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Women with Trauma and Serious Mental Health Disorders

Women’s treatment needs are impacted by gender differences.

And in women with serious mental health conditions (PTSD, major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia) traumatic experiences tied to gender and power differentials are often a major component in the development and presentation of their symptoms. From motherhood and family relationships to sexual, racial, ethnic, class, work and religion, these differences encompass every facet of female identity.

But traditional mental health models and training neglect to account for the impacts of female clients intersecting identities on treatment. Clinicians are left struggling to get results, lacking the tools to treat this population in a non-pathologizing way.

How can you provide compassionate care that empowers these women in treatment?

Drs. Lauren Mizock and Erika Carr are the authors of Women with Serious Mental Illness: Gender-Sensitive and Recovery-Oriented Care (Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-chairs of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force for Women with Serious Mental Illness.

Watch them for this groundbreaking one-day program as they provide you with a gendersensitive therapy approach so you can more successfully address the issues impacting the treatment of women with mental health issues.

In just one day you’ll get:

  • Practical clinical strategies to meet women’s specific treatment needs
  • Tips on drawing from women’s strengths to overcome mental health challenges
  • Case narratives for easy to follow application
  • Tools that enhance daily functioning and self-determination
  • Guidance on empowering women on the complex paths to recovery

Don’t miss this one of a kind training!

Purchase today!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Evaluate research examining potential gender and sex-based contributors to serious mental health conditions in women.
  2. Investigate the implications of sexual trauma on the diagnosis and treatment of women.
  3. Apply treatment strategies with an evidence-base for women with PTSD and serious mental health disorders.
  4. Incorporate a trauma-informed care approach that takes the unique needs and nuances of women into account.
  5. Apply clinical strategies to promote a culturally sensitive, intersectional clinical practice with women with serious mental health issues.
  6. Use case studies to guide you in applying a gender-sensitive lens in treatment with women from a variety of backgrounds.

Outline

Unique Issues Impacting Women with Mental Illness

  • How sexual trauma poses a unique risk to women’s mental health
  • Sanctuary trauma in treatment settings
  • Motherhood, family and relationships
  • Work and financial challenges
  • Research limitations, potential risks, and future directions in research and treatment
Best Practices for Providing Culturally Sensitive Treatment with Respect to:
  • Race/ethnicity
  • Sexuality (LGBQIA)
  • Gender diversity (transgender and nonbinary people)
  • Class and socioeconomic status
  • Spirituality and religion
Maximize Self-Determination and Empowerment:
A How to Guide on Employing Gender Responsive Treatment Models in Your Practice
  • Concrete tools for recovery-oriented care
  • Interventions guided by the needs and nuances of women
  • Incorporate a gender-sensitive lens to inform evidence-based interventions
  • What is trauma-informed care for women experiencing PTSD?
  • How to interweave a trauma-informed care perspective
PTSD, Severe Depression and Other Serious Mental Health Disorders:
Tools to Enhance Your Clinical Treatment of Female Clients
  • Case studies and interview excerpts
  • Enhance self-growth - worksheets to complete with clients
  • Treatment strategies with an evidence-base for women with PTSD and serious mental illnesses
    • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
    • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
    • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
  • Psychiatric rehabilitation
  • Applying a gender-responsive and intersectional framework
  • Scales/inventories for clinical use
Experiential Learning Activities and Treatment Planning
  • Self-assessment for clinical practice – where you can grow?
  • Holistic perspective activity – why clinicians need to understand the history of mistreatment of women with mental illness?
  • How a gender-responsive approach differs from treatment as usual
  • Treatment planning exercise – conceptualize treatment from a gender-responsive lens
Putting it All Together: Case Studies
  • “Raya,” an African American, 30-year-old, bisexual woman with schizophrenia, physical disabilities and history of sexual trauma
  • “Emmie,” a 50-year-old, heterosexual Asian American woman and mother who has struggled with severe depression and suicidality throughout her life
  • “Kris” a White American queer-identified person assigned female at birth in their 40s with bipolar disorder

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Psychiatrists
  • Nurse Practitioners

Copyright : 10/22/2021

Treat Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Premenstrual Syndrome & Emotional-Dysregulation with DBT & CBT

“My emotions feel like they’re non-stop!” “I have no energy.” “I want to hide my body.”

