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1. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: "Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus" (September 15, 2011: Northbrook, IL)
2. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: "Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus" (September 16, 2011: Minneapolis, MN)
3. Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]: "Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder" (September 22-23, 2011: Woodland Hills, CA)
4. The Power of Mindfulness: "Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour" (September 23-24, 2011: S San Francisco, CA)
5. Acceptance and Commitment in Psychotherapy: "A Mindful Approach to Rapid Clinical Change" (September 29-30, 2011: McLean, VA)
6. Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]: "Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder" (September 30-October 1, 2011: Boston, MA)
7. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: "Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus" (October 6, 2011: Washington, DC)
8. Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]: "Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder" (October 6-7, 2011: Salt Lake City, UT)
9. The Power of Mindfulness: "Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour" (October 6-7, 2011: Sacramento, CA)
10. New Frontiers in Trauma Treatment (October 6-7, 2011: Minneapolis, MN)
11. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: "Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus" (October 7, 2011: Baltimore, MD)
12. Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]: "Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder" (October 13-14, 2011: Las Vegas, NV)
13. Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]: "Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder" (October 13-14, 2011: Las Vegas, NV)
14. Acceptance and Commitment in Psychotherapy: "A Mindful Approach to Rapid Clinical Change" (October 20-21, 2011: New York, NY)
15. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: "Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus" (November 3, 2011: Berkeley, CA)
16. Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]: "Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder" (November 4-5, 2011: Palm Springs, CA)
17. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: "Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus" (November 4, 2011: Newport Beach, CA)
18. Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]: "Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder" (November 10-11, 2011: Ann Arbor, MI)
19. New Frontiers in Trauma Treatment (December 1-2, 2011: Boston, MA)
20. Acceptance and Commitment in Psychotherapy: "A Mindful Approach to Rapid Clinical Change" (December 1-2, 2011: Baltimore, MD)
21. The Power of Mindfulness: "Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour" (December 1-2, 2011: Eastlake, OH)
22. Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]: "Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder" (December 2-3, 2011: Newport Beach, CA)
23. The Power of Mindfulness: "Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour" (January 26-27, 2012: Ann Arbor, MI)

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
"Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus"

(Please refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

September 15, 2011
Northbrook, IL

Your brain is the organ of learning, loving and behaving. When your brain works right, you work right. When your brain is troubled, you are much more likely to have trouble in your life.

Unfortunately, many mental health professionals get little to no training in applying practical neuroscience to their every day practices, which holds them back from getting optimal results. Whether you deal with kids, teens, adults, couples or the elderly, anxiety, depression, ADHD, or the problems of aging having a deeper understanding of brain function and brain optimization strategies is critical to increasing your success.

This workshop will cover the central role of brain function in a mental health practice and specific strategies on how to optimize it. The workshop will describe 7 underlying brain systems related to behavior, the problems associated with each system and how to effectively treat them with natural supplements and various standard and alternative therapeutic interventions.

Objectives:

• Employ 10 evidence-based steps to speed the process of therapy and healing
• Enhance neuroplasticity through the use of natural treatments and brain-boosting exercises
• Treat brain trauma/damage caused by alcohol/drug abuse
• Describe 5 functions of the prefrontal cortext and its contribution to aging
• List 5 risk factors for Alzheimer`s disease and how to decrease them
• Describe the value of natural treatments for maximizing longevity and maintaining a healthy brain

Presenter: Daniel Amen, MD, Medical Director, Amen Clinics, Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Bellevue, Washington, and Reston, Virginia.

There are up to 6 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a courtesy: won't you please be nice and mention these Web pages as your source when you inquire about this meeting?)

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
"Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus"

(You can refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

September 16, 2011
Minneapolis, MN

Your brain is the organ of learning, loving and behaving. When your brain works right, you work right. When your brain is troubled, you are much more likely to have trouble in your life.

Unfortunately, many mental health professionals get little to no training in applying practical neuroscience to their every day practices, which holds them back from getting optimal results. Whether you deal with kids, teens, adults, couples or the elderly, anxiety, depression, ADHD, or the problems of aging having a deeper understanding of brain function and brain optimization strategies is critical to increasing your success.

This workshop will cover the central role of brain function in a mental health practice and specific strategies on how to optimize it. The workshop will describe 7 underlying brain systems related to behavior, the problems associated with each system and how to effectively treat them with natural supplements and various standard and alternative therapeutic interventions.

