenter | Clifton Mitchell, PhD
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Course Description |
This Ethics Course and training is a must for every therapist and counselors practice. Dr Mitchell begins this training with a basic “ Introduction to Ethics 101.” He then goes in depth into some of the more controversial laws and codes that could be perceived two ways. He talks about how to navigate between your Board(s), Lawyer and Clients. The most insightful are the real case discussions revolving pertinent issues that every therapist and counselor must know. The laws and ethics concerning: email, sex offenders, insurance issues and fraud, date rape, child abuse, statutory rape and “duty to warn” (the Big 4.) This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe current legal and ethical mandates.
- Discuss the mental health professional’s legal and ethical duties regarding a wide array of situations.
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CE Credit: 3 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-04
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Art of Therapeutic Language: Using Priming for Self-Improvement and Client Success
Course Presenter | Clifton Mitchell, PhD
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Course Description |
Most people know more about how to program their DVR than their own mind! In this Learning & Memory Course Dr. Mitchell's presentation will teach you how to program the first computer you ever owned--your mind. This entertaining, educational presentation teaches the primary principles governing how your mind-computer works and provides the essential tools for effective mind-management. Understanding these principles will radically intensify the impact of your counseling communications upon clients and increase your therapeutic effectiveness. In addition, these principles provide you with the mental tools necessary for molding yourself into the person you want to be and for reaching your personally desired goals. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Explain the role 'priming' plays in mental processing.
- Utilize priming techniques in the client-therapist dialogue.
- Create effective mental programming to help clients reach their desired goals.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-16
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Development of the Social and Spiritual Brain
Course Presenter | Cardwell C. Nuckols, PhD
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Course Description |
In this Learning & Memory Course, Dr. Nuckols will address the spiritual evolution of the brain when an individual moves along a course toward spiritual conversion (including 12-Step and other spiritual disciplines.) Much of the change is attributed to the right hemisphere and its link to consciousness. Also emphasized will be the transitional ego state and the development of the physiology of the spiritually-based right hemisphere as seen in the serenity of recovery. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the function of the ego from an Eastern philosophical perspective.
- Describe the development of the more spiritually based right hemisphere.
- Describe techniques for developing a more spiritually-based brain.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-16
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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After the Affair: Trauma to Reconnection, Does it have to be this Hard?
Course Presenter | Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
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Course Description |
This Marriage & Divorce Course gives a language to the avalanche of emotion couples experience with infidelity. You’ll learn concrete, practical strategies for helping them absorb this trauma and think thoughtfully about whether and how to stay together. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe three psychological losses experienced by the hurt party when an affair is discovered.
- Describe strategies to facilitate a hurt party's decision whether to reconcile with a spouse after an affair.
- Describe common challenges faced by couples who decide to recommit after an affair.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-13
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Helping Couples Heal: The Intimate Dance of Forgiveness
Course Presenter | Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD, ABPP
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Course Description |
This Marriage & Divorce Course reframes forgiveness as an intimate dance between the two people held together by an interpersonal violation. In this workshop, Dr. Spring will spell out exactly what offenders must do to earn forgiveness, and what hurt parties must do to foster forgiveness. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe techniques that can be used by therapists to help offenders earn forgiveness.
- Describe techniques that can be used by therapists to help hurt parties grant forgiveness.
- Describe the process of forgiveness from an interpersonal, not intrapersonal, framework.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-12
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Internet Sex, Infidelity and Working with Betrayed Spouses
Course Presenter | Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
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Course Description |
Working with angry, hurt and emotionally-violated spouses offers unique clinical challenges that are often more comfortably avoided than taken on directly. In this Marriage & Divorce Course, Rob will discuss ways in which therapists often mishandle the issue of profound relationship betrayal. He will offer an approach that more fully meets the needs of spouses, including providing direction, education, validation, emotional support, and a willingness to hear the voice of an angry heart. He will also present a thorough discussion about the process of Disclosure, which is a difficult, but necessary step in moving a couple damaged by infidelity toward healing. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List 3 ways that clinicians most commonly misdiagnose those suffering from relationship betrayal.
- Describe guidelines for working with couples experiencing profound relationship betrayal.
