With addictions, depression, anxiety, and suicide on a fast rise with Millennials and Generation Z, it is vital we understand that addiction is not an entity within itself but, instead, part of a toxic choreography spawned by attempts to overcome previously...
Psychologists
420 | Treatment of Early Attachment Trauma: Jesus as the Ultimate Secure Base
Attachment is conceptualized as the desire to connect with others in a secure and stable way (Green, Marci, and Scholes, 2003). Humans need loving bonds with others to flourish. From a biblical worldview, humans, created in the image of God, are relational beings and...
404 | Riding the Waves of Emotion: Practical Skills for Emotion Regulation in Suicidal and Self-harming Clients
Emotion dysregulation is a frequently reported symptom of many psychological disorders, especially suicidal and self-harming behaviors. This workshop will explore the nature, function, and neurobiology of emotion regulation and its development through securely...
402 | Compulsive Overeating and the Addictive Spectrum: Treating the Whole Person
Compulsive overeating can be a difficult issue to tackle for psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, medical professionals, or ministry leaders. Often, this issue can lead to obesity and multiple other health factors that can discourage the client from...
322 | International Cross-cultural Counseling: Ethical Challenges, Technological Advances, and Member Care
This evidence-based group-panel workshop on International Cross-Cultural Counseling is designed for psychologists and licensed mental health professionals to learn more about the nuanced dynamics and issues related to international counseling work. Ethical and legal...
320 | A Christian Approach to Memory Reconsolidation Therapy with Traumatized Clients
Often, clients come to therapy due to cyclic emotional distress, and reducing this distress is often a primary goal of treatment (Herz et al., 2020). Psychologists and licensed mental health professionals have struggled with what actually works in trauma therapy...
317 | From Imagination to Incarnation: Being in the Room Where it Happens
Research in interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) currently reveals nine domains of integration that are developed and strengthened in the context of secure attachment. This integration process also correlates with a client’s awareness of and attunement to the mind’s full...
316 | Assured Hope: Using Meditative Prayer and Neuroscience to Bring Healing
Today’s culture wrestles with the concepts of good and evil. According to biblical teaching, Christian clients see evil winning battles when foundational biblical truths are eliminated from culture. Scripture reminds Christian clients that the battle is not against...
315 | Support in the Journey: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Adoptive and Foster Families
Caring for children through adoption and foster care is critically important. However, the journey of adoption and foster care can be challenging, and families are often not prepared to meet the unique challenges of their children (e.g., trauma, attachment...
216 | Practical and Evidence-based Interventions to Calm Anxiety and Manage Stress
Just as we physically train for fitness, the brain can also be trained to resist anxiety and manage stress. Using non-pharmacological interventions, this workshop will discuss how the autonomic nervous system activates the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn responses to...