Private Group Trainings for the ASSYST Procedures
In a world experiencing an increased number of mental disorders, mental health conditions, or ongoing traumatic stress, mental health professionals need to be able to respond confidently and effectively in their community. With fewer resources available and a higher demand of services needed, mental health therapists need an intervention that is quick and efficient. The Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (ASSYST)© procedure can be offered online or in-person, and individually or in a group setting. The ASSYST is specifically designed to provide support to clients who present Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Clients experiencing intense psychological distress or somatic reactivity caused by the disorder’s intrusion symptoms.
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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).
Purpose
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. For example, the full price of this private training is $3,500 (with no cap as to how many people are attending). The single cost of an individual for the on-demand training is $215 per person. This means that if you want to train over 17 people, then it is more cost-effective to pay for the private training package. This training includes 7-hours of live, online teaching, along with 7 NBCC and ASWB Continuing Education (CE) credits.
Who is eligible?
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. If you are not yet licensed, then you must have a letter of approval from your clinical supervisor and you must be working with clients in a clinical setting.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) theoretical 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.
- 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 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 EMDR clinicians can use the ASSYS Individual treatment intervention to increase the prevention of dissociative reactions during reprocessing.
- Describe examples of online and in-person support with the ASSYST treatment procedures.
Continuing Education Credits
CE’s FOR LICENSE RENEWAL
Licensure renewal CE’s are available and included in the cost of the group training. Scaling Up offers 7 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) continuing education credits and 7 National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) clock hours. 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 7 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 7 asynchronous continuing education credits.