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Proven Strategies To De-Escalate Anger & Violent Episodes
UPDATE: This workshop is clinical presentation with techniques that can be used in practice. In this one-day clinical workshop, Dr. Nuckols will provide proven strategies and techniques to alter angry emotion, hostility and potentially violent behavior into positive corrective experiences.…
Mindfulness & Beyond: Essential Clinical Skills
The trend of mindfulness research is sweeping the medical field. Is it radical enough? What is the latest research in mindfulness? How does the Buddhist perspective influence the way we see suffering and how we can best serve others? After…
2 Day DBT Intensive: Using DBT To Treat Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally designed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). In recent years it has been increasingly used to treat many other disorders because of its usefulness in treating clients unable to manage emotions. Following…
The Magic of Sand Trays
Because children are still developing, they lack the vocabulary and cognitive abilities to not only understand their world but discuss and process their experiences. Individuals who have experienced trauma often experience impairment to Broca’s area which is, in part, responsible…
Proven & Effective Play Therapy Strategies with Children, Adolescents & Children of All Ages
This workshop will teach attendees how to use Play Therapy as an incredible method of communication and diagnostics. It will teach you how to interpret the ways in which children and adolescents play, the importance of what they play with/what…
The Science of Emotion
*NEW* Suitable for Adult Focused Clinicians There is much focus today on children’s emotions. Constructs like emotional intelligence, emotional self-regulation, emotional well-being and emotional social learning are being bandied about like never before. Emotion, long dismissed as a nuisance factor,…
Advanced Training 2 Day Intensive – Understanding & Helping Behaviourally Challenging Kids: Collaborative & Proactive Solutions
ADVANCED TRAINING | TWO-DAY INTENSIVE The 2 day intensive training provides participants with the opportunity to study key facets of solving problems collaboratively, including coverage and practice in specific areas of implementation in school and clinical settings. Because exposure to…
The Science of Emotion
*NEW* Suitable for Adult-Focused Clinicians There is much focus today on children’s emotions. Constructs like emotional intelligence, emotional self-regulation, emotional well-being and emotional social learning are being bandied about like never before. Emotion, long dismissed as a nuisance factor, is…
Proven & Effective Play Therapy Strategies with Children, Adolescents & Children of All Ages
This workshop will teach attendees how to use Play Therapy as an incredible method of communication and diagnostics. It will teach you how to interpret the ways in which children and adolescents play, the importance of what they play with/what…
Proven & Effective Play Therapy Strategies with Children, Adolescents & Children of All Ages
This workshop will teach attendees how to use Play Therapy as an incredible method of communication and diagnostics. It will teach you how to interpret the ways in which children and adolescents play, the importance of what they play with/what…
Proven & Effective Play Therapy Strategies with Children, Adolescents & Children of All Ages
This workshop will teach attendees how to use Play Therapy as an incredible method of communication and diagnostics. It will teach you how to interpret the ways in which children and adolescents play, the importance of what they play with/what…
25+ Proven & Effective Thinking and Self-Regulation Strategies For Children and Adolescents with Sensory Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Anxiety & ADHD
This one-day activity-focused workshop provides you with 25+ effective thinking & self-regulation strategies to use in the classrooms, home or clinical practice. These activities help you better understand and intervene with children who have challenges with executive function, sensory processing,…
CBT 2 Day Boot Camp: Practical Treatment Strategies That Will Help Your Clients Improve Tomorrow
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the most empirically supported therapeutic app roach for multiple psychiatric disorders. It is widely considered the “gold standard” treatment for a variety of issues. Most mental health professionals claim to do “some CBT,” but many clinicians…
Smart But Scattered: Strengthening Executive Skills in Children & Adolescents
Executive function is a neuropsychological concept referring to the cognitive processes required to plan and direct activities. Skills include task initiation and follow through, working memory, sustained attention, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and goal-directed persistence. While the ground-work for…
Smart but Scattered: Strengthening Executive Skills in Children & Adolescents
Executive function is a neuropsychological concept referring to the cognitive processes required to plan and direct activities. Skills include task initiation and follow through, working memory, sustained attention, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, and goal-directed persistence. While the ground-work for…
Advanced CBT for Insomnia & With Comorbid Conditions: A Client-Centred, Evidence-Based Approach
Many clinicians are familiar with the basic strategies of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia, but when it comes to implementation in their practice, they can become stuck when encountering difficult cases. The solution to this problem is to provide advanced…
Two-Day DBT Intensive: Using DBT to Treat Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally designed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). In recent years it has been increasingly used to treat many other disorders because of its usefulness in treating clients unable to manage emotions. Following…
Two-Day DBT Intensive: Using DBT to Treat Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally designed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD). In recent years it has been increasingly used to treat many other disorders because of its usefulness in treating clients unable to manage emotions. Following…
Emotional Disorders: Practical Strategies for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Anxiety, Depression, Anger, and Perfectionism
This workshop provides an in-depth understanding of evidence-based approaches to the conceptualization and treatment of emotional disorders, including anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, trauma, depressive disorders, problem anger, and maladaptive perfectionism. Symposium participants will receive comprehensive training in a…
Advanced CBT for Insomnia & With Comorbid Conditions: A Client-Centred, Evidence-Based Approach
Many clinicians are familiar with the basic strategies of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia, but when it comes to implementation in their practice, they can become stuck when encountering difficult cases. The solution to this problem is to provide advanced…
25+ Proven & Effective Thinking and Self-Regulation Strategies For Children and Adolescents with Sensory Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Anxiety & ADHD
This one-day activity-focused workshop provides you with 25+ effective thinking & self-regulation strategies to use in the classrooms, home or clinical practice. These activities help you better understand and intervene with children who have challenges with executive function, sensory processing,…