An Introduction to Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents (IPT-A) with Dr. Laura Mufson, PhD

Dr. Mufson is also the co-author of the prevention model (IPT-AST) and the model for preadolescent depression (FB-IPT). She has written numerous publications on adolescent depression, temperament, and psychopathology. Dr. Mufson conducts training workshops on IPT-A internationally.

Learning Objectives:
1) To learn the basic principles of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for depression
2) To understand key IPT-A strategies and techniques

This event is geared towards beginner, intermediate and advanced professionals.

About IPT-A:
IPT-A is a time-limited (12–16 sessions) individual psychotherapy for adolescents ages 12–18 suffering from depression. IPT-A focuses on how relationship issues are related to the onset or ongoing occurrence of depressive symptoms.

IPT-A aims to help:
1) Adolescents recognize their feelings and think about how interpersonal events or conflicts might affect their mood
2) Improve communication and problem-solving skills
3) Enhance social functioning and lessen stress experienced in relationships; and decrease depressive symptoms.

Accreditation Statement:
The Wellness Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TWI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
CE Credit: 1.5
Social Workers, LMFTs, and LPC/LMHCs in many states can satisfy their continuing education requirements at APA-approved sponsor’s events.

The Wellness Institute, the event planners, and the presenters receive no commercial support for this program.

About Dr. Laura Mufson
Dr. Mufson is the developer of the adolescent adaptation of interpersonal psychotherapy for depression (IPT-A) and is the leading expert on its use with depressed adolescents. She is co-author of the prevention model (IPT-AST) and the model for preadolescent depression (FB-IPT). She is the author of numerous publications on adolescent depression, temperament, psychopathology, and risk factors for psychopathology, as well as articles and book chapters on the treatment of adolescent depression and interpersonal psychotherapy. Dr. Mufson conducts training workshops on IPT-A internationally.

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.

We know that a parent’s effectiveness in lovingly setting limits with their child directly impacts their child’s overall well-being yet most parents struggle with this.

Dr. Brenner is a leading parenting expert whose “connect before you correct” method has helped countless parents build a strong relationship with their children as a foundation of understanding and trust for effective connection and limit-setting with their child.

About Dr. Mark L. Brenner
Known as ‘The Family Whisperer,’ Dr. Mark L. Brenner is one of the most respected Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists in the field of early childhood development, adolescence, and high-conflict family issues. He is an adjunct professor of psychology at Pepperdine University in California. Dr. Mark L. Brenner is the author of When “NO” Gets You Nowhere, Raising an Adult, and Reset: The Playbook to Transform All Parenting Relationships.

An introduction to evidence-based approaches to strengthen your confidence and competence in effectively working with suicide risk in teens

Join us on Friday, December 9, with Dr. David A Brent for: Treating Depressed and Suicidal Teens

Learning Objectives:
1. Review methods for assessing risk factors for suicide and imminent suicidality in teens.
2. Discuss evidence-based approaches to suicide prevention and intervention, including Chain Analysis, Safety Plans, and Treatment Plans.

About Dr. David A Brent:
David Brent is a child and adolescent psychiatrist trained who has worked as a researcher in the area of adolescent suicide for four decades at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is a Distinguished Professor and holds an Endowed Chair in Suicide Studies. His work has focused on the ascertainment of risk factors for adolescent suicide and the translation of those findings into interventions to reduce suicidal risk. In collaboration with many others, he helped to identify the role of mood disorders, substance, and firearms as risk factors for adolescent suicide and has delineated some mechanisms by which suicidal behavior is transmitted in families. He has helped to develop and test novel methods for the assessment of suicidal risk through such diverse methods as adaptive screening, neural correlates of suicidal thinking, and machine learning of health records. David has also helped to develop and test psychotherapeutic approaches to depressed and suicidal youth, including a brief, app-supported intervention to reduce suicidal risk in high-risk adolescents.

