Wait, what?? Facilitating Challenging Conversations with Difficult Clients

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Target Audience

This 6-hour workshop is for Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Specialists, Professional Counselors, and other behavioral health professionals.

Description

ALERT - The health and safety of our learners is of the utmost importance to us. We are closely monitoring the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Due to recent corporate policy, Charlotte AHEC has postponed this training. We are fully committed to ensuring that our attendees and staff remain safe and well.

Psychological trauma affects more than 1 in 5 people in the general population. This reported statistic under-represents trauma prevalence rates in behavioral health settings, where exposure to negative contextual or environmental experiences commonly underlies client’s presenting issues and impacts the therapeutic relationship. This session will examine the relationships between psychological trauma, therapist performance, and client engagement. This presentation will discuss and demonstrate trauma-informed assessment and treatment interventions that are effective when meeting “difficult clients” where they are.

Faculty
Susan B. Wilkie, PhD, NBCC, NCSC
Robert M. Cox, EdD, LPC, LCAS, CCS, CCMHC, ACS
Isha D. Williams, PhD, LMFT

Objectives

• Define a trauma-informed care approach to clinical services.
• Use a trauma-informed approach to improve clinical environments.
• Practice trauma-informed principles to ease the stress of encounters with difficult clients.
• Examine tools and techniques for exploring and deepening relationships with people who are different from themselves.
• Demonstrate specific assessment tools to recognize and acknowledge client trauma history including race-based traumatic stress.
• Review corresponding case scenarios and practice effective skills for relationship building using trauma-informed principles with difficult clients.

Contact

Jorge Rudko BTech, CI

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