About this event
A workshop with Dr. Annie Simpson, Ph.D., director of Cornerstone Child and Family Psychology Clinic.

Discover evidence-based strategies to empower your anxious child with Dr. Simpson, a specialist in anxiety disorders and OCD in children. In this session, parents will gain practical skills to understand and assist your child effectively during this time of global unrest and unprecedented challenges.

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Annie Simpson, Ph.D., is a psychologist specializing in treating and preventing anxiety disorders and OCD in children and youth. Utilizing scientifically supported techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy, she works with both children and parents to equip families with skills for lasting changes transferable to future concerns. Co-author of OCD in Children and Adolescents, Dr. Annie has contributed as a consultant for Anxiety Canada, developed self-help materials, and co-created Confident Parents — Thriving Kids with the Canadian Mental Health Association. She has served in the Pediatric OCD Program at BC Children’s Hospital and is a Clinical Associate at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Annie is also the co-founder and director of Cornerstone Child and Family Psychology Clinic in Vancouver, Canada.

Emotion Regulation Skills with Dr. Elizabeth Dexter-Mazza, Co-developer of DBT for Schools (DBT STEPS-A).

Join Dr. Dexter-Mazza as she shares essential tools for modeling and teaching emotion management skills. With her expertise in DBT skills, she’ll guide parents in effective strategies for supporting children struggling to regulate their emotions.

Speaker’s Bio:
Dr. Elizabeth Dexter-Mazza is a certified DBT therapist and co-author of the DBT STEPS-A social emotional learning curriculum for middle and high school students. She received her doctoral degree from the School of Professional Psychology at Pacific University in 2004, and completed her predoctoral internship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center’s Adolescent Depression and Suicide Program. Dr. Dexter-Mazza completed her postdoctoral fellowship under the direction of Dr. Marsha Linehan at the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC) at the University of Washington. While at the BRTC, she was the Clinical Director and a research therapist for Dr. Linehan’s research studies, which provided both individual DBT and DBT group skills training. She has published several book chapters and peer reviewed articles on DBT, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), and graduate school training in how to manage suicidal clients. Dr. Dexter-Mazza is a licensed psychologist and maintains a private practice in Seattle, providing comprehensive DBT and skills based coaching and support to family members and friends of individuals with BPD.

Dr. Dexter-Mazza provides individual therapy to adolescents, young adults, adults and parent coaching. She has been providing DBT since 2000 and is considered an expert in training mental health professionals around the world in DBT. She also provides consultation on the implementation of DBT and DBT STEPS-A to clinicians and schools.

About this event
Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
A training with Dr. Raymond Tucker, suicide prevention researcher and professor, on the CAMS Care Framework.

Learning Objectives:
Summarize the four central tenets of the CAMS philosophy
Identify five transtheoretical risk factors associated with suicidal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Explain the difference between suicide risk factors, warning signs, and drivers of suicide

Speaker Bio
Raymond P. Tucker is an associate professor of psychology at Louisiana State University and licensed clinical psychologist. He teaches undergraduate courses in psychology, graduate courses in clinical psychology, and founded the LSU Mitigation of Suicidal Behavior research laboratory. As a clinical assistant professor of psychology at LSU Health Sciences Center, Baton Rouge, he trains medical staff/trainees in suicide-specific evidence-based assessment and intervention protocols.

​Raymond’s research broadly focuses on the enhancement of theoretical models of suicide and suicide risk assessment tools. His work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Scattergood Behavioral Health, and the Franciscan Ministries. In 2020, he was named American Association of Suicidology’s Citizen Scientist for the role he has played in training his local community and LSU’s Rising Faculty Research Award for his contributions to academic psychology.

Raymond also serves as a consultant for Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) Care and provides trainings in the evidence-based suicide prevention framework to behavioral health providers across the world. In his role as director of the National Suicidology Training Center, Raymond provides trainings on a series of suicide-specific interventions, including suicide safety planning, postvention programming, and motivational interviewing for suicide prevention.

