AIP-Informed Treatment Intervention Procedures for Both In-Person and Online Care with Individuals and Groups.
The Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (ASSYST) © treatment intervention procedures in group, individual, and Web-based formats were born during humanitarian field-work and are AIP-informed, carefully field-tested, evidence-based, and user-friendly psychophysiological algorithmic symptom-focused approaches, whose references are the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol for Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-IGTP-OTS) © and the EMDR Protocol for Recent Critical Incidents and Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-PRECI) ©
For an extended explanation on the ASSYST treatment intervention procedures, please click here.
In a world experiencing an increased number of mental disorders, mental health conditions, or prolonged adverse experiences (e.g, ongoing or prolonged traumatic stress), the one-to-one in-office traditional mental care is not enough to meet the actual mental health needs of the worldwide population. Therefore, mental health professionals need to be able to respond to those in their community and abroad quickly and confidently. This training will give licensed mental health professionals a powerful tool to provide a rapid response to those in need.
ASSYST-I
ASSYST-G
ASSYST-RI
ASSYST-RG
ASSYST-I
The Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (ASSYST) individual procedure is designed to focus on the client’s nervous system regulation. It is utilized in rapid response settings and offered to client’s immediately after a traumatic experience (within hours, days or weeks). Additionally, it is used in Phase 2 of EMDR therapy to help the client prepare for reprocessing by regulating their nervous system and expanding their window of tolerance before starting the reprocessing phases of EMDR.
ASSYST-G
The Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (ASSYST) group procedure is designed to fill the gap between Psychological First Aid (PFA) and High-Intensity Intervention psychotherapy (e.g., EMDR, TF-CBT) after a critical incident or adverse experience when the person shows severe symptoms of psychological distress, physiological reactivity, and/or deterioration in current functioning. The group nature of this procedure allows for therapists to serve a large number of people in a short period of time.
ASSYST-RI
The ASSYST-Remote for Individuals changes the script language for utilizing the procedure in an online format. It includes preparatory information when seeing clients online and uses the Butterfly Hug (BH) method to safely provide bilateral stimulation with the client. A demonstration video is also provided.
ASSYST-RG
The ASSYST-Remote for Groups teaches participants how to offer the ASSYST in a group setting online. Providing online interventions can be tricky, especially with multiple people to care for simultaneously. This script is proven to work and we will teach you how, along with a demonstration video.
Overview
Field Examples
Objectives
On-Demand Itinerary
Live, Online Itinerary
Registration Fees
Testimonials
Overview
Training Overview:
These treatment procedures are specifically designed to provide in-person or online support to clients who present Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) intense psychological distress and/or physiological/somatic reactivity caused by the disorder’s intrusion symptoms associated with the traumatic event(s) or adverse experience(s) memories.
For example, recurrent memories of the adverse experience(s) that includes one or more of the following components:
- Sensory (e.g., images, smells, sounds, touch or be touched, taste).
- Emotional (physical sensations associated with affective states).
- Physiological (visceral sensations: vomit sensation, sense of heat for a burn victim, shortness of breath for a near-drowning experience survivor).
The ASSYST© procedures are Low-Intensity-Interventions (LII) that give us the possibility of direct, non-intrusive, physiological engagement with the client’s distressing/ pathogenic memories and their original components causing the nervous system hyperactivation (e.g., sensory, emotional, and physiological encoded information).
Low-Intensity- Interventions (LII) are treatments with low usage of a specialized therapist’s time or brief versions of evidence-based approaches (max 6 sessions). LII are less resource-intensive, less expensive, less complex, shorter, effective, efficient, and more accessible than high-intensity treatments (face-to-face psychotherapy provided by a mental health specialist over extended periods of time).
The ASSYST© procedures can be administered within the first hours (Critical Care), days (Rapid Response) or first three months (Early Intervention), after an adverse experience, or as an early intervention to approach ongoing traumatic stress situations, when the person shows severe symptoms of psychological distress, physiological reactivity, and/or deterioration in current functioning, using a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant video program.