For most women, traditional pharmaceutical interventions fall short for treating the mental and emotional rollercoaster of Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD).

Many clinicians ignore the diagnosis that affects millions of women.

But, the reality is the depression, anxiety, mood swings, trouble sleeping, panic, and body image issues – even suicidal thoughts – can make day-to-day life for these women unbearable. Relationships with loved ones, work, diet, doing the laundry, all these areas suffer for women bogged down mentally, emotionally, and physical by PMDD.

Be the therapist that listens! The therapist that does more than refer to a medical provider for birth control or hormones.

Join Kristine Spano, PsyD and licensed psychologist for an all new training that incorporates principles of DBT & CBT into the therapeutic treatment of PMDD. In this training you’ll shatter the myths that are keeping women shackled in the pain of PMDD and be able to provide genuine evidence-based interventions that support women – you’ll learn:

How to assess and diagnose PMDD

How the body’s biological changes impact mental health

Interventions across all affected domains – relationships, career, body, and more!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Diagnose PMDD.
  2. Perform screens and assessments for PMDD.
  3. Utilize psychoeducation about the impact of PMDD on the nervous system.
  4. Create a self-care toolbox that is customizable to your patients’ lifestyles. 
  5. Assess areas of intervention for family members.
  6. Apply principles of DBT to clients struggle with PMDD and premenstrual mental health concerns.

Outline

Assessing & Diagnosis PMDD

  • Affective, behavioral, and somatic indicators 
  • Changes to DSM-V – what it means
  • Differentiate from other conditions
  • Where pharmaceutical interventions fall short
  • Simply screens for PMDD
  • If you’re a male clinician…
PMDD and the Adrenal Overload
  • HPA Axis (hypothalamus-pituitary adrenal system) – how it works
  • Hormonal changes impact on mood
  • Nervous system reactions and how to quell them
  • Neurobiological keys of PMDD
Lessening the PMDD Burden
  • Applying Emotional Regulation Tools Across All Domains
  • How to support women in their careers
  • Help client’s create a PMDD self-care toolbox
  • The role of loved ones in mitigating distress
  • Mindfulness interventions for the office
  • Distress tolerance tools for interpersonal relationships
  • Stopping the spiral of negative body image

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
  • Therapists
  • Art Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 06/13/2022

An Integrative Approach to Menopause

Menopause is a naturally occurring event in a woman’s life in which many treatment options are available. Knowing which treatment options are available, proven integrative approaches, and ways to develop an individualize approach are key to treating menopause and reducing risks. Being at the forefront of understanding the menopausal transition and treatment options is important in caring for women along the lifespan. This presentation will help you to better understand the hormone cascade and how hormones change during menopause and will provide you will various treatment options for your patients utilizing pharmaceuticals and supplements. 
 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Define the complex process of menopause and peri menopause transition.
  2. Determine the risks and benefits of bio identical hormone replacement.
  3. Discuss alternatives to hormones in treating menopause.

Outline

What Happens During Menopause

  • Permanent cessation of menstrual periods
  • Loss of ovarian follicular activity
  • Androgens become predominant hormone
Treatment of Menopause
  • Bioidentical hormone therapy options ‘
    • Risks/benefits
    • Estrogen
    • Estrogen/Progesterone
  • Non hormonal therapies
    • SSRI
    • NK3 receptor antagonist
  • Supplements
    • Black cohosh
    • DIM
    • Siberian Rhubarb
    • Vitamin E treatment
Potential Risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopause
  • Breast cancer
  • Endometrial cancer
  • Blood clot

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Advanced Practice Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physician Assistants
  • Physicians

Copyright : 06/28/2023

Perinatal Loss: An Attachment-Informed Treatment Framework for Helping Clients Process and Heal from Pregnancy Loss

It’s not a topic that people will bring up at work, over coffee, or even at get togethers with close friends. Instead, 1 in 4 women suffer in silence, because it’s not something that they are supposed to talk about – it is a topic that stays firmly behind closed doors and if you dare breach that social boundary, you may hear well-intentioned, but hurtful statements such as:

“At least you were only a few weeks along.” “Everything happens for a reason.” “Why don’t you just adopt?” “Just think positive.” “You just need to relax and it’ll happen in time.”

