Best Practices for Working with Urban Girls with Challenging Attitudes July 16, 2020 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Online Description: Teen girls from urban backgrounds often display challenging attitudes as defense mechanisms to hide the pain or trauma that has impacted their lives. Girls in pain are often misunderstood as simply "troublemakers," without unpacking…
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Description: This training is developed for behavioral health professionals who are required to meet licensure and re-licensure continuing education hours in suicide assessment, referral, intervention and management skills. Objectives: Develop skills to ask clients about suicideAssess for suicide using evidence-based toolsCollaborative with clients in the development of a safety and treatment plan Presenter: Katie Ellison,…
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July 24,202 | 1- 3:30 pm CDT | Web Conference Trauma-Informed Treatment: Applications in Clinical Settings Jenny Voss Ms. Voss has been in the field of social work for 14 years and from the beginning, realized the need for clients to have effective, evidence-based treatments for trauma-related disorders. When initially beginning as a therapist, she…
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Description: This presentation will review the health disparities recently exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Data will bepresented that highlight the impact on the African American community, followed by a review of the traditional rationalesprovided for these disparities. The presenter will then offer some alternative rationales and considerations based onhistorical factors that have impacted the African…
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Description: In this presentation, you will learn: Principle that guides ethical decision making in the clinical relationship; the Iatrogenic effect and ethical dilemmas; the impact of counselor "unfinished business" and ethical dilemmas; how to establish healthy boundaries in the clinical relationship; how pandemics like COVID 19 impact boundaries and ethics; boundaries of physical touch and…
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Human Trafficking for Health Care Providers Alison Phillips and Heidi Olson August 20, 2020 | 1 - 4 pm Learning Objectives: Participants will understand the legal definition of human trafficking and the forms that it takes.Participants will be able to identify physical, behavioral and contextual indicators of trafficking as well as vulnerabilities common to human trafficking…
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