- Compare long-term symptoms of a personality disorder and shorter-term reactivity related to adult trauma.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-20
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Love in the Time of Twitter: Neuroscience, Relationships in the Age of Social Media
Course Presenter | Pat Love, EdD
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Course Description |
It’s not your imagination. Twenty-first century love relationships are more difficult to maintain—mainly due to proximity, i.e. ease of access to an unlimited number of partners made possible by the social media. Never before in our history have we been able to meet and greet others with such privacy and privilege. This presents challenge as well as opportunity. Without a working knowledge of the role of neurotransmitters in general and dopamine in specific, perfectly good relationships can be subject to risk and ruin. Lecture, video and written assessments will be used in this vital and timely Marriage & Divorce Course. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the role of dopamine in the experience of infatuation.
- List three side effects of oxytocin.
- List three reasons why mechanically enhanced sexual stimulation is subject to abuse.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-02
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Post Infidelity Stress Disorder (PISD): A Mindful Path Through the Trauma of Infidelity
Course Presenter | Dennis Ortman, PhD
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Course Description |
Do you have clients and patients that are PISD? Otherwise known as Trauma caused from Infidelity. In this groundbreaking training, learn the symptoms of Post Infidelity Stress Disorder (how one partner’s discovery of the other’s affair has a traumatic impact on the betrayed partner and children with symptoms akin to PTSD.) In this Trauma Course Dr. Ortman details how to apply steps to healing from the trauma of infidelity leading to an authentic forgiveness of oneself and one's partner. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Summarize the traumatizing effects that infidelity can have on the family.
- List the different types of affairs.
- Apply a treatment approach that will lead to authentic forgiveness.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-04
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Post Infidelity Stress Disorder (PISD): Infidelity as a Traumatic Experience
Course Presenter | Dennis Ortman, PhD
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Course Description |
Do you have clients and patients that are PISD? Otherwise known as Trauma caused from Infidelity. In this groundbreaking training, learn the symptoms of Post Infidelity Stress Disorder and how to help your client. In this Trauma Course Dr Ortman examines how one partner’s discovery of the other’s affair has a traumatic impact on the betrayed partner and children with symptoms akin to PTSD. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Summarize the traumatizing effects that infidelity can have on the family.
- Compare symptoms of PTSD to the post-infidelity experience.
- Apply a treatment approach that will lead to inner healing of the betrayed partner.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-05
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | TBD |
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Sexy Body, Sexy Brain: The New Brain Science
Course Presenter | Pat Love, EdD
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Course Description |
At birth, each individual is given a sexual setpoint which influences sexual arousal and desire patterns. A person with the 'sexy brain' style experiences arousal and desire in a manner which differs significantly from the individual with the 'sexy body' style. Therefore it is vital that expectations as well as sexual techniques honor these differences. Understanding biological differences between and among men and women will improve relationships as well as personal happiness. In this Relationship Course enjoy acquiring personal and professional insight through research, brain science, humor and real life examples. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List the hormone driving the sexy body style of sexual arousal and desire.
- List the hormone driving the sexy brain style of sexual arousal and desire.
- Describe two common characteristics associated with the sexy body style of sexual arousal and desire.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-01
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Wired for Connection: Helping Families Develop Authenticity and Resilience in Anxious Times
Course Presenter | Brene Brown, PhD
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Course Description |
Way too many families today are experiencing tremendous anxiety. In this Relationship Course Dr. Brown explains that It’s a result of having to face increasing volatile shifts in our social world. As a result of the anxiety, we now are seeing children and parents struggling with many of the same issues: addiction, depression, violence, bullying, behavioral health crises, and increases in pervasive feelings of disconnection. This enlightening course offers solutions as Dr. Brown explains the impact of focusing our family systems intervention around the concepts of connection, love and belonging. She is strong in her message of how authenticity and resilience are vital components of connection and belonging. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the central role that love and belonging, authenticity, and resilience play in family systems.
- Explain the relationship between authenticity, resilience, and anxiety.
- Explain why shame is a critical barrier to authenticity and resilience.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-02
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Dissociative Structural Model: A way of Understanding PTSD
Course Presenter | Colin Ross, MD
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Course Description |
In this PTSD Course, Dr. Ross explains the Structural Model of Dissociation. He will show how concepts of dissociation can be used to bring together PTSD symptomology and the extensive comorbidity that accompanies it within a single psychological structure. From this model, an integrated treatment plan is presented using case examples. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the problem of comorbidity in PTSD.
