Presented by Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D. and Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D. and Richard W. Sears, Psy.D., Ph.D. ABPP and Jamie R. Forsyth,Ph.D. and John P. Forsyth,Ph.D. and Randy Paterson, Ph.D. and Laurel Parnell Ph.D. and Lisa Ferentz, LCSW, DAPA and Henny Westra, Ph.D. and Eboni Webb, Psy.D., HSP and Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D. and Reid Wilson, Ph.D.,
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019 | Calgary, ab
Important Notice:Online registration is now CLOSED for this conference. You can arrive up to one hour early to register at the door.
Please note both of Dr. Parnell’s workshop times have been extended by 30 minutes, the new workshop times are 9:00am – 4:30pm.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 – Friday, November 22, 2019
9:00am – 4:00pm
Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre
1316 33 St NE, T2A 6B6, Calgary, AB
phone: 403.248.8888
website: www.calgaryplaza.com/
Dear Colleague,
I am pleased to announce that our annual Canadian Mental Health Summit Conference: Advanced Interventions and Strategies for Frontline Professionals will be hosted on November 20, 21 and 22, 2019 in the beautiful city of Calgary, Alberta. This conference will bring together 12 internationally renown experts for 15 full day workshop options.
During the past 20 years, we adopted a variety of conference formats. Last fall in Richmond, B.C., instead of offering morning keynote presentations followed by an afternoon workshop, we decided to offer a series of full day workshops to allow for more in-depth training. The feedback gathered from our conference attendees indicated that the new conference format was a refreshing change and a big success. The goal of our conference each year is to provide practical, useful and stimulating workshop choices that allow front line professionals to enhance their skill set and ultimately help their clients overcome a variety of mental health issues.
We are honoured to co-sponsor this annual event in partnership with the Sunshine Coast Health Centre. The Sunshine Coast Health Centre is one of the top drug rehab and alcohol treatment centres in BC and Canada. They are an innovative and effective program and have adopted a non 12 step approach to help men recover from addiction as well as trauma and PTSD. We are extremely grateful to have aligned with a organization that supports and values quality training for mental health professionals.
Over the past 20 years, our annual conference has trained over 10,000 frontline mental health professionals. Our world renown line up of guest presenters will address imperative topics such as: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety and Depression Management Techniques, CBT Strategies: Core Skills and Competencies to Treat Your Most Challenging Clients!, Attachment Focused EMDR: Healing Developmental Deficits and Adults Abused as Children, Post-Traumatic Growth: Leading Clients on a Journey of Resiliency and Healing, Treatment and Management of Personality Disorders, Harnessing the Transformative Power of Mindful Acceptance (ACT), Failure to launch: Overcoming Delays in Independence, Advanced Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness-Based CBT, Grief Therapy and Quest for Meaning, Dialectical Behaviour Skills Training (DBT) for Mental Health Professionals, Stopping the Noise: Practical Strategies to Help Clients with Panic, Generalized Anxiety, Phobias and OCD.
Our yearly conference is shaping up to be one of our best ever! Mark this event on calendar and I hope to see you at the conference in Calgary.
Regards,
Jack Hirose, MA
Conference Director
Workshop #1 | Anxiety Management Techniques | Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D.
Workshop #2 | CBT Strategies: Core Skills and Competencies to Treat Your Most Challenging Clients! | Dr. Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D., Diplomat with the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and President of the CBT Institute of Oklahoma
Workshop #3 | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy | Dr. Richard Sears, Psy.D., Ph.D., Director of the Centre for Clinical Mindfulness and meditation. UC College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.
Workshop #4 | Harnessing the Transformative Power of Mindful Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) | Dr. John P. Forsyth, Ph.D., Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the University of Albany. Dr. Jamie R. Forsyth, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, clinical supervisor and trainer
Workshop #5 | Failure to Launch: Overcoming Delays in Independence | Dr. Randy Paterson, Ph.D., Founder of Vancouver’s Changeways Clinic and author of “How to be Miserable in Your Twenties: 40 Ways to Avoid Adulting.
