Presented by Jonah Paquette, Psy.D. and Pat Love, Ed.D. and Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D. and Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. and Donald Altman, M.A., LPC and Carolyn Coker Ross, M.D. and Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D. and Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D., M.S., M.A. and John Arden, Ph.D.
Monday, November 30, 2020 – Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | Canada
Monday, November 30, 2020 – Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Virtual Conference
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Managing Depression: The 10 Best-Ever Techniques Applied in a Post-Pandemic World
Managing Anxiety: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Applied in a Post-Pandemic World
Putting Health into Mental Health: Clinical Strategies for Overcoming Trauma and Abuse
The “Wow” Effect: How Awe and Wonder Make Us Happier, Healthier, and More Connected
Advanced Mindfulness Techniques: Rewire Depression, Anxiety and Toxic Lifestyle Habits
One-Minute Mindfulness, Resilience and Interpersonal Neurobiology
Achieving Lasting Treatment Changes for Clients with Addictive and Co-occurring Disorders
Attachment and Emotion Regulation: Brain-Based Strategies and Interventions
Childhood Trauma, Addiction, and PTSD: Treatment Strategies and Interventions
Treatment & Management of Personality Disorders: The Challenge of the Hidden Agenda
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Fees are per person, seat sharing is not allowed. Please respect this policy, failure to comply will result in termination of access without a refund. For group rates please contact webinars@jackhirose.com
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, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
3 Hours | 3 CEU's November 30, 2020
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In this year of challenges for mental health, the very real losses and subsequent grief that so many have experienced have fuelled rising rates of depression. Isolation during phases of the pandemic management has also fuelled depression, and for those who were already struggling with depression, these conditions intensified it. Rate of depression and anxiety in people who have worked as medical and mental health providers and first responders have been staggering. There is hope for recovery for our clients as we treat depression with methods that will break into isolation, raise energy, and alter the depressive cognitive style that make it so hard to come out of depression. This session will also highlight methods that connect people to resilience and positive explanatory styles.
Join Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg, author of The 10 Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques, for this fresh look at managing depression, grief and loss in the post-pandemic world.
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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
3 Hours | 3 CEU's November 30, 2020
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When people suffer from addiction or trauma history anxiety is likely to be an additional challenge to recovery. Anxiety disorders may also contribute to the development of addiction. In this year of challenge from COVID-19, mental health disorders have affected greater percentages of the population because of exposure to threat and loss both real and feared. There has never been a more important time to fine-tune anxiety management skills for mental health practitioners. This session will present strategies that can minimize worry, reduce panic, deal effectively with health anxiety and control the impact of stress.
Join Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg, author of The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, for this important and timely look at anxiety management.
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3 Hours | 3 CEU's November 30, 2020
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If you want to make a change, it’s easier to add positives than eliminate negatives.
So much of our training focuses on identifying early childhood experiences that can lead to trauma and addiction with less emphasis on strategies for managing the fallout in adulthood.
When clients come to therapy, research indicates they expect the counsellor to (1) be smart; (2) illustrate that they understand them; (3) provide treatment strategies that make sense to them. This means that our clients not only expect us to provide a logical explanation to the origins of trauma and abuse, but more important, to provide treatment strategies that make sense to them. Rehashing abuse and neglect from childhood and reviewing the negative implications of current choices and behaviours, while insightful, stops short of client expectations.
This presentation will provide clinical strategies and useful techniques for helping clients put the “health” back into mental health practices. Lecture, original handouts, and experiential exercises will be utilized.
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Pat Love, Ed.D., (yes that is her real surname) has authored/co-authored six books, has written numerous professional publications, and has developed multiple training programs including Love Education™. Her work literally has taken her around the world to help people understand and…
More information: www.patlove.com
3 Hours | 3 CEU's November 30, 2020
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By now most every clinician is familiar not only with their own ACE Score (Adverse Childhood Experience), but also their clients’. We have been trained to recognize violence, sexual abuse, even some forms of neglect that can shape a child in maladaptive ways that show up in adulthood. There are, however, many lesser-known traumas which can occur in childhood, and adulthood, which can create PTS reactions, that seldom get mentioned in professional literature.
Using clinically useful, original handouts, which will be provided to each participant, we will explore many of these lesser-known origins of trauma from childhood and adulthood. Using deductive reasoning from these useful assessment scales, lecture, and video clips, we will deepen our knowledge of trauma, addiction, and more robust approaches to treatment and recovery. Participants may find this presentation both personally and professionally rewarding.
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Safety from extreme temperatures and temperaments
Nourishment
Attainment and response
Tactile stimulation
Cognitive stimulation
Sleep and rest
Emotional stability
Routine and structure
Affection and appreciation
Financial stability
Flexibility
Balance of freedom and responsibility
Respect
Love
Effective communication skills
Help
Privacy
Affirmation
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A close look at personal accountability in adulthood, and implications for therapy. Use of Personal Accountability Scale.
