Hand Therapy - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-01-22 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Course Highlights
Hand Therapy

Immediately identify testing strategies to be effective in differential diagnosis of the hand/wrist and upper extremity
Improve your knowledge of upper quadrant anatomy and physiology to create better evaluations and more effective treatments

Evidence-Based Practice in the School Setting - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-01-28 10:00 - 12:00
Course Highlights
Evidence-Based Practice in the School Setting

Review and implement evidence-based research into the school setting.
Best practice standards for providing high quality evaluations and treatments to all school children

Supporting Self-Regulation Development in Young Children - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-01 15:00 - 17:00
Course Highlights
Supporting Self-Regulation Development in Young Children

Strategies to support child development sequences through natural learning opportunities
Providing children with a sense of security and belonging through daily interactions and meaningful experiences to promote trust and self-confidence
Encouraging consistency with daily routines to best support child success – allowing flexibility as needed with individualized treatment planning with family identified priorities
Evidence-based coaching strategies and reflective practice to empower families and caregivers in a variety of environments

Over 75 Quick "On-The-Spot" Techniques for Children with Emotional and Behavior Problems - Live Webinar
2022-02-04 06:00 - 14:00
Leaving nothing to the abstract, “75 Quick, ‘On-The-Spot’ Techniques for Children and Adolescents with Emotional and Behavioral Problems” will guide you through focused, clear and successful methods for treating children. Every professional who seeks to fill their toolbox with tested methods will leave this seminar with a wealth of fresh ideas and rejuvenated spirits.
If you do not have a lot of experience working with children and teens, you will leave with a defined strategy for success. If you are a seasoned professional, you will learn new tricks and techniques to re-energize and revitalize your practice!
With nearly 25 years of clinical experience and a background in improvisational comedy, Dr. Steve is a strong proponent of “Edu-tainment.” Namely, he uses charm, wit and humor to enhance your seminar experience, thus improving the retention and utilization of the specific skills covered. We change the world when we touch a child’s life!

Optimizing Functional Movement - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-04 10:00 - 12:00
Course Highlights

Optimizing Functional Movement

Immediately improve your patient’s function, safety, and independence with four specific, easy-to-learn movements through an active lab
Strategies to improve breathing, back health, bed transfers, gait, and other ADL’s

An Evidence-Based Developmental Approach to the Pediatric Brain - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-05 09:00 - 16:00
Course Highlights
An Evidence-Based Developmental Approach to the Pediatric Brain

Assess primitive reflexes for coordination disorders and learning disabilities
Immediately gain the assessment skills required to identify red flags that lead to development impairments
Understanding the vestibular and visual systems and the proper movement and positioning strategies to improve these issues
Optimal treatment strategies to show fast and lasting changes in motor, sensory and language development
Gain the latest research on neuroplasticity’s role in the development of infants and children
Self-regulation strategies to improvesensory processing issues
Parent and caregiver resources and considerations to progress developmental changes in the home

Play Therapy: Attachment-Based Treatment Interventions for Trauma, Anxiety, OCD and More! - Live Webinar
2022-02-07 06:00 - 14:00
Play Therapy is an incredible communication tool for children. Children speak the language of play and the toys are their words. Play therapy allows children to:

Manage anger and express thoughts and feelings
Improve self-control and boost self-esteem
Reduce fear, anxiety and depression
Heal trauma

You will leave with a toolbox filled with ready to use Play Therapy techniques that you can immediately implement in your work with children and also adapt for clients of all ages.
Attend this workshop and you will learn how to communicate with children through play, strengthen relationships, help children regulate their minds and bodies, and to help them create a safe space to heal. Experience the fun-filled power of play therapy and other expressive arts modalities. Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT, will show you how to effectively use sand trays, bibliotherapy, mindfulness and so many other powerful techniques. Much of this conference will include active learning and hands-on participation. Get ready to learn and have fun!

