Seats are still available, payable at the door.

Half Day Professional Workshop

Friday – April 19, 2013 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm | 3 CE Credits

Leader: Michael Hickey, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Psychological Evaluation and a licensed Staff Psychologist at the Albert Ellis Institute

Social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and various forms of phobias are a few examples of disorders that include unhealthy anxiety as a core symptom and source of functional impairment. Anxiety disorders are the most common form of psychological disorders in the United States and motivate many people to seek psychotherapy. Fortunately, many highly effective, evidence-based approaches are available to practitioners. This half-day workshop will focus on how anxiety disorders develop and how evidence-based approaches can be utilized in the treatment of anxiety. Rational Emotive and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (RE&CBT) theory, research, and techniques will be reviewed and discussed. Participants will learn how to utilize cognitive, emotive, and behavioral techniques to address a range of anxiety-related problems.

Half Day Professional Workshop

Friday – May 10, 2013 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm | 3 CE Credits

Leader: Frank Gardner, Ph.D.

This workshop will describe the similarities and differences, both theoretically and therapeutically between Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Behavior Therapies, including such common intervention packages as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). This workshop is intended for the practitioner who may have been trained in the traditional model of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (i.e. REBT) and wishes to both understand and learn how to integrate the more contemporary acceptance and mindfulness based interventions into their daily work. The participant will be systematically taken through a thorough theoretical and empirical exploration of these techniques with the intent to allow for a deeper understanding of the challenges to, and possibilities of, both theoretical and technical integration of these two evidence-based models.

Limited seating are still available, payable at the door.

Half Day Professional Workshop

Friday – April 05, 2013 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm | 3 CE Credits

Leader: F. Michler Bishop, Ph.D. | Director, Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services, Albert Ellis Institute

A bipolar disorder may be one of the worst “cards” your client can draw. Unlike other chronic illnesses such as MS, family members and friends are often unsympathetic and even angry. However, the neurochemical ups and downs and the psychological, social and occupational consequences, although challenging, can often be managed with a combination of cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, motivational, and humanistic approaches. This workshop is designed to introduce therapists, especially new therapists and mental health counselors, to a more effective, evidence-based approach to help clients manage their bipolar disorder and the problems that often go along with such a diagnosis, (e.g. relationship and alcohol problems).

Limited seating still available. Payable at the door.

Half Day Professional Workshop

Friday – February 22, 2013 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm | 3 CE Credits

Leader: Kristene A. Doyle, Ph.D., Director- Albert Ellis Institute

This half-day workshop will address the factors involved in the development and maintenance of depressive symptomology. REBT/CBT is an extremely effective treatment modality for depression. It not only teaches clients how to manage their depression-related thoughts, moods, and behaviors; it also encourages them to identify what they value and to work toward developing more meaningful relationships and activities. This half-day workshop will focus on how depression occurs and re-occurs and how evidence-based treatment approaches can be used to help under-motivated and stuck clients.

Half Day Professional Workshop

Friday – June 07, 2013 | 1:30pm - 4:30pm | 3 CE Credits

Leader: Leader: Caren Baruch-Feldman. Ph.D., President, School Division of Westchester County Psychological Association; Co-chair, Parents and Professionals Advocating for Students (PAPAS), Westchester Day School

This workshop will introduce mental health professionals to cognitive behavioral techniques that can be used in a classroom or office setting. Strategies that address children who are exhibiting anxiety related issues and aggression will be discussed. Ways to adapt traditional cognitive behavioral strategies to working with younger children will be shared. In addition, actual forms and materials that can be used in a school or office setting will be distributed.