Professional Activities
Trainings and Workshops
Embracing Our Emotions Through a Buddhist Approach to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Whole Body Experiential Workshop for the Colorado AA & NHPI Mental Wellness Summit
Saturday, August 31 at Community College of Aurora - CentreTech Campus
Through understanding the connection between Buddhist principles and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, learn how embracing your emotions promotes mental wellness and psychological flexibility and reconnect with yourself and others in a meaningful way.
Register here (it’s FREE)
impACT: An MI/ACT/EFT Treatment for Substance Use and Co-Occurring Conditions
Interactive workshop for behavioral health providers, nurses, care navigators, behavioral health technicians, occupational therapists, and other direct patient-facing specialists to gain skills to effectively treat adolescent substance use and co-occurring conditions through the use of Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Previous training partnerships through Denver Health’s CAM Academy:
August 2023 - Newport Academy, Oakley, UT.
October 2023 - STEP Program, Denver Health, Denver, CO.
March 2024 - Adult Mental Health/Child Mental Health Clinic, Denver Health, Denver, CO.
April 2024 - Adult Mental Health/Child Mental Health Clinic, Denver Health, Denver, CO.
May 2024 - University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO.
July 2024 - Nursing Education, Denver Health, Denver, CO.
Presentations
Seely, H. D., & Chen, E. (2024, March). Improving Access through a Harm Reduction and Incentive-Based Approach [Poster session]. 2024 Joint Meeting on Youth Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery, Baltimore, MD.
Chen, E. (2024, February). Substance Treatment, Education, and Prevention (STEP) Program: Impact of Substance Use on Youth and Adolescents [Virtual symposium presentation]. Colorado Substance Abuse Trend and Response Task Force, Denver, CO.
Carrasco, J., Gonzalez, A., Alshabani, N., Depestre, S. & Chen, E. (2023, July). Reflection, resilience, and empowerment: Investing in our BIPOC scientist-practitioners [Panel discussion]. Biennial APA Division 45 Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race Research Conference, San Diego, CA.
Awad, M., & Chen, E. (2021, February). OneStep: The Power of Influencers [Symposium presentation]. Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services 12 Sector Collaboration Series, New Haven, CT.
Mohtasham, M., Patterson, A., Vennergrund, K., Chen, E., Pasnak, R. (2019, March). Socio-emotional knowledge, executive functions, and patterning [Poster session]. 2019 Society in Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Shriver, A. S., Lauderdale, L., Yassa, M., Singer, J., Chen, E., Righi, M., & Pasnak, R. (2017, April). Effects of patterning instruction on kindergartener’s literacy [Poster session]. Annual Convention of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
Pasnak, R., Mohtasham, M., Patterson, A. B., Vennergrund, K., & Chen, E. (2017, March). Links between cognition and emotions [Paper presentation]. 88th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.
Publications
Chen, E., Seely, H. D., & Thurstone, C. (2024). Strategies to promote health equity in adolescent substance use treatment: Results from a quality improvement evaluation. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 3. doi: 10.3389/frcha.2024.1393401
Seely, H. D., & Chen, E. (2024, March). Now Streaming: The invisible trap of substance normalization. Mothers Awareness on School-age Kids, 14, 42-43.
Mohtasham, M., Patterson, A., Vennergrund, K., Chen, E., & Pasnak, R. (2017). Emotional competence, behavioural patterning, and executive functions. Early Child Development and Care. doi:10.1080/03004430.2017.1403434
Shriver, A., Lauderdale, L., Yassa, M., Schroeder, E., Chen, E., Atkins, E., Righi, M., & Pasnak, R. (2017). The effects of in-class tutoring of kindergarteners on patterning, reading, or mathematics. Journal of Education and Human Development. doi: 10.15640/jehd.v6n1a1
