Certificate Programs
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Certificate in Trauma Counselling for Mental Health Professionals: Level 1 Trauma Certificate
November 5, 6, 19, 20, 26, 27, 2018
Facilitator: Natalie Zlodre, MSW, RSW.
This training is suitable for: Experienced front-line workers (nurses, clergy, social workers, residential workers), counselors and psychotherapists who provide services to vulnerable populations.
Description: In this 6-day certificate program, participants will be given the most current information on the biopsychosocial phenomenon of trauma, and training in how to assess, and respond ethically, and appropriately to clients, given the parameters of the workplace. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/3tqyvb.
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| Leadership Training
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Foundations of Coaching:
November 8, 2018
Facilitator: Marion Langford, M.Ed.
This training is suitable for: Any professional interested in building communication, and leadership skills.
Description: During this interactive workshop participants will gain an understanding of the core competencies of coaching, along with how to implement practical coaching tools and strategies. Focus will be given on how to develop, and apply a framework to structure and drive conversations forward, in addition to understanding the skill of facilitating team and individual awareness through powerful questions. This collaborative workshop will utilize role-playing, and in-workshop practice of coaching tools and techniques to help integrate the learning. This is learning module 2 of the Management Certificate. This individual learning module may be taken separately from the certificate program. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/2tqyvk.
Essential Skills for the New Supervisor: Making the Transition to Supervisor
November 28, 2018
Facilitator: Susan Geary, Ph.D.
This training is suitable for: First time supervisors, team leaders with supervisory responsibilities, and new managers.
Description: This workshop will focus on making the transition to the multi-faceted role of the supervisor. Learn current and relevant leadership strategies to delegate, motivate, coach, hire and build a team through effective and easy to implement supervisory tools. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/sgqn43.
Managing Employee Performance in Health and Human Service:
December 6, 2018
Facilitator: Adam Lodzinski, Ph.D.
This training is suitable for: Any professional looking to expand their management and leadership skills.
Description: This workshop is designed to provide supervisors, and managers with a framework for on-going, regular employee performance management, how to relay expectations to employees and the importance of the performance management process. Participants will gain the tools and language to support them in this on-going management process. The workshop will consist of lecture and demonstration, but will also focus on practice to successfully manage employee performance. This is learning module 3 of the Management Certificate. This individual learning module may be taken separately from the certificate program. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/2tqyvk.
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Brief Narrative Single Session Therapy:
November 1, 2018
Facilitator: Scot Cooper, RP.
This training is suitable for: All service providers, both beginner and experienced, working with all ages in time constrained contexts.
Description: This 1-day workshop will demonstrate how the application of brief narrative is grounded in practical skills that can be utilized in practice immediately. Learn to recognize a structure for brief narrative therapy sessions that brings focus, guidance and directs attention to necessary micro-skills, then how to implement co-development practices with clients for "take-homes, and next steps". Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/cgqn4p.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: Components of Group and Individual Treatment
November 9 & 30, 2018
Facilitator: Lyndsey Davies, MSW, RSW.
This training is suitable for: Educators, mental health professionals, medical professionals, and direct service workers.
Description: This 2-day workshop is designed for clinicians who are interested in utilizing DBT in either group or individual settings with clients via interactive lecture and experiential exercises. Participants will learn the components of standard DBT, how to conduct a behavioural analysis and solution analysis of problematic behaviours, as well as how to balance validation and change strategies. The facilitator will provide insight into skills for clients, including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/fgqn4m.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Treatment for Psychosis
November 16, 2018
Facilitator: Noah Lazar, Ph.D., C.Psych.
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals, medical professionals and direct service workers.
Description: This workshop will cover a CBT conceptualization of psychosis, common misconceptions regarding the suitability of this population for psychotherapy, as well as an overview of the treatment rationale and CBT strategies that are most helpful for these clients. Participants will also learn how to treat delusions, hallucinations, thought and disorder and negative symptoms. Time will be provided to examine some of the outcome literature highlighting the effectiveness of CBT in treating psychosis. This is learning module 2 of the Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Level 2. This learning module may be taken separately from the certificate program. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/rgq9z3.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
December 7, 2018
Facilitator: Noah Lazar, Ph.D., C.Psych.
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals, medical professionals and direct service workers.
Description: Over the last twenty years, there have been considerable advances in applying CBT principles to treat bipolar disorder. This workshop will focus on a cognitive conceptualization of Bipolar disorder, common misconceptions regarding the suitability of this population for psychotherapy. Participants will also learn application of monitoring techniques, behavioural techniques for depression and mania and cognitive restructuring techniques. Time will be provided to examine some of the outcome literature highlighting the effectiveness of CBT. This is learning module 3 of the Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Level 2. This learning module may be taken separately from the certificate program. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/rgq9z3.
The Therapeutic Relationship is Your Most Powerful Tool (and Biggest Pitfall): Relational Strategies to Effectively Treat Challenging Trauma Clients
December 10 & 11, 2018
Facilitator: Robert T. Muller, Ph.D., C.Psych.
