Biology of Addiction: A Continued Conversation

4.5 credits | $60

Lauren Doninger, EdD, LADC, LPC

This training will explore a broad array of drugs of abuse, including substances that are not intended for consumption (e.g., inhalants). Participants will learn about the constant “innovation” in drug development that results in an ever-changing landscape of drugs of abuse and challenges to consistent regulation (e.g., spice, salvia, bath salts). Trends in drug use will be discussed and the particular problem of prescription drugs (and subsequent rise in heroin use) will be presented.

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Breaking the Stigma of SUDs

4.5 credits | $60

Chris Dorval, MSW, LCSW, LCDP, LCDCS, ICADC

Stigma is a major barrier preventing millions of people who are struggling with substance use from entering treatment today. This presentation is designed to help professionals break that stigma that creates an unnecessary barrier to treatment by understanding recovery-oriented language and strategies that can be integrated into practice immediately.

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Increasing Your Creativity to Engage & Retain Clients with a Dual Diagnosis

5 credits | $65

Thomas

M. Greaney,

MEd, CCDP, LADC

What do the Grinch, Pinocchio, Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer, Razzle Dazzle Rose, George Bailey and a Strengths-Based version of the 12-Steps have in common? They can all be used to engage and retain clients with co-occurring disorders, and stave off burnout for clinicians. This seminar will help participants recapture a zeal for facilitation and provides 12-psychoeducational groups easily implemented with groups or individuals. The client with a dual-diagnosis can sometimes be hard to reach, but creativity lowers one’s defenses. Join Tom Greaney on a journey to knock down barriers!

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Psychopharmacology: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

4.5 credits | $60 Charles Atkins, MD

With tens of millions of Americans currently taking psychiatric medications, it’s incumbent on all mental health clinicians to develop a working familiarity with the range of available options, and when and how they might benefit their clients. This day-long training is a practical - and detailedoverview of the theory and practice behind the use of psychiatric medications. Attention will be paid to issues of adherence and managing side effects. Specific concerns across the life-cycle will be reviewed as well as culture and gender-specific topics.

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Caring for Pregnant & Parenting Women with Substance Use Disorder

2 credits | $35 Hendree Jones, PhD

Participants will examine ways to respond to women with substance use disorders to improve patient interactions and receive an overview of best practices for early intervention to promote maternal recovery and child safety.

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Maternal Substance Use & Child Maltreatment

1 credit | $30

Margaret H. Lloyd Sieger, PhD

In this on-demand training, participants will identify ways to improve maternal-child bonding and examine ways to respond to women with SUD to improve patient interactions.

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Sex & Gender, Policy & Punishment in the Opioid Crisis

1.5credits | $30

Mishka Terplan MD, MPH, FACOG, DFASAM

Participants will gain a basic understanding of the differences between drug policy generally and during pregnancy in order to improve maternalchild bonding.

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LGBTQIA...SOS! Gender and Sexuality, Differentiated and Demystified 3 credits | $45

Mara Gottlieb, PhD, LMSW

So let’s talk about sex, and gender, and what - if anything - the two have to do with one another. This course will provide participants with a clear understanding of sexual orientation, sexual identity, and gender identity. It is appropriate for participants with any level of knowledge regarding these identities, and will be a straightforward, accessible course. Accurate terminology, myths/ facts and other information will help practitioners in addressing sexual and gender identity with clients.

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The Toxicity of Racism

3 credits | $45

Mara Gottlieb, PhD, LMSW

Kenneth Hardy, Ph.D.

Enhance your understanding of the role of racism in the workplace and beyond in this highly experiential and immersive conference. Participants will have the opportunity to boldly and directly address issues of race, racism, and privilege within a safe, respectful, self-explorative environment. Learn how to have effective and progressive conversations about race and utilize strategies for providing racially sensitive services to clients. Walk away with a new ability to identify and address micro-aggressions and implicit biases that may impede the development of effective cross-racial relationships.

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Cultivating Cultural Humility: A Practice for Service Providers

3.5 credits | $50

Mara Gottlieb, PhD, LMSW

Approaching the professional relationship through a lens of cultural humility asks us to honor the resilience and wisdom our clients already possess: to strive for a deeper level of openness to their experience and the way they see the world. The practice of cultural humility is gentle, forgiving, empowering and transformational, allowing both client and clinician to experience growth, intimacy, and greater authenticity as the work progresses. This training will provide the theory behind this new approach, a clear understanding of a cultural humility framework, and multiple experiential opportunities to implement it and witness its benefits firsthand.

