Events for May 15, 2025 - May 15, 2025

Assessing and Treating Clients with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions Dates: 9/5/23 & 10/3/23       Time: 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM Enrollment Limited To: 20                   Contact Hrs:  5                            CEUs:  5   Clients seeking mental health treatment may also have a coexisting substance abuse problem.  This may be apparent at intake or emerge during treatment.  Symptoms of one disorder are often mistaken for the other.  Treatment of individuals who present with co-occurring mental health and substance use issues can present a myriad of challenges for providers.  Among the challenges faced by providers treating individuals with co-occurring conditions […]

Motivational Interviewing Dates: 9/12/23 &  9/19/23 Time: 9:00-11:30 AM  Enrollment Limited to: 20           Contact Hrs. 5                     CEU’s:  5   Individuals presenting for treatment, whether it be medical, psychiatric, or substance use-related, frequently come to treatment possessing varying levels of motivation, including resistance or ambivalence about making the necessary changes.  Successful engagement with clients around treating problematic behaviors often requires assessing and increasing their motivation to make the changes necessary to improve their condition.  Motivational Interviewing is an intervention aimed to enhance clients’ motivations to make needed changes.  […]

Common Factors of Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment Dates: 10/10/23                           Time: 9:00-10:30 Enrollment Limited to: 20            Contact Hrs: 1.5                     CEU’s: 1.5   This course will focus on using Judith Herman, MD’s three stages of trauma treatment. This course will explore the common factors of evidence-based trauma treatments including Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Skills Training for Affective and Interpersonal Regulation-Narrative Story Telling (STAIR-NST) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). We will also discuss common pre-treatment beliefs and […]

Dissociation Dates:  10/17/23                                              Time: 9:00-10:30                                  Enrollment Limited to: 20                   Contact Hrs:  1.5                     CEU’s: 1.5                                                                                                                                                       This course will focus on Frank Putnam MD’s conceptualization of dissociation.  Participants will learn basic skills in how to identify dissociation, assess dissociation and treat people with dissociative disorders. The course will include lecture and case discussion.   Method: Lecture, discussion Learning Objectives:  Participants will learn how to identify dissociation. Participants will learn […]