Significant Tuition Savings Available to IABMCP Diplomates/Members
Full tuition fellowships are available to Academy Diplomates/Members who wish to attend the 2009 International Winter Symposium in Colorado Springs. Significant savings are available to Academy Diplomates/Members who wish to attend any other educational programs on this list. Please be advised that all conferences, programs, presenters and related information are subject to change without notice and should be verified. For additional information regarding the programs, as well as registration procedures and available hotel accommodations, please e-mail The Academy at IABMCP@att.net. If you wish to be kept immediately informed of all future programs, please e-mail us your request along with your complete postal address (including zip code) as many of these materials are better sent via surface mail.
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36th Advanced International Winter Symposium – Addictive Disorders, Behavioral Health & Mental Health |
January 27 – 29 |
Colorado Springs, Colorado |
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The 17th Annual Florida Symposia
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February 15 - 19, 2010 |
The 17th Annual Florida Symposia provides psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, primary care physicians, counselors, nurses and allied mental health professionals with an outstanding opportunity to combine a stimulating symposium with a relaxing, sunny winter vacation. Distinguished faculty, each a leader in their field, will present three different week-long symposia.
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Spirituality and Care of the Soul in Psychotherapy
Thomas Moore, Ph.D. |
February 15 - 19, 2010 |
Marco Island, FL |
Whether you are a mental health or medical professional, the nature of your work is to heal wounded hearts, minds, and bodies. This symposium will focus on the calling to help people in physical, emotional, and spiritual trouble. Participants will reflect on their own spiritual journeys and explore ways of meditation and contemplation. They will learn the difference between soul and spirit and see how they can blend psychological counseling with spiritual guidance. The role of dreams and the arts in therapy will also be explored. Finally, participants will consider ways to care for themselves spiritually and emotionally and prepare themselves for the deep work of psychotherapy.
In this symposium, participants will establish an idea of the very nature of healing and ways of becoming an effective healer. Participants will view filmed interviews of healers, and examine poetry, fiction, and the visual arts in order to obtain a complete picture of the qualities needed to be a healer. The “shadow” side of being a counselor or medical professional – problems of eros, power, money, belief, insecurity, and burn-out – will also be addressed both personally and theoretically.
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Mindfulness: An Educational Retreat
Ronald Siegel, Psy.D.
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February 15 - 19, 2010 |
Marco Island, FL
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Clinicians are enthusiastically discovering that mindfulness can enlighten and enliven their lives, both inside and outside the therapy hour. Mindfulness holds great promise for personal development and as a powerful method to enhance virtually all forms of psychotherapy.
To incorporate mindfulness into our work and personal lives, we need an intellectual as well as an intuitive, visceral understanding of the practice. In this symposium, you will develop a solid theoretical understanding of mindfulness from both the Buddhist and western scientific perspectives. You will also receive instruction in mindfulness meditation and be given the opportunity for personal practice in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere.
Through lecture, demonstration, experiential exercise, and small group discussion, we will examine how mindfulness practice can enhance therapeutic presence and transform our understanding of the causes of psychological suffering across the diagnostic spectrum. You will learn when and how to introduce various mindfulness techniques to your clients or patients; how to utilize special techniques for treating anxiety, depression, chronic pain, stress-related medical disorders, and interpersonal conflicts; and how to creatively work with obstacles to mindfulness practice.
Optional periods of guided meditation practice will be offered Tuesday through Friday morning and on Wednesday afternoon. While this course is suitable for seasoned mindfulness practitioners, no prior experience with meditation is required.
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Update on Psychopharmacotherapy and Therapeutic Neuromodulation
Philip Janicak, M.D. |
February 15 - 19, 2010 |
Marco Island, FL |
This symposium will review recent clinical trial results and use this information to develop optimal treatment strategies for the major psychiatric disorders.
The objectives of the symposium are for participants to 1) recognize the significant number of patients who are insufficiently responsive to initial therapeutic interventions, and 2) utilize available biological treatments optimally, including the first and second generation antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizing agents, anxiolytic/sedative hypnotics and device-based therapies. Upon completion of this symposium, participants will be able to develop treatment strategies based on the results of randomized-controlled, pragmatic and naturalistic trials tempered by the realities of clinical practice and to describe clinically relevant issues related to drug therapy, including pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and drug interactions.
