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Intro to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
WJCS Hartsdale Clinic 141 North Central Avenue, Hartsdale, NY, United StatesDialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment originally designed for individuals with suicidal or self-harm behaviors. It has come to be an evidence-based treatment for borderline personality (BPD). However, many other clients and disorders have been shown to benefit from DBT, such as depression, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, or alcohol and drug use disorders. It can be applied as a behavioral therapy to any target behavior that the client would want to change. DBT is built on balancing acceptance and change. Its use of dialectics like this one, the teaching of mindfulness as a core skill, and its group curriculum of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that have distinguished DBT as a skills-based therapy.
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Common Factors of Evidence-Based Trauma Treatments
ZoomEnrollment 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 assessment. The course will include lecture and case discussion. Method: Lecture, discussion Learning Objectives: Participants will learn how to identify at least one prerequisite for successful trauma treatment. Participants will learn about Dr. Herman’s stages of treatment ...
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Dissociation
ZoomEnrollment 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 two theories about dissociation and how it emerges as a trauma coping skill. Participants will learn basic treatment concepts for work with people with dissociative disorders Instructor: Liane Nelson, Ph.D. Location: 141 N. Central Ave, Hartsdale ...
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Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD) – WJCS STAFF ONLY
ZoomA Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD) is an instruction to be followed when a person isn’t able to make decisions regarding her/his physical or mental health treatment. Learn your responsibilities and the rights of people who create a PAD. Learn to use a PAD as an empowering wellness tool.
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Discussing Difficult Topics with Clients
ZoomDates & Times: 11/4/25 9-11am & 12/2/25 9-11am Enrollment Limited to: No limit Contact Hrs: 4 CEU’s: 4 Have you ever been uncomfortable discussing something sensitive with a client? In this two-part course, clinicians will learn how to engage in difficult conversations with their clients. The first session will cover general background on client- and therapist-interfering thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of approaching difficult conversations. We will use concepts from DBT and a framework for working with “resistance” and getting “unstuck.” The second session will focus more on practical application in the form ...
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Organizational Skills Training
ZoomParticipants will learn about the essential components of OST and how to use the published treatment manual to address their clients’ organizational difficulties.
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Edythe Kurz Educational Institute Conference 2025
ZoomThe Annual 2025 WJCS Kurz Conference will explore how digital environments influence the mental health and emotional development of adolescents and young adults. While technology offers connection and creativity, it can also intensify stress, loneliness, and self-comparison. A focus will be the relationship between screen time, social media use, and mental well-being, with a focus on mental health, self-esteem, and identity development.
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Theories & Practices to Support Clinicians Working with Grieving Clients
ZoomThe current course aims to provide clinicians with a grounding in psychoeducation and theory behind grief responses in order to increase clinician confidence in working with clients who are experiencing bereavement. Additionally, this course will provide clinicians with examples of and hands-on practice with activities they can use in session to help support clients on their journey through grief and healing. At the close of each day of the course, space will be provided for clinicians to process their thoughts and feelings related to working with grieving clients in an effort to normalize conversation about death and dying and dispel some of the discomfort or concern about supporting grieving clients.
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Understanding the Role of Peer Specialists
ZoomEnrollment Limited To: 20 Contact Hrs: 1.5 CEUs: 1.5 Method: Lecture Learning Objectives: Participants will learn the origins of peer support. Participants will learn the nature of the role and how it intersects with other roles in mental health clinics. Participants will learn the aspects of a recovery-oriented culture. Instructor: Jeremy M. Reuling, LCSW, NYCPS, CPRP Location: Zoom Cost for non-WJCS staff: $75 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101, and by the New York […]
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Trauma Treatment Across the Lifespan
Clinicians are likely to encounter survivors of trauma in their practice. In addition to clients who meet criteria for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders from single traumatic events, survivors of complex and early developmental attachment trauma may also present more complex clinical pictures.
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Hoarding Disorder: What Clinicians Need to Know
ZoomIt is estimated that 2%-6% of the population suffers from hoarding disorder. Across two sessions, this course will review the common mechanisms associated with the development of hoarding disorder as well as how to recognize, assess, and treat hoarding disorder. The course will also provide an overview of a newly developed eight-week specialty treatment program for hoarding disorder that can be effectively delivered both in office or via telehealth in standard length psychotherapy sessions.
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Dr. Samuel Kahn Memorial Lecture 2026
ZoomDr. Elana Spira, WJCS Director of Research and Evaluation, will review diagnostic features of ADHD, focusing on variations across different subtypes and developmental periods, along with evidence-based guidance for assessment and intervention across the lifespan.
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Grief Special Topics: Ambiguous Loss, Disenfranchised Grief (WJCS Staff Only)
ZoomLosses are ever-present in our lives, yet those that don’t involve death are often overlooked by clients, clinicians, and communities. Join us and deepen your grief-informed practice by considering the many ways your clients experience loss. This training clarifies core concepts such as Ambiguous Loss and Disenfranchised Grief and examines real-world examples across a broad spectrum of client experiences (including trauma, adoption, foster care, divorce, estrangement, immigration, deportation, forced migration, incarceration, brain injury, mental illness, developmental disabilities, gender and sexuality, aging, and caregiving). You will learn practical intervention strategies and principles for working with clients facing ambiguous losses and disenfranchised grief.