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Protected: Suicide: Effective Risk Assessment and Intervention eCourse

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Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

…The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain. Dr. Siegel explores how brain development affects teenage behavior and relationships and how mastering this knowledge helps promote understanding between parents and their teens. This presentation will offer insights into hyper-rational thinking, impulsivity, changes in the dopamine drive for reward, and increases in the emotional reactivity of the brain to illuminate many of the potential risk factors…

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Treatment of Individuals with PTSD, Complex PTSD and Comorbid Disorders

…treatment outcome studies. He will discuss what factors contribute to the development of chronic PTSD and related adjustment difficulties versus the development of resilience and post-traumatic growth. He’ll offer a Case Conceptualization Model that incorporates these factors and that informs both assessment and treatment decision-making. He’ll enumerate and discuss how to implement the Core Tasks of Psychotherapy in an integrated fashion that ad…

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Secure and Insecure Love: An Attachment Perspective

…ers have noted the importance of close interpersonal relationships for the development of personality, character, and overall well-being. Attachment theory was originally created by a psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrist, John Bowlby, but unlike many psychoanalytic theories, attachment theory has been vigorously researched during the past 35 years. The earliest research focused on child-parent relationships and their effects on child developme…

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To Listen to a Child

….D. Understanding the Normal Problems of Growing Up – This is one of child development expert and Harvard Medical School professor, Dr. Brazelton’s most important books. Not only does it teach parents the normal stages of a child’s development, but of the calming effect they can have by reacting intelligently and sensitively to their child. A parent can cause lasting psychological problems by imparting their own anxiety, fear and frustration onto…

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Secure and Insecure Love: An Attachment Perspective

…ers have noted the importance of close interpersonal relationships for the development of personality, character, and overall well-being. Attachment theory was originally created by a psychoanalytically oriented psychiatrist, John Bowlby, but unlike many psychoanalytic theories, attachment theory has been vigorously researched during the past 35 years. The earliest research focused on child-parent relationships and their effects on child developme…

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Negotiating Safe Places – Behavioral Regulation and Social Engagement: An Interview with Dr. Stephen Porges

…so a recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. In this DVD, Dr. Stephen Porges discusses his Polyvagal Theory, from its mammalian roots to its effffects on everyday life. He describes how people react on a neurobiological level to a variety of stimuli, ranging from negotiating safe places to traumatic events. Dr. Porges’ in-depth understanding of both neuroscience and social behavior offers a unique p…

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Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice

…ative thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs that are barriers to one’s personal development, sabotage relationships, and interfere with career success. This book provides insights gleaned from 25 years of investigations into the destructive thought process, or “critical inner voice.” It offers the general reader, as well as therapists, the means for dealing effectively with negative thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs that are barriers to one’s personal d…

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The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

…management theory (TMT). An important addition to the area of personality development theory, The Self under Siege offers a new perspective on differentiation and the battle to separate ourselves from the chains of the past. It provides psychotherapists and other mental health professionals with the tools needed to help clients differentiate from the dysfunctional attitudes and toxic personality traits of their parents, other family members, and…

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