Pre-Conference

Pre-Conference Workshops
Morning Workshops (9 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
Daniel Amen   “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life”
David and Claudia Arp   “The 10 Great Dates Model of Marriage Education”
Larry Crabb   “An Evangelical Model of Spiritual Direction: What Christian Counselors Need to Know”
Fred DiBlasio   “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”
Emerson Eggerichs   “In Marriage: Her need for Love and His Need for Respect”
Arch Hart & Catherine Hart Weber   “Where Has All the Pleasure Gone? Anhedonia and Stress”
Glen Havens & Kirsten Rokke   “The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition and the Treatment of Depression & Anxiety”
Stan Hibbs   “Effective Treatment of Anxiety Disorders: The peace That Passes All Understanding”
Tim Kimmel   “Grace-Based Parenting”
Michael Lyles   “Women & Depression”
Frank Minirth   “Cutting-edge Approaches to Major Depressive Disorders & Treatment-Resistant Depression”
Gary Moon   “Falling for God: Saying Yes to His Extravagant Proposal”
Sharon Hart May   “How to Argue So Your Spouse Will Listen: Using Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy to Help Couples Unravel Their Arguments”
George Ohlschlager   “9 Red Hot Potatoes in Christian Counseling Law & Ethics”
David H. Olson & Peter J. Larson   “PREPARE to Last: Help Engaged Couples Laugh, Learn, & Grow”
Cliff and Joyce Penner   “Disorders of Sexual Desire Among Christian Couples”
Greg Smalley   “Heart-Focused Marriage Therapy”
Daniel Sweeney & Garry Landreth   “Child-Parent Relationship Therapy: A Play Therapy Based Parent Training Program”
H. Norman Wright   “Assisting Those in Grief and Trauma Through a Spiritual and Emotional Care Ministry”
Mark Yarhouse & Warren Throckmorton   “Introduction and Clinical Application of the Sexual Identity Therapy Guidelines”
Afternoon Workshops (2 p.m. – 5 p.m.)
Steve Arterburn   “Healing is a Choice: 10 Decissions That Will Change Your Life”
Gary Chapman & Jennifer Thomas   “The Five Languages of Apology”
Chap Clark & Dee Clark   “Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers”
Anthony Centore & Tim Clinton & Joshua Straub & Wes Yoder   “10 Things He Can’t talk About: What Troubles His Heart and What Sets Him Free”
Henry Cloud   “Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality”
Mark Crawford   “When Two Become Three: Helping Couples Effectively Embrace Parenthood”
Robert Kellemen & Ron Hawkins   “Using the Bible Accurately & Effectively in Counseling”
Mark Laaser & Debra Laaser   “Nailing the Seven Desires of the Heart: Helping Couples Get It Right”
Diane Langberg   “Sex Trafficking and God’s Call to His people”
Sherod Miller   “Enhancing Marital Communication: A Powerful Technique for Going to the Heart of Any Relationship”
Linda Mintle   “Borderline Personality Disorder”
Les and Leslie Parrott   “Marriage Mentoring”
Pete Scazzero   “Emotionally Healthy Spiritually: Connecting Christian Counseling and the Church”
Gary Sibcy   “Emotion Coaching: An Attachment Prescription for Childhood Problems”
Scott Stanley   “Bitting and Devouring One Another: Helping Couples Understand and Handle Destructive Conflict”
David and Jan Stoop   “Working with Difficult Couples”
Siang-Yang Tan   “The Use of the Spiritual Disciplines in Counseling”
John Trent   “Stressed to the Max: Battling Back from the Edge of Emotional and Spiritual Exhaustion”
Everett J. Worthington, Jr.   “Attachment, Forgiveness, and Communication in Hopefocused Marriage Therapy”
Gary Oliver   “Growing Emotionally Healthy Marriages”