THE BRIDGE TRAINING INSTITUTE www.TheBridgeTrainingInstitute.org ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ “TREATMENTS THAT WORK” 2015 - 2016 TRAINING CATALOG PRESENTING: THE CLINICAL EXPERT SERIES AND THE DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY SERIES ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Location: The Courtyard Marriott, 75 Felton Street, Marlborough, MA Registration Fee: $149 including CEUs Register for any combination of 3 trainings and receive $50 off the total cost _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Continuing Education Approved For: Psychologists, Social Workers, MA & RI Marriage and Family Therapists, MA Licensed Mental Health Counselors, MA Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors Table of Contents The Clinical Experts Series Page Friday, October 9, 2015, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 4 Anger, Rage and Trauma: Talking to Kids About Difficult Things Dan Jacobs, Psy.D. Friday, November 6, 2015, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 5 Treating Self-Destructive Persons: How Do We Help Our Clients? How Do We Help Ourselves? Barent Walsh, Ph.D. Friday, December 4, 2015, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 6 The New DBT Skills: The Latest Updates and The New Skills Manual Jennifer Eaton, MS, LMHC Friday, January 15, 2016, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 7 Family-Based Interventions For Children and Adolescents Dan Jacobs, Psy.D. Friday February 5, 2016, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 8 Understanding Gender Identity: Working with Transgender and Gender-Queer Youth Sidney Trantham, Ph.D. Friday, March 4, 2016, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 9 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in Children and Adults: CBT Interventions That Work Peter Moran, Ph.D. Friday, April 1, 2016, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 10 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Lisa Coyne, Ph.D. Friday, May 6, 2016, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 11 Trauma Informed Care Joanna Bridger, LICSW Friday, June 3, 2016, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM 12 Best Practices in Suicide Assessment and Intervention Larry Berkowitz, Ed.D. & James McCauley, LICSW Table of Contents The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Series With Jennifer Eaton, LMHC & Elizabeth Fessenden, LMHC Page DBT Series Overview 13 DBT Skills Training 14 Part 1: Friday, October 23, 2015, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 14 Part 2: Friday, November 20, 2015, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 15 Part 3: Friday, December 11, 2015, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 15 Part 4: Friday, January 29, 2016, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 15 DBT Individual Therapy 16 Part 1: Friday, February 26, 2016, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 16 Part 2: Friday, March 18, 2016, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 16 Part 3: Friday, April 29, 2016, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 16 Part 4: Friday, May 20, 2016, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM 16 General Information 17 Registration Form 18 The Bridge Training Institute www.thebridgetraininginstitute.org Register: On-Line at www.thebridgetraininginstitute.org By Phone (508) 755-0333 Friday, October 9, 2015, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Anger, Rage and Trauma: Talking to Kids About Difficult Things Dan Jacobs, Psy.D. Children exposed to significant trauma, chaos, or dangerous environments often develop communication and behavioral strategies based on anger and rage. They commonly express themselves in negative and self-destructive ways, have trouble communicating, and often exhibit their pain via erratic, aggressive, and dangerous behavioral patterns. They often engage in substance abusing or other self-harming patterns that can further complicate their ability to function and to heal. Working with these youth can be a great challenge, and this is made even harder by their attempts to push us away. To help these youth learn more adaptive coping strategies we have to be able to talk with them about their difficult issues in the right way. To be most effective in our work with them we have to be prepared to hold very difficult conversations with a strength-based focus to help them face concerns many would rather avoid, and then we want to be able to explore more positive coping options. We have to set firm but fair structures and consequences in place for problematic behaviors while at the same time being able to offer them useful and realistic alternatives to their negative behavioral patterns. These youth need to learn ways to take control and responsibility for their actions and we need to avoid being caught up in unnecessary power struggles and ineffective reactive loops as we help them achieve this goal. For clinicians and caregivers who want to be successful at helping these youth it is crucial to have effective strategies and ways to talk with these youth about difficult issues in a proactive manner. This workshop will focus on practical strategies useful in handling the challenging behaviors most often exhibited by youth dealing with issues linked to anger and rage, particularly those exacerbated by exposure to trauma. Following this training, participants will be able to: Describe key communication styles common with angry youth impacted by trauma and neglect. Initiate effective verbal interventions useful in furthering positive conversations with troubled youth about painful topics. Adopt techniques to spot aggressive cues and behavioral patterns in the formation stage to help in stopping further escalation before violence occurs. Create a toolkit of verbal and behavioral de-escalation strategies designed to address agitated youth at risk of committing self-destructive acts or violence towards others. Dr. Dan Jacobs is on Core faculty in the School Psychology Department at William James College (WJC), Graduate School of Psychology (formerly known as the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology or MSPP) in Newton, MA and teaches courses on Psychopathology in Childhood and Adolescence, Counseling and Psychotherapy in Schools, Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families, Advanced Behavioral Techniques, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and other topics related to helping children (and their families) be more prepared to manage significant mental health, dual diagnosis, and behavioral concerns. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at WJC, in the Organizational Leadership and Clinical Psychology Departments, teaching courses on CBT, Leadership and Followership, and Creative Change and Transformative Leadership. He is a licensed psychologist and health service provider with a private therapy and consulting practice, Jacobs Psychological and Consulting Services, based in Andover, MA where he helps youth and adults find ways to more effectively manage the stress in their lives. Dr. Jacobs was formerly the Director of the Adolescent and Adult Partial Hospital Programs at NSMC/Salem Hospital in Salem, MA and has worked for many years trying to help children learn better ways to address challenges brought on by behavioral, mental health, and substance abuse concerns and exacerbated by other concerns such as economic instability, domestic violence and family disruption. Page 4 The Bridge Training Institute www.thebridgetraininginstitute.org Register: On-Line at www.thebridgetraininginstitute.org By Phone (508) 755-0333 Friday, November 6, 2015, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Treating Self-Destructive Persons: How Do We Help Our Clients? How Do We Help Ourselves? Barent Walsh, Ph.D. Treating non-suicidal self-injury and/or suicidal behavior can be among the most challenging, yet rewarding, of clinical endeavors. This workshop will review state-of-the-art, evidence-based clinical approaches to treating self-harm, while also addressing the self-care necessary to do such work. The presentation will have two parts. Part I will review the basics of working with clients who present with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) such as cutting, burning, skin picking and/or suicidal behavior. Evidence-based approaches for understanding, assessing, and treating these problems will be reviewed. Suicide and self-injury will be clearly differentiated but the empirical link between recurrent NSSI and suicide attempts will also be elucidated. Klonsky and May’s new “Ideation to Action Framework” for dealing with suicidality will be discussed. In addition, Thomas Joiner’s new Acute Suicidal Affective Disturbance will be reviewed. Part II will focus on the challenges and rewards for professionals working with the loss, trauma, and misery of self-destructive clients. Starting with a brief review of Andy Warhol’s stark “Death and Disaster Series,” we will discuss the role of compassion in working with self-destructive clients. Recommendations will be proposed for sitting with loss, misery, and impermanence. The risks of working with prolonged misery in others (such as vicarious traumatization) will also be reviewed. Self-care for professionals will be emphasized with identification of what helps maintain a compassionate frame, an optimistic commitment, and an activist’s stance. Following this training the participants will: Learn to differentiate suicide from non-suicidal self-injury Learn evidence-based interventions for NSSI and suicide Be able to discuss the complexities of self-care related to working with loss, trauma, and misery found in self-destructive clients. Barent Walsh, Ph.D. has written extensively and presented internationally on the topic of self- destructive behavior. He is the author of Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide 2nd edition, Guilford Press, (2012). In