Play Therapy with Families
Denise Filley, MA, RPT
Friday, June 19
$95 s 6 CEUs s
9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: June 15
Come learn how to incorporate play therapy into family therapy. The concepts of filial therapy and Theraplay (training parents to do the therapeutic agent skills), directive play therapy skills and assessment family play techniques will all be taught. Understand more about specialized training that can be used in performing family play therapy. Learn through experiential techniques, video cases and discuss blockages in family play therapy.
How to Manage Anger Management Groups
Rob Estell, LCSW
Wednesday, June 24
$95 s 6 CEUs s
9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: June 17
This workshop is about how to set up and run an anger management group. Most people get angry sometimes. It’s a natural emotion, something that we all experience. Sometimes anger gets out of control and they find themselves in difficult situations. As a result, anger management groups have become more common as a way to help people take control of their emotions and avoid trouble.
Art Therapy Concepts: Emotional, Physical, Mental and Spiritual
Healing
Avis Garett-Baptist, Ph.D.
Thursday, June 25
$110 includes lunch and art supplies
6 CEUs s 9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: June 18
Address: Matt Ross
Community Center, 8101 Marty
(1 block west of Metcalf) Overland Park, KS 66204
Give your skills a visual jump start in Art Therapy techniques. Study how private inner feelings can be expressed through art therapy to give voice to the inner self. Learn about contour drawings, a tried and true method for healing. Experience modified contour drawing and contour mirror image drawings. Understand how to evaluate colors lines, shapes, form and placement. Form a Mandala and remember that the process is important; not the end product.
Motivational Interviewing
Ed Scanlon, Ph.D.
Thursday, July 9
$95 s 6 CEUs s
9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: July 2
Motivational interviewing to help clients confront reality is a goal of interviewing rather than simply a counseling technique. Focus on ambivalence as a key to understanding resistance and change. Identify clients’ readiness for change; build skills for enhancing client motivation, dealing with resistance, and enhancing client motivation and confidence. Learn to solidify commitment to a plan for change. Examples will be drawn from work with client s in anger management and chemical dependency.
Motivational Interviewing-Advanced Level
Ed Scanlon, Ph.D.
Friday, July 10
$60 s 3 CEUs s
9 AM – 12 Noon
Registration Due: July 3
Learn about advanced methods of giving clinical feedback and providing basic psycho-social information to clients. Gain understanding of treatment planning methods using motivational interviewing techniques. This class comes by request from those who have experienced the first day of motivational interviewing.
Take both classes for $145 & 9 CEUs
®®Assessment and
Treatment of Nonsuicidal
Self-Injurious Behavior
Karyn B. Perry, Ph.D.
Thursday, July 16
$95 s 6 CEUs s
9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: July 9
Identify and describe the different types of self-injury. Recognize common myths about self-injury and learn the facts. Gain understanding of recent techniques that are used to assess self-injury. Describe treatment strategies that have been found to be effective to address this issue. Learn how to effectively use the internet as an aid in both assessment and intervention.
Introduction to Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Jim Kreider, LSCSW
Friday, July 17
$95 s 6 CEUs s
9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: July 10
Learn solution-focused interviewing skills that will help clients achieve deep, lasting, and often rapid change by focusing on their abilities rather than their pathologies. Integration of ideas from Milton Erickson, the Narrative Approach and 40 years of outcomes research, will enrich your skills for working briefly and effectively in a managed care environment.
Understanding Diversity & Becoming Culturally Competent
Rob Estell, LCSW
Thursday, July 23
$95 s 6 CEUs s
9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: July 16
Providing culturally competent services can benefit your client in many ways. A culturally competent individual should experience less cross-cultural miscommunication, assess behaviors more accurately and ultimately provide more effective services and interventions. This class will explore the value and strengths of diversity and would benefit anyone who works with clients in cross-cultural contexts.
¿¿ Compassion
Fatigue
Mike Boniello, LSCSW
Friday, July 24
$95 s 6 CEUs s
9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: July 17
Come to understanding more about compassion fatigue: burn-out of the professional. Learn why it is important to manage this; to prevent your clinical judgment from becoming impaired. Assess some pitfalls that ethically come into practice i.e. burn-out can cause poor decision making. Why do you need to take care of yourself? Look over major points of the Code of Ethics that you may violate when you are not at your “professional best” and discuss action plans for safeguarding your practice from impaired judgment.
®® Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder
Kathy Lorino, LSCSW
Friday, July 31
$95 s 6 CEUs s
9 AM – 4 PM
Registration Due: July 24
By popular request, this class is offered to you by a social worker just back from Iraq where she was a clinical social worker with military personnel. This class is presented to help professionals deal with the aftermath of traumatic events. Learn about the diagnostic features and criteria for PTSD. Gain understanding of PTSD through the years-history (shell shock, battle fatigue traumatic war neurosis, accident neurosis, post-rape syndrome). Assess PTSD in the Media and resiliency. Specific information about returning veterans and the impact on community providers; what you need to know as a professional.
¿¿ Ethics Credit
®® Diagnosis Credit