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Brain Matters: Neuroscience, Trauma & Recovery |
March 4 – 6 |
Savannah, Georgia |
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9th Annual Attachment Conference: “THE WHOLENESS OF MIND, BRAIN, BODY, AND HUMAN-RELATEDNESS”
Pat Ogden, Stephen Porges, Lou Cozolino, Stan Tatkin, Daniel Siegel, Diana Fosha, Christine Courtois, Norman Doidge, Jaak Panksapp, Allan Schore |
March 5-7, 2010 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Recent interdisciplinary information on affect and affect regulation is directly relevant to a deeper understanding of early forming disorders of the self. Developmental studies are exploring the intersubjective bodily-based nonverbal affective communication embedded within the mother-infant attachment bond.
New attachment research confirms similar bodily-based nonverbal affective communication in close bonds between adults. Neurobiological research is describing the bodily-based affect regulatory mechanisms of attachment. Experimental models of the enduring impact of early relational trauma on the later capacities of the right brain to implicitly regulate an array of affective and motivational states are generating new models, which are now being incorporated into the core of updated treatments.
In this conference we bring together a number of pioneers and essential contributors to the recent and ongoing paradigm shift in our field. All presenters are authors who have written extensively on the themes of the relationship between affective neuroscience, early development, affect regulation, relational trauma, and psychodynamic models of the treatment of both mind and body. |
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Freud Meets Buddha:
Mindfulness As A Therapeutic Tool for Healing Trauma |
March 18 – 20 |
Chicago, Illinois |
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4th National Eating Disorders Conference |
May 13 to May 16 2010 |
Las Vegas, NV |
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27th Annual Cape Cod Summer Symposia
June 21 – August 20, 2010
The 27th Annual Cape Cod Summer Symposia will provide psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, and allied mental health professionals with an outstanding opportunity to combine a stimulating symposium with a relaxing, sunny summer vacation. Distinguished faculty, each a leader in their field, will present twenty different 15 hour symposia. These symposia have been designed to offer professionals an update in recent advances in several widely varied areas of mental health. In addition to the didactic lectures, there will be ample time for interchange between the participants and presenters. |
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Using Movies to Understand the Interface of Psychological and Biological Approaches to Mental Disorders
Fritz Engstrom
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June 21 - 25, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
In this symposium, participants will view 60 scenes from popular films, and use them as springboards to approach the common diagnostic and therapeutic issues from several standpoints: intrapsychic, biological/medical, existential, familial, behavioral, cognitive and others. For example, in considering someone with depression, we will look at concepts of grief, job frustrations, family conflict, biologic malfunction and impending death. The scenes, many of which are listed below, have been collected over the course of 30 years, and capture the essence of a dilemma or conflict. Much as we need to consider broad categories of diagnoses, family structures and cognitive styles, we must simultaneously treat each patient uniquely - as a “universe of one” - in Erik Erikson's words. |
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Mindfulness: An Educational Retreat
Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy |
June 21 - 25, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Clinicians are enthusiastically discovering that mindfulness can enlighten and enliven their lives, both inside and outside the therapy hour. Mindfulness holds great promise for personal development and as a powerful methodology to enhance many forms of psychotherapy.
To incorporate mindfulness into our work and personal lives, we need an intellectual and an intuitive, visceral understanding of the practice. In this symposium, participants will develop a solid theoretical understanding of mindfulness from both the Buddhist and western scientific perspectives. Also, participants will receive instruction in mindfulness meditation and be given the opportunity for personal practice in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. |
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Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies in Practice
Susan Orsillo & Lizabeth Roemer |
June 28 - July 2, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a prevalent, chronic condition associated with significant comorbidity, increased health care utilization, and impairment in psychosocial functioning. GAD differs from other anxiety disorders in that it is not characterized by a focal target of fear or behavioral avoidance. This may explain why traditional cognitive- behavioral approaches such as exposure therapy have not been as successful in treating GAD as other anxiety disorders.