David currently leads an NIMH-funded Center, which is a collaboration with over 30 other colleagues, with the goals of enhancing the capacity of pediatric primary care to detect, triage, and manage depressed and suicidal youth, and training a diverse, national cohort of early career scientists focused on youth suicide. He co-founded and has led a clinical program, Services for Teens at Risk, that has treated over 7000 suicidal adolescents and young adults. David led an NIMH-funded research training grant for 3 decades and has helped to train many highly successful researchers and academic leaders.

Preparing kids to thrive through good and challenging times. With Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg MD

About this event
Challenges are inevitable but resilience skills are not.

Join us on Wednesday, November 16th, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM EST with Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, to learn how to cultivate life-essential resilience skills in your children.

Learn practical insights on how to give your children the skills they need to succeed even in life’s toughest times. Gain the day-to-day parent tools needed to facilitate resilience in your children.

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

About Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg MD
Kenneth R. Ginsburg MD, MSEd, is a Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He practices social adolescent medicine — medicine with special attention to prevention and the recognition that social context and stressors impact both physical and emotional health. The theme that ties together his clinical practice, teaching, research and advocacy efforts is that of building on the strength of teenagers by fostering their internal resilience.

Dr. Ginsburg is the Co-Director of the Center for Parent and Teen Communication, which promotes the health, character and well-being of adolescents through education, research and advocacy. He developed the teen-centered method, which helps youth to generate, prioritize and explain their own proposed solutions to social problems and to teach clinicians how to better serve them. In addition to his research publications, he also has five parenting books including, Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings, Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love with Expectations and Protection with Trust, and Letting Go with Love and Confidence, all published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He is also the author of Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development, a comprehensive multimedia toolkit published by the AAP.

Dr. Ginsburg lectures widely to national and international parent and professional audiences. He has also worked closely with The US Military, The Boys and Girls Club of America and The National Congress of American Indians to deepen the role of resilience-building strategies in their programming.

A live, virtual event.

Learn about the benefits of turning to spirituality from a pioneer in mental health.

Lisa Miller, PhD
Columbia University
World-renowned researcher, lecturer, and author of The Awakened Brain

About this event
Post-Covid, anxiety, and depression have shot up and general mental health has plummeted.

Join us on Tuesday, November 1st – 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM PDT to hear from Dr. Andrew Shatte world-renowned speaker and writer as we explore integral Emotional Regulation Skills.

Learn how to build your child’s emotional regulation by identifying and challenging the thoughts and beliefs that trigger their strong emotional responses.

About Dr. Andrew Shatté:
Dr. Andrew Shatté is the founder and President of Phoenix Life Academy, a training company that specializes in measuring and training for resilience. He is in high demand as a speaker and has delivered over 1,000 keynote speeches and addresses to large corporate audiences over the last decade. He is the Chief Science Officer with meQuilibrium, an online stress management company.

A Ph.D. psychologist, Dr. Shatté received his training at the University of Pennsylvania where in 2003 he was voted best professor by the students . He and his colleagues were the first to develop the principles of resilience and apply them to the corporate sector.

Dr. Shatté is a Research Professor at the Medical School of the University of Arizona. He is co-author of The Resilience Factor, published by Random House in 2002 and re-released in a new edition in 2010. He also co-authored meQuilibrium, a Random House book on resilience and stress.

A Conversation With Dr. Tamar Chansky, A World-Renowned Expert on Anxiety in Children

About this event
Child anxiety is one of the leading issues parents are dealing with today. Many parents are at a loss for how to help their children out of the anxiety they are experiencing.

In our most recent survey, child anxiety was the #1 requested topic.

We’ve created the opportunity to hear from Dr. Tamar Chansky, psychologist and world expert in the field of child anxiety.

About Dr. Tamar Chansky
Dr. Tamar Chansky is a celebrated psychologist, author and speaker; she earned her Masters in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and received her Doctoral Degree in the Temple University Clinical Psychology Program. Dr. Chansky founded the Children’s and Adult Center for OCD and Anxiety in 1999.