Objectives:

• Employ 10 evidence-based steps to speed the process of therapy and healing
• Enhance neuroplasticity through the use of natural treatments and brain-boosting exercises
• Treat brain trauma/damage caused by alcohol/drug abuse
• Describe 5 functions of the prefrontal cortext and its contribution to aging
• List 5 risk factors for Alzheimer`s disease and how to decrease them
• Describe the value of natural treatments for maximizing longevity and maintaining a healthy brain

Presenter: Daniel Amen, MD, Medical Director, Amen Clinics, Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Bellevue, Washington, and Reston, Virginia.

There can be up to 6 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(A request: don't forget to mention these Web pages when you inquire about this meeting.)

Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]
"Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder"

(Please consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

September 22-23, 2011
Woodland Hills, CA

The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]. SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.

This workshop focuses on a video of an actual therapy session with a patient (a mental health professional) who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about.

The presenter will stop the video at intervals to allow participants to discuss and practice the therapeutic techniques shown, such as:

• Paradoxical Agenda Setting
• Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• Externalization of Voices
• Acceptance Paradox
• Hidden Emotion Technique
• Survey Technique

Day 2 of the workshop will cover Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used in both individual and group formats, including:

• The David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
• the Feared Fantasy
• Shame-Attacking Exercises

There will also be a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD.

Presenter: David D Burns, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

There can be up to 13 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(So as to help out when inquiring about the above event, won't you please be kind and tell about these Web pages?)

The Power of Mindfulness
"Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour"

(Kindly see the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

September 23-24, 2011
S San Francisco, CA

Mindfulness—awareness of the present moment with acceptance—is a deceptively simple way of relating to experience that has been practiced for over 2,500 years to alleviate human suffering. Recently, mental health professionals are enthusiastically discovering that mindfulness holds great promise both for their own personal development and as a way to enhance therapeutic relationships. It is also the central ingredient in a number of new empirically validated treatments, and is proving to be a remarkably powerful technique to augment virtually every form of psychotherapy.

Objectives

• Describe the three core components of mindfulness practice
• Demonstrate mindfulness experientially by learning to practice it oneself
• Specify how a therapist can best choose which mindfulness exercises are most appropriate for which individuals
• Describe the core attitude toward experience found in depression and how mindfulness practice can help to transform it
• Indicate the mechanisms that maintain anxiety disorders and how these can be altered using mindfulness practices
• Discuss ways to assist clients to integrate mindfulness practice in their own lives
• Describe research that provides empirical support for the use of mindfulness in therapy
• Specify the core dynamics of chronic back pain and other psychophysiological disorders and how mindfulness practice can help to interrupt them

Trainer: Ronald D Siegel, PsyD, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance of Harvard Medical School, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Board of Directors and faculty, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

Up to 12.5 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(So as to help out kindly tell them you learned about it in these pages when you enquire about this meeting.)

Acceptance and Commitment in Psychotherapy
"A Mindful Approach to Rapid Clinical Change"

(Kindly consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

September 29-30, 2011
McLean, VA

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT] is a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy that rethinks even our most basic assumptions of mental well-being. ACT therapists encourage their clients to recognize the avoidance patterns that, paradoxically, exacerbate, rather than reduce, their suffering; and to accept their lives as they are in the here and now. They believe that acceptance and mindful awareness are the first and most important steps on the pathway to change. Ultimately, emotional pain, anxiety, or sadness are not bad feelings; in fact, they may be good—representing awareness and access to experiences that can be cognitively, emotionally, and existentially processed. Once addressed, they may no longer be necessary.

Objectives:

• Explain why experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion underlie most forms of psychopathology
• Describe the six core ACT processes
• Give three examples why ACT is considered a `psychologically flexible model of health`
• Formulate clinical problems in terms of acceptance, diffusion, self, now, values, and committed action
• Foster psychological acceptance in clients
• Mobilize the power of spirituality when working with clients
• Demonstrate three specific clinical interventions based on the ACT model
• Describe how the ACT model is particularly useful and effective with difficult clients

Presenter: Steven C Hayes, PhD, Nevada Foundation Professor, University of Nevada, Reno.

There are as many as 12 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(Please, when inquiring about the above event, won't you please be so nice as to tell about this World Wide Web resource?)

Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]
"Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder"

( Consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

September 30-October 1, 2011
Boston, MA

The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]. SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.

This workshop focuses on a video of an actual therapy session with a patient (a mental health professional) who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about.

The presenter will stop the video at intervals to allow participants to discuss and practice the therapeutic techniques shown, such as:

• Paradoxical Agenda Setting
• Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• Externalization of Voices
• Acceptance Paradox
• Hidden Emotion Technique
• Survey Technique

Day 2 of the workshop will cover Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used in both individual and group formats, including:

• The David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
• the Feared Fantasy
• Shame-Attacking Exercises

There will also be a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD.

Presenter: David D Burns, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

There are as many as 13 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a courtesy: do kindly credit our Web pages should you ask about this event.)

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
"Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus"

(Kindly consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

October 6, 2011
Washington, DC

Your brain is the organ of learning, loving and behaving. When your brain works right, you work right. When your brain is troubled, you are much more likely to have trouble in your life.

Unfortunately, many mental health professionals get little to no training in applying practical neuroscience to their every day practices, which holds them back from getting optimal results. Whether you deal with kids, teens, adults, couples or the elderly, anxiety, depression, ADHD, or the problems of aging having a deeper understanding of brain function and brain optimization strategies is critical to increasing your success.

This workshop will cover the central role of brain function in a mental health practice and specific strategies on how to optimize it. The workshop will describe 7 underlying brain systems related to behavior, the problems associated with each system and how to effectively treat them with natural supplements and various standard and alternative therapeutic interventions.

Objectives:

• Employ 10 evidence-based steps to speed the process of therapy and healing
• Enhance neuroplasticity through the use of natural treatments and brain-boosting exercises
• Treat brain trauma/damage caused by alcohol/drug abuse
• Describe 5 functions of the prefrontal cortext and its contribution to aging
• List 5 risk factors for Alzheimer`s disease and how to decrease them
• Describe the value of natural treatments for maximizing longevity and maintaining a healthy brain

Presenter: Daniel Amen, MD, Medical Director, Amen Clinics, Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Bellevue, Washington, and Reston, Virginia.

There are up to 6 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a favor: do kindly extend credit to our Web pages should you ask about this.)

Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]
"Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder"

(Kindly see the meeting's Web pages.)

Sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

October 6-7, 2011
Salt Lake City, UT

The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]. SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.

This workshop focuses on a video of an actual therapy session with a patient (a mental health professional) who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about.

The presenter will stop the video at intervals to allow participants to discuss and practice the therapeutic techniques shown, such as:

• Paradoxical Agenda Setting
• Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• Externalization of Voices
• Acceptance Paradox
• Hidden Emotion Technique
• Survey Technique

Day 2 of the workshop will cover Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used in both individual and group formats, including:

• The David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
• the Feared Fantasy
• Shame-Attacking Exercises

There will also be a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD.

Presenter: David D Burns, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

There are as many as 13 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a favor: it might be helpful if you were to mention this World Wide Web resource when you ask about this meeting.)

The Power of Mindfulness
"Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour"

(Kindly consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

October 6-7, 2011
Sacramento, CA

Mindfulness—awareness of the present moment with acceptance—is a deceptively simple way of relating to experience that has been practiced for over 2,500 years to alleviate human suffering. Recently, mental health professionals are enthusiastically discovering that mindfulness holds great promise both for their own personal development and as a way to enhance therapeutic relationships. It is also the central ingredient in a number of new empirically validated treatments, and is proving to be a remarkably powerful technique to augment virtually every form of psychotherapy.

Objectives

• Describe the three core components of mindfulness practice
• Demonstrate mindfulness experientially by learning to practice it oneself
• Specify how a therapist can best choose which mindfulness exercises are most appropriate for which individuals
• Describe the core attitude toward experience found in depression and how mindfulness practice can help to transform it
• Indicate the mechanisms that maintain anxiety disorders and how these can be altered using mindfulness practices
• Discuss ways to assist clients to integrate mindfulness practice in their own lives
• Describe research that provides empirical support for the use of mindfulness in therapy
• Specify the core dynamics of chronic back pain and other psychophysiological disorders and how mindfulness practice can help to interrupt them

Trainer: Ronald D Siegel, PsyD, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance of Harvard Medical School, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Board of Directors and faculty, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

There can be as many as 12.5 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(So as to help out when calling about this event, it would be very nice if you would mention this World Wide Web resource as your source.)

