Description
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until May 5, 2025. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 5 – 7 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on May 1, 2025.
Pricing
Attend More and Save! 1 Day enrollment $269.00, 2 day enrollment $469.00, 3 day enrollement $669.00 + tax
Fees are per person, seat sharing is not allowed. Please respect this policy, failure to comply will result in termination of access without a refund. For group rates please contact webinars@jackhirose.com
Day One (May 6, 2024) Workshop Choices:
Workshop #1: The Complexities of Complex PTSD: From Identification to Treatment | PRESENTED BY Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
The term trauma is used to describe the challenging emotional consequences experienced by someone who has lived through a distressing event. But what happens when the trauma occurs early in life, and/or involves on-going or repetitive exposure to traumatic events? In these cases, individuals will often experience Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), and/or dissociative disorders. As our understanding of trauma continues to evolve, so does our understanding of how to treat it. In this workshop, Sheri Van Dijk will define C-PTSD and introduce the Triphasic Model of treating complex trauma; and will then focus on Stage One of treating C-PTSD, involving skills to help stabilize clients using skills and strategies from several treatment modalities.
Workshop #2: Treating Personality Disorders: Evidence-Based Strategies & Breaking Life-long Destructive Behaviours | PRESENTED BY Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
Individuals with personality disorders have long been considered the most challenging clients presenting in the clinical setting. Many patients lack motivation, most begin with poor insight, and some have such deeply engrained dysfunctional beliefs, unhealthy coping skills, and destructive behavioural patterns that continue to frustrate providers, family members, and consumers alike. Many professionals even continue to view them as untreatable.
However, there is hope. Emerging research suggests this is simply not the case. DBT, CBT, and Schema Therapy have paved the way in pioneering new attitudes and outcomes related to treating these conditions
Join leading exert in the field of personality dysfunction Dr. Jeff Riggenbach for this enjoyable training chock full of the latest research, techniques, and practical strategies. This powerful workshop will give you a new ability to help struggling individuals deal with issues related to self-injurious behaviours, multiple suicide attempts, frequently hurt feelings, intense and unpredictable mood swings, substance use, angry outbursts, toxic relationships and other problems that impair their ability to function in society. Leave this morning training session with an integrated DBT/CBT /Schema Informed approach to treating these cases and giving clients with even the most complex needs a life worth living.
Workshop #3: Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up: Relational Strategies to Treat Challenging Trauma Clients, Part 1 | PRESENTED BY Robert T. Muller, Ph.D., C. Psych.
This practical workshop, led by Dr. Robert T. Muller, author of psychotherapy bestseller: Trauma and the Avoidant Client, builds our understanding of the therapeutic relationship with challenging trauma clients.
As therapists, we try to maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, but this can be easier said than done. Drawing on attachment theory and research, and using a relational, integrative approach, Dr. Muller follows the ups and downs of the therapy relationship in trauma work. He points to choices therapists make in navigating the process, examining how they affect outcome
Specifically, we look at relationship patterns in trauma work, and how these can lead to troubling therapist-client enactments. When left unchecked, such patterns lead to ruptures in the relationship. In trauma work, how do we repair a ruptured alliance? And how can we help clients grow from the experience? This workshop looks at such issues in detail.
Theory is complemented by case examples and therapy segments. We draw from Dr. Muller’s new book, Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up, winner of the 2019 ISSTD award for the year’s best written work on trauma.
Workshop #4: (CONTINUATION) The Complexities of Complex PTSD: From Identification to Treatment, Part 2 | PRESENTED BY Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
Clients with a history of complex trauma are often mis-diagnosed, have an array of presenting problems (some of which may be life-threatening, such as suicidality, self-harm, and disordered eating behaviors), and a history of unsuccessful attempts at psychotherapy as well as medication trials. In this workshop, Sheri Van Dijk will discuss the phenomenon of dissociation as an explanation for many of these issues and will help deepen your understanding of this complex defence mechanism through the lens of the Theory of Structural Dissociation of the Personality. You’ll receive an introduction to Ego State Theory to help conceptualize your clients from this perspective, before learning some strategies to increase understanding of your client’s internal self-system, and skills to help clients understand and heal themselves.