During the standard EMDR protocol preparation phase, the ASSYST Individual could increase the prevention of dissociative reactions (e.g., numb/disconnected, shutdown, collapse, fainting) while reprocessing pathogenic memories by reducing the nervous system sympathetic branch hyperactivation, produced by a specific memory component (e.g., freeze response when remembering the worst image, the screams of the people, or the smell of the aggressor), keeping the patients inside their window of tolerance.
The objective of these procedures is focused on the client’s nervous system sympathetic branch hyperactivation regulation through the reduction or removal of the activation produced by the sensory, emotional, or physiological components of the distressing/ pathogenic memories of the adverse experience(s) to achieve optimal levels of nervous system activation; thus, facilitating the AIP system the subsequent adaptive processing of the information
The ASSYST© procedures fill the gap between Psychological First Aid (PFA) and High-Intensity Intervention psychotherapy (e.g., EMDR) after a critical incident or adverse experience when the person shows severe symptoms of psychological distress, physiological reactivity, and/or deterioration in current functioning.
These procedures must be administered within a Stepped Care Context to help the person achieve a state of adaptive functioning or, via screening, to facilitate access to High-Intensity Intervention psychotherapy when necessary.
Join trauma expert and world pioneer in EMDR Therapy Humanitarian Trauma Recovery and Research Programs, Dr. Ignacio (Nacho) Jarero, and his team for an insightful on-demand, in-person or online live streaming training that will expand your clinical knowledge base and powerful tool that can be used right after completing the training.
Field Examples
Examples of online and in-person work with the ASSYST treatment procedures:
- Since March 2022, we have been collaborating with the great work EMDR Europe has done addressing the Ukrainian population’s mental health needs with our ASSYST Humanitarian Psychosocial Project (HPP). As of November 29, 2022, our ASSYST HPP leader in Europe, Zuzana Cepelíková, reported that she and her team have trained on a pro-bono basis over 5,000 (five thousand) clinicians from Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary and that those clinicians have been using the ASSYST procedures to successfully alleviate the suffering of countless Ukrainian children, adolescents, and adults’ refugees. To watch a video and learn more about this project, click here.
- During 2020 & 2021, a total of 1,821 persons from the UK, USA, and Latin America received the ASSYT Remote Procedures pro-bono.
- Three days after the September 19, 2017 earthquake in Mexico City.
- Thirteen days after the August 3, 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
- Shortly after the September 2019 Hurricane Dorian that devastated the Bahamas.
- Immediately after the October 2019 and November 2019 riots and wave of terror in Chile and Bolivia, respectively.
- With First Responders (firefighters and medical personnel) and civilians who survived the January 23, 2019, gas explosion in Villa El Salvador, Peru.
- One day after the February 21, 2020, landslide in Cochabamba, Bolivia that affected 188 families.
- With immigrants in the United States three days after their escape from 21 days of organized crime’ captivity (2019).
- Shortly after the June 24, 2021, most powerful Tornado in the Czech Republic (Hodonin, South Moravia).
- With Mental Health practitioners that provided support after a school was bombed outside of Kabul in Afghanistan on May 8, 2021. At least 90 girls were killed.
- With hundreds of Haitian and Central American refugees in Mexico City during 2021 and 2022.
- With Ukrainian families seeking for asylum in Vancouver, Canada in the year 2022.
Objectives
Training Objectives
- Explain the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) theoretical model.
- Describe what pathogenic memories are.
- Explain why the AIP is a Meta-Theory and a transdiagnosis model.
- Describe the relationship between the AIP theoretical model and the nervous system.
- Identify what clinicians should do during critical care, rapid response, or early intervention and why.
- Describe the conceptualization of the development of a pathogenic memory network based on the AIP-theoretical model and the nervous system.
- List what clinicians should do to stabilize the client’s nervous system.
- Describe the relationship between the Polyvagal theory and the co-regulation.
- Identify how clinicians can keep a physiological non-anxious presence to help the clients co-regulate.
