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Autism Spectrum Disorders: Infants, Children and Adolescents (6 CE Hours) Gain an update on the latest research findings and clinical applications in the diagnosis and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in infants, children and adolescents. Identify what is known about the biology and genetics of ASD and define different treatment modalities. Learn to differentiate how Autism, Asperger Syndrome and related disorders impact different age groups and different family members. You become familiar with medications that work, examples of best practices and risk factors associated with the spectrum. Workshop includes lectures, case studies and discussions. Psychopharmacology for Master's Level Clinicians (6 CE Hours) An increasing number of mental health clients are being prescribed mood and mind altering medications, often by their primary care provider. This workshop focuses on learning what these medications do, how they work and how to help clients understand their effects and manage their side-effects. It will also help identify which medication-related symptoms are dangerous and require immediate medical attention. In the context of the wellbeing and wholeness of individual clients, participants explore the worlds of Prozac, Ritalin, Depakote, Xanax, Invega (paliperidone), and Vyvance, among others. Participants learn about the human brain and how to advocates for medications that enhances, but do not substitute for, psychotherapeutic interventions. Instructor: Alex Suarez, Ph.D., core faculty in the doctoral psychology program at Antioch University Seattle. A licensed, practicing psychologist for the last 20 years, she also has served as faculty at National University of Mexico, University of Washington and Argosy University. Narcissistic Personality Disorders in Midlife: Diagnosis and Treatment (6 CE Hours) This workshop is designed to help clinicians improve their ability to diagnose narcissistic personality disorders, particularly as they are seen in midlife men, and to formulate different therapeutic interventions that effectively address narcissistic issues. This workshop presents a developmental self and object relations approach to narcissistic personality disorders. This approach allows the therapist to understand and use differential interventions in addressing the range of narcissistic issues including: healthy versus pathological narcissism, meaning of perfectionism, narcissistic sexual addiction, fusion versus real attachment, narcissistic depression, role of mirroring, real self versus grandiose self, excessive entitlement, narcissistic injury, rage, idealization/devaluation and common work and family issues. This workshop is didactic and interactive in nature. Group exercises, case presentations and vignettes are invited from the audience. Instructor: Steven K Reed, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, licensed psychologist and faculty member of the Masterson Institute. Techniques for Improving Cognitive Functioning and Memory (6 CE Hours) Neuroplasticity refers to the capacity of the brain to change with experience. More recently, the focus has been how to drive brain plasticity toward improved cognitive function throughout the lifespan – and toward improvements in actual brain architecture. There's a flood of research on the three facets of neurogenesis: how to increase the rate of creating new brain cells, what could influence new neurons to thrive and how to integrate new brain cells into existing neural networks so they serve you better. New neuroscience is exploding with new findings that afford an unprecedented level of hope. This one-day workshop presents a practitioner-oriented array of science-based skills that empower the clinician to apply new neuroscience findings for improved brain health. Practitioners explore how the use of these skills that enhance brain function can improve other health parameters. A step-by-step method is offered for applying and measuring progress with these skills. This workshop is highly participatory and includes a combination of lecture, discussion, exercises and measurement of skill level. Instructor: Joyce Shaffer, Ph.D., is author of Secrets inside Bones, Brains & Beauty™ (2005) and Ideal Aging™: 7 Steps to Keep Your Brain Fit (2007) as well as other professional publications. She is a licensed psychologist and a registered nurse. Throughout her more than 40 years in health care, she has stayed at the cutting edge of health sciences. She is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington. Art Therapy with Adults and Children (6 CE Hours) In this hands-on training for practicing clinicians, learn how to integrate art with clients and address a range of clinical issues. Practice the techniques and find what will work best for you. Because art transcends words and triggers different parts of the brain and subconscious, clients experience their process at a new depth of understanding. Instructor: Rebecca Bloom is a board certified art therapist and licensed mental health counselor (LMHC). She has a private practice in Pioneer Square and is an associate faculty member at Antioch University Seattle. She has been helping people use art to address life transitions for the last nine years. Clinical Supervision for Licensed Counselors: Meeting D.O.H. Requirements (15 CE Hours) Washington's Department of Health requires 15 hours of continuing education in clinical supervision for those who supervise clinicians going for licensure. Good clinical supervision benefits the client, the clinician and the organization. If you are currently doing supervision or thinking about it, this training gets you up to speed and helps you to meet state requirements. As a result of this training, you:
Instructor: Lisa Erickson, M.S., L.M.H.C., has been a mental health counselor, clinical supervisor, program director and consultant for more than 25 years. She is a past-president of the Washington Mental Health Counselors Association and has been very active at the state level with issues related to licensure and supervision. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Advanced Training for Clinicians (12 CE Hours) Research has found that a new combination of meditation and cognitive therapy can help patients experiencing recurring depression. In four weekly sessions, and by practicing at home during the week, you learn the practice of mindfulness meditation and how to use it to help clients disentangle themselves from depressed mood and thinking. Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) also includes basic education about depression and several exercises from cognitive therapy that show the links between thinking and feeling and how best to look after yourself when depression threatens to overwhelm you. MBCT helps your client to see more clearly the patterns of the mind and to learn how to recognize when his/her mood is beginning to go down. It helps break the link between negative mood and the negative thinking that might normally have escalated into a relapse. Your client can develop the capacity to mindfully disengage from distressing mood and negative thoughts, and find that he/she can learn to stay in touch with the present moment, without having to ruminate about the past or agonize about the future. The mindfulness approach is meant to enhance, not to compete with, whatever type of treatment your client may be receiving for depression, whether antidepressants or psychotherapy. MBCT differs from mindfulness meditation as it is normally taught by the way it integrates mindfulness practice into a psychological model of depression and depressive relapse and the way it uses specific exercises to bring mindfulness (and concentration) to bear in stressful situations. Instructors: Anil Coumar, M.B.B.S., M.A., trained as a medical physician in India and a mental health counselor here, is director of the Mental Health Clinic, Hall Health Center at the University of Washington. He co-authored a book chapter titled "Mindfulness Meditation in the Prevention and Treatment of Addictive Behaviors" published in 2006. Regina Segura-Khagram, M.A., M.S., L.M.F.T, is a mental health therapist at Hall Health Center at the University of Washington. War and the Soul: Healing Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (6 CE Hours) This workshop helps mental health professionals explore the inner world of combat and the universal dimensions of veterans' wounding as revealed through history, archetypal psychology and cross-cultural perspectives. Participants learn about Post-traumatic Stress Disorder as an identity disorder and soul wound and learn about psycho-spiritual interventions and social activism that rebuild veterans' identities, shrink trauma and restore wounded dimensions of soul. At the end of this workshop:
Instructor: Edward Tick, Ph.D., is a holistic psychotherapist, writer, educator, journey guide, activist and veterans' advocate. He has been working with veterans and survivors of war, violence and trauma since the late 1970s. He specializes in using psycho-spiritual, cross-cultural and international reconciliation practices to help veterans, communities and nations heal. He is founder and Executive and Clinical Director of Sanctuary: A Center for Mentoring the Soul and of Soldier's Heart: Veterans' Safe Return Programs. Both are programs of national and international scope with home offices in Albany, N.Y. Dr. Tick is adjunct professor in both Communication and Global Studies at the Sage Colleges. Dr. Tick has published Sacred Mountain, Encounters with the Vietnam Beast (1989), The Practice of Dream Healing (2001), The Golden Tortoise: Vietnam Journeys (2005) and most recently War and the Soul, winner of ForeWord Magazine's Best Psychology Book of 2005. This workshop is offered as part of a Veteran's Return Retreat that starts Friday evening, Feb. 8 and sponsored by Soldier's Heart. For more information about the retreat click here. Love, Sex and Betrayal: Treating the New Crisis of Infidelity (5 CE Hours) Good people in good marriages are increasingly crossing the line into workplace and online affairs. This workshop presents a trauma recovery model for helping couples address the fallout when one or both partners become involved in extramarital affairs. Participants learn how to reverse walls and windows in the affair triangle and shift the disclosure from an adversarial inquisition to an empathic search for meaning. In this workshop, you learn to differentiate between Platonic friendships and emotional involvements, identify multidimensional vulnerabilities for infidelity and identify, validate and manage post-traumatic reactions in betrayed partners. Instructor: Paul David, Ph.D., Saybrook Institute, serves as core faculty in Antioch's School of Applied Psychology, Counseling and Family Therapy. David is a licensed mental health counselor and marriage and family therapist with a particular focus on couple therapy. Brief (No B.S.) Marital Therapy (6 CE Hours) Based on 30 years of study and work with couples, Students learn to help clients stop bitching and blaming and discover a healthy, committed adult relationship. Students learn how to identify goals for marital success for each spouse and redirect a couple's energy and attention toward fulfillment of these goals. Students also apply principles to situations where only one spouse attends therapy. Instructor: Sam Bradley, Ph.D., has been in private practice for 30 years in Olympia, WA. He is the author of The Happy Husband: A Guy's Guide to Marital Success and Marriage Makeover: A Woman's Guide to a Better Marriage. Domestic Violence Screening (6 CE Hours) Counselors, therapists, mental health professionals, social workers, physicians, nurses and human resources practitioners are among those expected to report and respond to the potential for domestic violence. Because domestically violent behaviors are hidden beneath the surface of personalities and relationships, they must be inferred by professionals. With analysis of a video about an abuse family, participants recognize behaviors and behavioral patterns with potential for domestic violence and conduct a competent domestic violence screening. The workshop addresses patterns of domestic violence in family members of clients or patients, which is needed to satisfy the legal requirement to report. Instructor: Warland D. Wight, Ph.D., LMFT, has more than 15 years of experience as supervisor of a Washington state certified domestic violence perpetrator treatment program. He has completed over a hundred domestic violence evaluations and has been subjected to cross examination through deposition or court appearances in a number of cases. In all cases, his evaluation recommendations have prevailed. He was president (re-elected) of the Washington Association of Domestic Violence Perpetrator Intervention Professionals, appointed to the faculty of the Family Law Skills Institute, Washington Bar Association, 2000 and organized and coordinated the Domestic Violence Leadership Summit in May 2007. Navigating the Healthcare System with Clients This interactive workshop helps mental health professionals address the challenges of our increasingly complex healthcare system. Clients with medical problems often face a variety of hurdles as they search for providers, consider treatment options, deal with insurance companies and manage their care. Mental health professionals also grapple with their own challenges while working with clients, including managing reimbursement issues and coordinating care with other providers. You learn principles of patient advocacy, identify how different community resources can meet specific needs and explore strategies for ensuring high-quality care and its continuity in today's managed-care environment. Instructors: Shala Erlich, M.D., with two years of residency training in anatomic pathology at the University of Washington, has taught anatomy and physiology, disease processes and the history of science to undergraduates and graduate nurse practitioner students at Seattle University and has published articles on health, illness and the experience of being a patient. Jason McNichol, Ph.D., is a sociologist, researcher and patient advocate with more than 12 years of experience addressing challenges in the healthcare system. He also served as a program director at the Social Science Research Council, where he led collaborative research projects focused on integrating health and social sciences in medical education.
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