Community and Culturally-based Approaches to Healing from Trauma in Refugee and Immigrant Communities

May 30, 2024

This presentation is eligible for 1 CE for LMSWs, LCSWs, and LMHCs through self-study. Please view the entire recording and review the instructions in the continuing education tab. CE registration link can be found here. For complete instructions on how to obtain your CE's click here. Many people h...

Navigating Professional Boundaries in Clinical Care

May 23, 2024

This presentation is eligible for 1.5 CE's for LMSWs, LCSWs, and LMHCs through self-study. Please view the entire recording and review the instructions in the continuing education tab. CE registration link can be found here. For complete instructions on how to obtain your CE's click here. Professio...

Firesetting and Violent Behavior Risk Assessments with Youth and Families

April 26, 2024

This presentation is eligible for 1.5 CE's for LMSWs, LCSWs, and LMHCs through self-study. Please view the entire recording and review the instructions in the continuing education tab. CE registration link can be found here. For complete instructions on how to obtain your CE's click here. Firesetti...

Optimizing Treatment for Youth Anxiety and Related Disorders Over Telehealth

November 08, 2023

This presentation is eligible for 1.5 CE's for LMSWs, LCSWs, and LMHCs through self-study. Please view the entire recording and review the instructions in the continuing education tab. CE registration link can be found here. For complete instructions on how to obtain your CE's click here. There is...

When Children and Adolescents Do Not Go to School: Terminology and Assessment

September 19, 2023

This presentation is eligible for 1.5 CE's for LMSWs, LCSWs, and LMHCs through self-study. Please view the entire recording and review the instructions in the continuing education tab. CE registration link can be found here. For complete instructions on how to obtain your CE's click here. Whether a...

An Overview of Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD

September 06, 2019

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD is a 12-session, evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to treat PTSD in individual and group settings. CPT directly and profoundly targets PTSD symptoms. Endorsed by the U.S. Departments of Veteran Affairs and Defense, it has been found effecti...

From ACEs to Assets: Supporting the Growth of Resilience to Improve Education, Health, and Wellness Outcomes

August 01, 2018

This webinar provided an overview of core aspects of resilience development that fit seamlessly with trauma-responsive practices, social-emotional learning, and positive youth development. Examples were drawn from specific practices that have been used successfully within multi-tiered systems of sup...

Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Children with Incarcerated Parents

June 27, 2018

In the United States, 2.7 million children have a parent who is incarcerated. In New York alone, there are 105,000 children living under these circumstances. Children impacted by parental incarceration often face uncertainty and trauma from changing living arrangements, including moving from one car...

Part 4: Providing Services to Students with Clinically Significant Difficulties Following Trauma Exposure

March 08, 2018

A trauma-informed school system has the capacity to help meet the mental healthcare needs of children experiencing clinically significant difficulties resulting from trauma exposure. Problems can manifest as disruptive behavior disorders, PTSD and related symptoms, or other problems related to moo...

Part II: Best Practices in Training and Treatment of Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Concerns

February 16, 2018

In order to understand and treat the developmental, behavioral, and relationship needs of the child, clinicians and providers must focus on the parent-child relationship. Early childhood mental health intervention requires working with parents and young children together in a way that helps attend t...

Part 5: Restorative Justice: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Discipline in School

February 08, 2018

A trauma-sensitive school must have discipline policies and practices to complement traditional behavioral approaches to managing problem behaviors. Many schools across the U.S. have begun to adopt and implement restorative justice programs in schools with promising results. These discipline strateg...

Part I: The Foundations of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

January 31, 2018

This webinar focuses on the unique mental health needs of infants and young children and the provision of mental health services for children under the age of 5. Participants will learn about key principles, skills, and strategies, including: the importance of attachment, relationships, responsi...

Resilience Informed Service Environments (RISE): Infusing programs and practice with resilience-based approaches

January 17, 2018

According to the APA, “Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress.” Resilience is a critically important concept with implications for programs that provide services to people across the developmental spectrum...

Part 3: Beyond Kübler-Ross: New Perspectives in Death, Dying and Grief

December 14, 2017

While Kübler-Ross’ work is nearing a half-century old, most grief clinicians now emphasize the very individual pathways that individuals experience in grief. This webinar presentation explores the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief, emphasizing five areas where understandings...

Part 2: Saying Goodbye: Families Coping with a Loved One’s Terminal Illness

December 06, 2017

The authors of Saying Goodbye: A Guide to Coping with a Loved One’s Terminal Illness discusses a “road map” describing the various phases that families go through when confronted with a terminal or potentially terminal diagnosis and advice garnered from these sources as to how to cope and prep...

