Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of Children
ID: 5654WEBThis four day webinar seeks to enhance the clinician's ability to diagnose child mental disorders accurately and comprehensively. We will address two major topic areas: 1) the key factors in accurate assessment, including developmental perspectives, the use of multiple data sources and standardized assessment tools; and 2) major diagnostic categories, including disruptive behavior, reactive attachment disorder and early character dysfunction in children. The workshop will include didactic presentation and case-centered group exercises. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring sample vignettes that illustrate diagnostic difficulties and puzzles. It is suggested that participants bring a copy of the DSM-5, if possible. *This is a four day webinar, attendees must attend all four days to receive a certificate of completion. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $240.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 12.00 Clinical
Assessment and Intervention Strategies in Working w/Families w/Children Experiencing Domestic Violence
ID: 1331WEBWorking with families with children impacted by domestic violence poses a variety of clinical, ethical and legal challenges. This webinar will provide information about assessment strategies and best practice interventions when confronted with families who are experiencing and/or have been impacted by domestic violence. To enhance the learning process, moment to moment decision making within the context of treatment interventions will be developed through the use of dynamic break-out case discussions, video tapes and group discussion. Attendees will develop knowledge about working with couples, individuals and children/adolescents within the context of the family system impacted and/or experiencing domestic violence. 3 NJ DVS credits: Group Counseling Skills [Elective for Violence Against Women Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Julie Roebuck, LCSW
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 12, 2022 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Attachment Theory: A Helpful Framework for Understanding and Intervening with At-Risk Children and Their Families
ID: 5653WEBSecure attachment has been found to be associated with better social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of children. Maternal sensitivity is thought to be a major contributor to the development of a secure attachment. This workshop with provide participants with an introduction to attachment theory and its relevance to clinical practice with at risk children and their families. Important contributors to attachment theory, as well as their research will be reviewed, including John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, and Harry Harlow. More recent research on attachment and neurobiology, particularly by Alan Schore will be discussed. Participants will learn about the importance of sensitivity in fostering a healthy parent-child relationship, thereby laying the foundation for future mental health. Participants will learn to evaluate parent-child interactions within the context of sensitivity, and will learn strategies to improve parental sensitivity. Cultural issues and their impact on parenting and sensitivity, as well as implications for the therapist-client relationship will also be discussed. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW
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| Date: | Friday, January 7, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Communicating with Adolescents: Speaking Their Language
ID: 5029WEBWhen parents and helping professionals try to start a conversation with adolescents, they often get one-word answers or no answers at all. Many families and helping professionals struggle to understand how adolescents think and feel and how to get adolescents to respond. Participants will learn strategies and techniques to engage adolescents and to help families learn how to talk to their adolescents about difficult topics and get the adolescents to talk back. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Complex Trauma in Children
ID: 5661WEBThis is a 2-day webinar. Each day is 3 hours for a total of 6 CE hours. Attendees must attend both days to receive a certificate. Exposure to multiple traumatic events early in life within the context of the caregiving system can have profound and long-lasting impacts. These experiences affect how people experience others and react to events, and often lead to dysfunction in a variety of ways: problems in establishing stable relationships; problems managing emotions; problems controlling behavior; and problems in planning and following through on plans. The difficulties typically go beyond the basic criteria for PTSD. Often, these children do not have narrative memories for the events that occurred. If the problems they present are not understood as reactions to complex trauma, the interventions chosen to address them are not helpful and the children often fail in the many systems they enter. This workshop will provide an overview of what constitutes complex trauma, the ways in which individuals with these histories are impacted, as well as a discussion of how understanding these issues can make our interventions more successful. Attendees must attend both days to receive a certificate of completion. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $120.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 6.00 Clinical
