STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Low Vision Identification, Assessment, and Treatment to Maximize Functional Skills - Webinar
2020-08-26 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
Low Vision Identification, Assessment, and Treatment to Maximize Functional Skills

Immediately identify treatment resources and strategies to maximize your patient’s function and safety
Standardized tests which produce data on vision and functional performance skills including balance and ADLs

Primitive Reflex Integration through Neuroplasticity - Live Webinar
2020-08-19 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
In this interactive 6-hour workshop, improve treatment for your clients by discovering the link between primitive reflexes and development. Learn to evaluate the influence of primitive reflexes with central nervous system development stages, as it relates to function. Practice simple techniques to immediately add to your treatment sessions, leading to increased developmental success:

Neurological Deficits
Sensory Processing Problems
Behavioral Challenges
Learning Disabilities
Autism
ADHD

Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Intervention - Live Webinar
2020-08-13 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Intervention

Confidently recognize the primary characteristics and patterns of development in infants and toddlers who have or are at risk for developing autism spectrum disorders
Treatments and resources available to children with autism spectrum disorders as presented by very young children

Current Concepts of Exercise, Pain Science, and Manual Therapy - Live Webinar
2020-08-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Current Concepts of Exercise, Pain Science, and Manual Therapy

Practical summary of current intervention strategies frequently used in physical therapy and rehabilitation
Effective, evidence-based review of common orthopedic rehabilitation interventions and their relationship to wellness

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Simple: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders - Live Webinar
2020-07-27 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Are your current techniques just not working?
You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through. You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.
Join ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, as he delivers an exerciseand intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.
You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitivebehavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.
By shifting client focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.
Sign up today, and Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!

Internal Family Systems Therapy: Step-by-Step Procedures for Healing Traumatic Wounds and Alleviating Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Addiction and More - Live Webinar
2020-07-23 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
After decades of clinical innovation and recent scientific research, the empirically validated Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been shown to be effective at improving clients’ general functioning and well-being. This effective model provides clinicians with procedures for helping clients with the most challenging mental health profiles to heal the wounded, burdened, and traumatized parts of their systems.
The IFS model provides a compassionate, respectful, non-pathologizing approach to understanding the organization and functioning of the human psyche.
The transformative IFS approach embraces and celebrates the natural multiplicity of the mind. Its assumption that every part of the system has good intention and valuable resources allows clinicians to approach even the most troubling of “symptoms” with compassion and respect. IFS offers therapists a powerful and effective set of tools for empowering clients with a wide range of clinical profiles to heal the wounded and burdened parts of their internal systems, resulting in:

a way to enter clients’ inner ecology without the overemphasis on containment and stabilization
symptom reduction and improved functioning for clients
deep self-healing within even the most troubled clients

IFS is a powerful treatment modality. Once you experience it, you will want to incorporate it into your practice.
Through instruction, video demonstration, and experiential exercises, Alexia D. Rothman, Ph.D., Certified IFS therapist and colleague of Dr. Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS) will show you step-by-step how to apply the most effective, empirically validated IFS interventions to help your clients connect with and understand their conflicting parts to facilitate deep, lasting healing.

Neuroplasticity for Orthopedic Recovery and Pain Relief: How Injury Changes the Brain and How You Can Help Rewire It - Live Webinar
2020-07-20 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Neuroplasticity is one of the most important concepts when it comes to recovery, but is often overlooked when treating traumatic injuries. From traumatic injuries and post-op conditions to stroke, this course will deliver new thoughts on how to detour around damage and incorporate viable nervous system connections for faster, more complete recovery.
It’s never too late. The brain is not hard wired. It can change and adapt, even decades after the initial injury.
Drawing on over 40 years of clinical experience, Dr. Pryor will teach you practical, evidence-based techniques and interventions to stimulate the brain and enhance recovery.

Evaluate the nervous system for damage and functional pathways
Address tone abnormalities, vision and how they are intimately related and treatable
Advance patient function with guided neurological reconnection
Improve balance and visuospatial function to enhance client independence and feelings of safety
Create actionable treatment plans to help at home
Reclaim movement and quality of life

You will learn practical and useful techniques that can be implemented immediately within your practice. These evidence-based interventions will apply across the spectrum from initial injury to recovery.
Sign up today! You can’t afford to miss out on this chance to get the skills, techniques and knowledge you can use to promote neuroplasticity and increased function for your patients!

