This in-person event will be about half a mile from 30th street train station in Philadelphia, PA. Specific location at Drexel University announced no later than 1st week of May.
A Social Problem-Solving Framework for Suicide Treatment and Prevention
Suicide continues to be a major public health problem both nationally and across the world. We will describe a model of suicidality that underscores the importance of three major factors in its etiopathogenesis: negative stressful life events, negative emotional reactions to such stress, and ineffective social problem solving. In addition, we will present Emotion-Centered Problem-Solving Therapy (EC-PST), the updated and revised version of Problem-Solving Therapy, as a potentially efficacious approach for the treatment and prevention of suicidality based on this framework.
CE Learning Objectives
Following this presentation, participants will be able to:
Recommended readings
Nezu, A. M., & Nezu, C. M. (2018). Emotion-centered problem-solving therapy: Treatment guidelines. Springer Publishing Company.
Stay tuned for more recommendations!
Christine Maguth Nezu, PhD, ABPP
Dr. Nezu is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Professor of Medicine at Drexel University. She is a past-president of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Society for Clinical Psychology), and has maintained a clinical practice for three decades, often serving as a site for Drexel PhD students to train. She is a current member of the editorial board for both the American Psychologist and Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Dr. Maguth Nezu also previously served on the editorial board of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, as well as being a consulting editor for several additional scientific and professional journals. She has received awards from numerous university and professional organizations, including the 2015 Russell J. Bent Distinguished Service and Contributions to the American Board of Professional Psychology Award, and the 2016 Outstanding Contribution by an Individual for Education and Training Activities Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT).
Dr. Maguth Nezu has held several leadership positions in several private and professional organizations, including founding Director of Training for an APA-accredited Internship/Residency program (Hahnemann University Hospital), Associate Provost for Research (MCP and Hahnemann University), Board Member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Deputy Chair of the World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, and Board Member of the American Board of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology. She has published over 150 journal articles and book chapters, as well as 22 books. Many of her scholarly writings have been translated into various foreign languages.
In addition, Dr. Maguth Nezu is the Founding Director of Full of Possibilities, Inc., a women-led 501c3 charity that provides educational opportunities and psychological resources for young African girls. The financial award for this presentation is being donated to this charity.
Arthur M Nezu, PhD, DHL, ABPP
Dr. Nezu is Distinguished University Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Public Health at Drexel University. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, previous Editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, previous Associate Editor of American Psychologist, previous Editor of the Behavior Therapist, and previous Associate Editor of the Archives of Scientific Psychology. Dr. Nezu also served as Chair of the Council of Editors of APA, was a member of the Task Force to Revise the 7th edition of APA’s Publication Manual, and a member of the Task Force to Revise APA’s Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS) for Quantitative Research. In addition, he served as a member of the following committees: APA’s Clinical Practice Guideline Development Panel for the Treatment of Depressive Disorders, International Committee to develop the CONSORT Guidelines for Social and Psychological Interventions, and APA’s Presidential Advisory Work Group on the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice (EBPP) in Health Service Psychology. Dr. Nezu also held the following offices in various professional associations: President of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT, now ABCT), President of the American Board of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, Secretary of the American Board of Professional Psychology, Board of Directors’ Member of the Society of Clinical Psychology, and Chair of the World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. He was also a member of APA’s Board of Scientific Affairs.
Dr. Nezu has published over 225 journal articles and book chapters and 26 books, the majority of which focus on clinical and empirical aspects of cognitive-behavioral therapies. He has received awards from numerous professional organizations, including ABCT, the Society of Clinical Psychology, the American Board of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, the American Academy of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology, and the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology. He received an honorary doctoral degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and had an annual award named in his honor by the American Board of Professional Psychology that is given for doctoral research focused on issues of diversity. Dr. Nezu is co-founder of Full of Possibilities, Inc.
About The Nezu's Work Together
Drs. Nezu are best known for their joint work as co-developers of Problem-Solving Therapy and the more recent revision, Emotion-Centered Problem-Solving Therapy (EC-PST). EC-PST is a clinical intervention designated by numerous agencies and professional organizations as an evidenced-based, transdiagnostic psychotherapy approach that has been effectively applied to a wide range of clinical populations and problems both nationally and internationally. Their specific work has focused on depressed adults, cancer patients and their caregivers, intellectually disabled adults experiencing psychological difficulties, sex offenders, and adults suffering from heart disease and other medical diseases. In addition, during the past several years, as consultants to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and the U.S Air Force, they co-developed various versions of Moving Forward, a problem-solving based program geared to enhance the mental health of Veteran and active service member populations. This program is implemented in military and Veteran medical centers across the U.S. These programs have recently led the VA to develop suicide reduction protocols for Veterans. Their research and program development activities have been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Cancer Institute, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, the Department of Justice, the New Jersey Division of Mental Retardation, the Agency for International Development, the Pew Charities Trust, and the Infinite Hero Foundation. They both have held honorary and visiting faculty appointments in Japan and the United Kingdom and are frequent guest speakers at national and international professional conferences. They have collectively trained thousands of mental health professionals in PST-based interventions and supervised scores of graduate students, interns, and postdoctoral fellows. They have each been designated by ABCT as “pioneers” of behavioral and cognitive therapy.
