Live Workshop: Gambling Disorder: Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals-Part 1

As gambling continues to become increasingly accessible throughout Maryland, the harms associated with gambling are likely to increase. The fundamentals for Gambling Disorder will provide a basic knowledge for identifying the at-risk gambler, screening tools, and brief interventions. It is essential for healthcare professionals to improve their competence in recognizing and treating gambling related problems given the impact gambling has on the family, community, and healthcare systems.
This training is applicable and relevant for all helping professionals working with those in treatment for behavioral health disorders and is divided in two parts.
Category
- Addiction
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 3.00 Psychologists
- 3.00 Participation
Event date September 22, 2023
Live Workshop: Gambling Disorder: Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals-Part 2

As gambling continues to become increasingly accessible throughout Maryland, the harms associated with gambling are likely to increase. The fundamentals for Gambling Disorder will provide a basic knowledge for identifying the at-risk gambler, screening tools, and brief interventions. It is essential for healthcare professionals to improve their competence in recognizing and treating gambling related problems given the impact gambling has on the family, community, and healthcare systems.
This training is applicable and relevant for all helping professionals working with those in treatment for behavioral health disorders and is divided in two parts.
Category
- Addiction
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 3.00 Psychologists
- 3.00 Participation
Event date September 29, 2023
Live OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Sessions I & II - October 6, 2023

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common and often debilitating mental health condition characterized by unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repeated distress-reducing behaviors (compulsions). Frequently misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated, this series of lectures will demystify OCD and related disorders and the most effective protocols for helping those who suffer from them. Attendees new to or heavily experienced in treating OCD and related disorders will gain knowledge from multiple perspectives. This unique format features six lectures from top experts in the field, scheduled across three sessions over the Fall season. This series includes experts presenting on uncertainty acceptance in OCD treatment, sleep and OCD, process-based treatment of severe OCD and related disorders in for teens, similarities and differences in interventions for OCD and related disorders, current best practices for children and adolescents, and multimodal treatment of pediatric OCD at higher levels of care.
Category
- Anxiety/OCD
- Psychotherapy
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 3.00 Psychologists
- 3.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 3.00 Participation
Event date October 6, 2023
Live Professional Workshop: The Survivor's Journey: Helping Survivors of Trauma Heal

When victims of child abuse, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, or sex trafficking are identified, we know trauma has occurred and internal recovery work from trauma is needed. However, few professionals know how to effectively respond. This session will focus on providing information on trauma, triggers, trauma-informed care, and trauma-focused care to help clients heal through The Survivor’s Journey. Participants will learn the twelve internal and external journeys clients should travel that moves them from victim, to survivor, to thriver.
Category
- Trauma
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 1.50 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 1.50 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 1.50 Psychologists
- 1.50 Participation
Event date October 13, 2023
Live Workshop: Gambling Disorder Treatment Approaches: Motivational Interviewing

Motivational interviewing is an approach developed out of Carl Roger’s person-centered model and established by Miller and Rollnick in 1983. This therapeutic approach can assist individuals experiencing gambling related harms recognize their ambivalent feelings and find the internal motivations needed to change their behavior. This training will explore the use motivational interviewing techniques for persons with Gambling Disorder as well as harm reduction strategies.
Category
- Addiction
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 3.00 Psychologists
- 3.00 Participation
Event date October 20, 2023
Live Workshop: Gambling Disorder Treatment Approaches: Addressing Family and Finances

The expansion of sports betting in Maryland, particularly access to mobile betting, has led to an increase in helpline calls nationally. Persons under the age of 30 are at greater risk for experiencing negative consequences with the expansion of gambling activities found within video and mobile games. This training will examine how to integrate familial interventions and financial planning into treatment for Gambling Disorder. Discussions about the financial impact of gambling on the recovering individual and family will be explored. We will also discuss the recovery process, the challenges and hopes for sustaining positive outcomes.
Category
- Addiction
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 3.00 Psychologists
- 3.00 Participation
Event date October 27, 2023
Live OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Sessions III & IV - November 3, 2023

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common and often debilitating mental health condition characterized by unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repeated distress-reducing behaviors (compulsions). Frequently misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated, this series of lectures will demystify OCD and related disorders and the most effective protocols for helping those who suffer from them. Attendees new to or heavily experienced in treating OCD and related disorders will gain knowledge from multiple perspectives. This unique format features six lectures from top experts in the field, scheduled across three sessions over the Fall season. This series includes experts presenting on uncertainty acceptance in OCD treatment, sleep and OCD, process-based treatment of severe OCD and related disorders in for teens, similarities and differences in interventions for OCD and related disorders, current best practices for children and adolescents, and multimodal treatment of pediatric OCD at higher levels of care.
Category
- Anxiety/OCD
- Psychotherapy
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 3.00 Psychologists
- 3.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 3.00 Participation
Event date November 3, 2023
Live Professional Workshop: Feminist Ethics in Psychology: Culturally Sensitive Research and Practice

Clinicians and researchers often confront ethical dilemmas that they must resolve in a manner consistent with the ethical standards and guidelines of their profession. Many ethicists have noted the importance of having ethical frameworks for making ethical decisions. In this workshop learners will examine and apply two ethical frameworks: Feminist Ethics as defined by Brabeck (2002) and Rest’s Four component model of practicing ethics, particularly ethical sensitivity. Particular attention will be paid to making culturally informed ethical decisions.
Category
- Ethics/Legal
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 3.00 Psychologists
- 3.00 Participation
Event date November 17, 2023
Live Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Certification Training Day 3

This activity is only available to Larry Epp's group and is by invitation only.
Category
- Psychotherapy
- Trauma
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 4.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 4.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 4.00 Psychologists
- 4.00 Participation
Event date December 8, 2023
Live OCD & Anxiety Lecture Series: Sessions V & VI - December 8, 2023

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a common and often debilitating mental health condition characterized by unwanted intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repeated distress-reducing behaviors (compulsions). Frequently misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated, this series of lectures will demystify OCD and related disorders and the most effective protocols for helping those who suffer from them. Attendees new to or heavily experienced in treating OCD and related disorders will gain knowledge from multiple perspectives. This unique format features six lectures from top experts in the field, scheduled across three sessions over the Fall season. This series includes experts presenting on uncertainty acceptance in OCD treatment, sleep and OCD, process-based treatment of severe OCD and related disorders in for teens, similarities and differences in interventions for OCD and related disorders, current best practices for children and adolescents, and multimodal treatment of pediatric OCD at higher levels of care.
Category
- Anxiety/OCD
- Child & Adolescent
- Psychotherapy
- Workshop
Format
- Live Webinar
Credits
- 3.00 ACEP NBCC clock hours
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 3.00 Category I credits for Social Workers
- 3.00 Psychologists
- 3.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
- 3.00 Participation
Event date December 8, 2023