- Explain the application of the dissociative structural model to PTSD.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-03
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Not in My Neighborhood: Understanding and Working with Functional Sex Offenders
Course Presenter | Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
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Course Description |
Finally, here it is a simple Sex Addition Course for the lay therapist and counselor. This course explains the basic clinical understanding, into the internal world and sexual acting-out behaviors, of non-violent sexual offenders, by expert Robert Weiss. The material will provide a review of most sexual offending behavior by category and then discuss the various treatment methods and long-term direction and management of such clients. Issues such as recidivism, arrest, child offenders and the challenges of the Internet will be woven into the training. Common myths and cultural assumptions about sexual offenders will be introduced and discussed. Direction for further education and community resources for support will be offered.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe three non-violent, sexual-offending behaviors.
- Assess individuals for non-violent, sexual-offending behaviors.
- Discuss common prejudices against the sexual-offender population. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-01
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Sexual Health: A New Ally for Improving Drug and Alcohol Treatment
Course Presenter | Douglas Braun-Harvey, MFT, CGP
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Course Description |
While great strides have been made in treating women and men suffering from addiction, their sexuality is too often marginalized. Keeping sexuality away from a central focus of recovery for the large number of addicts with sex/drug-linked patterns of combining crystal meth, cocaine, alcohol and club drugs with sexual relations leads to treatment failure, relapse, and untold costs in the lives of addicts and their families. Sexual Health in Drug and Alcohol Treatment is an evidence-based intervention for all treatment settings, approaches, and clientele. The psycho-educational group curriculum in this Sexuality Course is designed to increase client retention, identify sexual thoughts and feelings associated with increasing or decreasing risk of relapse and reduce sex/drug-linked shame—a common cause of relapse. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Summarize the history of support for sexual health education within public health policy in the United States.
- Discuss how evidence-based sexual health interventions can improve client retention within all treatment settings.
- Discuss the importance of reducing sex/drug-linked shame on relapse prevention.
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CE Credit: 3 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-11
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Understanding the Connection Between Eating Disorders, Religious Abuse, & Sexual Abuse
Course Presenter | Leo Booth, MTH
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Course Description |
In this Religious Addiction Course, Rev. Leo explores an often undiscussed link between sexually addictive behavior and the cycle of guilt and shame that stem from Religious Abuse. Dysfunctional messages concerning the expression of sexuality often have their roots in religious upbringing. For the individual, the consequences of disrupting these centuries-old expectations can carry an unfathomable weight. Rev. Leo will close by providing a healthy understanding of Spirituality that has the power to heal Religious Abuse. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List five examples of toxic religious messages.
- Explain how these messages create covert behavior and unhealthy secrets.
- Describe the relationship between religious abuse and sexual addiction.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-05
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Untangling the Web Part 1: Understanding the Problem of Internet Sex and Pornography Addiction
Course Presenter | Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
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Course Description |
This Sex Addiction Course is designed to offer clinical insight into the problems of men and women who struggle with sex and pornography addictions. It provides an overview into the history and current issues surrounding compulsive sexuality, Internet sex and the challenges faced by spouses and couples who present with these concerns. The Sexual Addiction Cycle will be presented in detail along with related issues of shame and emotional detachment. A discussion about Cybersex and how the evolution of the communication age has affected the acting out of sexual addicts will conclude this session. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the diagnostic criteria for sexual addiction
- Outline the origins of sexually addictive behaviors
- Describe the Sexual Addiction Cycle
- List the consequences of Cybersex compulsivity
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CE Credit: 3 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-10
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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A Mindful Approach to Therapy: Freud Meets Buddha
Course Presenter | Dennis Ortman, PhD
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Course Description |
In this Therapeutic Mindfulness Course and training, Dr. Ortman describes how conventional talk-therapy can be greatly enhanced by the inclusion of concepts of Mindfulness. Through using both research summaries and experiential exercises, Dr. Ortman demonstrates techniques such as meditation, present-moment awareness, and acceptance and shows how this will improve therapy and both short- and long-term treatment outcomes. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the concept of Mindfulness.
- Compare and contrast conventional talk-therapy approaches with mindful approaches.
