The Default Mode Network (DMN) is one of the most important recent discoveries in affective neuroscience. As an important meta-system, it is a key player in functions related to the self and social cognition, memory processing, future thinking, and creative solution generation. Malfunctioning of this system and its interactions with two other key neurological systems contributes significantly with numerous psychological problems. This four-hour core clinical program will provide important foundational knowledge about the DMN in a systematic, readily understandable and easily digestible way and will help each attendee integrate emerging knowledge about the DMN into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. In addition to bringing the clinician up to speed with this key area of knowledge, this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients who present with an expansive number of symptoms and disorders.

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.

Research has consistently shown that anxiety is the most common of all symptoms presented in mental health treatment. This three-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience concerned with anxiety and anxiety 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 anxiety-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.

This four-hour core clinical program will provide important information in a systematic, readily understandable and easily digestible way about how to integrate emerging neuroscience into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. We will uncover and explore the foundational knowledge base of emerging affective neuroscience that is fundamentally reshaping the field of mental health practice and changing what is considered best practices in the 21st Century.

This workshop will examine the challenges associated with Black children of incarcerated parents while also recognizing resilience factors that mitigate negative potential outcomes. Due to racial disparities within mass incarceration, Black children are 7.5 times more likely than White children to have a parent in prison.