Emotional Health

Pat Love, EdD

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.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the practice of emotional regulation.
2. List one common misconception related to anger.
3. Describe the purpose of anger as it relates to emotional health.

Reid Wilson, PhD

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.

Learning Objectives

1. List the proven benefits of happiness to health and well-being.
2. Describe four dimensions of gratitude that can be strengthened.
3. Compare the traits of optimism vs. pessimism.

Brene Brown, PhD

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.

Learning Objectives

1. Demonstrate the skills associated with practicing empathy.
2. Describe the differences between empathy, sympathy and sympathy-seeking.
3. List four barriers to practicing empathy.

Robert Johnson, DO

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.

Learning Objectives

1. Compare the traditional medical model with the coaching/adult-developmental model.
2. Utilize simple graphs and other coaching tools to improve client motivation, engagement and enthusiasm.
3. Explain how the “gap” between patient’s current state and desired state can be used as an assessment tool.

Robert Johnson, DO

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.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss brain-based factors that can derail recovery momentum.
2. Explain how normal brain development predisposes susceptible individuals to addicting behaviors.
3. Utilize a treatment pathway that promotes resilience in the face of inevitable future challenges.

Don Meichenbaum, PhD

“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.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe and give examples of resilience.
2. Discuss possible interventions to facilitate post-traumatic growth.
3. Discuss ways to reduce vicarious traumatization in mental health providers.