Freud Meets Buddha

12th annual Freud Meets Buddha is organized by Healthcare Made Practical (HMP) Communications LLC and will be held from Mar 06 - 09, 2019 at Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza River North, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Target Audience:
This program is designed to meet the educational needs for private practice therapists, psychologists, counselors, social workers, interventionists, law enforcement, public health officials, families, and people in recovery.

Conference Description:
Formerly known as The Summit for Clinical Excellence's National Conference on Trauma, Addictions, and Mindfulness: Where Freud Meets Buddha, the 12th annual Freud Meets Buddha explores the intersection of traditional psychotherapeutic techniques with Eastern techniques such as mindfulness to provide patients with an evidence-based, holistic approach to addressing their mental health needs. Freud Meets Buddha attracts the best researchers, educators, and authors to promote attendees’ professional development and provide them with the tools needed to refine patient care.

Freud Meets Buddha is affiliated with the National Conference on Addiction Disorders (NCAD), the premier educational experience for professionals to learn about best practices and cutting-edge research from key thought leaders. Both conferences are part of HMP’s Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Learning Network, which offers practical continuing education conferences and up-to-date news and in-depth articles on psychiatry, behavioral health, addiction, and related topics.

Leading experts and best-selling authors gather at this conference to present cutting-edge content and advanced training on evidence-based, holistic approaches to addressing your patient’s mental health needs. Featured speakers at the 2019 conference include: John P. Forsyth, PhD, Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD, Rokelle Lerner.

In 4 days, join hundreds of participants as they uncover new strategies to refine your patient care, network with industry thought leaders and earn up to 24 CE hours including 6 Ethics hours.

Save $50 with discount code EVVNT50. Applicable only for new registrations.

Learning Objectives:
• To identify current evidence-based, specific diagnostic, and treatment approaches, counseling skills, and modalities that will be successfully applied to the fields of mental health, behavioral health, and addictive disorders, including but not limited to co-occurring disorders, ethics, addiction, and trauma.
• To identify the symptoms and characteristics of the disorders mentioned in objective #1 and how they have interfered with the clients’ interpersonal and family relationships.
• To participate in skill-building sessions and unique training that offer cognitive and experiential clinical techniques to assist in patient/client recovery from these listed disorders.

Speakers: John Forsyth, PhD, Rokelle Lerner, Polly Young-Eisendrath, PhD, Dana Bowman, MEd, Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF, Shane Creado, MD, Jacqueline Dowgiallo, LMHC, CAP, James Flowers, PhD, LPC-S, Eric Kaplan, MD, Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, REAT, RYT/RMT, Tena Moyer, MD, Robert Weiss PhD, MSW, Pam Schmidt-Peckham, APSW, SAC, CSAT, Chantelle Thomas, PhD

Time: 7:30 am - 4:15 pm