- Explain how 'acceptance' is the goal of 'mindfulness'.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-08
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Developing Your Moral Intelligence: The Royal Road to Full Recovery - Parts 1 and 2
Course Presenter | John Bradshaw, MA,MSP,THA
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Course Description |
In this Therapy Course John Bradshaw will use the material from his new book Reclaiming Virtue to show you how to develop and enrich your moral intelligence and help your clients do the same. Based on the latest findings of Neuroscience, you will learn how your mind can change your brain. You will learn how to develop your emotions and use them for precise decision making, how to be free of binding toxic shame, and how to develop your imagination to help you find new and better alternatives in this original and cutting edge work. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the history of moral development from a philosophical perspective.
- Demonstrate three techniques to use your mind to change your brain.
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CE Credit: 3 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-10
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Eliminating Self-defeating Behaviors: A Cognitive Behavioral Model
Course Presenter | Robert Ackerman, PhD
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Course Description |
In this Therapy Course and training discover how self-defeating behaviors may have once helped a person survive a crisis, but now cause harm by limiting the client from the potential to develop healthy behaviors. Some examples of self-defeating behaviors include procrastination, defensiveness, perfectionism, under-achievement, and so on. Using a cognitive behavioral approach, Dr. Ackerman will show you how you can help your clients reduce their self-defeating behaviors and replace them with life enhancing skills. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe how self-defeating behaviors are developed and maintained.
- List three techniques used to replace self-defeating behaviors with life-fulfilling ones.
- Apply self-defeating theory to clients who have survived crisis situations or dysfunctional families.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-26
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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EMDR: Trauma Therapy Power Tool
Course Presenter | Laurel Parnell, PhD
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Course Description |
In this EMDR Course and training Dr. Parnell describes EMDR's discovery and development, EMDR's theoretical model, the structure of an EMDR processing session, and presents cases from her books. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful and effective therapy for treating trauma-based problems. This revolutionary therapy has helped thousands of people recover from such traumas as war, accidents, assaults, disasters and childhood abuse. In addition to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, EMDR is also used to treat the psychological effects of smaller traumas that manifest as symptoms of depression, anxiety, phobias, low self-esteem, creativity blocks and relationship difficulties. There are more controlled research studies on EMDR for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder than any other therapy-most with positive results. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss how large and small traumas affect the body and mind.
- Assess clients for potential EMDR treatment effectiveness.
- Describe the structure of an EMDR session.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-17
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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From Positive Psychology to Effective Psychotherapy
Course Presenter | Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT
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Course Description |
Positive Psychology has swept through the therapy field and popular culture, but this research-based model doesn’t readily translate into practical therapeutic moves. In this Therapy Course and training, Bill O’Hanlon, perennially creative and psychotically optimistic, will show how the research on happiness and the good life can be implemented within the therapy room. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss the latest research on happiness and life satisfaction.
- Create practical therapeutic interventions based on this research.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-02
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Fundamental Principles for Preventing and Resolving Psychological Resistance
Course Presenter | Clifton Mitchell, PhD
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Course Description |
You will rethink your definition of resistance after listening to Dr Mitchell. He asks the question, “Is resistance in your client or you?” In this Psychological Resistance Course you will learn advanced approaches for managing resistance when it is encountered in the therapeutic process. The focus is on the most common errors therapists make that foster resistance and techniques to overcome these errors. Dr Mitchell walks you through how to break these non-productive critical therapeutic exchanges. He reviews specific tools to help in this change: slowing down during sessions, learning how to become naïve and puzzled to get the information you need, how to deal with “Yes, but…” responses and how to plant seeds of positive behavior. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe common errors therapists make that promote client resistance.
- Use methods for managing “Yes, but…” responses from clients.
- List 4 resistance-management tools.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-03
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Influence of Attachment Organization on Addiction and Recovery
Course Presenter | Donna Markus, PHD
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Course Description |
In this Therapy Course, Dr. Markus will explore how an addict’s early attachment experiences may be driving (or derailing) their treatment progress. Neuroscience supports that insecure attachment to the primary caregiver can cause ‘attachment breaches’ on the brain. Those who have insecure attachment styles can often have difficulty establishing positive, supportive relationships that are critical for treatment success and relapse prevention. Having a better understanding of your client’s attachment style can help you anticipate treatment challenges and identify your client’s potential difficulties with affect regulation. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the 4 primary attachment styles.
