Often both addicts and partners are at a loss about the deeper forces at work in their lives and relationships. Understanding the wounds from negative family of origin experiences and traumas, and identifying their impact, are critical pieces of recovery, healthy...
Workshop Tracks
203 | Blessed and Highly Favored: Understanding the Importance of Faith, the Church and the Pastor When Supporting the African-American Grief Process
The grief process for African-Americans can be complicated and challenging. Research suggests that many African-Americans seek psychological support from their pastors rather than seek formal mental health services (Avent et al., 2015; Hays, 2015; Stansbury, Harley,...
204 | Post-pandemic Suicide Risk: Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention
In medical terms, the world is shifting from a pandemic to an endemic after COVID. The mental health consequences of this 100-year phenomenon continue to reverberate in the collective societal psyche, as well as within the hearts and minds of individuals finding their...
205 | When Trust Has Been Broken: The Roadmap to Repairs
Pornography, adultery, addictions, and abuse destroy safety and trust in a marriage. If possible, licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders want to see a broken marriage reconciled. But what are the specific steps necessary to rebuild shattered trust?...
206 | Helping Clients Access Their Sexual Superpowers: Encouraging Rich Sexual Intimacy
Many clients lack confidence in negotiating a rich sexual relationship and hold to false myths that keep them repressed. Recent research not only points to current sexual norms in married couples but also to internal stances that help enrich marital sexuality....
207 | Revolutionary Marriage Tools: SYMBIS, Loveology, and Better Love Featuring the Five Love Languages
Whether you are new to marriage ministry/counseling or have been doing it for years, this workshop will equip you with powerful and proven tools for helping the couples in your care. Learn about the innovative and free Loveology resource that can add value to your...
208 | Hope for Sexual Intimacy: An Emotionally-focused Approach to Healing Sexual Cycles of Conflict in Marriage
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is an evidence-based treatment model that has demonstrated effectiveness in improving both the emotional and sexual connection in couples. A couple’s Negative Cycle is the primary barrier to emotional and sexual intimacy. Negative...
209 | Navigating Today’s Culture: Helping Parents Guide Teens and Adult Children
In the not-too-distant past, understanding teens and doing life with adult children seemed easier and much simpler. Today’s Gen Z and Millennials have been raised in a vastly different culture than previous generations, and many reject their parents’ morals and...
210 | The Cultural Pivot: Five Social Environment Shifts That Have Impacted Youth Mental Health
Ministry leaders have long recognized that changes in culture affect mental health. This is especially true for those who have only known life through a digital framework and lens: developing adolescents and emerging adults. The “Cultural Pivot” describes five...
211 | Neuroscience, Theology, and the Achievement of Christlike Character
Why do so many Christian leaders and Christians who sit in pews Sunday after Sunday demonstrate so little of the character that set Christ apart from the spiritual leaders of His day? Dallas Willard maintains that the answer is to be found in the fact that the...