Diversity in the Workplace

4 credits | $55

Mara Gottlieb, PhD, LMSW

This training will address the concepts of diversity and multiculturalism in their broadest sense, to include identities of race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, ability, body size, addiction recovery, and more. We will address notions of “passing” or identity invisibility; how encouraging authentic selfexpression leads to better work outcomes; how to foster a respectful work environment in which questions are safe to be asked and answered and where curiosity is encouraged, as well as the nature and impact of micro-aggressions.

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Why Race Matters

4 credits | $55

Michael Chadukiewicz, PhD

Daryl M. McGraw, MA, CAC, CCJP

Explore knowledge and awareness of the history of race and racism; learn how this history shapes our social and cultural identity, power structures, and institutions to include the criminal justice system. Participants will review music, advertising, comedy, poetry, and literature, and engage in activities that examine bias, prejudice, and racism in our society. The facilitators will share their experiences with racism and offer strategies to unmask, dismantle, and eradicate racism in our personal, interpersonal, institutional and cultural realms.

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Racism and the Myth of Colorblindness

4.5 credits | $60 Mara Gottlieb, PhD, LMSW

The training is designed to teach communication and educational tools by practicing them with one another, thus reinforcing new information and creating an opportunity for a cultural transformation that can have a ripple effect in our own social and professional circles.

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Intersectionality, Race, Trauma, Recovery, and Equitable Health for Women of Color

1.5 credits | $30

Dr. Charla Blumell, EdD, MCHES, CWHC

Dr. Shawnté Elbert, EdD, MCHES, CHWP, CWHC, TTS

Dr. Sherrá Watkins, PhD, LCMHC-S, LCAS, CCS, CRC

Creating healthcare environments where individuals and communities can thrive is critical to our wellbeing. Medical and health providers, agencies and organizations identifying and addressing needs for maternal health, mental health, substance use, and recovery must consider health equity. Barriers to health equity in healthcare are often systemic in nature and rooted in trauma caused by intersecting systems of oppression. Specifically, intersecting social categories (e.g., gender, race, rurality, ability), interlocking systems of oppression (e.g., racism, sexism, able-ism), and widespread trauma may become barriers to women and other marginalized identities, leading to higher levels of mortality. This workshop will provide healthcare providers with an overview on how to holistically serve women of color, women identified and non-binary persons, from a trauma-informed and cultural humility lens.

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An Introduction to Trauma in Urban Communities: The Product of my Environment

3 credits | $40

Daryl M. McGraw, MA, CAC, CCJP

Often exacerbated by a lack of social support, financial struggles, unsafe living conditions, violent communities, and more, urban trauma is systematic trauma which creates an environment of chronic stress for both children and adults. Individuals that are impacted by urban trauma may not even know it but identifying instances earlier is pivotal to prevent long-term effects on the brain.

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Gender and Life – Affirming Medicine Providing Primary and Specialty Healthcare for Trans Patient

1.5 credits | $30

AJ Eckert, DO

This 90-minute presentation will provide a basic framework for the trans community, addressing minority stress, cultural humility, and proving trans competent care in primary and specialty care settings. This Training will review vocabulary and important concepts related to the trans community, as well as explore barriers to medical care for the trans community. This training work to understand health disparities experienced by this community, and the way medical institutions interact with trans people. It will also overview affirming models of care, including the Gender Affirmative Model of care.

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Embrace the Rainbow - Working at the intersection of LGBTQ+ Identity and Trauma

1.5 credits | $30 Shane Pugh, LADC

This presentation will be focused on providing basic knowledge and understanding about trauma related issues that are commonly encountered in working with LGBTQ+ individuals. After a brief foundation of language and terms; there will be an explanation about how trauma impacts the community and the ways these concerns may present in a clinical setting; followed by a discussion of skills and techniques that are more effective as well as ways to manage and avoid some major challenges.

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All in the Family: Adolescents and Substance Use Disorders

2.5 credits | $40 Charles Atkins, MD

This workshop covers the basics of adolescent development, substance use disorders, assessment, and treatment. Participants will explore the complexities of co-occurring mental-health problems, as well as challenges specific to opioiduse disorders.