New Frontiers in Trauma Treatment

(You can consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

October 6-7, 2011
Minneapolis, MN

During the past decade an enormous amount has been learned about the differences between memories of everyday experiences and those of overwhelming events. These memories are different, depending on the age at which the trauma occurs and the social support systems of the victims.

Recent neuroimaging studies suggest where in the brain these memories are stored and what the mechanisms might be of the recovery of traumatic memories. While ordinary memory is an active and constructive process, traumatic memories are stored in ways that are different from the memories of everyday experience, namely as dissociated sensory and perceptual fragments of the experience.

Using both research studies and clinical examples, this workshop will present data on the nature of traumatic memories and will examine the implications of this knowledge for clinical practice. It will also review appropriate standards for approaching traumatic memories in clinical work.

The presenter will explore the effects of trauma on cognitive, psychological and interpersonal functioning. He will review the research on the profound effects of trauma on cognition, affect regulation, and on the development of `self` and interactions with others. He will discuss how trauma and disruptions in attachment bonds affect the development of people`s identity, and how this is expressed socially as difficulties in affect modulation, destructive behavior against self and others and in negotiating intimacy.

The effects of childhood trauma on development of self-esteem, the capacity to identify and negotiate personal needs, and the ability to relate effectively with others will be reviewed, followed by exploration of treatment alternatives.

In the wake of recent insights into the neurobiology of trauma, a range of new approaches to treatment have been developed. Research on the effect of trauma on affect regulation, perception and other brain functions inevitably leads to conclusions regarding treatment that can be considered fundamental shifts from earlier therapeutic paradigms. Preoccupation with the trauma and learned helplessness require a variety of interventions aimed at restoring active mastery and the capacity to attend to current experience.

Given the fragility of the interpersonal bonds following disruptions of trust, issues of empathy, interpersonal repetition and boundaries within the therapeutic relationship require scrupulous attention. In this context the workshop will examine the role of Dialectical Behavior Therapy [DBT], Model Mugging and therapeutic work programs.

Since traumatic memories often are dissociated and may be inaccessible to verbal recall or processing, attention should also be paid to the somatic re-experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects which may serve as engines for continuing maladaptive behaviors. Hypnosis, body-oriented therapies and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing [EMDR] are often helpful here. The presenter will describe research data evaluating each set of interventions, show videotaped clinical examples, and discuss the integration of these approaches during different stages of treatment.

Objectives:

• Discuss recent advances in the neurobiology of trauma
• Describe the domains in which traumatic experiences are stored in memory and the ways in which those memories are retrieved into consciousness
• Explain how traumatized people process information
• Describe applications of attachement theory in the diagnosis and treatment of trauma
• Teach how to assess people with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] and how to develop phase-oriented treatment plans
• Implement a variety of strategy sets proven effective in the treatment of severe trauma
• Discuss the use of EMDR, DBT and body-oriented therapies in the treatment of trauma victims
• Describe various ways children adapt to traumatic experiences

Presenter: Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Director, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Community Practice Site; Medical Director, Trauma Center; >Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Boston University, Massachusetts.

Up to 12 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(If you please, don't forget to bring up these Web pages should you ask about the above meeting.)

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
"Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus"

(You can consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

October 7, 2011
Baltimore, MD

Your brain is the organ of learning, loving and behaving. When your brain works right, you work right. When your brain is troubled, you are much more likely to have trouble in your life.

Unfortunately, many mental health professionals get little to no training in applying practical neuroscience to their every day practices, which holds them back from getting optimal results. Whether you deal with kids, teens, adults, couples or the elderly, anxiety, depression, ADHD, or the problems of aging having a deeper understanding of brain function and brain optimization strategies is critical to increasing your success.

This workshop will cover the central role of brain function in a mental health practice and specific strategies on how to optimize it. The workshop will describe 7 underlying brain systems related to behavior, the problems associated with each system and how to effectively treat them with natural supplements and various standard and alternative therapeutic interventions.

