Gain a foundational overview of terminology used within the transgender community and stages of gender identity development, and learn how to create an inclusive and supportive environment. Various clinical considerations, issues, and treatment recommendations will be explored. We will also examine systemic life stressors impacting the transgender community and how to provide collaborative care and support. You will:
    • Describe current terminology and clinical frameworks to support the transgender community
    • Assess how to create inclusive and supportive care systems across disciplines
    • Evaluate the unique clinical needs of the transgender community that may inform your choice of treatment interventions

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Prerequisites: Course provides 3 contact hours for NYS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Course provides 3 hours of continuing education credits for NYS Licensed Clinical and Master Social Workers.

If you are a mental health professional who works with children, you can significantly benefit from training in play therapy! The most basic skills in play therapy can improve rapport and subsequently relationships with children (professional AND personal). In this workshop, you will learn basic play therapy skills to engage children in play therapy. Developmental and cultural issues relevant with this population will be addressed and many practical and dynamic interventions will be demonstrated. You will:
    • Identify three ways to use play therapy with children
    • Experience and replicate play therapy techniques suitable for children
    • Use beginning play therapy skills to address the developmental and emotional needs of children

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Prerequisites: Course provides 6 contact hours for NYS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Course provides 6 hours of continuing education credits for NYS Licensed Clinical and Master Social Workers.

Suicide rates among the adolescent population are at an alarming level. Significant stress factors, limited supports and resources, and ineffective coping strategies intensify feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. You will learn about prevention strategies, assessment tools, intervention techniques, and crisis response. You will:
    • Identify suicide prevention strategies
    • Learn risk-assessment tools
    • Develop your knowledge of intervention techniques
    • Understand crisis response roles and responsibilities, and post-vention

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Prerequisites: Course provides 6 contact hours for NYS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Course provides 6 hours of continuing education credits for NYS Licensed Clinical and Master Social Workers.

An increased use of technology in social work practice has led to some new emerging ethical challenges. Through critical thinking exercises, review of case studies/ethical dilemmas, and self-reflection activities, you will develop a deeper understanding of ethics in social work practice, and challenges and ethical guidelines for the use of technology. You will:
    • Identify key terms associated with professional ethics, NASW core values, technology standards, and ethical decision making
    • Increase your self-awareness by examining the relationship between personal/professional values, ethical use of technology, and professional role expectations
    • Identify the key ethical decision-making models, and discuss how these might be used in professional practice
    • Consider the existing socio-political context, and identify some of the predominant challenges that currently require attention in professional practice
    • Think about issues of diversity, social justice, and human rights in the context of ethical use of technology in practice

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Prerequisites: Course provides 6 contact hours for NYS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Course provides 6 hours of continuing education credits for NYS Licensed Clinical and Master Social Workers.

Boundary violations have the power to negatively impact therapeutic relationships, and can lead to ethical violations and possible professional ramifications for counselors. This training will help you understand the ethical responsibilities of your professional role in relation to boundaries with clients. We will explore and consider various professional codes of conduct and give you the tools you need to better define your own professional boundaries. We will focus on identifying and understanding areas of strength and weakness to better protect clients and improve the helping profession. You will:
    • Describe the ethical responsibilities of counselors regarding appropriate professional boundaries with clients
    • Identify profession specific guidance around appropriate boundaries, boundary crossing, dual-relationships, and boundary violations
    • Develop a plan for setting healthy and appropriate boundaries in the professional setting

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Prerequisites: Course provides 3 contact hours for NYS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Course provides 3 hours of continuing education credits for NYS Licensed Clinical and Master Social Workers.

A solution-focused approach creates a collaborative and empowering process to foster change, both within ourselves and with others. Join us for this two-part series that invites new and seasoned professionals to review and reflect on core assumptions about the change process, with an emphasis on how we use language to create solution building interactions. We will look at how solution-Focused interactions promote trauma-informed principles, with a focus on an asset based vs. a deficit-based perspective. Breaking this training into two sessions creates the opportunity to reflect on and practice the lessons learned in the first session, and to discuss and expand your skills in the second. You will:
    • Describe the attributes of a solution-focused change process
    • Explain how language can be used to promote change
    • Apply solution-focused skills to multiple domains of practice
    • Relate the solution-focused approach to the principle of trauma-informed care
    • Practice promoting possibility

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Prerequisites: Course provides 4 contact hours for NYS Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Course provides 4 hours of continuing education credits for NYS Licensed Clinical and Master Social Workers.

New York State law mandates many licensed professionals, teachers, and school administrators to complete a two-hour course regarding identifying and reporting child abuse and maltreatment. This course fills that requirement and gives you valuable information to help you support students. You will learn:
    • How to identify and report child abuse/maltreatment
    • The statutory reporting requirements

Additional Info:

Prerequisites: Where a license number is requested, please enter the last 5-digits of your Social Security number. It is required for us to upload proof of attendance to your TEACH account.

This training introduces research-based strategies and experience for preventing and dealing with the effects of school violence at all grade levels.

Additional Info:

Prerequisites: Where a license number is requested, please enter the last 5-digits of your Social Security number. It is required for us to upload proof of attendance to your TEACH account.

You will review the D.A.S.A. act, discuss the causes and effects of bullying on students and schools, and present ways to work with bullies and victims. Several models will be used to explain the needs of children who are bullied and what happens when these needs are not met. You will be challenged to look at your own background and assumptions about bullying and come up with strategies to prevent bullying in your classrooms, schools, and teams. Harassment, discrimination, and cyberbullying will also be highlighted.

Additional Info:

Prerequisites: Where a license number is requested, please enter the last 5-digits of your Social Security number. It is required for us to upload proof of attendance to your TEACH account.