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Teen Suicide and Self-Harm

3.5 credits | $50

Mara Gottlieb, PhD, LMSW

This workshop takes on a topic that concerns many caregivers and service providers: the very real risks of adolescent suicide. The combination of developmental stage, hormonal changes, and self-esteem variances make this population at greater risk for suicide than almost any other, yet there are also very concrete ways of providing support to teens who may be at risk for self-harm. By the close of the workshop, participants will have a deeper understanding of adolescent emotional development; potential warning signs of suicide risk; and concrete, practical interventions to provide the best chances for the adolescent’s survival through such a critical and challenging time.

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Building Blocks of Effective Co-Parenting

2.5 credits | $40 Welcome 2 Reality

This training is based on promoting knowledge retention and effective clinical skills. In the course, we relate learning how to be an effective co-parent to learning your ABC’s. This makes the content easy to understand and remember, which also makes the content accessible to a culturally diverse population. Parents experiencing separation, divorce, or any other type of family restructuring, come from all backgrounds. No matter what background participants come from, most can relate to learning the alphabet in grade school; thus, memory strategies and tools on engaging when working with clients who are parents are even more effective.

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Motivational Interviewing

2.5 credits | $40 Donald Scherling, PsyD

The training will provide an introduction and overview of proven Motivational Interviewing techniques, to guide helpers to assess and engage clients in therapeutic conversations that decrease adversarial power struggles, and enhance integration of services for challenging clients with co-occurring disorders (MH/SUD) and other complex problems. Participants will receive a training manual to enable them to apply and practice Motivational Interviewing in a variety of helping relationships and settings.

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Spotlight on Men & Gender Equality

3 credits | $45

Jackson Katz, PhD

Kane Smego

This program will challenge participants to conceptualize new ways for men to actively participate in movements traditionally viewed as being rooted in “women’s issues”. Participants will be challenged to understand the ways in which men can and should take an active role in promoting gender equality through collaboration, advocacy, education, and role modeling. Speakers will discuss strategies for men to work alongside women to change social norms that allow sexist and abusive behaviors to continue. This workshop will also pay particular attention to the role of men in preventing sexual harassment and violence against women.

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The Science & Art of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

3 credits | $45

David F. Tolin, Ph.D., ABPP

In this training, the central foundations of CBT, will be reviewed, including mechanisms of maladaptive cognition, emotion, and behavior, and the interplay among these mechanisms. Cognitive restructuring approaches and newer approaches based on mindfulness and acceptance will be reviewed, as well as emotion modulation strategies such as relaxation training. Finally, we will describe a range of behavioral interventions that can be applied for a range of patients in both outpatient and inpatient settings.

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Spotlight on Sexual and Domestic Violence

3.5 credits | $50

Jillian Gilchrest, MSW

Beverly Gooden

Lisa Winjum, JD

This conference will immerse attendees in an in-depth look at the traumas of sexual assault and domestic violence and the ways in which society can begin to work towards healing from and ending these types of violence through community resources, advocacy, and policy change. Participants will hear from clinicians, rape crisis counselors, lawyers, first responders, and survivors through lecture and panel presentations. Participants will become familiar with several promising practices and emerging trends that can be used to effectively heal from, respond to, and most importantly, stop sexual assault and domestic violence.

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Evidence-based Conjoint Couples Treatment for Intimate Partner Violence

4.5 credits | $60

Cindy M. Schaeffer, PhD

Jillian Gilchrest, MSW

Beverly Gooden

Domestic Violence-Focused Couples Treatment (DVFCT) uses a conjoint couples treatment approach to help partners learn new techniques for managing conflict and stay together without violence. Rigorous evaluation of the DVFCT approach has demonstrated that the model is effective for couples in a variety of contexts, including military families and parents involved with child protective services for child maltreatment. This introductory training will provide attendees with an overview of DVFCT and some guidelines for how to incorporate the model’s core techniques into clinical practice.

