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Should Psychotherapy Be Fun? Let's Talk About Dopamine
9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Live Interactive Online Webinar
$60.00
Elaine Edelman, PhD, LCSW, CASAC-Advance

There are many goals of psychotherapy including managing difficult feelings, dealing with trauma, and making healthier behavioral choices. This webinar explores mechanisms of healing including utilizing the therapeutic relationship and understanding that what we expose ourselves to (people, the arts, movement) changes our neurotransmitters and therefore how we experience the world. This interactive workshop examines how we can help those we serve, and ourselves, to find areas of control and inspiration to elevate our mood and increase our sense of well-being. Utilizing various videos, this webinar reflects on what neurotransmitters are stimulated when we enjoy music, comedy, and physical movement. Using a strength-based approach, participants are encouraged to incorporate discussion of the arts, comedy, and physical movement into psychotherapy to stabilize and increase mood and foster empowerment among those we treat.

To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course and complete an online course evaluation. Certificates of completion will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.
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3.0 Clinical
Objectives
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
  • Identify how access to, and deprivation from, our usual (and sometimes unconscious) coping skills affects our mood and ability to regulate our emotions
  • Identify how neurotransmitters impact how we feel
  • Discuss the phenomenon of learned helplessness and how it can lead to depression
  • Explain how using different parts of our brain can prevent burnout
  • Audience
    Social Workers and Allied Health Professionals