¿¿Ethics in Health Care
Terry Koenig, Ph.D.
$95 - 6 CEUs
Thursday, June 19
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: June 12
Build your skills as a helping professional in a health care setting. Learn how illness disrupts the coping abilities of clients and caregivers. Understand the vulnerability of individuals facing acute, chronic or terminal illness and all persons making decisions. Develop effective strategies for health care decision-making with ethical dilemmas concerning end-of-life treatment, home care, mental competency and institutionalization. This seminar will help you apply an ethical framework to a range of case examples.
®®Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for
Depression/Anxiety
Rob Estell, LCSW
$95 - 6 CEUs
Friday, June 20
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: June 13
Assess the basic principles of Cognitive Therapy and learn more about the theoretical foundations while learning the fundamental, evidence-based techniques used to treat depression and anxiety disorders.
Couples Therapy: Diagnosis and Treatment
Barbara Baer, Ph.D.
$95 - 6 CEUs
Friday, July 11
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: July 3
With the divorce rate at approximately 50%, learn to identify characteristics in healthy marital and committed relationships that can help long term relationships last. Learn more about current research with long term relationships that can help couples recognize behavioral cues of intimacy and increase their ability to deepen connection when in conflict. Discuss cultural issues and use case examples to illustrate application of theory to practice.
Working with the Elderly
Theresa Gordon, Ph.D
$95 - 6 CEUs
Thursday, July 17
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: July 10
AM-Aging and Well-Being: Identify the
demographic effects of an aging population on society and our social
welfare programs. Demonstrate greater awareness of self and
ageism. Assess the physical, personality, and cognitive aspects of
aging; the challenges and the stability of these aspects. Explore
the resiliency of aging adults.
PM-Mental Health Issues: Learn to identify major psychological disorders of aging and their
diagnostic differences. Gain understanding of the impact of
physical illness on psychological well-being. Acquire knowledge of
traditional and non-traditional interventions that promote aging well
(or as well as possible).
®®Diagnosis and Treatment of Post
Traumatic Stress and Related Disorders
Mike Boniello, LSCSW
$95 - 6 CEUs
Friday, July 18
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: July 11
This class is presented to help professionals deal with the aftermath of critical incidents. Learn about the biological, psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual ramifications of trauma. Understand more about diagnostic considerations regarding trauma-related disorders and the interventions associated with them. Learn to assess trauma from natural disasters, environmental causes, and social and interpersonal causes such as child abuse and neglect.
PT 101: Play Therapy for Assessment
Denise K. Filley, M.A., RPT
$95 - 6 CEUs
Wednesday, July 23
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: July 16
Play therapy can be an extremely effective tool for the assessment phase of treatment, especially when working with children, families or various personalities that resist standard assessment paper/pencil interview methods. Using free play, are assessment, game assessment, Marschak Assessment Method and others (including unique assessment forms compiled or written by the instructor) you can more quickly and effectively assess the needs of clients. Instruction will be through hands on experiential learning, lecture and some video examples of assessment sessions with clients. All materials provided.
®®Diagnosis & Treatment: Bi-Polar
Disorder in Childhood
"Riding the Roller Coaster"
Rob Estell, LCSW
$95 - 6 CEUs
Thursday, July 24
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: July 17
Originally thought to be presenting in young adulthood, bipolar disorder is increasingly recognized as a condition that can begin in youth. Its presentation during childhood, however, is typically different from that in adults. Frequently presents a symptoms of other disorders such as ADHD, depression and anxiety. Thus, the condition is very misunderstood, misdiagnosed and mistreated.
®®Diagnosis and Treatment of
Adolescent Sexual Offenders
Mike Boniello, LSCSW
$95 - 6 CEUs
Friday, July 25
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: July 18
Gain understanding of the emotional and environmental triggers which lead to the development of the adolescent sex offenses. Address the typologies of adolescent sex offenders according to the offender's motivation to cross sexual boundaries. Learn the use of denial among sex offenders and effective ways to confront it in both assessment and treatment. Parameters and goals for individual and group psychotherapy (including educational modules) will be addressed as well as goals in family therapy with regards to incest perpetrators in particular. Developmental issues, societal messages regarding youth and sexuality and dysfunctional family dynamics will be addressed. Assess interventions aimed at protecting the community and assisting the offender in learning more appropriate sexual and stress responses. Gain understanding of state of the art treatment methods and modalities in working with these clients. The differences between outpatient, in-home and residential treatments will be addressed and a paradigm for assessing "wellness" will be presented.
Counseling the Family Caregiver
Fred Mayfield, Ph.D., & Ann Misel, LCSW
$95 - 6 CEUs
Thursday, July 31
9 AM to 4 PM
Registration Due: July 24
Approximately 50 million people in this county provide care for an elderly or disabled family member during any given year. Learn how the aging process is changing and identify changing demographics of the aging population and care givers. Examine shifts in family dynamics related to care giving, examine mental health issues of care givers, and identify strategies for managing the care giving process. Learn more about local and national resources to assist the care giver and family members.
¿¿ Ethics Credit
®® Diagnosis Credit