The Clinician's Guide to Personality Disorders: Interventions for Successful Narcissistic, Borderline, and Antisocial Treatment - Live Webinar
2022-02-07 07:00 - 15:00
Ego battles, fits of rage, self-harm, and perpetual crises encompass working with personality disorder clients and requires a strong and refined clinical skill set.
If you’ve found yourself feeling frustrated or even wanting to give up, you’re not alone…Clients diagnosed with personality disorders are among the highest sources of burnout for clinicians.
It’s time to learn to curb the intensity of managing personality disorders in your office.
Reach for new treatment potentials and make breakthroughs in treating borderline, narcissistic, and antisocial personality types by joining Dan Fox, PhD, author and personality disorder expert, for this transformative webinar. You’ll learn to:

Overcome narcissistic traits of perfectionism and combat their need to overpower you
Harness confidence to manage manipulative and possibly violent antisocial traits in-session
Craft interventions to help the borderline personality disorder client deal with their explosive emotions, self-harm tendencies, and comfort in chaos
Maintain patience and composure with intense emotional expressions and strong pleas for attention

Dr. Fox will present case studies to illustrate client symptomatology, conceptualization, complex comorbidity, and treatment of each personality disorder diagnosis. He’ll guide you through building upon and synthesizing aspects of the most efficacious evidence-based modalities, such as schema, transference-focused, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and dialectical behavioral therapies to construct interventions that transform clients’ personality structures.
Take from this training the courage and confidence to direct treatment with the most complex clients that come to your office.

Kinesiology Taping for Respiratory, Oral Motor, and Speech Related Issues - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-07 20:00 - 22:00
Course Highlights
Kinesiology Taping for Respiratory, Oral Motor, and Speech Related Issues

Kinesiology taping applications to effectively treat issues outside of the traditional including respiration, articulation, feeding, bruxism, drooling
Hands-on labs to practice and review taping principles which you can safely and effectively use the next day

Unusual Cases in Rehab Series: Lumbar Spine, Hip, and Shoulder - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-08 16:00 - 18:00
Course Highlights
Unusual Cases in Rehab Series: Lumbar Spine, Hip, and Shoulder

Immediately improve your ability to apply clinical reasoning in rehabilitation management to the orthopedic patient with uncommon injuries to the spine, hip, and shoulder
Clinically applicable strategies for managing orthopedic injuries including differential diagnosis considerations
Unique case studies to improve your approach to unusual injuries

Suicide and Self-Harm in Adolescents: Effective Assessment and Intervention Strategies for Young People in Crisis - Live Webinar
2022-02-10 07:00 - 15:00, 2022-02-17 09:00 - 17:00
Helping young people heal is your greatest reward.
But when treating adolescents with depression, anxiety, and trauma the full extent of their suffering is not always obvious. Many in distress wear a mask of strength while secretly harming themselves or hiding their struggle with thoughts of suicide. You worry that you could be missing critical signs.
This seminar will provide you with the assessment tools you need to unmask self-harming and suicidal thoughts, adapt interventions from DBT and CBT to work with the distinct challenges of treating suicidal and self-harming adolescents, and manage the specific confidentiality and liability issues that accompany working with minors.
There’s too much at stake to be unprepared!
Sign up today and leave this critical program confident and capable in using these vital assessment tools and treatment techniques to bring hope and healing to vulnerable young clients!

Neuroscience for Clinicians: Brain Change for Stress, Anxiety, Trauma, Moods and Substance Abuse - Live Webinar
2022-02-10 09:00 - 17:00
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 seminar 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 seminar feeling confident in bringing the latest findings from neuroscience into your treatments!

2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional: Two-Day Trauma Competency Conference - Live Webinar
2022-02-10 09:00 - 2022-02-11 17:00
Studies indicate that there are four key elements to effective trauma treatment. When you accomplish these four key elements in treatment with your clients, you will be able to reduce their symptoms and improve clinical outcomes.
Attend this conference and you will walk away with a step-by-step four-stage framework for navigating essential elements of trauma treatment with your traumatized clients.
The essential elements are common to all evidence-based trauma treatments, you will learn how you can integrate this framework with your current approach or methodology to make your trauma treatment even more effective!
This trauma competency training can transform your clinical practice and help improve your trauma treatment outcomes, just as it has for other clinicians around the world.
Best of all, upon completion of this live training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of trauma counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for details.