In this symposium, attendees will learn an acceptance-based behavioral treatment developed to specifically target the experiential/emotional avoidance thought to underlie GAD and comorbid diagnoses. Examples and exercises will illustrate central elements of the treatment as well as considerations and challenges in successfully implementing them with clients. Participants will learn psychoeducational aspects of the treatment, as well as how to develop and implement mindfulness exercises and strategies to increase clients’ engagement in valued life activities.
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Influence: The Science and Practice of Therapeutic Change
Bill O'Hanlon |
June 28 - July 2, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Bill O'Hanlon, who continually brings cutting edge information into therapy, will dicuss how to create cooperation and change using the latest research from the fields of social psychology, behavioral economics and the new brain science. Participants will learn how to use these innovative and powerful principles in practice with some of the most challenging problems and clients we face, including depressed clients, clients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other challenging presenting problems. This seminar will offer unique information not often available in typical psychotherapy presentations. |
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War and the Soul:
Healing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Healing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Edward Tick |
July 5 - 9, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Military service today is an incomplete modern version of the archetypal warrior’s journey. This journey in its ancient, cross-cultural, and modern manifestations will be explored. The inner world of combat and its universal dimensions will be examined in detail. PTSD will be considered not just as a stress and anxiety disorder, but as an identity disorder, soul wound, interrupted initiation and social wound. Participants will learn how to utilize psycho-spiritual interventions and community activism to rebuild veterans’ identities, shrink trauma, and restore wounded dimensions of soul. Also, participants will be able to apply an understanding of PTSD to actual treatment philosophies, strategies and cases so that they can bring hope and healing to our veterans and their families. Finally, participants will be able to describe the spirituality inherent in war and how to use it to achieve a holistic understanding of PTSD and help heal our veterans and society. |
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Clinical Psychopharmacology: Overview and Recent Advances
Ross Baldessarini |
July 5 - 9, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Dr. Baldessarini's symposium will review the current status of psychotropic drug treatment of major mental illnesses with an emphasis on the research base on which sound clinical practice should rest. Participants will learn an integration of preclinical and clinical research findings and relate these to principles of informed clinical decision-making so as to enhance treatment effectiveness and safety. Participants will learn an updated view of the chemical nature of agents in each class, their major actions, and disposition, with emphasis on clinical uses for short- and long-term treatment, applications in pediatric and geriatric practice, risks of adverse effects, and emerging advances in new and experimental treatments. |
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Update on Psychopharmacotherapy and Therapeutic Neuromodulation
Philip Janicak |
July 12 - 16, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
This symposium will review recent clinical trial results and use this information to develop optimal treatment strategies for the major psychiatric disorders.
The objectives of the symposium are for participants to 1) recognize the significant number of patients who are insufficiently responsive to initial therapeutic interventions, and 2) utilize available biological treatments optimally, including the first and second generation antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizing agents, anxiolytic/sedative hypnotics and device-based therapies. Upon completion of this symposium, participants will be able to develop treatment strategies based on the results of randomized-controlled, pragmatic and naturalistic trials tempered by the realities of clinical practice and to describe clinically relevant issues related to drug therapy, including pharmacokinetics,pharmacodynamics, and drug interactions.
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Resilience Across the Lifespan: Strength-Based Strategies To Nurture Balance, Self-Discipline, and Hope in Ourselves and Others
Robert Brooks |
July 12 - 16, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
As professionals, we must manage our own feelings of stress and burnout as we attempt to bring meaning to our lives and the lives of others. In this symposium, Dr. Brooks will describe interventions rooted in a strength-based framework for nurturing a “resilient mindset”, including the attributes of self-dignity, responsibility, compassion, and hope for both patients and professionals.
Symposium participants will learn: techniques for enhancing empathy and our own “stress hardiness”; the components of motivation, emotional intelligence, and a “resilient mindset”; the importance of identifying and reinforcing “islands of competence”; how to change “negative scripts” and “negative mindsets” and how to promote change in oneself and others. Dr. Brooks will elaborate on many strategies with case examples for enhancing hope, motivation, self-discipline, and resilience.