- Explain how attachment organization is related to affect regulation.
- Explain how attachment organization is related to social support.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-11
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Maximizing Critical Junctures in Therapeutic Dialogue
Course Presenter | Clifton Mitchell, PhD
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Course Description |
You will re-think your definition of clinical resistance after taking this Psychological Resistance Course with Dr. Mitchell. Defining therapeutic resistance in a new way Dr Mitchell teaches techniques for moving through critical junctures in the therapeutic dialogue. Specifically, addressed are the perils of over questioning, managing “I don’t know” responses, responding to challenges, silence and defining goal setting with a new approach. Dr Mitchell teaches how to ask therapeutic questions using specific proven technique. All therapeutic junctures are discussed from the perspective of minimizing resistance and altering the dialogue style to maximize the potential for movement. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Explain the pitfalls of over-questioning when working with resistant clients and
- Utilize alternative dialogue styles to avoid question laden dialogue and reduce resistance.
- Describe approaches for managing direct challenges from clients.
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CE Credit: 3 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-06
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | TBD |
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Resource Tapping: Activating your Healing Resources through Bilateral Stimulation
Course Presenter | Laurel Parnell, PhD
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Course Description |
In this EMDR Course, suitable for anyone but especially geared to mental health, medical and education professionals, you will learn how to begin using Resource Tapping—a powerful, highly effective Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)-related technique that harnesses the power of imagery and bilateral body stimulation to achieve deep healing. Through lecture and experiential exercises, Dr. Laurel Parnell, a world-renowned, pioneering EMDR teacher, will show us how to use the basic, breakthrough tools of this clinically recognized system, which has demonstrated the capacity to build resilience, aid in healing, and calm the body on a deep physiological level. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Utilize inner resources for stress-relief and healing.
- Describe the basic principles of Resource Tapping.
- List the four most commonly used resources accessed with 'tapping'.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-18
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Solution-orientated Approaches to Rapid Change: Drawing on Positive Psychology and the New Brain Science to Make your Work More Joyful and Effective
Course Presenter | Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT
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Course Description |
Recent years have seen a shift in focus from what is wrong with people (diagnosis of deficits and damage) to what is right with people (strengths, competence and abilities). This approach has been validated by recent research findings about the plasticity of the brain and on what makes us happy and gives our lives meaning. Translating this research into practical interventions isn't always obvious.
In this inspiring and informative Therapy Course, Bill O'Hanlon helps the therapist translate the latest research findings into practical interventions for their patients and provides tools to more rapidly join with clients and help them change. It can make your clinical work easier, more cooperative and more joyful. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List three findings from Positive Psychology that can help make cinical work more effective.
- Use five methods of dissolving resistance.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-04
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Trauma Model Therapy: Principles and Strategies
Course Presenter | Colin Ross, MD
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Course Description |
Trauma Model Therapy involves a mix of cognitive-behavioral and expressive therapies. It is suitable for a wide range of Axis I and II disorders and addictions, particularly when extensive co-morbidity is present. In this Trauma Course Dr. Ross will present an overview of the model and discuss it's practical application. Treatment strategies and techniques will be illustrated through case examples. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Explain the scientific structure of the Trauma Model.
- Explain the two core principles of Trauma Model Therapy.
- Describe treatment strategies used in Trauma Model Therapy and provide examples.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-06
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Attachment-focused EMDR: A Client-centered Therapy for Healing Childhood Trauma and Neglect
Course Presenter | Laurel Parnell, PhD
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Course Description |
In this EMDR Course, Dr. Parnell presents the five basic principles of Attachment-Focused EMDR and how they are implemented in the treatment of traumatized clients with attachment wounds. Case material and video clips of sessions will be used to illustrate key points. Attachment-focused EMDR is a new model of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) developed over a period of nineteen years by EMDR trainer Dr. Laurel Parnell. This model adapts this powerful and effective trauma therapy to the needs of clients with attachment wounds. In this training, Dr. Parnell explains how the standard EMDR protocol can be modified so that it flows more easily, supports client safety, maintains the therapeutic connection, and enhances attunement. Attachment-focused EMDR is client-centered and emphasizes a reparative therapeutic relationship, using a combination of Resource Tapping (Parnell, 2008) to strengthen clients, EMDR to process traumas and talk therapy to help integrate the information from the EMDR sessions and to provide healing from therapist-client interaction. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List the four most commonly used resources accessed with 'tapping'
- Discuss modifications recommended from the standard EMDR with clients who have attachment wounds.
