Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of Children

This four-part webinar seeks to enhance the clinician's ability to diagnose child mental disorders accurately and comprehensively. We will address two major topic areas: 1) the key factors in accurate assessment, including developmental perspectives, the use of multiple data sources and standardized assessment tools; and 2) major diagnostic categories, including disruptive behavior, reactive attachment disorder and early character dysfunction in children. The workshop will include didactic presentation and case-centered group exercises. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring sample vignettes that illustrate diagnostic difficulties and puzzles. It is suggested that participants bring a copy of the DSM-5, if possible. *This is a four-part webinar, attendees must attend all four sessions to receive a certificate of completion. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $240.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 12.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Susan Esquilin, PhD, ABPP-Clinical Date: October 17, 2024 / October 18, 2024 / October 24, 2024 / October 25, 2024 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Attachment Based Parenting Approaches in Adoption

In this interactive and clinical webinar, participants will explore how missing and disrupted attachments impact adopted children’s behaviors. Participants will identify symptoms of impaired attachment and discuss the emotional demands this has on adoptive parents and families. Through case examples and experiential activities, participants will learn strategies to assist parents to strengthen the parent-child relationship and implement parenting techniques that focus on attachment and building trust rather than ‘traditional’ parenting approaches. Mental health professionals will add to their clinical ‘tool box’ as they learn new techniques that will be effective for foster and adoptive families.[Required for Adoption Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Rebecca Gallese, LCSW Date: Friday, March 7, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Attachment Theory: A Helpful Framework for Understanding and Intervening with Placed At-Risk Children and Families

Formerly titled: Understanding and Intervening with At-Risk Children & Families. Secure attachment has been found to be associated with better social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of children. Maternal sensitivity is thought to be a major contributor to the development of a secure attachment. This webinar will provide participants with an introduction to attachment theory and its relevance to clinical practice with at risk children and their families. Important contributors to attachment theory, as well as their research will be reviewed, including John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, and Harry Harlow. More recent research on attachment and neurobiology, particularly by Alan Schore will be discussed. Participants will learn about the importance of sensitivity in fostering a healthy parent-child relationship, thereby laying the foundation for future mental health. Participants will learn to evaluate parent-child interactions within the context of sensitivity, and will learn strategies to improve parental sensitivity. Cultural issues and their impact on parenting and sensitivity, as well as implications for the therapist-client relationship will also be discussed. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, January 10, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Bullies to Buddies

Since the tragedy of Columbine, schools have desperately attempted to eliminate the problem of bullying through strategies of punishing bullies, reinforcing the standard that bullying is wrong and by identifying role models who stand up against bullying. Even with all these efforts the problem of bullying is increasing. Schools are reporting an even higher number of bullying cases in the aftermath of the pandemic. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. In this webinar you will learn social skills that professionals can teach students to use in response to aggression from others. You will also learn the psychological principles that make this method so effective. The Bullies to Buddies method, developed by psychologist Izzy Kalman, teaches a way to respond to a bully that immediately decreases the incidence of bullying and strengthens the victim's resilience because they have been empowered to solve the problem. You will also learn how ways to help the bully decrease aggression and increase productive social behavior. This method doesn't just change the lives of individual students; it has the potential to change the entire culture of a school and its community. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Connie Palmer, LCSW Date: Monday, October 28, 2024 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Creative Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety

This highly experiential webinar draws from the fields of cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga, mindfulness, and expressive arts. We will explore creative strategies and activities for psychoeducation and intervention with children and teenagers ages 6-17 who experience anxiety. We will review important information about children and adolescents with anxiety, including ways to incorporate parent support. Participants will learn child & adolescent friendly ways to provide therapeutic support to their clients, including: developing appropriate psychoeducation, strategies to foster a calmer nervous system, externalizing the problem, and building a repertoire of effective coping skills. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Dealing with Angry Students and Tantrums Effectively

It seems each year we are faced with more and more students who are getting angrier and angrier. Why are our students angry? How do we deal with students when they are annoyed, frustrated or otherwise irritated? What works and what does not? In this informative webinar, we will attempt to briefly look at the context that seems to foster these reactions in students. Then, and most importantly, we will look at practical and simple tools that can be used immediately to decrease the incidents of tantrums and angry behaviors within school, mental health, and home settings. The goal of this webinar will be to supplement your existing skills with new tools you can quickly implement when working with these students during their most challenging states [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Time: 1:30 p m - 4:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Embracing Differences and Diversity in the Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents

Former titled: Dealing with Differences and Diversity in the Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents. This webinar addresses ethnic and cultural differences relevant to the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. The webinar will use examples from Latino, African American, and African Caribbean families, but will stress the dimensions of cultural difference that clinicians should explore when working across any cultural or ethnic difference. Topics will include the evaluation and treatment implications of cultural and ethnic differences: 1) family composition and family structure; 2) child-rearing and schooling practices; 3) gender and generational role expectations; 4) definitions of mental health and illness; 5) definitions of help and help-seeking; 6) the common clashes between client expectations and the professional helpers; and 7) ways for clinicians to bridge the gaps in culture reducing the effectiveness of services. The webinar will combine didactic presentations and group exercises. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.0 Clinical, 2.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, February 7, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Ethical Issues in Schools

This webinar will examine current ethical issues facing school social workers, guidance counselors, and teachers. Topics will be inclusive the various ethical dilemmas that can face mental health professionals as they navigate the roles in both mental health and education. The workshop will also explore how helping professionals in schools can assist families access help for their children while maintaining ethical boundaries. Specific case examples will be discussed, including the rights of non-custodial parents and students who are 18 years old but still under parental care, FERPA versus HIPPA, and the ever-challenging “gray areas” that arise in ethics and public education.

*This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics for Licensed Professional Counselors. [Requirement for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Ethics

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Grieving Children and Teens: Creative Art Interventions for Individual, Group Work and Families

Common issues for grieving children will be explored, including factors affecting the grief response, how grief is expressed and understood at various developmental stages, needs of grieving children, and how the grief experience can vary across different religious and cultural backgrounds. A variety of creative & expressive art techniques appropriate for children ages 6-17 will be presented for social workers to utilize throughout the stages of bereavement. The techniques presented in this workshop can be utilized and adapted in clinical work with individual children/teenagers, groups, and families. Interventions include ideas and activities for psychoeducation, honoring & remembering loved ones, expressing feelings, coping, and building confidence. Participants will have the opportunity to explore many of the activities experientially. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Let's Talk about Opposition in Adolescence

Opposition in adolescence has become synonymous with oppositional defiant disorder. This view of opposition as a disorder is limiting and puts adults in conflict with youth. This webinar will focus on discussing the need to see opposition on a continuum. Participants will identify and discuss their personal constructs about oppositionality in adolescence. They will explore my construct of opposition as advocacy and power expression in adolescence which facilitates the youth's development of a healthy sense of self and purpose that will equip them to transition into a healthy, productive, and satisfying adulthood. Participants will discuss the importance of focusing on the caregiver-adolescent relationship and using relational interventions. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, November 15, 2024 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Limiting the Disruption: Parents with Personality Disorders

Formerly titled: Interventions for Parents with Personality Disorders. Recognize the personality disorder traits (features) for dependent, borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. Identify and understand impact of disordered parent/caretaker on child and family functioning. Understand strategies to engage and diffuse problematic character behaviors. This webinar will include didactic presentation and case centered group exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring relevant cases to discuss.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Janis Falvey, MS, LPC, DVS Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Navigating the Social Media Age: The Talk to Keep YOU Up to Date

Social Media is a BIG part of adolescents’ lives. This webinar program looks at the newest trends in social networking as well as the warning signs that providers, parents and caregivers should be informed of. In this program participants will be introduced to common social media sites; laws in accordance with social media usage ; strategies to restore life balance with youth ; signs and symptoms if your child/teen are being affected by social media and referral resources if additional support is needed. [Elective for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 General

Click Here to Enroll	Instructor: Michelle Pigott, PsyD Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details
Click Here to Enroll	Instructor: Michelle Pigott, PsyD Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Normality versus Pathology: An Exploration of Child Developmental Health

Former title: Normality or Pathology: An Exploration of Child Development and Mental Health Where does normality end and pathology begin? This question is especially pertinent for clinicians working with children whose developmental stage has a tremendous impact on their current level of functioning. This webinar will explore the interrelationship between children's developmental stages and interpersonal functioning with peers and within family relationships. Participants will move along developmental lines, from separation anxiety to separation and individuation, and explore what separates "normal" child developmental struggles from extremes in behavior indicative of a range of mental health issues. Participants will also explore age-appropriate treatment approaches. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Tawanda Hubbard, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, December 20, 2024 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Play-Based Engagement, Rapport Building, and Assessment Techniques for Children