Workshop #5: Trauma and Addiction: CBT Strategies and Techniques That Work! | PRESENTED BY Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
The relationship between trauma and addiction is well-established in the literature. This is no surprise, as clinicians know all too well that people with unresolved trauma and emotional wounds often turn to substances as a way to self-medicate; people with addictions may drive while impaired, gravitate towards toxic relationships, go to dangerous places to get their substance of choice or engage in many other behaviours that increase their risk of being traumatized.
The good news is, there is hope! Evidence shows increasing incidence of recovery for people struggling in the areas of trauma and addiction. While neuroscience has taught us much about this phenomenon in recent years, evidence-based CBT treatments, which to this day appear to still be at least as effective as many “newer” approaches, seem to have almost gotten lost in the shuffle.
Want to reground yourself in foundational clinical concepts for effectively treating this population?
This breakthrough workshop led by internationally recognized CBT expert Dr. Jeff Riggenbach will enhance your treatment approach, advance your clinical skills , and arm you with proven tools and techniques that you can implement with your clients the very next day in your practice. Participate in this 3 hour training and leave a more trauma-informed clinician with a practical, evidence-based approach that will equip your clients struggling with trauma and addiction to reclaim their lives and be well on their road to recovery.
Workshop #6: (CONTINUATION) Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up: Relational Strategies to Treat Challenging Trauma Clients, Part 2 | PRESENTED BY Robert T. Muller, Ph.D., C. Psych.
This practical workshop, led by Dr. Robert T. Muller, author of psychotherapy bestseller: Trauma and the Avoidant Client, builds our understanding of the therapeutic relationship with challenging trauma clients.
As therapists, we try to maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, but this can be easier said than done. Drawing on attachment theory and research, and using a relational, integrative approach, Dr. Muller follows the ups and downs of the therapy relationship in trauma work. He points to choices therapists make in navigating the process, examining how they affect outcome
Specifically, we look at relationship patterns in trauma work, and how these can lead to troubling therapist-client enactments. When left unchecked, such patterns lead to ruptures in the relationship. In trauma work, how do we repair a ruptured alliance? And how can we help clients grow from the experience? This workshop looks at such issues in detail.
Theory is complemented by case examples and therapy segments. We draw from Dr. Muller’s new book, Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up, winner of the 2019 ISSTD award for the year’s best written work on trauma.
Day One Morning 8:30am – 11:45am:
Workshop #1: The Complexities of Complex PTSD: From Identification to Treatment | PRESENTED BY Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
- Explain the difference between PTSD and C-PTSD
- Introduce the Triphasic model of treating complex trauma
- Teach skills to help stabilize your clients, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Polyvagal Theory
Workshop #2: Treating Personality Disorders: Evidence-Based Strategies & Breaking Life-long Destructive Behaviours | PRESENTED BY Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
- Understand evidence-based approaches to treating personality disorders, and learn why traditional patient care doesn’t work
- Learn communication skills for effectively engaging clients with complex needs
- Acquire skills for modifying deeply engrained beliefs driving behaviours outside of client awareness
- Disrupt lifelong self-defeating patterns
- Identify 8 motives for self-injurious behaviours and interventions that work for each
- Learn symptom-targeted strategies that help with clients in the moment
- Develop schema modification techniques proven to benefit even your most “difficult” PD clients
- Build resilience in clients by teaching strategies that help them not only get well, but stay well
Workshop #3: Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up: Relational Strategies to Treat Challenging Trauma Clients, Part 1 | PRESENTED BY Robert T. Muller, Ph.D., C. Psych.
