Speakers for this topic are MaryAnn Black, MSW, LCSW, Donna Carrington, Kay Castillo, BSW, Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, and Barbara B. Smith, LCSW Health care and medical insurance are hot button topics with ethical implications. This panel will provide background and context to understand the key issues that affect the provision of care in the US […]

Speaker for this event is Marty Weems, LCSW, LCAS Pre-registration is required for attendance For more information and to register, visit: http://cls.unc.edu

The speaker for this event is Heather Branham, LCSW Transgender people in North Carolina and the greater U.S. face daily discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations; barriers to accessing physical and mental health care; and violence and harassment at home, work, and school. The toll that this ongoing discrimination takes on the bodies and […]

The speaker for this event is James McCracken, MSW, LCSW, PLLC Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidence-based practice that integrates humanistic-experiential and systemic interventions guided by attachment theory, is an approach relevant to all psychotherapists even if they don’t practice couple or family format therapies. It provides a lens and strategies to focus on unclear or […]

The speaker for this event is Audrina Jones Bunton, MA, LPCS Trauma-focused CBT is a short-term, skills-based therapy that integrates humanistic, cognitive behavioral, and familial strategies to help youths with PTSD or functional impairments as a result of trauma. TF-CBT has been proven to be effective with short-term distress, depression, anxiety, and externalizing behaviors. In this […]

The speaker for this event is Jennifer Plumb Vilardaga, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke and Licensed Clinical Psychologist Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based approach that encourages 1) increased awareness of avoidance patterns that paradoxically exacerbate, rather than reduce, suffering, 2) practicing openness to personal experiences (thoughts, feelings, […]

The speaker for this event is Andrea Murray-Lichtman, MSW, LCSW Spirituality and religion are powerful forces in many people’s lives, yet they are often relegated to the periphery of psychotherapeutic research and practice. In this workshop, Andrea Murray-Lichtman explores how spirituality can inform, challenge, and deepen psychotherapeutic work with diverse populations. This includes how to engage […]

Panelists will address humanitarian crises in the treatment of immigrants and refugees in the US from the perspective of ethics, law, mental health, and social advocacy. At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: Identify and describe at least 1 way that the current treatment of non-citizens in the US violates professional code […]