Come train with me!
In partnership with Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute, I’ll be hosting a full-day immersive and in-depth training on the effects of screen use on all of us.
Use code ERNST for 10% off.
Live webinar:
April 11, 2024 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Jake Ernst, MSW RSW
Always Online: Therapeutic approaches in the age of chronic screen use
The pervasive trend of being “always online” and the doubling of screen time during the pandemic have exacerbated various issues. These include the escalating adolescent mental health crisis, a surge in feelings of loneliness, a decline in social connections, a reluctance of kids not wanting to grow up, and the struggle to detach from our phones and laptops.
In today’s schools, hospitals, doctor’s offices, and therapy rooms, we are seeing the impacts of being constantly online. The adults who are raising and caring for today’s young people don’t have a common roadmap, highlighting the need for a collective therapeutic approach to managing screen use.
In this training, we will look at the modern clinical approaches for helping people of all ages build better relationships with screens and technology so they can build more balanced brains.
Areas of focus will include:
How addictive algorithms capture our attention, making us more erratic, irrational, distracted, and self-focused
How dopamine reshapes our reward pathways and how to rewire the reward circuitry
How constant screen use rewires our social instincts and changes our relationships
How excessive exposure to screens and technology changes the stress-threat response and impacts our ability to self-regulate and co-regulate
Learning objectives:
Learn how to assess the four types of screen use and how to intervene when screen use becomes problematic
Understand how to build healthier relationships with screens and technology – in friendships, partnerships and working relationships
Learn how to rebalance the brain using the Balanced Brains Protocol, an integrative approach for parents, teachers and helping professionals at all levels
Use code ERNST for 10% off.
