Join guest trainer Paris Miles for an engaging and insightful journey into the world of Play Therapy. This course explores the "Why" behind Play Therapy and how it serves as a powerful tool for supporting children's emotional and behavioral development.

Heather Lambert explores how to employ cognitive dissonance within motivational interviewing techniques to foster positive changes in counseling clients. The discussion includes: What is Cognitive Dissonance?, Motivational Interviewing, and more.

The overarching goal of working with children is helping to improve the relationship between parent and child.

1. Consider Parents as Partners

2. Empower Parents

3. Promote Relational Connection

Understanding Attachment Styles, how they impact relationships, and how to use attachment styles in therapeutic interventions.

Re-occuring appointments, Room for flexing your schedule, planned time off, and more

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Diagnosing and treating ADHD, and effective interventions.

Values-based approach to prgress notes that details how to write notes as if they will be read in an insurance audit.

The importance of confidentiality, how to explain confidentiality to parents, how to deal with resistant parents, setting boundaries, and more

Learn helpful information about working with teens such as boundaries, confidentiality, generational differences, motivational interviewing, and more.

An overview of the importance of caseload management adn empowerment for clinicians to effectively help clients achieve their goals.

How COVID-19 is impacting our students, school communities, personal lives. Includes tools and strategies for maximum impact.

INCLUDES 2 50-MINUTE SESSIONS

In this course, Heather Lambert and Joy Gayle discuss how to implement faith-based practices with clients and will answer questions like  When is it appropriate to use faith-based interventions with clients? and more! 

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Heather Lambert discusses six identified sources of hope and how you can integrate them into your work with clients Including: Growth Mindset, Conscientiousness, Self-Efficacy​, Optimism, Passion, and Inspiration: Faith, Prayer, and Beliefs.  ​

Every clinician should help clients analyze the health and safety of their relationships. This training helps remind us of the dangers of not being able to identify, build, and maintain healthy relationships.

Understanding the basic principles of developing a therapeutic alliance.

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Define expectations, clarify values, normalize expectations in the therapeutic process, and use managing expectations as a therapeutic intervention.

A framework for how to support clients through grief and pain.

What needs to be done in an intake session and what happens next in the therapeutic process.

Systems to have in place before first contact with the client, personal and self-care, knowing your programs, using systems in therapy sessions, and more.

Why we used play therapy.

Setting boundaries with clients both inside and outside the office.

A trauma-informed action plan developed by a team of clinical experts that will educate, challenge, and create space for the development of a personal, professional, and community response to racism.

In this course, Heather Lambert discusses: Normalizizing Resistance

Educating about Medical Necessity,

Motivating to change (secondary gains, seeking care through crisis)

Miracle question, and more!

Working with Students or Clients who struggle with Personal Responsibility.
 

1. Boundaries Defined

2. Locus of Control

3. Personal Responsibility

4. Relational Circles & More

In this course, you will learn:

1. Increased Awareness

2. What is the Law?

3. First Steps: Assessments and Safety Plans

4. How do we Help? CAMS Model

5. Resources & Tools

Setting up your schedule for success, Getting full and staying full, and more

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Learn important insights about cumulative stress and burnout and simple strategies for recovery.

A process for note-taking - Treatment plan to termination.

Tips, strategies, and helpful tools to complete progress notes in a timely manner - and - Selecting appropriate diagnosis. 

Learn: What makes an effective leader and The Six Cs of Leadership, 

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Collaboration tips and strategies to help increase treatment length, improve commitment, decrease no-shows and canceled appointments.

Trauma-informed practices for delivering telehealth services for children during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Strategies and encouragement for personal reflection work as you identify your strengths and build your confidence to connect with your clients in helpful and healing ways.