Happiness How Positive Psychology Changes Our Lives

Complete Seminar Details

Happiness is one of the most effective health interventions. In this seminar, you will learn about powerful and easy-to-apply interventions for your patients and clients, as well as personal keys to increasing your own happiness.

A revolution is underway in human services, health and education. In the past, we have focused on deficits, what is wrong and how to make it right. That model works and has served us well. Now a profound shift is changing how we will practice. From the 1960s to 1995, problem-focused studies outnumbered strength-focused studies by about 20 to 1. Over the past ten years, psychological research has shifted to focus on joy, resiliency, strengths and virtues, changing how we will be practicing in the coming years. Clinicians have been hearing about these changes. This seminar is an opportunity to learn the state-of-the-art in happiness and positive psychotherapy.

Your own personal level of happiness is a vital key to how effective you are as a clinician, counselor, educator or leader. We now know that happiness is also one of the most effective health interventions. Teaching patients happiness skills will improve their physical and emotional health. Of course, you will learn about powerful and easy to apply interventions for your patients and clients. But more than that, in this workshop, your trainer will give you personal keys to increasing your own happiness. You will take home tools, and you will also take home greater personal fulfillment.

WHAT YOU WILL COVER

• Understand how much individual happiness can be changed
• Discover how Positive Psychology (PP) interventions were shown to be better than cognitive therapy plus medication
• Learn how to tailor PP interventions to specific problems, including depression, anxiety, ADHD and relationship problems
• Understand a new medication-free approach to OCD developed at UCLA
• Take home effective ways to measuring happiness
• Learn how positive psychology is changing what we know about physical and mental health
• Apply three core skills that are shown to resolve depression and increase happiness
• Discover how using your unique strengths can add happiness and resiliency
• Recognize signs of underperformance and depression in self and others
• Understand how we can virtually depression-proof children
• Resolve troubled relationships and build work teams with an easy tool

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Physicians
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• School Counselors
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Educators

Sponsor Background:

Leading the Way in Professional Development.

Cross Country Education is a national leader in high-quality educational products and services for the entire health care industry. Our seminars and training programs are designed to help health care providers achieve improved performance and results in all areas of clinical, financial and operational management. Our faculty of more than 150 instructors are the "best of the best" in their field of expertise and know how to provide programs that really make a difference to participants.

Since 1995, we have trained over 1,000,000 providers, managers, nurses, behavioral health professionals and other key personnel throughout the entire healthcare industry. We produce over 5,000 seminars and conferences annually for the health care industry. Plus, we coordinate in-house training for health care facilities. Let us provide your training and professional education needs!

Our Mission Statement

“CCE exists to identify and provide opportunities for relevant continuing education in a timely and geographically friendly manner that will meet and exceed the needs and expectations of targeted professionals.”

Quote From Past Participants:

"Thank you so much for presenting at our annual Utah Correctional Association conference. You were so wonderful to work with and your knowledge is excellent. The reviews we received on your sessions were outstanding." - President, Utah Correctional Association

"Dr. Lynn Johnson is a passionate and highly engaging speaker on the topic of Positive Psychology. The principles are easily applicable in my practice as an Occupational Therapist as well as in my life. I will always attend any talk he gives." - OTR/L