Summer Strong: Wellness Support Training for Camp Staff

June 28, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum

Training for camp staff to learn a person-centered approach to build rapport with campers and engineer unforgettable summer experiences.

About this event
The Wellness Institute invites camp staff to a two-hour training to learn a person-centered approach to building rapport with campers and engineer magical summer experiences that will last a lifetime.

3 experts in the mental health field will teach skills that will help you learn how to be there for campers, build strong relationships with them, and encourage a safe and supportive environment during their stay at camp.

Here are some of the skills you will learn:

Mental Health/Suicide Safety Guidelines
Empathy
Active Listening
Building Trust and Rapport
Dialectical Thinking
Healthy Boundaries
Presenters:

Jonathan Singer, Ph.D., LCSW, Former President, American Association of Suicidology
Tamara Afifi, P.h.D., Department Chair and Professor, Department of Communication, UC Santa Barbara
Nina Kaweblum, LCSW, DBT-LBC, MA, MEd, DBT Certified Clinician
Cost: $20 per staff member (Volume discount available)

If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call the toll-free, 24-hour hotline of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) or text the Crisis Text Line (Text “HOME” To 741741) to be connected to a trained suicide crisis counselor.

This event is produced by The Wellness Institute, a division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).

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Suicide Safety: Early Warning Signs and Interventions

May 26, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum

Learn the warning signs in young children and how to practice prevention and intervention with the latest research and best practices.

About this event
The Wellness Institute invites you to a live training with Dr. Arielle Sheftall, principal investigator at the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

What are the signs and symptoms of suicide in youth? What protective and preemptive interventions can parents of young children take to prevent suicide?

About Dr. Sheftall:

Arielle Sheftall, PhD, is a principal investigator in the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Her research program investigates early vulnerability factors associated with suicidal behavior in young children with the goal of implementing early intervention programs to prevent future suicidal behavior in at-risk youth. She received her undergraduate degree from Penn State University and doctorate at The Ohio State University. She is a Massachusetts native and loves all things sports.

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Quieting the Silence: How to be a Source of Support

May 18, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum

Hear the moving stories of two parent-teen duos who faced mental health challenges with strength and resilience.

About this event
The Wellness Institute and The Blue Dove Foundation invite you to Quieting the Silence: How to be a Source of Support.

Join us on May 17 to hear the moving stories of two parent-teen duos who faced mental health challenges with strength and resilience. What supported them through their ordeals? How did they support each other through their crises?

Dr. Jonathan Singer, a leading expert in suicidology who has been working with children and teens for many years, will moderate the event which will give us insight into how parents and teens can help each other and how the people in their lives could be there for them.

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Bullying to Empathy

April 8, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum
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About this event

The Wellness Institute invites you to a live training with Dr. Susan Swearer, a highly sought-after public speaker and leading bullying prevention expert.

Learning Objectives:

– Participants will understand the complexity of bullying behaviors and the connection to mental health issues

– Participants will apply information about bullying behaviors that can be realistically implemented in homes, schools, and community settings

About Dr. Swearer:

Dr. Susan M. Swearer is the Willa Cather Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology and Professor of School Psychology at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. She is a licensed psychologist, co-director of the Bullying Research Network (http://brnet.unl.edu) and director of the Nebraska Bullying Prevention and Intervention Initiative (http://empowerment.unl.edu).

 

For the past two decades, Dr. Swearer has developed and implemented a data-based decision-making model for responding to bullying among school-aged youth and has conducted staff trainings in elementary, middle, and high schools, and higher education settings with the goal of helping to establish cost-effective and data-based strategies to reduce bullying behaviors.

 

Dr. Swearer is the co-author of Bullying Prevention and Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools and the author of over 100 book chapters and articles on the topics of bullying, depression, and anxiety in school-aged youth. Her Target Bullying Intervention Program was featured on CBS Sunday Morning; she was an invited presenter at the White House Bullying Prevention Conference; and she was a panelist at the launch of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation at Harvard University.

