Upcoming Medical Conferences in Irvine

2-4-6-8 This is How We Regulate! Play Therapy Interventions for Dysregulated Clients is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Jan 29, 2020 at Atrium Hotel, Irvine, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours or .6 CEUs / 6.25 Clinical Practice continuing education credits. Target Audience: • Play Therapists and Play Therapists in training • Child Psychologists • Social Workers • School Counselors • Therapists in inpatient hospital settings • Educators • Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapy Assistants • Certified Autism Specialists • Speech-Language Pathologists Course Description: Are your clients having anger outbursts, meltdowns, crying spells or long, intense moments of hyperactive joy? This is dysregulation, and it doesn’t feel good! Join Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, RPT-S, in this interactive seminar to teach you art, movement and play therapy interventions to help regulate clients with Autism, ADHD, Bipolar and Anxiety. You will practice techniques during this program to experience for yourself how to achieve calm, cool and relaxed children and adolescents. Leave this workshop armed with a tool kit of Play Therapy interventions to reduce meltdowns, mood swings, anger outbursts and create sustained emotion regulation. You will learn how play is a therapeutic and natural way for children who have limited verbal skills to express their needs and frustrations. Play allows children to: • Experience and express emotion • Become more responsible for behaviors and develop more successful strategies • Develop new and creative solutions to problems • Reduce fear, anxiety and depression As the great philosopher Plato says, “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Objectives: Assess key dysregulation issues in clients that affect their physical and emotional well-being. • Dinstinguish symptoms of dysregulation in Autism, ADHD, bipolar and anxiety disorders. • Assess “intentional practice” and explain its role towards creating sustained regulation in clients. • Practice “instant regulator” interventions to help create an immediate calm therapy environment. • Employ play therapy interventions that can easily be replicated to reduce client meltdowns and mood swings at home and school. • Utilize 3 strategies to reduce anger outbursts to sustain emotion regulation.

PBI Professional Boundaries and Ethics: Essential Edition is organized by Professional Boundaries Education and will be held from Feb 21 - 23, 2020 at Irvine, California, United States of America. Course Credit: 34 CME/CE hours Summary: With pre-seminar preparation in addition to the three day in-person course, the Enhanced Edition offers a comprehensive educational experience. The 10-hour pre-course, consisting of readings and written exercises, prepares participants for the conceptual, emotional, and practical work that will occur in the seminar. Our suite of Professional Boundaries and Ethics courses employ the premise that everyone has the potential to commit a boundary or ethics violation-yet not everyone does. As in many other similar boundaries and ethics courses, participants learn why they are being held to account. But in our course, participants also open their eyes to what predisposed them to violate professional or ethical norms at the particular time and in the particular manner that they did. These learnings drive an intensive process of self-assessment and introspection, culminating in the development of a Personalized Protection Plan that each participant designs to avoid future wrongdoing, safeguard patients and colleagues, and honor the reputation of their profession. Professions this course is suitable for: Physicians, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, physician assistants, nurses, mental health providers, EMT's, physical therapists, students, and a wide variety of other clinicians. This course addresses issues such as: • Professional misconduct • Non-Sexual and sexual boundary violations • Workplace relationships and disruptive behavior • Recognizing power imbalances • General boundary crossing & violations • Board-mandated or anticipated disciplinary action • Team or clinical communication issues Learning objectives: • Express why and how healthcare professionals are held accountable for adhering to standards of practice, codes of ethics, and state statutes • Discuss attributes and behaviors that constitute professionalism in the context of health care, and identify specific lapses in their own professionalism • Explain how professional problems evolve, employing the model of a continuum of boundary impingements • Express how professional lapses can adversely affect clinical judgment and cause a range of other impacts and harms • Describe the components of the Boundary Formula™ and apply them to their own violation potential and, if applicable, their infraction • Create and implement a Personalized Protection Plan that includes strategies, safeguards, and systems to reduce the risk of relapse and improve accountability • Detect early warning signs of professional problems in themselves and others in order to reduce the risk of future violations

