Understanding Teen Stressors: A workshop for teen role models focusing on understanding negative teen coping skills, and offering ways to help teens embrace stress and adapt their energy into positive outlets.
FREE Professional Development Workshop Series for Behavior Analysts, Directors of Special Services, Case Managers, Psychologists, and Special Education/Inclusion Teachers.
This workshop is designed to expand participants understanding of the most common mental health impairments of substance use amongst youth. This workshop will teach professionals to develop competencies surrounding identification and treatment models for this population.
As a certified substance abuse counselor, you can help individuals who are struggling with addiction along their path to recovery. If you are already a mental health clinician, the ability to treat co-occurring disorders will allow you to expand your capabilities - giving you the opportunity to help many others while furthering your career.
Bridging the gap between traumatic experience and problematic adolescent behavior.
Jail diversion model. New Jersey’s CIT program is a collaboration of county based professionals committed to improving their local county’s enforcement system and the mental health system’s response to persons experiencing a PSYCHIATRIC CRISIS .
Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis.
"Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder and Approaches in Substance Abuse Treatment" presented by Lauren Barrett MA, LAC, LCDAC, NCC ACS, Director of Long Term Residential - Seabrook
"The Integration of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders" presented by Dara Gasior PsyD, Director of Assessment and Training
The actions or non-responsiveness of people who have autism are often misinterpreted by untrained individuals. Inappropriate social responses and non-contextual emotional outbursts, commonly seen in people who have autism, can cause confusion at best and spark conflict in worst case scenarios.
The goal of this course is to explore current research related to trauma including trauma identification, assessment, and treatment. Specifically, we are interested in learning how to disrupt the challenges that trauma creates for people and inspire resilience.
The Arc of New Jersey's 29th Annual Conference on Medical Care will be held on Friday, June 1st at the Westin Princeton Hotel in Forrestal Village.
