DAY 2: November 28, 2023

Workshop #10: Internal Family Systems Therapy for Trauma Treatment

PRESENTED BY Daphne Fatter, Ph.D.

MORNING SESSION | 8:30am - 11:45am

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This session is available for live stream.

Developed by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. forty years ago, Internal Family Systems (IFS) is becoming one of the fastest growing therapy models. The evidenced-based approach is non-pathologizing and attends to the complex impact of traumatic stress, making it effective for working with PTSD and Complex Trauma. Dr. Fatter will review the basic model of IFS, including theoretical assumptions, goals for treatment, and steps of using the IFS model. Dr. Fatter will apply an IFS framework common clinical presentations including how to conceptualize PTSD. This presentation will include case examples to describe the process of applying IFS to trauma treatment in individual therapy with adults. Dr. Fatter will guide an experiential exercise to demonstrate the model and invite clinicians to have increased awareness of their own parts. This presentation will also include ways IFS can be used to help clinicians cope with countertransference reactions and vicarious trauma that often occurs among clinicians when providing trauma treatment. Applications of IFS to legacy and cultural burdens, traumas that are passed down intergenerationally from parents, caregivers, and ancestors as well as burdens from collective trauma and dominant culture, will also be discussed.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Describe qualities of Self in Internal Family Systems (IFS).

• Identify qualities of the three types of parts in an individual’s system.

• Report on two specific IFS techniques necessary for using IFS in trauma treatment.

Workshop #12: Strengthen Executive Function, Attention, Memory, Response Inhibition & Self-Regulation in Children & Adolescents

PRESENTED BY Lynne Kenney, Psy.D.

MORNING SESSION | 8:30am - 11:45am

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This session is available for live stream.

Did You Know?

• For many students, Executive Function is a better predictor of academic outcomes than intelligence quotient (IQ) and socioeconomic status (SES), (Blair & Raver, 2015; Cortés Pascual et al. 2019; Micalizzi et al., 2019).

• Executive Function skills predict math and reading in higher grade levels (Ribner et al., 2018; Magalhães et al., 2020).

• Self-Regulation skills predict academic, behavioral, and social achievement across a lifetime (Robson et al., 2020).

The Key Is To:

BOX: Empower children and adolescents with the skills to think, plan, attend, inhibit, and self-regulate. “When students develop their ability to think things through, pay attention, manage their emotions, resist their impulses, and plan the sequence of their actions they are better able to successfully learn, connect, and behave.”

This Is Achieved By:

Strengthening Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Learn About:

• The current science supporting the importance of improving executive function skills in your students.

• The developmental precursor skills that shift the trajectory of student learning, behavior and achievement.

• Evidence-based methods for strengthening executive function.

• The relationships between executive function skills, reading and math.

Understand How To:

• Improve your student’s focused attention.

• Teach your students how to be the “Best Coaches” for their own brains.

• Use cognitive skills coaching activities to bolster self-regulation and impulse control in your students.

• Play cognitive-motor activities like CogniTap and Think-Ups, which require self-regulation, attention, memory, and self-control.

Develop Skills To:

• Teach your students become “Cognitive Scientists” more invested in their own learning.

• Help your students achieve self-regulation quickly and effectively.

• Incorporate cognitive-motor movement to help your students achieve an alert state of learning readiness.

• Teach your students how to better monitor and manage their attention, memory and cognitive flexibility.

Be Ready To Implement:

• Cognitive Skill Coaching Activities for better organization, planning, time management, attention, memory, self-regulation, and cognitive flexibility.

• Simple 5-minute Brain Priming activities to prepare your students to actively participate in classroom lessons.

• Social-Cohesion activities to help students practice kindness, respect, and collaboration.

• Rhythmic vestibular, visual-tracking, and proprioceptive activities to support learning and engagement.

Workshop #13: Navigating Addictions: Practical Interventions to Promote Healing & Recovery

PRESENTED BY Carissa Muth, Psy.D., CCC, R.Psych

MORNING SESSION | 8:30am - 11:45am

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This session is available for live stream.

The field of addictions is muddled with a myriad of theories and treatments, yet little progress has been made over time to improve relapse rates.  Given the repetitive and persistent nature of addictions, mental health professions addressing such concerns are at increased risk for compassion fatigue and burnout.  In order to reduce this risk on treatment providers, the workshop will focus on empowering workers by providing techniques to effectively address a variety of client presentations. Often default recommendations of attending inpatient care are provided to clients as professionals lack the tools to know how they can make positive impacts on a clients care at various stages of the recovery journey.

In this workshop, you will also be provided with tools to understand the complexity involved in the development of substance use disorder and thus be able to make effective treatment recommendations.  Attendees will leave the workshop equipped with practical techniques for treating those struggling with addictions including basics of assessments, working with families, and providing post-treatment care.  Additionally, various invention methods will be overviewed including CBT and narrative therapy in order to provide the client with techniques to implement with a variety of client presentations.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Develop an understanding of the impact of historical perspectives of addictions and how they continue to influence treatment decisions and stigmatization.

• Formulate treatment plans based on a robust understand of various components contributing to the development of the disorder.

• Competently navigate the addiction field through a basic understanding of various perspectives and current areas of research.

• Demonstrate an ability to generally assessment addictions and provide treatment recommendations.