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99.99 value)!
Simply complete this live event and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CCTP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for professional requirements.

Low Back Pain - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-10 16:00 - 18:00
Course Highlights
Low Back Pain

Relevant and most recent low back pain research
Practical assessment and treatment strategies you can use the next day
Effective, evidence-based interventions for the management and treatment of the most common diagnosis in out-patient rehabilitation

Oppositional, Aggressive, Attention-Seeking & Uncooperative Children, Teens and Young Adults: High-Impact Strategies to Reduce Chronic Misbehavior - Live Webinar
2022-02-11 06:00 - 14:00
This seminar is for YOU if you work with young adults, teens or children who:

Debate and invite power struggles with parents or teachers
Display hostile, angry, revengeful, exploitative or predatory tendencies
Use silly immature tactics to gain attention and get noticed
Engage in property destruction, fire-setting, vandalism or animal cruelty
Have diagnoses such as ADHD, ODD, Bipolar Disorder, or Conduct Disorder
Act irresponsible, helpless, negligent or tardy
Snicker at charts-and-stars and other “behavior modification” attempts

Attend this seminar and learn a wealth of high-impact techniques that cut across diagnostic lines and apply universally, from early childhood to young adult. Using these techniques will enable you to accomplish quickly what can often be missed in months of regular talk therapies, counseling or behavior modification reward systems.
You’ll learn how to stop pre-delinquent clients’ manipulations such as victim playing, power struggling, denial, minimizing, defiance, evasive lying, excuse making, blaming, and justifying. You’ll learn key strategies for “reading” misbehavior to uncover its underlying needs and motivations. You can share these methods with teachers and parents to free them from “ignore-nag-yell-punish” cycles and senseless power struggles. Discover powerful techniques to divert and reduce hostility and revenge in oppositional, predatory, violent adolescents and young adults. You’ll be able to introduce presocial adaptive behaviors that develop conscience and satisfy their unmet needs that trigger misbehavior.

Grief Counseling and Treatment Certification Training: Assessments and Interventions to Support Healthy Grieving and Adaptation to Death and Loss - Live Webinar
2022-02-11 06:00 - 14:00
It has always been your calling to help the suffering.
And today a growing wave of grieving clients is looking to professionals like you for assistance as dramatic rises in death and loss have left millions in anguish.
You’re eager to lead those in pain out of their dark places and give them a glimmer of hope, but working with death and loss can be intimidating. One wrong step can break the therapeutic alliance and some forms of grief are easy to overlook, preventing you from pursuing the most beneficial treatment path.
How can you ensure you’re prepared?
This one-day certification training will give you step-by-step guidance on identifying specific manifestations of grief and individualizing counseling and treatment so you can normalize clients’ pain, listen in a way their family and friends cannot, and help them rebuild fulfilling lives!
Full of ready to use assessment tools, therapeutic approaches and specific clinical interventions, you’ll finish this training feeling ready and capable to improve grieving clients’ ability to express their emotions, build support, and process their grief in a healthy way.
Best of all, you can add a valuable certification to your resume and become a Certified Grief Counseling Specialist (CGCS) through Evergreen Certifications upon completion of this training at no additional cost to you!
Sign up today!

Rewire the Anxious Brain: Neuroscience-Informed Treatment of Anxiety, Panic and Worry - Live Webinar
2022-02-11 06:00 - 14:00
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!