Workshop #6 | Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Developmental Deficits and Adults Abused as Children – Attachment-Focused EMDR (Part 1 of 2) | Dr. Laurel Parnell, Ph.D, One of the world’s leading experts on EMDR. Clinical psychologist and best selling author.
Workshop #7 | Post-Traumatic Growth: Leading Clients on a Journey of Resiliency and Healing | Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, Founder of Ferentz Institute, international presenter and consultant.
Workshop #8 | The 10 Best Ever Depression Management Strategies | Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D, Curriculum Development Director for Candeo’s online Depression and Anxiety Program
Workshop #9 | Treatment and Management of Personality Disorders: The Challenge of the Hidden Agenda | Dr. Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D., Diplomat with the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and President of the CBT Institute of Oklahoma
Workshop #10 | Advanced Motivational Interviewing: Using Deliberate Practice To Develop Skills in M.I. (Part 1 of 2) | Dr. Henny Westra, Ph.D, Professor in the department of psychology at York University in Toronto. Is the author of the book “Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Anxiety” She has published over 80 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
Evening Session | Problems of Meaning: Treating Trauma and Addiction | Geoffrey R. Thompson, Ph.D. is Program Director at the Sunshine Coast Health Centre, where he developed a meaning-centred therapy for clients suffering from addictions and co-occurring disorders.
Workshop #11 – Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Developmental Deficits and Adults Abused as Children – Working with Adults Abused as Children (Part 2 of 2) | Dr. Laurel Parnell, Ph.D, One of the world’s leading experts on EMDR. Clinical psychologist and best selling author.
Workshop #12 | Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training for Mental Health Professionals | Dr. Eboni Webb, Psy.D., Owner Kairos Mental Health Cooperative, advisor to the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy National Certification and Accreditation Association
Workshop #13 | Advanced Motivational Interviewing: Using Deliberate Practice To Develop Skills in M.I. (Part 2 of 2) | Dr. Henny Westra, Ph.D, Professor in the department of psychology at York University in Toronto. Is the author of the book “Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Anxiety” She has published over 80 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
Workshop #14 | Grief Therapy and Quest for Meaning | Dr. Robert Neimeyer, Ph.D, is a professor in the Psychotherapy Research Area of the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, where he also maintains an active clinical practice. He is the author of 25 books and 400 articles.
Workshop #15 | Stopping the Noise: Practical Strategies to Help Clients with Panic, Generalized Anxiety, Phobias and OCD | Dr. Reid Wilson, Ph.D, is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine. Founding Clinical Fellow of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) and Fellow of the Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies.
Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants, School Counsellors, Behaviour Specialists, Rehabilitation Consultants, Geriatric Specialists, and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
9:00am - 4:00pm November 20, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
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 methods to manage anxiety that work in every clinical population. Even experienced clinicians will come away with tools to help clients resolve their anxiety symptoms.
Drawing on the latest research for the neurobiological basis of anxiety to explain why psychotherapy is so effective, Dr. Wehrenberg demonstrates comprehensive techniques to stop rumination, eliminate panic and prepare people to participate in social environments without distress.
Among the 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques are methods that manage the physiological aspects of anxiety: stress, the dread and agitation of generalized anxiety, panic attacks, and the nervous system-based blushing, sweating and shaking of social anxiety. You will get information about ruling out causes of anxiety and physical conditions that mimic anxiety.
You will be able to apply tools to eliminate the distressing cognitive features of anxiety, such as rumination, catastrophic thinking, and cognitive errors with tools such as “Contain Your Worry”, “Worry Well and Only Once” and “Knowing, not Showing Anger”. You will be able to identify and correct for the typical issues of procrastination and perfectionism as they appear when caused by generalized anxiety disorder. But also, you will be able to apply the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation as it affects and directs both desensitizing panic cues and the creation of effective social anxiety exposures.
Through case examples, description of methods that will include “Knowing, Not Showing Anger”, “Contain Your Worry in Time,” and 3 mindfulness practices to minimize distress. Dr. Wehrenberg will provide a look at the research that supports the efficacy of these treatment methods and give an opportunity to practice several of the methods, including 5 breathing techniques to manage anxiety, 2-minute relaxers, “Clear the Mind” of worry, the ‘Heart Lock-In’ from Heart math, and Emotional Freedom Technique, among others. This seminar is suited to any clinician who has clients with anxiety, and it will aid the newer therapist to be effective with anxious clients of every age as well as strengthen the skills of even the most experienced clinician.