- Explain what Neuroception is and why it is important for co-regulation.
- Explain the ASSYST treatment procedures in a group, individual, and web-based formats definition, design, and objective.
- Describe the importance of the PTSD intrusion symptoms in clinical practice.
- Identify why clinicians can use the ASSYS Individual treatment intervention to increase the prevention of dissociative reactions during reprocessing.
- Explain the ASSYST treatment procedures from the neurobiological and AIP perspectives.
- Identify the pathogenic memories original components or “Memory DNA”
- Explain the difference between pathogenic memory degradation and pathogenic memory desensitization.
- Describe examples of online and in-person support with the ASSYST treatment procedures.
- List examples of experiences treated with the ASSYST treatment procedures.
On-Demand Itinerary
Module 1: ASSYST-Individual
- A Stepped-Care Approach (1:21:11)
- An AIP-Informed Treatment Procedure (54:05)
- ASSYST-Individual (in-person) Demonstration (16:05)
- Questions and Answers (2:00:27)
Module 2: ASSYST-Group
- Understanding the ASSYST Procedures (40:02)
- ASSYST-Group Demonstration with Q&A (1:03:20)
Module 3: ASSYST-Remote
- How to Provide the ASSYST-Remotely (3:00:06)
- ASSYST-Remote Demonstration (49:11)
- How To Treat Children With Creative Online Strategies with Paula Moreno (1:16:23)
- Question and Answers (1:52:47)
TOTAL COURSE TIME: 13 hours, 13 minutes and 40 seconds
Live, Online Itinerary
LIVE, ONLINE TRAINING ITINERARY
8:00am to 8:30am – Log in. General information about logistics
8:30am to 10:30am – Structured PPT presentation with theory and procedure explanations
10:30am to 10:45am – Break
10:45am to 12:00pm – Structured PPT presentation with theory and procedure explanations
12:00pm to 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30pm to 2:00pm – Role play demonstration of the ASSYST Individual or watch a video demonstration
2:00pm to 2:30pm – Review ASSYST Individual Script together as a group to discuss and become familiar. Teach participants the difference between Option A and Option B with examples.
2:30pm to 3:30pm – ASSYST Individual Practicum between participants in dyads (30 minutes each one). One person is the therapist, and one person is the client.
3:30pm to 3:45pm – Break
3:45pm to 4:00pm – Q&A about the ASSYST Practicum.
4:00pm to 4:30pm – ASSYST Group Practicum. Participants will be invited to participate in a simulation rehearsal to have a firsthand experience of the ASSYST-G. Participation will be voluntary. Those participants that do not wish to participate will be observers.
4:30pm to 5:00pm – Q&A about the ASSYST-G Practicum. Explanation about the role of the Emotional Protection Team (EPT) members and the typical ASSYST-G schedule.
Important Note: The live portion of the training is 1-day. However, the certificate of completion (and 13 continuing education credits, if purchased) is offered through passing the online quiz. Access to the on-demand course is included in the live, online training registration fees.
Registration Fees
IN PERSON OR ONLINE LIVE STREAMING
- $195 USD – In-Person or Online Streaming, Nonprofit/Government Agency Worker & Student Early Bird* Registration ($215 USD – Standard Price)
- $215 USD – In-Person or Online Streaming, Standard Early Bird* Registration ($245 USD – Standard Price)
- $85 USD – Auditors: People who have previously attended this training (limited spots available).
* Early Bird Registration = sign up 30 days or more before training begins.
The deadline to register for this training is the first training date. As long as there is space in the training, participants can sign up for the training up until the day that the training begins.
ON-DEMAND TRAININGS
- $215 USD – Standard Registration Price (90-day access)
- $245 USD – Standard Registration Price with continuing education credits (90-day access)
- $40 USD / month – Extended Access for previous purchases of this on-demand training
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
For participants who may need financial assistance, Scaling Up has created an Accessibility Plan to try to help mitigate financial stress. To learn more about the Accessibility Plan, click here.
