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Practical Intervention Strategies to Help Adolescents and Adults who Struggle with Addictions
Addictions is a disease of the brain, addictions is a response to using psychoactive drugs, addictions is progressive mistaken usage in response to environmental cues. Each of these phrases describes one of the many theories on addictions and each of…
3-Day Intensive Workshop: Mastering Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Training
Registration on this page is for live in-person attendance only. To attend virtually please register here: https://webinars.jackhirose.com/product/dbt-intensive/ Live In-Person Workshop or Live Stream from Home This conference will be live streaming from Richmond, BC to online participants on June 12 – 14, 2024 from 8:30am –…
The Vancouver Mental Health Summit
Registration on this page is for live in-person attendance only. To attend virtually please register here: https://webinars.jackhirose.com/product/vancouver-mental-health-summit/ Live In-Person Conference Complimentary tea, coffee and assorted pastries On-site exhibitors Live Stream from Home This conference will be live streaming from Richmond, BC to…
DBT Skills to Treat Clients, Maximize Therapeutic Gains and Reduce Therapist Burnout
REGISTRATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE IN PERSON: Please see below information for details and registration. LIVE STREAM: This event is also being offered as a live stream online course. For more information and registration for the live stream, please CLICK HERE Sheri Van…
2 Day Intensive: Using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to Treat Emotion Dysregulation Disorders
REGISTRATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE IN PERSON: CANCELLED LIVE STREAM: This event has been changed into a interactive live stream online course. For more information and registration for the live stream, please CLICK HERE Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a treatment originally designed to…
Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered via Live Streaming. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. Participants will be able to interact with Dr. Muller during a Q&A…
Over 30 Proven and Effective Brief Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioural Problems
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered online. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. The course is available to watch anytime from now until March 1, 2021. Participants…
Over 30 Proven and Effective Brief Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioural Problems
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered online. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. The course is available to watch anytime from now until March 1, 2021. Participants…
Over 30 Proven and Effective Brief Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioural Problems
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered online. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. The course is available to watch anytime from now until March 1, 2021. Participants…
2 Day Intensive: DBT Skills Training
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered online. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. Participants can watch, pause and re-watch sessions to fit their at home learning needs.…
Treating Anxiety Disorders with Children and Adolescents
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered online. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. The course is available to watch starting April 30, 2020 until April 1, 2021.…
25 Proven and Effective Self-Regulation Strategies and Interventions with Children and Adolescents
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered online. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. The course is available to watch anytime from April 23, 2020 – April 1,…
Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered via Live Streaming. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. Participants will be able to interact with Dr. Muller during a Q&A…
Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up
Important Notice Due to COVID-19 this event is now being offered via Live Streaming. This change has been made to ensure a safe learning environment for all participants. Participants will be able to interact with Dr. Muller during a Q&A…
Dyslexia: What it is, What it is Not and How to Help Students
In this course participants will experience a dyslexia simulation that will include experiencing difficulty with reading, writing and processing in conjunction with a discussion of the signs and symptoms of dyslexia. Participants will learn about many popular myths about dyslexia…
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…
25 Self-Regulation Strategies and Skills for Children and Adolescents
Children and adolescents who struggle with self -regulation often look like those who just aren’t paying attention, have difficulty with emotional control, blurting out answers, have difficulty making transitions and/or purposely not controlling themselves. They may be unaware of the…
High Functioning Autism: Proven and Practical Interventions for Challenging Behaviour in Children and Adolescents
This intensive, one-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…
Reading, Writing and the Brain: Developing Effective Interventions
This workshop will examine reading and written language disorders from a brain-based educational perspective, and classify each disorder into distinct subtypes. There will be a detailed discussion linking each learning disorder’s subtype with scores of evidence based interventions. Four universal…
Is it Disability Behaviour or Just Disruptive Behaviour? -CANCELLED
Both educators and parents struggle with what to do with difficult behaviour in the classroom and home. Both are often hesitant to provide consequences when a child with special needs exhibits problem behaviours because they are afraid they will be…
Strengthening Executive Skills to Promote School Success
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…
Multi-Model Communication and Learning Strategies for Children Who Face Significant Challenges Including: Severe Multiple Disabilities and Children on the Autism Spectrum (Day 2)
Children who face significant physical and multiple challenges as well as those children on the more severe end of the autism spectrum, often struggle to access communication, interaction and learning. Some of these children may have very little control of…
Stress, Trauma and Learning: How to Develop Brain-Based Interventions
This workshop will explore the neural underpinnings of stress, trauma, and emotional dysfunction in children and its relative impact upon learning. Environmental deprivation, poverty, childhood abuse, witnessing violence, and parental neglect can impact both cognitive and social-emotional development in children.…
Multi-Model Communication and Learning Strategies for Children Who Face Significant Challenges Including: Severe Multiple Disabilities and Children on the Autism Spectrum (Day 1)
Children who face significant physical and multiple challenges as well as those children on the more severe end of the autism spectrum, often struggle to access communication, interaction and learning. Some of these children may have very little control of…
Peer Orientation: Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers are Disempowered and How to Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships
Why Children are Stressed, Why Parents and Teachers are Disempowered and How To Restore a Healthy Balance in Adult-Child Relationships. Parenting and teaching are much harder these days than they used to be, and than they should be. In Hold…