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Social Media, Reality TV & Influencer Culture: CBT, EFT, and More for Enhanced Treatment of Clients Impacted by Toxic Content

Creating lasting change in therapy is hard work - especially when your client is distracted, disengaged, or lacks the necessary skills to retain therapeutic interventions...

If you’re struggling to make progress with your young clients, you’re not alone! Social media, reality TV, and influencer culture immersion have caused a critical thinking drought. And it’s making therapy harder.

Understanding how social media and reality television impact your clients – decreased self-esteem, increased anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation − is vital for the whole picture of mental health and has a direct impact on you as the professional.

Watch Janine Oliver, PhD, LCSW, clinician and researcher of reality tv and social media as she demonstrates the connection to critical thinking decline and shares ways to improve your efforts as a therapist to make your interventions more effective, efficient, and durable. You’ll get:

Strategies to sustain lasting critical thinking skills
Confidence grounded in new skills and research to navigate social media and reality tv
Proven strategies to enhance engagement and problem-solving to help your client come up with their own solutions
Exercises and assessment tools to build resilience and grit to enhance clients critical thinking

Purchase now and walk away confident and grounded in new skills and research to navigate social media, virtual reality and external influences impacting people today!

Program Information

Objectives

Develop preventative measures to counter the impact of reality TV and social media.
Intervene with antidotes to declining critical thinking in an advanced society: the importance of reading and evaluation.
Differentiate between diagnoses and an inability to reason, deduce, induce and think sequentially.
Develop the ability to think critically and understand the impact on your clients and their attempt at life skills.
Investigate the long-term effects of years overloaded with false narratives posed by reality tv.
Evaluate the impact of reality TV and social media on client’s well-being and implement effective critical thinking interventions.

Outline

Critical Thinking – the GATEKEEPER

Why is critical thinking important in client sessions?
Assessing your client’s ability to think critically
Impact of reality TV (RTV) and social media (SM) on critical thinking for our clients
Impact of decreased critical thinking in education

Reality TV’s Overall Impact & Social Media Daily Usage on:

Developing brain
Teenage attention span
Emotional centers of the brain
Increased hypervigilance from constant primitive arousal

Impact on Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia and Addiction

Addiction to social media and reality tv
Decreased Self-Esteem and Self-Image FOMO
Biological reasons for insomnia connected to RTV and social media
Case Study: “Steve’s story, 18 y/o – excessive brain fog, vision issues”

Help Clients through the Weeds of Real vs. Virtual

RTV and SM create reality-clients can’t often decipher the real from the scripted unreal
Grounding lessons, CBT interventions
Understand the importance of perspective of clients; this is their world
Hold authority while diplomatically engaging client
Assert your professionalism without alienating client
Case Study: 21 y/o self-diagnosed BPD. She’d taken online test and had symptoms of RTV personality

Prepackaged Diagnosis & Watering Down of Therapy

Eliminate harmful inaccurate depictions of mental health in pop culture
Assert your professionalism without alienating the client
How RTV and SM decrease intelligence and water down professionalism
Distorting effects and narrowing perspectives caused by RTV and SM decrease legitimacy of professionals
Case Study: “Sandra’s story, 19 y/o—the client who came to the intake session with her own diagnosis because she read it online”

Durable Interventions to Increase Critical Thinking

Psychoeducation – readiness to absorb interventions with active listening
Examining – model interventions in session – CBT, EFT, relaxation techniques
Assessing – help client make connections with past behavior and new information = internal recognition
Discernment - change thought pattern with new intervention (neuroplasticity for lasting change)
Specific skill sets to target gen y and z, who have grown up with RTV and SM
Relearn relationship with RTV, SM, and other mediums
Anxiety and depression reduction for those with compromised critical thinking
Strategies for eating disorders, body dysmorphia and other maladaptive behaviors

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Educators
Education Administration

Copyright : 10/21/2022

When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood

The interplay of new technologies, socio-cultural shifts, and educational stressors have created obstacles for young people like never before.

Research suggests that while today’s youth enter adolescence much sooner, they actually reach adulthood much later...resulting in an “extended adolescence.” Our traditional therapeutic tools now fall short, as we endeavor to help clients meet the demands of adulthood.

Watch award-winning author and international speaker Sharon Saline, Psy.D., and national trainer and child/family consultant Steve O’Brien, Psy.D., for an enlightening experience designed to redefine and redesign your treatment approach to help young people forge a path to adulthood.

You will learn strategies to:

Navigate ADHD, anxiety, autism and other obstacles to develop life skills
Reprogram the dopamine dependent brain
Cultivate openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
Collaborate with well-intended but over-involved parents
Instill motivation to advance real-world engagement
Promote “connected independence” in young adults

This timely and engaging training will shed new light on Generation Z youth and equip you with practical, contemporary tools for empowering these young people to shift gears and move toward a rewarding and meaningful adulthood.

