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Title: Healing Humiliation: From Reaction to Creative Action
Author: Linda M. Hartling, PhD and Evelin Lindner, PhD
Description: In the midst of global crises, feelings of humiliation are intensified (Lindner, 2008; Moïsi, 2009). Counselors are often on the front lines of suffering during turbulent times. This paper explores how the dynamics of humiliation are coming to the forefront of concern around the globe. Applying a relational framework, the authors examine the impact of humiliation, offering a case example that illustrates how counselors can lead their clients out of destructive reactions into creative action.
Title: Hoarding Disorder: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment
Authors: Victoria E. Kress, PhD; Nicole A. Stargell, PhD; Chelsey A. Zoldan-Calhou; and Matthew J. Paylo, PhD
Description: Hoarding disorder (HD) is a newly added mental disorder in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In this article, the symptoms, characteristics, and features of HD are described, along with diagnosis and assessment strategies. The most efficacious treatments for counseling clients diagnosed with HD are also discussed.
Title: Human Trafficking Typologies: A Global Epidemic and Implications for Counselors
Presenters: Letitia Browne-James, MA and Heather Jamieson, BSW
Description: Human trafficking is a global problem throughout society that affects vulnerable individuals when perpetrators deny them basic human rights. Human trafficking typologies occur when different industries perpetuate the problem of human trafficking. To best serve victims and survivors, counselors must understand the phenomenon, including risk and protective factors, industry infrastructure and theory-driven counseling interventions.
Title: Psychiatric Disabilities
Authors: Sheri Bauman, PhD and Linda R. Shaw, PhD
Description: In this chapter, we focus on persons with serious and chronic mental illness. There are a number of disorders that come under this general umbrella (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, mood disorders, Asperger’s disorder); what they have in common is the presence of persistent psychiatric symptoms that are severe enough that the person is unable to function in his or her environment. These symptoms often include distortions of reality, such as hallucinations (auditory, visual, or both) or delusions (False beliefs). The often odd behavior of the person with serious mental illness (SMI) may disturb others as well as themselves. These conditions are typically of long duration, sometimes lifelong, and are usually treated with pharmacotherapy as the primary intervention.
Title: Reality Therapy and Self- Evaluation: The Key to Client Change
Presenter: Robert E. Wubbolding, EdD
Description: Practical and immediately usable counseling interventions are take away outcomes of this presentation. Participants will be able to share ideas with colleagues and will receive handouts to be reproduced for further study. Self-evaluation, the cornerstone of reality therapy, helps clients make better choices by examining the effectiveness of their choices and the attainability of their wants. Participants will also learn the significance of the counseling relationship in the practice of reality therapy.
Title: Reflecting As If: An Encouragement-Focused Brief Counseling Process
Presenters: Richard E. Watts, PhD, Danielle Marks, M.Phil.Ed, and Lisa Hand, Med
Description: “Reflecting As If” (RAI) is an encouragement-focused, brief counseling process that integrates elements from Adlerian, solution-focused, narrative, and evidenced-based counseling perspectives. In this skill-focused session, attendees will learn the basic RAI counseling protocol and discuss how to apply it with diverse client populations and in various counseling practice settings.
Title: Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Substance Misuse
Presenters: Amy E. Williams, PhD and Kristin Bruns, PhD
Description: This session will provide attendees with the knowledge and skills needed to implement SBIRT in their counseling practice setting. After learning about the public health approach to high-risk substance use and developing basic motivational interviewing skills, attendees will learn how to screen an individual for high-risk substance use, provide a brief intervention by highlighting the current risks and opportunities for change, and refer individuals who may have a substance use disorder for treatment.
Description: In this webinar, counselors will learn and explore the evolution of shame and shame resilience. Topics that will be covered in this webinar include: the exploration of shame, self-conscious affects, shame resistance, self-compassion, common reactions to shame, avoiding shame and vulnerability.
Description: In part two of this two-part webinar series, counselors will explore Shame Resilience Theory and how to apply it in therapy. Topics addressed include: ways clients avoid shame, shame, empathy, Shame Resilience Theory, self-compassion, self-compassion breaks, and critical awareness.
Title: Social Determinants of Mental Health: Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning
Authors: A Stephen Lenz, PhD; Stacey Diane A. Litam, Ph.D., LPCC-S, NCC, CCMHC
Description: The integration of social determinants of mental health (SDMH) frameworks into the key counseling activities of case conceptualizations and treatment planning has promising implications for holistic representation development within the prevention- and intervention-focused models of client care (Lenz & Litam, 2023). It is prudent that counselors understand the opportunities associated with integrating the SDMH into their practice to support culturally responsive and evidence-based practices that account for the influences of nonbiological influences on well-being. However, Lenz and Litam stated that examples of the meaningful integration of SDMH into the case conceptualization and treatment plans that guide counselor training and clinical practice are scant. This Professional Development meets that need. Lenz and Litam put forth a proposed conceptual structure, assumptions for integrating SDMH, and meaningful examples of such integration.