- Describe the basic principles of Attachment-Focused EMDR.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-16
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Integrating Mindfulness into Trauma Therapy
Course Presenter | John Briere, PHD
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Course Description |
Buddhist Mindfulness practices reflect a 2,500 year old model for the remediation of psychological suffering. Much more recently, Western psychology has developed techniques for treating the effects of trauma. This Mindfulness Course outlines ways in which these two surprisingly compatible approaches can be integrated in Trauma Therapy. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Discuss mindfulness contributions to the practice of 'affect regulation'.
- Describe four methods to integrate mindfulness into your practice.
- Describe the three pathways to trauma treatment.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-13
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Mud, Water and Light: Introspection, Myth and Recovery Metaphors
Course Presenter | Robert Chapman, MSSW, LADAC, CRPS
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Course Description |
In this experiential Addiction Course, Bobby uses an environmental metaphor to explore the important role of introspection and reflection in the recovery process. Participants will journey to three introspective destinations, 1) the mud, which represents powerlessness and surrender, 2) the marshes – those learned survival skills that stem from dysfunction, and 3) the caverns -- those deepest of childhood issues and traumas. Metaphor is a powerful and engaging tool that can enhance your view of recovery and offer an engaging mode of healing for your clients. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe three phases of introspection and the therapeutic benefit of addressing each in recovery.
- Describe the role of ‘powerlessness’ in recovery.
- Describe how substitute addictions are a natural part of the recovery / relapse process.
- Describe the role that the internal / external locus of control has in the recovery / relapse process.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-06
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Neuroscience and Brain Imaging of Trauma-related Mental Disorders
Course Presenter | J. Douglas Bremner, MD, PhD
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Course Description |
The past decade has seen an explosion in the application of neuroimaging sciences to abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related psychiatric disorders. In particular, neuroimaging, including PET and MRI technologies, has been useful in mapping out the neural circuitry of trauma-related disorders. Brain images have also been used to show that hippocampal volume and memory deficits have reversed following antidepressant treatment in PTSD. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Summarize key brain imaging research findings in PTSD and trauma-related disorders.
- Describe a case in which the practical application of brain imaging has been used to benefit clients.
- Describe how the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex and amaygdala are affected in cases of PTSD.
- Describe how the above brain regions can be physically changed as a result of treatment.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-11
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics and Other Traumas
Course Presenter | Robert Ackerman, PhD
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Course Description |
This Adult Children Course will focus on the concerns, emotions, and recovery issues for adult daughters of alcoholics and other dysfunctional families. The workshop is based on Dr. Ackerman’s research and work with more than 1,200 women in the United States. Identification of problems for adult daughters and intervention techniques will be presented. The training will focus on the positive and as well as the negative characteristics and behaviors of adult daughters with a special emphasis on the transitions necessary to achieve a more balanced and healthy life. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List the three most common problems for adult daughters of alcoholics/ dysfunctional families.
- Compare common issues for adult daughters of alcoholic/ dysfunctional mothers compared to adult daughters of alcoholic/ dysfunctional fathers.
- Describe the transitions needed in treatment and recovery for adult daughters.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-27
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Reconsidering Trauma: Treatment Advances, Relational Issues and Mindfulness
Course Presenter | John Briere, PHD
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Course Description |
In this Trauma Course, Dr. Briere provides an overview of the simple and more complex effects of psychological trauma. He outlines recent developments in the treatment of post-traumatic difficulties including relational processing, titrated exposure, cognitive reconsideration, and mindfulness interventions. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe recent advances in professional understanding of complex trauma.
- List the advantages of a “components approach” to complex posttraumatic outcomes
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-14
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Science Based Treatment of Early Life Developmental Trauma
Course Presenter | Cardwell C. Nuckols, PhD
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Course Description |
Take a look at the population you treat. No matter whether it is a criminal justice, alcohol and drug or psychiatric population, the recidivists will have a high incidence of early life trauma. Research is teaching us more and more about this population. However, research is only useful when it can be translated into clinically useful technique.
