Upcoming Medical Conferences in Marietta

2-Day Certification Course: Trauma and Attachment Treatment for Children and Adolescents is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held from Dec 05 - 06, 2019 at Hilton Atlanta/Marietta Hotel & Conference Center, Marietta, Georgia, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12.5 Clock hours / 12.5 Contact hours / 12.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Marriage and Family Therapists • Certified Case Managers • Occupational Therapists • Other Helping Professionals Who Work with Children Description: Become a leader in the mental health field and elevate your practice with state-of-the-art advancements for working with some of our toughest clients – children, adolescents and families suffering from trauma and attachment wounds. Begin by joining Dr. Lois Ehrmann for this intensive 2-day Trauma and Attachment Certification Course and learn the most effective evidence-based therapeutic interventions for clients where the foundational blocks of attachment are fractured and at times not even there. Let Dr. Ehrmann help you take your practice to the next level as she teaches you to integrate bottom up interventions rooted in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Attachment Focused Family Therapy, Bibliotherapy, Expressive Therapies, and Somatic Psychotherapy in your treatment of these clients. You will learn cutting-edge interventions to: • Repair and recover your client’s trauma triggers, fears about connecting in relationships, self-destructive patterns, negative limiting beliefs and affect dysregulation • Unpack your client’s history and create a cohesive trauma narrative • Assess the strength and health of the parental/caregiver system • Assess your client’s Internal Working Model and attachment category • Operationalize core treatment goals into measurable objectives Neuroscience revelations show us that healing in these areas require bottom up processes and not top down talk therapy processes. Through video case examples, video demonstration and thought-provoking lecture this intensive 2-day Trauma and Attachment Certification Course will make the latest research accessible and user-friendly and clearly link it to your clinical work. Objectives: •Articulate the neurological impact of trauma on attachment in children and adolescents and how current research informs treatment planning. • Differentiate between the clinical presentation of children and adolescents who exhibit insecure vs. secure vs. disorganized attachment. • Implement trauma and attachment assessments to develop observable and measurable treatment plan goals. • Implement the “internal working model” intervention to clarify the client’s attachment category to inform treatment planning. • Operationalize the core treatment goals into measurable objectives in the treatment of trauma and attachment. • Implement the Integrated Attachment and Trauma Timeline Strategy (IATTS) to organize and construct the client’s trauma narrative. • Utilize the client’s trauma narrative to process attachment disruptions and trauma responses. • Apply bilateral tapping to reduce the intensity of strong affect and/or to amplify a strength resource. • Integrate elements of Internal Family Systems psychotherapy to map out a child’s problematic behavior and the parent’s response to the behavior. • Utilize bibliotherapy to teach children, adolescents and families the concepts of Internal Family Systems psychotherapy to improve treatment outcomes. • Integrate resource tapping (EMDR) into Attachment Focused Family Therapy to increase the strength of attachment and healthy regulation in children, adolescents and families. • Teach clients mindfulness-based breath work, guided imagery and sensory awareness to improve affect regulation.

Visual Rehab After Neurological Events: Seeing the World Through New Eyes is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 05, 2019 at Hilton Atlanta/Marietta Hotel & Conference Center, Marietta, Georgia, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 contact hours. Target Audience: • Occupational Therapists • Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants • Physical Therapists • Physical Therapist Assistants • Nurse Practitioners • Physician Assistants • Nurses • Speech-Language Pathologists Course Description: Feeling lost in determining a treatment plan with a neurological client? Have you asked yourself: • What is the best evidence-based therapy protocol? • How do you know if you are facing a field loss or a neglect? • How do you determine visual function when your client is confused? • Is this a vision or cognitive impairment? Michelle has been in that fog and come out the other side with wonderful, functional, and cost-conscience options to show and share. She sustains that therapy should be specific to the client’s challenge and that requires an astute awareness of the impairment. This insight comes from clear assessments that are revealed in this course, along with functional treatment interventions to ensure successful therapy sessions. Michelle shares anecdotes and case studies that highlight how the protocols can be put in to practice. These stories assist in enlightening the inexperienced therapist and commiserating with the experienced therapist. The course content is largely interactive and offers numerous lab sessions proving the engaging experience that therapists crave Objectives: • Articulate an understanding of vision-based rehabilitation and the rehabilitation process. • Articulate the description of ocular motor skill impairment, visual field loss, visual spatial inattention and midline syndrome. • Demonstrate competent assessment of ocular motor skills, visual field loss, visual spatial inattention and midline syndrome. • Discuss the difference between field impairment and neglect. • Prescribe treatment interventions for ocular motor skills, visual field loss, visual spatial inattention and midline syndrome. • Demonstrate effective documentation of assessment and intervention to justify skilled services. 

