MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS INTENSIVE SEMINARS

Medical Professionals Intensive Seminars

AGENDA

Day 1

• Log in – Meet & Greet/Registration
• Review Zoom technology 
• Introduction to Staff
• Instruments / Assessment Measures completed

• What happens in a Virtual Intensive?
• Confidentiality and Ground Rules 
• Questions

Day 2 

• 8:00 Log in
• 8:30 Introduction of Program
• Opening Remarks by Host and Clinical Director
• Meet the Team 
• History and Overview of the Model
• Combining the best elements of CISM, PEER SUPPORT and EMDR Therapy
• CISM 
• What is it?
• Debates about CISM
• What is Peer Support? 
• Tell your injury story and your healing process. Where am I now?
• Don’t try to fix anybody or solve their problem.
• Critical Incident Stories
• Suggestions on how to tell your story! 
• Incident Envy 
• EMDR therapy (“What is it? How do I sign up?) – Dr. Robbie
• Resourcing
• Aroma
• Container
• Tactical Breathing/Square Breathing
• Cue Word
• Meditation Exercise – Jeff B
• Critical Incident Stories
• Lunch Break
• Critical Incident Stories continue

Day 3 

• 8:00 Morning Check in 
• 8:30 – 9:30 Medication and Addictions Presentation
• Psychotropic Medications
• Ketamine
• Addictions
• Alcohol
• Marijuana
• Sex
• Small Group Discussion (Go to Break-out Rooms) Facilitated by Peer Mentors
• EMDR therapy Offered by Certified EMDR Therapists in individual sessions based on participant needs.
• Lunch Break
• The Career, Critical Incidents, Stress and Trauma – the Continuum 
• Wear and tear
• Acute Event
• My Triggers?
• Managing Triggers
• What is happening in my brain?
• It’s a brain injury
• What are triggers?
• Institutional Betrayal and Betrayal Trauma

• CLEAR YOUR CALLS
• “It’s OK to not be OK”!
• “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal!”
• When no reaction is abnormal
• Sudden Death/COVID Death
• Symptom Considerations for Employers/Employees/Colleagues

• Managing Relationships for Parents, Couples & Families – Dr. Denise & Marcia J.
• Parenting during COVID 
• Parents
• Spouses/Significant Others
• Mentalizing/How to solve problems in relationships
• Small Groups continue – Peer Leaders / EMDR therapy continues as needed
• Sleep Fitness
• Meditation

Day 4 Friday, 

• Virtual Check in 
• 8:00 Post-traumatic Growth – Finding Meaning in what happened and is happening.
• Small Group Wrap-Up – After ERAP Connections – What’s Your Plan?
• Lunch Break
• Peer Connection Follow-up!
• Post-Assessment and Post-traumatic Growth. What’s next?
• Wrap- UP – Comments, Evaluations
• Logging off!

VIRTUAL SUPPORT GROUPS

Robbie Adler-Tapia, Ph.D.
Psychologist
1615 E. Warner Road, Suite 2
Tempe, AZ 85284
(480) 753-1655
www.DrRobbie.org
CONFIDENTIALITY