Addiction Conferences and Continuing Educations for Mental Health Professionals with CE Credits for Eating Disorder, Sexual Addiction, Behavioral Mental Health Issues by the Ben Franklin Institute Nationwide.

 

Thursday October 21st, 2010

What about IMAGO: Proven Strategies for Helping Couples Get the Love they Want

Harville Hendrix, PhD

9:30-5:00pm

The workshop will introduce the basic theory and therapeutic processes of Imago Relationship Therapy and demonstrate its application to conflicted couples in committed partnerships. Attention will also be given the implications of the relational paradigm for all forms of therapy. Methods will include lectures, live demonstration of the process and a video.

SIERRA TUCSON EXPERIENCE

9:30-5:00pm

Friday October 22nd, 2010

Presentations TBA

8:30 – 10:15

Reconsidering Trauma: Treatment Advances, Relational Issues and Integrated Trauma Therapy

John Briere, PHD

10:45-12:15pm

What we Know About Healthy Marriages

Harville Hendrix, PHD

Luncheon Presentation TBA

12:15-1:45pm

Mindfulness-based Clinical Interventions

John Briere, PHD

1:45-3:15pm

College Student Drinking: new Approaches to Prevention and Treatment

G. Alan Marlatt, PHD

3:45-5:15pm

Affect-based and Relational Healing Approaches to Complex Trauma

John Briere, PHD

Saturday October 23rd, 2010

Some of the Faculty and Presentations Include:

Tranceformations: Integrating Mind and Body with Hypnosis

David Spiegel, MD

8:30-10:00am

Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention

G. Alan Marlatt, PHD

10:30-12:00pm

Hypnosis in Treating Pain and Anxiety

David Spiegel, MD

"Echoes" of a Reflected Self: The Psychodynamics of Narcissism

Rokelle Lerner

1:15-2:45pm

With a Little Help from my Friends: Effects of Stress and Support on Cancer Patients

David Spiegel, MD

Relapse Prevention in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors

G. Alan Marlatt, PHD

TBA

Sonnee Weedn, PhD

3:15-4:45pm

Harm Reduction Therapy for Co-ocurring Disorders

G. Alan Marlatt, PhD

I Gave at the Office: Compassion, Fatigue and Post Secondary PTSD

Rokelle Lerner

Sunday October 24th, 2010

Some of the Faculty and Presentations Include:

Life with Pop: Lessons on caring for an Aging Parent

Janis Abrahms Spring, PHD, ABPP

8:30-10:00am

TBA

Sonnee Weedn, PhD

10:15-12:15pm

How Can I Forgive You? A radical Approach to Healing Interpersonal Wounds

Janis Abrahms Spring, PHD, ABPP

Advanced Clinical Training for Therapists and Counselors

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:

Ben Franklin Institute, producer of The Summit for Clinical Excellence Conference is the premiere provider of continuing education for behavioral health, mental health and addiction professionals. We bring together the best and brightest trainers from many disciplines offering a broader perspective; to help our therapists and counselors better address the issues that their client is facing day to day.

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES:

1. To identify specific diagnostic and treatment approaches, counseling skills andmodalities that will be successfully applied to the fields of mental health, behavioral health and addictive disorders; including but not limited to: psychological resistance, anxiety disorders, EMDR, therapeutic mindfulness, self-mutilation, resilience and counseling, neuroscience and trauma and related psychological and behavioral disorders.

2. To learn the symptoms and characteristics of the disorders mentioned in objective #1 and how they have interfered with the clients’ interpersonal and family relationships. To participate in skill building workshops and unique training that offer cognitive and experiential clinical techniques; to assist in patient/client recovery from these listed disorders.