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Continuing education activities offered by Medipsy are generally recognized by the Order of Psychologists of Quebec, the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, or another organisation; the number of hours recognized for each workshop can be found below. While the workshops listed below were developped for continuing education purposes for established professionnals, they are open to all, students included (at a discount).

Please scroll to the bottom of this page for our policy on cancellations and reimbursements.

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November 15, 2019 9:00AM-4:00PM	DBT Informed Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, with Sheri Van Dijk	Montreal	Register now	+
$290.00 LOCATION: L'Ambroise 4020 Saint-Ambroise, Porte 140, Montreal, H4C 2C7 Room : Espace Canal This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RA03147-19). Early registration rate ($270 + taxes) ends October 25th, 2019. Regular fee: $290+ taxes. The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments. GENERAL DESCRIPTION Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a serious mental health problem that typically creates chaos in an individual’s life. It can lead to risky and impulsive behaviors, damaged relationships and careers, substance use problems, hospitalization, and even suicide. Approximately 1 in 50 adults in Canada report symptoms that meet the criteria for bipolar disorder at some point in their life. BD affects men and women equally, as well as all races, ethnic groups, and socioeconomic classes. It can be difficult to diagnose, jeopardizing access to effective treatment. However, going without treatment, or receiving improper treatment, makes symptoms worse. With this workshop, you will learn everything you need to know to effectively help your patients with BD or with BD-like symptoms and behaviors. BIO Sheri Van Dijk has been working with clients using DBT strategies for 20 years. She has written 7 books on how to tailor Dialectical Behavior Therapy DBT skills to a range of disorders. Her book DBT Made Simple was written to make DBT more accessible to therapists working with diagnoses other than borderline personality disorder. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder is a guide for clients in using DBT skills to regulate emotion in their lives. Sheri is the winner of the 2010 R.O. Jones award of the Canadian Psychiatric Association for her research on using DBT skills with bipolar disorder. She has extensive training in mindfulness and DBT and has been running DBT-informed groups since 2004. Sheri is a lively and experienced presenter who has given dozens of workshops in Canada and internationally on DBT skills. Her popular presentation on DBT for Bipolar Disorder draws on her extensive research and clinical experience helping clients who have this difficult diagnosis. OBJECTIVES With this workshop, participants will: - Improve their ability to help clients understand and accept their diagnosis - Understand the rationale for using DBT in treating BD - Become familiar with key DBT skills used in treating BD including: re-regulating emotions, mindfulness and emotion regulation, radical acceptance, and distress tolerance. - Understand when to provide group and individual DBT.
March 20, 2020 9:00AM-4:00PM	Effective Exposure Therapy for Children and Adolescents: Do’s and Don’ts, with Dr. Southam-Gerow	Montreal	Register now	+
$270.00 LOCATION: L'Ambroise 4020 Saint-Ambroise, Porte 140, Montreal, H4C 2C7 Room : Espace Canal This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RA03150-19). Early registration rate ($270 + taxes) ends March 1st, 2020. Regular fee: $290+ taxes. The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments. GENERAL DESCRIPTION Anxiety has many benefits, motivating us to put in maximum effort and helping us know what matters to us most. When anxiety persists however, it can interfere with functioning and lead to diagnosable mental health problems in children and adolescents. Anxiety disorders are one of the most common issues found in pediatric clinics today. In addition to long-term anxiety related disorders, untreated anxiety can lead to other problems such as depression and substance abuse. Psychologists and psychotherapists must be able to offer their clients psychoeducation and learn effective exposure strategies to treat child and adolescent anxiety. This workshop will show you how to do just that. BIO Dr. Southam-Gerow is the author two important books about child and adolescent treatment: Emotion regulation in children and adolescents: A practitioner’s guide, published in 2013 and Exposure therapy with children and adolescents, published in 2019. Dr. Southam Gerow has given workshops and invited talks across the US and in Australia on many of the key aspects of child therapy. He is a