Creative Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety
ID: 5745WEBThis highly experiential webinar draws from the fields of yoga, mindfulness, expressive arts, and play therapy. We will explore creative strategies and activities for psychoeducation and intervention with children and teenagers who experience anxiety. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 27, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Cutting, Self-Mutilation, and Suicide
ID: 5002WEBDespite the seemingly growing rate of self-injurious behavior across all cultures, particularly among adolescent and college populations, therapists and other helping professionals often fail to ask direct questions to their young clients about the origin of unusual injuries. Others are often left feeling frustrated by those who repeatedly injure themselves and resort to responses such as "they're just doing it for attention" or misinterpret the behavior to mean that the individual is suicidal. It is not enough to focus on symptom reduction such as putting ice cubes on arms instead of cutting. As professionals we must focus on deeper, more long lasting change. This webinar explains the underlying dynamics such as affect regulation, control/punishment, alexithymia, and self-capacities/invalidation. Participants will learn what each of these are and be able to explain them. Participants will also participate in learning concrete relaxation and breathing skills that can be utilized for their own affect regulation when dealing with such emotionally charged issues. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Dealing with Angry Students and Tantrums Effectively
ID: 5061WEBIt seems each year we are faced with more and more students who are getting angrier and angrier. Why are our students angry? How do we deal with students when they are annoyed, frustrated or otherwise irritated? What works and what does not? In this informative webinar, we will attempt to briefly look at the context that seems to foster these reactions in students. Then, and most importantly, we will look at practical and simple tools that can be used immediately to decrease the incidents of tantrums and angry behaviors within school, mental health, and home settings. The goal of this webinar will be to supplement your existing skills with new tools you can quickly implement when working with these students during their most challenging states [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Brett Novick, MS, LMFT, CSSW, MA
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 19, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Dealing with Challenges When Working with Parents and Families
ID: 5607WEBWhether you're an educator, CST member, administrator or mental health professional you share one thing in common-dealing with difficult parents and families. All of us have experienced problematic, unproductive, and/or uncomfortable interactions with parents/families. Whether it be issues of defensiveness, "my child does no wrong," noncompliance, or just plain hostile parents, it can place an incredible hurdle and stress on your job duties. So what can you do? In this workshop learn effective, practical tools, geared to help productively tailor your interventions around the most common types of challenging parents/families. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Brett Novick, MS, LMFT, CSSW, MA
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 11, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Directive Play Therapy Techniques with the Family: Fun and Effective Pathways to Achieve Goals
ID: 5286WEBDirective play therapy which includes caregivers and other family members can be a highly effective treatment for children and adolescents. Through fun and often multi-sensory activities, clients build coping skills and develop the ability to express feelings and improve on a wide range of presenting issues. In this webinar, participants will learn to engage the child, caregiver, and family, in a variety of directive play therapy techniques including game play therapy, cognitive behavioral play therapy, use of creative arts, bibliotherapy, and playful role play among others. Challenges highlighted will include social skills impairment, emotion dysregulation, anger management, low self-esteem and more. Applications to teletherapy will be provided.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Grieving Children and Teens: Creative Interventions for Individual and Group Work
ID: 5732WEBCommon issues for grieving children will be explored, including factors affecting grief and the grief response, tasks of mourning, stages of grief, how grief is expressed and understood at various ages and stages of development, needs of grieving children, and how the grief experience can vary across different religious and cultural backgrounds. A variety of creative & expressive art techniques will be presented for social workers to utilize throughout the stages of bereavement, including anticipatory grief, recent loss, grief over time, and grief in the current climate of COVID-19.