Objectives:

• Employ 10 evidence-based steps to speed the process of therapy and healing
• Enhance neuroplasticity through the use of natural treatments and brain-boosting exercises
• Treat brain trauma/damage caused by alcohol/drug abuse
• Describe 5 functions of the prefrontal cortext and its contribution to aging
• List 5 risk factors for Alzheimer`s disease and how to decrease them
• Describe the value of natural treatments for maximizing longevity and maintaining a healthy brain

Presenter: Daniel Amen, MD, Medical Director, Amen Clinics, Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Bellevue, Washington, and Reston, Virginia.

There can be as many as 6 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(Please, kindly tell how that you read about it in this World Wide Web resource when you ask about the above event.)

Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]
"Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder"

(Kindly refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

October 13-14, 2011
Las Vegas, NV

The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]. SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.

This workshop focuses on a video of an actual therapy session with a patient (a mental health professional) who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about.

The presenter will stop the video at intervals to allow participants to discuss and practice the therapeutic techniques shown, such as:

• Paradoxical Agenda Setting
• Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• Externalization of Voices
• Acceptance Paradox
• Hidden Emotion Technique
• Survey Technique

Day 2 of the workshop will cover Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used in both individual and group formats, including:

• The David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
• the Feared Fantasy
• Shame-Attacking Exercises

There will also be a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD.

Presenter: David D Burns, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

As many as 13 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a favor: won't you please be kind and mention this World Wide Web resource as your source when asking about this meeting?)

Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]
"Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder"

(You can click here for the meeting's Web pages.)

Sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

October 13-14, 2011
Las Vegas, NV

The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]. SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.

This workshop focuses on a video of an actual therapy session with a patient (a mental health professional) who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about.

The presenter will stop the video at intervals to allow participants to discuss and practice the therapeutic techniques shown, such as:

• Paradoxical Agenda Setting
• Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• Externalization of Voices
• Acceptance Paradox
• Hidden Emotion Technique
• Survey Technique

Day 2 of the workshop will cover Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used in both individual and group formats, including:

• The David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
• the Feared Fantasy
• Shame-Attacking Exercises

There will also be a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD.

Presenter: David D Burns, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

There can be as many as 13 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(A request: please point out you heard about it in these pages should you ask about this meeting.)

Acceptance and Commitment in Psychotherapy
"A Mindful Approach to Rapid Clinical Change"

(Kindly refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

October 20-21, 2011
New York, NY

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT] is a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy that rethinks even our most basic assumptions of mental well-being. ACT therapists encourage their clients to recognize the avoidance patterns that, paradoxically, exacerbate, rather than reduce, their suffering; and to accept their lives as they are in the here and now. They believe that acceptance and mindful awareness are the first and most important steps on the pathway to change. Ultimately, emotional pain, anxiety, or sadness are not bad feelings; in fact, they may be good—representing awareness and access to experiences that can be cognitively, emotionally, and existentially processed. Once addressed, they may no longer be necessary.

Objectives:

• Explain why experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion underlie most forms of psychopathology
• Describe the six core ACT processes
• Give three examples why ACT is considered a `psychologically flexible model of health`
• Formulate clinical problems in terms of acceptance, diffusion, self, now, values, and committed action
• Foster psychological acceptance in clients
• Mobilize the power of spirituality when working with clients
• Demonstrate three specific clinical interventions based on the ACT model
• Describe how the ACT model is particularly useful and effective with difficult clients

Presenter: Steven C Hayes, PhD, Nevada Foundation Professor, University of Nevada, Reno.

There can be as many as 12 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(To help out when asking about this event, it might be very nice if you were to refer to this World Wide Web resource.)

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
"Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus"

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Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

November 3, 2011
Berkeley, CA

Your brain is the organ of learning, loving and behaving. When your brain works right, you work right. When your brain is troubled, you are much more likely to have trouble in your life.

Unfortunately, many mental health professionals get little to no training in applying practical neuroscience to their every day practices, which holds them back from getting optimal results. Whether you deal with kids, teens, adults, couples or the elderly, anxiety, depression, ADHD, or the problems of aging having a deeper understanding of brain function and brain optimization strategies is critical to increasing your success.

This workshop will cover the central role of brain function in a mental health practice and specific strategies on how to optimize it. The workshop will describe 7 underlying brain systems related to behavior, the problems associated with each system and how to effectively treat them with natural supplements and various standard and alternative therapeutic interventions.

