A one-day seminar led by
Dr. James Greenblatt, Founder of Psychiatry Redefined
Emily Hedrick, Emily Hedrick Coaching and Consulting
Sunday, September 10, 2023
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Bentley University | Waltham, MA
Don’t miss this event – seating is limited!
Registration fee: $189 (includes lunch)
Approved for up to 4.0 CME AAFP Prescribed Credits.
Additional CME & CE Credits pending.
And don’t miss a special networking luncheon and live presentation on antidepressant withdrawal with Dr. James Greenblatt on Sept. 9th!
Be good to your brain and your heart will follow.
It’s time for clinicians to wipe the fog from the mirror.
Don’t miss this one-time opportunity to join a community of colleagues who are taking an important step toward cultivating resilience while maintaining compassion.
Seminar Presentations
Orthomolecular Health: Strategies for Resilience in the Treatment of Burnout and Depression
James Greenblatt, MD
In the first half of the day, pioneering functional psychiatrist Dr. James Greenblatt will present a groundbreaking model for clinician self-care that is backed by three decades of clinical experience—practical tools and clinical pearls you can begin using right away to feel better and stronger. You will develop a deeper understanding of how chronic stress as well as inflammation, poor sleep, and essential nutrient deficiencies adversely impact the brain. You’ll learn nutritional strategies to lower inflammation, mitigate stress, and optimize brain function. You will begin to set a firm foundation from which to promote both your physical and mental wellness according to your own biological individuality.
CME / CE credits pending for this educational activity.
Compassion Fatigue: Moving Beyond the Problem Toward Professional Resilience
Emily Hedrick
Join Emily Hedrick, Forward-FacingⓇ Professional Resilience Consultant, in this workshop as she draws from the Accelerated Recovery Program for Compassion Fatigue and the Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist training to provide an intensive one-day experiential training for helping professionals to prevent compassion fatigue and other work-related stress disorders. This course is an inoculation or vaccination against the potentially painful effects to caregivers working with troubled and traumatized populations. This training is also intended to produce an ameliorative effect upon the current compassion fatigue symptoms that participants may be experiencing. This training-as-treatment effect for this training has been published in several journals and is recognized as an effective treatment for the symptoms of compassion fatigue. The day is a potent alchemy of didactic information, experiential processing, and transformative techniques that assists the professional and/or volunteer care provider in resolving symptoms of compassion fatigue while, at once, developing resiliency skills and practices that prevent compassion fatigue symptoms in the future. Learners will engage in small group discussion, journaling, and real-time development of skills to use while on the job and create a Professional Resiliency Plan.
Approved for up to 4 AAFP Prescribed credits
Learning Objectives
- Understand the history, causes, treatment and prevention of work-related stress for professional caregivers.
- Differentiate the true causes of stress in professional life.
- Demonstrate skills for successful self-regulation of anxiety, no matter the external context.
- Acquire knowledge and skills necessary to prevent the symptoms of work-related stress and fatigue through enhanced resiliency.
- Utilize self-regulation and perceptual maturation skills to significantly lessen the negative effects of work.
- Extrapolate a self-directed Professional Resiliency Plan that can be easily integrated into professional practice.
Exhaustion. Digestive issues. Anxiety. Isolation.
Many clinicians today are experiencing stress-related symptoms from working within a chronically overburdened healthcare system. Not only does that system offer little in the way of support; it stigmatizes clinicians who seek help for their mental health and well-being.
As a result, many clinicians hide their vulnerability and practice self-sacrifice. It is as if we are gazing at our reflections in a fog-covered mirror. We need better tools to clearly see and effectively care for the unique individuals that we are – in both our professional and personal lives.
It’s time to replace self-sacrifice with self-compassion.
Clinician Self-Care Seminar Schedule
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Check-In/Registration & Visit Exhibitors
8:30 am - 9:00 am EST
Orthomolecular Health: Strategies for Resilience in the Treatment of Burnout and Depression, Part 1
James Greenblatt, MD
9:00 am - 10:30 am EST
Break & Visit Exhibitors (30 min)
10:30 am - 11:00 am EST
Orthomolecular Health: Strategies for Resilience in the Treatment of Burnout and Depression, Part 2
James Greenblatt, MD
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Lunch & Visit Exhibitors
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Compassion Fatigue: Moving Beyond the Problem Toward Professional Resilience, Part 1
Emily Hedrick
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Break & Visit Exhibitors (30 min)
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm EST
Compassion Fatigue: Moving Beyond the Problem Toward Professional Resilience, Part 2
Emily Hedrick
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm EST
About Your Presenters
Dr. James Greenblatt
A pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, James M. Greenblatt, MD, has treated patients since 1988. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He served as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA for nearly 20 years, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine. Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific evidence for nutritional interventions in psychiatry and mental illness.
He is the author of eight books, including the best-seller, Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD. His updated edition of Answers to Anorexia was released in October 2021 and his newest book, Functional & Integrative Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal is available now. He is the founder of Psychiatry Redefined, an educational platform dedicated to the personalized, evidence-based treatment of mental illness. Psychiatry Redefined offers continuing online education, CME-approved courses, and webinars, and boasts the most comprehensive, scientifically-based Fellowship for mental health providers, the Psychiatry Redefined Fellowship in Functional and Integrative Psychiatry. Learn more about Dr. James Greenblatt here.
Emily Hedrick
Emily Hedrick M.Div, is a certified Forward-Facing® Professional Resilience consultant who offers training-as-treatment workshops for compassion fatigue. Like many, Emily acquired resilience skills the hard way: she began her career as a pastor and quickly developed compassion fatigue to the point of crisis. As she sought both information and resources for recovery, Emily encountered the work of traumatologist Dr. Eric Gentry and sought certification through his training organization Forward-Facing® Institute. She loved his approach so much that she joined the staff at Forward-Facing® Institute and is currently overseeing operations and training of future Forward-Facing® coaches in health and wellness and professional resilience.
Raised by a chaplain and a registered nurse, Emily’s personal encounter with compassion fatigue was not her only exposure to how toxic work environments and anxious systems can rob people of their ability to thrive in their work. Coming from a long line of compassionate pastors, nurses, teachers, and other helping professionals, Emily is passionate about equipping helpers with professional resilience skills so that they can not only survive their jobs, but feel fulfilled in their work no matter what kind of crisis they step into.