- Use an attachment theory framework in relational trauma work
- Recognize therapist-client relationship patterns in trauma treatment
- Consider their own (therapist’s) feelings in the therapeutic process (e.g. the wish to rush into trauma work, or the wish to avoid it)
- Notice problematic relational enactments
- Navigate conflicts and relational ruptures to get treatment back on track
- Use conflicts and relational ruptures to bring about posttraumatic growth
Day One Afternoon 12:45pm – 4:00pm:
Workshop #4: (CONTINUATION) The Complexities of Complex PTSD: From Identification to Treatment, Part 2 | PRESENTED BY Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
- Explain what dissociation is and describe the different dissociative phenomenon
- Introduce Ego-State Theory to increase understanding of how to use Parts-based treatment models
- Teach specific skills to help clients heal from complex trauma
Workshop #5: Trauma and Addiction: CBT Strategies and Techniques That Work! | PRESENTED BY Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
- Develop an improved understanding of the relationship between trauma and addiction
- Implement evidence-based treatments for trauma and addiction
- Acquire case conceptualization skills to create individualized client roadmaps to recovery
- Demonstrate understanding of the specific cognitive model of addiction
- Identify schemas involved in maintaining symptoms of post-traumatic stress and addictive behaviours
- Learn a proven three-step method for treating trauma from CBT orientation
- Implement behavioral pattern-breaking strategies for ending the vicious cycles of addiction
- Build strategies for helping trauma survivors who self-medicate
- Develop competency in imagery-related strategies for dealing with recurrent nightmares
- Utilise complex chain analysis to help clients analyze how they could have thought, felt, and behaved differently when coping with their urges
- Identify key nuances in client language that assess the function of addictive behavior and have significant treatment implications
Workshop #6: (CONTINUATION) Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up: Relational Strategies to Treat Challenging Trauma Clients, Part 2 | PRESENTED BY Robert T. Muller, Ph.D., C. Psych.
- Use an attachment theory framework in relational trauma work
- Recognize therapist-client relationship patterns in trauma treatment
- Consider their own (therapist’s) feelings in the therapeutic process (e.g. the wish to rush into trauma work, or the wish to avoid it)
- Notice problematic relational enactments
- Navigate conflicts and relational ruptures to get treatment back on track
- Use conflicts and relational ruptures to bring about posttraumatic growth
Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants, School Counsellors, Behaviour Specialists, Rehabilitation Consultants, Geriatric Specialists, and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW, is a Social Worker who has been working with clients with severe mental health problems since 2000. With extensive experience in a hospital as well as a community setting, Sheri now sees clients in private practice and provides consultation and training internationally to other clinicians. Sheri has had extensive training in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and mindfulness and has been providing DBT-informed therapy to individuals and groups since 2004. In 2010 Sheri was the winner of the R.O. Jones award for her research on using DBT with bipolar disorder, presented at the Canadian Psychiatric Association Conference.
Sheri is the author of several books that focus on helping readers learn DBT skills and apply them to a variety of mental health problems, including The DBT Skills Workbook for Teen Self-Harm; the best-selling Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens; and her newest book, The DBT Workbook for Emotional Relief, released in July 2022.
Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D. is a best-selling and award winning author who has earned a reputation as an international expert in CBT and personality disorders. Over the past 20 years he has developed and overseen CBT-based treatment programs for Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviour disorders and Personality Disorders at two different psychiatric hospitals and clinics serving over 3,000 clients at multiple levels of care. Dr. Riggenbach trained at the Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia, is a Diplomat of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and a certified cognitive therapist. He has trained over 20,000 professionals worldwide including audiences in all 50 United States, Canada, Mexico, the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Dr. Riggenbach is the author of six publications including his most recent release The CBT Toolbox (2nd ed): A Workbook for Clients, Clinicians and Coaches.
Jeff is known for bridging the gap between academia, research findings and day-to-day clinical practice, and his work has earned him the reputation for being. “The practical tools guy.” His seminars on CBT, DBT, and Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy routinely receive the highest evaluations from conference participants in terms of clinical utility as well as entertainment value.
Robert T. Muller, Ph.D., C.Psych. is on faculty as a Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at York University, is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation (ISSTD); and both of his books have won ISSTD’s award for the best written work of the year on trauma. He has over thirty years of clinical experience in the field, and maintains an active private practice in downtown Toronto. Throughout his professional career, Dr. Muller has been practicing, teaching, and supervising in the areas of trauma, attachment, and psychotherapy. He is the author of the award-winning psychotherapy bestseller, Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing, published by Norton Press. In addition, he has authored numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and grants, and is currently lead investigator in a provincially-funded, multi-site program for the assessment and treatment of intra-familial trauma. He completed his clinical training at Harvard University, and has been active in the field since then.
Trauma and the Avoidant Client is available for purchase on Amazon.
For more information on trauma and mental health please visit Dr. Muller’s blog Talking about Trauma and the online magazine The Trauma and Mental Health Report.
Dr. Muller’s newest book is entitled Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up, and it’s about how to navigate the psychotherapy relationship with challenging trauma clients. This book is available purchase on Amazon.