Accreditation Statement:
CE Credits: 2.0
The Wellness Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TWI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The New York State Education Department recognizes the Wellness Institute as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed Psychologists, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs and LMFTs.
Social Workers, LMFTs, and LPC/LMHC in many states can satisfy their continuing education requirements at this event. Contact [email protected] for more information.
For beginner, intermediate, and advanced professionals.
The Wellness Institute, the event planners, and the presenters receive no commercial support for this program.

Does your child struggle with moods and intense emotions?

Join us for Navigating Intense Emotions with Dr. Tami Benton, President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).

In this webinar, you will:

Develop skills to offer support to children navigating daily emotional challenges
Explore strategies to prevent the escalation of minor mood issues into disorders
Gain the ability to identify warning signs of mood disorders and know when and how to seek professional guidance
Learn effective techniques for supporting children with mood disorders.
Produced by the Wellness Institute, a division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI)

Speaker Bio:

Tami D. Benton, MD, is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief, the Executive Director, and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Clinical Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is the President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Navigating Challenges: Building Resilience in Ourselves and Our Children

With Dr. Andrew Shatte,
Research Professor, University of Arizona
Fellow, Brookings Institute
Chief Knowledge Officer and Cofounder, meQ
Co-author, The Resilience Factor and meQuilibrium

Boca Raton, Florida
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Navigating the complexities of suicidality for a mental health professional can be quite challenging, even with top-notch training. Suicide, suicide attempts, and suicide ideation are difficult to predict and prevent.

To increase your confidence in addressing suicide risk, The Wellness Institute arranged a 90-minute live training titled:
Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide
with Dr. David Klonsky, a leading suicide researcher at the University of British Columbia.

Gain a practical, evidence-based understanding of suicide that will empower you to reduce suicide risk and help people build lives worth living.

Educational Objectives:
– Discuss current suicide theory to better understand and reduce suicide risk
– Identify factors that cause progression from suicide ideation to suicide attempts

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Klonsky is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research examines suicide, including the pursuit of parsimonious models of suicide and better understanding of suicide motivations and warning signs. Dr. Klonsky also pursues research interests in emotion, personality, and assessment, many of which overlap with his work on suicide.

Accreditation Statement:
CE Credits: 1.5
The Wellness Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TWI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The New York State Education Department recognizes the Wellness Institute as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed Psychologists, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs and LMFTs.
Social Workers, LMFTs, and LPC/LMHC in many states can satisfy their continuing education requirements at this event. Contact [email protected] for more information.
For beginner, intermediate, and advanced professionals.
The Wellness Institute, the event planners, and the presenters receive no commercial support for this program.

About this event
In today’s world, our children are encountering and navigating challenges unlike ever before, making it crucial to explore new avenues to support their well-being.

Best-selling author and Columbia University psychologist Lisa Miller, PhD, has identified a major factor that empowers children to thrive through it all: spirituality.

This single factor has been shown to reduce the risk of substance use and abuse by 40% and reduce the risk of teenage depression by 60%. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

In this webinar, you will learn Dr. Miller’s how and why to develop and encourage your children’s―and your own―well-being through a relationship with their innate spirituality.

Speaker Bio:
Lisa Miller, Ph.D., is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, she has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grant funded research studies. Dr. Miller speaks and consults around The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child for the US Military, businesses (including tech, finance, HR and sales), personal development, faith based organizations, schools and universities, and for mental health and wellness initiatives.

We all have stressors and difficulties that come up in our daily lives, but what are our reactions? How do we navigate life’s challenges without getting overwhelmed?

Cultivating Resilience: Essential Thinking Skills that build resilience in You and Your Children on Thursday, with The Wellness Institute’s director, Zalman Abraham.

Zalman Abraham is the author of a new science-based SEL curriculum that gives young people evidence-based resilience-building skills—interwoven with the timeless wisdom of relevant Jewish sources.

In this session, you’ll learn the core thinking skills that build resilience and mental well-being and can empower you and your children to thrive in the face of adversity.

