When Grief Gets More Complicated:
Supporting Harder-to-Serve Populations
Date: November 15, 2018
Facilitators: Andrea Warnick, RN, MA and Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
This training is suitable for: Front-line workers and volunteers, medical professionals, educators, clergy, social workers, administrators, residential workers, counsellors, funeral service providers and hospice volunteers.
Description: This workshop will focus on how to support some of the harder-to-serve populations of grieving children and youth including those with learning disabilities, those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well as those who have experienced a death through homicide or suicide. Participants will gain specific supporting strategies for these populations and how to identify Childhood Traumatic Grief (CTG). Please note, that while this workshop will be trauma-informed, the emphasis will be on recognizing, not treating, children and youth who are experiencing CTG. This is learning module 3 of the Children's Grief & Bereavement Certificate. This learning module may be taken separately from the certificate program. More
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Incorporating DBT Informed Practice when Working with Families and Adolescents:
Skills and Techniques to Support Families to Manage their Adolescents with their Emotions, Distress and Setting Limits
Date: November 23, 2018
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lovrics, MSW, RSW, RP.
This training is suitable for: Educators, school administration, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, medical professionals, drop in workers, shelter/hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.
Description: In this interactive workshop DBT principles, assumptions and key components such as Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulations skills will be introduced through experiential means. This workshop will provide effective techniques to guide parents to manage problematic behaviours and improve communication. During the workshop, there will be demonstrations of group formats, skills exercises, videos, role-plays and mindfulness activities used with parents. Participants will have first-hand experience of the ways in which techniques maybe able to be incorporated to provide parenting skills groups within agencies and other settings. More
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Creative Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Interventions for Children with Anxiety:
Innovative Techniques to Assess and Treat Children with Anxiety
Date: November 29, 2018
Facilitator: Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals.
Prerequisites: Basic training in CBT.
Description: เกมยิงปลาอันดับหนึ่งBest-selling author and one of Canada's foremost presenters on childhood trauma, Liana Lowenstein will present an overview of CBT, along with innovative techniques to assess and treat children with anxiety. Participants will learn interventions that will address the core treatment components:
psychoeducation, somatic management, affective expression, cognitive restructuring, exposure, and relapse prevention. Through case examples, activity demonstrations, experiential exercises, and videos of actual client sessions, this one-day workshop will combine theoretical material with hands-on therapeutic interventions that can be easily translated into practice. More
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Collaborative and Proactive Solutions:
Understanding and Helping Students with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Challenges
Date: December 4 & 5, 2018
Facilitator: Ross Greene, Ph.D.
This training is suitable for: School social workers, child, and youth workers, educators, ECEs, school personnel, residential school staff, and other allied disciplines who work or consult to schools.
Description: The Collaborative Proactive Solutions (CPS) model, which Dr. Greene empirically supports in his books and teaching, has transformed thinking and practices in countless families, schools, inpatient psychiatry units and residential and juvenile detention facilities throughout the world. This 2-day workshop will provide you with the foundational elements of the CPS model, practical assessment and intervention tools that you can use in diverse settings. More |
Also available as a WEBINAR!
Assessing for Antisocial/Violent Potential and Clinical Risk Management in Elementary School-Aged Children:
A Prevention and Intervention Assessment Framework
Date: December 12, 2018
Facilitator: Leena K. Augimeri, Ph.D.
Location: Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning
This training is suitable for: Teachers, ECE, school administration, support staff, psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers, nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors, drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers, firefighters, police, paramedics.
Description: This is the first time that a workshop will be provided both as an in-class course and live webinar! Dr. Augimeri will provide an overview of SNAP's (STOP NOW AND PLAN) comprehensive prevention/ intervention model which includes referral mechanisms, community protocols to connect children with appropriate services in a timely manner, structured gender-specific risk assessment tools (EARLs) and evidence-based program models. Case work will be presented in the afternoon. This workshop is also available in a webinar format. More
This in-class workshop will be located at Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning, 686 Bay Street, 3rd floor, Room 03.9320, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4
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Anxiety and the Gift of the Imagination:
A Clinical Model for Helping Children Understand and Manage Anxiety
Date: December 14, 2018
Facilitator: Robin Alter, Ph.D.
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals currently working with and/or interested in working with children.
Description: This workshop will teach a successful therapeutic formulation of anxiety. Dr. Alter will explain how the link between imagination and anxiety can be used effectively in treatment. This approach starts and ends with an enhancement of self-esteem to motivate children to use therapeutic tools and strategies. Learn how children's anxiety and thinking are different from adults, and how to be more effective with children in creating fundamental change in anxiety management. More |