Recognizing & Responding to Intimate Partner Violence

A Live, Interactive Webconference
Wednesday, October 6, 2021, Catholic Charities via Live Interactive Zoom
9:00am-4:00pm

The US is currently experiencing simultaneous public health issues. The COVID crisis is obvious but the other crisis, trauma created and maintained by patterns of violence, is often less visible and gets too little attention. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is of pandemic proportions. IPV creates adverse childhood experiences as well as significant life adversity for adults, both of which are social determinants of health linked to chronic disease, poor health outcomes, and premature death. Utilizing a trauma focused lens, this training explores contributing factors of IPV, including what many families describe as generational curses related to IPV. This training highlights the contexts that maintain and perpetuate these “curses” involving the intergenerational transmission of this form of violence. Videos and case scenarios are utilized to help identify different types of IPV, the structural and systemic issues that intersect with IPV, and the indicators for predicting lethality.

As a result of participating in this training, attendees will be able to:

Explain the link between IPV, adverse childhood experiences, and the long-term adverse effects on adult physical, emotional, and relational health.
Describe the Cycle of Violence
Describe the role of intersectionality and systemic structural issues that contribute to re-traumatization of individuals and families seeking services and support
Explain the role of stigma and the concept of generational curses in the intergenerational transmission of IPV
Identify types and lethality indicators for IPV

Agenda
9:00am-12:00pm: Objectives 1-3
12:00-1:00pm: Break
1:30-4:00pm: Objectives 4-5

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

About The Trainer

Lisa Christian is an experienced Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Temple University. She completed a post graduate training program in Marriage and Family Therapy at the Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center (PCFTTC) where she is a faculty member. She is employed full time at the Anti Violence Partnership of Philadelphia (AVP) and has been working in the area of victim’s services for the past 5-years. At AVP she provides in-office individual and family therapy as well as in school counseling, trauma focused crisis response, clinical consultation, training and support to middle/high school students and faculty impacted by violence and violent crime. She also provides clinical supervision, training and support to the Philadelphia (CARES) Peer Crisis Response Program. Prior to her work in victim services, she worked in varied capacities with homeless adolescents and families for 26-years. She has an extensive background as a trainer, group and workshop facilitator. Her engaging and interactive teaching style incorporates more than 30-years of work as a practitioner in homeless as well as victim services.

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Shifting Negative Family Patterns Through Facilitated Enactments

A Live, Interactive Webconference

Thursday, 10/7/21, Venango County Human Services via Live Interactive Zoom
8:30am-12:30pm

Therapists working in the community see many families who are stuck in negative, self-defeating interactional patterns that create a toxic relational environment for their children and themselves. These negative patterns result in caregivers struggling to find empathy and compassion for their children and struggling to maintain a leadership role in the family. Caregivers often also struggle with co-parenting with their partners. Therapists relying strictly on methods directed at changing cognitions or behavior often fail with multi-stressed families. This workshop describes how to use a method that is the cornerstone of EcoSystemic approaches to family therapy – enactments. This approach involves therapists assuming a facilitative role, seizing on opportunities in sessions to help family members to experience themselves in more functional interactions with one another.

Objectives

As a result of participating in this workshop, therapists will be able to:

Describe the role of supportive counseling, psychoeducation, coaching, and enactment in family therapy
Describe the nature of an enactment and the reasons this approach is effective in shifting negative family patterns
Recognize when to use an enactment in sessions and how to set it up to be effective

Agenda
8:30am-12:30pm: Objectives 1-3

Identifying Negative Family Patterns Through Facilitated Enactments

A Live, Interactive Webconference
Friday, 2/25/22, Wellspan-Philhaven via Live Interactive Zoom
Thursday, 3/3/22, Norristown via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-1:10pm