professor and chair of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where he teaches courses in child therapy and abnormal psychology. As co-founder and co-director of the Anxiety Clinic at VCU - a clinic that provides low-cost services for children and adolescents with anxiety and related problems - he has trained and supervised scores of doctoral students in the nuances of using CBT for anxiety. As a national trainer for PracticeWise, he has led dozens of multi-day trainings and consulted hundreds of therapists with various levels of experience across his more than 20-year career. Dr. Southam-Gerow is an active researcher, who focuses on the dissemination and implementation of psychological treatments, emotion regulation, and treatment integrity. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the author of dozens of scholarly papers, and the recipient of several NIH research grants. OBJECTIVES At the end of this workshop, participants will : Increase their competence in producing sophisticated fear ladders that include practical items for use in exposure therapy Demonstrate understanding of the psychoeducational teaching points critical to exposure therapy Demonstrate competence in the sequence used in exposure therapy and in effectively implementing exposure and other techniques.
May 8, 2020 9:00AM-4:00PM	How to Train The Craving Brain To Break Bad Habits and Become More Resilient, with Dr. Judson Brewer	Montreal	Register now	+
$270.00 LOCATION: L'Ambroise 4020 Saint-Ambroise, Porte 140, Montreal, H4C 2C7 Room : Espace Canal This workshop is approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the OPQ (RAO3146-19). Early registration rate ($270 + taxes) ends April 15th, 2020. Regular fee: $290+ taxes. The registration fee includes lunch and refreshments. GENERAL DESCRIPTION Human beings are vulnerable to cravings and habits - compulsions to constantly check social media, overeat, smoke, excessively drink, or other behaviors, people find themselves repeating uncontrollably. Why are bad habits so hard to overcome? The key to understanding this is learning how our minds work. Armed with this understanding, we can tap into the process to find a key to conquer the cravings we know are unhealthy and foster natural capacities for awareness and kindness. Pscyhologists and psychotherapists need to understand how the mind works. Armed with this understanding, they can help clients to conquer unhealthy cravings and foster natural capacities for awareness and kindness. This workshop will show you how! BIO Jud Brewer MD, PhD is a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery” with more than 20 years of experience in mindfulness training and scientific research. He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Dr. Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences and Psychiatry at the Schools of Public Health & Medicine at Brown University, and a research affiliate at MIT. He has trained US Olympic coaches, and his work has been featured on 60 Minutes, TED (10+ Million views), Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera (documentary about his research), Businessweek and others. Dr. Brewer founded MindSciences to move his discoveries of clinical evidence behind mindfulness for anxiety, eating, smoking and other behavior change into the hands of consumers (see www.drjud.com for more information). OBJECTIVES Understand how habits are formed and perpetuated Learn how mindfulness can help us step out of our old habits Gain insight into how we can tap into our own reward-based learning processes through curiosity Learn how mindfulness can change our default brain patterns

PARKING FEES: Parking fees are not included in the registration fee. For courses held at Medipsy in Westmount, street parking is normally available close by. For workshops at L’Ambroisie in Montreal, parking for $10 per day is available onsite. In Ottawa, public parking is available a very short walk from the Army Officers’ Mess.

STUDENTS: Full-time students receive a $60 discount on the regular price of one-day workshops. Students should register at the regular price and will receive a credit on the day of the workshop, after presenting proof of student status.

LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS: Registration fees for full-day workshops include lunch and refreshments unless otherwise stated.

CANCELLATION: Registration fees will be reimbursed in full minus a $50 administrative fee, up to 10 days before the event. There is no reimbursement for cancellations 10 days or less before the event. Medipsy reserves the right to cancel a workshop if there is insufficient registration. In such cases, participants will be reimbursed 100%.

LOST CERTIFICATES AND RECEIPTS: There is a $15 administrative fee to obtain a copy of a lost certificate of participation or a lost receipt.

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