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Module 1 This three-hour ethics program provides guidance on integrating emerging neuroscience into clinical practice responsibly and in alignment with professional ethical standards. It reviews clinicians’ obligations to stay current with new scientific developments, while also addressing the practical limits of that responsibility amid rapidly expanding research. The program covers how to ethically adapt evidence-based practices using neuroscience, avoid techniques unsupported by current findings, and accurately represent oneself when marketing as a neuroscience-informed clinician. | Module 2 This four-hour core clinical program presents emerging neuroscience in a structured, accessible format to help clinicians integrate new findings into practice in both clinically appropriate and ethically aligned ways. Participants will explore key concepts in affective neuroscience that are reshaping mental health care and informing modern best practices. Rather than replacing effective current methods, this material expands clinical understanding, clarifies why interventions work, and introduces additional evidence-based treatment options grounded in the latest scientific developments. | Module 3 Anxiety remains the most frequently reported concern in mental health settings, and this three-hour core clinical program helps clinicians integrate emerging neuroscience on anxiety and anxiety disorders into ethically sound, clinically effective practice. Designed to update 21st-century practitioners on current research in etiology, assessment, and treatment, the course translates new scientific insights into practical strategies. Clinicians will gain tools and approaches that enhance treatment effectiveness and support more informed, evidence-based care for clients experiencing anxiety-related symptoms. |
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Module 4 Current research indicates the most important factor in positive clinical outcomes for clients is the characteristics of the clinician themselves, rather than treatment modality used. This 3-hour program will provide to attendees the most current research in neuroscience to update and expand long-held and relied upon theories about how to develop and optimize the use of the self in treatment for optimal treatment outcomes, to include self-management and self-regulation in practice. | Module 5 The Default Mode Network (DMN) is a major finding in affective neuroscience, central to self-related processing, social cognition, memory, future thinking, and creative problem-solving. Disruptions in the DMN and its interaction with other neural systems are linked to a wide range of psychological concerns. This four-hour core clinical program offers clear, foundational knowledge of the DMN and guidance on integrating emerging research into ethical, clinically appropriate practice. Participants will also gain practical tools to enhance treatment effectiveness across diverse symptoms and disorders. | Module 6 This four-hour core clinical program offers clear, accessible guidance on integrating emerging neuroscience related to trauma and PTSD into ethically sound, clinically effective practice. Designed to update 21st-century clinicians on the latest research in the etiology, assessment, and treatment of trauma-related disorders, the course highlights key scientific advances shaping modern care. Participants will gain practical tools and approaches that enhance treatment effectiveness and support more informed intervention for clients experiencing both acute and chronic trauma. |
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Module 7 Recent research indicates that emotional granularity – the ability to use our emotional equipment in a precise and granular way - is essential for mental well-being, emotional resilience and effective utilization of interpersonal effectiveness skills. Building upon the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett and Leonid Perlovsky, this 3-hour program is designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to emotional granularity and its role in emotional development and successful functioning. This program will address the implications of emotional granularity for best practices in clinical work, psychoeducation, and parenting education, and will provide practical tools and approaches to transfer the key knowledge base to clients in a readily applicable way and to address motivational complexities and resistances to change. | Module 8 Presenting a one-day, three-hour training to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of communication and learning theory, affective neuroscience and implications for the capacity to generate more powerful communications with clients. This course will provide practical tools and approaches to transfer the key knowledge base for communicating with clients in a readily applicable way and to address motivational complexities and resistances to change. Handouts for Module 8 | Module 9 This three-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience concerned with depression and depressive disorders into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of depression-related disorders - etiology, assessment and treatment - this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients addressing anxiety and anxiety disorders.
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Module 10 This 3-hour program four will address a model of case conceptualization designed to better integrate the emerging field of affective neuroscience into the design of a comprehensive treatment approach for a wide range of clinical issues. Beginning with Ronald Heifetz's description of adaptive work, this program will serve as a targeted integrative tool for practical application of 21st Century neuroscience into direct clinical work. This work will enhance the clinician’s ability to form a more complete picture of a clinical case so that approaches and techniques may be applied more effectively. This course will provide practical tools to assist the clinician in structuring conceptualization of the case. Handouts for Module 10 | Module 11 This four-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience with the knowledge base for substance abuse and with treatment for substance abuse disorders. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of substance use disorders - etiology, assessment and treatment - this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients. Handouts for Module 11 | Module 12 This six-hour core clinical program will serve as a review of important concepts from the neuroscience certification programs presented to date and as an opportunity to engage in preparation for the post-test for the neuroscience certification process. Handouts for Module 12 |