Utilizing Sensory Integration Strategies - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-11 10:00 - 12:00
Course Highlights
Utilizing Sensory Integration Strategies

Techniques to foster self-regulation, decreased negative behaviors, and improved parent-child bonding for improved session outcomes and home follow through
Proven sensory strategies and skill implementation techniques
Case study application examples for best practices in the early intervention setting

Pediatric Voice Disorders - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-12 08:00 - 12:00
Course Highlights
Pediatric Voice Disorders

Unique considerations of voice disorders in the pediatric population
Best diagnostic tools and interventions for the successful treatment of voice disorders
Importance of different members’ roles on the intervention team
Organic and functional etiologies of voice and resonance disorders

2-Day Certification Training: Treating Anxiety Disorders in Children & Adolescents - Live Webinar
2022-02-17 09:00 - 2022-02-18 17:00
Divorce, family breakdown, violence in society and the media, has produced a “shell shocked” generation of kids suffering from anxiety!
Join anxiety expert and author, 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. 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.
Best of all, upon completion of this live training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Child & Adolescent Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP-CA) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of child and adolescent anxiety counseling. Professional standards apply. Visit www. evergreencertifications.com/CCATPCA for details.

Physical Agent Modalities - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-17 16:00 - 18:00
Course Highlights
Physical Agent Modalities

Immediately improve your clients’ pain using practical treatment techniques that do not have pharmacological side effects
Review outcome measures and evidence-based results for use of physical modalities
Practical interventions that are low cost and high yield for reducing pain and inflammation
Demonstrations to review therapeutic effects of ice massage
Effective, evidence-based interventions and case studies for most orthopedic dysfunctions

Mental Health Issues in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Helping Children and Adolescents Succeed - Live Webinar
2022-02-18 06:00 - 14:00
Join child/adolescent behavioral expert, R. Nicolle Carr, Ph.D., and learn how to best manage the students at your school diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), mood disorders, anxiety, and depression. You will walk away with concrete, yet practical, strategies to successfully intervene with their serious behavioral issues, such as:

Anger and outbursts
Cutting and self-injury
Defiance
Impulsivity
Sensory Issues
Meltdowns and tantrums
Obsessive compulsive
Truancy
Rigidity
Electronic addiction

Through case studies, video clips and dynamic class discussion you will learn:

30-second teacher strategies to manage challenging and disruptive behaviors
New ways to reduce the costs of out-of-district placements
How to engage students in class, increase productivity, and reduce truancy
Behavioral assessments and strategies for the IEP team
Side-effects of common psychotropic medications
How skill deficits from mental health conditions create behavioral difficulties
Characteristics of at-risk students’ mental health problems
Strategies to gain collaboration with clinicians

Leave the day with the “magic dust” you have been looking for to expedite rapid and effective changes in these children and adolescents!

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2022-02-18 09:00 - 17:00
Many persons diagnosed with ADHD prefer not to take medication. There are various reasons for this including side effects and concerns with long-term use. In this seminar, you will learn more about these reasons, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.
Looking at ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider reasons for the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way the brain works in ADHD, you will be able to better identify a variety of strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and positively influence symptoms of ADHD in your clients.
Not only will you walk away with information about some of the most common non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation, and neurofeedback, you will also learn a variety of practical strategies that can be implemented immediately and at low cost.
We will navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements, and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life”. You will leave this seminar with the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD.

An Evidence-Based Developmental Approach to the Pediatric Brain - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-18 10:00 - 17:00
Course Highlights
An Evidence-Based Developmental Approach to the Pediatric Brain

Assess primitive reflexes for coordination disorders and learning disabilities
Immediately gain the assessment skills required to identify red flags that lead to development impairments
Understanding the vestibular and visual systems and the proper movement and positioning strategies to improve these issues
Optimal treatment strategies to show fast and lasting changes in motor, sensory and language development
Gain the latest research on neuroplasticity’s role in the development of infants and children
Self-regulation strategies to improve sensory processing issues
Parent and caregiver resources and considerations to progress developmental changes in the home

The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques: Updated Strategies to Help Even the Most Challenging Clients - Live Webinar
2022-02-23 07:00 - 15:00
Helping your clients overcome anxiety is challenging. You’ve tried the common techniques but aren’t confident you applied them correctly and worse, your client is still struggling. If you’re feeling frustrated and unsure of what to do next? Then don’t miss this opportunity! International trainer & author Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg will teach you the 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Techniques and help you master:

Applying the techniques with difficult cases
Using the techniques with different age groups
Treating clients with co-morbid diagnosis
Options to use with groups and individuals that work in every clinical population
Applying the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation and the default mode network to create successful exposure therapies and reduce rigid, anxious thought process

This fresh approach will give you a complete set of tools to work with anxiety symptoms. You’ll learn what the latest research has proven and you’ll be confident that you can apply these techniques in clinical practice. Most importantly, Margaret’s pragmatic approach will provide you with practical strategies you can immediately use with all clients.