Objectives:

• Employ 10 evidence-based steps to speed the process of therapy and healing
• Enhance neuroplasticity through the use of natural treatments and brain-boosting exercises
• Treat brain trauma/damage caused by alcohol/drug abuse
• Describe 5 functions of the prefrontal cortext and its contribution to aging
• List 5 risk factors for Alzheimer`s disease and how to decrease them
• Describe the value of natural treatments for maximizing longevity and maintaining a healthy brain

Presenter: Daniel Amen, MD, Medical Director, Amen Clinics, Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Bellevue, Washington, and Reston, Virginia.

As many as 6 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a favor: won't you please be so kind as to mention this World Wide Web resource as your source when you call to inquire about this meeting?)

Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]
"Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder"

(Please refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

November 4-5, 2011
Palm Springs, CA

The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]. SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.

This workshop focuses on a video of an actual therapy session with a patient (a mental health professional) who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about.

The presenter will stop the video at intervals to allow participants to discuss and practice the therapeutic techniques shown, such as:

• Paradoxical Agenda Setting
• Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• Externalization of Voices
• Acceptance Paradox
• Hidden Emotion Technique
• Survey Technique

Day 2 of the workshop will cover Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used in both individual and group formats, including:

• The David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
• the Feared Fantasy
• Shame-Attacking Exercises

There will also be a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD.

Presenter: David D Burns, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

Up to 13 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(A request: kindly refer to these Web pages if you enquire about the above event.)

Use Your Brain to Change Your Age
"Practical Techniques to Help Your Clients Live Longer, Look Younger, and Improve Their Memory, Mood, Weight, and Mental Focus"

( Refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

November 4, 2011
Newport Beach, CA

Your brain is the organ of learning, loving and behaving. When your brain works right, you work right. When your brain is troubled, you are much more likely to have trouble in your life.

Unfortunately, many mental health professionals get little to no training in applying practical neuroscience to their every day practices, which holds them back from getting optimal results. Whether you deal with kids, teens, adults, couples or the elderly, anxiety, depression, ADHD, or the problems of aging having a deeper understanding of brain function and brain optimization strategies is critical to increasing your success.

This workshop will cover the central role of brain function in a mental health practice and specific strategies on how to optimize it. The workshop will describe 7 underlying brain systems related to behavior, the problems associated with each system and how to effectively treat them with natural supplements and various standard and alternative therapeutic interventions.

Objectives:

• Employ 10 evidence-based steps to speed the process of therapy and healing
• Enhance neuroplasticity through the use of natural treatments and brain-boosting exercises
• Treat brain trauma/damage caused by alcohol/drug abuse
• Describe 5 functions of the prefrontal cortext and its contribution to aging
• List 5 risk factors for Alzheimer`s disease and how to decrease them
• Describe the value of natural treatments for maximizing longevity and maintaining a healthy brain

Presenter: Daniel Amen, MD, Medical Director, Amen Clinics, Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Bellevue, Washington, and Reston, Virginia.

As many as 6 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(So as to help out when you ask about this meeting, it might be nice if you were to refer to this World Wide Web resource as your source.)

Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]
"Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder"

(Kindly see the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

November 10-11, 2011
Ann Arbor, MI

The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]. SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.

This workshop focuses on a video of an actual therapy session with a patient (a mental health professional) who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about.

The presenter will stop the video at intervals to allow participants to discuss and practice the therapeutic techniques shown, such as:

• Paradoxical Agenda Setting
• Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• Externalization of Voices
• Acceptance Paradox
• Hidden Emotion Technique
• Survey Technique

Day 2 of the workshop will cover Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used in both individual and group formats, including:

• The David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
• the Feared Fantasy
• Shame-Attacking Exercises

There will also be a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD.

Presenter: David D Burns, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

As many as 13 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(A request: when you inquire about this event, would you please be nice and tell about these World Wide Web pages?)

New Frontiers in Trauma Treatment

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Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

December 1-2, 2011
Boston, MA

During the past decade an enormous amount has been learned about the differences between memories of everyday experiences and those of overwhelming events. These memories are different, depending on the age at which the trauma occurs and the social support systems of the victims.

Recent neuroimaging studies suggest where in the brain these memories are stored and what the mechanisms might be of the recovery of traumatic memories. While ordinary memory is an active and constructive process, traumatic memories are stored in ways that are different from the memories of everyday experience, namely as dissociated sensory and perceptual fragments of the experience.

Using both research studies and clinical examples, this workshop will present data on the nature of traumatic memories and will examine the implications of this knowledge for clinical practice. It will also review appropriate standards for approaching traumatic memories in clinical work.

