2024 Annual Summit 9/6/2024 9am-6:00pm EST

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Foundations

Instructor: Albert Ellis Institute, Michael L. Hickey, Ph.D. 

In this interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of Rational Emotive Behavior Theory and its conceptualization of emotional and behavioral disturbance. Techniques for identifying and restructuring irrational beliefs will be taught, as well as generating homework assignments to reinforce session content.  Strategies for motivating clients to agree on the goals and tasks of therapy will also be discussed. A live demonstration with a volunteer will bring the theory and its applications to light.   

Course Evaluation/Break  

Lunch Break  

Naloxone Rescue Training 

Presenter: New York State Office of Addiction Services and Support, Christopher Caulfield, Opioid Overdose Prevention Specialist

This course will provide participants with knowledge and information about opioids, opioid use related overdose, and polysubstance overdose related concerns. Participants will learn how to recognize and respond to an overdose including the use of Naloxone.  

Course Evaluation/Break   

Solution Focused Brief Therapy: An Approach as Lasting as a Diamond 

Presenter: Elliot Connie MA, LPC   

This presentation will introduce participants to The Diamond Approach (Connie & Froerer, 2022) of Solution Focused Brief Therapy. The presenter will cover each of the components necessary to carry out a session from this approach, namely, 1) acquiring a desired outcome/transformation, 2) developing a co-constructed description of the desired transformation with details from the history, resources, and a preferred future, and 3) closing a session in a way that is meaningful and that honors the client's autonomy and agency. Participants will watch recordings of actual sessions from this approach and will have in-depth discussions about how this therapy is carried out. Finally, participants will have several opportunities to practice the skills needed to do this work. This workshop will be inspiring, and you will leave more enthusiastic about the work you are doing! You will understand the value of seeing people as the best versions of themselves and will be more able to treat them accordingly. 

Course Evaluation/Summit Evaluation/Closing Remarks