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Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist, author, and international trainer. She is a practicing psychotherapist and coaches professionals for anxiety management. Margaret has been a trainer of therapists for 25 years, and she is a sought-after speaker for continuing…
More information: margaretwehrenberg.com
9:00am - 4:00pm November 20, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the most empirically supported therapeutic approach for multiple psychiatric disorders, and is widely considered the “gold standard” treatment for a variety of issues. Most mental health professionals claim to do “some CBT,” but many clinicians in the trenches resort to a more “eclectic” approach and treatment often loses direction. Leave this 1-day intensive breakthrough course with international CBT expert Dr. Jeff Riggenbach with core competencies, transformed clinical skills, and an improved understanding of conceptualization based treatment that will ensure you never get stuck in therapy again.
You will be able to utilize concrete strategies for helping your clients who suffer from:
Through case studies, interactive discussions, role-plays, and reproducible handouts, you will take away practical CBT strategies to use immediately with any client. Leave this conference armed with tools you can use in your very next session!
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Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D. is a best-selling and award winning author who has earned a reputation as an international expert in CBT and personality disorders. Over the past 20 years he has developed and overseen CBT-based treatment programs for Mood disorders,…
9:00am - 4:00pm November 20, 2019
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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 and personal experience. MBCT is an 8-session program first developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale, and has been shown to cut relapse rates for depression in half. It has been shown to be helpful for such issues as stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and PTSD, and is also beneficial for clinicians themselves. Join mindfulness expert Dr. Richard Sears, author of Building Competence in MBCT, as he personally guides you through all of the techniques and principles of MBCT through lecture, discussion, and experiential exercises. This in-depth experiential workshop will foster skills and concepts that you can immediately apply in all of your clinical work.
Foundations of MBCT
Principles
Awareness and Automatic Pilot
Living in Our Heads
Gather the Scattered Mind
Recognize Aversion
Allow/Let Be
Thoughts are Not Facts
How Can I Best Take Care of Myself?
Maintaining and Extending New Learning
Adaptations of MBCT for:
Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks
Evaluations
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Compile the underlying mechanisms that make mindfulness techniques effective for stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, pain, and addiction.
2. Breakdown the role of thoughts in perpetuating symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression as it relates to ruminating thoughts and behaviours in clients.
3. Describe the brain changes associated with mindfulness practice to explain to clients the scientific effectiveness of practicing mindfulness.
4. Connect how mindfulness builds upon and refines the evidence-based principles of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
5. Incorporate mindfulness practices into traditional CBT thought records to help alleviate clients of intrusive, obsessive compulsive thoughts.
6. Utilize specific mindfulness-based techniques to help clients disengage from the narrative of negative thoughts and emotions.
7. Organize the eight session structure used MBCT program in your own clinical setting.
8. Differentiate between the group process in MBCT vs. CBT to avoid clients’ cycles of struggling with distressing thoughts and feelings.
9. Practice guiding a client through a 3-minute mindfulness exercise to improve the consistency of conscious choices rather than automatic reactions when distressed.
10. Explore the use of decentering skills with a client, in a session, in the reduction of worry and ruminations.
11. Apply the three steps of the mindful inquiry process, after the mindfulness exercise is over, to help clients more quickly internalize the skills and attitudes that allows them let go of struggle and make conscious choices.
12. Adapt the MBCT curriculum to different client populations, including children, as it relates to treatment considerations.
Richards W. Sears, Psy.D., Ph.D., ABPP is a board certified clinical psychologist in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he runs a private practice and conducts regular MBCT groups for medical centres as well as for the community. He is director of the…
More information: www.psych-insights.com
9:00am - 4:00pm November 20, 2019
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Acceptance and mindfulness-based practices are rapidly making their way into mental health care, medicine, and society both to alleviate human suffering and nurture psychological health and wellness. This body of work also offers a fresh perceptive on psychological suffering and a set of powerful clinical strategies that support meaningful life changes. In this workshop, we will learn about one particular approach and set of practices based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (or ACT, said as one word).