 

In March 2012, Dr. Swearer was a featured bullying expert on Anderson Cooper’s daytime show, “Anderson.” From January 2013 to March 2013, she toured with Lady Gaga and the Born This Way Foundation on the Born Brave Bus, a youth empowerment experience that impacted over 150,000 participants. Currently, she is working on an anti-bullying initiative with the National Guard, Helping Everyone Achieve Respect, which has reached over 600,000 high school students in the U.S. She serves on the Advisory Council for CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Southern Connecticut, the Lincoln/Lancaster County Suicide Prevention Coalition, and chairs UNL’s Chancellor’s Commission on the Prevention of Sexual Misconduct.

 

Dr. Swearer is a supervising psychologist in the Child and Adolescent Therapy Clinic at UNL and for seven years was the Director of the Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology, an APA-approved internship program that trains 30-plus interns annually. Her career has been devoted to the intersection of research and practice and training the next generation of child and adolescent psychologists.

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Understanding Suicide to Prevent Suicide

April 8, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum
Learn practical, evidence-based explanation for suicide that will empower you to understand and reduce suicide risk.

About this event

The Wellness Institute invites you to a live training with Dr. David Klonsky, an expert on suicide motivation and warning signs.

 

Learning Objectives:

– Identify the most common motivations for suicide

– Identify factors that facilitate progression from suicide ideation to suicide attempts

– Utilize current suicide theory to better understand and reduce suicide risk

 

Accreditation Statement:

 

CE Credit: 1.5

 

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. Klonsky:

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.

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Cognitive Resilience

March 29, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum
Learn why and how to teach your child resilience from one of the leading researchers in the field.

About this event

NEW DATE! – MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2022

The Wellness Institute invites you to a live training with Dr. Andrew Shatté, a highly sought-after public speaker and leading resilience expert.

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 faculty with the Institute for Management Studies where he speaks to large and diverse corporate audiences several times each year. He is a fellow with the Brookings Institution where he trains high-level executives from the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, the IRS, NASA, the CIA, and all branches of the military. He is faculty with One Day University, presenting on resilience, and is one of their most popular professors. He is the Chief Science Officer with meQuilibrium, an online stress management company. He was a highly decorated teacher from the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychology – in 2003 was voted the best professor by students in the School of Arts and Sciences and in 2006 received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.

A Ph.D. psychologist, Dr. Shatté received his training at the University of Pennsylvania. He and his colleagues were the first to develop the principles of resilience and apply them to the corporate sector. They identified and defined 7 factors of (human psychological) resilience, a test to measure these traits within individuals called the Resilience Factor Inventory (RFI) and the 7 skills to enhance them. Most notably Dr. Shatté has determined that resilience is the single greatest predictor of who will succeed and who will not, who will be happy and who will not in both their professional and personal lives. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Shatté conducted extensive research into the effects of thinking style on resilience, motivation, and performance. He has devoted his 25-year career to understanding the psychological aspects of motivation and resilience and to developing programs to optimize human performance in various areas such as the workplace, health, academics, and sports.

Currently, Dr. Shatté is a Research Professor in 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.

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Summer Strong: A Training For Camp Leadership And Behavioral Health Staff

March 14, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum
Learn the most effective ways to implement mental health safety and suicide prevention in your camp

About this event

The Wellness Institute invites camp leadership* and behavioral health staff to a live training with Maureen Underwood, LCSW, a nationally recognized expert on youth suicide prevention, with a focus on best-practice programs that enhance overall student outcomes.

Learning objectives: By the end of the presentation participants will be able to:

• Clarify their personal perspective on mental health and suicide

• Identify and respond to warning signs for possible suicide risk and non-suicidal self-injury

• Apply a conversational approach to addressing mental health concerns

• Understand the mental health protective factors inherent in camp culture

• Know how to incorporate the importance of help-seeking into camp life

 

*A follow- up training for camp staff is scheduled for May.

 

This event is produced by The Wellness Institute, a division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).

