HIV/AIDS Retraumatization during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter/Instructor: Samuel Donath, MS
3 CEs Available
Abstract: Older LGBTQIA+ individuals who survived the AIDS crisis face possible re-traumatization due to the current international COVID-19 health crisis. Helping these community members during this unique period in history presents specific clinical challenges. Special consideration and education is needed for mental health professionals to work competently with this population throughout the pandemic.
This course is designed to help providers understand how to support community members who may experience re-traumatization due to COVID-19. The lecture will focus on psychoeducation, information on the AIDS crisis and COVID-19, symptoms clients may demonstrate related to trauma or re-traumatization, potential diagnosis, a brief overview of current research on trauma, best practices and clinical considerations, development and promotion of specific coping skills, promoting resiliency, and preparing clients to manage symptoms outside of therapy.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss two ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is similar to the AIDS crisis.
- Identify three ways in which older LGBTQIA+ clients who lived through the AIDS crisis may be triggered by the current health crisis.
- Demonstrate three trauma-related coping skills older LGBTQIA+ clients who survived the AIDS crisis can use to help them through this difficult time.
Samuel Donath, MS is an associate marriage family therapist who usually splits his time being at the clinic and occasionally helping teach at university. His main therapeutic focus in on sex therapy, LGBTQIA+, trauma, anxiety, and relationship issues.
$45
Licensed therapists who work in nonprofits price is $30 (Use coupon code: hivc19LT at checkout)
Student/pre-licensed price is $15 (Use coupon code: hivc19S at checkout)
You can also get access to this course and all other courses – current and future – with the Lifetime Membership for a one-time fee.
The Affirmative Couch, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Affirmative Couch, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Fighting without Fighting: DBT Skills for Addressing Microaggressions
Presenter/Instructor: Rachel Jones, M.A.
2.5 CEs Available
Abstract: Microaggressions exist in the form of jokes, insults, biases, questions, and comments. They are often casual and can even be well-intended. On a day-to-day basis, microaggressions are directed toward people of color, women, gender diverse individuals, LGBTQIA+ individuals, relationship expansive individuals, and other people of marginalized groups or communities outside of the cultural norm. Their impacts on mental health range in severity and cause significant distress. While the targets of microaggressions are not responsible for the actions of others, they can develop control over their responses.
This course will provide clinicians with Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) interventions to increase adult and adolescent clients’ self-efficacy and agency. The course will differentiate between microaggressions and more overt offenses, and cover the implications on mental health and the unique clinical needs of groups and communities commonly targeted. The presenter will teach a selection of DBT skills for clients who struggle with distress, rumination, anger, impulsivity, suicidal ideation, relationship issues, and ineffective communication as a result of microaggressions. The course will be presented in the form of lectures, video demonstrations, and vignettes.
Learning Objectives
After participants complete this course, they should be able to:
- Identify microaggressions and describe at least 3 ways in which microaggressions impact mental health
- Compare the changes in the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems when using DBT skills
- Select at least 1 appropriate DBT skill for each of the four modules according to the client’s subjective level of distress
Rachel Jones, M.A. – Rachel is an Associate MFT working in private practice, specializing in treating individual adults, couples/multi-partners, adolescents, and children ages 5 and up. She also provides individual therapy in conjunction with phone coaching and skills groups as a part of the Comprehensive DBT treatment team at Suzanne Wallach Psychotherapy.
$75
Licensed therapists who work in nonprofits price is $55. (Enter code NPDBTSkills at checkout)
Student/prelicensed price is $25. (Enter code PLDBTSkills at checkout)
You can also get access to this course and all other courses – current and future – with the Lifetime Membership for a one-time fee.
The Affirmative Couch, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Affirmative Couch, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Cognitive Hypnotherapy with Black Gay Men
Presenter: Muria Nisbett, LCSW
1.5 CEs Available; 1.5 hours
Abstract: Cognitive hypnotherapy is an innovative, evidence-based multimodal treatment that can be used to address a myriad of mental health issues. This modality incorporates techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), hypnotherapy, and mindfulness. Black* gay men have long faced discrimination, rejection, fear, violence and revictimization, religious intolerance, economic and criminal injustice. They deal not only with systemic racism, but also homophobia. As a result, Black gay men are more likely to experience mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. While many therapeutic models can be effective in working with this population, cognitive hypnotherapy is increasingly becoming known as a particularly salient treatment. Utilizing a vignette of a Black gay man dealing with severe depression, the training will detail a step-by-step 16-week process of providing cognitive hypnotherapy to illustrate how this modality can be adapted for working with this population.
*Although the the terms may have different implications for different people, \"African-American\" and \"Black\" are used here interchangeably.
After participating in this training, learners will be able to:
Describe two positive effects of cognitive hypnotherapy as a treatment modality for African-American gay men.
Briefly describe the early, middle, and late stages of the 16-week process of providing cognitive hypnotherapy.
$30
Licensed therapists who work in nonprofits price is $20. USE COUPON CODE: chbgm10
Student/prelicensed price is $10. USE COUPON CODE: chbgm20
You can also get access to this course and all other courses – current and future – with the Lifetime Membership ;for a one-time fee.
The Affirmative Couch, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Affirmative Couch, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.