Reproductive trauma is specialized trauma comprised of miscarriage, infertility, premature or complicated birth, carrying a baby with health risks, and subsequent reoccurring losses. Approximately one in four will experience miscarriage and loss, while one in eight...
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306 | Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria in Professional Counseling
This workshop will address trends in care among licensed mental health and medical professionals who work with children, adolescents, and adults who experience diverse gender identities. The presenters will discuss transgender and nonbinary experiences, emphasizing...
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...
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...
201 | Revenge Pornography, Sexual Exploitation, and Sextortion: Addressing Sexual Abuse in a Digital Age
Digital media has changed the landscape for communication in today’s culture. While technology and digital media advances have benefits, there are corresponding risks that are rarely discussed or noticed until someone is directly impacted by such abuse. Sexual abuse,...
222 | Ethics, Law, and Licensure: Changes and Challenges Facing Mental Health Professionals in 2023
In recent years, many changes and shifts in the APA, ACA, and NASW ethics codes have concerned psychologists and licensed mental health professionals with sincerely held religious beliefs. Physicians and other medical health care professionals are seeing the...
121 | The Body Bears the Burden: The Physical Consequences of Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse in Marriage
Our clients’ minds and bodies are connected. Too many mental health clinicians focus on treating the mind, forgetting to ask questions about the body. Thus, they are in danger of enabling a very destructive process instead of participating in powerful interventions....
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...
117 | The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia
What happens to the brain as our clients age? Many clients of psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, medical professionals, and ministry leaders are concerned that they may lose their memories and become senile. Clients often want to know if there are...
116 | Beyond Chemical Imbalance: How to Talk with Faith-based Clients about Psychiatric Medications
Speaking about psychological struggles as chemical imbalances or as disorders of neurotransmitter systems is common in today’s culture, but this is a folk metaphor more than a scientific conclusion. Although individuals’ brains are involved when they struggle, mental...