2025 workshop reference guide
Intensives
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090: Comprehensive Biblical-Clinical Theory of Change: Targeted Treatment Strategies Based on Client Issue and Need
Summary: All mental health professionals are guided by theories of change and their corresponding assumptions about the source of problems and their solutions to help clients (Faija et al., 2023; McMinn, 2012; Moore et al., 2015). To remain true to their faith,...
091: Relational and Attachment Trauma: Issues, Interventions, and Techniques
Summary: Individuals exposed to early relational and attachment trauma often experience a range of maltreatment from primary caregivers, including both acts of omission and commission. Acts of omission involve psychological and emotional neglect, such as a lack of...
92: Sexual Compulsivity, the Brain, and Patterns of Addiction and Recovery
Summary: When faced with the growing challenge of sexual compulsivity (SC), it can be easy to feel discouraged; however, there are effective strategies to address this multifaceted issue. This workshop will provide an in-depth examination of sexual compulsivity (SC)...
093: Restoring Hope for Couples: An Integrative Approach to Marital Therapy
This session introduces licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders to Focus Marital Therapy (FMT), drawing upon Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) principles, an evidence-based couples therapy developed and used by Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored...
094: Christian-based Emotion-focused Therapy for Couples Program: Incorporating Faith into Evidence-based Practice
Summary: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) has swept the marriage field, providing a revolutionary model for effective couples counseling. This faith-based EFT incorporates the client’s faith and essential aspects of attachment theory to allow for a more holistic...
95: Taming the Chaos: The Treatment of Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are a group of complex mental disorders that often generate chaos both within the client and interpersonally in relationships. Four of these personality disorders, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, and antisocial, are known as “Cluster B”...
096: Christ-centered Trauma Healing: Ethical and Culturally Responsive Theory, Tools, and Applications
Summary: Narrative therapy is a more recent approach that provides a unique therapeutic context for clients to tell their life stories and reflect on their experiences. In faith-centered narrative therapy, one’s story can be recontextualized in relationship with...