Everyone who registers will receive access to the training recording to watch at their convenience for 90-days following their purchase.
Testimonials
Testimonials from Attendees
100% recommend! All of their trainings are awesome! I also recently did the one on ongoing traumatic stress, which teaches you the PRECI and other protocols Definitely changed the way I do EMDR
Colleagues – we just finished a remote group ASSYST offering – participants were surprised at the impact…
one person had an aha moment, other talked about the surprising thing that came up and how quickly things dropped in terms of distress levels…
“Dr. Jarero’s training really helped me with my work at our emergency shelter. The ASSYST procedure has helped me to stabilize some of the teens I see right after they enter the shelter. The ASSYST allows for stabilization before they begin their trauma work and it helps build rapport with the clients in a way where they know that you as a clinician can assist them through this difficult time. I really enjoyed Dr. Jarero’s training not just because of the protocols but also his delivery. He was so engaging that it did not even feel like a training.”
Tis the season to use the ASSYST! 3 times today. And all with success
The ASSYST is really helpful protocol!! Especially done remotely
Clinicians in our agency are using ASSYST with recent traumaS (witnessing fatal accidents, domestic violence assaults, etc) to reduce reactivity to recent event with clients with complex trauma history as well.
Hey everyone! some of you may have heard that Nacho and I were able to join a team of therapists in El Paso to conduct a Rapid response Team using the ASSYST group and individual producers related to those affected by the recent Walmart shooting. We were able to respond within 13 days of the event!
“I am deeply grateful and trust the ASSYST procedures as a powerful tool for a rapid and effective response to traumatic events. The ASSYST procedures allows us to feel confident that with our intervention, sustained in a very clear and fluid procedures, we will achieve the reduction of intense patient disturbance, without the need to know precisely the details of the event, facilitating to our patients the natural processing of the traumatic event, which in our case were severe situations of human rights violations.”
“Unfortunately it happens often at the agency level that families or individuals need support to heal from trauma, but there are often many life stressors and instability that make it difficult to provide therapy. Your resources have helped me more confidently treatment plan for them and the children have been very interested in the skills. They offer their own SUDs without prompting and are comfortable with using the butterfly hug for themselves. They appear comfortable engaging and have been able to share good memories about their (deceased) father as well.”
Overview
Training Overview:
These treatment procedures are specifically designed to provide in-person or online support to clients who present Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) intense psychological distress and/or physiological/somatic reactivity caused by the disorder’s intrusion symptoms associated with the traumatic event(s) or adverse experience(s) memories.
For example, recurrent memories of the adverse experience(s) that includes one or more of the following components:
- Sensory (e.g., images, smells, sounds, touch or be touched, taste).
- Emotional (physical sensations associated with affective states).
- Physiological (visceral sensations: vomit sensation, sense of heat for a burn victim, shortness of breath for a near-drowning experience survivor).
The ASSYST© procedures are Low-Intensity-Interventions (LII) that give us the possibility of direct, non-intrusive, physiological engagement with the client’s distressing/ pathogenic memories and their original components causing the nervous system hyperactivation (e.g., sensory, emotional, and physiological encoded information).
Low-Intensity- Interventions (LII) are treatments with low usage of a specialized therapist’s time or brief versions of evidence-based approaches (max 6 sessions). LII are less resource-intensive, less expensive, less complex, shorter, effective, efficient, and more accessible than high-intensity treatments (face-to-face psychotherapy provided by a mental health specialist over extended periods of time).
The ASSYST© procedures can be administered within the first hours (Critical Care), days (Rapid Response) or first three months (Early Intervention), after an adverse experience, or as an early intervention to approach ongoing traumatic stress situations, when the person shows severe symptoms of psychological distress, physiological reactivity, and/or deterioration in current functioning, using a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant video program.