The Aging Brain: Assessments, Treatments & Interventions for Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 06, 2019 at Hilton Atlanta/Marietta Hotel & Conference Center, Marietta, Georgia, United States of America. This Course has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Target Audience: • Social Workers • Psychologists • Occupational Therapists • Physical Therapists • Nurses • Speech-Language Pathologists • Counselors • Nursing Home Administrators • Assisted Living Facility Administrators • Long Term/Acute Care Professionals • Case Managers • Marriage & Family Therapists Course Description: Individuals with dementia interact with a variety of professionals including nursing staff, psychologists, counselors, social workers, OTs, PTs, SLPs, home health aides, adult day center staff, and first responders. But whatever your profession, proper skills and understanding of the disease is needed to work with this population. Without the appropriate training, safety risks grow and opportunities to improve care and quality of life are missed. This essential training program will provide you with the tools, strategies, and practices you need to best serve patients facing Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. In just one day you’ll learn how you can better assess for and differentiate between different types of dementias, overcome the communication issues that can obstruct quality care, work more collaboratively with family and caregivers, maximize daily functioning, and safely and effectively intervene when difficult behaviors arise. Objectives: • Analyze the impact of dementia on brain structure and function, and determine the difference between “normal forgetfulness” and cognitive impairment. • Differentiate dementias from one another by identifying manifestations of each type. • Articulate differences between the Folstein Mini-Mental Status examination and SLUMS and effectively utilize them as screening measure tools for cognitive impairment and dementia. • Employ adaptable behavioral interventions that can provide patients with individualized care and promote more effective participation in therapy. • Investigate the concept of caregiver guilt and its implications for the client, clinicians, and those caring for older adults with dementia. • Correlate patients’ strengths and limitations to potential therapeutic approaches when developing treatment plans for older adults with dementia.

Anxiety, Worry & Panic: Effective Strategies to Calm the Anxious Mind is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 11, 2019 at Hilton Atlanta/Marietta Hotel & Conference Center, Marietta, Georgia, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction / 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Target Audience: • Counselors • Social Workers • Psychologists • Case Managers • Addiction Counselors • Therapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapist Assistants • Speech Language Pathologists • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Description: Do you want to gain powerful techniques for your clients who struggle with treatment resistant anxiety, worry and panic? Learn how to assess anxious habits, symptoms and behaviors using effective cutting-edge, evidence-based strategies…even with your toughest clients! Dr. Jennifer Abel will teach you how to stop the anxiety spiral early to significantly reduce the habit of worry and panic using self-controlled desensitization. Experience how evidence-based treatments can help your clients problem solve, reduce tension, and increase energy. Learn unique, effective approaches to mindfulness, cognitive therapy, and exposure, including thought-labeling, interoceptive exposure, and better-but believable thoughts. Case studies, role plays, demonstrations and interactive discussions will be utilized in this cutting-edge seminar. Objectives: • Articulate components of the “anxiety spiral” and utilize several evidence-based strategies (including self-controlled desensitization) to prevent exacerbation of symptoms. • Specify five potential anxiety treatment pitfalls and learn evidence-based approaches to avoid or correct them. • Implement four mindfulness strategies for treating anxiety symptoms in a clinical setting. • Evaluate the inverse relationship between worry and problem solving, and identify its implications for treatment of anxiety. • Examine the clinical presentation of panic, worry and fear of guilt and how they compare to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; learn clinical strategies to stop these cycles of negative reinforcement. • Develop clinical skills to address treatment-resistant issues, including perfectionism, subjugation, procrastination, hypochondriasis, and catastrophizing/intolerance of uncertainty.

Anxiety, ADHD and Anger in the Classroom: 60 Activity-Based Coping Skills to Effectively Manage “Big Feelings” is organized by PESI HealthCare and will be held on Dec 13, 2019 at Hilton Atlanta/Marietta Hotel & Conference Center, Marietta, Georgia, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.3 contact hours / 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Target Audience: • Educators • Counselors • School Psychologists • Social Workers • Psychologists • Therapists • Marriage & Family Therapists • Occupational Therapists • Occupational Therapy Assistants • Speech-Language Pathologists • Nurses • Other Mental Health Professionals Description: Managing the emotional climate of your classroom is crucial to learning. When children are struggling to manage anxiety, ADHD and anger, they can’t focus on the academic tasks expected of them in a classroom setting. By teaching kids simple, healthy and safe ways to express their emotions and calm their bodies, they will be better able to concentrate on their work during the school day. The positive impact healthy coping skills will have on a child’s academic performance is truly transformational. In this seminar, we’ll learn how coping skills impact a student’s nervous system, and how to use that knowledge to help kids calm their bodies and get ready to learn. Join coping skills expert and experienced school counselor Janine Halloran, LMHC as she shows you coping skills and techniques ideal for a classroom. • Walk away with a coping skills toolbox • Deep breathing printables • Check in sheets • ”Anxiety thermometer” • Relaxation exercises • ”What’s your play personality?” • And many more Be prepared for experiential learning and movement as we try different coping skills like grounding techniques, breathing exercises, and big body movements throughout the day. Objectives: • Develop strategies for teaching kids coping skills that positively impact academic performance and their ability to maintain relationships. • Analyze how the nervous system response of “fight, flight or freeze” is connected to stress and communicate how coping skills can be used to shift kids to a more tranquil “rest and digest” response. • Establish a classroom routine that allows for breaks to benefit both hypo-arousal and hyper-arousal in kids with ADHD. • Articulate how mindfulness and grounding techniques can be used to help children manage their symptoms of anxiety. • Establish methods to determine the source of stress and create a plan to eliminate shutting down or acting out. • Utilize specific movement-based strategies that can effectively intervene in kids’ anger responses.