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Healing From Heart Ache

4.5 credits | $60

Felice Block, MA, LCPC

This workshop is based on a seven-step treatment model Felice Block M.A., LCPC has developed for women who have been in unhealthy love relationships. Participants will be able to use the material immediately in clinical practice. Felice’s approach integrates Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive behavioral techniques, 12 Step recovery, trauma theory, systems theory, Adlerian theory, group process, feminist theory and attachment theory. The model is holistic in that it addresses cognitive & emotional processes, physical stress reactions, spiritual recovery and fosters social re-connection.

Risk Assessment for Violence

4.5 credits | $60

Phillip J. Resnick, MD

Recent research on the validity of psychiatry predictions of violence will be presented. The demographics of violence and the specific incidences of violence in different psychiatric diagnoses will be reviewed with special attention given to paranoid delusions, command hallucinations, and premenstrual dysphoric disorders and personality traits. Advice will be given on taking a history from potentially dangerous patients and countertransference feelings. Instruction will be given in the elucidation and assessment of violent threats and “perceived intentionality. Clinical

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Solution-Focused Approaches with Challenging Clients

5 credits | $65

Don Scherling, PsyD

Solution-Focused approaches which build on a client’s, family’s, agency’s, or community’s strengths are proving more powerful and hopeful in encouraging change, than traditional problemfocused methods of assessment and treatment. This course will provide the basics to the theoretical foundations and treatment methods of a solutionfocused approach and encourage participants to adapt and apply the model in their thinking and their work with challenging clients, peers, and organizations.

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Treating OCD & Related Disorders

5 credits | $65 David Tolin, PhD, ABPP

In this workshop we will review the DSM-5 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders (OCRDs), including obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoarding disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, and excoriation (skin-picking) disorder. Similarities and differences among these disorders will be discussed. We will review essential cognitive-behavioral treatment strategies to reduce obsessionality and impulsivity among patients with (OCRDs).

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Buried in Treasures:

The Nature & Treatment of Hoarding Disorders

5.5 credits | $70

David F. Tolin, PhD,

ABPP

In this training, we will review emerging data investigating the nature of hoarding, associated mental health features, and new research findings regarding brain function in people who hoard. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has emerged based on our increasing understanding of hoarding. In this workshop, you will learn specific skills to increase patients’ motivation and compliance, challenge maladaptive ways of thinking, and learn new behavior patterns. We will also discuss possibilities for further development of the CBT model, including augmentation with cognitionenhancing exercises and medications as well as the collaboration between mental health professional and paraprofessionals.

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Cognitive, Dialectical & Transdiagnostic Therapies for Co-occurring Disorders

6 credits | $75

Jaak Rakfeldt, PhD, LCSW

This training will present Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapies, which are important parts of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) tool kit for evidencebased best practices for treating co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders (COD). The Workshop will cover mindful meditation, Cognitive, Dialectical, and Radically-Open Dialectical Behavior Therapies (CBT/DBT/RO-DBT), which are integrated into Dr. Rakfeldt’s Life Worth Living clinical treatment format.

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Responding to Intimate Partner Violence through Screening Intervention

3 credits | $45

Jillian Gilchrest, MSW

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a public health issue that affects millions of Americans. Intimate partner violence is associated with significant health problems for victims. “Anxiety, depression, diabetes, hypertension, sexually transmitted diseases, serious injury, and substance use, all of which have long-term physical and emotional repercussions”. Responding to Intimate Partner Violence through Screening Intervention training offers participant tools to identify individuals at risk, health consequences that impact physical and emotional health, strategies for screening, and resources to support individuals at risk through local resources.

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Face Your Fears: Conducting Good Exposure Therapy Across Diagnoses

5 credits | $65

David Tolin, PhD, ABPP

Exposure therapy is an evidence-based treatment for anxiety-related disorders including phobias, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. In this workshop, we will describe the psychological mechanisms of exposure-based therapy, and will address several myths that contributes to the under-utilization of this treatment. Using both didactic presentation and video vignettes, we will discuss and demonstrate the use of in vivo exposure, imaginal exposure, and interoceptive exposure for a range of anxietyrelated problems. We will also discuss several efficacy-boosting strategies, such as motivational interviewing, eliminating safety behaviors, and using rational thinking skills.