There really should be a book titled What Not to Say when it comes to pregnancy and infant loss.

I know because I’ve been there. After my experiences of loss, I heard the invalidating statements and I experienced the paradoxical sense of isolation – paradoxical because the reality is so many of us have experienced this kind of loss. The reality then becomes that many individuals only feel comfortable discussing their experience of pregnancy loss within the confines of a confidential therapeutic space.

Yet, while we may serve as one of the few if not the only safe harbor for individuals to share and process their experience of loss, in our clinical training, pregnancy and infant loss was quickly brushed over – most often as an aside in larger, generalized discussion of grief.  Clients seeking psychotherapy for pregnancy or infant loss may have kept it hidden, feel unsure where to turn for help and may already be hesitant about the validity of their pain and the usefulness of therapy in supporting them. You need to feel confident in your ability to help them navigate one of the toughest struggles they will ever face – their story of not only loss, but of love.

In this specialized, intensive training, I will walk you through the challenging realities of a pregnancy or infant loss - the accompanying emotional roller coaster, and specific steps to take to help your clients move forward. You’ll learn the best interventions for treating grief after a loss and uncover the mistakes you may be making – without even realizing it!

Whether you’re a specialist already or just getting started in this area, this training is for you! Watch me in this powerful training and learn proven strategies that will help your clients heal.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Utilize clinical strategies to assess, conceptualize, and treat pregnancy loss.
  2. Employ evidence-based grief and trauma interventions to treat pregnancy loss and to support clients in future reproductive journey.
  3. Investigate clinical considerations and adaptations to treat pregnancy loss within couples and group psychotherapy.
  4. Build the development of greater insight in both clinicians and clients they are treating.

Outline

Perinatal Loss: Common Misconceptions

  • Misattunement to the loss
  • Far reaching implications of reproductive trauma
  • Ongoing and chronic nature of the trauma

Assessment: Exploring Clients’ Reproductive Story

  • How to listen for red flags: grief, guilt, shame, self-blame, and hopelessness
  • Identifying unique and numerous losses experienced
  • When things take a turn: anxiety, depression, OCD
  • How to fully validate clients’ experience
  • Sharing the Story
  • Utilizing relevant assessment measures

Treatment Planning for Pregnancy and Infant Loss

  • Chronic trauma related to pregnancy loss
  • Adapting PTSD strategies for reproductive trauma
  • Addressing grief by utilizing loss and restoration orientation framework
  • Highlighting implicit emotions that may impact treatment progress including shame, self-blame, and hopelessness
  • Balancing complicated grief while still trying to conceive

Treatment Interventions: Helping Clients Move Forward, Not On

  • Utilizing attachment-focused approach
  • Trauma-informed/PTSD adaptations
  • Build resiliency with interventions based on empathy, forgiveness and compassion
  • Maintaining relationships with partner and family
  • Adapting clinical techniques for couples and group work
  • Supporting clients in subsequent pregnancies

Clinical Considerations

  • Culturally informed case conceptualizations
  • Relationship to body after a loss
  • Countertransference
  • How to hold personal experience with pregnancy loss while helping clients
  • Limitations and risks

Target Audience

  • Social Workers
  • Counselors
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Case managers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Midwives and Doulas
  • Physicians/PAs
  • Sonographers
  • Funeral directors
  • Clergy