The techniques presented in this workshop can be utilized and adapted in clinical work with individual children/teenagers and groups, as well as families. These interventions provide psychoeducation (for both parents & children), and opportunities for honoring & remembering loved ones, expressing feelings, coping (esteem building), and moving forward (termination). Participants will have the opportunity to explore the activities experientially, utilizing hands-on materials appropriate for use with children and teenagers ages 6-17. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Interventions for Parents with Personality Disorders
ID: 5032WEBThis webinar will address dependent, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorders in parents and other caregivers. Topics covered include: the definitions of personality traits and the common features of personality disorders; recognition of dependent, borderline and narcissistic personality features; other co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse problems; the impact that parental personality disorders may have on child development and family functioning; the obstacles posed to effective family and child centered interventions; and effective short term strategies to engage and defuse problematic character traits and behavior. The webinar will combine didactic presentation and group discussion. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring relevant case material for discussion and consultation.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Legal and Ethical Issues in Child/Adolescent Mental Health
ID: 5655WEBThis 2-day webinar will outline the legal and ethical requirements in providing mental health services to children and adolescents. The first day will set out the legal framework as defined by relevant statute and case law. This segment of the webinar will devote particular attention to the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and their applicability within various treatment settings. The second day will focus on handling and resolving the ethical dilemmas that may arise in the treatment of children and minor adolescents with particular attention to confidentiality issues. *This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics. Attendees must attend both days to receive a certificate of completion. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $120.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 6.00 Clinical, Ethical
Let's Talk about Opposition in Adolescence
ID: 5663WEBOpposition in adolescence has become synonymous with oppositional defiant disorder. This view of opposition as a disorder is limiting and puts adults in conflict with youth. This webinar will focus on discussing the need to see opposition on a continuum. Participants will identify and discuss their personal constructs about oppositionality in adolescence. They will explore my construct of opposition as advocacy and power expression in adolescence which facilitates the youth's development of a healthy sense of self and purpose that will equip them to transition into a healthy, productive, and satisfying adulthood. Participants will discuss the importance of focusing on the caregiver-adolescent relationship and using relational interventions. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Normality or Pathology: An Exploration of Child Development and Mental Health
ID: 5650WEBWhere does normality end and pathology begin? This question is especially pertinent for clinicians working with children whose developmental stage has a tremendous impact on their current level of functioning. This webinar will explore the interrelationship between children's developmental stages and interpersonal functioning with peers and within family relationships. Participants will move along developmental lines, from separation anxiety to separation and individuation, and explore what separates "normal" child developmental struggles from extremes in behavior indicative of a range of mental health issues. Participants will also explore age-appropriate treatment approaches. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Parents as Healers: Bringing the Caregiver into the Healing Process Through Play and Home-Based Strategies
ID: 5215WEBTherapists are increasingly interested in the value of including the caregiver in impactful and fun ways in treatment sessions. This workshop will teach an overall approach, “Parents as Healers” where parents/caregivers are dynamically involved in their child or adolescent’s therapy. Participants will learn to incorporate caregivers in collaborative planning, directive play therapy, cognitive behavioral play therapy, playful psychoeducation, effective parent training and more. They will also learn about evidence-based parent-led therapies. A combination of PowerPoint lecture, video, discussion and experiential activities will be provided to make the learning multi-sensory and lively. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Anne Marie Ramos, LCSW RPT-S
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| Date: | Friday, February 18, 2022 |
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| Time: | 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Play-Based Engagement, Rapport Building, and Assessment Techniques for Children
ID: 1045WEBThis webinar will explore engagement, rapport building, assessment, and psychoeducation with children through play and art based activities. We will review the concepts of attunement, attachment, co-regulation and the therapeutic relationship. The majority of the workshop will focus on play-based engagement, rapport building, and assessment techniques for children. Variations of techniques appropriate for in-person, remote therapy, group work, and family work will be discussed, and many activities will be explored experientially. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Practical Parenting Toolbox
ID: 5257WEBThe purpose of this webinar is to teach professionals an overview of practical, "ready to use" skills and parenting techniques. The overarching goal of the webinar is to help professionals hone techniques that are necessary for the ever-changing and dynamic world that is the hallmark of modern parenting. The objectives include: developing an understanding of what a child is attempting to communicate, versus what they say, understanding the varied skills youth utilize to get what they want, and an exploration of one's idiosyncratic parenting/personality style(s). The webinar will also help the professional to gain a better understanding of punishment versus discipline and how to teach logical and natural consequences as a manner of parental philosophy. Finally, we will look at why behavioral contracts and reward systems succeed or fail and review relevant topic areas such as sibling rivalry and peer pressure. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Brett Novick, MS, LMFT, CSSW, MA
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| Date: | Monday, February 7, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Practical Social Skills Workshop for Children and Students with Developmental Disabilities
ID: 3267WEBThis webinar will focus on the practical skills needed to help children and adolescents with developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders. The goal in this webinar is to teach about practical socialization skills in individual and group settings to do such things as: build friendships, transfer acquaintances to friendship relationships, avoiding behaviors that may serve to distance possible relationships as well as appropriate skills necessary for the real world. In additions, we will discuss what works in applications from instruction with social skills and what may not create difficulty from instruction to "real world" application.