Currently, Dr. Chansky treats children and adults with anxiety disorders as well as giving trainings to parents and professionals. Dr. Chansky is the author of the popular, Freeing Your Child series, including ‘Freeing Your Child from OCD’, ‘Freeing Your Child from Anxiety’, ‘Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking’, and a book for adults: ‘Freeing Yourself from Anxiety’. Dr. Chansky works with children as young as three years old and with adults of all ages.

Join us on September 15th to have the oppurtunity to hear from and interact with Dr. Chansky yourself!

About this event
In today’s youth climate, the most effective way of teaching and reaching students is by taking their mental health into account.

Join us on Monday, August 22, 1:00-3:00 p.m. EDT, for a virtual PD opportunity to learn Essential Skills for Effective Teaching where you will learn practical skills to effectively teach while considering students’ mental health.

Part 1:
Teaching with Compassion
Learn best practices for effective teaching, creating a positive mental environment for students and teachers
with Dr. Regan Gurung, PhD
Professor and Director of the General Psychology Program at Oregon State University.

Part 2:
Mental Health Safety in the Classroom
Master the warning signs of students at risk and how to practice a warm handoff to professionals when needed.
with Jill Harkavy–Friedman, PhD
Vice President of Research, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

By the end of this presentation attendees will be able to:
1. Identify Five Essential Skills for successful teaching
2. Apply evidence-informed practices to address student mental health as part of effective teaching
3. Create ways to practice self-care for themselves.
4. Know the Warning Signs of Students at Risk
5. Master how to practice a warm handoff when noticing students at risk

About Dr. Gurung:
Regan A. R. Gurung is a social psychologist by training with research encompassing social, health, and pedagogical psychology. Over 100 of his articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals and he has co-authored/co-edited 15 books. His most recent books are Thriving in Academia (with Pam Ansburg and Mark Basham), and Study Like a Champ (with John Dunlosky). He was a founding co-editor of APA’s journal Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, co-chaired the APA General Psychology Initiative, and is past president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.

About Jill Harkavy Friedman:
A pioneer in suicide research, she was the first researcher to ask high school students about suicidal ideation and behavior. Dr. Jill Harkavy-Friedman leads the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s growing research grant program. She works with over 200 scientific advisors to evaluate progress in the field and chart the next areas of inquiry to yield impactful insights and strategies for suicide prevention.

ABOUT THE EVENT
The Spirituality and Wellness Summit will unite the broader South Florida community around the use of evidence-based spiritual practices to facilitate wellness and recovery. Attendees will learn about the latest research on the impact of spirituality on wellness and recovery, hear from practitioners who have successfully incorporated spiritual practices into treatment plans, and listen to the inspiring stories of individuals who discovered spirituality on their journey to wellness. Additionally, participants will explore how to implement spiritual practices into their daily routine with tools that will help them reach a more meaningful and less stressful life.

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An interactive workshop for behavioral health providers on how to work with suicidal clients in therapy.

About this event
The Wellness Institute invites you to a live training with Dr. Mathew Wintersteen, an expert on interacting with suicidal clients in therapy.

Learn ing Objectives:

– Develop evidence-based safety plans for suicidal individuals, in collaboration with affected families and

– Identify approaches to self-care when managing suicidal individuals in the caseload

Accreditation Statement:

CE Credit: 2.0

The Wellness Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TWI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Social Workers, LMFTs, and LPC/LMHCs in most states can satisfy their continuing education requirements at APA-approved sponsor’s events.

About Dr. Wintersteen

Dr. Wintersteen is Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. In collaboration with OMHSAS, he has served as Co-Investigator and Co-Program Developer of several SAMHSA-funded programs focused on youth suicide prevention across Pennsylvania. He is Director of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Suicide Prevention Coalition and co-chairs the Delaware Valley Medical Student Wellness Collaborative. In addition to his grant-funded projects, Dr. Wintersteen has served on national task forces convened by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, the American Association of Suicidology, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the National Institute of Mental Health. He was a consultant to the National Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide (NCPYS) and served as the Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative for nearly a decade. As a clinical psychologist at Jefferson, Dr. Wintersteen provides clinical care, educates students and residents, and carries out his research on youth suicide prevention.