Copyright : 02/25/2021

Black Women, Body Image, and Eating Disorders

So often, the hidden assumption in assessment and treatment for poor body image is that clients’ negative views of their bodies are subjective and can shift with individual interventions. Yet oppression and race-based trauma informs the ways in which disordered eating and poor body image presents for Black women. Black women are confronted every day with the contradictory message that their bodies are both “too much” for Western society and also “not enough” for Western society.  In this session, we will explore how weight stigma and thin privilege are influenced by racism, specifically anti-Blackness, and learn how to better serve Black women in treatment settings where eating and body image are at the forefront.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze racial bias in eating disorder and body image research.
  2. Conduct culturally relevant and sensitive assessments and interventions for Black women clients struggling with eating and body image.
  3. Determine strategies for skillfully raising conversations about race and gender into discussions about food and eating disorder recovery.

Outline

  • What are we talking about?
    • DSM categories
    • Limitations in the research and how this impacts assessment and treatment; the absence of Black women
    • Research bias; the erasure of Black women from research on restrictive disorders and the focus on binge eating in Black women
    • Weight bias and racism in health and research
  • Who are we talking about?
    • Black women in Western society
    • The racial, ethnic and cultural relevance in eating disorder development and presentation-The function of restrictive eating disorders and weight loss in Black women
    • Case studies
  • Treatment and assessment
    • What is “evidence based” in research that is heavily biased?
    • Limitations of assessment and interventions -Culturally relevant conversations about food
    • Why body image curriculum harms Black women
  • Going forward
    • When to discuss race with clients
    • How to bring racial harm into conversations about disordered eating

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Nurses
  • Other mental health professionals

Copyright : 02/24/2022

Emotional and Disordered Eating

When your clients struggle with eating, your first move as a therapist may be to develop plans for specific behavioral changes - a list of things clients can do instead of reaching for the fork or limiting food intake.

But these efforts won’t work over the long term. Emotional eating – and the eating disorders it can become – is rooted in nervous system dysregulation and disembodiment that behavior change strategies alone won’t shift.

The body needs to be included for treatment to be effective. Without it, disembodiment will continue, keeping your clients stuck in the cycle of disordered eating and losing hope in your work with them.

Watch Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCSWR, CEDS, specialist in eating disorders and somatic psychotherapy, for this in-depth training where you’ll discover how to integrate the body in treatment in a way that fosters real change in your clients’ relationships with food and their bodies!

Packed with practical interventions, this comprehensive seminar will provide you with strategies to:

  • Shift from shame to empowerment from the very beginning of treatment
  • Calm the nervous system and regulate emotions without turning to food
  • Help clients re-establish body cues for hunger and fullness
  • Replace the harsh inner critic with self-compassion

Purchase today to help clients manage what is happening on the inside to build resilience, improve emotion regulation, and establish a new compassionate and forgiving relationship with their body!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Conduct psychoeducation about the nervous system and oppression-related cultural factors.
  2. Employ body literacy skills to improve clients’ interoceptive awareness.
  3. Apply somatic and nervous system tracking in session to improve emotion regulation.
  4. Utilize the skill of somatic tracking for co-regulation.
  5. Describe the three components of self-compassion and utilize self-compassion skills to reduce shame.
  6. Differentiate between emotional eating and a clinical eating disorder to determine appropriate level of care.

