Bringing the Caregiver into the Healing Process Through Play and Home-Based Strategies

April 16, 2018 9am to 4pm
Pryzbyla 351
6 continuing education credit hours
Anne Marie Ramos

Registration

Regular Registration: $120.00
Current NCSSS Registration: $100.00
NCSSS Student: $40.00
Lunch Included: No

Anne Marie Ramos

Anne Marie M Ramos, LCSW, RPT-S, has worked in New York and New Jersey for over 34 years as a clinical social worker and a clinical supervisor for families and children.  She has an extensive background in play therapy and is a Registered Play Therapist – Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy.  Through her outpatient work in mental health and other community settings as well as exploring current research, Ramos found that incorporating caregivers in a dynamic way in treatment sessions improved client outcomes and satisfaction and reduced premature client termination. She has presented on this topic and on other topics related to families and children in hospital, school, agency, and university settings. Ramos’ new book on the workshop title is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon.com and Kindle in August 2017.

Description

There is increasing evidence to support the claim that therapy which either includes parent and child together or puts the parent in a pivotal role is more effective than therapy where the child is treated individually.  Mega studies regarding Filial therapy and the effectiveness of family based treatments, as well as extensive research regarding the importance of bonding and relationship in childhood trauma and the efficacy of parent training for disruptive behavior disorders are just a few of the indicators that point to the importance of the role of the caregiver in treatment sessions.  Yet, research also indicates that in practice, parents and children or adolescents are frequently divided or the role of the caregiver is marginalized.  This workshop will teach participants how to make parents a dynamic part of the treatment planning and intervention.  It will also demonstrate how to incorporate parents and children together in strategies using CBT, DBT, directive play, psychoeducation, and creative arts to address a wide range of mental health issues including oppositional defiant disorder, anxiety, trauma, mood dysregulation, anger management, attachment, and other challenges.  The participants will learn to enable the caregiver to be the primary “healer” in the session by encouraging the parent to be active within the session, making their concerns and observations a priority, and having them continue the healing with home based strategies

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Agenda

 

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Identify at least two important principles when beginning a “Parents as Healers” (PAH) approach;
• Demonstrate at least one CBT play based intervention for anxiety with parent and child;
• Name two of the primary and most effective principles of parent training to reduce oppositional defiant behavior according to the research;
• Use a feelings thermometer to conduct a family trauma processing session;
• Design a playful multi-sensory psychoeducation session with parent(s) and child;
• Structure a role-play when doing parent training for the ODD child.
• Explain at least one of the common reasons goals are not met which may result in collaborating with the family to rethink goals and interventions

Continuing Education Credit Hours

This organization (NCSSS, ACE#1424) is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Board (ASWB) www.aswb.org through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Program. The (NCSSS) maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval period: (2.2.17 to 2.2.20). Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. Social workers participating in this course will receive (6.0) Continuing Education clock hours. All participants will receive Continuing Education Credit Hours Certificates in hand following completion of the workshop and the course evaluation. Participants must attend the complete workshop in person.