Offering an array of topics designed to enhance educational and skill development.
Topics for training include Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Informed Care, and many other topics.
These trainings are free for RADIAS Health Employees. If you are not an employee of RADIAS Health – please click here and use these forms to register for the training.
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8:30 am: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 101: So… what exactly is this CBT?
Let's face it - everybody has heard of this thing called CBT. Now is your chance to learn about what it actually is and ask the questions you were afraid to ask. Trust us, you're not the only one only pretending to know what the cognitive loop or cognitive restructuring is - this training will be open to all questions!
Objectives:
Participants will learn how the cognitive loop and how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are related to one another.
Participants will have an understanding of the role of CBT in treating Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders.
Participants will be able to describe core concepts and how to apply CBT principles in their work, including how to form a basic CBT case conceptualization.
Participants will have an understanding of cognitive restructuring and the ABC framework.
Rob has worked with RADIAS Health for 16+ years and currently works as a therapist on the Ramsey Blue ACT Team. He has experience working in ACT as a therapist for 8+ years and also worked in the RSS program in both supervisory and counseling capacities for 8+ years. He has been licensed as an LPCC for 9+ years and has been doing trainings within and outside of RADIAS Health for 4+ years. Topics include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Illness Management and Recovery, Motivational Interviewing within ACT, and Non-violent Crisis De-Escalation.
Training Title: Assessing, Understanding, and Integrating the Role of Culture into Care
Presenter: Willie Garrett, MS, LP, CEAP, Ed.D.
Training Description:
Dr. Willie Garrett, former President of the Minnesota Psychological Association, is a leader within the delivery of culturally competent care. Dr. Garrett has over 30 years of experience treating individuals and families in trauma recovery, grief management, depression, and anxiety treatment, and work adjustment consulting. In this training, Dr. Garrett will lead participants in exploring how cross-cultural communication and cultural adaptations can influence how people access care. Participants will increase skills and confidence for assessing and modifying their approach to maximize the delivery of culturally congruent care.
Training Objectives
Learn to identify the narrow definitions valued in American culture and the harmful effects on helpers and clients.
Learn the hidden cultural behaviors of BIPOC groups and how helpers interpret these behaviors. Including concepts of family, parenting, safety, externalizing behaviors, and non-verbal communication styles.
Learn to Identify invisible racism, the intersectionality of oppression, and the adaptable behaviors of historically underserved groups.
Based on knowledge of adaptive behaviors and communication styles, learn strategies for incorporating cultural considerations into assessments and treatment interventions, to aid in the delivery of culturally congruent care.
Learn the different suicide methods and emotional behaviors of BIPOC groups.
This half-day training will focus on learning suicide assessment and intervention skills. We will review the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale [CSSRS] that are located in our forms in Credible for all RADIAS Health Programs. We will learn how to administer the assessment while seeing clients in all settings. This training will eliminate assumptions that these forms are difficult to administer and use with clients. This training will also help with expanding your knowledge about the risks for suicide, assessing a client's suicidal behavior and ideation, and how to intervene. We will learn and practice safety planning.
Training objectives:
Develop wider knowledge of factors involved with suicide
Broaden one's experience with the Credible forms
Increase knowledge with assessing suicidal behavior
Expand skill set with crisis planning and assessment
Patty has worked for RADIAS since 2014. She is the director of RADIAS Health Outpatient Clinic and DBT Clinic. She loves training new and existing employees in a variety of subjects relevant to delivering services to populations served by RADIAS. Patty does training in suicide risk assessment and teaches a class about DBT at the University of Minnesota in the Integrated Behavioral Health Program.”
This training will focus on self-reflection of what it means to be ethical in relation to your work. Explore the concept of “ethic-centric” practices and how those show up in the nuances of community mental health services. Topics this will be applied to include; managing burnout and compassion fatigue, how we show up in our professional relationships, the provision of culturally congruent care, engagement in professional development, and the application of emerging/best practices.
Objectives:
Participants will explore and be able to articulate how ethics show up in relation to day-to-day ways of being at work.
Participants will engage in self-reflection to explore their strengths and areas for growth as related to ethic-centric practice.
Participants will identify practices that they can use to keep themselves centered in maintaining ethic-centric presence at work.
Description : Navigating MicroAggressions Training
What is it? An opportunity to learn how microaggressions impact individuals and the workplaces so we can foster a more respectful and inclusive environment.
What will you learn?
How to define and describe microaggressions
Understand how microaggressions impact individuals and work environments
Learn strategies for responding to and intervening in microaggressions
Participants will have a better understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder, and will be able to outline the philosophy and foundation of DBT.
Participants will learn and practice validation strategies to assist people who experience significant dysregulation.
This course will provide a basic understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder. It will outline the philosophy and foundation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and highlight the skills and practice relevant to the participants’ practice. Participants will work together to determine validation strategies and practice/role play them.
Brooke has worked in the behavioral health services since 1994 in various roles, including supportive housing, case management, therapy, program management, clinical supervision, and agency leadership. Brooke has provided trainings within and outside of RADIAS since 2007. Topics have included Conceptualization of Borderline Personality Disorder and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Concepts of Person-Centered Planning, Treating Co-Occurring Disorders, Fundamentals of Mental Illness, and Compassion Fatigue.
Laura has worked for RADIAS Health since 2007. She worked with clients with Borderline Personality Disorder, and other diagnoses, for 9 years in the RADIAS Health RSS program. She has provided adherent individual and group Dialectical Behavioral Therapy since 2015 through RADIAS Health’s DBT program. Laura also provides outpatient therapy and leads several outpatient therapy groups, including an advanced, aftercare DBT group for clients who have graduated from an adherent DBT program. Laura is a DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician™. Laura co-facilitates the Introduction to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills training and leads the Applied DBT Skills training.
