This is the info they give on themselves:
Tell me you too, weren't overmedicated, threatened with hospital
All Life Is A Journey from Compass Health on Vimeo.
Compass Health is a private, non-profit, state licensed organization providing mental health and
We have a broad comprehensive range of programs serving individuals of all ages, income levels and ethnic cultures. Clients served may be chronically mentally ill; experiencing an episodic crisis; dual diagnosed or seeking assistance for an emotional or behavioral problem. In addition to serving individuals and families, the agency provides consultation, training and educational services to other providers, law enforcement and correctional facilities, as well as the community at large.
Our Board of Directors consists of 10 community volunteers from Island, San Juan, Skagit and Snohomish Counties.
FACTS ABOUT US...
- We counsel more than 13,000 children, adults and older adults every year.
- Our counselors annually provide more than 75,000 hours of caring, compassionate and case-appropriate treatment.
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We provide more than 500 adults/older adults with
housing assistance every year.
History
Compass Health was first established as Parkland Lutheran Children’s Home in 1901. The first house to care for orphaned children opened in the spring of 1902 in Parkland, Washington. In 1953 we hired our first psychiatrist and took a turn towards providing
We exemplify excellence in our field because Compass Health has more than 100 years experience providing services to individuals in the communities we serve. We are a flexible organization that is able to adapt to the ever changing needs of individuals in our community. When we saw a need to not only provide a home for orphans and other forgotten and neglected children but also to provide for their mental health needs, we grew our organization to provide those services. As time went on it became apparent that individuals who were homeless and receiving mental health services needed housing in order to assist in and maintain their recovery so we started a
Yeah and gas stations have neater bathrooms.
For over 11 years, Compass Health has been providing quality continuing education
opportunities at a reasonable price to behavioral health professionals,
social service professionals and educators. ***We are continually
adding new trainings and classes so check us out!*** For additonal
information about the class click on the REGISTRATION FORM . If you would like to receive email about upcoming trainings, please send us an email to be added to our email distribution list.
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Chidren’s Emotions: Helping Kids with their Emotions
This one evening session will examine how children at all different developmental stages understand and handle their emotion.
We will focus on learning how to support them and their feelings. How to be equipped when they react to anger, worry, sadness, grief and transition which may be due to loss, divorce, foster settings or a variety of life situations. This will be a fun experience for all who attend.
Attend this class and learn:
- Difference between good and bad scared
- Manors and choices
- What it is like to give versus expecting to always get
- Respect for things (food, clothes), events (holidays/celebrations) and people/cultures that are different than what we have been raised with
- How to look forward to and becoming hopeful when life’s ups and downs occur
“There is something wonderfully contagious about Rick’s genuine caring, enthusiasm and humor. He motivates his listeners to self-awareness, insights and even answers! More importantly, he makes sense.”
“This class really opened my eyes about a lot of things and I will use the things I learned for the rest of my life.”
About The Speaker:
Rick Pribbernow has more than 18 years of experience providing life skills training to adults, families and children. He holdsdegrees in education , curriculum development, and counseling. His unique presentation style is both creative and interactive. Rich has the ability to quickly communicate difficult concepts in simply ways. He helps individuals get in touch with their feelings, and teaches simple guidelines for understanding and effectively dealing with those emotions.
Date(s): Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6-8pm, Compass Health 4526 Federal Ave Everett, WA $20 each
Please click below to view class details and sign up options:
Online Registration & Payment
Download Mail in Registration Form
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Using DBT Skill Curriculum with General Therapy Clients
This training will prepare you to use the DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) skill training modules to increase coping skills with general therapy clients. Attend this training and discover the keys to using the four DBT modules:
Highlights:
Day 1
- What is DBT and what is not DBT; deciding to adopt or adapt.
- Learn the core skill of mindfulness.
- Learn to design and present mindfulness exercises through frequent practice.
- Learn Interpersonal Effectiveness skills.
- Put skills into practice using interactive exercises.
- Practice, Practice, and more Practice
Day 2
- Learn theory and science of emotions
- Learn emotion regulation skills.
- Learn to describe the experience of various emotions.
- Increase your emotional vocabulary.
- Learn what is a crisis and skills to survive a crisis without making it worse.
- Learn the concept of radical acceptance and how to put it to work for long term and difficult problems.
- Practice and still more practice!!!
By attending this training you will become:
- Familiar with the four DBT skill training modules
- Able to set up and offer a three quarter sequence of skill groups to assist groups of clients learn coping skills
- Skilled to coach clients during individual sessions; either to reinforce learning from group training or to assist clients who need the skills now, before they learn it in a group
- Able to develop mindfulness exercises and homework assignments to enhance client learning experience
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) addresses problems in regulating emotions, behavior and thinking. It was developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan and her colleagues at the University of Washington.
About the Speaker: Catherine Naiad MA, LMHC, MHP has been trained as a DBT therapist and Skill Trainer since 1998 and completed the DBT Intensive training in 2003/2004. She is a Compass Health clinical supervisor at the Everett Adult Services Program and is a partner in private practice at Sound DBT in Shoreline, WA.
They forgot the part where everyone enrolled in DBT has to, by definition, be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and that is not, I repeat, NOT anything ANYONE wants following them or their loved ones is if they've been diagnosed AND/OR treated to get if it is the WRONG diagnosis, and at Compass, statistically, even higher numbers of men are diagnosed as BPD, and not the other way around.
If it were me? I would jump off a cliff before I set foot in that shit and let crap like that be wrote about me because none of it would be true: it wasn't except in the beginning when you and mother decided to throw me to the when she threw me to the wolves?
tHE REST OF THEIR FAKE BULLSHIT AND DOGMA CAN BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.compasshealth.org/about-us/about-us/
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