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NEW Half-day Training Session
September 23, 2019 | 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Facilitators: Marshall Korenblum, M.D., FRCP©, Dip. Child Psychiatry and Bethany Good, MSW, RSW, PhD Candidate
This training is suitable for: Educators, ECE, nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors,
psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers and child and youth care workers.
Location: The Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning at 686 Bay Street, 3rd floor, Room 03.9320, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4. |
Today’s young people grow up on-line. How does near constant use of social media effect relationships, learning and mental health? This training will examine the pros and cons of information technology for both therapists and clients. Clinicians and educators must understand the impact and concept of digital media if they are to keep young people safe and support their growth to adulthood.
Topics covered will include:
• Media/digital literacy.
• Strategies and tools to help mediate and monitor tech use.
• Harm reduction vs. abstinence when containing social media use.
• The good: connecting, resources, peer supports.
• The bad: cyber bullying, pornography, on-line luring, poison envy.
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Children at the Bedside: Preparing children for the death of someone close to them
September 24, 2019
Facilitator: Andrea Warnick, RN., MA.
This training is suitable for: Front-line workers, volunteers, medical professionals, clergy, social workers, administrators, residential workers, counsellors, funeral service providers, and hospice volunteers. |
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This workshop will provide real-life and real death narratives to identify practical strategies that can be used to support children and youth who are experiencing the impending death of someone in their lives. Societal discomfort, myths and misconceptions surrounding the topic of children and death will be addressed through open discussion. Participants will gain practical strategies and creative approaches for preparing children for a death of someone close to them. This is Learning Module 1 of the 2019 Certificate Program in Children's Grief and Bereavement. This module may be taken separately from the certificate program as a stand-alone workshop.
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Supporting Our Most Challenging Children: Practical techniques to address oppositionality, rigidity and other challenging behaviours in therapeutic settings
October 18, 2019
Facilitator: Katy Albert, M.Ed., OCT, BCBA
This training is suitable for: Psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers, direct service workers, drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers. |
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This workshop will explore techniques to support children who are rigid, oppositional and/or engage in other challenging behaviours that act as barriers to success in treatment and in daily life. Participants will be given the foundation to apply behavioural principals and practical strategies to approach non-compliance, tantrums and aggression, to maximize parent involvement and facilitate intrinsic motivation. Strategies to engage and accommodate children with learning differences such as ADHD, LD and ASD will also be addressed.
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Helping Families Heal: Addressing and treating trauma in children, youth and families
October 21, 2019
Facilitator: Janine Lawford, MSW., RSW.
This training is suitable for: Child and youth workers, nurses, early childhood educators, child protection workers and other social service counsellors who provide counselling and support to children and adolescents in community-based settings. |
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Explore the background of how trauma impacts children and families and how best to work with these clients to identify myriad traumatic responses and encourage healing in the family system. By the end of this workshop participants will be able to recognize the effects of trauma in children and adolescents, understand the many manifestations of complex developmental trauma and how to incorporate this understanding into their work. Ms. Lawford will provide strategies to assist in the stabilization and support of youth with traumatic histories as well as steps in how to use relationship.
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When Death Darkens the Door: Supporting bereaved children and youth
October 22, 2019
Facilitator: Andrea Warnick, RN., MA.
This training is suitable for: Front-line workers and volunteers, mental health professionals, medical professionals, educators, clergy, social workers, administrators, residential workers, counsellors, funeral service providers and hospice volunteers. |
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This workshop will focus on supporting children and youth after a death has happened in their lives, regardless of whether the death was a recent event or occurred years ago. Participants will learn how to identify grief support strategies that can be used with children and youth in a wide variety of settings. Participants will leave with innovative and practical tips for helping children and youth understand the concept of death, and for supporting their grief process. The role of cultural humility in grief work and what not to say to a bereaved child or youth will be covered. This is Learning Module 2 of the 2019 Certificate Program in Children's Grief and Bereavement. This module may be taken separately from the certificate program as a stand-alone workshop.
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Assessment and Intervention: Use of the Lausanne Trilogue Play Paradigm in clinical contexts
October 29 and 30, 2019
Facilitators: Diane A. Philipp, MD., FRCP. (C); Harve Tissot, PhD.
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers, medical professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors and researchers |
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Assessment and intervention with the family system has now become essential in work with infants and preschoolers. In this two-day workshop leading experts, Diane Philipp and Hervé Tissot detail a cutting-edge approach using the Lausanne Trilogue Play paradigm (LTP). The LTP is a rapid, user-friendly play-based tool to evaluate coparenting and the family alliance from as early as infancy and the preschool years, with adaptions to include older children and adolescents. LTP assessment can help with service planning in a variety of settings. Video excerpts of the family play can then be used to provide parents with a very brief, manualized video feedback intervention.
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Brief Narrative Single Session Therapy
November 8, 2019
Facilitator: Scot Cooper, RP.
This training is suitable for: All service providers, both beginner and experienced, working with all ages in time constrained contexts. |
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This workshop will demonstrate how the application of brief narrative is grounded in practical skills that can be utilized in practice immediately. Learn to recognize a structure for brief narrative therapy sessions that brings focus, guidance and directs attention to necessary micro-skills, then how to implement co-development practices with clients for "take-homes, and next steps".
