Speaker

Seth Arkush

Seth Arkush MSW, LCSW, MBA

Partner, Integrated Care Concepts

Seth Arkush earned his Master of Business Administration degree at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, and obtained his clinical training at Fordham University where he earned his Master of Social Work degree. Soon thereafter, he earned his clinical social work license (LCSW). In addition to his psychotherapeutic work at ICCC, for the past 10 years Seth has worked clinically with: urban youth; as an in-home therapist for at-risk children and families; children and families in crisis through Children’s Mobile Response; and as the Clinical Specialist leading a team of therapists for Therapeutic Family Visitation Services serving families in the Division of Child Protection & Permanency system (formerly known as DYFS).

From the mid 1970s through the mid 1980s, Seth worked his way through college on a suicide and crisis hotline and in a youth services program that served runaway youths and their families. In his senior year, Seth wrote a grant that got funded to develop a men’s counseling program. After graduating, he worked for the Juvenile Division of the NJ Department of Corrections serving incarcerated youth. From the mid 1980s through the early 2000s, Seth held positions of increasing responsibility in corporate budgeting and financial analysis, and eventually became a consultant for at-risk companies.

Seth holds a post-graduate certification in Child/Adolescent Mental Health from Rutgers University and is a certified trainer of the Strengthening Families Program.

Seth's Presentations

keynote

The Magic of Common Language

And Panel Discussion

This session champions the reality that mental health is not binary. Everyone’s mental health lives and moves on a “continuum,” or in simpler words, a “Scale” that stretches from “Thriving” to “Sinking.” The most common question asked every day is: “How are you?” Because there is no common language in mental health, the most common answers are: “Good, Fine, OK.” None of these are actual responses, nor do they help us see trends or track changes in the way we think/feel/function/perform.

This interactive workshop introduces the SameHere Scale (based on “Polyvagal,” Dr. Stephen Porges) in both hard copy and app formats. Participants will learn about the balance between our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system responses, and how that balance can be compromised. They will learn about movement on the SameHere Scale – and how someone’s Scale “position” can be discovered based on their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors they are experiencing. Attendees will walk away with a common language to do check-ins with patients, clients, students or whomever attendees do their clinical and/or advocacy work with.

A panel discussion will examine how this language can be brought into various integrative modalities.

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