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Good Night: The Science of Sleep

5 credits | $65

Charles Atkins, MD

Have you ever wondered why you spend a third of your life unconscious and vulnerable or how wonderful it might be to have an extra eight hours a day to be productive or to make it to level 2000 on Candy Crush? Truth is you don’t have a choice. Everything sleeps, from single cell organisms like the amoeba you pulled from a pond and watched under a microscope in High School biology to the fuzz-ball rescue puppy you got on your eighth birthday. It’s a biologic imperative, like breathing, eating, and if a species is to continue, sex. So, what’s the harm in missing a few hours, as most Americans do? Sleep research in the past two decades answers this with a resounding everything. Inadequate sleep correlates with increased mortality from all causes. Join Dr. Atkins for a fascinating overview of the evidence and best-practice strategies, which include cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and other non-pharmacologic strategies, to improve sleep and overall health and wellness for you and your clients.

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Client Affect Management - Helpful Tools for Success

4 credits | $55 Don deGraffenried, LCSW

This practical and hands-on workshop is designed to give clinicians experience with affect management tools used in psychotherapy with emotions and feelings. These tools can help regulate emotions, increase impulse control, promote relaxation, reduce anxiety and generate positive spiritual experiences. You will learn the use of “drone voice” and trance induction to develop useful and unique tools. You will also study techniques such as Progressive Relaxation, The Enhanced Safe Place, HeartMath and One Stone. You will experience and practice these affect management tools firsthand at this training. You will learn the use of “drone voice” and trance induction to develop useful and unique tools. You will also study techniques such as Progressive Relaxation, The Enhanced Safe Place, HeartMath and One Stone. You will experience and practice these affect management tools firsthand at this training.

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Understanding the Adolescent/Young Adult Brain from a Developmental Lens

2.5 credits | $35

Daniel R. Brockett, PhD

This on-demand presentation will explore the wonders of the adolescent and young adult brain, the basics of brain development, and how they predict the challenges and behaviors of this critical period of life. In addition to normal development, you will learn the ways childhood adversity affects the brain differently than the adult brain. Specific issues such as gender differences, childhood trauma, and drug abuse will be discussed through a brain development lens, as well as interventions and experiences that enhance development or assist in the recovery process.

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Fundamentals of Emotional Freedom Technique

2.5 credits | $40 Catherine Ewing, LCSW, MDIV

Emotional freedom technique (EFT) is a form of energy psychology, combining psychotherapy and energy healing techniques. It is based on the understanding of the human body as an electrical system and the recognition of the systems of subtle energy that surrounds and interacts with the physical body. When that energy system is disrupted, a person can experience mental, emotional, or physical imbalance. EFT has treatment application across a broad range of issues, including stress and anxiety, PTSD, physical pain, self-sabotage, cravings, and addictions. It draws from a variety of proven modalities, including thought field therapy, acupuncture, biofeedback, EMDR, hypnosis, cognitive behavioral therapy and applied kinesiology. In this engaging workshop, learn how to use emotional freedom technique for your own self-care and for working with clients, students, colleagues, and families.

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Standing Up to the Storm: Relentless Resilience

2 credits | $35

Elaine Bentley Baughn, MS, LMFT

When you work every day to take care of others, whether as a First Responder, parent, social worker, psychotherapist, caregiver, or nurturing friend, it is inevitable that some of that havoc and stress can follow you home. Some days it may slide off, but on others it may Velcro right on. This workshop is about recognizing your vulnerabilities, choosing (and timing) your battles, and evolving a dynamic self-care routine that fits your current situation and changes with the demands of the emotional weather around and inside you, so that when you absolutely need to you can stand strong.

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CBT for Anxiety

3 credits | $40

David Tolin, PhD, ABPP

Anxiety disorders are the most common and costly psychiatric disorders, yet most individuals with these disorders do not receive evidence-based treatment. The psychosocial treatment with the strongest evidence base for the anxiety disorders is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). In this workshop, we will review the anxiety disorders, their prevalence, and their impact on society. We will discuss transdiagnostic principles of treatment, including exposure, relaxation training, cognitive restructuring, and acceptance. Video examples will illustrate these principles of treatment for a range of conditions including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessivecompulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

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The Importance of Family Acceptance in the Lives of LGBTQIA2+ People

1.5 credits | $30

Richard Stillson, PhD

This 90-minute presentation will provide a basic understanding of diverse sexualities and gender identities. This training emphasises respectful communication, family protective factors, suicide potential reduction, and how to create a safe and supportive recovery environment. Participants will also learn about the importance of June for the LGBTQIA2+ individuals and will understand the importance of providing trauma-informed, safespace, and trans competent care.

