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Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of Children

ID: 5654WEB

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:	July 24, 2025 / July 25, 2025 / July 31, 2025 / August 1, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

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

ID: 5653WEB

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, PhD, DSW, LCSW
Date:	Friday, July 18, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Bullies to Buddies

ID: 4185WEB

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:	Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Time:	9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Creative Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety

ID: 5745WEB

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:	Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Dealing with Angry Students and Tantrums Effectively

ID: 5061WEB

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 Program]

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

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Instructor:	Brett Novick, MS, EdD, LMFT, CSSW
Date:	Thursday, June 26, 2025
Time:	9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Dealing with Challenges When Working with Parents and Families

ID: 5607WEB

Whether you're an educator, CST member, administrator or mental health professional you share one thing in common-dealing with difficult parents and families. All of us have experienced problematic, unproductive, and/or uncomfortable interactions with parents/families. Whether it be issues of defensiveness, "my child does no wrong," noncompliance, or just plain hostile parents, it can place an incredible hurdle and stress on your job duties. So what can you do? In this workshop learn effective, practical tools, geared to help productively tailor your interventions around the most common types of challenging parents/families. [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:	Monday, July 14, 2025
Time:	1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

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

ID: 5658WEB

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, PhD, DSW, LCSW
Date:	Friday, August 1, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

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

ID: 5732WEB

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:	Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Let's Talk about Opposition in Adolescence

ID: 5663WEB

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 Program]

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

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Instructor:	Tawanda Hubbard, PhD, DSW, LCSW
Date:	Friday, June 13, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

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

ID: 5137WEB

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

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Instructor:	Michelle Pigott, PsyD
Date:	Thursday, August 14, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Normality versus Pathology: An Exploration of Child Developmental Health

ID: 5650WEB

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, PhD, DSW, LCSW
Date:	Friday, May 23, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Parents as Healers: Recovering from the Trauma of Domestic Violence

ID: 1029WEB

This webinar will introduce an overall approach, Parents as Healers, which among other things gives the caregiver the knowledge and encouragement they need to be a dynamic partner with the therapist in the healing of their child’s trauma. Participants will learn how to create opportunities for parents and children to process traumatic experiences together using a variety of techniques including directive play therapy, verbal expression, creative arts, and more. Through experiential processing parents become more sensitized and responsive to their child. Participants will also be introduced to the importance of parent empowerment through effective discipline. Often after domestic violence, children can be irritable and oppositional. Some “step into” the role of the absent abuser and other times, the caregiver who had been victimized may not have developed the assertiveness skills needed to effectively manage his/her children. Guidelines for providing effective parent training for domestic violence survivors will be provided. [Elective for Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

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

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Instructor:	Anne Marie Ramos, LCSW, RPT-S
Date:	Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Time:	9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

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

ID: 1045WEB

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 Program]

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

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Instructor:	Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S
Date:	Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Reversing Parental Burnout

ID: 5140WEB

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. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

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

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Instructor:	Talia Starr Filippelli, LCSW, CHHC, CPT
Date:	Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Time:	9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Sand Tray Basics and Beyond

ID: 5343WEB

This webinar will teach participants the basics of sand tray work to support children, adolescents, families, and adults. Important concepts such as containment, externalization, & holding space will be explored. Participants will learn how to apply a variety of directives, as well as process sand trays with diverse client presentations & presenting problems. Specialized directives drawing from the field of EMDR, Polyvagal Theory, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs will also be taught. This webinar includes many opportunities for experiential learning. [Elective for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

Fee: $80.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 4.0 Clinical

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Instructor:	Crystal Zelman, LCSW, CCLS, RPT-S
Date:	Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Time:	9:30 am - 1:30 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Screening and Assessment of Trauma in Children and Adolescents

ID: 5803WEB

This webinar will explore Screening for Trauma and Assessment of Trauma in children and adolescents. We will review the use of both formal and informal tools as well as other clinical methodologies. There will be an opportunity to go into break out rooms and practice two standardized tools. We will also review a scenario in order to use the information gathered in screening and assessment to develop a clinical formulation and discuss indications for treatment. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention or Child/Adolescent Mental Health Certificate Program]

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

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Instructor:	Karen McGrellis, MPA, LPC, DAAETS, DRCC, ACS
Date:	Friday, July 11, 2025
Time:	10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar

Supporting Adults, Teens, and Children Coping with Loss

ID: 5294WEB

Adults, teens and children experience many different types of loss: death, divorce, abandonment, foster care, illness, incarceration and deportation leaving them at higher risk for mental and physical illness, substance abuse and aggressive behavior. Learning how to support people after a loss enables them to live emotionally healthy, meaningful and productive lives. This workshop provides an understanding of the impact of loss on children and youth and adults. Attendees will learn the definitions and interrelatedness of loss, grief, mourning and resilience. The dominant culture encourages winning and success, but doesn’t focus on learning how to lose. This essential life skill can be learned as social workers and other professionals provide support to those who are grieving. This webinar will explore the connection between grief and shame as well as differing cultural "grief beliefs" after a loss. While this webinar will focus primarily on how to help people cope with a loss due to death, these concepts are transferable to all types of loss. [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:	Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Time:	9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location:	Live Interactive Online Webinar