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Preparing Children for Adoption
ID: 5980WEBIn this interactive webinar, clinicians will define and develop their role as the adoption therapist in relation to working with foster and adoptive families. Clinicians will describe the impact of secrecy on a child and learn techniques for talking with children about their difficult and traumatic histories in a developmentally appropriate way. Clinicians will identify the importance of developing the child’s personal narrative to help them make sense of their past and process the multiple losses they have experienced. Clinicians will also learn techniques to prepare children and families for transitions and necessary good byes; this may include leaving a foster home or group home, a good bye/closure visit with a birth family, or moving to a select home. Experiential activities will be integrated into the workshop to expand the clinician’s toolkit in working with families as they transition through adoption. [Elective for Adoption Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Principles of Differential Diagnoses in Adolescents
ID: 5651WEBThis is a 2 day webinar. Diagnosing mental disorders in adolescents can pose special difficulties. The clinical presentations of certain important disorders can differ from what is typical in adulthood and be harder to differentiate from normative development. At the same time, factors that complicate diagnosing adults--for example, the effects of medical problems or substance abuse-also complicate diagnosing adolescents. Further, particular medical and psychological interventions impact adolescents differently than adults. This comprehensive two-day workshop will review current knowledge about how selected mental disorders (mood disorders, disruptive behavior disorders, pervasive developmental disorders, early onset schizophrenia, and others) should be diagnosed in adolescence. The webinar focuses on diagnosis, not treatment techniques; research on the efficacy of current treatments for adolescents will be reviewed when relevant. [Required Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $100.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.00 Clinical
Psychopharmacology with Adolescents and Children
ID: 5652WEBA comprehensive psychiatric assessment is crucial for determining the appropriate use of psychotropic medications as part of mental health treatment of children or adolescents. This webinar explores the basic classes of psychotropic medications, their indications for use, and their common side effects. The insights provided in this webinar are pertinent to all clinicians working with children on psychotropic medication. This knowledge enables good collaboration among mental health professionals and strengthens the client-clinician relationship. [Requirement for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
Screening and Assessment of Trauma in Children and Adolescents
ID: 5803WEBThis webinar will explore Screening for Trauma and Assessment of Trauma in children and adolescents. We will review the use of both formal and informal tools as well as other clinical methodologies. There will be an opportunity to go into break out rooms and practice two standardized tools. We will also review a scenario in order to use the information gathered in screening and assessment to develop a clinical formulation and discuss indications for treatment. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention or Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Karen McGrellis Mihatov, MA, LPC, CTS, DRCC, MPA
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| Date: | Friday, February 25, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| | Instructor: | Karen McGrellis Mihatov, MA, LPC, CTS, DRCC, MPA
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| Date: | Thursday, August 11, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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Suicide Prevention in School Setting: Identification and Intervention
ID: 5829WEBThis webinar is designed to help school social workers, school counselors, and teachers understand their role in identifying students at risk for suicide. In this webinar risk factors and indicators will be discussed and policies and procedures in addressing this issue will be explored. Resources and ways to make appropriate referrals will be described as well. *This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Ethical
Suicide Prevention with Trans Youth
ID: 5258WEBThe risk of suicide increases for trans individuals when they participate in single gendered therapy group(s) and other treatment modalities with cisgender patients. Trans individuals are often subject to microaggressions that go unaddressed when clinicians, social work professors, and students are uneducated and misinformed about the neurological and genetic research literature that address the needs and concerns of this population . This webinar through lecture, case study and interactive discussion will educate participants on the needs of trans individuals, address and identify suicide risk assessment techniques, and create a respectful space where participant questions can be answered. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Mayte Redcay, LCADC, SAP, LCSW
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 1, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Understanding Child Development Through a Cultural Lens-WEB
ID: 5670WEBThe challenges that children face while growing up are largely impacted by their environment. It is important to understand this environment through the "cultural looking glass". This webinar will help participants recognize, identify and compare children's developmental issues within the framework of culture and focus on different aspects of early development as markers of a child's progress. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 12, 2022 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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