Part 3: Tier 2 – Trauma-Informed Interventions for Students in Need

November 30, 2017

A trauma-sensitive school includes approaches for addressing the needs of students who might be demonstrating social, emotional and behavioral challenges as a result of their exposure to trauma or chronic stress. Such challenges can certainly begin to manifest in poor educational outcomes and beha...

Through the Looking Glass: Applying a Complex Trauma Lens when Working with Children and Adolescents

June 13, 2017

Complex trauma refers to multiple or repeated traumas, often occurring at developmentally vulnerable times in the victim’s life, and often associated with disability, disempowerment, or dependency. This webinar will describe the prevalence of complex trauma and how to apply a “complex trauma len...

Creating a Path for Resiliency

October 26, 2016

Resiliency is frequently discussed as a trait that one either has, or does not have. However, resiliency could more accurately be described as a skill that can be learned, practiced, and built upon. This webinar provides participants with information from some of the research on resiliency while als...

Legacies of Pain and Resilience: Clinical Implications for Understanding Historical Trauma and Race

August 25, 2016

Historical Trauma (HT) refers to the psychological distress experienced by survivors or descendants of human initiated acts of oppression. This webinar helped clinicians understand HT and provided some clarity regarding the intergenerational transmission of trauma and how it relates to racial oppr...

Trauma-Informed Supervision

August 24, 2016

The principles of trauma-informed care (TIC) posit that human service organizations must be trauma-informed not just for service recipients, but for the providers as well. Through the use of video case studies, this engaging webinar explored with participants what it means to offer supervision that...

Trauma Informed Collaboration

July 27, 2016

Trauma-informed care (TIC) is frequently presented as having five guiding principles: safety, trust, choice, empowerment, and collaboration. With the understanding that few service providers are trained in collaborative approaches, this webinar will seek to build participant knowledge around strateg...

Women and Mental Health: Embracing the Intersection of Trauma, Oppression, and Agency

June 30, 2016

This webinar will explore how the accumulation of social stressors prescribed onto women affect their social, emotional, and mental well-being. We will define the various forms of oppression that impact women’s daily interactions. Our goal is to provide viewers with the tools and language to discu...

Creating a Trauma Informed Environment: Promoting Physical & Emotional Safety

June 22, 2016

When considering the implementation of a trauma-informed care (TIC) approach to service delivery, the principle of Safety is often neglected. Creating a trauma-informed environment entails attending to both the psychological and physical safety of service providers and recipients. This interactive w...

Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) Leadership: Performance Excellence: Measuring What Matters

June 20, 2016

Agencies, already overwhelmed by the demands of day-to-day operations, are facing mounting pressure to demonstrate that their programs really do make a difference in the lives of youth and families. In today’s climate of dwindling funding and increasing accountability, utilizing data to analyze an...

Trauma Informed Care 101

May 25, 2016

There is growing awareness that trauma is pervasive and that the impact of trauma is often deep and life- shaping. This impact extends to a client’s understanding of, and interactions with, their own health care needs. Violence and trauma are often at the center of a client’s medical concerns, m...

Practicing Presence: Mindfulness in Psychotherapy with Adults

May 13, 2016

In this webinar, we will explore the application of mindfulness practices to psychotherapy with adults. Drawing on Fulton’s (2013) notion of a continuum of mindfulness practices in psychotherapy, we will explore how clinicians of any theoretical orientation can draw on mindfulness practices to enh...

How Racism Impacts those We Serve and How We Serve: Are We Meeting Participants Where They Are?

April 28, 2016

Issues related to race are among the most difficult and least discussed topics in the field of behavioral health. This webinar is designed to raise the awareness of behavioral health providers of the possible overt, subtle, or unintentional ways that organizational policies and service delivery crea...

Mental Health Issues in LGB Populations: Minority Stress, the Coming Out Process, and LGB-Sensitive Therapy

April 15, 2016

Microaggressions toward members of the LGB community are usually unintentional, but can still cause substantial harm to both the client and the therapeutic relationship. Join us as the presenters discuss the meaning of LGB identity, the impact of microaggressions, and strategies to create a more LGB...

Underprivileged & Underserved: The Impact of Poverty on Mental Health

March 30, 2016

Living in poverty has been linked to psychological distress that — unless addressed — can impact an individual’s trajectory to wellness. Lack of knowledge, fear and bias can prevent both the provider and client from discussing poverty’s effect on treatment. Therefore, in order to effectively...

Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) Leadership: Culture-Driven Leadership

January 15, 2016

There is growing recognition of the need for organizations to infuse a performance management culture not only in residential treatment, but in all levels of the organization. A critical component in all employees understanding and embracing a performance based culture is defining, teaching, assessi...