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The Many Pathways to Healing Conference: Clinical Interventions in the Treatment of Trauma, Grief & Loss
Presented by Christina Zampitella, Psy.D., FT and Jennifer Patterson, Psy.D., LCPC and Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 – Friday, November 15, 2024 | Calgary, ab
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Date & Location
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 – Friday, November 15, 2024
8:30am – 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/
Registration on this page is for live in-person attendance only. To attend virtually please register here: https://webinars.jackhirose.com/product/many-pathways-to-healing-ab/
Live In-Person Conference
- Complimentary tea, coffee and assorted pastries
- On-site exhibitors
Please note, in-person registration does not include access to the live stream or recorded footage.
Live Stream from Home
- This conference will be live streaming from Calgary, AB to online participants on November 13 – 15, 2024 from 8:30am – 4:00pm MT
- Recorded footage and all course content will be available until December 16, 2024
- Please allow 5 – 7 business days after the conference has ended for recorded footage to become available
- More information & live stream registration: https://webinars.jackhirose.com/product/many-pathways-to-healing-ab/
Limited quantities are available. Must pre-buy during registration, not available at the door. Individuals with strict dietary needs or preferences can pre-order lunch off the menu through the hotel restaurant. Lunch buffets are non-refundable, no refund or credit will be granted under any circumstance.
Who Should Attend
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.
Day One – November 13, 2024
An Integrated Approach to Treating Complex Trauma
Presented by
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
8:30am - 4:00pm November 13, 2024
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The term trauma is used to describe the challenging emotional consequences experienced by someone who has lived through a distressing event. These consequences can involve Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which has been identified as a global health issue, with prevalence rates ranging from 1.3% to 37.4% (and even higher in clinical populations). But what happens when the trauma occurs early in life, and/or involves on-going or repetitive exposure to traumatic events? In these cases, individuals will often experience Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), and/or dissociative disorders.
As our understanding of trauma continues to evolve, so does our understanding of how to treat it. In this webinar, Sheri Van Dijk will teach some essential perspectives and skills to help you and your clients get unstuck in treatment. In this webinar you will learn the differences between PTSD and C-PTSD before delving into leading edge, evidence-based principles in the treatment of clients experiencing the sequelae of trauma, including theories to inform treatment of clients with complex trauma histories; and skills to help clients ground and regulate emotions.
Engaging with real life examples, you will gain a deeper understanding of how addressing nervous system functioning is a fundamental therapeutic process in improving mood and behaviour and achieving a reduction in symptoms. Special attention will be given to addressing the neurodynamics of PTSD and the crucial role of memory.
At the end of this workshop, you will come away with many powerful tools, understandings and confidence to better assist your traumatised clients on their path to recovery and to live a fuller life.
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW, is a Social Worker who has been working with clients with severe mental health problems since 2000. With extensive experience in a hospital as well as community setting, Sheri now sees clients in private practice, and…
Day Two – November 14, 2024
Normative and Prolonged Grief: Proven and Effective Clinical Interventions to Help Your Clients Process Grief and Loss
Presented by
Christina Zampitella, Psy.D., FT
8:30am - 4:00pm November 14, 2024
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Mental health and healthcare professionals are faced with the often misunderstood and misdiagnosed symptoms of normative and prolonged grief. Formal education rarely, if ever, provides extensive enough training to accurately identify and treat those who are grieving. Unfortunately, grieving clients are diagnosed incorrectly because symptoms can mimic normative or prolonged grief. The grieving process is often pathologized, or misdiagnosed, resulting in potential exacerbation of the presenting issues because inappropriate interventions are utilized. As a result, those who are grieving are often inadvertently disenfranchised by providers, which can make the professional support they sought to reconstruct their previously shattered identities and worldviews ineffective, and even, at time, exacerbate other mental health difficulties. It is essential to be versed in identifying grief related constructs that may underlie, or even cause, mental health and behavior associated problems.
This presentation aims to provide current, research based information on the grieving process, clarify misconceptions of outdated theories, and differentiate between normative and prolonged grief. It also examines the changes in conceptualization, differential diagnosing, and effective, clinically proven interventions that may be utilized with grieving individuals and families. Attendees will leave with an improved clinical skill set they can immediately apply to identify and treat their clients.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Define and differentiate both “normative” and “prolonged” bereavement
- Identify and work effectively with individuals who experience disenfranchised losses
- Describe why the stage model of the grieving process is no longer utilized to inform treatment planning or develop interventions, while introducing modern theories of bereavement processes
- Discuss and describe changes to the DSM-5-TR as it relates to normative and prolonged bereavement
- Learn how to make effective and accurate differential diagnoses to inform appropriate interventions
- Learn and utilize multiple creative, clinically proven effective interventions to support both those with normative and prolonged grief
Christina Zampitella Psy.D., FT is a licensed clinical psychologist, Fellow of Thanatology, founder and owner of The Center for Grief and Trauma Therapy, co-owner and Director of Clinical Services of Integrative Psychology Group. She often works as an adjunct professor and professional…
Day Three – November 15, 2024
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Transcending Traditional Approaches
Presented by
Jennifer Patterson, Psy.D., LCPC
8:30am - 4:00pm November 15, 2024
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this foundational course, participants will embark on a transformative journey into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is a third-wave cognitive-behavioral therapy that transcends traditional approaches by seamlessly weaving together the processes of acceptance, mindfulness, and behavior change principles. Through experiential learning and evidence-based techniques, participants will cultivate a profound understanding of ACT and its practical applications.
