Stand Up For Mental Health (standupformentalhealth.com), founded in 2004, is a program based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in which people who have mental illness are taught stand-up comedy as a form of therapy and then present to the community as a way of addressing the stigma, discrimination, and prejudice surrounding mental health problems.
The Wellness Institute invites you to a live training with Dr. Andrew Shatté, a highly sought-after public speaker and leading resilience expert.
This event is produced by The Wellness Institute, a division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).
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.
Informed by rigorous research from positive psychology, cognitive behavior therapy, and mindfulness, the Strengths-Based Resilience (SBR) program helps participants cultivate resilience in the face of different adverse life phases, whether it is challenged in higher education, work, relationships, or more. While it may not be possible to eliminate the risks, setbacks, and challenges participants face in life, they can enhance their use of strengths and learn new skills to deal with them.
The Wellness Institute invites you to a live training with Guy Diamond, PhD, developer of Attachment-Based Family Therapy for suicide prevention.
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 training, you will learn how to provide a secure base for your child , even during an emotional storm.
Helping adolescents 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 world expert in adolescent and family psychotherapy. He will share some of his ideas to help parents provide a secure base, even during an emotional storm.
This event is produced by The Wellness Institute, a division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI).
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.
Is it possible for teachers to build positive relationships with their students? What is the best way to create such a relationship in a classroom setting?
This training will be introduced by Rachel Levitt Klein Dratch, Director of Educational Innovation at Prizmah.
Dr. Randal Ernst, a renowned expert on teaching resilience and other skills that promote emotional well-being, will teach us about active and constructive responding and other evidence-based techniques to connect with every student effectively.
Dr. Jonathan Singer will review the warning signs that a student may be at risk for suicide and what to do when you spot them, including facilitating a warm handoff to professional help.
A recording of this event will be sent to all registrants. If you can’t make it to the live training, you can still register to receive the recording.
The Spirituality and Wellness Summit will unite the broader Atlanta community, as well as academics, behavioral health clinicians, addiction counselors, community leaders, and clergy of all faiths around spiritual practices that are evidenced to facilitate wellness and recovery.
At the Summit, attendees will learn about the latest research on the impact of spirituality on wellness and recovery, hear from practitioners who have successfully incorporated evidence-based spiritual practices into treatment plans, and listen to the inspiring stories of individuals who discovered spirituality on their journeys to wellness.
The goal of the Summit is to decrease the stigma surrounding mental health, addiction, and recovery and educate the wider community on spiritual practices that can promote their well-being. Additionally, the Summit aims to encourage faith leaders to play a more active role in the wellness and recovery of their community members and mental health providers to incorporate more evidence-based spiritual interventions into their treatment and recovery plans.
Some of the topics addressed at the Summit will include:
– Spirituality and the 12 Steps
– The role of faith leaders and communities in mental health and addiction recovery
– The neurology of spirituality
– Effective spiritual techniques used in recovery treatment
– Personal journeys from lived experiences
– Emotional sobriety
– How spirituality improves resilience
– Jewish mindfulness
The Summit will run concurrently with the National Jewish Retreat
The Georgia Addiction Counselors Association (GACA) and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Certification Board of Georgia (ADACBGA) have approved this activity for up to 7.0 C.E. credits for addiction counselors.
Atlanta Evergreen Marriott Conference Resort
Stone Mountain, Georgia
4021 Lakeview Drive, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083, USA
7:30 a.m.—Registration Opens (Optional Morning Meditation)
8:15 a.m.—Breakfast
9:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.—Morning Sessions
12:30 p.m.—Lunch and Guest Speaker
2:00 pm—5:45 p.m.— Afternoon Sessions
5:45 p.m.—Dinner and Keynote Speaker
8:00 p.m.—Film Screening
$350 Per Person
(A limited amount of scholarships are available for Jewish clergy, Jewish professionals, and behavioral health clinicians working in the Jewish community to attend the Summit. We thank the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta for the sponsorhip.
Click here to apply: https://forms.gle/t7u5pAaUL2jGpwYo8.)
Allen Berger, PhD
Clinical director at The Institute for Effective Psychotherapy and nationally recognized expert on the science of recovery
Author of 12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety
Scott Frank
CEO and President of AT&T Intellectual Property LLC
Co-author of Less Stress, More Joy
Smitty Grider, MSW, CADC II
Clinical therapist at Eternal Strength Experiential Therapeutic Youth Center
The Honorable Patrick J. Kennedy
Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
The nation’s leading political voice on mental illness, addiction, and other brain diseases
Doreen Marshall, PhD
Vice President of mission engagement for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Andrew Newberg, PhD
Professor and Director of research, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health
Pioneer in the neurological study of religious and spiritual experiences
Author of best-selling book, How G-d Changes Your Brain
Rona Novick, PhD
Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education
Expert in behavior management and child behavioral therapy
Rabbi Shais Taub
International lecturer on the intersection of Jewish mysticism and psychology and behavior
Author of Our Understanding: Jewish Spirituality and Recovery from Addiction
Andrew Shatte, PhD
Founder and President of Phoenix Life Academy, a training company that specializes in measuring and training for resilience
Co-author of The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength
Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman
Rabbi at Chabad Intown, Atlanta
Deborah Teplow, PhD
Co-founder of The Institute for Wellness Education
Expert in the science of behavior change and language of caring conversation to help people make positive, lasting changes in their lives
Chris Thrasher
Clinton Foundation Senior Director of substance use disorders and recovery
Rus Devorah Wallen, LCSW, ACSW
Founder of Toratherapeutics™
Mendi Baron, LCSW
Founder of Hope Street Treatment Center and three other addiction recovery treatment centers across the country.
Alisa Sanford, LCSW, CSAT, C-DBT
Addiction counselor and case manager at Caron Atlanta Treatment Center
For more information email us at [email protected] or call us at 718.221.6900 ext 101
About this Event
A six-hour virtual training designed to strengthen clinicians’ competence and confidence in effectively working with suicide risk and suicide loss.
Curriculum prepared by
The Wellness Institute’s Clinical Advisory Board Members
Jill Harkavy-Friedman, PhD
Sigrid Pechenik, PsyD
Accreditation Statement: The American Association of Suicidology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. American Association of Suicidology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
CE Credit: 6.0
This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886455354-3887) for 6 continuing education contact hours.
Learning Objectives:
PART I – December 8, 2020
Presented by: Dr. Jonathan Singer, PhD, LCSW
President, American Association of Suicidology
Educational Objective: To debunk common myths related to the causes of suicide and describe how to support and provide skills and resources to parents of teens at-risk for suicide.
Presented by: Bethany Michel, Ph.D., R.Psych.
Psychologist, DBT Centre of Vancouver
Educational Objectives:
1. Explain the thought processes that could lead to suicide ideation and describe the personality traits and red flags that indicate a higher risk for suicide.
2. Describe and demonstrate the clinical skills one can use when interacting with anxious youth who are thinking about suicide and discuss what can be done to help them.
PART II – December 9, 2020
Presented by Lisa M. Horowitz, Phd, MPH
Educational Objective:
To identify the risk factors, warning signs and the screening process to assess level of suicidality.
Presented by: Rebecca Zeitlin, LMFT
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services
Educational Objective:
Explain how to help someone who is overwhelmed and feeling suicidal and how to assess level of risk for suicide
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