CHU Sainte-Justine
Titre complet :
Targeting personality risk factors in psychotherapy and the preventure drug and alcohol prevention programme
Training Overview and Objectives
Personality-targeted interventions have proven highly effective for addressing concurrent mental health and substance use problems, and in school-based drug and alcohol prevention. This two-day workshop will provide an overview of the psychobiologic research on four personality risk factors for substance use and mental disorders: anxiety sensitivity, negative thinking, impulsivity and sensation seeking. The training will also provide an overview of the instruments used to assess these traits in clinical practice, and new intervention strategies that target these traits in therapy. The second day of the workshop will focus on how to deliver cognitive-behavioural and motivational interventions in personality-specific ways, and will provide some practical training on how to deliver the interventions in the context of school-based prevention, using the Preventure Programme.
This workshop is only open to professionals with previous counselling or psychotherapy training.
Preventure therapist manuals are included in workshop fees, client and student manuals can be purchased on site during the training workshop.
Guest speakers :
- Patricia J. Conrod, Chair of Social Pediatrics and Professor of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal, CHU Sainte-Justine
- Sherry H. Stewart, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Dalhousie University
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