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Substance Abuse and Dual Diagnosis: New Treatment Approaches
Roger Weiss |
July 19 - 23, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Alcohol and drug abuse are among the most common clinical disorders that present clinicians with significant challenges. Moreover, many patients with psychiatric illness have coexisting substance abuse problems, making the treatment of these dually diagnosed patients particularly difficult. The objective of this symposium is for participants to apply new therapeutic approaches based on recent research findings to patients with substance abuse and dual diagnosis problems. Clinical techniques to help engage ambivalent or unmotivated patients early in treatment will be emphasized. |
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Mindfulness, Radical Acceptance, and Willingness: Teaching DBT Acceptance Skills in Clinical Practice
Marsha Linehan |
July 19 - 23, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
This symposium will focus on how to teach mindfulness and reality acceptance skills. It will consist of practicing various mindfulness exercises drawn from DBT, an empirically supported treatment for individuals with borderline personality disorder. The symposium will include lecture, discussion, and a heavy emphasis on experiential practice. Participants will learn the newly revised and updated DBT mindfulness skills and strategies for how to integrate them into clinical practice. The course is open to both DBT and non-DBT therapists, focusing on integrating these skills within any treatment orientation. |
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Mindfulness Meditation: Exploring the Self
Ronald Alexander |
July 26 - 30, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
For 2,500 years, Buddhist meditation practices have developed what is referred to as “skillful methods” for study and transformation of the mind/body process. In this symposium, participants will learn how to utilize the practices and principles of Buddhist psychology to resolve afflictive factors of mind, mood, and happiness. Mindfulness meditation training, known for promoting clarity of mind, spaciousness of self, and compassion, will be explored.
Using methods from the Buddhist and Non Dual schools of mindfulness practices, as well as contemporary theories of self, relational, cognitive behavioral and health psychologies, participants will directly experience, practice, and learn clinical skills for promoting insight, wisdom, and knowledge. This seminar will be highly experiential and theoretical, as participants will practice clinical skills utilizing meditation methods introduced during the symposium.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Treating the Multi-Problem Adolescent
Michael Hollander |
July 26 - 30, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Clinicians who work with multi-problem adolescents are frequently challenged by the complex clinical presentations of adolescents who are often difficult to engage and keep in treatment. This symposium is designed for professionals who have a working knowledge of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and who work with adolescents and families in a wide range of treatment contexts. Participants will learn how to apply the theory, principles, functions and modes of comprehensive DBT to working with high-action adolescents and their families. |
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Clinical Care for Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Comprehensive Developmental Approach to Assessment, Diagnosis, and Intervention
Celine Saulnier |
August 2 - 6, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) impact multiple areas of functioning and consequently demand a multidisciplinary approach to conceptualization, diagnosis, and intervention. Not only is there extreme variability within the autism spectrum, but across development as well. With both the diagnosis and awareness of ASD on the rise, there is a need for mental health practitioners to learn about the nature and course of ASD.
This symposium will help practitioners define ASD from infancy through young adulthood; identify, assess, and diagnose symptoms that change throughout development; and identify intervention strategies that are effective in addressing autism symptomatology within academic, therapeutic, or community contexts. This symposium will also present state-of-the-art research paradigms on ASD and provide opportunities for case presentation and discussion.
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Child and Adolescent Disorders: Diagnostic Issues, Causal Factors, and State-of-the-Art Interventions
Stephen Hinshaw |
August 2 - 6, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
This symposium will address key issues related to developmental psychopathology including temperament, attachment, heritability, continuity, comorbidity, and parenting styles. Major classes of child and adolescent disorders: externalizing/disruptive disorders, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety and mood disorders, and pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) will be examined intensely. Specific emphasis will be placed on symptoms, impairment, gender and ethnic differences, risk and causal factors, long-term course, and evidence-based treatment strategies. The objectives of this symposium are for participants to be able to describe the principles of developmental psychopathology, the core features of the major child and adolescent disorders, and strategies for effective intervention. |
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An Integrated Approach to Complex Trauma for Older Adolescents and Adults
John Briere |
August 2 - 6, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Recent research indicates that trauma-related disturbance can be quite complex. When traumaexposure involves early, repetitive, interpersonal maltreatment, especially in the context of ongoingpsychological neglect or parental disattunement, the outcome may involve not only classicposttraumatic stress, but also dysfunctional attachment styles, altered relational schema, affectdysregulation, and overdeveloped avoidance responses.