ACT is a newer third-generation evidence-based behaviour therapy that balances mindfulness and acceptance processes with commitment and behaviour change processes to (a) weaken the unhelpful influence of thoughts and emotional avoidance in guiding actions, while (b) promoting greater experiential and psychological flexibility in the service of (c) valued ends. It is both a form of therapy and an approach to living well, with evidence showing that it is useful for many forms of psychological and emotional suffering. In short, ACT teaches clients how to be with their hurts and do what works – to live well, richly, and meaningfully, without first having to defeat sources of emotional and psychological pain.
This 1-day workshop will introduce ACT, both as a model and intervention technology, and illustrate its use across a broad set of problem areas that are commonly seen in mental health settings (e.g., anxiety, depression, anger). The workshop will include a rich mix of didactic teachings, live and video demonstrations, and practical experiential exercises that will be done individually, in dyads, and small groups. Clinical worksheets and other practical tools will be provided.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
John P. Forsyth, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized author, speaker, researcher, and trainer in the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and practices that cultivate mindfulness, loving kindness, and compassion. For over 20 years, his work has focused on…
More information: https://www.drjohnforsyth.com/
Jamie R. Forsyth, Ph.D. is an active and gifted clinician and clinical supervisor, with extensive expertise in the use and application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with severe forms mental illness (e.g., psychosis and personality disorders) and forms of…
More information: https://www.drjohnforsyth.com/
9:00am - 4:00pm November 20, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Parents who formerly worried about “empty nest syndrome” might today worry more that their children will never leave home. In countries around the world, increasing numbers of young people – particularly males – are having difficulty navigating the transition from adolescence to adult self-sufficiency. They remain isolated, avoidant, jobless or underemployed, and a-motivational – often staying in their childhood home into their 30s. The causes are numerous: economics, internet connectivity, changes in parenting, features of the educational system, and more. Yet the issue is infrequently studied, perhaps because it does not fit neatly into a diagnostic category. Despite this, clinicians are increasingly seeing these individuals – or their parents – in therapy. At Change ways Clinic in Vancouver, Dr Randy Paterson has been working with failure-to-launch cases for over 20 years. In this one day workshop, he reviews the nature of the problem, the factors that seem to contribute, and a wide variety of interventions drawn from cognitive therapy, behavioural activation approaches, and attachment theory. Whether you work with these young people directly, or see the parents struggling with a too-long-occupied nest, this program will provide you with perspectives and techniques to help.
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Randy Paterson, Ph.D, R.Psych. is a psychologist and the founding director of Changeways Clinic, a private psychotherapy service in Vancouver BC. He is the author of How to be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use, The Assertiveness Workbook, Your Depression…
More information: www.randypaterson.com
9:00am - 4:30pm November 21, 2019
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Over the last two decades, EMDR has emerged as one of the most powerful clinical tools available to trauma therapists. In this workshop, Dr. Laurel Parnell will teach you how to integrate an attachment focus into EMDR and to use EMDR in combination with a variety of complementary techniques.
Much of this workshop is built around videos of actual clinical sessions conducted by Dr. Parnell. These videos bring the training to life: participants can see, not just hear about, how the ideas and procedures they’re learning are used with real patients in the real world. Dr. Parnell is an EMDRIA Approved Basic Training Provider as well as an experienced and highly skilled therapist. Her workshops are as enjoyable as they are instructive, and consistently receive rave reviews.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES (Day 1 & 2):
Upon completion of this workshop, attendees will be better able to:
DAY 1 COURSE OUTLINE:
Attachment-Focused EMDR: Basic Principles, Video Taped Demonstrations and “Resource Tapping”
In this part of the workshop you will learn to use the five basic principles of attachment-focused EMDR. For many traumatized patients, attachment repair is a critically important component of successful treatment – a component that can be accomplished effectively and efficiently by using EMDR within a positive therapeutic alliance. Videotaped demonstrations, discussion, and practice will help you define the differences between attachment-focused EMDR and a more traditional approach. In addition, Dr. Parnell will emphasize how the technique called “Resource Tapping” can be used to repair developmental deficits as well as to help prepare clients for trauma processing work. You will watch Dr. Parnell use Resource Tapping, will have a chance to practice the technique yourself, and will learn how to integrate it with EMDR.
