Religious beliefs can significantly influence end-of-life (EOL) decisions, offering both comfort and potential sources of distress for Christian patients. These beliefs may lead to choices that prioritize spiritual peace over quality of life, sometimes resulting in...
Saturday 9-27 8:45-10:00AM
617 | When Bad Feelings Happen to Good People: A Psychoeducational Model for Teaching Clients About Emotion
Sadness, grief, anxiety, and anger are common emotions, but when these feelings intensify, they can lead to emotional disorders like depression, panic disorder, OCD, and PTSD. Many individuals struggling with these conditions feels inferior due to their emotional...
619 | Solomon: The First Positive Psychology Practitioner
Positive psychology is an emerging field that has made significant contributions to understanding human flourishing and personal well-being, but where did these principles originate? In this workshop, psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, medical...
620 | His Power working through you: Ethically incorporating Inner Healing into the Clinical Practice
Integrating spiritual interventions into clinical therapy remains a complex and often debated area in mental health practice. Many clinicians feel constrained by ethical and professional guidelines, uncertain about how to incorporate faith-based interventions without...
621 | Salt and Light in Public Education: Ethical Integration of Faith in Practice for School Counselors
When Christian mental health professionals work in or partner with the public school system, values conflicts are inevitable. Although these professionals may hold personal religious beliefs, counselor ethical codes and standards require them to honor students’...
623 | Bridging the Gap: Cultural Sensitiveity in Christian Sex Therapy
Licensed mental health providers and ministry leaders are called to help individuals from diverse backgrounds. When working with sexual relationships, it is important to understanding how culture shapes sexual behavior, relationships, and values. In sex therapy, this...
603 | Hope and Healing Beyond the Diagnosis: Compassionate, Evidence-based, Trauma-informed Care for Infertility and Reproductive Trauma
Reproductive trauma, which includes experiencing miscarriages, infertility, recurrent losses, traumatic childbirth, and postpartum mental health challenges, is a deeply complex and often, overlooked area in the field of mental health (Brigance et al., 2023; Jaffe,...
604 | Connection as Medicine: Understanding and Preventing Youth Suicide
The mental health crisis of youth and children is staggering. This presentation analyzes patterns and timing of precipitating events in 10,000 youth suicide deaths, focusing on key events and relationships that preceded these tragedies. Through comprehensive data...
605 | Interrupting the Cycle of Addiction: Building Emotion Regulation Strategies for Compulsive Sexual Behaviors
Recent research on compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) and problematic porn use (PPU) shows that difficulties in emotional regulation are strongly correlated with both the development and severity of these behaviors (Wizla & Lewcsuk, 2024; Lew-Starowicz et al.,...
606 | Going Beyond “The Talk:” Training Parents, Pastors, and Counselors on Key Age-Appropriate Conversations about Sexuality and Gender from a Biblical Worldview
Young adults, teens, and children cannot escape the sexual indoctrination, invitation, and allure of an “anything goes” sexual ethic. It is imperative to help these young willing Chrisitan clients develop a biblical sexual ethic that is uncompromising, grace-filled,...