The presenter will explore the effects of trauma on cognitive, psychological and interpersonal functioning. He will review the research on the profound effects of trauma on cognition, affect regulation, and on the development of `self` and interactions with others. He will discuss how trauma and disruptions in attachment bonds affect the development of people`s identity, and how this is expressed socially as difficulties in affect modulation, destructive behavior against self and others and in negotiating intimacy.

The effects of childhood trauma on development of self-esteem, the capacity to identify and negotiate personal needs, and the ability to relate effectively with others will be reviewed, followed by exploration of treatment alternatives.

In the wake of recent insights into the neurobiology of trauma, a range of new approaches to treatment have been developed. Research on the effect of trauma on affect regulation, perception and other brain functions inevitably leads to conclusions regarding treatment that can be considered fundamental shifts from earlier therapeutic paradigms. Preoccupation with the trauma and learned helplessness require a variety of interventions aimed at restoring active mastery and the capacity to attend to current experience.

Given the fragility of the interpersonal bonds following disruptions of trust, issues of empathy, interpersonal repetition and boundaries within the therapeutic relationship require scrupulous attention. In this context the workshop will examine the role of Dialectical Behavior Therapy [DBT], Model Mugging and therapeutic work programs.

Since traumatic memories often are dissociated and may be inaccessible to verbal recall or processing, attention should also be paid to the somatic re-experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects which may serve as engines for continuing maladaptive behaviors. Hypnosis, body-oriented therapies and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing [EMDR] are often helpful here. The presenter will describe research data evaluating each set of interventions, show videotaped clinical examples, and discuss the integration of these approaches during different stages of treatment.

Objectives:

• Discuss recent advances in the neurobiology of trauma
• Describe the domains in which traumatic experiences are stored in memory and the ways in which those memories are retrieved into consciousness
• Explain how traumatized people process information
• Describe applications of attachement theory in the diagnosis and treatment of trauma
• Teach how to assess people with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] and how to develop phase-oriented treatment plans
• Implement a variety of strategy sets proven effective in the treatment of severe trauma
• Discuss the use of EMDR, DBT and body-oriented therapies in the treatment of trauma victims
• Describe various ways children adapt to traumatic experiences

Presenter: Bessel van der Kolk, MD, Director, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Community Practice Site; Medical Director, Trauma Center; >Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Boston University, Massachusetts.

As many as 12 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a favor: it could be nice if you were to mention this Web resource as your source when calling about the above event.)

Acceptance and Commitment in Psychotherapy
"A Mindful Approach to Rapid Clinical Change"

(You can consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

December 1-2, 2011
Baltimore, MD

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT] is a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy that rethinks even our most basic assumptions of mental well-being. ACT therapists encourage their clients to recognize the avoidance patterns that, paradoxically, exacerbate, rather than reduce, their suffering; and to accept their lives as they are in the here and now. They believe that acceptance and mindful awareness are the first and most important steps on the pathway to change. Ultimately, emotional pain, anxiety, or sadness are not bad feelings; in fact, they may be good—representing awareness and access to experiences that can be cognitively, emotionally, and existentially processed. Once addressed, they may no longer be necessary.

Objectives:

• Explain why experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion underlie most forms of psychopathology
• Describe the six core ACT processes
• Give three examples why ACT is considered a `psychologically flexible model of health`
• Formulate clinical problems in terms of acceptance, diffusion, self, now, values, and committed action
• Foster psychological acceptance in clients
• Mobilize the power of spirituality when working with clients
• Demonstrate three specific clinical interventions based on the ACT model
• Describe how the ACT model is particularly useful and effective with difficult clients

Presenter: Steven C Hayes, PhD, Nevada Foundation Professor, University of Nevada, Reno.

There are as many as 12 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(A request: should you ask about this event, don't forget to bring up these Web pages.)

The Power of Mindfulness
"Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour"

(Kindly refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

December 1-2, 2011
Eastlake, OH

Mindfulness—awareness of the present moment with acceptance—is a deceptively simple way of relating to experience that has been practiced for over 2,500 years to alleviate human suffering. Recently, mental health professionals are enthusiastically discovering that mindfulness holds great promise both for their own personal development and as a way to enhance therapeutic relationships. It is also the central ingredient in a number of new empirically validated treatments, and is proving to be a remarkably powerful technique to augment virtually every form of psychotherapy.