PBI Professional Boundaries and Ethics: Enhanced Edition is organized by Professional Boundaries Education and will be held from Feb 21 - 23, 2020 at Irvine, California, United States of America. Course Credit: 34 CME/CE hours Summary: With pre-seminar preparation in addition to the three day in-person course, the Enhanced Edition offers a comprehensive educational experience. The 10-hour pre-course, consisting of readings and written exercises, prepares participants for the conceptual, emotional, and practical work that will occur in the seminar. Our suite of Professional Boundaries and Ethics courses employ the premise that everyone has the potential to commit a boundary or ethics violation-yet not everyone does. As in many other similar boundaries and ethics courses, participants learn why they are being held to account. But in our course, participants also open their eyes to what predisposed them to violate professional or ethical norms at the particular time and in the particular manner that they did. These learnings drive an intensive process of self-assessment and introspection, culminating in the development of a Personalized Protection Plan that each participant designs to avoid future wrongdoing, safeguard patients and colleagues, and honor the reputation of their profession. Professions this course is suitable for: Physicians, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, physician assistants, nurses, mental health providers, EMT's, physical therapists, students, and a wide variety of other clinicians. This course addresses issues such as: • Professional misconduct • Non-Sexual and sexual boundary violations • Workplace relationships and disruptive behavior • Recognizing power imbalances • General boundary crossing & violations • Board-mandated or anticipated disciplinary action • Team or clinical communication issues Learning objectives: • Express why and how healthcare professionals are held accountable for adhering to standards of practice, codes of ethics, and state statutes • Discuss attributes and behaviors that constitute professionalism in the context of health care, and identify specific lapses in their own professionalism • Explain how professional problems evolve, employing the model of a continuum of boundary impingements • Express how professional lapses can adversely affect clinical judgment and cause a range of other impacts and harms • Describe the components of the Boundary Formula™ and apply them to their own violation potential and, if applicable, their infraction • Create and implement a Personalized Protection Plan that includes strategies, safeguards, and systems to reduce the risk of relapse and improve accountability • Detect early warning signs of professional problems in themselves and others in order to reduce the risk of future violations

PBI Medical Ethics & Professionalism is organized by Professional Boundaries Education and will be held from Feb 21 - 22, 2020 at Irvine, California, United States of America. Course Credit: 22 CME/CE hours Professions this course is suitable for: Physicians, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, physician assistants, nurses, mental health providers, EMT's, physical therapists, students, and a wide variety of other clinicians. Summary: Like all PBI Education offerings, this course is grounded in the premise that everyone has the potential to commit a boundary or ethics violation. In this course, participants examine how and why their professional practices, responses to stress, and personal or situational factors put them at risk for exercising poor judgment or rationalizing improper behavior. Participants arrive at the seminar primed by the pre-course readings, assignments, and self-assessment exercises-springboards for the process of introspection and self-critique. Participant complete the course by producing a Personalized Protection Plan designed to avoid future wrongdoing, safeguard patients and colleagues, and honor the reputation of their profession. This course addresses issues such as: • Misrepresentation, falsification, cheating • Financial improprieties • Breaking laws • HIPAA or confidentiality violations • Practicing on an expired license Learning objectives: • Comply with standards of practice, codes of ethics, and state statutes • Improve clinical decision making by minimizing negative influencers • Adhere to professional ethics with resultant improvements in professional-patient interaction, which can improve clinical outcomes • Reduce their potential transgressions through the development of systems that can be implemented into clinical practice • Become aware of the early warning signs indicative of ethical dilemmas and boundary problems • Create and implement a tiered Protection Plan to maintain appropriate boundaries Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