While no prior EMDR training is required to attend, eligibility for EMDRIA credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved basic EMDR training. This workshop is not considered an EMDR Basic Training course. Completion of EMDR basic training is recommended and important to the comprehension of this workshop’s content. Those attendees with only partial training are not eligible to receive EMDRIA credits. If you are not already EMDR trained, it is recommended that you complete the full EMDR basic training and have training and experience in working with EMDR and this population before using this material.
This workshop is not considered an EMDR Basic Training Course. Completion of EMDR basic training is recommended and important to the comprehension of this workshop’s content.
Laurel Parnell Ph.D. is one of the world’s leading experts on EMDR. A clinical psychologist, she has trained thousands in EMDR in her international workshops. Dr. Parnell is the author of Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing…
More information: www.emdrinfo.com
9:00am - 4:00pm November 21, 2019
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Become empowered as a trauma clinician! Learn from expert trauma clinician Lisa Ferentz how to shine a spotlight on your clients’ resiliency and creativity – while planting the seeds of hope and Post-Traumatic Growth even in the earliest stages of therapy! When we work with traumatized clients we often feel compelled to stay focused on the inevitable byproducts of PTSD. As we look for the ways in which clients have been adversely affected by their trauma, it can inadvertently narrow our sense of who they are, and solidify their identities as “damaged” or “broken.” Although helping clients to reconnect with and process their pain and grief is important, this workshop takes you further. You will learn respectful and powerful ways to weave the concepts of Post-Traumatic Growth into the treatment process. Using moving and inspiring case examples and videos made by clients we will identify the tangible markers of post-traumatic growth including:
• a new way of relating to others
• the capacity to believe in new possibilities
• the rediscovery of personal strengths
• a newfound appreciation for life
Participants will have many opportunities to practice creative strategies including: somatic resourcing; journaling; drawing; two –handed writing; and guided imagery and visualizations all designed to install and strengthen hope, growth, and healing in clients and therapists alike.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and self-harm and has been in private practice since 1984. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United…
More information: www.theferentzinstitute.com
9:00am - 4:00pm November 21, 2019
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Depression is painful. Ruminating thoughts, lethargy, and increasing alienation from others create a negative internal and external environment. Those symptoms actively interfere with carrying out basic demands of daily life. While depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, there are different causes. Treatment options run a gamut that includes new technologies to directly affect brain activity, advances in stress management, improved tools to relieve the impact of childhood trauma and focus on developing resilience.
How does a therapist know where to get started in the treatment? In this seminar, identifying four different kinds of depression, you will master 10 strategies to jump start therapy and provide immediate relief of symptoms. You will be able to set the stage for longer term recovery.
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9:00am - 4:00pm November 21, 2019
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Individuals with personality disorders have long been considered the most challenging clients presenting in the clinical setting. Many patients lack motivation, most begin with poor insight, and some have such deeply engrained dysfunctional beliefs, unhealthy coping skills, and destructive behavioural patterns that continue to frustrate providers, family members, and consumers alike. Many professionals even continue to view them as untreatable.
However, there is hope. Emerging research suggests this is simply not the case. DBT, CBT, and Schema Therapy have paved the way in pioneering new attitudes and outcomes related to treating these conditions.
Join leading exert in the field of personality dysfunction Dr. Jeff Riggenbach for this enjoyable training chock full of the latest research, techniques, and practical strategies. This powerful workshop will give you a new ability to help struggling individuals deal with issues related to self-injurious behaviours, multiple suicide attempts, frequently hurt feelings, intense and unpredictable mood swings, substance use, angry outbursts, toxic relationships and other problems that impair their ability to function in society. Leave this day long training with an integrated DBT/CBT /Schema Informed approach to treating these cases and giving clients with even the most complex needs a life worth living.