Home Exercise Programs - Live Interactive Webinar
2022-02-23 15:00 - 17:00
Course Highlights
Home Exercise Programs

Best practices to overcome common barriers and improve your patients’ compliance
Practical design and exercise selection to start improving patient outcomes the very next day!

Smart But Scattered: Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School - Live Webinar
2022-02-24 08:00 - 16:00
Children who have deficient executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework. They make careless mistakes, put off work until the last minute and have no sense of time urgency. Workspaces are disorganized and teachers often refer to their backpacks or lockers as “black holes.” Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Dr. Dawson, co-author of the best-selling books Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 3rd Ed. (2018), Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009) and Smart but Scattered Teens (2013, Guilford) uses case examples along with interactive discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies to help children and adolescents overcome executive skills weaknesses.
Leave this seminar with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems. You will be able to give teachers and parents a means for developing and improving the following:

Organization
Time management
Impulse control
Goal-directed persistence
Executive skills critical for independent functioning

Havening Techniques® for Treating Trauma, PTSD and Anxiety: NEW Strategies for Overcoming Fear and Building Resilience - Live Webinar
2022-02-25 09:00 - 17:00
What do you do when a patient is hijacked by their emotional brain? When no amount of talking and thinking will unwind their cycling thoughts and ruminations?
If you treat clients who experience anxiety, trauma, depression, pain, panic or any other stress-based disorder, then no doubt you’ve had moments of feeling helpless watching a client paralyzed by their harmful core beliefs or triggers of traumatic experiences.
Wouldn’t it be great having highly effective easy-to-use tools that directly address the emotions keeping your clients stuck in painful pasts and unable to realize a brighter future?
Utilizing similar mechanisms as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Havening Techniques are a new suite of neuroscience-based interventions designed for fast and effective treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and other fear-based disorders such as anxiety, panic disorder, and phobias – whether your clients are in session, at home or on the go – whenever difficult emotions come at unexpected times!
Join Havening Techniques Certified Trainer and Global Director of Continuing Education, Dr. Kate Truitt, for this must-see webcast and discover her secrets for creating a gentle, clientcentered approach to trauma-informed, neuroscience-based, and resiliency-focused care.
Add Havening Techniques to your toolbox and create new pathways to sustainable change in your clients’ lives.
Register today!

Unpacking the Black Box of Cognitive Rehabilitation - In-Person and Virtual
2022-02-26 07:30 - 16:30
Evidence-Backed Treatment Frameworks and Therapy Approaches that Promote Functional Change in People with Brain Injury
with McKay Moore Sohlberg, PhD, CCC-SLP
Course Description
Cognitive rehabilitation after brain injury is arguably one of the most complex forms of rehabilitation. This course focuses on describing evidence-backed cognitive rehabilitation practices that have the potential to enhance individual function and quality of life. It includes frameworks that guide the clinical processes for selecting goals, treatment approaches, and measurement plans.
Specification of the treatment ingredients inherent in a range of treatment approaches to address challenges in attention, memory and executive function will be detailed. Illustrative client profiles will be presented with opportunities for conference participants to apply principles and techniques to their own practice.
Objectives
At the end of this activity, the learner should be able to recommend the appropriate diagnostic
Upon completion of the course participants will be able to:

Describe the Plan Implement & Evaluate (PIE) and Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) as applied to cognitive rehabilitation
Identify the key components of person-centered collaborative goal setting
Describe psychological mindedness practices that enhance working alliance, client engagement and psychoeducation
Describe treatment ingredients and the PIE process for:

Metacognitive strategy instruction
External aid training
Use of attention drills (brain training)

Who Should Attend
This course is designed for speech-language pathologists.
