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,...
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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...
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...
41 | Internal Family Systems Therapy Anchored in Faith: How to Develop Healthy Boundaries for Your Soul
Summary: Painful burdens can hold clients back from building the lives they want to live. This experiential workshop is designed for psychologists and licensed mental health professionals working with Christian clients, offering practical guidance on integrating key...
33 | 033: Preparing for Trauma Work: Specific Tools to Improve Emotion Regulation and Attachment Security
Summary: Trauma work has become an increasingly important aspect of mental health services, but utilizing the correct techniques to foster emotional regulation and attachment security needs to be a focus for psychologists and licensed mental health professionals. This...
36 | 036: Rewiring the Brain: Understanding Food Addiction and Promoting Healthier Eating Habits
Summary: Addictive eating can feel like bondage for clients who struggle with cravings, food obsession, and compulsive eating, leaving them with a sense that their brains have been hijacked. This workshop will provide psychologists, licensed mental health...
38 | 038: Confessional Communities: A Novel Model for Neuropsychiatric and Spiritual Transformation
Summary: We long for our patients to have access to supportive contexts that maximize the potential for transformation. Toward this end, individual psychotherapy therapeutic alliances, utilizing any number of interpersonal neurobiologically effective interventions,...
39 | 039: PTSD, Suicidality, and Reintegration: Serving Today’s Warriors When War Comes Home
Summary: Military training builds soldiers to face any situation, endure any hardship, overcome any threat, and defeat the enemy with endurance and persistence. This requires operating as a team, unlearning civilian social behaviors, and forsaking personal gain toward...