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CBT Strategies: Core Skills and Competencies to Treat Your Most Challenging Clients!
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is the most empirically supported therapeutic approach for multiple psychiatric disorders, and is widely considered the “gold standard” treatment for a variety of issues. Most mental health professionals claim to do “some CBT,” but many clinicians in…
The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques
In The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D presents the most useful psychotherapeutic approaches to generalized anxiety, panic and social anxiety. Via discussion, practice in the seminar, and concise client examples in all age groups, you will learn…
Post-Traumatic Growth: Leading Clients on a Journey of Resiliency and Healing
Become empowered as a trauma clinician! Learn from expert trauma clinician Lisa Ferentz how to shine a spotlight on your clients’ resiliency and creativity – while planting the seeds of hope and Post-Traumatic Growth even in the earliest stages of…
Mental Health Issues in the Classroom
Join child/adolescent behavioural expert, Jay Berk, PhD, and learn how to best manage the students at your school diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mood disorders, anxiety and depression. You will…
Working with Oppositional, Defiant, & Anger Issues with Children & Adolescents
Children diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can present a monumental challenge to therapists, teachers, parents and siblings. ODD and other conduct problems are the single greatest reasons for referrals to outpatient and inpatient mental health settings for children, accounting…
A Neufeld Institute Conference | Emotional Health and Well-Being: Towards Flourishing Children and Youth
Conference Overview Emotion matters. Contrary to the received wisdom of the last few centuries, today’s science has revealed emotion to be at the heart of most matters and of what matters most. Emotion is now being recognized as Nature’s way…
2 Day Skills Practice Workshop
Executive skills are sometimes called “the hidden curriculum.” They are skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success, yet curriculum standards seldom if ever explicitly reference these…
Motivational Interviewing (MI): Essential Strategies and Interventions to Motivate Clients Towards Change
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach to communication that tends to help clients construct their own argument(s) in support of a pre-determined change. Fidelity to this way of focusing a conversation serves to enhance the client’s desires for the identified…
The Canadian Mental Health Summit: Advanced Interventions and Strategies For Frontline Professionals
New Conference Format 12 Internationally Renown Experts 15 Full Day Workshops 15 Imperative Topics Relevant to Mental Health Professionals A Letter from Jack Hirose Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce that our annual Canadian Mental Health Summit Conference:…
4 Day Intensive: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and TEAM Techniques
Space is limited! Previous attendees qualify for a special rate $599.00! Join Dr. David Burns this summer in Calgary, AB, for his fabulous four-day intensive on the treatment of depression and all of the anxiety disorders with advanced CBT and…
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Much has been written about mindfulness in recent decades, but clinicians are often left without concrete, practical skills to teach clients in acute distress. Applying the methods of an evidence-based intervention such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), requires in-depth knowledge…
2 Day Intensive: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques
In The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D presents the most useful psychotherapeutic approaches to generalized anxiety, panic and social anxiety. Via discussion, practice in the seminar, and concise client examples in all age groups, you will learn…
Trauma Competency Training
This two-day seminar delivers the bio-psycho-social aspects of traumatic stress, traumatic grief, & traumatic loss. Mental health professionals are on the front lines and, in many cases, have the initial contact with the individual(s) who has experienced traumatic stress. Clinicians…
Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
This workshop has been identified by hundreds of professionals as life changing, essential, and exhilarating. Join Dr. Eric Gentry, a recognized leader in the area of compassion fatigue, and learn evidence-based compassion, resiliency, and prevention skills drawn from the Accelerated…
3 Day Intensive: DBT Made Simple
In this intensive 3-day workshop, DBT will be de-mystified and you will learn how to use this highly effective therapy to better treat your clients with problems managing emotions. Sheri’s unique workshops emphasize the flexibility of DBT and the benefits…
3 Day Intensive: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Mental Health Practice
Cultivate fluid and flexible use of ACT in practice ACT techniques for a broad range and severity of mental health disorders An interactive workshop including experiential exercises, demonstrations, clinical worksheets and practical tools Transformative for you and your clients! How…
Brain-Based Learning, Behavioural Challenges & Mental Health: The Calgary Educators’ Conference
New Conference Format 10 Internationally Renown Experts 13 Full Day Workshops Mix & Match to Create Customized Conference Experience Conference Overview Day One: Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 Emotional Disorders Workshop #1 – The Neuropsychology of Emotional Disorders: A…
3 Day Intensive: Working with Oppositional, Defiant and Anger Issues with Children and Adolescents
Children diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can present a monumental challenge to therapists, teachers, parents and siblings. ODD and other conduct problems are the single greatest reasons for referrals to outpatient and inpatient mental health settings for children, accounting…
2 Day Intensive: Working with Oppositional, Defiant, & Anger Issues with Children & Adolescents
Children diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can present a monumental challenge to therapists, teachers, parents and siblings. ODD and other conduct problems are the single greatest reasons for referrals to outpatient and inpatient mental health settings for children, accounting…
High Functioning Autism
This intensive, two-day hands-on workshop provides evidence-based behavioural intervention strategies, essential treatment tools, and successful psychosocial techniques to teach new skills to children, adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism (HFA). Dr. Daily will provide interesting case studies, demonstrations, and…
2 Day Intensive Training: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is one of the most empirically-supported therapies available to address many clinical disorders, even beyond Borderline Personality Disorder. Some of the key symptoms that DBT skills addresses includes confusion about the self, interpersonal chaos, mood lability,…
2 Day Advanced Mindfulness Training
In this in-depth, two-day workshop, national mindfulness teacher and author Donald Altman will demonstrate a variety of powerful clinical tools—from grounding and attention focusing skills to metacognitive awareness and mindfulness skills—for helping clients to rewire the brain as they overcome…
Trauma Competency Training
This two-day seminar delivers the bio-psycho-social aspects of traumatic stress, traumatic grief, & traumatic loss. Mental health professionals are on the front lines and, in many cases, have the initial contact with the individual(s) who has experienced traumatic stress. Clinicians…
Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
This workshop has been identified by hundreds of professionals as life changing, essential, and exhilarating. Join Dr. Eric Gentry, a recognized leader in the area of compassion fatigue, and learn evidence-based compassion, resiliency, and prevention skills drawn from the Accelerated…
The Neuropsychology of Learning Disabilities
The fundamental aim of this course is to utilize cognitive neuroscience to better understand learning disorders in children. This workshop has been designed to examine reading, writing, and math disorders from a brain-based educational perspective. The primary learning objectives will…