During the standard EMDR protocol preparation phase, the ASSYST Individual could increase the prevention of dissociative reactions (e.g., numb/disconnected, shutdown, collapse, fainting) while reprocessing pathogenic memories by reducing the nervous system sympathetic branch hyperactivation, produced by a specific memory component (e.g., freeze response when remembering the worst image, the screams of the people, or the smell of the aggressor), keeping the patients inside their window of tolerance.
The objective of these procedures is focused on the client’s nervous system sympathetic branch hyperactivation regulation through the reduction or removal of the activation produced by the sensory, emotional, or physiological components of the distressing/ pathogenic memories of the adverse experience(s) to achieve optimal levels of nervous system activation; thus, facilitating the AIP system the subsequent adaptive processing of the information
The ASSYST© procedures fill the gap between Psychological First Aid (PFA) and High-Intensity Intervention psychotherapy (e.g., EMDR) after a critical incident or adverse experience when the person shows severe symptoms of psychological distress, physiological reactivity, and/or deterioration in current functioning.
These procedures must be administered within a Stepped Care Context to help the person achieve a state of adaptive functioning or, via screening, to facilitate access to High-Intensity Intervention psychotherapy when necessary.
Join trauma expert and world pioneer in EMDR Therapy Humanitarian Trauma Recovery and Research Programs, Dr. Ignacio (Nacho) Jarero, and his team for an insightful on-demand, in-person or online live streaming training that will expand your clinical knowledge base and powerful tool that can be used right after completing the training.
Field Examples
Examples of online and in-person work with the ASSYST treatment procedures:
- Since March 2022, we have been collaborating with the great work EMDR Europe has done addressing the Ukrainian population’s mental health needs with our ASSYST Humanitarian Psychosocial Project (HPP). As of November 29, 2022, our ASSYST HPP leader in Europe, Zuzana Cepelíková, reported that she and her team have trained on a pro-bono basis over 5,000 (five thousand) clinicians from Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary and that those clinicians have been using the ASSYST procedures to successfully alleviate the suffering of countless Ukrainian children, adolescents, and adults’ refugees. To watch a video and learn more about this project, click here.
- During 2020 & 2021, a total of 1,821 persons from the UK, USA, and Latin America received the ASSYT Remote Procedures pro-bono.
- Three days after the September 19, 2017 earthquake in Mexico City.
- Thirteen days after the August 3, 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
- Shortly after the September 2019 Hurricane Dorian that devastated the Bahamas.
- Immediately after the October 2019 and November 2019 riots and wave of terror in Chile and Bolivia, respectively.
- With First Responders (firefighters and medical personnel) and civilians who survived the January 23, 2019, gas explosion in Villa El Salvador, Peru.
- One day after the February 21, 2020, landslide in Cochabamba, Bolivia that affected 188 families.
- With immigrants in the United States three days after their escape from 21 days of organized crime’ captivity (2019).
- Shortly after the June 24, 2021, most powerful Tornado in the Czech Republic (Hodonin, South Moravia).
- With Mental Health practitioners that provided support after a school was bombed outside of Kabul in Afghanistan on May 8, 2021. At least 90 girls were killed.
- With hundreds of Haitian and Central American refugees in Mexico City during 2021 and 2022.
- With Ukrainian families seeking for asylum in Vancouver, Canada in the year 2022.
Objectives
Training Objectives
- Explain the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) theoretical model.
- Describe what pathogenic memories are.
- Explain why the AIP is a Meta-Theory and a transdiagnosis model.
- Describe the relationship between the AIP theoretical model and the nervous system.
- Identify what clinicians should do during critical care, rapid response, or early intervention and why.
- Describe the conceptualization of the development of a pathogenic memory network based on the AIP-theoretical model and the nervous system.
- List what clinicians should do to stabilize the client’s nervous system.
- Describe the relationship between the Polyvagal theory and the co-regulation.
- Identify how clinicians can keep a physiological non-anxious presence to help the clients co-regulate.
- Explain what Neuroception is and why it is important for co-regulation.
- Explain the ASSYST treatment procedures in a group, individual, and web-based formats definition, design, and objective.
- Describe the importance of the PTSD intrusion symptoms in clinical practice.