Chronic Anxiety: Powerful Treatment Methods to Break the Anxiety Cycle - Live Webinar
2020-07-17 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
Chronic anxiety disorders all involve a “threat” that doesn’t occur. Panic attacks don’t kill, obsessive doubts about the stove don’t cause fires, social anxiety doesn’t lead to disgrace and isolation, worry doesn’t lead to insanity. The feared outcomes recede into the future the way an optical illusion recedes into the horizon.
Why are anxiety disorders so powerfully chronic? It’s because chronically anxious clients get tricked by their own efforts to avoid, distract from, and protect against the perceived dangers. When the dangers don’t come to pass, they believe they had a narrow escape from a terrible calamity, and feel more vulnerable going forward rather than less. They become increasingly afraid of more and more improbable events. What we call the “anxiety disorders” could be more accurately termed “the disorders of excessive self-protection”, because that’s how they function!
How can you help them recover? By teaching them how to disengage from the self-protective behaviors that trick them. Attend this live webcast and learn how to help your anxious clients find the evidence of this in their own lives, so you can help them approach and accept, rather than avoid and resist, the experience of anxiety.
This workshop will teach you to empower your anxious clients to see themselves as good, capable people who have been fooled by anxiety, rather than defective people who need protection. Discover how to motivate your clients to seek out, rather than avoid, the corrective experiences they need for recovery. Take home effective strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Paradoxical Therapy, Metacognitive Therapy, and traditional CBT to help your clients rediscover the hopes and dreams they had for life before they were derailed by their struggle against anxiety. You, and your clients, will be glad you did!

Breathing, Digestion and Swallowing: Best Practices in Dysphagia Management - Live Webinar
2020-07-17 06:00 - 13:30 (America/Phoenix)
What’s the safest diet? Is he aspirating? Can she swallow these pills? He hates the pureed food – what else can we do? She’s refusing the thick liquids! Is he going to get pneumonia? Does he need a feeding tube?
These are issues that we face every day in our work with children and adults with dysphagia. How do we keep our clients safe, while making sure they’re well hydrated and well nourished, and normalize eating as much as possible?
Sometimes, it’s about more than just swallowing.
This course will examine the inter-relationships between respiration, gastrointestinal function, and swallowing to allow clinicians to better identify the underlying causes of their client’s swallowing difficulties. We’ll look at specific respiratory and GI diagnoses and their impact on what, when, how much, and how safely our clients eat. Using clinical case studies, we’ll examine the evidence to provide you with the tools you need to perform a thorough assessment and implement a comprehensive treatment plan that takes into account all of the potential contributing factors. ​

Return to School and Sport Considerations for Concussion Rehabilitation - Live Webinar
2020-07-16 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Return to School and Sport Considerations for Concussion Rehabilitation

Confidently differentiate between various system contributions to symptoms that may be limiting the student’s participation in school related activities
Learn evidence-based exercise prescriptions and progression that are safe, effective, and efficient

Innovative Vision Rehab Strategies for PTs, OTs, & SLPs: Don't Let Vision Limit Your Patient's Progress - Live Webinar
2020-07-16 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
When your patient wins the day, you win the day. And in those moments, you’re unstoppable.
But when your patient has vision deficits, even your most tried-and-true therapy protocols can quickly go off the rails, dramatically limiting your effectiveness and halting progress in a variety of frustrating ways:

Poor performance of tasks/exercises
Avoidance of ADLs
Increased functional dependence
Noncompliance with home programs
Reading/communication problems
Limited hand-eye coordination
Gait and posture dysfunction
Frequent falls

Here’s the good news. Vision deficits don’t have to limit you or your patients ever again.
Join your colleagues at this upcoming live webcast and discover a powerful framework for vision rehabilitation that has helped countless therapists and their patients overcome these challenges.
Whether your patients are adults with diabetic retinopathy or stroke survivors with vision perception problems, you’ll transform your practice with innovative interventions that accelerate progress for outcomes that will earn you referrals.

