Ethics CEUs available: $20 for 2 credit hours

Presenter’s bio: Hilary Cuthrell, PhD, began working with incarcerated individuals and those involved in the legal justice system in 2009 while attending DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Cuthrell went on to earn her MS and PhD from the School of Human Ecology-Human Development and Family Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. Dr. Cuthrell acted as an affiliate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Child and Family Well-Being, where she served for 5 years under the United States Federal Government’s Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) program with the National Institute of Corrections in Washington, DC. Dr. Cuthrell currently serves as the project manager for “Child Friendly Visiting Spaces in Jails and Prisons,” a project federally funded in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance and National Institute of Corrections. Dr. Cuthrell’s work has been published in academic journals, peer-reviewed articles, correctional publication platforms and most recently a book entitled “When Are You Coming Home? How Young Children Cope When Parents Go to Jail.”

Workshop Description: With an estimated 2.7 million US children experiencing parental incarceration, the need to provide children and families support during parental incarceration is imperative. Keeping children connected to their incarcerated parents has become a priority for many families entangled in the criminal legal system. Several innovative approaches aimed to keep children connected to their parents during a time of parental incarceration have emerged in recent years. This training will provide insight into many of these approaches from the perspective of families, correctional staff and community partners. The training will explore: incarcerated populations, research centered on young children of incarcerated parents, ethical considerations when working with minor children of incarcerated parents and emerging trends in family-centered approaches to correctional policies and procedures.

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Wednesday, January 31, 10 am – 1:15 pm CST on Zoom

Registration: $20

CEUs available for social work and LPC: $30 for 3 credit hours

The workshop is designed for CPP trainers and supervisors, or other supervisors working in the field of early childhood trauma.

Dr. Alicia F. Lieberman

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CEUs available for Social Work and LPC: $20 for 2 credit hours

This lecture provides an overview and an introduction to the theoretical framework and clinical implementation of Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy (P-CPP), as a dyadic/triadic work during the various developmental stages of pregnancy, labor and delivery and the postnatal period. This treatment is used for expecting mothers and fathers whose readiness to nurture a baby is compromised by their histories of trauma and adverse childhood experiences.

Presenter’s bio:

Gloria Castro, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist and Certified Sexual Assault Counselor. Dr. Castro was granted the Fraiberg-Harris Fellowship to complete her postdoctoral training at the Infant-Parent Program, UCSF. Dr. Castro is currently training and providing perinatal mental health consultation at different programs and hospitals across the country. Dr. Castro’s clinical work has focused on infant mental health, mental health daycare consultation, and perinatal mental health. She has experience conducting comprehensive psychological assessments and developmental neuropsychological assessments for children ranging in age from infancy to adolescence. Dr. Castro worked at Child Trauma Research Program on the implementation and development of Child-Parent Psychotherapy during pregnancy and the postnatal period. She is the co-author of Make Room for Baby.

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Registration fee: $10 for both sessions
CEUs available for social work & LPC: $20 for 3 credit hours

Workshop description:

Mentalization, or reflective functioning, involves the ability to tease out the mental states that underlie behavior and is the skill of being able to see yourself from the outside and others from the inside. Parental reflective functioning has been significantly associated with better quality of caregiving, parental satisfaction, secure attachment and positive child well-being . It is a particularly important skill to have when working with children who have been traumatized. This presentation will include a brief introduction to mentalization, how it relates to attachment and how it can help regulate and calm children’s emotions and behaviors. 

Presenter’s bio:

Tina Adkins, MA, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor and a practicing psychotherapist in Austin, Texas. She is also a Research Fellow with the International Psychoanalytic Association and Director of the Sue Fairbanks Psychoanalytic Academy at University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Adkins started her career in Child Protective Services and has 25 years of experience in the field of child welfare, providing clinical services, trainings and conducting research related to attachment, family trauma and emotionally/behaviorally challenged children.

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CEUs available for social work and LPC: $20 for 2 credit hours

Presenter’s bio

Tara Buck, M.D. is an associate professor of Psychiatry and Oxley Chair in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Research at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. Following completion of her medical training, she completed three years of training in general psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, followed by two years of specialty training in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Utah. She currently serves as the program director of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at OU-Tulsa. Dr. Buck’s professional interests include treatment of children and families with developmental disabilities including autism spectrum disorder. She has numerous presentations and publications in this area, both nationally and internationally. She is the first core faculty member to expand the LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and other Related Disabilities) program to The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. She has also worked at the state level to advocate for meaningful autism insurance reform.