- Identify why clinicians can use the ASSYS Individual treatment intervention to increase the prevention of dissociative reactions during reprocessing.
- Explain the ASSYST treatment procedures from the neurobiological and AIP perspectives.
- Identify the pathogenic memories original components or “Memory DNA”
- Explain the difference between pathogenic memory degradation and pathogenic memory desensitization.
- Describe examples of online and in-person support with the ASSYST treatment procedures.
- List examples of experiences treated with the ASSYST treatment procedures.
On-Demand Itinerary
Module 1: ASSYST-Individual
- A Stepped-Care Approach (1:21:11)
- An AIP-Informed Treatment Procedure (54:05)
- ASSYST-Individual (in-person) Demonstration (16:05)
- Questions and Answers (2:00:27)
Module 2: ASSYST-Group
- Understanding the ASSYST Procedures (40:02)
- ASSYST-Group Demonstration with Q&A (1:03:20)
Module 3: ASSYST-Remote
- How to Provide the ASSYST-Remotely (3:00:06)
- ASSYST-Remote Demonstration (49:11)
- How To Treat Children With Creative Online Strategies with Paula Moreno (1:16:23)
- Question and Answers (1:52:47)
TOTAL COURSE TIME: 13 hours, 13 minutes and 40 seconds
Live, Online Itinerary
LIVE, ONLINE TRAINING ITINERARY
8:00am to 8:30am – Log in. General information about logistics
8:30am to 10:30am – Structured PPT presentation with theory and procedure explanations
10:30am to 10:45am – Break
10:45am to 12:00pm – Structured PPT presentation with theory and procedure explanations
12:00pm to 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30pm to 2:00pm – Role play demonstration of the ASSYST Individual or watch a video demonstration
2:00pm to 2:30pm – Review ASSYST Individual Script together as a group to discuss and become familiar. Teach participants the difference between Option A and Option B with examples.
2:30pm to 3:30pm – ASSYST Individual Practicum between participants in dyads (30 minutes each one). One person is the therapist, and one person is the client.
3:30pm to 3:45pm – Break
3:45pm to 4:00pm – Q&A about the ASSYST Practicum.
4:00pm to 4:30pm – ASSYST Group Practicum. Participants will be invited to participate in a simulation rehearsal to have a firsthand experience of the ASSYST-G. Participation will be voluntary. Those participants that do not wish to participate will be observers.
4:30pm to 5:00pm – Q&A about the ASSYST-G Practicum. Explanation about the role of the Emotional Protection Team (EPT) members and the typical ASSYST-G schedule.
Important Note: The live portion of the training is 1-day. However, the certificate of completion (and 13 continuing education credits, if purchased) is offered through passing the online quiz. Access to the on-demand course is included in the live, online training registration fees.
Registration Fees
IN PERSON OR ONLINE LIVE STREAMING
- $195 USD – In-Person or Online Streaming, Nonprofit/Government Agency Worker & Student Early Bird* Registration ($215 USD – Standard Price)
- $215 USD – In-Person or Online Streaming, Standard Early Bird* Registration ($245 USD – Standard Price)
- $85 USD – Auditors: People who have previously attended this training (limited spots available).
* Early Bird Registration = sign up 30 days or more before training begins.
The deadline to register for this training is the first training date. As long as there is space in the training, participants can sign up for the training up until the day that the training begins.
ON-DEMAND TRAININGS
- $215 USD – Standard Registration Price (90-day access)
- $245 USD – Standard Registration Price with continuing education credits (90-day access)
- $40 USD / month – Extended Access for previous purchases of this on-demand training
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
For participants who may need financial assistance, Scaling Up has created an Accessibility Plan to try to help mitigate financial stress. To learn more about the Accessibility Plan, click here.
Everyone who registers will receive access to the training recording to watch at their convenience for 90-days following their purchase.