Neuroscience for Clinicians: Brain Change for Stress, Anxiety, Trauma, Moods and Substance Abuse - Live Webinar
2020-07-14 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Neuroscience has given us incredible insights into the workings of the brain and its connection to our mental health. Recent research reveals that neuroplasticity takes place all through life, so you can offer hope for real change no matter how long your client has suffered.
This live webcast will connect complicated science with your clinical practice, and transform how you view and work with traumatized, stressed, addicted, anxious and depressed clients!
Discover how and where neuroplasticity occurs, and ways to use it therapeutically. Participate in enjoyable learning experiences that provide you with the clear principles and background you need for utilizing neuroscience in your work. Draw on multiple modalities to overcome resistance, activate creative responses, and turn problems into potentials. Add new dimensions to each therapy session and initiate change using top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal methods that can be creatively individualized.
Leave this webcast feeling confident in bringing the latest findings from neuroscience into your treatments!

100 Brain-Changing Mindfulness Techniques to Integrate Into Your Clinical Practice - Live Webcast
2020-07-13 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Enhance your treatment plans for anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, bipolar disorder, sleep, pain, and stress with brain-changing mindfulness skills tailored to the problems your clients face each day.
Watch this live webcast and get detailed guidance on the hows, whys, and whens of incorporating core and advanced mindfulness skills into your clinical practice.
Build your client education skills and improve therapeutic engagement with clear explanations regarding the neurobiology behind mindfulness. Interactive demonstrations and step-by-step instruction on specific interventions and exercises will give you the tools you need to treat a variety of disorders and populations. The opportunity to practice under the direction of our instructor will boost your confidence in using your new skills.
Better still, you’ll walk away with a four-step process that ties it all together, making what you’ve learned immediately relevant to your own work with clients.

Development of Executive Function in Children - Live Webinar
2020-07-10 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights

Development of Executive Function in Children

Provide effective research-based activities to improve self-awareness, problem-solving and self-monitoring
Practical cognitive-motor activities to engage children to increase awareness of body and support attention, while increasing organizational skills, prioritization, and flexible thinking
Team collaboration strategies to identify challenges and integrate evidence-based strategies across pediatric environments for consistency and success

Rewire the Anxious Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Treatment of Anxiety, Panic and Worry - Live Webinar
2020-07-09 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Join neuroscience and anxiety expert, Dr. Janene M. Donarski, and learn her keys for successful anxiety treatment. Dr. Donarski integrates brain-based strategies for calming the anxious mind with client communication techniques that motivate change in your clients. Janene’s approach promotes adherence to treatment and strengthens the therapeutic alliance – which is essential when working with anxious, worried, traumatized, or obsessive clients.
Dr. Donarski will give you proven tools and techniques to:

Identify and treat the roots of anxiety in both the amygdala and the cortex
Explain “the language of the amygdala” in an accessible, straight forward way
Identify how the cortex contributes to anxiety, and empower clients with strategies to resist anxiety-igniting cognitions

Register today for this transformational workshop and put the power of neuroplasticity to work for you and your anxious clients!

2-Day Certification Training: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents - Live Webinar
2020-06-25 08:00 - 2020-06-26 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Divorce, family breakdown, violence in society and the media, has produced a “shell shocked” generation of kids suffering from anxiety!
Join Dr. Steve O’Brien, 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. Steve O’Brien 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 disorders
Emphasis will be on creative psychotherapy involving insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, biological, mindfulness, and family systems interventions.

The Latest Integrative Research & Approaches in the Successful Treatment of Chronic Pain Conditions - Live Webinar
2020-06-23 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
The National Institute for Health reports that 25.3 million Americans live with chronic pain, while health economists estimate that the cost of chronic pain in the United States is $635 billion annually. Current research is revealing the broad ineffectiveness of pharmaceutical strategies and strongly suggests that successfully treating the multifactorial nature of chronic pain requires an integrative, holistic approach including attention on key emotional, psychological, and behavioral factors. Integrativeapproaches including Tai Chi, breath-work, graded movement and mindfulness are widely recognized body- mind modalities and research supported, non- pharmacological approaches in treating chronic pain conditions.
This course has been designed tooutline the scientific and physiologic basis of key body- mind components, instruct simple integrative practices shown to be effective in remediating chronic pain, and review the evidence base for validating these approaches in the treatment of patients dealing with chronic pain conditions.

