Showing events on March 10, 2018
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Family Psychoeducation Intervention in Work with Adults, Adolescents, Children and Their Families/Extended Support Networks
March 10, 2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
This course will focus on developing the group work skills necessary to implement evidence-based family psychoeducation interventions in work with adults, adolescents, children and their families. Special emphasis will be given to the family psychoeducation approach using multiple family groups in the treatment of severe psychiatric disorders. This course will examine the theoretical and empirical foundations for family psychoeducation, as well as, the practice of multifamily group treatment in schizophrenia, bi-polar illness, major depressive disorder, borderline personality disorder and with children and adolescents with serious mental illnesses.
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ACT Raising Safe Kids Program Training
March 10, 2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
The ACT Raising Safe Kids Program 2-day Facilitator Training is the introductory training to prepare child and family professionals to conduct the 9-week parenting training program, ACT Raising Safe Kids, developed and coordinated by the APA Violence Prevention Office. The program is designed to have trained and certified professionals (ACT Facilitators) prepared to disseminate the program research-based curriculum and teach positive parenting skills and practices that create safe, nurturing, stable environments that prevent child maltreatment and its long term health, cognitive and behavioral consequences for children. The curriculum is based on knowledge about child development, the importance of relationships because abuse and violence happen in the context of relationships and the effectiveness of positive parenting skills and practices to prevent abuse. ...
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.