A Live, Interactive Webconference
Cost: This training is free but open only to supervisors and behavioral health professionals working in agencies contracted with CFBT
Friday, October 25, 2024, All FBMHS Training Groups via Live Interactive Zoom
8:25am-1:05pm
Also offered on these dates, for 4.0 CE:
Thursday, October 17, 2024, Venango County via Live Interactive Zoom
Thursday, October 31, 2024 North Carolina IIH Training Group
8:25am-12:35pm
In EcoSystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT), therapists focus on strengthening the caregivers’ emotional support for the child as well as helping caregivers create more consistent structure in the home. Both treatment objectives lean heavily on the caregivers’ executive functioning skills. These are mental processes that help us to manage everyday tasks such as planning and problem-solving. The caregivers served by community-based programs live with multiple stresses, under-treated mental health problems, and trauma – all of which can significantly compromise executive functioning skills. This can leave caregivers reactive, having trouble prioritizing and remembering treatment themes, and not following through with agreed upon treatment tasks.
This workshop presents a strength-based framework that considers the individual and contextual contributions to caregivers’ executive functioning. Some of the major disorders affecting executive functioning skills are reviewed, such as ADHD, Major Depression, Anxiety Disorders, and Complex Trauma. Strategies for adapting family interventions to support the caregivers’ success in stepping more effectively into a parenting role are highlighted. This training uses lecture, group discussion, and videotape clinical examples to teach the major concepts.
Objectives
As a result of attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Describe the nature of executive functioning skills and why they are important in family treatment.
- Recognize signs that a caregiver is struggling with their executive functioning skills.
- Identify the major mental health and neurodevelopmental issues underlying problems of caregiver treatment follow through.
- Identify specific supports and treatment adjustments that can enhance caregiver engagement and effectiveness in the parenting role.
This is an intermediate level course. The target audience is behavioral health professionals working within in-home behavioral health programs. 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-10:40am: Break
10:40am-1:05pm: Focus on Objectives 3-4
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