Live CE Webinars for Mental Health Professionals

Overview: Join Carolyn Gartner, LCSW, FT, for this essential webinar geared to equip mental health professionals with a solid foundation in grief counseling. We'll delve into the Holistic Grief Assessment, a comprehensive tool that goes beyond symptoms to address the multifaceted nature of loss. Explore the evolution of grief models, from Freud's early theories to contemporary frameworks. Gain confidence in your basic death competency, ensuring you can effectively support clients facing their own mortality or the loss of loved ones. We'll also equip you with practical strategies for client homework, including therapeutic writing exercises and guided meditations. Plus, we'll address frequently encountered challenges such as medication use, the impact of social media on grief processing, and navigating the DSM-5 classification system for mental health disorders related to bereavement. Join us and build your skills to become a more confident and compassionate guide for clients on their grief journey.

Overview: Join Angela B. Duncan PhD, as we navigate the ethics-based obligation to optimize client care. Participants will define and examine risk factors associated with deficient therapist self awareness of limitations, evaluate potential effects on the therapeutic relationship, discuss ethical standards and practices to heighten awareness of physical or emotional barriers and related decision-making processes, and identify when outside referral may be necessary to ensure fidelity to client interest and promote optimal client outcomes.

Overview: Katie Bingner, MS, LCPC, brings us an ethics-centered and trauma informed approach to managing treatment expectations for clients and practitioners. We'll discuss the impact of treatment expectations on the therapeutic alliance and clinician effectiveness, as well as corresponding ethical perspectives around managing these expectations and recognizing how they influence clinical outcomes and client-centered practice.

Overview: Shoshana Averbach, LMSW, MA, social worker and music therapist, shares how the world of creative arts and creativity offers tools for resilience and healing from trauma. While trauma shuts a person down, creativity infuses life-enhancing energies for reclaiming, healing, and nurturing the self. The webinar will focus on recognizing creative means to nurture client spirit, enhance sense of self, and address the detrimental effects of stress. Participants will gain insight into the role and importance of creativity in resilience and the healing process, creativity and the brain, and overcoming resistance and barriers to creative expression. Several user-friendly techniques from various creative-arts modalities (e.g., music therapy, art therapy) will be discussed as well so clinicians can easily implement them into their clinical practice.

Overview: This comprehensive training program, led by Nisha Tumber, LMSW, equips leaders to harness the power of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to create meaningful workplace transformation. Through engaging modules and practical exercises, you'll deepen your self-awareness, strengthen self-management, enhance social awareness, and elevate relationship management. Build essential skills in empathy, communication, and conflict resolution to foster cohesive teams, inspire trust, and drive sustainable growth. Unlock your full leadership potential and cultivate a thriving, high-performance environment where people feel empowered and connected.

Overview: Feeling sentimental? Join Simple Spaces founder, and Certified Professional Organizer Katie Tracy as we discuss some of the emotions behind many common ways contemporary American families are impacted by clutter. Participants will gain insight surrounding emotional attachment to "stuff", decision making processes, as well as strategies for addressing the different and varied manifestations of emotional attachment that make "letting go" so difficult. Enjoy this class on its own, or as a wonderful supplement building upon Katie's other course, House Full of Stuff. You're sure to gain insight and inspiration to help clients identify and understand both physical and emotional clutter, and its impact on daily life.

Overview: Join therapist and author Lea Boriskin, LCSW as we examine and review many concrete tools available to practitioners working to facilitate significant progress in treatment that demonstrates clients internalizing concepts through applying educational mindsets, motivating clients to utilize helpful methods in and between sessions, and developing greater capacity for clinicians to create effective ways to convey and apply therapeutic techniques in treatment.

Overview: Structural racism has been endemic in North America since before the formation of the United States of America. Even though structural racism, most particularly anti-Black structural racism, is historically rooted and systematically sustained, we continually seek to combat it with the “one bad apple” approach. This presentation will expand our view from a micro, or individual level, to a macro, or group level, understanding of racism. Participants will examine structural racism as a form of inequity and systemic disadvantage that yields disparate access to resources, opportunities, and life outcomes. Participants will be guided in defining and framing structural racism in association with the ways in which policies, practices, and institutions produce and sustain racial disparities. Particular attention will be given to the concept of community trauma, highlighting how structural inequities adversely impacts predominately Black communities. Structural competency will be introduced as a practical framework for combating structural racism, mitigating its impact, and promoting equity.

Overview: This workshop, led by Dr. NaKaisha Tolbert-Banks, DSW, LCSW, LCAC, will explore the systemic impact of losing a family member. This session will assess how such loss affects familial, workplace, and community roles and dynamics, including decision-making and familial cohesion. Participants will explore varied mental health responses and coping mechanisms within these systems. Utilizing the U.R.K.L.E. model, attendees will gain actionable strategies for managing mental health during familial grief and loss. This workshop equips clinical providers with essential insights and tools to effectively support families through complex emotional challenges.

Overview: This dynamic class with Deborah Levinson, LCSW, explores the modern landscape of later life, moving beyond traditional retirement paradigms to analyze the expanded choices and evolving opportunities available to today's older adults. We will delve into the psychological and neuroscientific foundations of aging, evaluating how resilience and brain science findings, particularly on plasticity and cognitive potential, impact decision making and overall well-being. We will also review Erickson's key theories of adult development, as well as integrate the later stages introduced by Dr. Gene Cohen. This framework offers a compelling lens through which participants can understand the immense potential for continued growth, creativity, and self-actualization in the latter years of life.

Overview: Can two wrongs ever make a right? Spend an evening with Social Psychologist and Neuroscientist David Chester, PhD as he shares his original research and fascinating insights surrounding the mechanism of Revenge! Participants will enjoy Dr. Chester's perspectives around identifying the temporary "sweetness" of revenge and the corresponding physiological response. We'll also study the worsening mid and long term effects on the revenge seeker's emotional state, as well as evidence and neuroscience -based interventions geared to promote helpful coping strategies and positive outcomes for individuals who feel "wronged". This webinar is a companion course with Dr. Chester's corresponding presentation, "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You": Exploring the Science of Rejection. Please consult the full schedule to enjoy both sessions!

Overview: Join Dr. Tim Victorella, as we take a closer look at crisis. Participants will gain deeper insight surrounding deconstructing the "crisis brain", effective formulas for de-escalation, helping practitioners approach crisis situations with confidence, and explore the role of nonverbal cues in overcoming crisis events.

Overview: In this course, Karen Landmann, LCSW, will explore the multifaceted issue of video game addiction, examining its impact on individuals, families, and society. Participants will delve into the psychobiology of gaming and addiction, understanding how these factors influence client behavior. The course will also analyze the socio-economic implications of video game addiction and its impact on various segments of society. Furthermore, participants will gain insights into the countertransference phenomenon in treating gaming addiction, learning to recognize and manage their own emotional responses. Finally, the course will equip participants with a practical framework for developing effective treatment plans to assist clients struggling with video game addiction.

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