When things feel like they are falling apart...

Tuesday, February 9th, 9-10am PT

Join us for our next community forum during which we will explore how mental health providers experience and manage their own feelings of falling apart. Among topics to be discussed include staying present when overwhelmed, how to manage heaviness in your life, dealing with not feeling OK, and managing expectations from others. The forum offers an opportunity for participants to share experiences, questions, and resources, as well as a chance to network. Activities include participating in breakout rooms for small group discussions where you can share and communicate with each other using questions provided to generate discussion.

This community forum will not be recorded. This program is not eligible for CE credits.

Registration is free but required. Register here.

If you are unable to join this time, but would like to participate in future forums, please add your information here.

Zur Institute is pleased to announce our first LIVE Case Consultation Group. The series of five meetings will focus on couples’ therapy. In each 75-minute meeting two of the participating therapists will have the chance to present a case. While you watch or listen, each one will work with Dr. Marty Klein, who will ask unexpected questions, fearlessly role play, analyze the narratives, and stimulate new ways of thinking about each case. Participants can of course ask questions. You'll come away from each session looking at your own cases with fresh eyes.

When: Five Thursdays starting 9/17, continuing 10/1, 10/15, 10/29 and 11/12.
Live at 11-12:15pm Pacific Time. Sessions will be recorded and available on-demand for two weeks after each session.

Cost: $95.00

To Register: Click Here

For Everyone: General Public ~ Clients ~ Professionals – Please Share!

Back to School Amid COVID-19
Tips for the Emotional Well-Being of your Family

More than 50% of school age children report feeling socially isolated, anxious or depressed. This free webinar is designed to support families navigate children's emotional reactions as they return to school, either in person or online. Dr. Alessandra Chiesa, a child psychologist, mother of two, and public speaker, will share suggestions for ways that parents and caregivers can help themselves and their children to better cope emotionally with challenges that emerge. Topics include:

• Working with a child that resists schoolwork
• Overcoming social isolation
• What you can do if your child appears anxious or depressed
• Managing your child’s (and your own) anxiety and worry

We will leave plenty of time for Q&A. If you can’t attend the live webinar, a recording will be available.

When: Sep 16, 2020 04:00 PM PDT/7PM EDT
Cost: Free
To Register: Click Here

Zur Institute has been providing Continuing Education to mental health professionals for over 25 years. We are extending this knowledge and wisdom to the general public through dynamic webinars on timely topics and our e-newsletter offering tips and resources for ways to best meet and manage challenges that arise in day-to-day living.

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Identifying Autistic Spectrum Disorder in Everyday Clinical Interactions

A Live Interactive Webinar
Thursday September 24th, 2020

2-3pm PDT/5-6pm EDT

This 1 credit course is developed for social work professionals. In this course, Theresa Regan, PhD will guide professionals to a better understanding of how to recognize clinical signs and symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in everyday interactions. Case presentations will serve to illustrate how clinicians can better recognize this condition and develop more effective strategies and interventions.

Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals. However, only social workers will receive continuing education credits.

Content level: beginning to intermediate

About the Instructor

Theresa Regan, Ph.D., is an adult neuropsychologist (specialist in brain-behavior relationships), parent of an amazing child on the autism spectrum, and certified autism specialist with the IBCCES. She brings validation, hope, and purpose to individuals and their families living on the autism spectrum.

With this mission at its core, she founded and directs the OSF HealthCare Adult Diagnostic Autism Clinic in central Illinois. Her books include Understanding Autism in Adults and Aging Adults and Understanding Autistic Behaviors. She is also author of the Zur Institute course Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Every Clinician Needs to Know.

Learning objectives

After attending this course, participants will be able to

• Describe the benefits of an autism diagnosis at any age.
• Identify features of autism in adolescent, adult, and aged adult clients.
• Discuss red flags for autism spectrum disorder.
• Identify therapeutic interventions for autistic clients to promote best outcomes.

Course outline

• Introduction and rationale for this webinar
• Overview of ASD
  • Polling Question
• Clinical Case 1
• Clinical Case 2
  • Polling Question
• Clinical Case 3
• Questions and Answers
• Conclusion

Course interaction & system requirements

This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.

System requirements:
This webinar will be hosted through Zoom. Upon registration, participants will be provided a link that they can use to access live from any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smart device.

Fee & registration

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Cost is free and includes 1 CE credit. Register by September 23rd.

Course completion & CE info

To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time and attend the entire session. Upon completion of the webinar, participants will be provided information on how to sign up to complete an online course evaluation and immediately receive a CE certificate.

Zur Institute, provider # 1113, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Zur Institute maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 6/1/18-6/1/2021. Social workers participating in this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.

For questions, concerns, or to request special accommodations, please email support@zurinstitute.com

Couple’s Therapy: When Substance Use is the Third Wheel

A Free Live Webinar
Friday, October 23rd, 2020
10-11am Pacific Time/1-2pm Eastern Time

Anxious about seeing couples when substance use is present? In this one-hour webinar, Diane McLendon LMFT, a seasoned couples’ therapist will provide participants with a conceptual framework that enhances efficacy when working with couples in which one partner struggles with substance use. The webinar will also provide practical tools and specific interventions to help clinicians develop confidence to better help their clients. Attendees will be able to ask questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.

Certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants who complete an evaluation at the end of the webinar. No CE credits provided for this event.

Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals.

Content level: beginning to intermediate

About the Instructor: Diane McLendon, LMFT, is a practicing therapist based in Portland, Oregon. In addition to her work providing couples therapy in addiction treatment facilities, Diane has codeveloped and facilitated a number or training programs for families, groups, and therapists focused on identifying and treating addiction. She also co-created for the State of Oregon a multi-family group treatment program for persons with problematic gambling.

