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How to Treat Depression: A CBT-Based Perspective
Major Depression. It’s one of the most difficult challenges a person can confront – and one of the most common presentations in clinical settings. It has multiple risk factors, diverse presentations, and varying levels of severity. No two clients are…
2 Day Intensive: Working with Oppositional, Defiant & Anger Issues with Children & Adolescents
Children diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can present a monumental challenge to therapists, teachers, parents and siblings. ODD and other conduct problems are the single greatest reasons for referrals to outpatient and inpatient mental health settings for children, accounting…
2 Day Skills Practice Workshop
Executive skills are sometimes called “the hidden curriculum.” They are skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success, yet curriculum standards seldom if ever explicitly reference these…
2 Day Skills Practice Workshop
Executive skills are sometimes called “the hidden curriculum.” They are skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success, yet curriculum standards seldom if ever explicitly reference these…
2 Day Skills Practice Workshop
Executive skills are sometimes called “the hidden curriculum.” They are skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success, yet curriculum standards seldom if ever explicitly reference these…
2 Day Intensive: Working with Oppositional, Defiant & Anger Issues with Children & Adolescents
Children diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can present a monumental challenge to therapists, teachers, parents and siblings. ODD and other conduct problems are the single greatest reasons for referrals to outpatient and inpatient mental health settings for children, accounting…
Bullies: Their Making and Unmaking
Once we understand how bullies are made, our attempts to unmake them can be truly effective and long-lasting. Most prevailing approaches to this problem assume that bullying is either learned behaviour or the result of failure to acquire social skills.…
2 Day Skills Practice Workshop
Executive skills are sometimes called “the hidden curriculum.” They are skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success, yet curriculum standards seldom if ever explicitly reference these…
Making Sense of Aggression
One of the foremost interpreters of the developmental approach tackles one of the oldest and most perplexing of human problems, exposing its deep developmental roots and revealing why conventional approaches to the problem are so ineffective. There are many indications…
Motivational Interviewing (MI): Essential Strategies and Interventions to Motivate Clients Towards Change
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach to communication that tends to help clients construct their own argument(s) in support of a pre-determined change. Fidelity to this way of focusing a conversation serves to enhance the client’s desires for the identified…
The General and Special Education Summit: Behavioural Challenges, Mental Health and Brain-Based Learning
New Conference Format 10 Internationally Renown Experts 11 Full Day Workshops TOPICS INCLUDE: Peer Orientation: Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers are Disempowered and How to Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships Multi-Model Communication and Learning Strategies…
The General and Special Education Summit: Behavioural Challenges, Mental Health and Brain-Based Learning
Topics Include: Stress Trauma and Learning: How to Develop Brain-Based Interventions Over 30 Proven and Effective Brief Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioural Problems Strengthening Executive Skills to Promote School Success Overcoming Anxiety Disorders in School-Age Children…
The Canadian Mental Health Summit: Advanced Interventions and Strategies For Frontline Professionals
New Conference Format 12 Internationally Renown Experts 15 Full Day Workshops 15 Imperative Topics Relevant to Mental Health Professionals A Letter from Jack Hirose Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce that our annual Canadian Mental Health Summit Conference:…
4 Day Intensive: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and TEAM Techniques
Space is limited! Previous attendees qualify for a special rate $599.00! Join Dr. David Burns this summer in Calgary, AB, for his fabulous four-day intensive on the treatment of depression and all of the anxiety disorders with advanced CBT and…
2 Day Intensive: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is one of the most empirically-supported therapies available to address many clinical disorders, even beyond Borderline Personality Disorder. Some of the key symptoms that DBT skills addresses includes confusion about the self, interpersonal chaos, mood lability,…
Motivational Interviewing Training: Essential Guidelines and Strategies
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach to communication that tends to help clients construct their own argument(s) in support of a pre-determined change. Fidelity to this way of focusing a conversation serves to enhance the client’s desires for the identified…
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Much has been written about mindfulness in recent decades, but clinicians are often left without concrete, practical skills to teach clients in acute distress. Applying the methods of an evidence-based intervention such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), requires in-depth knowledge…
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Much has been written about mindfulness in recent decades, but clinicians are often left without concrete, practical skills to teach clients in acute distress. Applying the methods of an evidence-based intervention such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), requires in-depth knowledge…
Trauma Competency Training
This two-day seminar delivers the bio-psycho-social aspects of traumatic stress, traumatic grief, & traumatic loss. Mental health professionals are on the front lines and, in many cases, have the initial contact with the individual(s) who has experienced traumatic stress. Clinicians…
Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
This workshop has been identified by hundreds of professionals as life changing, essential, and exhilarating. Join Dr. Eric Gentry, a recognized leader in the area of compassion fatigue, and learn evidence-based compassion, resiliency, and prevention skills drawn from the Accelerated…
2 Day Intensive: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques
In The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D presents the most useful psychotherapeutic approaches to generalized anxiety, panic and social anxiety. Via discussion, practice in the seminar, and concise client examples in all age groups, you will learn…
2 Day Intensive: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques
In The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D presents the most useful psychotherapeutic approaches to generalized anxiety, panic and social anxiety. Via discussion, practice in the seminar, and concise client examples in all age groups, you will learn…
Trauma Competency Training
This two-day seminar delivers the bio-psycho-social aspects of traumatic stress, traumatic grief, & traumatic loss. Mental health professionals are on the front lines and, in many cases, have the initial contact with the individual(s) who has experienced traumatic stress. Clinicians…
Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
This workshop has been identified by hundreds of professionals as life changing, essential, and exhilarating. Join Dr. Eric Gentry, a recognized leader in the area of compassion fatigue, and learn evidence-based compassion, resiliency, and prevention skills drawn from the Accelerated…
2 Day Intensive: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques
In The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D presents the most useful psychotherapeutic approaches to stress and generalized anxiety, panic and social anxiety and phobias. Via discussion, practice in the seminar, and concise client examples in all age…