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101: Emerging Gender Identities Among Youth
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary This workshop will address trends in care for minors who experience diverse gender identities. The presenter will discuss transgender experiences and emerging gender identities, such as gender non-binary, pangender,...
102: The End of Mental Illness
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary This workshop will discard an outdated, stigmatizing paradigm and replace it with a modern, brain-based, whole-person program rooted in science and hope. Based on the world’s largest functional brain imaging database, Dr....
103: When Trust Has Been Broken: The Road Map to Repairs
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Pornography, adultery, addictions, and abuse destroy marital trust. Reconciliation is always the hoped for goal. But what are the specific steps needed to rebuild broken trust? What are the therapeutic and personal mile...
104: Restoring the Shattered Self: Practical Guidelines for Processing Traumatic Memories
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary One of the key challenges for psychologists and licensed mental health professionals in trauma processing is adequately pacing the work to allow for maximum client functioning, minimizing the risk of suicidality, avoiding...
105: From Trauma to Transformation: A Path to Healing and Growth
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary In a clinical setting, mental health professionals often talk about post-traumatic stress symptoms following traumatic life events, but few think about the possibility of post-traumatic growth (PTG)—the positive ways in...
106: Research on Christian Therapies: What You Need to Know to Have a Research-based Practice and Ministry
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary The focus during this workshop will be on: 1) briefly reviewing the research on religion and mental health in Christians, 2) discussing why evidence-based treatments in Christian counseling for psychologists and licensed...
107: START: How to Launch a Successful Coaching Practice
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Professional coaching is a highly effective and fulfilling engagement. Coaches provide solutions to several broad-based need areas for clients, including career, leadership, relationships, family, marriage, dating, and...
108: The Role of Emotional and Relational Intelligence in Cultivating a Mentally, Emotionally, and Spiritually Healthy Congregation
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary If God’s purpose for us as church leaders, pastors, pastoral counselors, lay counselors, and coaches is to help our people “become conformed to the Image His Son,” then what might that look like? What does it mean to “grow...
201: The Increase in Covert Teenage Suicide Ideation and Self-injury: Practical Ideas for Changing Dynamics
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among teenagers in the United States. Two decades ago, there were obvious signs pointing to an individual’s suicidal ideation. Today, with the prevalence of social media,...
202: Forgiving Difficult People After Their Death: A Mental Health Treatment Copy
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary It is not unusual for a person to carry unforgiveness for a serious offense for months or even years after the offender’s death. The excruciating emotional pain persists, and the other consequences have adverse effects even...
203: In Sickness and in Health: The Physical Consequences of Emotional Abuse in Marriage
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Too many psychologists and licensed mental health clinicians focus on treating the mind, forgetting to ask questions about the body. Thus, they are in danger of enabling a very destructive process instead of participating...
204: Updated Diagnosis and Evidence-based Treatment of Complicated Grief: Ramifications of the Aftermath of COVID-19 and DSM-5-TR Revisions Affecting Individuals and Families
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary The three years of COVID-19 and other difficult, traumatic circumstances have created a significantly higher number of bereaved people experiencing delayed grieving, either directly or indirectly. The DSM-5-TR (recently...
205: Communication Patterns of Families Facing Addictions: Helping Clients with Different Parenting Styles
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Communication about sensitive topics can be challenging in any family—add addiction to the equation, and the results can be dire. In this workshop, the presenters will explain results from interviews with family members who...
206: A Skill-based Approach for Building Resiliency to Promote Wellness
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Due to the high number of Americans overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, prevention and training programs are needed to mitigate stress and resist anxiety. Just as we physically train for fitness, the brain can also be...
207: The Diversified Coach: Make a Great Living Doing What You Love
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Do you aspire to be so successful as a coach that you can eventually quit your day job? Making a full-time career out of coaching can be scary, but you CAN turn the seemingly “Impossible” into “I’m Possible!” By discovering...
208: Clinical Skills of Effective Therapists that Improve Client Outcomes: Empirical Evidence and Clinical Applications from a Christian Perspective
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary This track workshop presentation will cover eight clinical skills of effective psychologists and licensed mental health professionals that improve client outcomes (Miller & Moyers, 2021; Tan, 2021): accurate empathy,...