Therapists working in intensive, in-home, family-based services treat families trapped in negative, self-defeating interactional patterns. This can create a relational environment that is toxic for both children and caregivers. Identifying the details of these family patterns and how they relate to presenting symptoms is critical for therapists designing a relational treatment plan, but can be a challenging process. This workshop describes facilitated enactment, an experiential method grounded in systems theory that brings interactional problems into the session for direct observation and discussion. It is the cornerstone of the EcoSystemic approach. This workshop reviews the science behind experiential approaches to treatment, such as enactment. Enactment is a powerful method that can be used in intervention as well as assessment. This workshop is the first in a two-part series on enactment. This workshop focuses primarily on how to use enactments to identify negative interactional patterns associated with presenting symptoms and to help shift families from a behavioral view of problems to one that is relational.

Objectives

As a result of participating in this workshop, therapists will be able to:

1. Explain the science that informs the use of experiential methods in learning
2. Explain the nature of facilitated enactment
3. Describe how to set up enactments to identify negative family interaction patterns
4. Describe how to use enactments to shift families to a relational frame of problems and solutions

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is all behavioral health professionals working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

Agenda

8:25am-10:30am: Focus on Objectives 1 & 2
10:30am-10:45am: Break
10:45am-1:10pm: Focus on Objectives 3 & 4

New Supervisor Workshop: Ensuring Treatment Fidelity, Outcomes, and Building Clinical Competencies through Supervision

Friday, 3/1/22, All Sites via Zoom
8:30am-12:00pm

The ESFT supervisor is responsible to Ensure Treatment Fidelity and Positive Outcomes, Build Clinical Competencies, Develop Functional Teams and Foster Hopefulness and Positive Morale. A new clinical supervisor in ESFT has to navigate a variety of expectations from stakeholders, training centers, agencies, supervisees and families. The role can be overwhelming and can be difficult to uphold all of the responsibilities while meeting the various expectations. The course is part of a two part series for New Supervisors in ESFT. It serves as an introduction to learn the ESFT Logic Model and practice ways to use videotapes, adherence scales, outcome measures, and case conceptualizations in supervision. The course will allow for the new supervisor to explore and learn how to balance the expectations while ensuring treatment fidelity and positive outcomes while building clinical competencies.

Objectives:

Describe the 6 stages of ESFT Logic Model
Administer the PA FBMHS Therapeutic Adherence Scale in supervision to ensure fidelity of ESFT
Integrate outcome measures into assessment and treatment protocols

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Cultivating a Supportive Learning Culture in FBMHS

A Live, Interactive Webconference
Thursday, September 9, 2021
8:30am to 12:00pm
Location: All FBMHS Training Sites via Live Interactive Zoom

Across the commonwealth, in addition to pandemic related adaptations, behavioral health agencies are struggling with a shortage of staff and severe difficulties with recruiting new staff. This workshop describes the factors studies say most strongly impact job satisfaction and retention. Special focus is given to one of these factors – the therapists’ experience of themselves as capable therapists. In a supportive learning culture, therapists and supervisors believe that becoming competent is attainable, believe they will be supported in the learning process, believe their achievements will be recognized, and believe there will be rewards for these achievements. This workshop introduces updated CFBT processes related to case presentations and competency certifications designed to foster a supportive learning culture, at least in ESFT training. CFBT teaching faculty will attend this training with the goal of opening a collaborative dialogue with supervisors about how together we can cultivate and maintain a supportive learning culture, ensure therapists are growing and developing, AND ensuring children and families are receiving excellent care.

Learning Objectives:

As a result of participating in this training, supervisors will be able to:

Identify the key components of a learning culture
Identify five factors most linked to staff retention
Describe actions trainers and supervisors can take during clinical trainings to maximize therapists’ participation, as well as skill development

Agenda
8:30am-12:00pm: Objectives 1-3

This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health supervisors working within an Ecosystemic Family Therapy Model. This is a live synchronous distance learning activity conducted in real time, allowing for simultaneous participation of participants and instructors from different locations.

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