Executive Function and Mental Health

  • Time

    10:00am - 3:00pm

  • End Date

    25 Apr, 2022 - 27 Apr, 2022

  • Price

    ₦200,000

Event Details

Executive function (EF) processes are essential for successfully navigating nearly all of our daily activities, allowing us to regulate and direct our behavior toward goals, break out of habits, make decisions and evaluate risks, plan for the future, prioritize and sequence our actions, and cope with novel situations. EF deficits are present in a wide range of mental health disorders, contributing to deficits in everyday activities, academic/occupational and social functioning. In this presentation, you will learn about EF processes and how they are important for daily life, how and why EF deficits are associated with mental health disorders, and best practices for assessing EF. We will then discuss the latest evidence on interventions for EF deficits, considering limitation of EF training approaches and promising approaches based on using compensatory strategies to improve functioning in individuals with impaired EF.

OBJECTIVES

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

  • Describe different types of executive function processes and how they are important in daily life
  • Explain how executive function impairments are related to different types of mental health disorders
  • Describe the pros and cons of different methods of evaluating executive function
  • Identify the efficacy of executive function training interventions
  • Identify approaches to improving daily life functioning in individuals with executive function impairments

CONTENT

  • What is executive function (EF) and why is it important?
  • Components of EF
  • EF in everyday life
  • EF impairments associated with mental health disorders
  • Evidence for transdiagnostic EF impairments
  • Models for understanding EF impairments in psychopathology
  • Assessing EF
  • Tasks vs. questionnaires
  • Considering validity and reliability
  • Available options for clinical use
  • Treatment implications
  • Evidence for and against efficacy of EF training
  • Promising compensatory approaches
  • Thinking about the EF demands of your treatment approaches

FOR WHOM

Psychologists Social Workers Counselors Therapists Psychiatrists Nurses

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

 

DATE:

1ST BATCH: 25th – 27th April, 2022

2ND BATCH: 29th – 31st Aug, 2022

3RD BATCH: 19th – 21st Dec, 2022

Other Dates

Start Date End Date
22 Oct, 2019 25 Oct, 2019
Start Date End Date
15 Apr, 2019 18 Apr, 2019
Start Date End Date
25 Apr, 2022 27 Apr, 2022
Start Date End Date
29 Aug, 2022 31 Aug, 2022
Start Date End Date
19 Dec, 2022 21 Dec, 2022

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