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Treating the Traumatized Child and Family: 7 Essential Assessment and Treatment Techniques


Speaker:
Scott Sells, PhD, MSW, LCSW, LMFT
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC055295
Brochure Code:
PLW74638
Media Type:
Live Webcast

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Description

Young clients are often referred to therapy because of an overt behavior problem – acting out, shutting down, skipping school, self-harm, aggression, running away – not the underlying trauma and unhealthy family dynamics that are the real cause of the problem. And while you can make some progress individually, lasting change is unlikely when the child returns to the same unhealthy dynamic at home.

Trauma affects the entire family – shouldn’t treatment do the same?

Watch Dr. Scott Sells, founder of the Family System Trauma (FST) Model and creator of Parenting with Love and Limits®, to learn 7 must-have, evidence-based techniques for assessing and treating the traumatized child in a whole new way.

Under Dr. Sells’ expert guidance, you’ll discover how you can:

  • Engage and motivate even the most resistant parents and families
  • Keep session work focused, strategic, and solution-oriented
  • Empower caregivers to improve boundaries, attachment, discipline and communication
  • Overcome the most common treatment roadblocks that frustrate you and your client
  • Utilize easy to follow handouts and resources to help facilitate change

If you’re treating young people, you need these techniques in your clinical toolbox!

Sign up today!

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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). 

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Social Workers - California Social Workers

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Social Workers - Ohio Social Workers

PESI, Inc. 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. 


Social Workers - Pennsylvania Social Workers

The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts many national association CE approvals, several of which PESI offers. For a full list, please see your State Board regulations at https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions. This intermediate level activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction.


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Psychologists - Canadian Psychologists

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Psychologists - Kentucky Psychologists

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Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

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Psychologists - Illinois Psychologists

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Psychologists - Illinois Psychologists

 

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. License #: 268.000102. Full attendance at this self-study course qualifies for 6.25 contact hours.


Psychologists - Ohio Psychologists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider # 503. This course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Florida Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number 50-399. This course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. Provider #:168-000156. Full attendance at this activity qualifies for 6.0 credits. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - New York Marriage & Family Therapists

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 Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This activity will qualify for 7.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance


Marriage & Family Therapists - Ohio Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. 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. 


Marriage & Family Therapists - Pennsylvania Marriage & Family Therapists

The Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors accepts many national association CE approvals, several of which PESI offers. For a full list, please see your State Board regulations at https://www.dos.pa.gov/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardsCommissions/. This intermediate level activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction.


Marriage & Family Therapists - South Carolina Marriage & Family Therapists

This program has been approved for 6.0 continuing education hours by the South Carolina Board of Examiners for Licensure of Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psycho-Educational Specialists. Provider #4540.


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South Carolina Psycho-Educational Specialists

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Speaker

Scott Sells, PhD, MSW, LCSW, LMFT's Profile

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Savannah Family Institute


Scott P. Sells, Ph.D., MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is former tenured professor of social work, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA and Associate Professor at UNLV in Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Sells is the author of three best-selling books, Treating the Tough Adolescent: A Family-Based, Step-by-Step Guide (1998), Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (2001), and Treating the Traumatized Child: A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach (Springer, 2017). He has over 20 publications in such periodicals as Psychotherapy Networker, Contemporary Corrections, Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, Professional Issues in Criminal Justice, Family Process, and Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, plus book chapters in the Handbook of Family Therapy Research Methods (1996) and Social Worker’s Desk Reference, 2/E (2008).

Dr. Sells has extensive experience as a keynote speaker for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, the National Association of Social Workers, the Southeastern Psychological Association, and others. He was invited to be one of six expert presenters at the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy’s prestigious Summer Institutes as well as the world-renowned Cape Cod Institute. Dr. Sells is currently the founder and model developer of an evidence-based model as the FST | Family Systems Trauma Model that is being used by both juvenile justice and child welfare in over 14 states and in Europe.

 

Speaker Disclosure:

Financial: Scott Sells is the owner of Savannah Family Institute, Inc. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Scott Sells has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
 


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. 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. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.


Objectives

  1. Differentiate between event-based and interactional trauma as it relates to assessment and treatment planning with the family.
  2. Utilize therapeutic tools, scripts, and handouts to conduct family therapy with traumatized children more effectively.
  3. Identify “undercurrents”, or hidden causes of trauma, that are contributing to symptomology within the family to increase the effectiveness of treatment.
  4. Create clinical treatment plans that are designed to address the specific needs of each client/family.
  5. Utilize various scaling techniques to evaluate progress in treatment and identify potential risks for relapse.
  6. Ascertain when it is appropriate to begin active treatment as opposed to stabilization of symptoms to ensure the safety of the child and family members.

Outline

7 Essential Assessment & Treatment Techniques

#1 – Psychoeducation: Trauma, Behavior, and How the FST Model Can Help

  • Why the Family System Trauma (FST) Model works
  • The long-term impact of out of control behavior and an upside-down hierarchy
  • What is event-based v. interactional trauma?
  • Setting expectations for treatment
  • Video case example: ”The police officer who apologies to his family”
#2 – Undercurrents: Help Families Identify the Core Drivers of Unhealed Trauma
  • Recognize unhealthy interactional patterns that cause or maintain the trauma
  • Root work vs. Weed work: Where you will spend your session time?
  • How to inject healthy undercurrents into the family
  • Video case example: An out of control mother: villain, victim or hero?
#3 – The 15 Minute Motivational Phone Call: Engage the Family Before Treatment Begins
  • 7 questions to quickly motivate and build rapport
  • The importance of understanding before persuading
  • Avoid the call becoming a therapy session: the “stick and move” technique
  • Closing arguments – the most important piece of the call
  • Video case example: “Just fix my kid”
#4 – The Stress Chart and Seed/Tree Diagram: Assess and Diagnose Quickly and Accurately
  • Using scaling from 0% (no stress) to 100% (total stress) to quickly get to the problem
  • Identify four toxic “seeds” that maintain the child’s problem behavior or symptoms
  • Assess for the child’s safety stressors (self-harm, suicide, bullying, aggression)
  • Identification of seeds and symptoms by child, family and FST therapist
  • When to stabilize and when to start active trauma treatment
  • Video case example: ”Knowing where to tap” to locate the core trauma drivers
#5 – The Ethnographic Interview: Using Client Feedback to Improve Outcomes
  • 5 key questions for the end of each session (and why)
  • Why real-time client feedback will improve outcomes
  • How to elicit honest responses from clients and families
  • Deliver vs. content: It’s not what you say but how you say it
  • Video case example: ”We finally feel a part of the treatment”
#6 – Trauma Playbooks: Step-by-Step Strategies that Convert Treatment Concepts to Action
  • How to create a customized trauma playbook that:
    • Activates the client and family to execute their part of the plan
    • Heals the stronghold of shame, blame, performance and approval
    • Uses the child’s love language and is easily understood by everyone
  • How to adjust playbooks as treatment progresses
  • Troubleshooting, dress rehearsals, and next steps
  • Video case example: The self-harming teen overcomes the stronghold of shame
#7 – Evaluate Progress and Relapse Prevention
  • Mini-scales technique: Reveal progress made on problematic undercurrents
  • Map out next steps of treatment and beyond
  • Identify red flags to prevent potential relapse
  • Video case example: See the mini-scales and decision tree techniques in action
Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Mental Health Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Other Mental Health Professionals Who Work with Kids

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"Thoroughly enjoyed the training and learned a lot."

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