Objectives

• Describe the three core components of mindfulness practice
• Demonstrate mindfulness experientially by learning to practice it oneself
• Specify how a therapist can best choose which mindfulness exercises are most appropriate for which individuals
• Describe the core attitude toward experience found in depression and how mindfulness practice can help to transform it
• Indicate the mechanisms that maintain anxiety disorders and how these can be altered using mindfulness practices
• Discuss ways to assist clients to integrate mindfulness practice in their own lives
• Describe research that provides empirical support for the use of mindfulness in therapy
• Specify the core dynamics of chronic back pain and other psychophysiological disorders and how mindfulness practice can help to interrupt them

Trainer: Ronald D Siegel, PsyD, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance of Harvard Medical School, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Board of Directors and faculty, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

As many as 12.5 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a courtesy: would you please be nice and refer to this World Wide Web resource as your source when asking about this event?)

Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]
"Effective, High-Speed Treatment for Shyness, Performance Anxiety, Fear of Public Speaking, and Panic Disorder"

(Kindly consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

December 2-3, 2011
Newport Beach, CA

The odds are high that many of your patients struggle with some form of Social Anxiety Disorder [SAD]. SAD includes shyness in social situations, public speaking anxiety, performance anxiety, test anxiety, and shy bladder syndrome, to name just a few of its many symptoms. SAD can rob you of opportunities for intimacy, friendship, and career advancement, and is often accompanied by feelings of shame, loneliness, inadequacy or defectiveness.

This workshop focuses on a video of an actual therapy session with a patient (a mental health professional) who describes the devastating impact of social anxiety on her capacity to connect in a meaningful and loving way with the people she cares about.

The presenter will stop the video at intervals to allow participants to discuss and practice the therapeutic techniques shown, such as:

• Paradoxical Agenda Setting
• Interpersonal Downward Arrow
• Externalization of Voices
• Acceptance Paradox
• Hidden Emotion Technique
• Survey Technique

Day 2 of the workshop will cover Interpersonal Exposure Techniques that can be used in both individual and group formats, including:

• The David Letterman Technique
• Self-Disclosure
• Flirting Training
• Rejection Practice
• the Feared Fantasy
• Shame-Attacking Exercises

There will also be a live demonstration with someone in the audience who struggles with public speaking anxiety or some other form of SAD.

Presenter: David D Burns, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

As many as 13 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(Please, if inquiring about this, don't forget to mention these Web pages.)

The Power of Mindfulness
"Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour"

(Kindly see the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsored by: Institute for the Advancement of Human Behavior [IAHB]

January 26-27, 2012
Ann Arbor, MI

Mindfulness—awareness of the present moment with acceptance—is a deceptively simple way of relating to experience that has been practiced for over 2,500 years to alleviate human suffering. Recently, mental health professionals are enthusiastically discovering that mindfulness holds great promise both for their own personal development and as a way to enhance therapeutic relationships. It is also the central ingredient in a number of new empirically validated treatments, and is proving to be a remarkably powerful technique to augment virtually every form of psychotherapy.

Objectives

• Describe the three core components of mindfulness practice
• Demonstrate mindfulness experientially by learning to practice it oneself
• Specify how a therapist can best choose which mindfulness exercises are most appropriate for which individuals
• Describe the core attitude toward experience found in depression and how mindfulness practice can help to transform it
• Indicate the mechanisms that maintain anxiety disorders and how these can be altered using mindfulness practices
• Discuss ways to assist clients to integrate mindfulness practice in their own lives
• Describe research that provides empirical support for the use of mindfulness in therapy
• Specify the core dynamics of chronic back pain and other psychophysiological disorders and how mindfulness practice can help to interrupt them

Trainer: Ronald D Siegel, PsyD, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance of Harvard Medical School, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Board of Directors and faculty, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy

There are up to 12.5 continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

(As a favor: would you be kind and mention this World Wide Web resource as your source when inquiring about this meeting?)

IASP offers 3 levels of comprehensive training in the psychoanalytic theory and clinical techniques of self psychology:

• 2 year psychoanalytic psychotherapy training
• 4 year advanced psychoanalytic psychotherapy
• 4 year training program in psychoanalysis