This webinar will explore play & art-based activities and techniques for engagement, rapport building, and assessment with children ages 6-17. We will review the concepts of attunement, attachment, co-regulation and the importance of the therapeutic relationship. Participants will learn child & adolescent friendly ways to explore important content areas during the assessment phase of therapy. Participants will have the opportunity to explore many of these play & art-based assessment activities experientially. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Practical Parenting Toolbox

The purpose of this webinar is to teach professionals an overview of practical, "ready to use" skills and parenting techniques. The overarching goal of the webinar is to help professionals hone techniques that are necessary for the ever-changing and dynamic world that is the hallmark of modern parenting. The objectives include: developing an understanding of what a child is attempting to communicate, versus what they say, understanding the varied skills youth utilize to get what they want, and an exploration of one's idiosyncratic parenting/personality style(s). The webinar will also help the professional to gain a better understanding of punishment versus discipline and how to teach logical and natural consequences as a manner of parental philosophy. Finally, we will look at why behavioral contracts and reward systems succeed or fail and review relevant topic areas such as sibling rivalry and peer pressure. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Psychotherapeutic and Psychosocial Treatments for Child and Adolescent Disorders

This two-day webinar addresses current treatment models for child and adolescent disorders. Topics include: 1) similarities and differences across the major models of intervention, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and behavioral approaches; 2) the use and modification of standardized, evidence-based treatments (EBTs) to fit individual case presentations; and 3) specific interventions for the most common child and adolescent diagnoses, including disruptive behavior disorders (ADD, OD, CD), depression, anxiety disorders and PTSD, child and adolescent bipolar disorder, and emerging character dysfunction. The workshop will include didactic presentation and case-centered group exercises. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring sample case material that illustrates treatment difficulties or impasses. Attendees must attend both days to receive a certificate of completion. [Required for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $100.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Janis Falvey, MS, LPC, DVS Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 and Thursday, November 14, 2024 Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Reversing Parental Burnout

Current research shows that 66% of working parents are experiencing burnout leading to increased child maltreatment, parental conflict, suicidal ideation and substance abuse. Participants will learn how to assess, diagnose, and treat parental burnout using evidence-based tools that are applicable across diverse settings (private practice, outpatient clinics & hospitals) and modalities (individual & groups). Additionally, participants will explore a continuum-based resiliency model aimed at cultivating client strengths and improving emotional intelligence competencies that directly enhance their client’s ability to reduce stressors and enhance resources that specifically target parental burnout symptoms.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

Click Here to Enroll	Instructor: Talia Starr Filippelli, LCSW, CHHC, CPT Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details
Click Here to Enroll	Instructor: Talia Starr Filippelli, LCSW, CHHC, CPT Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Reversing Parental Burnout

Current research shows that 66% of working parents are experiencing burnout leading to increased child maltreatment, parental conflict, suicidal ideation and substance abuse. Participants will learn how to assess, diagnose, and treat parental burnout using evidence-based tools that are applicable across diverse settings (private practice, outpatient clinics & hospitals) and modalities (individual & groups). Additionally, participants will explore a continuum-based resiliency model aimed at cultivating client strengths and improving emotional intelligence competencies that directly enhance their client’s ability to reduce stressors and enhance resources that specifically target parental burnout symptoms.

Customized webinar for Catholic Charities Metuchen

Fee: No Fee
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Talia Starr Filippelli, LCSW, CHHC, CPT Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Suicide Prevention in School Settings: Identification and Intervention

This webinar is designed to help school social workers, school counselors, and teachers understand their role in identifying students at risk for suicide. In this webinar risk factors and indicators will be discussed and policies and procedures for addressing this issue will be explored. Resources for screening and means to make appropriate referrals will be described as well.

*This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics for Professional Licensed Counselors. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025 Time: 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

What's the Difference? Differential Diagnoses in Adolescents

Formerly titled: Principles of Differential Diagnoses in Adolescents. This two-day webinar will distinguish the major diagnostic categories that affect adolescents and learn how to more accurately diagnose teens. It will examine sources of diagnostic confusion when evaluating and assessing adolescent mental health. The webinar will include didactic presentation and case-centered group exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring relevant cases to discuss. Participants must attend both days to receive a certificate of completion. [Required Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $100.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.0 Clinical

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Instructor: Janis Falvey, MS, LPC, DVS Date: Thursday, January 9, 2025 and Thursday, January 16, 2025 Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details