On a personal note, "Chris" and "Art" cherish spending time (especially on Long Beach Island, New Jersey) with their three adult children, Frank, Ali, and Linda, their respective significant others, Jessica, Trevor, and Bryan, and their awesome grandkids, Alex, Jacob, Elle, and Max.
Target Audience
This presentation is intended for licensed mental health professionals and graduate student trainees. The instructional level of this presentation is Beginner.
ONLY GRADUATES OF MBCT/MBSR & RELATED PROGRAMS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE.
Mindfulness-Based Programs (MBPs), and their evidence-based adaptations, have been shown to be trans-therapeutic interventions of benefit to those with a range of transdiagnostic emotional disorders. The path for competently and ethically teaching MBPs includes, but is not limited to, experiential participation in the traditional 8-session MBCT or MBSR program in the role of participant-observer followed by ongoing development of competence. Such development includes direct experiences in a variety of MBPs that support implementation with populations practitioners have expertise serving. This virtual CE training offers the opportunity to observe experienced professionals model implementation of an intermediate level curriculum designed to deepen the benefits of the MBCT, MBSR, & related adaptations of evidence-based MBP curricula.
This course will reveal how recent advances in neuroscience combined with the millenia-old wisdom traditions and contemplative mindfulness- and related meditation practices can support an exploration of a construct known as “feeling tone”. In this course, you will become more aware of the “background color” that guides thoughts, feelings and emotions which is the tipping point from which adaptive responses are possible in the service of reclaiming one's life.
This virtual and live INTERMEDIATE LEVEL workshop is open only to licensed mental-health professionals & advanced post-doctoral level trainees who have completed a foundational MBCT or MBSR course & to certified teachers of MBSR, MBCT, MBRP, & other evidence-based MBPs.
For more about training pathways for becoming competent implementing MBPs visit Mindfulness-Based Interventions - Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBI-TAC) & https://www.mbct.com/mbct-training-pathway/ Also see EBP article by MBCT co-developer Zindel Segal, Ph.D. at www.philabta.org/EBP about increasing access to high quality professional training Home - Access MBCT .
Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:00 pm EST from March 20 to May 1 for 1st seven 90 min sessions, with final session on June 5. For CE option, weeks,6 & 7 of session dates (April 24 & May 1of 2024) followed by a 15 minute break and then 75 and 45 mins, respectively of additional CE training linked to content of experiential training & below required readings.
Williams, M., & Penman, D. (2023). Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World. Hachette UK.
REQUIRED READINGS (IF SEEKING CE ONLY)
Cayoun and Shires. Co-emergence Reinforcement and Its Relevance to Interoceptive Desensitization in Mindfulness and Therapies Aiming at Transdiagnostic Efficacy (2020) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783049/
Desbordes G, et al., Moving beyond Mindfulness: Defining Equanimity as an Outcome Measure in Meditation and Contemplative Research. Mindfulness (N Y). 2014 Jan 21;2014(January):356–72. doi: 10.1007/s12671-013-0269-8. PMID: 25750687; PMCID: PMC4350240.
Moore MT, Lau MA, Haigh EAP, et al. Association between decentering and reductions in relapse/recurrence in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression in adults: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 2022 Feb;90(2):137-147. DOI: 10.1037/ccp0000718. PMID: 35343725.
Williams, J. M. G., Baer, R., Batchelor, M., Crane, R. S., Cullen, C., De Wilde, K., ... & Taylor, L. (2022). What Next After MBSR/MBCT? An Open Trial of an 8-Week Follow-on Program Exploring Mindfulness of Feeling Tone (vedanā). Mindfulness, 13(8), 1931-1944.
Suggested Reading
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, Second Edition 2nd Edition
Teasdale, J., Williams, M., & Segal, Z. (2013). The mindful way workbook: An 8-week program to free yourself from depression and emotional distress. Guilford Publications.
