It is well-documented that the COVID-19 pandemic left a huge legacy of compassion fatigue in the medical community, resulting in consequences like physical and mental health challenges and large numbers of healthcare workers leaving their jobs or even abandoning the...
Chemical Dependency Counselors
037 | Teen Loneliness, Loss, and Suicide: Healing a Lost Generation
Our culture has progressively changed over the past several decades, and though it has affected the broader population, teenagers have been affected the most. Loneliness is the most significant indicator of this impact, with teenagers and young adults being two times...
036 | Mental Health Healing After the Trauma of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can overwhelm a person throughout the lifespan and produce not only continuous and immeasurable emotional pain and suffering, but also result in serious mental and physical health problems. Approximately one-half of adults in the...
030 | Attachment-based Intervention for Clinically Resistant Depression
A substantial number of people seen by psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, and medical professionals suffer from what the DSM-5-TR now refers to as early onset Persistent Depressive Disorder, which usually starts in childhood or adolescents and...
029 | Race, Justice, and Diversity: Using Emotional Intelligence, Relational Wisdom, and Worldview Assessment to Improve Practice
Psychologists, other licensed mental health professionals, and medical professionals face significant challenges in responding effectively to issues of race, justice, and diversity in the context of increasing political polarization while seeking to support and...
026 | Change Your Brain Every Day: Developing Elite Mental Performance
The brain is involved in everything clients do and everything they are. In this workshop, the presenter will share the most practical lessons he has learned from building the world’s largest database of brain scans related to psychiatry. Licensed mental health...
024 | Military Strong: Resilience in the Midst of PTSD, Suicide, and Reintegration
The military ethos has been one of toughness and implies that service members can face any situation, overcome any threat, and defeat the enemy. Despite these expectations, servicemembers are continuously faced with traumatic events, which can result in problems with...
021 | From Fixing to Attending: Faith-based Framework for the Use of Psychiatric Medications
Many Americans take medications for mental health problems, and faith-based clients and patients often have questions about the appropriate use of psychiatric medications. While medications can be helpful, the way that psychologists, other licensed mental health...
009 | Creating Stability in the Chaos: D.B.T. for Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma
Emotional and behavioral instability and chaos are hallmarks of borderline personality disorder. These difficulties may also be seen in those who struggle with complex trauma, especially early attachment trauma. As a result, deep characterological and trauma work is...
002 | PTSD and Complex Trauma: Differential Diagnosis and Evidenced-based Treatment Models
Traumatic events can come in many forms. For example, some forms of trauma are relational in nature while others are not, some are single-incident, and others are chronic; some occur in childhood, and others occur later in life. In this workshop, survivors of PTSD...