Description
This virtual conference will be a live stream of a live in-person conference being held in Edmonton, AB. If you would like to attend live in-person please register here: http://www.jackhirose.com/workshop/trauma-conference/
This conference will be live streaming from Edmonton, Alberta to online participants on May 6 – 8, 2024 from 8:30am – 4:00pm MDT
This course is streaming live out of Calgary, AB beginning at 8:30am MDT (Edmonton, AB). Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until June 10, 2024. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 5 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on May 5, 2024.
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:
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
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.
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
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.
