Welcome to ABCST’s
CE Catalogue
Journey of the Courageous
Debby Wade presents a brief history of group therapy, highlighting Irvin Yalom’s therapeutic factors in group work. Describing open-ended, closed-ended, in-person and online groups, she discusses how to design a group for women dealing with sexual pain and outlines an eight week closed-ended curriculum participants can use to lead a group for women. Debby’s “Journey of the Courageous” walks participants through education, empowerment, obstacles to growth, emotional healing, shifting beliefs, and reclaiming healthy intimacy. She encourages therapists to offer hope, to stay humble, and to keep the group focus on addressing the pain and increasing intimacy.
Suicidality in a Shifting World
Using recent data from the CDC, SAMHSA, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, this evidence-based presentation:
Highlights suicide trends across age, race, and gender.
Provides culturally responsive, trauma-informed, ethically sound practices for suicide prevention and intervention.
Explores the emotional aftermath of suicide, including grief, mourning, and the impact of loss on families and communities.
Challenges Providers to be aware of and manage compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and burnout.
Sexual Desire Types In Married Couples
The most common sexual issue brought to couple therapy and sex therapy is discrepancy in sexual desire (frequency, level, initiation). In his recently published study, Dr. Michael Sytsma examines how initiating, receptive, and resistant desire types influence marital satisfaction and happiness.
Gottman Treatment of Affairs: An Introductory Overview
This CEU course is a one hour overview of the Gottman Model for assessing and treating Affairs in committed couples. Dr. Gary Barnes, with permission from the Gottmans, offers a "flyover" of the key concepts and treatment method offered by the Gottman Institute. For those who have taken the longer Gottman training on Affairs, this is an excellent review of that training.
Neurodiversity, Sexuality and Sex Therapy
Neurodiverse relationships face the same challenges common to most couplings, yet also have unique hardships. Learning to recognize brain differences, and how they manifest within relationship dynamics, is key to offering the right kind of therapeutic support.
This 2 course bundle presents neurodivergent lived experience and empirical data to equip therapists to promote individual and relational health within neurodiverse populations.
Life Transitions: Understanding Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond
This session will explore the physiological, psychological, and sexual health changes that occur throughout the menopausal transition. Dr. Christiansen will provide evidence-based insights on hormonal and non-hormonal treatment options and the impact of menopause on sexuality and relationships.
“Magic Mushrooms” for Managing Mood: Is Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy a Viable Treatment Option?
This seminar will address the use of psilocybin as a therapeutic agent and the role of psychological support in the therapeutic effect of psilocybin. It will also address ethical and legal challenges and the path to FDA approval and commercialization of psilocybin and other psychedelics.
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