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This section contains the courses I have taken. Click on the link to learn more about the courses.
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2010 - September, Toronto, ON.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Core Skills Training with Dr. Christine Padesky
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers a rapidly expanding collection of therapy protocols tailored to specific disorders. Learning these can be a daunting task for CBT therapists.
Fortunately, all CBT treatments involve core competencies (Roth & Pilling, 2007). Once these competencies are mastered, it becomes comparatively easy to learn protocols for specific client disorders.
CBT Boot Camp is especially designed for CBT therapists who want to build and strengthen core clinical competencies as well as understand more clearly how these competencies function as the foundation for all CBT protocols. By the end of Boot Camp, participants will achieve greater CBT fitness in the areas of: therapy structure and alliance, client observation and self-monitoring, awareness of safety behaviours versus good coping, assigning and debriefing relevant homework, and use of guided discovery methods (such as Socratic dialogue, thought records, and behavioural experiments).
Dr. Padesky also demonstrates therapeutic responses to common therapy obstacles that often derail CBT progress. Following her demonstrations, participants engage in exercises designed to help therapists apply the appropriate core competency in the face of these challenges.
Therapists who attended Dr. Padeskys previous workshops may recognize some topic overlap with those programs. Even so, CBT Boot Camp is a unique workshop with innovative clinical demonstrations and participant exercises that approach familiar topics in novel ways. Workshop learning is enhanced through live and video clinical demonstrations, structured participant exercises, and handouts. As always, this workshop is infused with Dr. Padeskys signature warmth, humour, and an emphasis on practical clinical tips.
Roth, A.D., & Pilling, S. (2007). The competencies required to deliver effective cognitive and behavioural therapy for people with depression and with anxiety disorders. London: Department of Health.
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2009 Oct 30 & 31 - Toronto, ON
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Case Conceptualization
This course was taught by Christine A. Padesky, Ph.D. Dr. Padesky is considered one of the leading cognitive beahvioral therapy presenters in the world, appreciated for her depth of knowledge, compassion, and good-humoured warmth. She has presented over 350 workshops to more than 35,000 professionals throughout North America and Europe. Her clear, organized and compelling presentations integrate theory, empiricism, and creative clinical innovations. This course focused on working in collabaoration with the client to describe, explain, and prioritize treatment options.
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Boston, 2010
World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therpaies; Boston 2010
This conference provided me with up to date research and training in the area of Cognitive and Behavoiral Psychotherapy
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2009 May - Toronto, ON
The business of private practice: Balancing entrepeneurship with being a clinician
This two day course reviewed the best methods for operating a private practice within clinical and ethical practice framework rules set out by the Ontario Colllege of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
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2008 Montreal, Quebec
Society for Social Work in Healthcare Settings
Attended this conference which offered courses on how to best help patients in healthcare settings.
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2008 Miami, FL. (USA)
National Parkinson Foundation: Leadership Meeting (Parkinson's Disease)
This meeting was offered by the National Parkinson Foundation: Leadership program. It focused on how to provide excellent care to people living with Parkinson's Disease.
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2007 Isatnbul, Turkey
Movement Disorder Society (Parkinson's Disease)
This conference offered sessions on how to best help people and thier families who are living with Parkison's disease.
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2006 Vancouver, BC
Practical Approaches to Working with Interpersonal Trauma and Violence
This course covered practical ways to help people recover from Interpersonal Trauma and Abuse
(Canadian Psychological Association CEU certiified)
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2006 Toronto, ON
Patient Centered Care University Health Network (UHN).
This course, offered by the University Health Network (UHN), Toronto General Hospital. It focussed on how to deliver care in a manner that was patient centered.
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2005 Toronto, ON
Body Centered Psychotherapy
Trauma and the Body: An Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
The "Trauma and the Body" Workshop is designed to give professional psychotherapists, social workers, addiction counselors, bodyworkers with counseling experience, and students of psychology, useful theory and skills to enhance their ability to work with traumatic injuries. Through videotaped sessions with traumatized clients, lecture, discussion, handouts and short exercises, workshop participants will be introduced to:
Working with trauma that has no words
Modulating hyperarousal
Working with frozen states
Differentiating between developmental and traumatic injury
Interventions for effective re-association in the body
Reorganizing defensive responses
Re-instating somatic resources lost in the wake of trauma
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2003; 2004; 2005 Chicago, Dallas, Washington DC; USA
National Kidney Foundation Clinical Meetings
These meetings offered many patient care courses on how to best help people living with kidney disease and transplant, and dialysis.
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2005 Niagara, ON
Canadian Association of Nephrology Nurses and Technologists
This conference focused on how to best provide excellent care to patients and families living with kidney disease.
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2004 Toronto, ON
Palliative Care Worshop University Health Network (UHN)
This course was taken through the University Health Network (UHN), Toronto Western Hospital. It looked at the best practices for delivering palliative care from a social work perspective. In particular it focussed on how to support personal dignity and autonomy and ensure proper resources are made available to the client and family.
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2002 & 2003 Sudbury & Kingston, Ontario
Canadian Association of Nephrology Social Workers
Attended this conference focused on how to help people living with kidney disease.
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2002 Toronto, ON
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C)
This clinical course was on Emotional Focused Therapy for Couples. It was taught by Susan Johnson PhD. She is the co-developer of this model. The course taught the basics of EFT-C
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2002 The Haugue, Netherlands.
European Dialysis & Transplant Nurses Association
This confrence offered sessions on how care for patients and thire families who are living with kidney disease
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