Videos

Depression: Facing It and Finding a Story of Hope

(5-hour video/5 CEUs)
Christopher Behan, LCSW

Depression is the most prevalent mental disorder, bringing our clients into despair and darkness. Therapists also are vulnerable to the hopelessness and helplessness that depression engenders. This program will assist clinicians in utilizing specific tools to tap into the story of hope that is contained, but often concealed, within the client's description of depression, offering possibilities where none seemed to exist.

Legal and Ethical Issues in the Mental Health Profession - NEW VERSION!

(6-hour video/6 CEUs)
Andy Abbott, PhD

Practitioners are held to high standards, both legally and ethically. This program is designed to give an overview of the legal and ethical issues facing professionals in behavioral health practice. Participants will come away from this program with an understanding of their risks and strategies for effectively dealing with such issues.

Psychosocial Assessment - NEW VERSION!

(6-hour video/6 CEUs)
Amy Simonds, LCPC

This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of key aspects of psychosocial assessment including interview skills/strategies and alternatives to direct questioning, such as genograms, observations and games. It will focus on who the assessment is for and writing to that audience in a single document. This workshop fulfills Maine's requirement for psychosocial assessment.

Trauma, Anxiety, Depression and Self-harming Behaviors: Living on the Borderline

(5-hour video/ 5 CEUs)
Karen Ludwig, LCPC

What happens to children who survive severe childhood abuse or neglect? Many have deep wells of resilience and go on to live their lives without apparent impairment. Others, however, face enormous challenges in maintaining well-being. This program explores the ways child abuse can continue to haunt people for years after the abuse has ended, leading people to develop "solutions" to the pain that may allow survival, but can interfere with relationships and personal growth. A narrative approach to understanding trauma histories can open up possibilities for healing and recovery.

Treating Difficult Children and Their Families

(6-hour video/6 CEUs)
Andy Abbott, PhD

Approaching treatment from both an individual and family perspective, this workshop will provide strategies for building trust and establishing a collaborative relationship with the child and family. Effective interventions dealing with difficult children and families will be a focus.

What Our Clients Are Saying

Five ACT Program clients in Brunswick trade their labor on a Wiscasset organic farm for shares of the vegetables they grow. One client, Jason S., shows up to garden every Friday afternoon, rain or shine. The others come when their lives and their mental illness allow them to participate, said...

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