Presenter Bio:
Rabbi Zalman Abraham is a member of the leadership team of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, author of several JLI courses, and director of The Wellness Institute—a division of JLI dedicated to youth mental health. He is the editor-in-chief of Cultivating Resilience, a groundbreaking Jewish social-emotional learning curriculum designed to empower middle- and high-school students with essential life skills for emotional well-being. Zalman previously served as a writer and editor at Kehot Publication Society and as Editor-in-Chief at AskMoses.com. Zalman lives with his wife, Leah, and children in Brooklyn, New York.

More than ever, today’s youth are stressed, lonely, and failing to launch in real life. With the current situation in Israel, across the world and all the uncertainty, how do we help children flourish and succeed ?

Raising Thrivers: Seven Teachable Strengths That Set Happy, Healthy, High-Performing Kids Apart, with educational psychologist and best-selling author of Thrivers, Dr. Michele Borba.

Dr. Borba’s research has identified seven teachable traits that make the difference between children who struggle and those who succeed: self-confidence, empathy, self-control, integrity, curiosity, perseverance, and optimism.

In this webinar, you will learn why each trait is critical for personal success and gain practical takeaways you can implement in your parenting to boost your children’s resilience.

Dr. Michele Borba Bio:
Michele Borba, Ed.D. is an internationally renowned educator, award-winning author, and parenting child expert recognized for her solution-based strategies to strengthen children’s character, resilience, and reduce peer cruelty.

Dr. Borba is as well known for her warm, down-to-earth speaking style as she is for cutting edge insights. Her informative presentations leave audiences with usable strategies. A sought-after motivational speaker, she has spoken on 30 countries in six continents and served as a consultant to hundreds of schools and corporations. Clients include Sesame Street, Harvard, U.S. Air Force Academy, 18 U.S. Army bases in Europe and the Asian-Pacific, H.H. the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi ,and a TEDx Talk: “Empathy Is a Verb.” She offers realistic, research-based advice culled from a career working with over one million parents and educators worldwide.

She is the award-winning author of 25 books translated into 21 languages, including her most recent book, Thrivers: The Surprising Reasons Why Some Kids Struggle and Others Shine as well as Nobody Likes Me, No More Misbehavin’, Don’t Give Me That Attitude!, Building Moral Intelligence, Parents Do Make a Difference, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions, End Peer Cruelty, Build Empathy, and UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World.

Dr. Borba is a former classroom and special education teacher with a wide range of teaching experience, including work in a private practice with children with learning and emotional disabilities. She received a Doctorate in Educational Psychology and Counseling from the University of San Francisco, an M.A. in Learning Disabilities and B.A. from the University of Santa Clara, and Life Teaching Credential from San Jose State University. She lives in Palm Springs, California with her husband and has three grown sons.

More information: MicheleBorba.com, Twitter @MicheleBorba, Instagram: @drmicheleborba

About this event:
Anxiety is one of the leading issues parents are dealing with today, especially during challenging times like these.

Thriving with Anxiety: How anxiety can help children flourish
with Harvard Associate Professor David H. Rosmarin, PhD.
This session will provide you with core knowledge of what anxiety is, practical tools to help children who struggle with it, and how anxiety can be used as a tool to help them thrive. With the war going on in Israel, Dr. Rosmarin will also address anxiety in challenging times.
For questions and scholarships, email [email protected]

Click here for free resources from Dr. David Rosmarin, shared specifically for those joining this event. It includes 25 free e-book copies of his new book, Thriving With Anxiety (for the first 25 that sign up to download it) and a free downloadable 12-page guide on anxiety based on the new book.

Produced by the Wellness Institute, a division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI)

If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call or text the new three-digit, 24-hour hotline of the US Government and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 to be connected to a trained suicide crisis counselor.

Presenter Bio:

David H. Rosmarin PhD is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a program director at McLean Hospital, and founder of Center for Anxiety, which services over 1,000 patients/year in multiple states. He is an international expert on spirituality and mental health, whose work has been featured in Scientific American, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Through his work as a clinical psychologist, scientist, educator and author, Dr. Rosmarin has helped thousands of patients and organizations to live happier and more productive lives. His most recent book is Thriving with Anxiety: 9 Tools to Make Your Anxiety Work for You.