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Trauma & Attachment: Effective Treatment Strategies for Helping Challenging Clients


Speaker:
Dr. Kathy Seifert, PhD
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC053265
Brochure Code:
PLW59662
Media Type:
Live Webcast

Dates


Description

  • Facilitate positive change with challenging clients with trauma and/or attachment wounds
  • See work put into practice and clients’ lives transformed through case studies and demonstrations
  • Walk away with strategies to use immediately with your traumatized clients!

Join Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D., in this cutting-edge seminar as she teaches you concepts and skills necessary to facilitate positive change with challenging clients with trauma and/or attachment wounds. You will learn effective assessment and therapeutic techniques for children, adults and couples, based on the latest research in neurobiology, trauma and attachment therapy, and resilience.

Demonstrations, case studies and role plays will illustrate how various interventions promote change and healing with the following issues:

  • Beliefs and attitudes
  • Attachment security in children and adults
  • Traumatic emotions, behaviors, mindsets, and brain/biochemistry
  • Self-regulation
  • Communication and resilience
  • Family dynamics
  • Controlling, defiant and resistant clients.

Through case studies, presentation and discussion, you will leave this seminar with practical and effective techniques you can use to help clients achieve symptom reduction, fulfilling lives and meaningful relationships.

 

Credit


* Credit Note - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

CE Information is based on 100% attendance.

 


Counselors - Counselors

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Counselors - Texas Counselors

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Counselors - New York Counselors

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0033. This activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance


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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.25 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the State of Minnesota, Board of Social Work. Provider #: CEP-140. This course has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours. This certificate has been issued upon successful completion of a post-test.


Social Workers - New York Social Workers

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - New York Marriage & Family Therapists

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Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # FBN2858. This course qualifies for 6.0 contact hours. 

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Iowa Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 6.0 contact hours. Full attendance in the activity is required; no partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. These contact hours are used for your license renewal. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the webcast title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid for the webcast.


Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education credit.


Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

This intermediate activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


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Speaker

Dr. Kathy Seifert, PhD's Profile

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Kathryn Seifert, PhD, is a psychologist in Maryland and one of the leading experts in the fields of multi-victim violence, bullying, trauma and mental health related violence in the United States. Dr. Seifert specializes in the assessment and treatment of individuals who are at risk for violence and those who are emotionally disturbed, behaviorally disordered, victimized, delinquent, and/or suffering from attachment disorders.

Dr. Seifert has appeared on CNN, Discover ID, and Fox News and consults with numerous public agencies. She testifies in courts as an expert on the maltreatment of children and has a blog, Stop the Cycle, on Psychologytoday.com with over a half million readers.

Dr. Seifert has written two books, How Children Become Violent (Acanthus, 2006) and Youth Violence: Theory, Prevention, and Intervention (Springer, 2015). In these two books, she wrote about the groundbreaking research such as the ACE’s research out of the CDC, connecting child maltreatment, delays in the development of coping skills, and youthful violent behaviors. Dr. Seifert also developed the CARE-2, Child and Adolescent Risk/Needs Evaluation.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Kathryn Seifert is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eastern Shore Psychological Services; and CARE-2, LLC. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Seifert receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Kathryn Seifert has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Outline

  • Part I: Assessment
    • Symptoms of trauma
    • Symptoms of attachment disorder
    • Traumatized brain and biochemistry
    • Core beliefs and expectations attachment styles
    • Life script: Psychosocial history and relationship patterns
  • Part II: Treatment Interventions Structure
    • Synergistic Trauma and Attachment Therapy (STAT™) Model
    • 3-step treatment process
    • Integrative approach: mind-body-spirit
  • Experiential and Skill-Based Interventions
    • Facilitate emotional and neurobiological connections
    • Foster trust and secure attachments
    • Heal interpersonal trauma to self-acceptance
    • Confront traumatic events: move from victim to survivor
    • Change negative beliefs and narratives
    • Resolve anger, fear, shame and loss
    • Exposure Therapy to alleviate trauma and PTSD symptoms
    • Forgiveness to let go and move on
  • Posttraumatic Growth: Recovery and Resilience
    • Positive psychology
    • Instill optimism and hope
    • Gratitude and positive emotions
    • A sense of meaning and purpose
    • Use signature strengths
    • Enhance relationships and social support
    • Self-esteem and self-efficacy
    • Volunteering and giving
  • Improve Relationships
    • Strengthen the hardwired need for a safe emotional bond
    • The language of attachment
    • Change attachment patterns: withdraw-cling, blame-distance, criticize-defend
    • Attachment Communication Training:
      • Constructive communication, problem-solving and conflict-management skills
    • Sensory Processing and fulfillment of attachment needs
  • Therapeutic Goals
    • Develop positive core beliefs
    • Resolve loss and grief
    • Promote safe and secure attachments
    • Alleviate anxiety, depression, shame, and “victim mindset”
    • Reduce biochemistry of trauma
    • Stress management skills
    • Constructive parenting skills
    • Supportive and fulfilling family relationships
    • Mitigate defensiveness, enhance motivation and cooperation

Objectives

  1. Determine the psychological, social, cognitive, and biological aspects of trauma and attachment disorder.
  2. Develop effective individual and relationship-based assessment tools and methods.
  3. Provide skill-based and experiential techniques to improve emotional dysregulation, core beliefs, brain wiring and biochemistry, PTSD symptoms and relationship patterns.
  4. Incorporate the Attachment Communication Training to foster effective communication, conflict-management and secure attachment.
  5. Explore how traumatized and resistant individuals can achieve positive personal and relationship goals, including posttraumatic growth.
  6. Create secure and fulfilling relationships by facilitating limbic resonance and attachment security.

Target Audience

Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals

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