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Motivational Interviewing with Lauren Moyer

It’s ok to work harder initially! Preparing People to change- a Skill Building Training Register Now Lauren Moyer, LCSW, LSCSW program number: 16005   [tab:Overview] Dates and Locations: Register for…
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Diagnostic Trends: DSM-5, the Strengths Perspective, & ICD-10

Register Now Leon R. Probasco, MSW, LCSW, LSCSW, BCD, SAP-DOT program number: 16004   [tab:Overview] Dates and Locations: Register for St. Louis, MO Register for Jefferson City, MO Friday, February…
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Preventative Screening

Purchase This Training: DVD for $25 (with an option for CEUs for an additional $15) Web Training for $25 (with cost of CEUs included) [tab:Details] Description: Preventative screening refers to…
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Hepatitis and Mental Illness

Purchase This Training: DVD for $25 (with an option for CEUs for an additional $15) Web Training for $25 (with cost of CEUs included) [tab:Details] Description: Hepatitis C virus (HCV)…
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Suicide Lifeguard

Suicide Lifeguard is a FREE app intended for anyone concerned that someone they know may be thinking of suicide. It provides information on: • How to recognize warning signs of…
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How is Motivational Interviewing Applied

Further explore both the importance of the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing and guidelines for specific applications of MI. Topics include a brief review of empathic counseling skills (OARS) and in introduction to directive aspects of MI, dealing with resistance, and recognizing and eliciting change talk.

Understanding Huntingtons Disease: Historical, Physical, Psychiatric and Family Implications

Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a rare (incidence 1:10,000), fatal, inherited neurodegenerative/neuropsychiatric disorder for which there is no known treatment or cure. It is characterized by abnormalities in movement, cognition, and psychiatric disturbances. In the absence of a cure, competent symptomatic treatment and psychosocial support is vital. HD is a family disease, both because of the autosomal dominant inheritance, but also because of the impact of the disease on the family system. Understanding of HD by professionals will aid in providing the best treatment available to optimize care and support for these families

Intimate Partner Violence Part 2: Creating Opportunities to have Conversation about it

            ••• Purchase an Interview DVD on the subject ••• [tab:Details] Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 1:30 pm CST Description Intimate partner violence and…
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Intimate Partner Violence Part 1: Understanding Factors that impact Survivors

            ••• Purchase the DVD Interview on the Subject ••• [tab:Details] Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 1:30 pm CST Description Intimate partner violence and…
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Borderline Personality Disorder

Further explore both the importance of the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing and guidelines for specific applications of MI. Topics include a brief review of empathic counseling skills (OARS) and in introduction to directive aspects of MI, dealing with resistance, and recognizing and eliciting change talk.

Youth at Risk

The goal of this training is to give clinicians an overview of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and Reality Therapy in working with angry, aggressive clients. Viewers will learn practical strategies on how to work with millennium youth to help them be more academically and socially successful. This training will be especially helpful to those who work with adolescents in a school setting or in a private practice.

What Makes an Excellent Case Manager

This program is based upon the Dr. Iseminger’s research done for her Doctoral dissertation, and looks at the relationships between learning activities, domains of competence, and learning categories. Informal learning activities proved to be the best contributor to professional competence.

What is Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing is a tool for use in helping people resolve their ambivalence, or internal conflict, about changing their behavior. This training covers what MI is, why you hear people talking about the Spirit of MI and why that that is so important. You will learn how MI works and why, and be given resources for further learning or finding information, and for comparing MI with other approaches.

Understanding Deaf Culture

One of the greatest misconceptions about Deaf culture is that it is “just a disability.” Deaf culture has its own language, values, behavioral norms and forms of artistic expression. In this presentation, Elijah Buchholz, LPC, will instruct viewers on how to provide culturally sensitive and competent mental health services to members of the Deaf community through understanding of the culture and its specific needs. He will also discuss Sign Language and how it can affect the process of communication in mental health treatment. Viewers will learn the “dos and don’ts” of communicating with deaf clients and how to work effectively with interpreters in mental health settings.