Art Therapy-Based Toolbox: Creative Techniques for Children and Adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Anxiety and Mood Disorders - Live Webinar
2020-06-23 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Do you work with challenging children and teens who seem resistant to every intervention you offer? Are they stuck, repeating the same patterns over and over and you feel like you’re powerless to help them?
Join Jan Bush, ED.S., ATR-BC, as she teaches you art therapy-based interventions that can complement and strengthen your professional toolbox. You will learn how to creatively engage your most resistant clients who have ODD, ADHD, anxiety and mood disorders.
Through demonstration and hands-on activities you will:

Meet requirements for mental health preparation for school personnel
Understand what children and adolescents are communicating through their artwork
Explore strategies to help process feelings to minimize outbursts and acting out behaviors
Enrich your professional toolbox with the confidence and ethical practice of using appropriate art materials, supplies and directives
Identify cognitive and emotional levels of development through drawings
Learn how to make a counseling session fun and engaging
Understand how to deal with drawings that portray dangerous themes
Learn how to use Artwork to increase communication and emotional regulation
Delve into strategies that help kids feel comfortable sharing and releasing repressed emotions

Make counseling sessions more engaging and fun!

Creativity in Counseling: Integrating Left & Right Brain Hemispheres - Online Event
2020-06-19 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Phoenix)
About this Event

Integrating creativity into psychotherapy brings an exciting and powerful dimension to the therapeutic relationship. It models the use of creativity in responding and coping with baffling and perplexing problems.
Dr. Berger will discuss right brain and left brain consciousness of the clinician during therapy. He will introduce a way of integrating clinical creativity into a session and demonstrate how it can positively influence the directionality and design of clinical interventions.
Dr. Berger will use a clinical vignette that demonstrates the introduction of a creative intervention into a session and its impact on the direction the session took with a woman who was verbally and physically abused as a child.

Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Recognizing & Treating the Emerging Epidemic - Live Webinar
2020-06-19 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
The increasing rate of stress and trauma to children, which includes divorce, family breakdown, violence in society, the media, and a failing school system, has produced a “shell shocked” generation suffering from anxiety in many cases. The challenge for clinicians is to recognize anxiety in children and help them cope.
Dr. Steve O’Brien will teach you how and why anxiety develops in children and adolescents. She will present practical treatment strategies that can be applied immediately. The seven key anxiety disorders along with case examples to be addressed include:

Separation anxiety disorder
Panic disorder
Overanxious disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Social anxiety disorder
Phobias
Post-traumatic stress disorder

Other co-occurring disorders (e.g. behavior problems, medical conditions, depression, ADHD, learning disabilities, selective mutism) will also be discussed. Emphasis will be on creative interventions involving insight-oriented, cognitive-behavioral, biological, mindfulness, expressive arts and family systems approaches.

Canine Assisted Therapy - Live Webinar
2020-06-18 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
As more people become interested in how animals can therapeutically benefit humans, there has been a call for training animals to be Certified Therapy dogs. Because this is an important role, it is imperative that people and their animals become properly trained and certified. This increases the effectiveness, consistency, and legitimacy of using certified therapy dogs. This course will teach you the many benefits of using a trained animal during therapy sessions. It will give you resources and information on what is needed to obtain certification for a therapy dog. You will meet Polly and see her in action with several patients.

Edema Bootcamp - Live Webinar
2020-06-17 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Edemas are present throughout all areas of rehabilitationpractice. Often, as therapy practitioners, we are the first to identify new onset edemas and we are charged with determining if our client’s edema is a medical emergency. Additional responsibility then lies with providing safe and effective treatment techniques utilizing evidence-basedoutcome measures for effective and reimbursable documentation.
This course will assist practitioners to determine the medical status of edemas, the various types of edemas that can be seen throughout practice settings, and effectivetreatment techniques for edema resolution or management. Participants will also take away several outcome measures that they can immediately start using with their clients to assist with determining progress and documenting client outcomes.

Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors - Live Webinar
2020-06-16 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood, and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical and parenting challenges. Attend this live webcast and learn new, effective non-medication strategies for your clients’ most challenging behaviors including:

Tantrums
Running out/away
Noncompliance
Nagging
Refusing to work/help
Yelling/screaming
Bullying
Panic/anxiety reactions
Lack of follow-through
Not following directions

You will walk away with immediate strategies for out of control behaviors and techniques for emotional regulation along with long-term treatment strategies to help kids at home and school. Jason Mathison is a clinical expert and has worked with the most challenging kids both in clinical and school settings. Through the use of case studies and action-oriented handouts, you will finish this live webcast with solutions to turn your most challenging kids around.

Discover how play therapy will inspire and transform your work with children, teens, and families. Online today special!
2020-06-15 15:00 - 22:00 (America/Phoenix)
When young kids and teenagers come in for therapy, it often takes a creative and playful approach to engage them in the process and help them overcome their challenges.
If you’re looking for the best resources and creative interventions available…
This exclusive online training is it! This is your chance to join expert play therapy trainers and discover their favorite play therapy techniques that will help kids from early childhood to teenagers…

develop empathetic connections
process their emotions
learn self-control
build resilience
strengthen attachments
and increase social skills

…all while discovering themselves in a non-directive safe way.
Plus, you’ll gain valuable insights into how and why the techniques work…
Helping you make the best clinical decisions possible on which interventions to use and when they’ll be the most successful.
You’ll leave this course with a new toolbox loaded with creative and effective play-based interventions while earning up to 18.75 CE hours, all counting towards becoming a Registered Play Therapist (RPT) through the Association for Play Therapy.
Bonus! You’ll also get a digital copy of our new Play Therapy book for FREE – valued at $29.99.
This book includes the most effective play therapy activities for working with children with depression, anxiety, trauma, behavior issues, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Treatment Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain - Live Webinar
2020-06-15 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix)
The anxiety spectrum exemplifies the disorders where emotions override thought. Fragmented memories get stored in the body. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) collapse this uncomfortable emotional and physical reactivity, freeing a path for spontaneous insights and clearer thinking.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a comprehensive mind-body treatment that desensitizes three areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions, and physical reactions. EFT combines physical interventions derived from restorative (self-applied) acupressure theory with cognitive interventions.
EFT is an evidence-based practice with over 100 published studies. One published study demonstrated a 24% decrease in cortisol (stress hormone) level in the EFT group (Energypsych.org). EFT is an effective brief therapy and belongs in every therapist’s tool box.
Transform your clinical excellence. Bring EFT into your practice and treat resistant problems that other methods failed.
This live webcast focuses on cutting-edge techniques of EFT to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders, including:

Phobias
Generalized Anxiety
Social Anxiety Disorder
Panic
OCD
Acute Traumatic Stress Reactions

These mind-body methods are emerging into mainstream mental health, trauma treatment, coaching, employee assistance programs, and sport psychology arenas as a rapid, effective, non-invasive, calming, desensitizing tool. Do not miss this opportunity to learn evidence-based techniques you can use immediately with your clients and improve treatment outcomes.

Nutrition Management for the Diabetic Patient - Live Webinar
2020-06-12 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix)
Many diabetic patients do not fully understand the role nutrition plays in their overall management of the disease. You do not need to be a nutritionist to offer sound nutritional advice to your diabetic patients. In this course you will learn the importance of diabetic nutritional management for both type 1 and type 2 diabetic patients. We will analyze diabetes at a cellular level and then discuss the nutrition needed for optimal glucose metabolism and function. Focus will be placed on macronutrients and their effects on glucose metabolism along with fiber, an important component in glucose control. We will discuss both prevention and treatment strategies. We will also briefly discuss the role exercise plays in type 2 diabetes management.

Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom: Trauma-Informed Tools to Support Social and Emotional Learning, Student Success and Positive Climate - Live Webinar
2020-06-11 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
Do you find yourself wondering what more you can do to help your easily distracted student? The one who has a hard time maintaining focus? What if you had the tools that would enhance focus and attention, ease anxiety, and improve confidence, self-esteem and academic performance? During this live webcast, you will learn simple, developmentally appropriate yoga and mindfulness tools that can be immediately integrated into your daily curriculum. These skills are a proven and effective way to promote self-regulation ability, learning readiness, and resilience while cultivating a positive, peaceful, productive classroom.
Through the framework of – Noticing, Mindful Choice, Practice, Reflection, Integration – you will learn how to empower your students and yourself with increased self-awareness, the foundation for the development of self-regulation skills and cognitive control. Through 67 simple yoga and mindfulness-based activities designed to engage the whole child, you will help your students move from a state of anxiety and dysregulation to a state of engagement, control, and connectedness. All activities are specially chosen for their suitability for the typical classroom space and schedule and can be done standing beside or sitting at desks, while hands and bodies remain off the floor. Yoga 4 Classrooms is easy for teachers, students, and therapists to use, and helps to create a more harmonious, learning-friendly school day.
This inspiriting live webcast will give you the tools to integrate yoga and mindfulness skills into your classroom, leaving everyone feeling empowered, calm, and ready to learn. Absolutely no yoga experience is required!

Anxiety and Disruptive Behaviors in Children: Alternative Explanations, Solutions and Treatment Techniques
2020-06-11 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver)
Children’s behavior sometimes just does not make sense. They may behave great at school and then trash the house when they get home. They may wake at night with terrors even though nothing disruptive seems to be going on during the day. Nice parents with out of control kids are difficult to figure out.
Dr. Bostwick has worked with children and their parents for over 25 years conducting research and providing cognitive behavioral solutions to even the most puzzling behavior. Common childhood milestones can become challenging if a child doesn’t behave as we would expect. Dr. Bostwick will show you how anxiety and unexpected behavior can be a side effect of other problems you may not have considered. Kids with baffling behavior are often resistant to tried and true treatment options for anxiety and behavior disorders.
Join Dr. Bostwick, who has done the hard work for you, for this live webcast! She’ll share developmentally appropriate considerations and techniques on how to proceed with highly sensitive childhood behavior:

Suicidal five-year-old
Child running the household and parents walking on eggshells
3-year-old who has just been kicked out of her second daycare
6-year-old tells you they hear voices or see things that are not there

Dr. Bostwick will help you create real and positive long term change that promotes healthy development from childhood into adolescence and beyond! Don’t miss an opportunity to learn from her.
Sign up today!

Current Concepts of Exercise, Pain Science, & Manual Therapy - Live Webinar
2020-06-10 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
An emerging paradigm shift in healthcare is to focus on wellness and prevention to address modifiable risk factors of disease rather than wait until disease is present to intervene. This course will provide attendees with an overview of prominent orthopedic rehabilitation interventions and their relationship to wellness and patient care. Current evidence will be synthesized to give attendees guidance on effective implementation in clinical practice. A proposed interventionframework and clinical examples will be provided to facilitate practical patient care.

Exercise in Geriatric Rehabilitation - Live Webinar
2020-06-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver)
The latest practice analysis identifies over 53% of rehabilitation patients are over the age of 65 years. Many of these older adults have functional limitations due to the fact that older adults are generally less physically active than theiryounger counterparts or due to difficulties returning to normal function following illness or injury. Exercise is a non- pharmacological intervention that can have beneficial effects on multiple domains of function. However, the application of exercise by health care professionals is often under-dosed leading to minimal changes in this patient population. Olderadults can pose unique challenges for clinicians due to their sedentary lifestyle and potential for complex medical history.
Rehabilitation professionals are experts in movementscience and should play an integral role in prescription of appropriate physical activity to ensure maximal levels of success with older adults, so we need to do better for this new majority of patients. This course will provide you with a better understanding of primary aging processes that may affect an older adult’s functional status. An evidence-basedapproach for exercise prescription will be discussed to ensure that exercise science principles are used during plan of care development.