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Objectives

Evaluate relevant research on extended adolescence and emerging adulthood.
Determine factors which promote normative vs complicated adolescent identity development.
Evaluate the interplay of technological, societal, and educational stressors on the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.
Distinguish how DSM-5™ disorders develop in adolescents hinder the “adulting” process.
Choose therapeutic strategies for reducing symptom severity in young adults and for reducing systemic conflict.
Design clinical interventions for common disorders of the Gen Z population.
Employ therapeutic techniques for cultivating a growth mindset and resilience in young adults.

Outline

When 25 Looks More Like 18, Origins of Extended Adolescence

Psychosocial implications of a “Check-listed Childhood”
Plugged-in but disconnected: “The Loneliest Generation”
Short-term gratification for the dopamine dependent brain
Gender, race, privilege and other “identity influencers”
Interplay of technology, society and educational stressors
“Virtual Reality IS Their Reality”

Reaching Adolescents and Their Families

Tips for rapport building with Generation Z
Mindfully managing parental involvement
Build working alliances without alignments
Cultivate cooperation and bypass resistance

Modifying the Clinical Interview – What’s Changed

Model openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
Distinguish between pathology and generational differences
Precursors to other disorders – are you seeing these traits clearly
Navigate more complex Identity exploration and confusion
Differentiate oppositional behavior from healthy identity expression

Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling with:
Anxiety - Social, OCD, Panic

Promote “real” interaction in a virtual world
Facilitate flexibility by reducing device dependent behavior
Neutralize perfectionistic worry to combat outcome certainty
Reduce fears around healthy risk taking

Depression

Dealing with fallout of social media and cyber harassment
Reframe devaluing self-talk from negative online comparison
Mood-management and preventing isolation
Reduce desensitized views of self-harming thoughts/behaviors

ADHD

Social media boundaries to reduce impulsivity and negative consequences
Device management to reduce distraction
Self-structuring for time blindness
“Appointment-Making” for better follow through

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Neurodiversity

Social coaching to reduce “passing as neurotypical” stress
Brain-based, self-regulation strategies to manage overstimulation
Foster flexible self-view around gender identity and sexuality
Healthy routines to promote friendship, productivity and fun

Cultivating a Growth Mindset for Life

Teach tools for long-term resilience and self-advocacy
Determine need for other professional services
Advance healthy development in future generations
Research findings and limitations

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
School Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Educators
Addiction Counselors

This workshop is intended for professionals working with clients 15-25.

Copyright : 06/09/2021

Take the ‘Enemy’ out of Frenemy: Tools to Help Girls Solve Relational Aggression and Build Healthy Friendships

Helping girls learn how to navigate friendships can be rewarding, but also time-consuming and emotionally exhausting for the clinician. The school environment is the most common arena for relational aggression to develop. Something as simple as choosing partners for a project, finding a seat on the bus or lunchroom, or playing at recess can erupt in drama. Pile on parent involvement and social media and situations can exponentially escalate.

Signs of relational aggression can manifest in several ways: increased conflict, social isolation, poor grades, decreased concentration, physical complaints of nausea, headaches, changes in weight, digestive problems, and sleep disturbance. Symptoms can develop into depression, anxiety, self-harm, and eating disorders.

Watch this recording and you’ll learn:

Interventions to make individual sessions or groups more effective for each age and stage
Skill-building activities that are visual, interactive, and memorable beyond talking and processing feelings
Tools to teach girls how to regulate emotions, manage conflict, practice assertive communication, and improve stress management
Strategies to reduce the negative impact of comments adult make and the way they respond (or don’t)

You’ll receive reproducible handouts, scripts and prompts, step-by-step intervention instructions, and examples of parent coaching sessions and will be equipped to teach girls the skills to manage conflict and form healthy bonds, thereby improving their mental health!

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Objectives

Demonstrate the effects of adolescent brain development and technology in the escalation of relational aggression to inform client choices.
Utilize solution-focused interventions that can be applied in both group and individual sessions to evaluate healthy behavior in friendships and cliques.
Implement coping strategies that apply to relational aggression situations in each developmental stage to decrease symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Design adult coaching strategies for parents, teachers, and coaches to use in response to relational aggression to increase client self-esteem and competency.

Outline

Interpreting Overt and Covert Behaviors

Gender communication styles and friendship roles: Developmental stages
Behaviors of healthy relationships and trust development
Clinical implications of anxiety, depression, self-harm, and eating disorders
Adolescent brain development and hormonal changes
Impact of social media as it relates to relational aggression

Cliques and Group Dynamics

Common roles and behaviors in cliques
Adult pitfalls and approaches to manage negative behaviors
Solution-focused interventions to address conflict: Exercises and reproducible handouts
Conversation strategies to increase assertiveness
Passive, aggressive, and passive-aggressive communication styles: Role play examples

Coping Strategies for Relational Aggression

Cultivate strengths during adversity to manage feelings of loneliness, isolation, anxiety, and depression
Build awareness of brain/body development and physical manifestations of anxiety
Teach signs of healthy friendships

Parent/Family Support for Girls

Communication techniques to foster self-esteem
Psycho-educational resources and exercises
Should you ever call the other parent?
Enabling versus supportive behavior
Modeling friendship skills and social “homework”

Target Audience

Teachers/School-Based Personnel
School Counselors
School Social Workers
School Psychologists
School Nurses
Coaches
School Administrators
Licensed Professional Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Marriage and Family Therapists
Nurses
Summer Camp Staff
Clergy
Probation Officers

Copyright : 03/20/2020

Boundary Setting Strategies: How Your Clients Can Reclaim Emotional Autonomy

Attempts to set boundaries with toxic and emotionally manipulative people are often met with demeaning abuse designed to instill guilt, shame, fear, and self-doubt. Their victims are left feeling confused, selfish for having their own needs, and convinced they must make the abuser happy with them at any cost.

