Sat.Jul 23, 2016 - Fri.Jul 29, 2016

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037- Dialectical Behavior Therapy Tools You Can Use With Any Client

Counselor Toolbox podcast

Many clients struggle with managing their emotions and resulting behavioral reactions. DBT skills of distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness can be used to assist virtually any client in improving their reactions to distressing events. Many clients struggle with managing their emotions and resulting behavioral reactions.

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036- Love Me Don’t Leave Me: Addressing Abandonment Issues in Therapy

Counselor Toolbox podcast

People need other people. Fear of abandonment is a survival response that is present from birth. In childhood, abandonment can be a life or death situation. Adults with fear of abandonment often have not identified the roots of their fears so that they can better understand and choose helpful reactions as adults, for whom abandonment is unpleasant, but often not a life or death situation.

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032- Using a Strengths-Based Biopsychosocial Approach to Recovery from Personality Disorders

Counselor Toolbox podcast

The behaviors of someone in active addiction are very similar to those of a person with a personality disorder. Both people developed these behaviors as a way to survive. Treatment involves understanding the function of the behaviors, identifying alternate ways to meet those needs and helping the client individualize interventions to make them the most effective.

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033- Using a Strengths-Based Biopsychosocial Approach to Addressing Antisocial Personality Disorder

Counselor Toolbox podcast

When people are in active addiction, their behavior often appears very antisocial. In this presentation we explore how and why those behaviors develop, ways to intervene and how to differentiate between addictive behaviors and a personality disorder. When people are in active addiction, their behavior often appears very antisocial. In this presentation we explore how and why those behaviors develop, ways to intervene and how to differentiate between addictive behaviors and a personality disorder

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5 Must Haves for Case Management

Thousands of nonprofits rely on case management software to help collect data, manage programs, coordinate with agencies, and provide life-changing health and human services. Adopting a cloud-based case management platform is essential for nonprofits and government agencies to operate more efficiently and make better use of their funding and budget.

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034- Career Exploration and Vocational Goal Setting for Persons in Recovery

Counselor Toolbox podcast

Employment serves many functions in early recovery from providing structure, a source of social support, financial independence and a source of self-esteem. There are certain qualities that make a work environment ideal for people in early recovery. We discuss everything from career exploration to interviewing and maintaining a job once you have it.

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035- Adrenal Fatigue and How it Impacts the Recovery Process

Counselor Toolbox podcast

The adrenals are responsible for the fight or flight reaction and making sex hormones (libido). When the adrenals become fatigued, the body responds with apathy, exhaustion and "sputters" of unexplained adrenaline. Adrenal fatigue symptoms largely overlap with depression and anxiety making it hard to diagnose. In this presentation, Dr. Snipes encourages clinicians to educate clients about adrenal fatigue and the importance of taking care of the body in addition to the mind in the recovery proces