Drawing on the latest research and theory, Dr. Briere will present a nonpathologizing,developmentally-informed therapy for these complex posttraumatic presentations. His approachincorporates relational, cognitive-behavioral, and mindfulness principles to support the processing of implicit and explicit traumatic memories through careful therapeutic exposure, and the development of increased affect regulation capacities so that avoidance behaviors such as substance abuse or tension reduction activities are less necessary for psychological equilibrium. Participants also will learn to describe the reworking of cognitive responses and activated relational schema within the therapeutic relationship, and a reconsideration of culturally transmitted assumptions regarding emotional pain, suffering, and the need to avoid “negative” internal states.
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New Developments in the Treatment of Victimized Individuals: Treating PTSD and Complex PTSD
Donald Meichenbaum |
August 9 - 13, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Research indicates that 50% of psychiatric patients have a history of victimization which is often overlooked in both assessment and treatment. In this workshop, Dr. Meichenbaum will highlight recent developments in the treatment of patients with PTSD, Complex PTSD and comorbid disorders. He will consider the assessment and treatment implications of neuroscience research from a life-span perspective and highlight ways to provide integrated treatments in a culturally-sensitive fashion. Participants will learn how to conduct evidence-based trauma-focused CBT and spiritually-oriented interventions with children, adolescents and adults and specific ways to treat returning soldiers and their family members. |
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Psychological Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Jonathan Abramowitz |
August 9 - 13, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Anxiety disorders are prevalent, chronic, and disabling, and make up a large proportion of atherapist's caseload. This symposium is designed for participants to learn a comprehensive conceptual overview of the anxiety disorders and how to utilize the psychological treatments most associated with strong treatment outcomes for anxiety disorders including panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, phobias, social anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. A model of each disorder will be provided, and will be dicussed.
Anxiety disorders often have an interpersonal component in which significant others are drawn into participating in excessive avoidance strategies, compulsive rituals, and providing reassurance. This symposium will address how to engage significant others in therapy as necessary. Becausepharmacology can add or detract from the efficacy of psychological treatment for anxiety, how to workeffectively with medicated patients will be discussed.
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Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice
S. Nassir Ghaemi |
August 16 - 20, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
This symposium will provide partcipants with an unique opportunity to learn the principles and pratice of contemporary psychopharmacology. Partcipants will learn to 1) apply key statistical concepts to be able to understand psychopharmacology research; 2) comprehend the importance of nosology for psychopharmacology and take a critical approach to the basis of psychiatric diagnosis in DSM-IV; 3) utilize the pharmacology of the major psychotropic drug classes; 4) describe the research evidence base for the clinical use of psychotropic drugs in the major mental illnesses; and 5) appreciate conceptual assumptions in the practice of psychopharmacology, including values and beliefs, and recognize and critique one’s own assumptions. |
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Substance Abuse and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders: An Integrative Treatment Approach
Donald Meichenbaum |
August 16 - 20, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Substance Abuse Disorders (SUDs) are prevalent among individuals with psychiatric disorders, ranging from 20% to 70%, but SUDs are often under-identified and under-treated in psychiatric patients, and similarly, psychiatric disorders are not adequately addressed in substance abuse treatment centers. In this advanced workshop, specific therapy skills will be discussed, modeled and practiced for the integrative treatment of patients with internalizing problems and externalizing problems. A self-assessment Therapist's Checklist will be used to self-evaluate attendees' knowledge and level of expertise. Partcipants will learn how to use an integrative phase-oriented treatment approach with such varied dually diagnosed clinical populations as returning veterans, patients who are in residential treatment settings, and with unmotivated, mandated, treatment-resistant challenging clients. |
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Psychotherapy As Care of the Soul
Thomas Moore |
August 16 - 20, 2010 |
Cape Cod, MA |
Whether you are a mental health or medical professional, your main role is to heal wounded hearts, minds, and bodies. This unique symposium will focus on the calling to help people in physical, emotional, and spiritual trouble. Participants will reflect on their own spiritual journeys and explore ways of meditation and contemplation. They will learn the difference between soul and spirit and see how they can blend psychological counseling with spiritual guidance. The shadow elements in psychotherapy and spirituality will be examined both personally and theoretically. The role of dreams and the arts in therapy will be explored. Participants will also consider ways to care for themselves spiritually and emotionally and prepare themselves as persons for the deep work of psychotherapy.
