This course aims to bring context to ethical concerns often experienced by behavioral/physical health professionals through the use of technology in their practice.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will:
1. Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of mental and behavioral health professionals to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with clients when using technology in their practice.
2. Describe the ethical and legal responsibility of mental and behavioral health professionals to protect client confidential information when using technology in their practice.
3. Apply a framework to avoid boundary conflicts when using technology in their professional practice, whenever possible.
4. Apply a framework to avoid breach of client confidentiality when using technology in their professional practice, whenever possible.
5. Explain how to demonstrate that a client has not been exploited or coerced, intentionally or unintentionally, through the use of technology in professional practice.

Voice Dialogue, based on the theory of the Psychology of Selves, is a method by which we contact the many different sub-personalities, or “selves,” residing in our psyche impacting our lives. It is a highly effective tool that allows psychotherapists to rapidly gain awareness of their clients’ inner selves and guide their journey toward conscious living. The method broadens the practitioner’s skills to enhance decision making abilities in their clients by helping them identify which part of their personality is making the decisions. Insights and behavioral realizations achieved while using this technique are permanent; it is very difficult to regress to a lesser state of awareness. An additional benefit of this tool is that it can be incorporated into any other psychological system. The method of Voice Dialogue was created by the internationally renowned psychologists Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone and practiced around the world.

Voice Dialogue, based on the theory of the Psychology of Selves, is a method by which we contact the many different sub-personalities, or “selves,” residing in our psyche impacting our lives. It is a highly effective tool that allows psychotherapists to rapidly gain awareness of their clients’ inner selves and guide their journey toward conscious living. The method broadens the practitioner’s skills to enhance decision making abilities in their clients by helping them identify which part of their personality is making the decisions. Insights and behavioral realizations achieved while using this technique are permanent; it is very difficult to regress to a lesser state of awareness. An additional benefit of this tool is that it can be incorporated into any other psychological system. The method of Voice Dialogue was created by the internationally renowned psychologists Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone and practiced around the world.

This course offers valuable insights into how psychotherapists can integrate the ancient practices of Ayurveda with biofeedback principles into their practice. By understanding the interplay between ancient healing traditions and modern wellness techniques, they can offer their clients a more comprehensive mind-body approach to stress reduction. This integrated approach not only enhances client outcomes but also expands the toolbox of techniques available to psychotherapists, allowing for amore personalized and effective therapeutic experience.

This course aims to bring context to ethical concerns often experienced by behavioral/physical health professionals in practice with individual clients/patients.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will:
1) Understand the ethical obligation to keep client information confidential.
2) Understand the legal obligation to keep client information confidential.
3) Competently discuss with their clients these obligations so that clients make an educated decision when sharing information with the professional.
4) Appropriately respond to ethical, legal, and moral conundrums faced when considering breaching client confidentiality.

This course will acquaint participants with a unique group intervention that combines the best of Relapse Prevention, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Motivational Interviewing. This intervention is used for people who are being treated for substance use disorders as well as for those who are diagnosed with both substance use issues and dual diagnosis (significant MH concerns like schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder as well as substance use disorders).

It seems that in the core of any conflict, we find self-righteousness, fueling and prolonging whatever the conflict is about, whether between two people or two nations. We will explore the anatomy of self-righteousness and identify the positive and negative aspects it carries. We will demonstrate how it develops and what factors strengthen it. The focus will then turn to how to help clients handle self-righteousness, whether the client is on the defensive or offensive side of the stance.

The course is based on the theory of the Psychology of the Selves. It focuses on identifying the various parts of an individual who do the eating; it teaches professionals how to work with clients with eating disorders to help them develop control over these various personality parts and how to master the necessary skills needed to deal with the “new person” as natural weight is reached and maintained. Natural weight is where one is comfortable without inner conflict about their body image.