This skills training event will focus on the treatment of early life developmental trauma. In this Trauma Course emphasis will be placed on the understanding of current research from such disciplines as neurobiology, neuropsychology and attachment theory. Practical treatment techniques translated from the research will give participants hands-on skills that can be used to better client understanding and clinical outcomes. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe empirically validated ways of treating early life trauma.
- Discuss the treatment of hyperarousal and dissociation.
- Describe how therapy can override the neurobiological fear response.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-14
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Link Between Trauma, Depression and Borderline Personality Disorder
Course Presenter | Colin Ross, MD & Melissa Engle, MS, ATR
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Course Description |
Dr. Ross and Melissa Engleprovide an in-depth advanced training on the Trauma Model. Trauma Model Therapy involves a mix of cognitive-behavioral and expressive therapies. It is suitable for a wide range of Axis I and II disorders and addictions, and for the extensive co-morbidity common in borderline personality disorder. In this Trauma Course Dr. Ross shows us the link between trauma, depression and borderline personality disorders. Dr. Ross gives his enlightening perspective and adds his humor regarding our diagnostic system known as the DSM; as it relates to his Trauma Model. Melissa spends the second half of this two part advanced Trauma Course and training discussing the many treatment strategies and techniques and will illustrate these through case examples, and case consultations. The Trauma Model is meant to integrate the treatment process. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- List the core principles of Trauma Model Therapy
- Describe the Spectrum of Emotions and its role in recovery.
- Utilize treatment techniques for borderline personality and depression using the Trauma Model.
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CE Credit: 6 Hours
Course ID: SD-09-09
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Science of Recovery: Applying Neuropsychology and Neuroscience to Your Practice
Course Presenter | Cardwell C. Nuckols, PHD
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Course Description |
This Neuroscience Course and skills training event will give participants an understanding of the neuroscience and neuropsychology of recovery from addictive disorders. From this profound understanding, psychotherapeutic and pharmacological techniques will be described that can assist in early recovery. This assistance is in the areas of cognitive enhancement, increased motivation and management of craving. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Understand genetic changes that take place in both addiction and recovery.
- Understand the relationship between Dopamine D2 receptors and alcohol/drug consumption.
- Discuss how wellness activities can positively impact brain functioning.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-15
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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The Trauma Lives On: Adult Children of Unfaithful Parents
Course Presenter | Dennis Ortman, PhD
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Course Description |
In this Trauma Course, Dr. Ortman will demonstrate how to recognize the effects of parental infidelity in adult clients and how to address it as part of a therapy program by using case studies. Dysfunction often pervades in family units where there has been a major violation such as an infidelity. Parents cannot help but be caught up in the emotional aftermath, and may suffer from depression, anxiety, detachment, numbing, and a number of other symptoms. Depending on their developmental stage, children will adopt different coping styles and ways of relating to their emotionally-damaged parents which can have long-standing consequences after the immediate trauma of the infidelity is over. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe dysfunctional relational styles that can develop as a result of parental infidelity.
- Describe attachment styles of emotionally healthy and unhealthy adults.
- Describe behavioral patterns of adults who may be unconsciously affected by past parental infidelity.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-09
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Time to Say Goodbye: Ending Trauma Relationships
Course Presenter | Laurie Pearlman, PhD
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Course Description |
In this Therapy Course, Dr. Pearlman describes why the ending of a long-term therapy relationship is an integral piece of the work to be managed, within the same frame and with the same thoughtfulness as the rest of the therapy. Because attachment (and therefore abandonment) issues are often central in therapies with complex trauma clients, poorly managed endings can create retraumatization. Dr. Pearlman offers tools and techniques to manage a smooth transition. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe common challenges when terminating therapies with attachment-challenged clients.
- Design a respectful therapeutic process for ending therapies with trauma survivors.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-19
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Trauma and Neuroscience: The Connection
Course Presenter | J. Douglas Bremner, MD, PhD
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Course Description |
The past two decades have seen a rapid expansion of knowledge about the effects of traumatic stress on the brain. Studies have shown that traumatic stress is associated with hippocampal memory deficits, fear response in the amygdala, and reasoning ability in the pre-frontal cortex. In this Neuroscience Course, Dr. Bremner will provide an overview of the current state of knowledge in this area, using brain images and examples to convey complex concepts in simple terms. This is an advanced course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the role brain areas including hippocampus, amygdala and prefrontal cortex play in the development of trauma-related disorders.