PBI Professional Boundaries and Ethics: Extended Edition is organized by Professional Boundaries Education and will be held from Feb 21 - 23, 2020 at Irvine, California, United States of America.. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 46 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Target Audience: Physicians, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, physician assistants, nurses, mental health providers, EMT's, physical therapists, students, and a wide variety of other clinicians. Description: The Extended Edition is the most comprehensive option in our suite of boundaries courses. Through pre-seminar preparation and post-seminar follow-up, this edition of the course benefits participants in two ways. The 10-hour pre-course, consisting of readings and written exercises, prepares participants for the conceptual, emotional, and practical work that will occur in the seminar. And the weekly, telephonic post-course Maintenance and Accountability Seminars reinforces what was learned in the classroom, elevates participants accountability through revisiting their Personalized Protection Plans, and engages them in a community of peer review and support. Our suite of Professional Boundaries and Ethics courses employ the premise that everyone has the potential to commit a boundary or ethics violation-yet not everyone does. As in many other similar boundaries and ethics courses, participants learn why they are being held to account. But in our course, participants also open their eyes to what predisposed them to violate professional or ethical norms at the particular time and in the particular manner that they did. These learnings drive an intensive process of self-assessment and introspection, culminating in the development of a Personalized Protection Plan that each participant designs to avoid future wrongdoing, safeguard patients and colleagues, and honor the reputation of their profession. This course addresses issues such as: • Professional misconduct • Non-Sexual and sexual boundary violations • Workplace relationships and disruptive behavior • Recognizing power imbalances • General boundary crossing & violations • Board-mandated or anticipated disciplinary action • Team or clinical communication issues Learning objectives: • Express why and how healthcare professionals are held accountable for adhering to standards of practice, codes of ethics, and state statutes • Discuss attributes and behaviors that constitute professionalism in the context of health care, and identify specific lapses in their own professionalism • Explain how professional problems evolve, employing the model of a continuum of boundary impingements • Express how professional lapses can adversely affect clinical judgment and cause a range of other impacts and harms • Describe the components of the Boundary Formula™ and apply them to their own violation potential and, if applicable, their infraction • Create and implement a Personalized Protection Plan that includes strategies, safeguards, and systems to reduce the risk of relapse and improve accountability • Detect early warning signs of professional problems in themselves and others in order to reduce the risk of future violations

2-Day Certification Training: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Feb 27 - 28, 2020 at Atrium Hotel, Irvine, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.5 hours of continuing education credit / 12.5 contact hours / 1.25 CEUs. Target Audience: • Social Workers • Psychologists • Counselors • Teachers • School Administrators • Occupational Therapists • Speech-Language Pathologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children Course Description: Divorce, family breakdown, violence in society and the media, has produced a “shell shocked” generation of kids suffering from anxiety! Join anxiety expert, Dr. Stephanie Sarkis, who will demonstrate how you can “connect” with anxious children and inspire them to practice new self-regulation skills. You will learn how to help parents (“bulldozers”, “helicopters” and “snowplows”) and schools gain confidence, gratification and success in helping their most anxious kids. To increase your effectiveness with the various manifestations of child anxiety, Dr. Sarkis will address each of the following disorders with case examples and clinical vignettes: • Separation Anxiety Disorder • Panic Disorder • Generalized Anxiety Disorder • Obsessive-compulsive disorders (including skin picking and hair pulling) • Social Anxiety Disorder/Selective Mutism • Specific phobias • Trauma- and Stressor-related disorder Emphasis will be on creative psychotherapy involving insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, biological, mindfulness, and family systems interventions. Objectives: • Incorporate motivational therapeutic activities into your practice to improve client engagement in treatment. • Implement structured clinical interviewing strategies to aid in developing comprehensive treatment plans. • Summarize the “3 ingredient framework” of how anxiety develops in children to assist with assessment and treatment planning. • Analyze the efficacy of prescription drugs for treatment of anxiety symptoms in children. • Implement a three-step skill building model for stress management among young clients. • Evaluate exposure therapy interventions for effective treatment of OCD, separation anxiety, social anxiety and phobias. • Design effective strategies to decrease the stress response in kids with learning disabilities to improve information processing, listening skills, and comprehension. • Implement calming techniques to reduce overall anxiety, such as mindfulness and yoga, to reduce fight or flight response and simultaneously engage the relaxation response. • Evaluate the impact deep breathing exercises have on anxiety to enable task completion in children with ADHD. • Utilize specific anxiety techniques to minimize the ruminative nature of obsessive thoughts that often precede dysfunctional compulsive behaviors. • Teach clients to engage the parasympathetic nervous system to create new neuropathways to reduce hyper arousal and decrease maladaptive behaviors. • Implement clinical strategies to decrease symptoms of pervasive separation anxiety in children and adolescents.

Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: Innovative Clinical Interventions to Treat Relationship & Desire Issues in the New Era of Sexuality in Psychotherapy is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Feb 27, 2020 at Atrium Hotel, Irvine, California, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3contact hours / 6 CEUs / 6.25 hours of continuing education credit. Target Audience:  • Psychologists  • Social Workers  • Counselors  • Marriage and Family Therapists • Sex Educators and Therapists • Addiction Professionals  • Nurses Description: 80% of all clients in psychotherapy will complain about their dissatisfaction with either their relationships or their sex lives. Are you equipped to handle these issues as they arise? The traditional models of dealing with relationships and sex aren’t working, and all clinicians need practical interventions to address these basic problems that almost all clients struggle with at some point in their lives. Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy is essential for all therapists at any level of experience and for every population. You don’t need to work with couples to utilize these interventions and help clients in your practice. Objectives: • Perform a clinical assessment to determine the cause of pleasure denial to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions. • Analyze the effects of separation, betrayal, trust and identity issues on eroticism in clients’ sexual partnerships as it relates to clinical practice. • Utilize clinical interventions, such as pleasure mapping and desire awareness, to treat desire issues such as pleasure resistance, pleasure avoidance and pleasure rejection. • Explore the phases of treatment for erotic recovery and develop a treatment plan for women, both individually and in couple’s treatment, for sexless marriage and desire issues. • Create an attachment versus individualization plan as a treatment intervention to aid clients in developing relational skills and strengthening sexual intimacy and wellness. • Explain the clinical implications of the stages of integration and the four areas of sexuality that have meaning for women around the narrative of eroticism

PBI Professional Boundaries and Ethics: Extended Edition is organized by Professional Boundaries Education and will be held from Apr 03 - 05, 2020 at Irvine, California, United States of America. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 46 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Description: The Extended Edition is the most comprehensive option in our suite of boundaries courses. Through pre-seminar preparation and post-seminar follow-up, this edition of the course benefits participants in two ways. The 10-hour pre-course, consisting of readings and written exercises, prepares participants for the conceptual, emotional, and practical work that will occur in the seminar. And the weekly, telephonic post-course Maintenance and Accountability Seminars reinforces what was learned in the classroom, elevates participants accountability through revisiting their Personalized Protection Plans, and engages them in a community of peer review and support. Our suite of Professional Boundaries and Ethics courses employ the premise that everyone has the potential to commit a boundary or ethics violation-yet not everyone does. As in many other similar boundaries and ethics courses, participants learn why they are being held to account. But in our course, participants also open their eyes to what predisposed them to violate professional or ethical norms at the particular time and in the particular manner that they did. These learnings drive an intensive process of self-assessment and introspection, culminating in the development of a Personalized Protection Plan that each participant designs to avoid future wrongdoing, safeguard patients and colleagues, and honor the reputation of their profession. Professions this course is suitable for: Physicians, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, physician assistants, nurses, mental health providers, EMT's, physical therapists, students, and a wide variety of other clinicians. This course addresses issues such as: • Professional misconduct • Non-Sexual and sexual boundary violations • Workplace relationships and disruptive behavior • Recognizing power imbalances • General boundary crossing & violations • Board-mandated or anticipated disciplinary action • Team or clinical communication issues Learning objectives: • Express why and how healthcare professionals are held accountable for adhering to standards of practice, codes of ethics, and state statutes • Discuss attributes and behaviors that constitute professionalism in the context of health care, and identify specific lapses in their own professionalism • Explain how professional problems evolve, employing the model of a continuum of boundary impingements • Express how professional lapses can adversely affect clinical judgment and cause a range of other impacts and harms • Describe the components of the Boundary Formula™ and apply them to their own violation potential and, if applicable, their infraction • Create and implement a Personalized Protection Plan that includes strategies, safeguards, and systems to reduce the risk of relapse and improve accountability • Detect early warning signs of professional problems in themselves and others in order to reduce the risk of future violations

