SESSION 2

October 25, 2019

 

Adverse Childhood Experiences 

 

PURPOSE:

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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic and often culturally relevant events that occur in a child’s life. When left untreated, these events can have negative health and well-being outcomes throughout life. The ACE study provides empirical evidence on the impact these traumatic events can have in early brain, emotional, and physical development that increase risks of substance use and abuse, depression, unintended pregnancies, physical disease, mental illness, under and unemployment, poverty, and homelessness.

 

Discuss how ACEs can be prevented and dealt with constructively in therapy. By building resiliency skills, the counterweight to ACEs, children and adults are more likely to be able to deal with negative situations without prolonged or unfavorable outcomes. Pat will demonstrate how clinicians can change the focus of conversations about trauma from what is wrong with the client to what has happened to the client, in order to facilitate compassionate healing and resilience.   

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1.   Explain the significance of the  ACE study and how these risk factors contribute to physical, mental, and behavior problems.

2.  Analyze the sensitive time frames for brain development where childhood trauma most impacts functionality.

3.  Summarize the three variables that determine the effects of maltreatment.

4. Recognize the significance that branching and pruning of complex neural networks have on brain development, cognition, and behavior.

5. Compile a working knowledge of how to implement steps toward prevention of ACEs and the accumulation of ACEs.

 

INSTRUCTOR:

Pat Patrick, MSW, LISW-CP currently provides consultative services to organizations enhancing trauma informed services to children and families. He has extensive experience in child welfare and previously served as founder and director of SC Families First, a family empowerment movement within the SC Department of Social Services, successfully implementing family group decision making models. He has extensive experience in child welfare including child sexual abuse prevention campaigns locally, nationally and internationally, program development and service delivery to children and families in both residential and community based settings.  As a Master Trainer in the Adverse Childhood Experiences Interface curriculum, he currently works with communities in raising awareness of the impact of childhood trauma.      

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CREDITS: 3 CEUs

SESSION 3

November 22, 2019

 

Family Therapy: A Distinct Skill Set

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PURPOSE:

This workshop will discuss a short history of the development of family therapy and the various schools of thought.

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OBJECTIVES

1.  Examine and discuss the various roots of family     therapy

2.  Discuss the differences between family therapy, couples work and individual therapy, past  ???        regarding the therapist’s us of self

3.  Describe an integrative way of working conjointly with families

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INSTRUCTOR:

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Ginger Culbertson    MSW, LISW-CP, LMFT

Psychotherapy with individual, couples and families. Trauma focused work EMDR and other energy work.; NLP Master Practitioner; Clinical diploma of AAMFT; Clinical Supervision and also  a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work.

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CREDITS: 3 CEUs