- Explain mechanisms of fear acquisition and extinction and their relevance to PTSD and related disorders.
- Discuss the role of animal models in learning about the effects of stress on the brain.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-12
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Trauma Model Therapy in Treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Course Presenter | Colin Ross, MD
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Course Description |
Trauma Model Therapy involves a mix of cognitive-behavioral and expressive therapies. It is suitable for a wide range of Axis I and II disorders and addictions, and for the extensive co-morbidity common in patients with PTSD. In this Trauma Course Dr. Ross shows us the link between trauma, PTSD and other common co-morbid conditions in patients who present with PTSD symptoms. Treatment strategies and techniques will be illustrated through case examples. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the problem of comorbidity in PTSD.
- Describe the core principles of Trauma Model Therapy for PTSD.
- Discuss treatment strategies for PTSD using case examples.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: SV-10-08
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Understanding and Treating Complex Psychological Trauma
Course Presenter | John Briere, PHD
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Course Description |
This Trauma Course presents a non-pathologizing, developmentally-informed approach to the treatment of complex posttraumatic presentations in older adolescents and adults. This “self-trauma model” incorporates cognitive-behavioral, relational, and mindfulness principles to support (a) the processing of implicit and explicit traumatic memories through titrated exposure (aka the therapeutic window), (b) the development of increased self-capacities (especially identity and affect regulation), (c) the reworking of activated relational schema and other implicit memories within the therapeutic relationship, and (d) an increased capacity to experience distress and cognitive intrusions without judgment or excessive reactivity. The technical importance of a positive, attuned therapeutic relationship will be stressed. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the concept of titrated exposure.
- List three components of titrated exposure.
- Describe the role that mindfulness can play in the treatment of complex posttraumatic disorders.
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CE Credit: 1 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-15
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Vicarious Trauma: Protecting the Front Line
Course Presenter | Laurie Pearlman, PhD
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Course Description |
In this Trauma Course, Dr. Pearlman will provide therapists and others who support trauma survivors with a framework for understanding the negative impact trauma work can have upon the helper. Such a framework allows helpers to protect themselves from premature job shifts and harmful shifts in their own world views, to protect their helping relationships from the boundary violations that can occur as a result of unaddressed vicarious traumatization (VT), and to preserve the personal relationships of trauma workers from the stress of the helper's unresolved work-related issues. Special attention will be paid to the process of vicarious transformation, a positive transformation in the helper that comes about through empathic engagement with the traumatized people they attempt to assist and active engagement with the negative changes in helpers that come about in response to trauma work. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Compare vicarious traumatization with compassion fatigue.
- List four factors that contribute to vicarious trauma.
- Discuss three ways to cope with vicarious trauma.
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CE Credit: 1.5 Hours
Course ID: CH-10-20
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | $30.00 |
Audio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | $20.00 |
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Untangling the Web Part 2: Understanding the Problem of Internet Sex and Pornography Addiction - Coming Soon
Course Presenter | Robert Weiss LCSW, CSAT-S
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Course Description |
This workshop is designed to offer clinical insight into the problems of men and women who struggle with sex and pornography addictions. It provides an overview into the history and current issues surrounding compulsive sexuality, Internet sex and the challenges faced by spouses and couples who present with these concerns. The Sexual Addiction Cycle will be presented in detail along with related issues of shame and emotional detachment. A discussion about Cybersex and how the evolution of the communication age has affected the acting out of sexual addicts will conclude this session. This is an intermediate course intended for practicing clinicians.
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Learning Objectives |
- Describe the diagnostic criteria for sexual addiction
- Outline the origins of sexually addictive behaviors
- Describe the Sexual Addiction Cycle
- List the consequences of Cybersex compulsivity
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CE Credit: 3 Hours
Course ID: SC-09-10-2
Course Type: Online
Video Course | Regular Tuition: | $45.00 | | Special: | TBD |
Coming SoonAudio Course | Regular Tuition: | $30.00 | | Special: | TBD |
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