Since effective counseling involves second-order change, and both second-order change and spiritual formation involve addressing the assumptive worlds of Christian clients, then facilitating this deep change provides an avenue where counseling and spiritual formation...
Workshop Tracks
213 | Empower: Mental Health Awareness Training for the Local Church
One in five adults experiences mental illness every year, yet fewer than half of those receive treatment. Mental health problems affect people from all walks of life—no one is immune from psychological distress. Although mental illness is common, those who suffer...
214 | Christ-centered Internal Family Systems Therapy: How to Develop Healthy Boundaries for Your Soul
Painful burdens can hold people back from building the lives they want to live. This workshop for licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders teaches how to apply key techniques for teaching Christian clients to befriend parts of the soul weighed down...
215 | From Intake to Termination: Integrative Evidence-based Assessment and Clinical Practice
This session discusses the role of evidence-based assessment in clinical practice from a faith-integrative perspective to aid psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, and medical professionals when working with Christian clients. Current definitions of...
101 | Recognizing Dissociative Symptoms in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders
Dissociative symptoms often go undetected by psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, and medical professionals. Knowledge of how dissociative symptoms present in clients with PTSD dissociative subtype, Complex PTSD, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Anxiety...
102 | What Works: Evidence-based Treatments for Substance-related Addictive Disorders
Over the past two decades, the addiction field has become increasingly evidence-based in its approach to treating problems on the addiction spectrum. From guided self-change to medical detoxification and medication-assisted treatment, evidence for “what works for whom...
103 | Stuck in the Pain: Evidence-based Strategies and Interventions in Treatment of Grief and Loss
Over the past several decades, evidence-based research has enabled psychologists, other mental health professionals, and ministry leaders to aim their interventions with the bereaved in a far more effective and knowledgeable manner than in the past. Although popular...
104 | Help! My Teen is Self-injuring: A Crisis Manual to Help Teens and Parents
Despite the increase in children and teenagers seeking mental health treatment, rates of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) are on the rise, with approximately one in seven teenagers having had an NSSI episode in the past 12 months. Though not directly correlated, NSSI...
105 | Treating Betrayal Trauma, Sexual Abuse, and Toxic Shame in the New World
Sexual norms continue to change in today’s culture. Like menus aimed at “having it your way,” the Internet, social media, smartphones, and virtual sex at the click of a finger have created fast sexual fixes that are destroying families. Today’s pornography is steeped...
106 | Effectively Identifying and Treating Unconsummated Marriages: Healing for Those Suffering in Silence
The presenters will bring their almost 48 years of experience to the subject of identifying and treating unconsummated marriages and how they have become a safe resource and effective facilitators for couples who have suffered in silence with unconsummated marriages....