About Presenters
Mark Lau, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, and a registered psychologist in private practice at the Vancouver CBT Centre. Dr. Lau has over 25 years experience providing Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to individuals and groups; conducting MBCT and CBT research; providing leadership in developing models of mental health care delivery including innovative ways of delivering MBCT & CBT; and, providing leadership in training and education including providing MBCT single and multi-day professional trainings across North America, Europe and Australia for mental health professionals. Mark is also an MBCT teacher trainer/mentor with the UCSD Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute and is one of a handful of MBCT trainers who provide the 5-day MBCT Professional Training in North America. He has provided MBCT & Fostering Resilience workshops to psychiatrists, physicians, UBC internal medicine residents, university research administrators and college staff. Dr. Lau’s research interests include investigating the mechanisms underlying MBCT’s effectiveness, the development and validation of the Toronto Mindfulness Scale, and evaluating effective methods of disseminating MBCT and CBT. He is a former Associate Editor of the journal Mindfulness.
Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC, is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, and Co-Director of the North American Chapter of the Mindfulness integrated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MiCBT) Institute. She has practiced inpatient psychiatry for 20 years at Vancouver Hospital, and her outpatient work focuses on mindfulness-based treatments to treat anxiety, depression and other clinical conditions.
For the last 15 years she has been training physicians and mental health clinicians nationally and internationally in the delivery of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and MiCBT, both of which are evidence-based treatments for mental health conditions. She also co-facilitates 5 day Cultivating Wellbeing retreats for physicians and their spouses. She is a clinician trainer and mentor with the UCSD Mindfulness Based Professional Training Institute in California, the Center for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto, and the MiCBT Institute in Australia. She is Co-Investigator in CIHR trials comparing MBCT to CBT for sexual disorders, and has co-authored Canadian competency-based guidelines for training psychiatrists in Mindfulness Based treatments.
She serves as Associate Editor with the journal Mindfulness, and is an active member of the International Mindfulness Integrity Network. .
This presentation is intended only for licensed mental health professionals and advanced post-doctoral trainees seeking licensure who have graduated from an evidence-based MBP including but not limited to MBCT, MBSR, MBRP & related interventions. The instructional level of this presentation is INTERMEDIATE.
Note: This workshop does require attendees to have formal mindfulness practice experience.
Overview of psychotherapy with family caregivers, with a focus on dysfunctional thoughts
When older adults need care, family members typically become the primary caregivers. Caring for an older family member is, however, immensely demanding, and family caregivers often experience high levels of distress. As the number of older people in need of care - including those with dementia - increases, bolstering family caregivers’ resilience has become an important issue in health care and psychotherapy.
This training provides an evidence-based overview of psychotherapy with family caregivers. Participants will become acquainted with the challenges confronting family caregivers, as well as the psychotherapeutic strategies that can help family caregivers maintain and improve their well-being. Participants will be introduced to an intervention concept based on cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and client-centered psychotherapy designed specifically for family caregivers of people with dementia (Wilz, 2023).
The workshop focuses also on identifying and modifying family caregivers’ dysfunctional thoughts (DTs). Participants will learn about the DTs common among family caregivers, and techniques for helping family caregivers develop more adaptive ways of thinking."
Wilz, G. (2023). Psychotherapeutic support for family caregivers of people with dementia. Hogrefe Publishing.
Wilz, G., Reder, M., Meichsner, F., & Soellner, R. (2018). The Tele.TAnDem Intervention: Telephone-based CBT for family caregivers of people with dementia. The Gerontologist, 58(2), e118-e129. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnx183
Wilz, G., Weise, L., Reiter, C., Reder, M., Machmer, A., & Soellner, R. (2018). Intervention helps family caregivers of people with dementia attain own therapy goals. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias, 33(5), 301 – 308. https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317518769475
Töpfer, N. F., Sittler, M. C., Lechner-Meichsner, F., Theurer, C., & Wilz, G. (2021). Long-term effects of telephone-based cognitive-behavioral intervention for family caregivers ofpeople with dementia: Findings at 3-year follow-up. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 89(4), 341–349. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000640
· Describe at least 2 specific challenges faced by family caregivers
· Outline 3 essential elements of psychotherapy with family caregivers
· Name at least 3 dysfunctional thoughts common among family caregivers
· Describe 1 therapeutic strategy for collaborative identification of caregivers’ dysfunctional thoughts
· Describe 1 action psychotherapists can take to support caregivers develop more adaptive ways of thinking
ZOOM LINK SENT 48-Hours before & morning of the event to all without balance due.
Gabriele Wilz, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Department of Counseling and Clinical Intervention as well as Director of the Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinic and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Qualification at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor with licensure in cognitive behavioral therapy. Her research and clinical work focus on supporting family caregivers of people with dementia and older people in need of care. Her intervention concept for family caregivers incorporates elements of cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and client-centered psychotherapy. The intervention can be delivered to groups or individuals; face-to-face, via telephone, or online. Six randomized controlled trials have confirmed the effectiveness and feasibility of the intervention. For a full biography, please visit https://www.klinisch-psychologische-intervention.uni-jena.de/
This presentation is intended for licensed mental health professionals and advanced graduate student trainees seeking licensure and with some clinical experience. The instructional level of this presentation is intermediate.
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