Outline

The Nervous System Intake
Reduce Shame and Open Self-Compassion

  • Redefining the term emotional eating
  • Why somatic interventions are imperative in breaking the cycle of disordered eating - and the state of the research on them
  • Polyvagal understanding of the autonomic nervous system
  • Embodiment tools for clients
  • Mapping the embodied states of the clinician’s own nervous system
  • A trauma-informed, embodied understanding of emotional and disordered eating
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • Feet, spine and seat
    • Fluid breath
    • 3-stage breath
    • Release breath
What Happens in My Body, Happens in My Brain
How Embodiment Heals
  • The role of the limbic system
  • Interoceptive awareness as the missing link
  • Impact of the nervous system on hunger and fullness cues and eating behaviors
  • How to help clients develop body literacy
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • Body scan for body literacy
    • Brain-based interoceptive awareness
Co-Regulation: Relationship Matters!
How the Therapist’s Nervous System Impacts Clients
  • Neuroception according to polyvagal theory
  • Embody neuroception in a session
  • Somatic tracking and intervention
  • Keys to building nervous system window of tolerance for eating-related behavior change
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • Embodying safety and protection
    • Somatic tracking demonstration
The Intersection of Culture and Disembodiment:
Systems that Dysregulate and Their Impact on Body Image
  • Embodiment and body image
  • Oppressive systems that cause dysregulation
  • Diet culture and media/marketing
  • Body image, nervous system, and emotions
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • The way you were born
    • In this moment, with these feelings
Embodying Self-Compassion
Self-Compassion as Essential to Emotion Regulation
  • The three components of self-compassion
  • The power of self-compassion to balance, heal and repair emotional eating
  • Developing self-compassion when there is none to be found
  • How self-compassion decreases objectification and body shame
  • Help clients develop body forgiveness
  • Case Examples and Practices:
    • Embodying dysregulation with compassion
    • Body forgiveness
When Emotional Eating is Really Eating Disorder
And Other Clinical Considerations
  • Key diagnostic questions and assessments
  • When do clients need an eating disorder specialist or a higher level of care?
  • How to integrate treatment strategies and approaches - what does it mean to be somatically-informed?
  • Countertransference issues
  • Impact of the therapist’s own relationship with body, body image, food, and eating
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Registered Dieticians & Dietetic Technicians
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychiatric Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 01/30/2023

Help Women with ADHD Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly & Break Through Barriers

More women with ADHD are seeking treatment than ever before.  

This can feel daunting for many clinicians, as oftentimes women with ADHD wasn’t a topic afforded much time or training in graduate studies in previous decades.  

This presentation will give you the most fundamental knowledge necessary to work competently and confidently with women with ADHD. You will deepen your own understanding of common challenges and experiences unique to women with ADHD, which will in turn allow you to deepen your practice with clients and better validate and support their therapeutic journey. This presentation aims to help clinicians feel more confident in providing ADHD-informed treatment that honors neurodiversity and expands the treatment paradigm to better represent and support women with ADHD.  

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Describe, understand, and validate the unique impact of ADHD on women.
  2. Provide up to date psychoeducation to clients who are women with ADHD.
  3. Reassess and update treatment objectives in collaboration with clients to more broadly address lifetime impacts of ADHD in women.

Outline

How ADHD is Different for Women 

  • Sex differences in ADHD presentations 
  • Unique aspects of life with ADHD commonly reported by women 

The Impact of Hormones on Women with ADHD - What Clients and Clinicians Need to Know 

  • New data on women, ADHD, and hormones 
  • PMDD, PDD, and more 
  • Pregnancy and Motherhood 

Hiding and Masking as Compensatory Strategies 

  • How and why women with ADHD hide and mask 
  • Impact of hiding and masking 
  • Changing course 

Relational Impacts of ADHD for Women 

  • Voice: Speaking Up and Speaking Over 
  • Emotional legacy of ADHD leaves a mark 

Rethinking treatment goals for women with ADHD 

  • Expanding the paradigm of “success” 
  • Challenging the idealization of neurotypicality and hyper-productivity 
  • Bill of Rights for Women with ADHD 

Risks and limitations of research and techniques discussed 

Target Audience

  • Psychologists 
  • Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors 
  • Marriage & Family Therapists 
  • Social Workers 

Copyright : 11/09/2023

Fair Play: Rethinking the Domestic Workload with Couples

We know from recent research that many women do two-thirds of what it takes to run a home and a family, regardless of whether they work outside the home or earn the larger income—having significant impacts on mental and physical health, employment, and life and relationship satisfaction. This recorded session will introduce a method of helping couples improve communication and negotiate issues related to resentment, burnout, establishing equity, and redistributing the mental burden of unappreciated and unpaid domestic work in the home. The Fair Play system utilizes structured decision-making and communication approaches to make invisible work visible and valued. Fair Play methodology has been tested on hundreds of couples from different socioeconomic levels and cultures. In this session, therapists who want to use this tool in their practice will discover how to help clients in relationships:

  • Improve communication and negotiate issues around invisible domestic work
  • Establish equity when it comes to a partner’s time, regardless of whether they work inside or outside the home
  • Use the Fair Play system to help with decision-making
  • Explore how couples can learn to trust and value one another as equal partners in running a household

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Theorize how inequitable and unpaid labor impacts mental and physical health, perpetuates gender inequity, and leads to couple dissatisfaction and burnout.
  2. Propose a method for helping couples share domestic labor from Conception to Planning and Execution, clearly defining expectations.
  3. Support how structured decision-making tools with couples can be introduced to clients to address burnout, and inequity in the home.

Outline

  • An introduction to the issue of unpaid labor and invisible work in domestic relationships
  • Engaging couples to begin a process of sharing in domestic labor in equitable ways
  • Applying the “Fair Play” System principles in real life domestic situations
  • Communication practices to set up couples for success at home
  • Common fails and fixes

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners 
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 03/17/2023

Maternal Mental Health and Pregnancy

Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) are the number one complication during pregnancy and childbirth. This illness affects over 20% of pregnant and postpartum women and has increased exponentially since COVID. Any woman who can be identified, as at risk for PMADs during pregnancy, using validated screening tools, can be proactively assessed, diagnosed, and treated, potentially erasing the emergency/crisis intervention for a new postpartum mom. With evidence based multidisciplinary treatment modalities, all women get better, and return to their normal baseline of mental health. Gestational diabetes affects approximately 4-6% of the same population, and the medical community is always  assessing for that illness, why is it, that an illness that affects upwards of 4x that number is not given the same attention and respect. If you are a healthcare provider who treats women in the childbearing age range, work in behavioral mental health, or a pediatrician, this information will give you what you need to start to be able to identify these women, give proper screening tools, and refer to resources and treatment that is appropriate for this temporary and treatable illness.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Recognize PMAD risk factors that increase a pregnant woman’s chance of developing PMADs during pregnancy.
  2. Determine four screening tools we can use, during pregnancy, to assess a woman’s risk for developing PMADs.
  3. Argue the question “can PMADs be prevented”.
  4. Determine treatment modalities that are safe and effective during pregnancy for PMADs.

Outline

Perinatal Mental Health Conditions

  • Baby Blues, Unipolar/Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder
  • Perinatal Anxiety Disorders, Schizoaffective/Schizophrenia, Postpartum Psychosis
  • Borderline Personality Disorder, Posttraumatic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Patient Screening
  • Talking to Your Patient About Mental Health and Screening
  • Administering and Scoring the Screening Tools
  • Supplemental Screening Tools
Assessment and Treatment of Perinatal Mental Health Conditions
  • Talking to Your Patient About Mental Health and Treatment
  • Starting Treatment
  • Follow Up Treatment
Education and Resources
  • Provider
  • Patient
  • Family

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistants
  • Midwives
  • Doulas

Copyright : 03/10/2023

Take Charge over PCOS

Women everywhere are searching for the answers to their PCOS symptoms and striking out. Having PCOS herself, Angela knows how frustrating living with this condition can be and firmly believes that you can help patients take back control. She has dedicated her career to be on the leading-edge of helping people with PCOS improve their health and has evidence-based nutrition strategies to enhance your patient care. Learn her top tips for managing reproductive and metabolic aspects of PCOS along with unwanted symptoms and beneficial supplements.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Determine common symptoms, diagnostic criteria and lab tests used to identify PCOS.
  2. Implement targeted nutrition interventions for improving insulin resistance.
  3. Utilize effective and evidence-based lifestyle practices in the treatment of PCOS.