Testimonials
Testimonials from Attendees
100% recommend! All of their trainings are awesome! I also recently did the one on ongoing traumatic stress, which teaches you the PRECI and other protocols Definitely changed the way I do EMDR
Colleagues – we just finished a remote group ASSYST offering – participants were surprised at the impact…
one person had an aha moment, other talked about the surprising thing that came up and how quickly things dropped in terms of distress levels…
“Dr. Jarero’s training really helped me with my work at our emergency shelter. The ASSYST procedure has helped me to stabilize some of the teens I see right after they enter the shelter. The ASSYST allows for stabilization before they begin their trauma work and it helps build rapport with the clients in a way where they know that you as a clinician can assist them through this difficult time. I really enjoyed Dr. Jarero’s training not just because of the protocols but also his delivery. He was so engaging that it did not even feel like a training.”
Tis the season to use the ASSYST! 3 times today. And all with success
The ASSYST is really helpful protocol!! Especially done remotely
Clinicians in our agency are using ASSYST with recent traumaS (witnessing fatal accidents, domestic violence assaults, etc) to reduce reactivity to recent event with clients with complex trauma history as well.
Hey everyone! some of you may have heard that Nacho and I were able to join a team of therapists in El Paso to conduct a Rapid response Team using the ASSYST group and individual producers related to those affected by the recent Walmart shooting. We were able to respond within 13 days of the event!
“I am deeply grateful and trust the ASSYST procedures as a powerful tool for a rapid and effective response to traumatic events. The ASSYST procedures allows us to feel confident that with our intervention, sustained in a very clear and fluid procedures, we will achieve the reduction of intense patient disturbance, without the need to know precisely the details of the event, facilitating to our patients the natural processing of the traumatic event, which in our case were severe situations of human rights violations.”
“Unfortunately it happens often at the agency level that families or individuals need support to heal from trauma, but there are often many life stressors and instability that make it difficult to provide therapy. Your resources have helped me more confidently treatment plan for them and the children have been very interested in the skills. They offer their own SUDs without prompting and are comfortable with using the butterfly hug for themselves. They appear comfortable engaging and have been able to share good memories about their (deceased) father as well.”
Available On-Demand or Live, Online via Zoom
On-Demand
Included in the cost of the ASSYST training is a total of 13-hours of teachings:
- Learn the ASSYST procedures for individuals & groups in-person
- Learn how to provide ASSYST procedures for individuals & groups remotely
- Observe 4 videos demonstrations
- Watch four recorded Q&As to answer all the common questions
- Enjoy a 1-hour recorded webinar for online strategies of using the ASSYST for treating children
Live, Online via Zoom
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
8am – 5pm Pacific Time
Trainer: Nicolle Mainthow
Friday, June 28th, 2024
8am – 5pm Pacific Time
Trainer: Tim Eby-McKenzie
Friday, September 13th, 2024
8am – 5pm Pacific Time
Trainer: Sadie Smith
Private Group Trainings
Join the Scaling Up Team for 7-hours of live, online (or in-person) teachings, along with 7 NBCC and ASWB Continuing Education (CE) credits. This offering is to help make the training more affordable and accessible to agencies wanting to train a group of people at the same time in a private format.
CE Credits
Cancellation Policy
Requirements
On-Demand Access
Trainers
CE Credits
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
EMDR MEXICO CEU’S
The Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (ASSYST) procedures course is eligible for 13 CEUs from EMDR México.
CE’s FOR LICENSE RENEWAL
Licensure renewal CEs are available for a $30 fee. Scaling Up offers 13 CEs for NBCC clock hours and 13 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) continuing education credits. It is the responsibility of the therapist to check with their licensure board for CE eligibility.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): Scaling Up, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7065. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Scaling Up, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Psychotherapists completing this course will receive 13 continuing education credits.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): Scaling Up (provider number 1834), is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provisional regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Scaling Up maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period; (12-06-22 to 12-06-23). Social workers completing this course receive 13 continuing education credits.
American Psychological Association (APA): This course is not eligible for APA CEs. Scaling Up, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Scaling Up, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists completing this course will not receive continuing education credits.
