Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of Children-WEB
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
Attachment Theory: A Helpful Framework for Understanding and Intervening with At-Risk Children and Their Families-WEB
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
Complex Trauma in Children-WEB
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 understand 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. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $120.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 6.00 Clinical
Creative Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety-WEB
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-S
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| Date: | Monday, March 22, 2021 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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Dealing with Angry Students and Tantrums Effectively-WEB
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: | Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
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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-WEB
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
Dealing with Differences and Diversity in the Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents-WEB
ID: 5658WEBThis webinar addresses ethnic and cultural differences relevant to the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. The webinar will use examples from Latino, African American, and African Caribbean families, but will stress the dimensions of cultural difference that clinicians should explore when working across any cultural or ethnic difference. Topics will include the evaluation and treatment implications of cultural and ethnic differences: 1) family composition and family structure; 2) child-rearing and schooling practices; 3) gender and generational role expectations; 4) definitions of mental health and illness; 5) definitions of help and help-seeking; 6) the common clashes between client expectations and the professional helpers; and 7) ways for clinicians to bridge the gaps in culture reducing the effectiveness of services. The webinar will combine didactic presentations and group exercises. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural
Grieving Children & Teens: Creative Interventions for Individual and Group Work-WEB
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
Legal and Ethical Issues in Child/Adolescent Mental Health-WEB
ID: 5655WEBThis is a two day webinar will outline the legal and ethical requirements in providing mental health services to children and adolescents. The first webinar will set out the legal framework as defined by relevant statute and case law. This segment of the workshop 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 webinar 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 workshop does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics. [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-WEB
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-WEB
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. [Requirement 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 15, 2021 |
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| Time: | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Play-Based Engagement, Rapport Building, and Assessment Techniques for Children-WEB
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
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S
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| Date: | Thursday, January 14, 2021 |
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| Time: | 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET |
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| Location: | Zoom WEBINAR
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Principles of Differential Diagnoses in Adolescents-WEB
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. [Requirement for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]
Fee: $120.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 6.00 Clinical
Psychopharmacology with Adolescents and Children-WEB
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
Trauma in Schools: Response Matters-WEB
ID: 5736WEB1 in 4 children experience trauma in their lives. With natural disasters, rising suicide rates, schools shootings, and every day trauma, the aftermath of trauma continues to stall educational benchmarks and mental health recovery. In this webinar we will explore how to identify the at-risk student, how to respond to traumatic events, and ways schools can better respond while building resilience in their students and staff. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]
Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical
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Unavailable | | Instructor: | Amy Nolan, EdS, MA, ACS, LPC
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 6, 2021 |
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| Time: | 9:00 am - 12:00 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