A close look at happiness versus contentment in adulthood, implications for therapy. Use of Personal Contentment Scale.
A close look at entitlement and narcissism, implications for therapy. Lecture, use of Narcissism Scale.
Further expansion of origins of trauma and addiction in adulthood.
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Attachment in adulthood, a deductive exercise. Use of the Attachment Style Survey.
Lecture, overview and strategies from secure attachment
Video clip illustration of attachment issues.
Use and abuse issues in adulthood.
Use of Diagnostic Questions handout.
Lecture, strategies for change
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3 Hours | 3 CEU's November 30, 2020
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While most mental health approaches focus on addressing deficits and treating psychopathology, recent research has begun to shed light on the core principles for well-being, and how we can harness these skills towards lasting positive change. Combining neuroscience and positive psychology, participants in this workshop will learn about some of the key brain systems linked to well-being, and how to strengthen these through positive self-directed neuroplasticity. In addition, we will explore how specific skills such as compassion, gratitude, savouring, and self-compassion can improve our physical health, social connections, and overall functioning. We’ll also explore some of the common myths related to happiness, and discuss factors that help explain why happiness can feel so hard to come by.
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Jonah Paquette, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, international speaker, and writer. He is the author of four books including Happily Even After (PESI Publishing, 2022), Awestruck (Shambhala Publications, 2020), The Happiness Toolbox (PESI Publishing, 2018), and Real Happiness: Proven Paths for Contentment, Peace, and Well-Being (PESI Publishing, 2015).…
More information: www.jonahpaquette.com
3 Hours | 3 CEU's November 30, 2020
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What do you feel when you gaze up at the Milky Way, see a beautiful rainbow, or stand before a mountain that seems impossibly high? This feeling – often complete with goosebumps and a shiver down our spine – is known as awe. And as it turns out, this under appreciated and often misunderstood emotion holds an important key to a happy, meaningful, and healthy life. This interactive workshop will explore the exciting new science of awe, and how the moments that make us go “wow!” impact our immune system, brain functioning, social connection, physical health, stress levels, and much more.
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3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 1, 2020
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Join Donald Altman for a unique set of mindfulness tools designed to rewire clients’ brains for wellness from the inside out. In a world where 24/7 distraction is the rule, this comprehensive course teaches the secrets of everything from selective focus and mindful awareness styles to metacognitive awareness. Based on Donald’s award-winning The Mindfulness Toolbox, you will get detailed demonstrations and practice time so that you can effectively implement these tools.
This webinar is direct and experiential. Whoever you work with—Gen Z to Boomers—you’ll quickly gain a host of effective tools. In addition, these practices will support you in bringing embodied mindfulness and compassionate presence into each session to help clients constructively manage anxiety, depression, chronic pain, PTSD, addictive cravings, stress and more.
Whether mindfulness is new to you or you’ve worked with it before, this highly experiential webinar offers you a transformative way to help clients experience greater joy, peace, and balance.
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Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, was a staff writer for an EMMY-Award winning children’s television show (“The Magic Door,” CBS Chicago), won an American Medical Writer’s Association Award and has had articles appear in New Age Journal, the Los Angeles Times,…
3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 1, 2020
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We live in a world where most people have experienced some form of trauma, pain, depression, anxiety or extreme stress. It can often be frustrating helping clients who have suffered devastating life losses and unthinkable adversity. In this highly experiential workshop, you’ll discover a set of engaging and accessible tools that integrate the healing modalities of Mindfulness, Resilience and Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Join international workshop leader, former monk and award-winning writer Donald Altman, LPC, for a workshop that focuses on giving you strategies that fundamentally shift, broaden and transform a client’s perspective by which they view trauma, stress, anxiety, rumination and isolation. Not only do these tools cultivate an attitude of openness, acceptance and optimism, they optimize how the brain and nervous system work.
Most importantly, this course gives a working knowledge of the skills necessary for true resilience—the skills of mental clarity, problem solving, goal setting, enthusiasm and determination. Whoever you work with will benefit from these awareness and relational tools that help rewire the brain and transform lives.
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Core Themes: Integrating IPNB, Mindfulness, and Resilience
New View of Stress
The Mindfulness Antidote
Safe Anchors for Balance and Safety
Understanding Resilience
Gratitude and IPNB
Identifying and Applying Strengths
One-Minute Mindfulness Affirmation
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3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 1, 2020
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According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, on average 10 people die each day from an illicit drug overdose in Canada. Substance-use disorders are the most common reason for a person’s hospitalization in the year prior to a fatal overdose. Often, the abuse of substances is complicated by the co-occurrence of psychiatric disorders such as Complex PTSD, Anxiety, and Depressive Disorders with accompanying suicidality and interpersonal violence. Of those who receive treatment, some 75% will relapse.
