Map Your Happy: How Positive Psychology Can Change Lives

NASW NH Virtual Workshop

Map Your Happy: How Positive Psychology Can Change Lives

Barb Drotos, LICSW

1.5 Clinical Category A CEs pending approval from NASW NH

Interested in decreasing depression and anxiety and increasing a sense of purpose and meaning in life? Then positive psychology is for you! Explore this amazing modality that can change your life and that of your clients. Learn about the impact of living a life with positive emotion, engagement, relationship, meaning and accomplishment. This simple but profound approach to wellness can help your clients achieve joy, meaning, and balance in their lives. You will leave this workshop a map toward positive self-identity and improved mental and physical health. This fun and interactive workshop will inspire your practice and your personal life!

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify the 5 components of PERMA, essential in positive psychology.

2. Participants will identify at least two ways to implement positive psychology in their personal and/or professional lives.

3. Participants will be familiar with the process of mapping the use of PERMA/positive psychology in their practice with clients.

About the Presenter

Barb Drotos, MSW, LICSW

Barb is a licensed social worker in private practice. Barb earned a master’s degree in social work from Salem State University (1992) and a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of New Hampshire. She has over 30 years of experience working with complex individuals, children and families, including work in the foster care and adoption systems, community mental health centers, and developmental services. Barb is a Nationally Certified START Coordinator and specializes in trauma, attachment, neurodiversity, grief and loss. As a social worker, educator and administrator, Barb incorporates positive psychology into every aspect of her life. Her lived experience includes being an aunt, guardian and sister of loved ones with developmental disability and mental health concerns. She is a parent by birth as well as through foster care and adoption. Barb and her wife live in the small New England town of Hopkinton, NH. Barb loves to travel, cook, and enjoys the outdoors. Barb Drotos Counseling and Consultation www.barbdrotoscounselingandconsultation.com

Workshop details

You will be sent a zoom link prior to the workshop.

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