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Register Online Mailing Address Hours Parking Director of Continuing Education Courses | PsychologyAntioch is recognized by the Washington Department of Health as a qualified provider of continuing education for psychologists. You have opportunities to explore current trends in counseling, ethical and legal issues that impact your practice, and the advantages of an integrated model for couples therapy, among others.
Techniques for Improving Cognitive Functioning and Memory (6 CEUs) Neuroplasticity refers to the capacity of the brain to change with experience. More recently, the focus has been how to drive brain plasticity toward improved cognitive function throughout the lifespan – and toward improvements in actual brain architecture. There's a flood of research on the three facets of neurogenesis: how to increase the rate of creating new brain cells, what could influence new neurons to thrive and how to integrate new brain cells into existing neural networks so they serve you better. New neuroscience is exploding with new findings that afford an unprecedented level of hope. This one-day workshop presents a practitioner-oriented array of science-based skills that empower the clinician to apply new neuroscience findings for improved brain health. Practitioners explore how the use of these skills that enhance brain function can improve other health parameters. A step-by-step method is offered for applying and measuring progress with these skills. This workshop is highly participatory and includes a combination of lecture, discussion, exercises and measurement of skill level. Instructor: Joyce Shaffer, Ph.D., is author of Secrets inside Bones, Brains & Beauty™ (2005) and Ideal Aging™: 7 Steps to Keep Your Brain Fit (2007) as well as other professional publications. She is a licensed psychologist and a registered nurse. Throughout her more than 40 years in health care, she has stayed at the cutting edge of health sciences. She is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington. Attachment Disorders and Trauma: Clinical Consult Group (9 CEUs) For those clinicians who have completed Attachment Disorders and Trauma (one-day workshop), these six sessions focus on continued training in diagnosis and treatment of attachment disorders and trauma: three sessions on diagnosis and three on treatment interventions. Case studies and putting into practice some of the theory is included as well tackling the questions participants bring as they work through the case studies. At the end of the course, clinicians are able to diagnose attachment disorders as a result of trauma and know to how to intervene in a more proficient and timely manner. Instructor: Carolyn Erickson, M.S. Counseling and LMHC, approved clinical supervisor, certificate from The Masterson Institute in psychoanalytic psychotherapy of disorders of the self with a focus on trauma. Practical Ethics (6 CEUs) This one-day workshop briefly covers the difference between ethical principles and risk management and a review of APA (American Psychological Association) Ethics Code (2003) and state law as it pertains to psychologists. The review and discussion of ethical issues involved in the case of dual relationships and confidentiality will be enhanced through the use of vignettes. Participants are encouraged to bring in case examples/vignettes. Any cases currently before the Examining Board of Psychology are excluded from this discussion. Participants learn strategies to avoid ethical violations and complaints. At the end of the workshop, participants:
Instructor: Timothy Cahn, Ph.D. and licensed psychologist, a member of Disaster Mental Health Specialists in King County and American Psychological Association. Psychopharmacology for Master's Level Clinicians (6 CEUs) An increasing number of mental health clients are being prescribed mood and mind altering medications, often by their primary care provider. This workshop focuses on learning what these medications do, how they work and how to help clients understand their effects and manage their side-effects. It will also help identify which medication-related symptoms are dangerous and require immediate medical attention. In the context of the wellbeing and wholeness of individual clients, participants explore the worlds of Prozac, Ritalin, Depakote, Xanax, Invega (paliperidone), and Vyvance, among others. Participants learn about the human brain and how to advocates for medications that enhances, but do not substitute for, psychotherapeutic interventions. Instructor: Alex Suarez, Ph.D., core faculty in the doctoral psychology program at Antioch University Seattle. A licensed, practicing psychologist for the last 20 years, she also has served as faculty at National University of Mexico, University of Washington and Argosy University. Principle-based Psychology: Links Between Spirituality and Mental Health (20 CEUs) This experiential workshop offers a principle-based approach to psychology about the nature of thought itself. These principles demonstrate that, while all of life is experienced through thought, there is a source of thought that people connect with when their minds are calm. Calm brings an experience of innate health and well being to even the most troubled person. When life is examined through personal data and memory, states of mind (SOMs) are limited in scope, and may be experienced as anything from neutral to stressful or anxiety-producing. When thought takes on a more receptive function, it provides access to an expanded repertoire of SOMs. Participants gain an understanding of how these principles function and improve spiritual well being for themselves and their clients. Using these principles, clients may experience:
Instructors: Annika Hurwitt Schahn, Ph.D. Narrative Psychology and LMHC. While she has had a private practice as a spiritually oriented therapist for 25 years, she has worked exclusively with the Principle-based Psychology approach since 1993. She works with individuals and couples, trains therapists and consults with corporations. She was adjunct faculty at Lesley University from 1992 to 2000, and has chaired both doctoral and master's degrees programs focused on learning this approach. Anil Coumar, M.B.B.S., M.A., trained as a medical physician in India and a mental health counselor in the U.S. He is director of the Mental Health Clinic, Hall Health Center at the University of Washington. He has co-authored a chapter, "Mindfulness Meditation in the Prevention and Treatment of Addictive Behaviors" published by Routledge Curzon (2006). Best Practices for Domestic Violence Screenings (6 CEUs) Counselors, therapists, mental health professionals, social workers, physicians, nurses and human resources practitioners are among those expected to report and respond to the potential for domestic violence. Because domestically violent behaviors are hidden beneath the surface of personalities and relationships, they must be inferred by professionals. With analysis of a video about an abuse family, participants recognize behaviors and behavioral patterns with potential for domestic violence and conduct a competent domestic violence screening. The workshop addresses patterns of domestic violence in family members of clients or patients, which is needed to satisfy the legal requirement to report. Instructor: Warland D. Wight, Ph.D., LMFT, has more than 15 years of experience as supervisor of a Washington state certified domestic violence perpetrator treatment program. He has completed over a hundred domestic violence evaluations and has been subjected to cross examination through deposition or court appearances in a number of cases. In all cases, his evaluation recommendations have prevailed. He was president (re-elected) of the Washington Association of Domestic Violence Perpetrator Intervention Professionals, appointed to the faculty of the Family Law Skills Institute, Washington Bar Association, 2000 and organized and coordinated the Domestic Violence Leadership Summit in May 2007. War and the Soul: Healing Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (6 CEUs) This workshop helps mental health professionals explore the inner world of combat and the universal dimensions of veterans' wounding as revealed through history, archetypal psychology and cross-cultural perspectives. Participants learn bout Post-traumatic Stress Disorder as an identity disorder and soul wound and learn about psycho-spiritual interventions and social activism that rebuild veterans' identities, shrink trauma and restore wounded dimensions of soul. At the end of this workshop:
Instructor: Edward Tick, Ph.D. is a holistic psychotherapist, writer, educator, journey guide, activist and veterans' advocate. He has been working with veterans and survivors of war, violence and trauma since the late 1970s. He specializes in using psycho-spiritual, cross-cultural and international reconciliation practices to help veterans, communities and nations heal. He is founder and Executive and Clinical Director of Sanctuary: A Center for Mentoring the Soul and of Soldier's Heart: Veterans' Safe Return Programs. Both are programs of national and international scope with home offices in Albany, N.Y. Dr. Tick is adjunct professor in both Communication and Global Studies at the Sage Colleges. Dr. Tick has published Sacred Mountain, Encounters with the Vietnam Beast (1989), The Practice of Dream Healing (2001), The Golden Tortoise: Vietnam Journeys (2005), and most recently War and the Soul, winner of ForeWord Magazine's Best Psychology Book of 2005. Growing a Private Practice This course takes on the challenges of developing a more successful private practice, be it start-up or growth. You define your vision, develop a marketing plan and appropriate methods to communicate with potential clients. You also learn how to maximize networking, set up a business model that includes fees, finances and billing, function within ethical guidelines and understand the business, tax and regulatory environments. You work hands on to develop a successful growth plan for your practice during and between classes. The classroom provides a safe and supportive place for you to address concerns you have when you think about starting or expanding a private practice. Instructor: Douglas Wear, Ph. D. Clinical Psychology, is the executive director of the Washington State Psychological Association and has served in multiple state and national leadership roles in two state psychological associations and the American Psychological Association. He was awarded "Psychologist of the Year" honors in one state and was an early recipient of the APA Heiser Advocacy Award. He has been agency employed, started a solo practice, developed a large group practice and sold the business to a regional hospital where he became a senior vice president. Wear currently owns his own company. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Advanced Training for Clinicians (12 CEUs) Research has found that a new combination of meditation and cognitive therapy can help patients experiencing recurring depression. In four weekly sessions, and by practicing at home during the week, you learn the practice of mindfulness meditation and how to use it to help clients disentangle themselves from depressed mood and thinking. Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) also includes basic education about depression and several exercises from cognitive therapy that show the links between thinking and feeling and how best to look after yourself when depression threatens to overwhelm you. MBCT helps your client to see more clearly the patterns of the mind and to learn how to recognize when his/her mood is beginning to go down. It helps break the link between negative mood and the negative thinking that might normally have escalated into a relapse. Your client can develop the capacity to mindfully disengage from distressing mood and negative thoughts, and find that he/she can learn to stay in touch with the present moment, without having to ruminate about the past or agonize about the future. The mindfulness approach is meant to enhance, not to compete with, whatever type of treatment your client may be receiving for depression, whether antidepressants or psychotherapy. MBCT differs from mindfulness meditation as it is normally taught by the way it integrates mindfulness practice into a psychological model of depression and depressive relapse, and the way it uses specific exercises to bring mindfulness (and concentration) to bear in stressful situations. Instructors: Anil Coumar, M.B.B.S., M.A., trained as a medical physician in India and a mental health counselor here, is director of the Mental Health Clinic, Hall Health Center at the University of Washington. Judith Gordon, Ph.D., is a clinical professor of psychology at the University of Washington and a therapist in private practice. Both instructors are long-time practitioners and students of mindfulness. Love, Sex and Betrayal: Treating the New Crisis of Infidelity (5 CEUs) Good people in good marriages are increasingly crossing the line into workplace and online affairs. This workshop presents a trauma recovery model for helping couples address the fallout when one or both partners become involved in extramarital affairs. Participants learn how to reverse walls and windows in the affair triangle and shift the disclosure from an adversarial inquisition to an empathic search for meaning. In this workshop, you learn to differentiate between Platonic friendships and emotional involvements, identify multidimensional vulnerabilities for infidelity and identify, validate and manage post-traumatic reactions in betrayed partners. Instructor: Paul David, Ph.D., Saybrook Institute, serves as core faculty in Antioch's Center for Programs in Psychology. David is a licensed mental health counselor and marriage and family therapist with a particular focus on couple therapy. Brief (No B.S.) Marital Therapy (6 CEUs) Based on 30 years of study and work with couples, Students learn to help clients stop bitching and blaming and discover a healthy, committed adult relationship. Students learn how to identify goals for marital success for each spouse and redirect a couple’s energy and attention toward fulfillment of these goals. Students also apply principles to situations where only one spouse attends therapy. Instructor: Sam Bradley, Ph.D., has been in private practice for 30 years in Olympia, WA. He is the author of The Happy Husband: A Guy’s Guide to Marital Success and Marriage Makeover: A Woman’s Guide to a Better Marriage. Narcissistic Personality Disorders in Midlife: Diagnosis and Treatment (6 CEUs) This workshop is designed to help clinicians improve their ability to diagnose narcissistic personality disorders, particularly as they are seen in midlife men, and to formulate different therapeutic interventions that effectively address narcissistic issues. This workshop presents a developmental self and object relations approach to narcissistic personality disorders. This approach allows the therapist to understand and use differential interventions in addressing the range of narcissistic issues including: healthy versus pathological narcissism, meaning of perfectionism, narcissistic sexual addiction, fusion versus real attachment, narcissistic depression, role of mirroring, real self versus grandiose self, excessive entitlement, narcissistic injury, rage, idealization/devaluation and common work and family issues. This workshop is didactic and interactive in nature. Group exercises, case presentations and vignettes are invited from the audience. Instructor: Steven K Reed, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, licensed psychologist and faculty member of the Masterson Institute. Therapeutic Arts: Using Art Therapy with Clients of All Ages (6 CEUs) In this hands-on training for clinicians learn how to integrate art with clients and address a range of issues. Participants practice the techniques and discover what works best in their practice. Instructor: Rebecca Bloom is a board certified art therapist and licensed mental health counselor (LMHC). She has a private practice in Pioneer Square and is an associate faculty at Antioch University Seattle. She has been helping people use art to address life transitions for the last nine years. |
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