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Incorporating Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Informed Practice Working with Children, Adolescents and their Families
November 27, 2019
Facilitator: Elizabeth Lovrics, MSW, RSW
This training is suitable for: All mental health professionals, medical professionals, social workers, educators, early childhood educators, child and youth workers. |
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This interactive workshop will provide participants with an overview of the theories and factors that influence children/adolescent behaviours. DBT principles, assumptions and key components such as distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulations skills will be introduced through experiential means. Participants will gain effective strategies to guide parents to manage problematic behaviours and improve communication. During the workshop, there will be demonstrations of group formats, skills exercises, videos, role-playing, mindfulness activities and behavioural chain analysis used with parents and their youth.
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When Grief Gets More Complicated: Supporting harder-to-serve populations
November 28, 2019
Facilitators: Andrea Warnick, RN., MA., Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S., and Esther Rhee, MSW.
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. |
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This workshop will focus on how to support some of the harder-to-serve populations of grieving children and youth including youth those with learning disabilities, those with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well as those who have experienced a death through suicide. The concept of “Complicated Grief” will be touched on, and ways of identifying when a child may be experiencing Childhood Traumatic Grief (CTG) will be highlighted. This is Learning Module 3 of the 2019 Certificate Program in Children's Grief and Bereavement. This module may be taken separately from the certificate program as a stand-alone workshop.
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Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Racialized Young People
December 2, 2019
Facilitator: Amy Gajaria, MD., FRCPC.
This training is suitable for: Those providing mental health care to children, youth, and families. This training will be most useful to those who already have some understanding of common mental health conditions affecting young people and who are looking to ensure their clinical work meets the needs of a diverse population. |
This training will give guidance to professionals in providing culturally competent clinical care for underserved, diverse, racialized young people and their families. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the barriers and specific struggles facing racialized young people/families and walk away with engagement strategies specific to racialized young people/families when providing mental health care.
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Collaborative and Proactive Solutions at School: Moving from power and control to collaboration and problem solving
December 5 and 6, 2019
Facilitator: Ross W. Greene, PhD.
This training is suitable for: Educators, social workers and child & youth workers in a school setting |
Dr. Ross W. Greene is the author of the influential books: The Explosive Child and Lost at School
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, residential and juvenile detention facilities throughout the world. Participants in this two-day training will leave with an understanding of the underpinnings of the six key themes of the CPS, its refinements over the past 8-10 years, along with practical identification, assessment and intervention tools that can be brought back to and used in diverse settings.
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Anxiety and the Gift of the Imagination: A clinical model for helping children understand and manage anxiety
December 13, 2019
Facilitator: Robin Alter, PhD., C.Psych.
This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals (counsellors, social workers, therapists, psychotherapists, psychologists), currently working with and/or interested in working with children and anxiety management. |
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Looking for a new way to help children understand and manage their anxiety? This workshop will teach a successful therapeutic formulation of anxiety along with a clinical model for working with children and anxiety management. 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. 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.
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Using Mindfulness and Compassion to Support Grieving Children and Families
January 14, 2020
Facilitators: Andrea Warnick, RN., MA., and Rev. Andrew Blake.
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. |
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This workshop will explore the concept that when awareness is balanced between self and other, compassion has a dual pathway, where our care extends both to ourselves and to those in our care. In addition to the use of compassion in clinical work, mindfulness practices that can be used with children, adolescents, and families will be explored, along with the clinician's own mindful practice. Participants will gain essential skills and strategies to develop mindfulness practices that can be incorporated into clinical work with those who are grieving a death.This is Learning Module 4 of the 2019 Certificate Program in Children's Grief and Bereavement. This module may be taken separately from the certificate program as a stand-alone workshop.
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Dancing in the Darkness: Creative approaches to working with grieving children and youth
February 11, 2020
Facilitators: Andrea Warnick, RN., MA., and Lysa Toye, MSW., RSW.
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. Any professional who is in a position to support/influence a grieving child or youth. |
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The emphasis in this workshop will be on supporting participants who already have a theoretical foundation in children's grief and bereavement to build their toolkit and confidence in creatively engaging with children and youth who are grieving a death. Many easy to use (and modify) creative techniques in working with grieving children and youth will be shared, and participants will have the opportunity to engage in safe, experiential activities to better understand the process of using creative approaches. This is Learning Module 5 of the 2019 Certificate Program in Children's Grief and Bereavement. This module may be taken separately from the certificate program as a stand-alone workshop.
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Working with Violent, Suicidal and Self-destructive Adolescents: A collaborative strengths-based approach
March 9 and 10, 2020
Facilitator: Matthew D. Selekman, MSW., LCSW., CRADC
This training is suitable for: Social workers and educators. |
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This “hands-on,” practice-oriented workshop will present a collaborative strengths-based family therapy approach that combines the best elements of empirically supported individual and family therapy models with clinical evidence-based practice wisdom about what works with adolescents presenting with severe behavioral and emotional difficulties. Effective tools and strategies to identify pathways to high-risk adolescent problem-determined systems while building therapeutic alliances with challenging adolescents and family members will be provided. Participants will learn to identify, recruit, and use solution-determined collaborative teams to co-construct high quality solutions, and to carefully tailor-fit therapeutic interventions with the unique needs, preferences, and goals of each family member. The workshop format will combine information-rich didactic presentation, extensive use of videotape examples, and skill-building exercises.
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