This training is suitable for: Counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, health and social care professionals practicing in health, education and social care settings and in private practice, and who have a core professional training. It is suitable for therapists working in all modalities.
Description: This practical workshop, led by Dr. Robert T. Muller, a leading expert on trauma therapy and globally acclaimed author, is aimed at building your understanding of the psychotherapeutic relationship with challenging clients, particularly trauma clients. Through the lens of attachment theory, using a relational, integrative approach, Dr. Muller follows the ups and downs of the therapy relationship with trauma survivors and how to navigate and use conflicts in the relationship. Dr. Muller walks through how to bring safety to the therapeutic relationship early on. Participants will learn to recognize their own (therapist) feelings in the treatment (e.g., the wish to rush into trauma work, or the wish to avoid it) and how to help clients mourn traumatic losses to bring post-traumatic growth. Workshop registration includes a copy of Dr. Muller's new book: Trauma and the Struggle to Open Up: From Avoidance to Recovery & Growth. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/9gqp18.
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Working with Children, Youth & Families
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When Grief Gets More Complicated:
Supporting Harder-to-Serve Populations
November 15, 2018
Facilitators: Andrea Warnick, RN, MA and Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
This training is suitable for: Front-line workers and volunteers, medical professionals, educators, clergy, social workers, administrators, residential workers, counsellors, funeral service providers and hospice volunteers.
Description: This workshop will focus on how to support some of the harder-to-serve populations of grieving children and youth including those with learning disabilities, those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well as those who have experienced a death through homicide or suicide. Participants will gain specific supporting strategies for these populations and how to identify Childhood Traumatic Grief (CTG). This is learning module 3 of the Children's Grief & Bereavement Certificate. This learning module may be taken separately from the certificate program. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/9gqng4.
Incorporating DBT Informed Practice when Working with Families and Adolescents: Skills and Techniques to Support Families to Manage their Adolescents with their Emotions, Distress and Setting Limits
November 23, 2018
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lovrics, MSW, RSW, RP.
This training is suitable for: Educators, school administration, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, medical professionals, drop in workers, shelter/hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.
Description: In this interactive workshop DBT principles, assumptions and key components such as Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulations skills will be introduced through experiential means. This workshop will provide effective techniques to guide parents to manage problematic behaviours and improve communication. During the workshop, there will be demonstrations of group formats, skills exercises, videos, role-plays and mindfulness activities used with parents. Participants will have first-hand experience of the ways in which techniques maybe able to be incorporated to provide parenting skills groups within agencies and other settings. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/wgqch3.
Creative Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Interventions for Children with Anxiety:
Innovative Techniques to Assess and Treat Children with Anxiety
November 29, 2018
Facilitator: Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals.
Prerequisites: Basic training in CBT.
Description: Best-selling author and one of Canada's foremost presenters on childhood trauma, Liana Lowenstein will present an overview of CBT, along with innovative techniques to assess and treat children with anxiety. Participants will learn interventions that will address the core treatment components:
psychoeducation, somatic management, affective expression, cognitive restructuring, exposure, and relapse prevention. Through case examples, activity demonstrations, experiential exercises, and videos of actual client sessions, this one-day workshop will combine theoretical material with hands-on therapeutic interventions that can be easily translated into practice. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/wgq2fv.
Collaborative and Proactive Solutions:
Understanding and Helping Students with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Challenges
December 4 & 5, 2018
Facilitator: Ross Greene, Ph.D.
This training is suitable for: School social workers, child, and youth workers, educators, ECEs, school personnel, residential school staff, and other allied disciplines who work or consult to schools.
Description: The Collaborative Proactive Solutions (CPS) model, which Dr. Greene empirically supports in his books and teaching, has transformed thinking and practices in countless families, schools, inpatient psychiatry units and residential and juvenile detention facilities throughout the world. This 2-day workshop will provide you with the foundational elements of the CPS model, practical assessment and intervention tools that you can use in diverse settings. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/lgq2jc.
Anxiety and the Gift of the Imagination:
A Clinical Model for Helping Children Understand and Manage Anxiety
December 14, 2018
Facilitator: Robin Alter, Ph.D.
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals currently working with and/or interested in working with children.
Description: This workshop will teach a successful therapeutic formulation of anxiety. Dr. Alter will explain how the link between imagination and anxiety can be used effectively in treatment. This approach starts and ends with an enhancement of self-esteem to motivate children to use therapeutic tools and strategies. Learn how children's anxiety and thinking are different from adults, and how to be more effective with children in creating fundamental change in anxiety management. Learn more at: http://www.cvent.com/d/6gqncc.
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| Community Events |
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Advanced Course in Psychoanalytic Understanding of Work Groups, Organizational Dynamics and Leadership
Beginning September 27th!
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Course Coordinator: Kas Tuters
Course Leaders: Howard Book and Barbara Williams
September 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25, November 1, 2018 | 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Fees: $360
For more information, visit https://torontopsychoanalysis.com. |
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