Learning objectives: After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the framework of addiction and how it impacts the couple system.
• Design interventions that meet the goal of increasing empathy and decreasing shame.
• Apply specific techniques to shift the couple system and facilitate change.

Webinar outline

1. What addiction is (and isn’t)
   1. Common myths of addiction
   2. How to frame addiction
   3. Biopsychosocial model of addiction: An intervention
2. Main goal: Increasing Empathy and Decreasing Shame
3. Interventions: The How To
   1. Externalize, externalize, externalize!
   2. Three’s a crowd
   3. Personify and combat

Webinar interaction:
This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.

DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF THIS PRESENTATION, NO RECORDING WILL BE AVAILABLE.

System requirements:
This webinar will be hosted through Zoom. Upon registration, participants will be provided a personalized link that they can use to access live from any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smart device.

This webinar is FREE but registration is required.

Register Now

To receive a certificate of attendance participants must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course and complete an online webinar evaluation. Certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants who complete an evaluation at the end of the webinar. No CE credits provided for this event.

For Zur Institute Board Approvals go to
https://www.zurinstitute.com/licensing-board-approvals/

For questions or comments please email aviva@zurinstitute.com

ADA Policy and Grievance Procedure: Please see https://www.zurinstitute.com/ada-policy-grievance

Post-Traumatic Growth – Building Strength Through Crisis

A Free Live Webinar
November 5th, 2020
2-3pm Pacific Time / 5-6pm Eastern Time

Uncertainty, adversity, and crisis, like we are facing today, is distressing, disruptive, and the cause of much anxiety about the future. But is it possible to grow through this crisis? This webinar addresses that very question. Introducing what is known as post-traumatic growth, we explore the ways in which crisis, trauma, and adversity can lay the foundation for prolific psychological growth.

Certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants who complete an evaluation at the end of the webinar. No CE credits provided for this event.

Target audience: This webinar is geared specifically towards counselors, but is appropriate for all mental health professionals.

Content level: Intermediate

About the Instructor: Claire Nana LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 15 years’ experience studying, writing about, and facilitating post-traumatic growth. She has worked in a variety of settings, including addiction treatment centers, private practice, and corporations. She has created 22 continuing education courses drawing on the fundamental concepts of post-traumatic growth and is also the author of Leverage: The Science of Turning Setbacks Into Springboards.

Learning objectives: After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Define post-traumatic growth
• Discuss the fundamental components of post-traumatic growth
• Describe the ways in which post-traumatic growth emerges through adversity and crisis
• Summarize the ways in which post-traumatic growth can be enhanced and encouraged

Webinar outline

• Introduction
• What Is Post-Traumatic Growth?
• The Five Components Of Growth
• The Paradoxical Element Of Post-Traumatic Growth
• How Growth Emerges Through Adversity
• How We Can Encourage Post-Traumatic Growth In Time Of Crisis

Webinar interaction: This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.

DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF THIS PRESENTATION, NO RECORDING WILL BE AVAILABLE.

System requirements: This webinar will be hosted through Zoom. Upon registration, participants will be provided a personalized link that they can use to access live from any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smart device.

This webinar is FREE but registration is required.

Register Now

To receive a certificate of attendance participants must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course and complete an online webinar evaluation. Certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants who complete an evaluation at the end of the webinar. No CE credits provided for this event.

For Zur Institute Board Approvals go to
https://www.zurinstitute.com/licensing-board-approvals/

For questions or comments please email aviva@zurinstitute.com

ADA Policy and Grievance Procedure: Please see https://www.zurinstitute.com/ada-policy-grievance

Ménage à trois: When substance use disorder is the third wheel in a relationship.

A Free Live Webinar
Friday, October 23rd, 2020
10-11am Pacific Time/1-2pm Eastern Tim

Anxious about seeing couples when substance use is present? In this one-hour webinar, Diane McLendon LMFT, a seasoned couples’ therapist will provide participants with a conceptual framework that enhances efficacy when working with couples in which one partner struggles with substance use. The webinar will also provide practical tools and specific interventions to help clinicians develop confidence to better help their clients. Attendees will be able to ask questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.

Certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants who complete an evaluation at the end of the webinar. No CE credits provided for this event.

Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals.

Content level: beginning to intermediate

About the Instructor

Diane McLendon, LMFT, is a practicing therapist based in Portland, Oregon. In addition to her work providing couples therapy in addiction treatment facilities, Diane has codeveloped and facilitated a number or training programs for families, groups, and therapists focused on identifying and treating addiction. She also co-created for the State of Oregon a multi-family group treatment program for persons with problematic gambling.

Learning objectives

• Describe the framework of addiction and how it impacts the couple system.
• Design interventions that meet the goal of increasing empathy and decreasing shame.
• Apply specific techniques to shift the couple system and facilitate change.

Webinar outline

1. What addiction is (and isn’t)
   1. Common myths of addiction
   2. How to frame addiction
   3. Biopsychosocial model of addiction: An intervention
2. Main goal: Increasing Empathy and Decreasing Shame
3. Interventions: The How To
   1. Externalize, externalize, externalize!
   2. Three’s a crowd
   3. Personify and combat

Course interaction:
This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.

DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF THIS PRESENTATION, NO RECORDING WILL BE AVAILABLE.

System requirements:
This webinar will be hosted through Zoom. Upon registration, participants will be provided a personalized link that they can use to access live from any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smart device.

This webinar is FREE but registration is required: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

To receive a certificate of attendance:
To receive a certificate of attendance participants must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course and complete an online webinar evaluation. Certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants who complete an evaluation at the end of the webinar. No CE credits provided for this event.

Zur Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6036.

For questions or comments please email aviva@zurinstitute.com