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Teaching Clients About Neuroplasticity and Mental Health

  • Sunday, October 19, 2025
  • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Online ZOOM
  • 28

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  • $15 per credit hour
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Presenter Ed Geraty, LCSW-C (MD), LICSW (WV), LCSW (VA), LICSW (DC) 

CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

This workshop focuses on clinical Neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life, and plays a crucial role in mental health. It allows the brain to adapt to experiences, learn new things, and recover from injury or illness, including mental health conditions. By understanding and harnessing neuroplasticity, interventions can be developed to promote positive changes in brain structure and function leading to improved mental well-being clients.  This workshop discusses learning and teaching clients about neuroplasticity and the benefits for mental health.

Workshop Objectives:

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

  1. Learn about the concept of neuroplasticity, positive and negative
  2. Understand the ten principles of neuroplasticity
  3. Learn about the mechanisms of neuroplasticity
  4. Understand how neuroplasticity affects healing
  5. Review activities that help to rewire the brain 
  6. Learn about 7 practices that build cognitive reliance and reserve

Agenda:

  • The concept of neuroplasticity, positive and negative
  • The ten principles of neuroplasticity
  • How neuroplasticity affects healing
  • Break
  • Activities that help to rewire the brain
  • Seven practices that build cognitive reliance and reserve
  • Wrap up

Recommended Reading:

  • Ackerman, C. (28 April, 2020). What is Neuroplasticity? A Psychologist Explains. Retrieved from https://positivepsychology.com/neuroplasticity/
  • Berlucchi, G., & Buchtel, H. (2009). Neuronal plasticity: Historical roots and evolution of meaning. Experimental Brain Research, 192(3), 307-319. doi:10.1007/s00221-008-1611-6
  • Bengtsson, S., Nagy, Z., Skare, S., Forsman, L., Forssberg, H., & Ullén, F. (2005). Extensive piano practicing has regionally specific effects on white matter development. Nature neuroscience, 8(9), 1148–1150.  https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1516
  • Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science. New York: Viking
  • Doidge, N. (2015). The brain's way of healing: Remarkable discoveries and recoveries from the frontiers of neuroplasticity. New York, New York: Viking.
  • Fuchs, E., & Flügge, G. (2014). Adult neuroplasticity: More than 40 years of research. Neural Plasticity, 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/541870
  • Joo, E., Kim, H., Suh, S., & Hong, S. B. (2014). Hippocampal substructural vulnerability to sleep disturbance and cognitive impairment in patients with chronic primary insomnia: Magnetic resonance imaging morphometry. Sleep. 37, 1189-1198. doi:10.5665/sleep.3836
  • Krebe, L. Neuroplasticity. Centre for neuro skills. Retrieved from https://www.neuroskills.com/brain-injury/neuroplasticity/

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