*** This course is not eligible for EMDRIA or APA (American Psychological Association) continuing education credits (CEs). Licensed Psychologists taking this course will not receive any CEs. Mental health providers seeking EMDR Certification through EMDRIA will not receive EMDRIA CEUs for this course.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation Policies
ON-DEMAND TRAININGS
Because the online course is emailed to the recipient immediately after purchase, the online training is non-refundable.
LIVE TRAININGS
Participants can cancel 30 days or more before the live event and receive a refund (minus a $100 administration fee). If cancellation occurs less than 30 days before the event, then no refund is offered. In this case, participants have three options: 1) they may transfer their registration to another participant of their choice; 2) they may transfer their registration to the live, online streaming registration option; or 3) they may transfer their registration to the online, on demand training option.
Requirements
Participation Requirements
Skill Level: Advanced
Our intended audience are: 1) Licensed Therapists or 2) Pre-licensed therapists who have graduated with their master’s degree, who are working toward their clinical licensure and are under supervision, and 3) Master’s Level Graduate Students pursuing a career in mental health counseling.
On-Demand Access
Online, On-Demand Course Access
You will receive a login and password (by email) for our online training portal (Scaling Up Hub) on the day you purchase your course.
You will have access to all course materials 90 days after purchase for the on-demand only training. After 90 days, you will be given the option to continue to receive access to the course materials for $40 per month.
Trainers
Course Trainers
Kelly Smyth-Dent
Paula Moreno
Tim Eby-McKenzie
Sadie Smith
CE Credits
Continuing Education (CE) Credits
EMDR MEXICO CEU’S
The Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (ASSYST) procedures course is eligible for 13 CEUs from EMDR México.
CE’s FOR LICENSE RENEWAL
Licensure renewal CEs are available for a $30 fee. Scaling Up offers 13 CEs for NBCC clock hours and 13 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) continuing education credits. It is the responsibility of the therapist to check with their licensure board for CE eligibility.
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): Scaling Up, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7065. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Scaling Up, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Psychotherapists completing this course will receive 13 continuing education credits.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): Scaling Up (provider number 1834), is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provisional regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Scaling Up maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period; (12-06-22 to 12-06-23). Social workers completing this course receive 13 continuing education credits.
American Psychological Association (APA): This course is not eligible for APA CEs. Scaling Up, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Scaling Up, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists completing this course will not receive continuing education credits.
*** This course is not eligible for EMDRIA or APA (American Psychological Association) continuing education credits (CEs). Licensed Psychologists taking this course will not receive any CEs. Mental health providers seeking EMDR Certification through EMDRIA will not receive EMDRIA CEUs for this course.
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation Policies
ON-DEMAND TRAININGS
Because the online course is emailed to the recipient immediately after purchase, the online training is non-refundable.
LIVE TRAININGS
Participants can cancel 30 days or more before the live event and receive a refund (minus a $100 administration fee). If cancellation occurs less than 30 days before the event, then no refund is offered. In this case, participants have three options: 1) they may transfer their registration to another participant of their choice; 2) they may transfer their registration to the live, online streaming registration option; or 3) they may transfer their registration to the online, on demand training option.
Requirements
Participation Requirements
Skill Level: Advanced
Our intended audience are: 1) Licensed Therapists or 2) Pre-licensed therapists who have graduated with their master’s degree, who are working toward their clinical licensure and are under supervision, and 3) Master’s Level Graduate Students pursuing a career in mental health counseling.
On-Demand Access
Online, On-Demand Course Access
You will receive a login and password (by email) for our online training portal (Scaling Up Hub) on the day you purchase your course.
You will have access to all course materials 90 days after purchase for the on-demand only training. After 90 days, you will be given the option to continue to receive access to the course materials for $40 per month.
Trainers
Course Trainers
Trainer & FacilitatorKelly Smyth-Dent
Trainer & FacilitatorPaula Moreno
TrainerTim Eby-McKenzie
TrainerSadie Smith