In this symposium, participants will establish an idea of the very nature of healing and ways of becoming an effective healer. The spiritual focus will be very broad and draw on Asklepian, Buddhist, Taoist, Celtic, and Gospel approaches to healing. Participants will also explore the fundamentals of Jungian and archetypal psychology. The “shadow” side of being a counselor or medical professional - problems of eros, power, money, belief, burn-out, and insecurity - will also be addressed. |
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National Adolescent Conference |
September 22 – 25 |
Scottsdale, Arizona |
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Emerging Trends in Psychotherapy:
Mindfulness, Neuroscience & Alternative Therapies |
October 21 – 24 |
Tucson, Arizona |
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Health Forum On-Line |
Health Forum On-Line (Jenkintown, PA) is offering a 30% tuition reduction to IABMCP Diplomates/Members who wish to take any of their on-line courses. These courses deal with a wide variety of topics of interest to mental health professionals. Moreover, they are approved for continuing education credit by numerous professional organizations including the American Psychological Association, the Association of Social Work Boards, and the National Board of Certified Counselors.
For additional information, please visit Health Forum On-Line’s website at www.healthforumonline.com or phone Dr. Michelle Rodoletz, Director of the Continuing Education Program, at (215) 887-6669 or e-mail info@healthforumonline.com.
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Behavioral Medicine / Pain Management Courses
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The Academy is pleased to announce that it is co-sponsoring (with The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation) a number of intensive courses dealing with behavioral medicine, pain management, and a number of related topics.
Most courses are on CD and include topics such as “EEG Biofeedback/Neurofeedback”, “Neuropsychophysiology (Advanced EEG)”, “Pain Assessment and Intervention for Behavioral Clinicians”, “Hypnosis”, and “Basic Psychophysiological Instrumentation”. These courses are very comprehensive, generally 45 to 50 hours in length, and feature e-mail and/or phone communication with the instructor. Significant savings are available to IABMCP Diplomates/Members.
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Becoming a Certified QuitSmart Leader
QuitSmart is a highly effective stop smoking program that combines decision - firming techniques, cognitive-behavioral coping skills training, hypnosis via CD, optional use of OTC and prescription medications, and a realistic cigarette substitute. In a study of five U.S. Air Force Bases, 66% of QuitSmart participants remained smoke free at a six-month follow-up, compared to 16-30% of those in four other stop smoking programs (Shipley, et al., Federal Practitioner).
The QuitSmart program was developed by Robert Shipley, Ph.D. director of the Duke University Medical Center Stop Smoking Clinic. Dr. Shipley has trained over 2000 Certified QuitSmart Leaders and now offers an affordable home-study option for health professionals that involves watching 4.5 hours of video from a recent live QuitSmart seminar, studying the QuitSmart Client Kit (Guidebook, Hypnosis CD, and Cigarette Substitute), reviewing the QuitSmart Leader Manual, and talking with Dr. Shipley by phone.
Many practitioners find the QuitSmart Program to be an extremely valuable addition to their professional practices. Certified QuitSmart Leaders may offer the program to individual tobacco users or to groups of tobacco users.
Program discounts are available to Academy Diplomates/Members who wish to become certified QuitSmart Leaders.
Please email The Academy at IABMCP@att.net for additional information.
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About The Academy and IABMCP Diplomate Status
The International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling, and Psychotherapy, Inc. (IABMCP) offers to qualified practitioners Diplomate Status in five areas which are as follows: Behavioral Medicine; Professional Psychotherapy; Professional Counseling; Chemical Dependency Counseling; and Professional Coaching. Additional information and application materials may be found by visiting The Academy’s website at www.IABMCP.net.
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