Join ACT expert and International trainer Jennifer Patterson, Psy.D., LCPC, for this workshop, where you will develop efficient, evidence-based skills, case conceptualization techniques, and powerful strategies that will improve outcomes for the following:
- Anxiety Issues
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Mood Disorders
- Substance Abuse
- Anger Management
- Eating Disorders
- Trauma
- Personality Disorders
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Develop a deep understanding of the theoretical and philosophical foundation of the ACT model to help clients increase psychological flexibility.
- Expand the knowledge base of ACT as a contextual behavioral science and how it differs from Cognitive Behavioral therapies.
- Detect the six psychological inflexible processes that maintain psychological rigidity and understand how they pull clients away from value-based behaviors.
- Formulate consistent case conceptualizations for ACT to understand avoidance and how it relates to maintaining away moves related to value-based behaviors.
- Utilize ACT case conceptualizations to prepare evidence-based treatment plans to assist with a cohesive treatment approach.
- Utilize the six psychological flexible processes in ACT to facilitate emotional openness and increase psychological flexibility in clients.
- Analyze how ACT attempts to undermine problematic language obstacles and implement clinical skills to assist clients in unhooking themselves from their thoughts.
- Use metaphors, analogies, and experiential exercises to improve clients’ self-understanding and increase value-based behaviors.
- Implement ACT evidence-based protocols and processes into treatment for specific disorders, including depression, anxiety, trauma, and personality disorders.
- Synthesize core ACT interventions, like defusion, mindfulness, acceptance, and the observer self, to increase clients’ value-based behaviors.
- Utilize ACT interventions, like contacting the present moment, to assist with developing observation and awareness skills for your client.
- Explore and integrate the role of self-compassion in the ACT model and utilize exercises to help clients build self-acceptance.
OUTLINE
The ACT Model
- The nature of human suffering
- ”Healthy normality” is a myth
- Language: The double-edged sword
- Undermine unhelpful thoughts
- Aiming for psychological flexibility and why
- The ACT hexagon model
Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks
- Children and adolescents
- Acute, florid hallucinations
- Catatonic depression
- Individuals with an adverse reaction to mindfulness exercises
Acceptance
- Strengthening a willingness to have emotions
- The opposite of acceptance is experiential avoidance
- Experiential avoidance throughout the lifespan
- Why acceptance is important
Defusion
- Look at thoughts rather than from thoughts
- Coping with automatic thoughts
- The power of words
- The problem with cognitive fusion
- Address CBT-based disputation techniques with defusion
Perspective-Taking
- Understand the “Self” in ACT
- Self-as-content, self-as-perspective, self-as-context
- Observer self-exercise
- Deal with identity issues
Mindfulness
- Contacting the present moment
- Why being in the here-and-now is critical for mental health
- Relationship between mindlessness and psychopathology
- Meditation, mindfulness and mindful action
- Exercises for mindful action
Values Work
- The positive side of language
- Identifying core values
- Differentiate values and goals
- Writing values-based treatment goals
- The ethics of values clarification
Committed Action
- Define “commitment” objectively
- Integrate evidence-based therapy with ACT
- Develop ACT-based behavior therapy treatment plans
- Improve behavioral activation with ACT
Pulling It All Together
- Hexaflex model for psychological flexibility
- Ask the “ACT Question” for self-help and case conceptualization
- Inflexahex model: Diagnosis from an ACT approach
Incorporate ACT into Your Own Approach
- Social skills training
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Inpatient treatment programs systems
- Exposure and ritual prevention
- Behavioral activation
- Parent management training
- Executive Coaching
Jennifer Patterson, Psy.D., LCPC, aims to offer evidence-based psychotherapy to help others live full and abundant lives. She is the founder of JPI Psychological Solutions in Chicago, Illinois, and specializes in treating obsessive-compulsive behaviors, anxiety, and depression. At JPI, she…
Registration & Fees
| Registration | Super Early Bird Fee | Early Bird Fee | Regular Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual 1 Day Enrollment | -- | $289.00 | $309.00 |
| Individual 2 Day Enrollment | -- | $489.00 | $509.00 |
| Individual 3 Day Enrollment | -- | $699.00 | $719.00 |
| Group 3-7 | -- | $659.00 | $679.00 |
| Group 8-14 | -- | $639.00 | $659.00 |
| Group 15+ | -- | $619.00 | $639.00 |
| Full-Time Student | -- | $619.00 | $639.00 |
All fees are per person and in Canadian Dollars ($CAD)
Fees do not include applicable taxes (5% GST).
Early bird cutoff date: October 30, 2024
The early bird date has passed. Regular rates apply.
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Recommended Accommodation
Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre
1316 33 St NE, T2A 6B6, Calgary, AB
phone: 403.248.8888
website: www.calgaryplaza.com/
Our rates:
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Select King Room: $139.00 plus tax
Select 2 Queen Room: $139.00 plus tax
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Please keep in mind when booking Jack Hirose and Associates corporate guest rooms, reservations booked for most hotels can be cancelled within 48 hours. If you are booking guest rooms through third-party websites in many instances the reservations booked cannot be cancelled.
When booking hotel rooms, ask for the Jack Hirose and Associates corporate rate. To receive our corporate rate, rooms must be booked one month prior to the workshop date. Please keep in mind hotel rates may fluctuate.
Continuing Education Credits
This workshop has been formally approved by the following associations:
- Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)
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.
Please check back closer to the conference date for more information.
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