PBI Medical Ethics & Professionalism is organized by Professional Boundaries Education and will be held from Apr 03 - 04, 2020 at Irvine, California, United States of America. Course Credit: 22 CME/CE hours Professions this course is suitable for: Physicians, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, physician assistants, nurses, mental health providers, EMT's, physical therapists, students, and a wide variety of other clinicians. Summary: Like all PBI Education offerings, this course is grounded in the premise that everyone has the potential to commit a boundary or ethics violation. In this course, participants examine how and why their professional practices, responses to stress, and personal or situational factors put them at risk for exercising poor judgment or rationalizing improper behavior. Participants arrive at the seminar primed by the pre-course readings, assignments, and self-assessment exercises-springboards for the process of introspection and self-critique. Participant complete the course by producing a Personalized Protection Plan designed to avoid future wrongdoing, safeguard patients and colleagues, and honor the reputation of their profession. This course addresses issues such as: • Misrepresentation, falsification, cheating • Financial improprieties • Breaking laws • HIPAA or confidentiality violations • Practicing on an expired license Learning objectives: • Comply with standards of practice, codes of ethics, and state statutes • Improve clinical decision making by minimizing negative influencers • Adhere to professional ethics with resultant improvements in professional-patient interaction, which can improve clinical outcomes • Reduce their potential transgressions through the development of systems that can be implemented into clinical practice • Become aware of the early warning signs indicative of ethical dilemmas and boundary problems • Create and implement a tiered Protection Plan to maintain appropriate boundaries Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

PBI Professional Boundaries and Ethics: Essential Edition is organized by Professional Boundaries Education and will be held from Apr 03 - 05, 2020 at Irvine, California, United States of America. Course Credit: 34 CME/CE hours Summary: With pre-seminar preparation in addition to the three day in-person course, the Enhanced Edition offers a comprehensive educational experience. The 10-hour pre-course, consisting of readings and written exercises, prepares participants for the conceptual, emotional, and practical work that will occur in the seminar. Our suite of Professional Boundaries and Ethics courses employ the premise that everyone has the potential to commit a boundary or ethics violation-yet not everyone does. As in many other similar boundaries and ethics courses, participants learn why they are being held to account. But in our course, participants also open their eyes to what predisposed them to violate professional or ethical norms at the particular time and in the particular manner that they did. These learnings drive an intensive process of self-assessment and introspection, culminating in the development of a Personalized Protection Plan that each participant designs to avoid future wrongdoing, safeguard patients and colleagues, and honor the reputation of their profession. Professions this course is suitable for: Physicians, dentists, veterinarians, chiropractors, physician assistants, nurses, mental health providers, EMT's, physical therapists, students, and a wide variety of other clinicians. This course addresses issues such as: • Professional misconduct • Non-Sexual and sexual boundary violations • Workplace relationships and disruptive behavior • Recognizing power imbalances • General boundary crossing & violations • Board-mandated or anticipated disciplinary action • Team or clinical communication issues Learning objectives: • Express why and how healthcare professionals are held accountable for adhering to standards of practice, codes of ethics, and state statutes • Discuss attributes and behaviors that constitute professionalism in the context of health care, and identify specific lapses in their own professionalism • Explain how professional problems evolve, employing the model of a continuum of boundary impingements • Express how professional lapses can adversely affect clinical judgment and cause a range of other impacts and harms • Describe the components of the Boundary Formula™ and apply them to their own violation potential and, if applicable, their infraction • Create and implement a Personalized Protection Plan that includes strategies, safeguards, and systems to reduce the risk of relapse and improve accountability • Detect early warning signs of professional problems in themselves and others in order to reduce the risk of future violations