9:00am - 4:00pm November 21, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an empirically supported treatment that has been shown to enhance engagement and outcomes (especially long-term outcomes) for numerous clinical problems. It is a brief, client-centered therapy aimed at understanding and resolving ambivalence to change. MI has been shown to be effective in the treatment of addictions and numerous other health and mental health problems. This workshop will show you how to integrate MI techniques into your practice so you can help clients/patients identify the road-blocks that keep them stuck and enhance their motivation for change.
Prepare to roll up your sleeves and work as this workshop is highly interactive. This novel program has recently been reconstructed to be consistent with the latest training innovation in our field, namely the concept of “Deliberate Practice”. Deliberate Practice is the method used to train everyone from musicians, to athletes, to surgeons and it is now being applied to psychotherapy training. It involves the use of repeated feedback to actual specific scenarios and simulations in order shape and improve trainee responding. You will learn through involvement in a variety of engaging exercises & will grow in your skills as you get feedback about how to respond to those often complex and difficult scenarios. Scenarios include ambivalence, resistance, and even client hostility/anger across a wide variety of clinical domains (anxiety, eating disorder, addictions, health behaviours, etc.). Emphasis is placed on using videotape and other exercises to slow down and break down the complex process between client and therapist to help you identify moment-to-moment markers of ambivalence and resistance and then brainstorm effective responses to enhance client engagement. Emphasis is also placed on managing your own emotional reactions in these challenging encounters. You will also have the chance to apply and extend your learning to manage specific scenarios and client resistance statements you have encountered in your own clinical work and unique context.
We have even subjected this newly constructed workshop using deliberate practice methods to scientific scrutiny in order to assess (rather than assume) its actual training value. In a recent study, participants showed large increases in empathy and in MI-consistent responding to video vignettes of ambivalent, resistant, and critical clients from pre to post-workshop. They also showed improvements in their emotional reactions to difficult clients, including feeling more positive, less afraid, and less uncertain about how to respond to challenging resistant clients. Their overall satisfaction with the workshop was extremely high.
COURSE OBJECTIVES (Day 1 & 2):
DAY 1 MORNING COURSE OUTLINE:
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Henny Westra, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University in Toronto. Prior to this she was the Clinical Director of the Anxiety and Affective Disorders Service at the London Health Sciences Centre. She has published over 80…
6:00pm - 8:00pm November 21, 2019
The evening session is open to all conference attendees and the general public at no cost.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
According to research, about half of those who suffer from trauma also suffer from addiction, and about half of those who suffer from addiction also suffer from trauma. This presentation describes a meaning-centred therapy (MCT) for trauma and addiction. While MCT includes psychiatric, medical, and body therapies, it puts a special focus on helping clients make sense of their struggles and find ways to live a fulfilling life despite biological and environmental limitations.
Dr. Thompson’s talk invites the audience to look more deeply at those suffering from trauma and addiction—not so much as clinical cases, but as suffering human beings who experience life as empty and insignificant. The solution to their suffering is not merely to reduce harm or learn new coping skills; it’s to pursue personally meaningful lives.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Geoffrey R. Thompson, Ph.D. is Program Director at the Sunshine Coast Health Centre, where he developed a meaning-centred therapy for clients suffering from addictions and co-occurring disorders. He has published journal articles, chapters, and books on addiction, including co-editing The…
9:00am - 4:30pm November 22, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Over the last two decades, EMDR has emerged as one of the most powerful clinical tools available to trauma therapists. In this workshop, Dr. Laurel Parnell will teach you how to integrate an attachment focus into EMDR and to use EMDR in combination with a variety of complementary techniques.
Much of this workshop is built around videos of actual clinical sessions conducted by Dr. Parnell. These videos bring the training to life: participants can see, not just hear about, how the ideas and procedures they’re learning are used with real patients in the real world. Dr. Parnell is an EMDRIA Approved Basic Training Provider as well as an experienced and highly skilled therapist. Her workshops are as enjoyable as they are instructive, and consistently receive rave reviews.
