This interactive training provides a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by child welfare staff with lived expertise and is designed to strengthen the collaboration between staff and their supervisors. Backed by the Action Research Project (ARP), we will unearth best practices for both … [Read more...]

Fee: $110.00 Emotional cutoff, a Bowen family systems theory concept, describes how unresolved emotional issues with parents, siblings, and other family members are managed by reducing or totally cutting off emotional contact with them - moving away and rarely going home or by staying in physical … [Read more...]

Fee: $110.00 A child's degree of relationship dependence is a product of forces that promote and undermine that child's emotional separation from the family. According to Bowen family systems theory, when parent and child functioning promotes emotional separation, the emotional maturity level is … [Read more...]

Fee: $110.00 The Bowen family systems theory concept Nuclear Family Emotional Process describes the basic patterns of emotional functioning among and between members of two successive generations of a family - most often between partners and between the partners and their offspring. These basic … [Read more...]

Fee: $60.00 The (CEM) Community Empowerment Model is a model utilizing existing systems and infrastructures to develop a comprehensive approach to addressing social issues. Traditional models often start with the formation of a coalition, without consideration for existing groups, coalitions and … [Read more...]

Fee: $60.00 The purpose of this webinar is to reframe self-harming behavior within the lens of traumatic re-enactment. By increasing our ability to apply what we know about how trauma influences thoughts, feelings, body sensations and human behavior; practitioners can develop greater empathy and … [Read more...]

Fee: $60.00 Opposition 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 … [Read more...]

Fee: $60.00 This webinar will examine current ethical issues facing school social workers, guidance counselors, and teachers. Topics to be included are alcohol and substance abuse, eating disorders, mental health issues, confidentiality, risk and resiliency, and strategies for dealing with … [Read more...]

Fee: $60.00 Case Management practice is based on two important principles. The first involves respect and support for independence. The second involves the principle of using the least restrictive alternative in helping clients with lifestyle changes. You will learn practical skills such as: 1) … [Read more...]

Fee: $60.00 Recognizing the critical impact that issues of race, culture, sexual orientation, religious identity, ability and other diverse identities has on victims' experiences of violence, this webinar provides a first glimpse into the issues of violence against women within some immigrant … [Read more...]