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Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

2.5 credits | $40

Jennifer Vendetti, LMSW, CEIM

Elaine Flynn York, LCSW

Participants in this training will gain knowledge of the spectrum of mental illnesses known as Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) including etiology and prevalence, and will become familiar with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Screening Scale (EPDS) including scoring mechanism. Treatment modalities including home-based psychotherapy, and about Postpartum Support International and the National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health will be reviewed. Learn about statewide and local efforts to address stigma and treatment of these disorders, as well as the prevalence of perinatal loss and the relationship to PMADs.

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Psychopharmacology: Truth, Recovery & Wellness

CECs & pricing varies by session | $130 for full program

Charles Atkins, MD

This series of interwoven but independent trainings (can be taken consecutively or individually) provides a practical and detailed overview of the theory and practice behind the use of psychiatric medications. It teaches clinicians at all stages of development how to critically evaluate claims made by pharmaceutical companies.

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Full Series: Psychopharmacology: Truth, Recovery & Wellness

Sessions 1&2: Psychopharmacology Basics: How to Read the Fine Print and Why it Matters

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Session 3: Antidepressants and Depressive Disorders

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Session 4: Mood Stabilizers and BipolarSpectrum Disorders

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Session 5: Antipsychotics and Psychotic disorders

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Session 6: Medications for anxiety and Anxiety disorders

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Session 7: Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders

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Session 8: Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorders: What You Need to Know

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Intersection of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking

2.5 credits | $40

Jillian Gilchrest, MSW

While there are differences, the methods of control and cycle of violence perpetrated against victims of domestic violence is similar to victims of human trafficking. This training will highlight the intersection of domestic violence and human trafficking, providing participants with a new understanding of gender based violence and ways to support victims.

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Gendered Justice

1 credit | $30

Stephanie S. Covington, PhD, LCSW

So often in the United States, we see ourselves as the innovators and role models for the world. Historically, this has been true in many areas. However, it is not true in the criminal justice field, particularly as it pertains to justice-involved women. We incarcerate the highest number of women in the world and have the world’s largest women’s prison. Few countries look to the United States for guidance in this area. This presentation offers us an opportunity to explore the advances made for justice-involved women in other countries. We will hear about innovations in Canada, Switzerland, Scotland, the Czech Republic, and England. These “best practices” include architecture, career development, and services for the young children of incarcerated mothers. May we find the inspiration we need to transform services for women in the United States.

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Gender Matters

2.5 credits | $40 Stephanie S. Covington,

PhD, LCSW

Join Dr. Covington as she creates the foundation and framework for creating trauma services for women and men, with an in-depth training on each of five therapeutic interventions. This presentation helps to ground the audience in the realities of the world in which they both live and work...and the violence and trauma that permeates people’s lives.

This presentation discusses the specifics of becoming gender-responsive and traumainformed, as well as offers recommendations for trauma-specific interventions. The issue of gender and its importance in service delivery is emphasized and gender differences are examined. The five core values of traumainformed services are also presented. The following theoretical foundation will also be described: Helping Women Recover, Helping Men Recover, Beyond Trauma, Beyond Anger and Violence and Voices.

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The Long Reach of Childhood Trauma: Using the ACE Study to Inform Practice

2.5 credits | $40

Colette Anderson, LCSW

Shannon Perkins, LMSW

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic experiences that occur during childhood which impact development into adulthood.

Recognizing the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledging the role trauma has played in an individual’s life is integral to true trauma informed care and yet ACE scores are often under-utilized in social work practice. This presentation will highlight what ACEs mean for our adult clients and how ACEs can inform our practice on both micro and macro levels.

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Other Gender: Using a Trauma-Informed Framework for Working with Men

2.5 credits | $40 Chris Dorval, MSW, LCSW, LCDP

The social assumption of men being perpetrators of trauma and the social acceptability of male trauma and violence has led to desensitization to the effect of trauma on males. This is especially true in the realm of trauma treatment, where historically research has been done and interventions designed on female populations. This presentation will offer a look at traumainformed practice that is responsive to the unique challenges and strengths of men in addiction treatment programs.

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