About Maureen Underwood:

Maureen Underwood, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker, certified group psychotherapist and a nationally recognized expert on youth suicide prevention, with focus on schools and best-practice programs that enhance overall student outcomes. She is co-developer of LIFELINES: A Suicide Prevention Program, LIFELINES Postvention and LIFELINES Intervention, all published by Hazelden publications. Since 1987 Underwood has been engaged in addressing cluster suicide among youth populations. In this work she has applied the latest research on youth suicide contagion, along with containment recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop practical protocols, policies and programs that are grounded in best practice, yet fully relevant to implementing in school settings. Underwood has more than 30 years experience in mental health and crisis intervention. She has developed numerous programs and published extensively on these and other related topics. Underwood has initiated collaborative relationships between mental health and educational systems during her tenure from 1985 to 2000 as coordinator of a state adolescent suicide prevention project. She authored the National Association of Social Work’s policy statement on adolescent suicide, and was a charter member of her state’s Governor’s Council on Youth Suicide Prevention.

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2nd Annual Summit: Understanding, Identifying, and Addressing Suicide Risk

March 11, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum
Understanding, Identifying, and Treating Suicide Risk: A clinical primer for behavioral health providers

About this event

Join the Zero Suicide movement: build and strengthen clinician’s competence and confidence to provide caring evidence-based services to clients with suicide risk and those who have experienced suicide loss.

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Parenting Workshop: Nurturing Parent Child Relationship

February 17, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum
The most difficult parenting challenges are addressed by a leading parenting expert and the developer of Attachment-Based Family Therapy.

About this event

PARENTING Q&A: #NoQuestionTooDifficult

The Wellness Institute invites you to a live event with Guy Diamond, PhD, developer of Attachment-Based Family Therapy for depressed adolecents.

Dr. Diamond is a leading expert in adolescent and family psychotherapy and will share his skills and philosophies to help guide parents through difficult moments when their children struggle emotionally. At this workshop, you will learn how to provide a secure base for your child, even during an emotional storm.

Helping children when they struggle emotionally can be difficult. If we say too much, we are intruding; if we don’t say enough, we are neglectful. How should parents position themselves? How do we provide support but also provide structure? How do we protect them but still respect them? There is no one answer to every situation but there are some basic skills and philosophies that can help guide parents through these difficult moments.

Dr. Diamond is a leading expert in adolescent and family psychotherapy and will use his skills and philosophies to address the most difficult parenting challenges.

This event is produced by The Wellness Institute, a division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).

 

About Dr. Guy Diamond:

Guy Diamond, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Family Therapy in the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University and the director of the Center for Family Intervention Science (CFIS). He is a family intervention clinical trials researcher with a focus on family therapy for youth suicide. Since its inception, CFIS has been fully funded with up to 22 staff and has brought in over $30,000,000 of funding from NIMH, SAMSHA, CDC, CSAT and several private foundations. CFIS is dedicated to the development, testing and dissemination of family-based treatments for diverse samples of depressed and suicidal youth and their parents. In this capacity, he has overseen the design, implementation and dissemination of over 15 clinical trial studies. Diamond’s primary work has been in the area of youth suicide prevention and treatment research. On the prevention side, he has created a program focused on training, screening and triage to be implemented in non-behavioral health settings. On the treatment side, Diamond is the primary developer of attachment-based family therapy, specially developed and tested for treating youth depression and suicide. Most of his research career has focused on working with low-income disadvantaged youth and families.

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Emotion Regulation Skills

February 10, 2022 Mendel Grossbaum

A presentation by Dr. Elizabeth Dexter-Mazza about how to teach your children the most essential skills for emotional problem-solving.
About this event
The Wellness Institute invites you to a live training with Dr. Elizabth Dexter- Mazza, developer of DBT for Schools (DBT STEPS-A) on how to teach your children the most important skills for emotional problem-solving.

Learning Objectives:

1.Parents will learn a model of emotions that provides deeper understanding into the various factors that contribute to the emotion intensity and behavioral outcomes.

2.Parents will be introduced to strategies that they can both model and teach to children as a means of improving emotion regulation over time.

About Dr. Dexter-Mazza:
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.

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