Enhancing Clinical Practice with Families Affected by Domestic Violence and Other Trauma - IDAHO

Website/URL: http://events.r20.constantcont...=a07e7ymg9ey03ccdca8

Organized By: Idaho Coalitional Against Sexual & Domestic Violence

Contact Info: 208-384-0419 ext. 308

Training and case consultations and discussions for mental health clinicians on providing trauma-informed, developmentally-sensitive, parent-child integrated therapeutic services, with an emphasis on Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an evidence -based model for families with young children, ages birth to 6 years. Case presentations from a current clinical cohort working with children and their parents exposed to domestic violence will be provided.

This training will include knowledge and skill building activities which will help participants:

• Enhance understanding of how domestic violence affects the parent/survivor-child relationship and may disrupt secure attachments
• Understand the basic framework of Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP)
• Enhance clinical strategies for repairing and strengthening the parent-child relationship by applying CPP 
• Understand and build on resiliency factors for families experiencing DV and other trauma

The Presenter:

Susan Blumenfeld, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with over 30 years of experience in developing more responsive community-based services and systems for children and families affected by family violence and other interpersonal trauma.