Fort Worth, TX 76105
In the aftermath of traumatic events, most individuals are impacted, but some 50% to 75 % go on to evidence resilience. This workshop will discuss what distinguishes those individuals who evidence resilience VERSUS those who develop PTSD and related disorder. A life-span perspective will be presented, beginning with children, youth and their families who have encountered multiple Adverse Chidlhood Experiences and adults who have been repeatedly vicitimzed.
The workshop will include a Case Conceptualization Model of risk an protective factors and consider interventions that bolster resilience. How to address the needs of families who have been traumatized will be considered, as well as the implications of the neurobiolgical differences of trauma and resilience. A detailed Handout will be provided.
Additionally, Dr. Meichenbaum will include a discussion of ways to engage families, given his recent work with the school shooting in Florida.
In this 6 hour session, renowned author and speaker, Dr. Don Meichenbaum will address these occurrences and offer ways to assist children, adolescents and families using cognitive behavioral therapy.
Dr. Meichenbaum will do a live session with a family in the afternoon.
6 CEU's for LPC, LMFT, SW
Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus , University of Waterloo in Ontario , Canada from which he took early retirement 18 years ago. He is presently Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment of Victims of Violence in Miami . ( Please see www.melissainstitute.org which received two million HITS worldwide this year).He is one of the founders of Cognitive behavior therapy and in a survey of clinicians, he was voted " one of the ten most influential psychotherapists of the 20th century."
In the aftermath of traumatic events, most individuals are impacted, but some 50% to 75 % go on to evidence resilience. This workshop will discuss what distinguishes those individuals who evidence resilience VERSUS those who develop PTSD and related disorder. A life-span perspective will be presented, beginning with children, youth and their families who have encountered multiple Adverse Chidlhood Experiences and adults who have been repeatedly vicitimzed.
The workshop will include a Case Conceptualization Model of risk an protective factors and consider interventions that bolster resilience. How to address the needs of families who have been traumatized will be considered, as well as the implications of the neurobiolgical differences of trauma and resilience. A detailed Handout will be provided.
Additionally, Dr. Meichenbaum will include a discussion of ways to engage families, given his recent work with the school shooting in Florida.
In this 6 hour session, renowned author and speaker, Dr. Don Meichenbaum will address these occurrences and offer ways to assist children, adolescents and families using cognitive behavioral therapy.
Dr. Meichenbaum will do a live session with a family in the afternoon.
6 CEU's for LPC, LMFT, SW
Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus , University of Waterloo in Ontario , Canada from which he took early retirement 18 years ago. He is presently Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment of Victims of Violence in Miami . ( Please see www.melissainstitute.org which received two million HITS worldwide this year).He is one of the founders of Cognitive behavior therapy and in a survey of clinicians, he was voted " one of the ten most influential psychotherapists of the 20th century."