COURSE OBJECTIVES ( Day 1 & 2):
Upon completion of this workshop, attendees will be better able to:
DAY 2 COURSE OUTLINE (Day 2 will be built on the content provided on Day 1):
Attachment-Focused EMDR: Working with Adults Abused as Children
Dr. Parnell will present standard EMDR protocols in addition to modified protocols to work effectively with this very challenging population. Victims of early abuse may easily become distressed, dissociated, or avoidant. EMDR therapists may need a specific and advanced understanding of the EMDR method, as well as additional skills, to work with them successfully. Topics addressed during the day will include: how to modify standard EMDR procedural steps with patients abused as children when necessary; developing appropriate targets; recognizing and dealing with blocked processing; using interweave strategies, working with abreactions, dissociation and memory chaining; and much, much more. Participants will leave with an array of new insights, ideas, perspectives, and techniques that will help them be more effective with victims of childhood abuse.
While no prior EMDR training is required to attend, eligibility for EMDRIA credits is restricted to those who have completed an EMDRIA-Approved basic EMDR training. This workshop is not considered an EMDR Basic Training course. Completion of EMDR basic training is recommended and important to the comprehension of this workshop’s content. Those attendees with only partial training are not eligible to receive EMDRIA credits. If you are not already EMDR trained, it is recommended that you complete the full EMDR basic training and have training and experience in working with EMDR and this population before using this material.
This workshop is not considered an EMDR Basic Training Course. Completion of EMDR basic training is recommended and important to the comprehension of this workshop’s content.
9:00am - 4:00pm November 22, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective form of treatment for clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). However, many of these individuals have rarely developed life skills to build a proactive and responsive life versus a defensive and reactive one. Dr. Eboni Webb will introduce a holistic approach to treatment and will expand on key concepts including skills acquisition, daily practice, and generalization. These skills are critical for our clients to develop an effective interdependent adult life. Dr. Webb will provide a brief discussion of DBT and its relationship to the Biosocial model, the neurological impact of trauma on the developing brain and how to address specific diagnoses via the skills. She will discuss the importance of integrating DBT skills at the earliest point of treatment and utilizing skills as a foundation for life.
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Neurobiological Building Blocks
Creating the Learning Container
The Foundational Skills: Mindfulness & Dialectics
Naming to Tame: Emotion Regulation
Thriving in a Crisis: Distress Tolerance & Self-Compassion
Connection in Community: Interpersonal Effectiveness
Eboni Webb, PsyD, HSP, earned her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology (MSPP). She began her clinical work as assistant clinical director and program director at Mental Health Systems, PC (MHS), one of the largest providers…
9:00am - 4:00pm November 22, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an empirically supported treatment that has been shown to enhance engagement and outcomes (especially long-term outcomes) for numerous clinical problems. It is a brief, client-centered therapy aimed at understanding and resolving ambivalence to change. MI has been shown to be effective in the treatment of addictions and numerous other health and mental health problems. This workshop will show you how to integrate MI techniques into your practice so you can help clients/patients identify the road-blocks that keep them stuck and enhance their motivation for change.
Prepare to roll up your sleeves and work as this workshop is highly interactive. This novel program has recently been reconstructed to be consistent with the latest training innovation in our field, namely the concept of “Deliberate Practice”. Deliberate Practice is the method used to train everyone from musicians, to athletes, to surgeons and it is now being applied to psychotherapy training. It involves the use of repeated feedback to actual specific scenarios and simulations in order shape and improve trainee responding. You will learn through involvement in a variety of engaging exercises & will grow in your skills as you get feedback about how to respond to those often complex and difficult scenarios. Scenarios include ambivalence, resistance, and even client hostility/anger across a wide variety of clinical domains (anxiety, eating disorder, addictions, health behaviours, etc.). Emphasis is placed on using videotape and other exercises to slow down and break down the complex process between client and therapist to help you identify moment-to-moment markers of ambivalence and resistance and then brainstorm effective responses to enhance client engagement. Emphasis is also placed on managing your own emotional reactions in these challenging encounters. You will also have the chance to apply and extend your learning to manage specific scenarios and client resistance statements you have encountered in your own clinical work and unique context.