In this session Dr. Lindsay Gibson, clinical psychologist and international best-selling author, will show you experiential emotional techniques your clients can use to set boundaries and free themselves from emotional tyranny.

Program Information

Objectives

Investigate defenses and emotionally coercive tactics of the narcissistic personality.
Use psychoeducation and self-concept development to help empower clients to set healthy boundaries in relationships.
Apply emotional and experiential techniques that will help clients protect themselves against emotional coercion.

Outline

Why clients seek the narcissist’s approval
Build boundary setting skills through psychoeducation and self-concept development
Strategies to decrease the impact of emotional coercion tactics

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Therapists
Art Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Physicians
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

The Millennial Lovelink

Many millennials are choosing to ditch gender identifiers like male and female, and shed labels like single, taken, gay, or straight. They’re shucking them in favor of fluidity—the belief that one’s deeply personal sense of gender, sexuality, or in-relationship identity can be more elusive and shifting than previous generations acknowledged. We’ll explore how working with fluid millennial clients can be both enlightening and challenging for older therapists, especially when helping them navigate issues of intimacy, love, and sex.

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Objectives

Analyze how millennials approach romantic love differently, including the challenge of committing to relationships despite the endless options of dating apps, and squaring desire for independence and self-discovery with commitment needs.
Utilize the qualities that millennials most value in therapists, like directness and self-disclosure, and how to embody them.
Utilize language used by millennials, which includes tinder, bumble, ghosting, benching, and breadcrumbing, to truly connect with clients.

Outline

Millennials approach love and sexuality differently compared to other age groups.

Understand the challenge of committing to relationships
Understand the challenge millenials face in the context of a desire for independence and commitment

Understand the how to build a therapeutic alliance with millennials

Explore the qualities that millennials value in a therapist such as self-disclosure and directness
Explore how to develop these qualities as a therapist

Learn the language of millennials

Understand the distinctive language millennials speak
Gain knowledge about the way millennials communicate in relationships

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Working with A$$holes

These days it seems there’s a jerk waiting around every corner—on the street, on your social media feed, even in your consulting room. Is there anything therapists can do for our clients and communities to help us successfully engage with the antagonistic people in our lives? In this recording, we’ll examine how to apply the therapeutic concept of radical acceptance as a practical and safe strategy to bring more peace, civility, and creativity into potentially polarizing situations.

Program Information

Objectives

Discover how to work more effectively with narcissistic or borderline clients who challenge our boundaries
Discover how to avoid common mistakes when dealing with an antagonistic or difficult person by paying too much or too little attention to their behavior
Discover how to keep yourself safe and sane when interacting with clients who hold extreme beliefs by connecting to your own courage and creativity and getting support from others

Outline

Where do a@@holes come from?

Owning your inner a@@hole: Examining our own political incorrectness and selfishness
Biological, epigenetic, and behavioral factors

Trick or treat? What to do when compassion and empathy are met with hostility

Case conceptualization for narcissistic, borderline, and perfectionist personalities
Compassionate confrontation: Standing up for yourself without putting the other down

Changing A@@hole Culture

Creative, non-violent responses to repression and socially violent behavior
Nurturing courage and connection: Breaking the cycle of shame and silence

Target Audience

Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Behavioral Health Professionals

Buzzing, pinging and grasping for our attention, our phones and screens can cause significant distress, as we lose touch with reality and the importance of self-care and emotional well-being.

Take advantage of the 56 practices inside to detox from your devices, feel rejuvenated, find healthier coping skills, and embrace the present moment.

Detox: Practices to help you dump your devices, simplify and soar!
De-stress: Learn to relax instead of letting social media and FOMO stress you out.
Distract: Instead of turning to your devices for comfort, practice new coping skills.
Discover: An amazing, meaningful world unfolds when you take your eyes off the screen!

From TMI to FOMO, there is no doubt that millennials have a language of their own.

A generation as diverse as this demands a therapeutic toolbox that sheds light on the intricacies and complexities in working with and treating this unique population.

Written by Dr. Goali Saedi Bocci, millennial, psychologist, and author of a popular millennial-focused blog on Psychology Today, this workbook is filled with actionable worksheets, handouts, tech-guided meditations, and empowering tools requiring mere minutes a day to support the time-pressed client.

Solution-Focused Therapy Interventions for Quick-Fixes
CBT to Manage Rumination & Cognitive Distortions
Reducing Stress with Mindfulness & Meditation
Managing Loneliness & Feelings of Isolation
Decreasing Blue Light & Enhancing Sleep
Developing Self-Compassion
Overcoming Perfectionism in the Pinterest & Instagram Era
Texting, Social Media, & Well-Being