The workshop will consider ways to achieve “lasting changes” by using an evidenced-based strengths-based integrated treatment approach. A Case Conceptualization Model of both risk and protective factors that informs assessment and treatment decision-making will be presented. A Constructive Narrative treatment approach will be highlighted and ways to implement the Core tasks of psychotherapy designed to reduce relapse will be demonstrated. How patients can use resilience-engendering behaviours to achieve lasting changes will be presented.
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Don Meichenbaum, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of Waterloo. Ontario from which he took early retirement 20 years ago. He is presently Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention in Miami (Please see www.melissainstitute.org). He…
More information: www.melissainstitute.org
3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 1, 2020
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No matter what substances individuals abuse, 75% of them are likely to relapse following treatment, most often within three months of the end of treatment. Moreover, up to 50% of patients will drop out of various forms of treatment.
There are substantial differences among therapists in achieving positive treatment outcomes. Some therapists are up to 50% more effective and have a 50% lower dropout rate. This presentation will discuss what these so-called “Expert” therapists do. How to implement a variety of Core Tasks of Psychotherapy and ways to conduct integrative interventions for PTSD, depression, suicidality and substance abuse in a gender and culturally-sensitive manner will be discussed. Ways to integrate spiritually-oriented Twelve Step AA programs and psychotherapy will be presented.
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3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 1, 2020
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Caregivers are often very good at taking care of other people but at the same time, often neglect themselves. Compassion fatigue is the feeling of chronic stress, emotional exhaustion and tension that can be felt by anyone who is in the helping professions. These symptoms can develop rapidly and result from exposure to vicarious trauma of our clients and may be exacerbated by stress in our individual lives including loss, depression and anxiety. Lack of self-care can leave us feeling depleted and can result in both physical and mental health problems that affect our ability to continue to be effective in our careers and therefore is important to address.
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Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, CEDS is an internationally known author, speaker, expert and pioneer in the use of Integrative Medicine for the treatment of eating disorders and addictions. She is a graduate of Andrew Weil’s Fellowship Program in Integrative…
More information: www.carolynrossmd.com
3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 1, 2020
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Trauma ultimately has the ability to define our behaviours, actions and sense of self. Beyond childhood trauma, research is also showing the destructive effects of trauma being passed down from generation to generation in our DNA and cultural nurturing. This is intergenerational trauma. Historical trauma is trauma that affects groups of people and generations within those groups. Both historical and intergenerational trauma are now being validated by research showing that the effects of trauma can be passed to children and grandchildren and increases risks for psychological, behavioural and physical health issues.
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3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 2, 2020
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This seminar presents how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can present challenges. Just as people with autoimmune disorders suffer from attacks on their bodies by their own immune system, people with anxiety suffer attacks by their stress system on their mind/brain/body. Their anxiety becomes an auto-stress disorder wherein their own stress system no longer protects them from danger, but alerts them to danger when there is none. Clients with anxiety disorders are confused by the symptoms, as well as by different therapists they encounter who ascribe to the various brand-name therapies.
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John Arden, Ph.D. is the author of 14 books, including Brain2Brain: Enacting Client Change Through the Persuasive Power of Neuroscience, The Brain Bible: How to Stay Vital, Productive, and Happy for a Lifetime, Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to…
3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 2, 2020
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This seminar synthesizes the already substantial literature on psychoneuroimmunology and epigenetics, combining it with the neuroscience of emotional, interpersonal, cognitive, dynamics, with psychotherapeutic approaches to offer an integrated vision of psychotherapy. The integrative model promotes a sea change in how we conceptualize mental health problems and their solutions. We can now understand how the immune system, diet, brain structure, and even gut bacteria effect mental health. Therapists in the 21st Century will by necessity become more like healthcare workers to address and resolve adverse mind-body-brain interactions.
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3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 2, 2020
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Over the past couple of decades there has been an exciting merging of psychotherapy and neuroscience research that is revolutionizing clinical practice. Cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience research provides profound insight into the brain changes humans are capable of producing, as well as how childhood trauma (such as ACEs), and trauma more broadly, may negatively impact the brain. We are beginning to learn, through neuroscience research, how the brain can change with the practice of psychotherapeutic techniques that target and improve the functioning of specific brain structures. This seminar, led by clinical expert Dr. Jennifer Sweeton, shares the most up-to-date research discoveries on the neuroscience of childhood trauma, addiction, and PTSD, and teaches highly effective psychotherapy techniques clinicians can begin using tomorrow to help clients recover.