We have even subjected this newly constructed workshop using deliberate practice methods to scientific scrutiny in order to assess (rather than assume) its actual training value. In a recent study, participants showed large increases in empathy and in MI-consistent responding to video vignettes of ambivalent, resistant, and critical clients from pre to post-workshop. They also showed improvements in their emotional reactions to difficult clients, including feeling more positive, less afraid, and less uncertain about how to respond to challenging resistant clients. Their overall satisfaction with the workshop was extremely high.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES (Day 2 will be built on the content provided during Day 1):
DAY 2 MORNING COURSE OUTLINE (Day 2 will be built on the content provided during Day 1):
DAY 2 AFTERNOON COURSE OUTLINE:
9:00am - 4:00pm November 22, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
As contemporary models of bereavement have become more nuanced and empirically informed, so too have the practices available to grief counsellors and therapists.
This 1-day workshop offers in-depth training in several of these techniques, nesting them both within the therapy relationship and in the context of current theories and research that provide flexible frameworks for intervention.
Making extensive use of actual clinical videos as well as how-to instruction in the use of numerous therapeutic tools, we will discuss and practice several methods for helping clients integrate the reality of the loss into the ongoing story of their lives, while also reconstructing their continuing bond to their loved one.
Beginning with a discussion of the power of presence as a fundamental dimension of the therapeutic “holding environment,” we will consider how we can quickly assess our clients’ needs, particularly when they struggle with complicated, prolonged grief symptomatology. We will then discuss how to foster a safe relational container for a healing “re-telling” of the loss experience, anchoring such work in both contemporary meaning reconstruction and dual process models and related research.
Drawing on clinical videos of clients contending with losses through cancer, sudden accident and suicide, we will learn to listen between the lines of the stories clients tell themselves and others about the death to grasp more fully the unvoiced meaning of their grief, and how we can help them integrate the event story of the death into the larger narrative of their lives. Participants should conclude the session with sharpened skills for clinical assessment, a clearer appreciation for the challenge to meaning and spiritually associated with violent death bereavement, and an expanded toolbox for using metaphor, body work and a variety of narrative procedures for helping clients make sense of the loss and their response to it.
Robert A. Neimeyer, Ph.D. is a professor in the Psychotherapy Research Area of the Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, where he also maintains an active clinical practice. Since completing his doctoral training at the University of Nebraska in 1982,…
9:00am - 4:00pm November 22, 2019
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Therapists are supposed to make clients safe and secure, creating a cozy haven from a cruel world, right? Well, when it comes to treating anxiety and OCD, growing evidence shows that the quickest, most effective approach involves instructing them to ramp up their fears while telling themselves how much they welcome the experience.
Join internationally-recognized expert and author Reid Wilson, Ph.D. to study what cutting edge research is showing us about the possibility of rapid change. Dr. Wilson will outline the treatment strategy, step-by-step, and illustrate each stage with brief, professionally videotaped segments of therapist-client interaction within the first two sessions of treatment.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
You will learn…
Reid Wilson, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Centre in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. He is author of Stopping the Noise in Your Head: The New Way to Overcome Anxiety and Worry and the…
More information: anxieties.com
| Registration | Early bird Fee | Regular Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Individual 1 Day Enrollment | $249 | $269 |
| Individual 2 Day Enrollment | $449 | $469 |
| Individual 3 Day Enrollment | $639 | $659 |
| Group 3-7 | $619 | $639 |
| Group 8-14 | $599 | $619 |
| Group 15+ | $579 | $599 |
| Full-Time Student | $579 | $599 |
All fees are in Canadian dollars ($CAD).
Fees do not include applicable taxes (5% GST).
Early bird cutoff date: November 17, 2019
The early bird date has passed. Regular rates apply.
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Jack Hirose & Associates is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Jack Hirose & Associates maintains responsibility for the program.
† The Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) and the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Social Workers (NLASW) accept CPA-approved CEUs.
* Participants will receive a certificate of completion after every workshop. Workshops are pre-approved for 5.5 or 6 credits per day unless otherwise specified.
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