Outline

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Symptoms, Causes, related conditions, Diagnosis

  • Rotterdam criteria:
    • Hyperandrogenism
    • Ovulatory dysfunction
    • Polycystic ovaries on ultrasound
  • Obesity, inflammation, increased LH, infertility, depression, anxiety, eating disorders
  • Insulin resistance
  • Use of Oral contraceptives, metformin (currently off label for PCOS) and GLP-1s (also off label)
Lifestyle as Medicine to Heal PCOS
  • Nutrition
  • Tips for managing blood sugar and cravings
  • Benefits of adding healthy fats
  • Intermittent fasting
  • Non-Diet approach to PCOS
  • Dietary supplements
  • Stress management
  • Physical activity
  • Sleep

Target Audience

  • Athletic Trainers
  • Chiropractors
  • Nurses
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Physical Therapists
  • Physical Therapy Assistants

Copyright : 04/13/2023

Sexuality and Pleasure of Cisgender Women

How comfortable are you talking with your patients about their bodies, their sexuality, and their sexual pleasure? You can become well suited to deal with patients’ needs regarding sexuality, because when you understand the issues, you will feel better prepared to talk with your patients and provide the intimate nature of care that is needed for these conversations. Featherstone will explain the many influences around sexuality and help you develop the skills needed to listen, understand, and guide your patients.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze the impact of healthy sexuality on mental and physical health of women.
  2. Identify FDA approved medications for treatment of female sexual dysfunction, and their mechanism of action.
  3. Synthesize how body image, culture, media and religion impact sexual messaging and functioning.
  4. Integrate education of the SIS/SES dual control model into patient education and assessment of female sexual functioning.
  5. Review how reproductive health, pregnancy, infertility, and access to contraception and termination services impact sexuality.
  6. Analyze the complex relationship between mental and physical health conditions and associated treatments on sexual functioning.

Outline

Introduction/Relevance

  • Defining Sex
  • Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction in Women
  • SIS/SES Systems
  • Practical Examples of SIS/SES
  • Categories of Sexual Desire
Influences
  • Social Factors
  • Religion/Culture
  • Contraception
  • Abortion
  • Infertility
  • Relational Factors and Infidelity
  • Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Consent to Sexual Activity
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Sexual Education
  • Self Pleasure
  • Sexually Marginalized Women
  • Women and Nonmonogamy
  • Women and Kink
    • Conceptualization of Kink, BDSM
    • Paraphilias and Kink
  • Sexuality in Adolescence
  • Sexuality in Perimenopausal and Elderly Women

Sexual Anatomy

  • Vulva and Clitoris
  • Internal Sexual and Reproductive Organs
  • Female Prostate
  • Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

Lubrication of the Vagina and Vulva


Squirting


Female Sexual Response

  • Conceptual Model of Female Sexuality
  • Arousal and Desire
  • Pleasure and Orgasm

Sexual Pathology and Dysfunction

  • Comorbidities of Sexual Dysfunction
  • Diagnoses
    • Specifiers
    • Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
    • Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
    • Female Orgasmic Disorder and Treatment
    • Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder; Risk Factors and Treatment
    • Substance/Medication-Related Sexual Dysfunction and Treatment
    • Other Specified Sexual Dysfunction
    • Unspecified Sexual Dysfunction
    • Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder/Genito-Pelvic Dysthesia and Treatment
    • Paraphilic Disorders and Treatment
    • Compulsive Sexual Behavior versus Sex Addiction and Treatment

Target Audience

  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
  • Physician Assistants
  • Physicians
  • Counselors
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists

Copyright : 06/28/2023

Intimate Partner Violence

Nearly 20 people per minute are abused by an intimate partner in the United States.  

As a mental health professional, you WILL have clients experiencing intimate partner violence and domestic abuse in your caseload during your career.  

This FREE LIVE 1-hour webinar will build your clinical skills and competence so you can better understand the multilayered impacts of this abuse and work with survivors in a trauma-sensitive manner. 

This crisis isn’t going away. 

Whether you’re a social worker, counselor, psychologist, or marriage and family therapist, this program is too important to miss.   

Register now! 

Program Information

Target Audience

  • Social Workers
  • Counselors
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors

Copyright : 07/23/2021