Seminars offered by Samara C. Kezele Fritchman
COMPLEX POST TRUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SEMINAR
The reason complex PTSD is separated from PTSD is that doctors and researchers have found that the current PTSD diagnosis often does not capture the severe psychological harm that occurs with such prolonged, repeated trauma. For example, ordinary, healthy people who experience chronic trauma can experience changes in their self-concept and the way they adapt to stressful events.
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) is a clinically recognized condition that results from extended exposure to prolonged social and/or interpersonal trauma, including instances of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, torture, chronic early maltreatment in a caregiving relationship, and war. It has been suggested that a differentiation between the diagnostic categorizations of C-PTSD and that of Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as C-PTSD better describes the pervasive negative impact of chronic trauma than does PTSD.
As a descriptor, PTSD fails to capture some of the core characteristics of C-PTSD. These elements include psychological fragmentation, the loss of a sense of safety, trust, and self-worth, as well as the tendency to be revictimized, and, most importantly, the loss of a coherent sense of self. It is this loss of a coherent sense of self, and the ensuing symptom profile, that most pointedly differentiates C-PTSD from PTSD.
Impulsivity Spectrum Disorders
Impulsive behavior — the tendency to act or react with little thought — has emerged as an all-purpose plague on a continuum from benign experimentation to self-destructive acts affecting a spectrum of mental health disorders.
YOU WILL LEARN
- Understanding the contrary nature of impulsivity, identifying the elements that distinguish its patterns
- Implement a developmental approach to assess differentiating behaviors neurologically, biochemically, and environmentally
- Brain research and psychological studies: explaining how impulsive tendencies develop and when they can lead people astray
- How a potent combination of genes, emotionally disorienting experiences, and many aspects of 21st Century living puts people at high risk to impulsivity pathology
- Down to earth, practical, and immediately usable skills and techniques based on “best practices” for clinical care and intervention
ETHICS AND SKILL-ORIENTED SEMINARS
EThical Considerations and Educational Psychology—Educating Patients/Clients for Quality Care
We have discovered that there are human strengths that act as buffers against mental illness: courage, future-mindedness, optimism, interpersonal skill, faith, work ethic, hope, honesty, and perseverance; the capacity for flow and insight, to name several. Much of the task of prevention in this new century will be to create a science of human strength whose mission will be to understand and learn how to foster these virtues in young people. We also explore the ethical considerations, issues, and concerns associated with educating clients/patients for quality care. 
Ethical Considerations and Personailty Pathology
Higher-functioning adults with personailty pathologies may have succesful careers, assume traditional family roles, and have a cadre of friends and support systems. Lower-functioning adults, however, have difficulty maintaining a job and friends and may lack family and support systems. But, common to all personailty diorders is an element of unpredictability and erratic behavior. It may be more obvious in the lonely isolated person, but those who know the contented family person well can also detect inconsistencies in behavior which belie the superficial rationality. Explore in this seminar both the ethical concerns and issues combined with the skills and techniques to help individuals who struggle with personailty pathologies.
ETHICS & MEDIATION SKILLS— Becoming Reflective Practitioners For Healthcare, Mental Health, Certified Mediators, and all other professionals
As mediation evolves from a practical exercise to a professional practice, we need to agree on a set of theoretical principles. Mediation theory and practice are built on the views that people hold about the way the world works. Some mainstream mediation theories are predicated on the idea that human beings arc motivated primarily to fulfill their own personal interests. Taking this assumption as a given, interest based theories of mediation work toward assisting disputing parties to find an underlying shared interest that was not identified earlier in the dispute so they can become motivated to address the presenting conflict.
PERSONAL SKILLS: Change, Communication, Conflict, Difficult People, Habits, Relationships, and issues of "Self-improvement" and "Personal Development"...
MENTAL HEALTH & HEALTHCARE: Personality Disorders, Brain Development and scan technologies, Essentials in Mental Health, Stress Reduction, Innovative Therapies, Alternative Healthcare, Cancer Patient Care, Drug Abuse, Cravings & Weight Loss, Abusive Relationship, Marriage & Family...
BUSINESS: Time Management, Job Efficiency, Front End Analysis, Fit for Duty (DOT), Ethics and Legal Issues in Healthcare/Mental Health/Education, Gender-Diversity-Ethnicity, Hiring & Appraisal Process, Coaching, Shoplifting Prevention, Protective Policies, Threat ID & Management...
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION: Acting Out Behaviors in Children: Causes & Solutions, Classroom Management, Resolving Conflicts, Youth at Risk, Latest Teaching Trends, How the Mind Develops...