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Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D., M.S., M.A. is a licensed clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and internationally-recognized expert on anxiety and trauma, women’s issues, and the neuroscience of mental health. She is the author of the book, Trauma Treatment Toolbox, published by PESI…
More information: www.jennifersweeton.com/
3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 2, 2020
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PTSD and other trauma and stressor-related disorders have sometimes been referred to as “memory disorders,” due to the deficits in traumatic memory consolidation observed in those suffering from PTSD. Failed memory reconsolidation contributes to the development of post trauma symptoms such as intrusive thoughts, dissociation, flashbacks, hypervigilance, nightmares, and other classic PTSD symptoms. Additionally, traumatic memories may be relived, seemingly occurring in the present. However, memory reconsolidation is possible with several therapeutic tools and interventions available to clinicians! This workshop provides an overview of the neuroscience of memory systems and PTSD, and the memory reconsolidation techniques that have been shown to facilitate recovery from PTSD. Help clients move from consolidation to reconsolidation utilizing techniques from EMDR, EFT, Brainspotting, and neuromodulation!
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3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 2, 2020
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Individuals with personality disorders have long been considered among the most challenging clients presenting in the clinical setting, and BPD in particular has a reputation of rendering clinicians feeling helpless and ill-equipped. Addictions, nonsuicidal self-injury, and other destructive behaviours headline a myriad of presentations that have many clinicians at a loss for knowing how to help this population.
For many years, borderline personality disorder was even considered “untreatable” by many in the field. Research is now clear however that this is simply not the case. The condition itself is not untreatable; Rather, the modalities clinicians had been trained in, that were effective for treating a variety of other conditions, were simply inadequate for treating Borderline Personality Disorder. DBT, CBT, and Schema Therapy have paved the way in pioneering new attitudes and outcomes related to treating BPD, including reducing and eliminating the addictive and other destructive behaviours that often are products of it.
Join leading exert in the field of personality dysfunction Dr. Jeff Riggenbach for this enjoyable 3-hour webinar, chock full of the latest research, techniques, and practical strategies specifically proven to be effective with this diagnosis. Learn his step-by-step, clear and concise approach for assessing and treating the addictive and destructive behaviours that so often are a part of the presentation in individuals suffering from BPD. Leave this session feeling refreshed, renewed, and reinvigorated to tackle these problems presented by your most challenging clients!
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,…
3 Hours | 3 CEU's December 2, 2020
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The relationship between trauma and addiction is well established in the literature. This is no surprise, as clinicians know all too well that people with unresolved trauma and emotional wounds often turn to substances as a way to self-medicate; And, people with addictions may drive while impaired, gravitate towards toxic relationships, go to dangerous places to get their substance of choice, or engage in many other behaviours that increase their risk of being traumatized.
The good news is, there is hope! Evidence shows increasing incidence of recovery for people struggling in the areas of trauma and addiction.
While neuroscience has taught us much about this phenomenon in recent years, evidence-based CBT treatments, which to this day appear to still be at least as effective as many “newer” approaches, seem to have almost gotten lost in the shuffle.
Want to ground yourself in foundational clinical concepts for effectively treating this population?
This breakthrough webinar led by internationally recognized CBT expert Dr. Jeff Riggenbach will enhance your treatment approach, advance your clinical skills, and arm you with proven tools and techniques that you can implement with your clients the very next day in your practice.
Participate in this 3-hour online workshop and leave a more trauma informed clinician with a practical, evidence-based approach that will equip your clients struggling with trauma and addiction to reclaim their lives and be well on their road to recovery.
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The Relationship Between Trauma and Addiction
A Cognitive Approach
CBT for Addictive Behaviour Disorders
Psychoeducation and Skills Training
Cognitive – Behavioural Chain Analysis
Trauma and PTSD
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| Individual Enrollment | ||
| 1 Course Enrollment | $135.00 | N/A |
| 2 Course Enrollment | $249.00 | N/A |
| 4 Course Enrollment | $449.00 | N/A |
| 6 Course Enrollment | $649.00 | N/A |
| Full-Time Student Rates | ||
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| 4 Course Enrollment | $359.00 | N/A |
| 6 Course Enrollment | $519.00 | N/A |
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| 2 Course Enrollment | $229.00 | N/A |
| 4 Course Enrollment | $429.00 | N/A |
| 6 Course Enrollment | $629.00 | N/A |
| Group 8 - 14 Rates | ||
| 2 Course Enrollment | $209.00 | N/A |
| 4 Course Enrollment | $409.00 | N/A |
| 6 Course Enrollment | $609.00 | N/A |
| Group 15+ Rates | ||
| 2 Course Enrollment | $189.00 | N/A |
| 4 Course Enrollment | $389.00 | N/A |
| 6 Course Enrollment | $589.00 | N/A |
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