301: Heart to Heart: Difficult Family Conversations with Life-changing Results
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary One of the most challenging relational skills is learning how to effectively engage someone in a difficult and confrontational conversation that identifies the differences between their two perspectives. However, this...
302: The Biology of Sin
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary As both a Christian and a neuroscientist, Dr. Stanford has seen scientific knowledge distorted to justify sinful behavior and, perhaps, even more disturbingly, has witnessed Christians misuse Scripture to demonize and...
303: Secrets of Sex and Marriage Update: What They May Not Know, but You Need to
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary More than half of all married couples meet the criteria for sexual dysfunction at some point in their marriages. Much of this conflict arises out of common myths and attribution errors. Recent research reveals several...
304: Healing the Wounds of Human Trafficking
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Trafficking of people, or human trafficking, is an illegal activity that touches all nations and has long-lasting physical, social, and psychological consequences for survivors and all those involved. Traffickers exploit...
305: Young Adults and Adolescents vs. Addiction: Maximizing Success by Retracing the Vine to its Roots Beyond Trauma to Attachment Capacity and Intimacy Connections
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Most people are poignantly aware of the surge in addictions, especially since the pandemic—multiple sexual addictions, addictions to drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, video gaming, and social media, and the increase in...
306: Riding the Waves of Emotion: Practical Skills for Emotion Regulation Copy
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Emotion dysregulation is a frequently reported symptom of many psychological disorders. This workshop will explore the nature, function, and neurobiology of emotion regulation, as well as its development through securely...
307: Imposter Syndrome: Timely Insights and Proven Strategies to Address One of the Nation’s Most Overlooked Mental Health Issues
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Each year, thousands of people seek help from psychologists and licensed mental health professionals for their low self-esteem and confidence. Though not a formal diagnosis in the DSM-5-TR, some of the most famous public...
308: The Role of Spirituality and Faith in Counseling: What Christian Counselors Need to Know
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Ethical codes identify the spiritual dimension as a necessary component of competent counseling, marriage and family therapy, and social work. However, evidence suggests that many licensed mental health professionals lack...
401: The Brain and Attachment Styles: A Toolkit for Clinicians
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Attachment dynamics explain much of what happens within relationships and the suffering that prompts clients to seek services. John Bowlby (1969) described the attachment system as active “from the cradle to the grave.” The...
402: Mental and Relational Healthcare for the Church: The Struggle is Real
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary People are hurting today in unprecedented ways and virtually epidemic numbers. A litany of clinically significant mental and relational health problems exists not only in society at large but within the Church. Yet, in most...
403: Healthy People, Healthy Relationships: How Conflict in Relationships Can be the Catalyst for Deeper Healing
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Couples facing regular conflict and routine marital tension often fail to realize that there tends to be a conflict pattern that comes up repeatedly in their relationship. Interestingly enough, that conflict pattern is...
404: The Traumatic Impact of Grief and Loss Related to Clergy Forced Termination
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Forced termination of clergy could be considered a modern-day epidemic. Although it is difficult to obtain an accurate count, it is estimated that at least 25% of clergy will experience forced termination in their careers...
405: Transformational Accountability: Fostering Change and Growth in Church-based Recovery Groups
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary With increasing numbers of Christian clients reporting life-dominating struggles and addictions, many churches are launching Christ-centered recovery groups led by licensed mental health professionals to help individuals...
406: Counseling Techniques for Working with Shame
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary Client shame occurs in every corner of a mental health professional’s office. Shame is a foundational emotional experience in many clinical issues and disorders. It is essential, then, for psychologists and other licensed...
407: Mental Toughness and Attachment-based Approaches to Overcome Shame and Failure in Performance and Competition
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary It is no secret that the sporting arena is an essential aspect of society and culture used by individuals as a source of entertainment, pleasure, and an outlet from personal hardship. This “consumer” or “spectator” role...
408: The God Factor: Dynamic Spirituality and Mental Health
PRESENTERSCREDENTIALSCE CREDITSLEVELSummary In their classic Handbook of Psychotherapy and Religious Diversity, P. Scott Richards and Allen E. Bergin state, “Growing empirical evidence indicates that spirituality and religious commitment tend to be associated with...