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CEUs available for LCSW and LPC: $20 for 2 credit hours

Workshop Description:

At the core of every child’s experience in foster care and adoption is the experience of loss. Sometimes loss is clear cut and understood, but often children living in the home of a foster or adoptive parent have experienced numerous losses of all types. Children who have been removed from their biological family have lost relationship and connection to their biological parents, but those parents are still alive and out there in the world. Will they have a future relationship with their parents once again? Additionally, they’ve potentially lost friendships, teachers, coaches, extended family members, and “place” – their home, their neighborhood, their bed. These losses are harder to define, making it confusing and challenging to grieve. This presentation will discuss ambiguous loss and strategies to help children grieve layers of loss.

Lecturer bio:

Bonni Goodwin, PhD, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma. She has worked in the field of Social Work for the past 20 years with children and families, empowering them to overcome challenges toward hope and stability. Bonni currently serves with the Oklahoma Human Services child welfare division as the Statewide Coordinator of Adoption Preservation Services. In this role, she conducts research and trains child welfare and mental health professionals on the unique and complex needs of children in foster care and those who have been adopted from state custody.

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Monday, January 23, 7:00 – 9:00 AM (CST) on Zoom

Registration: $12

CEUs available for LCSW and LPC: $20 for 2 credit hours

Students can attend for free, please email estherstafford@ou.edu

Agenda:

7:00-7:15am

Greetings and presentation of prizes in the memory of Patricia Van Horn

Dr. Paula David, Director of Training Programs, Haruv Institute

7:15-9:00am

Complex trauma, complex parents: The intergenerational transmission of trauma

In our work with traumatized children, we so often find that their parents, too, are traumatized and so struggle to see and hear the child. Yet they are our conduit to the child, and the relational field is our focus. This presentation will focus on the complexities of working in the interface between parent and child trauma, of creating safety and trust in the face of deep wounds and fear.

Arietta Slade, Ph.D.

Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, and Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York. An internationally recognized theoretician, clinician, teacher, and researcher, she has written widely on reflective parenting, the development of parental reflective functioning, and the implications of attachment and metallization theory for child and adult psychotherapy. She is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Minding the Baby ™, an evidence-based interdisciplinary reflective home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing. She has also been in private practice for over 40 years, working with individuals of all ages.

Discussion

David Oppenheim, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Vice Chair of the School of Psychological Sciences at the  University of Haifa, Israel. He also heads the Center for the Study of Child Development in that University. Dr. Oppenheim’s studies include the role of parental insightfulness and parent-child open communication in dyadic and triadic parent-child relationships from infancy throughout childhood. Dr. Oppenheim’s studies these questions in longitudinal studies including typically developing children, children with atypical development, and children at high risk such as those in foster care and those whose parents experienced trauma.

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Registration: $20

CEUs available for LCSW and LPC: $30 for three credit hours

Workshop Description

When we work clinically with traumatized children and their families, we must build from the ground up.  While our goal may be to help parents make sense and meaning of their children, the path to reflection begins with the establishment of safety, regulation and trust.  This begins with the clinician, upon whose safety, regulation and reliability parents and children depend.  From their own sense of security, the clinician can then find ways to diminish the parent’s sense of danger and dysregulation, and to create a relationship that will hold the parent and the complexity of their feelings.  Only then can the parent begin to provide safety, regulation, and build a trusting relationship with the child.  This workshop will focus on developing these layers of safety, regulation and trust as the foundation for reflection and mentalizing.

Arietta Slade

Arietta Slade, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, and Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York.  An internationally recognized theoretician, clinician, teacher, and researcher, she has written widely on reflective parenting, the development of parental reflective functioning, and the implications of attachment and mentalization theory for child and adult psychotherapy. She is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Minding the Baby ™, an evidence-based interdisciplinary reflective home visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families, at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing.  Dr. Slade is winner of the Bowlby-Ainsworth Award from the New York Attachment Consortium, and author of the forthcoming (June, 2023) Enhancing attachment and reflective parenting in clinical practice: A Minding the Baby Approach (Slade, with Sadler, Eaves, and Webb).  She is also author, with Jeremy Holmes, of Attachment in Therapeutic Practice (Holmes & Slade, SAGE Publications, 2018), and editor of the six volume set, Major Work on Attachment (Slade & Holmes, SAGE Publications, 2014), as well as Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Jurist, Slade, & Bergner, Other Press, 2008), and Children at Play (Slade & Wolf, Oxford University Press, 1994). She has also been in private practice for over 40 years, working with individuals of all ages.

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