Coping skills help us tolerate, minimize and deal with stressful situations in life. This training will go into detail about the benefits of using coping skills. Then participants will discuss several experiential examples, such as deep breathing, grounding, positive self-talk, using your words, exercise, creativity, emotionally focused tapping, and more.
This discussion introduces the concept of mental health and wellness to youth. There will be an emphasis on normalizing that all people encounter challenges at times, and that a lifelong awareness and effort to strive toward wellness is necessary, much like other areas of health. Topics include how to support a friend who is struggling, when to consider counseling, and when someone might seek medication intervention.
Play therapy is a form of counseling or psychotherapy that uses play to communicate and help people, especially children, prevent or resolve psychosocial challenges. Play is a child’s natural medium to learn, communicate, and explore their world. Play Therapy allows children to explore feelings, as well as make sense of and recover from difficult life experiences in a safe and trusting environment. It is a primarily non-verbal approach. In this training, participants will learn techniques to help a client develop positive self-concept, self-responsibility, self-acceptance, self-direction, and self-reliance.
Go beyond the typical self-care routines of bubble baths and a leisurely walk to learn the importance of taking care of yourself. In this training, participants will discuss self-compassion; body image and perfectionism issues; the importance of accepting oneself; setting attainable, challenging goals; and how to develop small daily habits to demonstrate love for oneself.
Why are so many people afraid to talk about mental health challenges? It is often because there is a stigma associated with these challenges. This session provides an open, safe space to discuss what stigma is, misconceptions and myths about mental illness, and why the way we talk about mental health challenges matters.
With the growing number of children and caregivers who have been impacted by traumatic events, it has become increasingly important to broaden our understanding and modify our approach when working with this population. Trauma-informed care is the act of asking “what happened to you?” instead of “what is wrong with you?” In this training, participants will review how trauma-informed care and neuroscience intersect. Topics covered include what trauma is, how trauma negatively impacts health, the brain science of trauma, and practical ways to provide trauma-informed care.
In the ACE Interface training, you will learn about the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study and the neurobiology that explains why ACEs significantly affect people’s lives. This training will provide information on how we can dramatically improve health and resilience for this and future generations. This training is foundational to learning about trauma-informed care.
This workshop will discuss how drugs and alcohol affect the brain. Participants will learn the four stages of addiction, the parts of the brain affected by substance use, and how to recognize the stages and the cycle of addiction.
Are you looking for guidelines for implementing grief peer support groups on campus? This session covers the conceptualization of grief, creating group guidelines, and selecting group appropriate members. A sample curriculum and grief-focused group activities are provided to attendees.
The group of psychoeducation training will discuss the basics of grief and how it might present in various ways. Choose from the following topics: Educator’s grief, supporting a grieving child/student, supporting a grieving child on the autism spectrum, and supporting the grief in the community.
