What's Your Social IQ?: Perspectives on Social Intelligence from Evolutionary Biology & Social Neuroscience
Presented by Valerie Stone, PhD
Sept. 11, Berkeley, CA. Sept. 12, Santa Rosa, CA.
- Get specific tools to help your clients gain new confidence in the three most stressful social situations: dating, workplace interactions, and meeting new people.
- This isn't just a lecture: this program focuses on giving you access to cutting edge science you can use in your practice the next day.
- Click here to download our free tipsheet on "Starting a conversation with someone you don't know."
Social interactions are essential for humans. Improving social skills and social intelligence can improve mental health and well-being. Social intelligence is a
conscious and unconscious survival skill that allows us to track social interactions around us, and to interact with others ways that are mutually satisfying.
Many aspects of sociality date back millions of years, and many are shared with other primates. Recently, biologists and neuroscientists have gained
unique insights into social intelligence and the brain. We'll talk about humans' social nature, discussing comparative studies with primates and
the communal foraging lifestyles of our ancestors. With that foundation, you will
- learn what the components of social skill are (e.g., emotion recognition, negotiating status hierarchies, attachment, conversation skills, inferring others' intentions, avoiding deception).
- learn the latest research from social neuroscience on the brain basis of these components of social intelligence.
- learn how to apply knowledge about social intelligence in work with your clients, including the latest assessment tools for social intelligence.
Register today! Call 510.845.1767 or 303.669.8528 or email us (register@assesscompetency.com).
- Sept. 11, 2010, Berkeley, CA. 9am-1pm. $100
- Sept. 12, 2010, Santa Rosa, CA. 9am-1pm. $100
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Demonstrating Disability Following Brain Injury: New Science, New Techniques Presented by Valerie Stone, PhD.
Sept. 10, 2010, Alliant University, San Francisco, CA. 9am-1pm.
- Get better results in less time when you assess brain injured clients.
- Help protect the interests of your clients with brain injury.
- Expand your income-generating options.
Are you frustrated by seeing brain-injured clients denied benefits they need? Research on brain injury is constantly evolving,
and who can keep up with all the latest research while running a clinical practice? Unlike MCEP programs that just lecture to
give you information about research, this program focuses on giving you the newest, most effective tools in evidence-based practice
for your clients that you can start using tomorrow. We don't just lecture about brain injury, we show you
how to network with other professionals who need your expertise.
nbsp; Because the instructor, Dr. Valerie Stone, works with many different kinds of professionals, she will
give you specific ways to expand your consulting opportunities with legal professionals and government agencies.
This MCEP program will
- get you up to date on new assessment tools for brain-injured clients, measuring both cognitive and social functioning objectively;
- brief you on commonly-used assessments that are not reliably sensitive to brain injury;
- show you new approaches to rehabilitation;
- work with you on how to expand your contacts with other professionals who need your expertise.
The result: you help people genuinely disabled by brain injury get the benefits they need, while you experience less stress.
Dr. Valerie Stone, the instructor, is passionate about helping people with brain injuries get what they need.
This program gives you the tools to do that. Register today by calling 800.457.1273
or by clicking here.
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Past MCEP Offerings
Assessment of Disability Following Traumatic Brain Injury Should Include Objective Social Measures: Towards a Social IQ Test
Presented by Valerie Stone, PhD. One hour talk for neuropsychologists about new and currently available objective measures of social competency that can be used with clients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009, Brain Injury Association of CO Annual Conference, Denver,CO.
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Protect Your Clients: Social Safety & Vulnerability in Children & Adults with Asperger Syndrome
Presented by Valerie Stone, PhD. Three-hour training for psychologists, social workers, and police officers on how to assess social vulnerability and safety rules to help protect clients with Asperger Syndrome.
November 21, 2008, Integrated Center for Child Development, Canton, MA.
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MCEP Workshops for Psychologists