Recognizing and Treating Emotional Dysregulation: Clinical Strategies
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Recognizing and Treating Emotional Dysregulation: Clinical Strategies

Sat, Feb 10th, 2024
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Clients who struggle with chronic mental health symptoms and addictive patterns have a difficult time identifying, tolerating, and regulating their feelings. They often respond to their emotions in a polarized manner which triggers their “fight or flight” response. Consequently, the “fight or flight” response breaks down the feedback loop between mind and body, which over time, will be expressed through psychiatric or medical symptoms and diagnoses.

In this workshop, Mrs. Caldwell Engle will review the impact on emotional development caused by unresolved trauma, suppression, and dissociation. She will explain the importance of an integrated functional approach to treatment and recovery. She will also introduce a conceptual tool that explains the difference between healthy and unhealthy feelings, identifies patterns of suppression and dissociation, and provides opportunities for desensitization techniques. She will demonstrate how this helps to identify the root of all addictive behaviors, and the often co-occurring physical and mental health symptoms. She will provide specific cognitive and experiential treatment assignments and interventions.

This approach is applicable to any client who is stuck in addictive and self-defeating behaviors. Clinical examples and case vignettes will be given, along with time for Q and A.

Live Event This is a live online event. It will be conducted via Zoom Webinar.

Live Event Instructor

Melissa Caldwell Engle, LPC, ATR

Melissa Caldwell Engle, LPC, ATR

Melissa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Registered Art Therapist (A.T.R.). She has over 25 years of experience in treating trauma and addictions. She has been the Executive Clinical Director at the Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma for 20 years. While in this position, Mrs. Caldwell Engle clinically managed three inpatient programs directed by Colin A. Ross M.D. where she was involved in the development, and implementation of the Trauma Model and its integration into the programs’ treatment milieu.

Melissa is the co-founder and EVP of clinical programming for Healing Springs Ranch, a residential treatment facility for addictions. She has worked with all behavioral health diagnoses including Depression, Dual-Diagnoses, Anxiety, Bi-Polar, Personality Disorders, PTSD, Eating Disorders, OCD, Dissociative Disorders, and ALL addictive patterns and diagnoses both on the individual and group level.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Describe the effects of trauma, suppression and dissociation on addiction and mental health symptoms and diagnoses.
  2. 2 Explain the difference between healthy feelings and unhealthy feelings and their effect on the “fight or flight” response.
  3. 3 Explain the difference and benefit of a functional model/approach.

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00am - 11:30am Introduction, Overview of trauma, suppression, and dissociation
    Symptoms
    Effects on addiction and mental health symptoms
11:30pm - 12:30pm All about feelings
    Healthy feelings vs unhealthy feelings
    Effect on fight or flight response
12:30pm - 12:45pm Break
12:45pm - 1:45pm Identifying patterns of suppression and dissociation
    Desensitization techniques
    Addictive behaviors, co-occurring disorders
    Case examples
1:45pm - 2:05pm Functional model and interventions
2:05pm - 2:15pm Conclusion, Q&A

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