OU-Tulsa Learning Center, room 145 (4502 E 41st Street, Tulsa, OK 74135)

Registration: $20

4 hours of CECPD and CEU credits available for $20 (in addition to registration fee)

Presenter’s Bio: Lauren Garder is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a decade of experience in mental health and victim services. The focus of Lauren’s career has been chronic trauma and victimization. Lauren has worked across the spectrum of services from hotlines to therapy to working in administration for the ODMHSAS overseeing trauma services and outpatient treatment for suicidality across the State. Lauren is now “back in the chair” in private practice in Oklahoma City providing therapy, expert witness, and consulting in her areas of expertise.

Workshop Description: “Trauma-Informed Care: It’s Who You Are” is designed to provide professionals in healthcare and social services with a foundational understanding of how to recognize and respond to the effects of trauma. This approach shifts the focus from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” emphasizing the importance of understanding, recognizing, and addressing the signs, symptoms, and risks associated with trauma. Participants will explore core concepts of trauma-informed care and be introduced to motivational interviewing techniques to better support the well-being and healing of individuals affected by trauma. This learning day offers practical tools and insights to foster safer, more empathetic environments in professional practice.

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OU-Tulsa Tandy Education Center (4502 E 41st Street, Tulsa, OK 74135)

with Jennifer Dell, LCSW

Jennifer Dell has devoted the past two decades to her passion for helping people grow. She worked for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services for fifteen years in both direct practice and administrative roles.  In clinical practice Jennifer used motivational interviewing to empower youth and families to move towards change.  Jennifer currently serves as instructor and Director of the Bachelor of Social Work program at the University of Oklahoma where she teaches future social workers to embrace the power of listening well and using empathetic engagement in social work practice.

Registration will be closed one week before the event.

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April 14, 12:00pm (noon) – 2:00 pm CDT on Zoom

Victoria Stob, LCSW

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

Workshop description:

The Family Cycle is a unique therapeutic model which was created at the Yale Child Study Center in order to treat abused children and their families. The model provides a clinical framework to facilitate the treatment of families with complex multigenerational trauma and promote mentalization in high-risk parents. It is informed by attachment theory, family systems theory, and current literature on reflective functioning. Over the years this model was implemented within the context of an intensive home-based, family-focused intervention and more.

Presenter’s bio:

Victoria Stob is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work in the Yale Child Study Center. She specializes in integrating social science-based research and theory into practicable clinical applications for high-risk children and families living in multi-generational adversity.

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The series is open only for professionals doing direct work with children and families (social workers, child welfare workers, mental health professionals, psychologists, etc.)

By Victoria Stob, LCSW, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center

5 sessions, Tuesdays 9:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT, 15 hours total

Dates: Sep 6th, Sep 20th, Oct 4th, Oct 11th and Oct 18^th

Location: on Zoom

Registration fee: $45

CEUs available for LCSW & LPC ($15 for all 15 hours)

Course description:

Mentalization is a therapeutic model for treating at risk parents and children suffering from trauma, abuse, and neglect, also known by the name “reflecting therapy” or “reflecting parenting”.

In recent years, attachment and mentalization theory have been used to guide and inform clinical work with complex, vulnerable adults and children, who struggle to make sense of their own experience or to understand and reflect upon the thoughts and feelings of others. Traumatized parents often have difficulty reflecting upon their children’s thoughts and feelings, at great cost to the child’s sense of trust and safety in the world. Mentalization, and particularly parental mentalization, is a key factor in parent child relationship and is thought of as promoting healthy child socioemotional development. It involves the parent’s willingness to imagine the child’s inner experiences and to see things from the child’s perspective, as well as inferring about the child’s mental states from observing the child’s behavior. Yet, parents’ ability to mentalize depends partially on the degree to which the parent’s mind was minded by a significant other, as well as on the parent’s current stress level.

The current series will review the relationship between attachment, parental mentalization and parental reflective functioning, provide examples of collapses in mentalization in the parent/child relationship and discuss ways we can work with high-risk parents and children with histories of significant and often chronic developmental trauma. The goal is to learn how to enhance parents mentalization capacities to allow them to better understand their children’s challenging behaviors and to better address their regulation needs.  The series will also address how to use mentalization practice with abused and neglected children.

Course topics:

• The basics of attachment, metallization, and reflective functioning theory
• The dimensions of Mentalization – Implicit and Explicit/Verbal and Embodied
• The ways complex trauma impacts children and parent’s capacity to mentalize
• Use of the Family Cycle with parents and children
• Case Presentations

Lecturer bio:

Prof. Victoria Stob, MA, LCSW, Victoria Stob is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work in the Yale Child Study Center. She specializes in integrating social science-based research and theory into practicable clinical applications for high-risk children and families living in multi-generational adversity.

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Registration Fee: $45

CEUs available for social work: $15 for all 9 hours, LPC pending

Background:

Adolescents (12 to 18) with serious psychological problems secondary to histories of abuse, neglect, and trauma provide a serious challenge to parents and therapists. In the current workshop Dr. Hughes will present his model for therapy with traumatized adolescents. This treatment model (DDP) actively communicates empathy and acceptance of the adolescent while providing him/her with the comforting and containment needed to explore and resolve past trauma and shame-related experiences, and at the same time, actively facilitating their ability to form positive, reciprocal attachment-based relationships with his/her parents.  This modality blends various approaches in his treatment modality: family therapy, Ericksonian hypnotherapy, psychodynamic principles, interventions congruent with Theraplay, and narrative work.

Workshop topics: Therapeutic principles based on attachment, intersubjectivity, interpersonal neurobiology and trauma theories; the therapeutic stance and interventions; further interventions including working with parents.

Who can apply?

The current workshop is open to professionals and therapists who work with adolescents and their parents.

Lecturer: Daniel A. Hughes Ph.D.

Dr. Hughes, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with a limited practice in South Portland, Maine.  He founded and developed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), the treatment of children who have experienced abuse and neglect and who demonstrate ongoing problems related to attachment and trauma.  Dan has conducted seminars, workshops, spoken at conferences and guest lectured throughout the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia over the past 22 years.  He is also engaged in extensive training and supervision in the certification of therapists in his treatment model, along with ongoing consultation to various agencies and professionals.   He is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Institute (DDPI) which is responsible for the certification of professionals in DDP.  Information about DDPI can be found on their website: www.ddpnetwork.org. Dan has authored many books including Attachment-Focused Parenting (2009), Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook (2011) and, with Jon Baylin, Brain-Based Parenting (2012) and The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy (2016).  He has also written or been featured in many articles, many of which can be found at: www.ddpnetwork.org/resources/library/authors/hughes-daniel-a/.

For the past 25 years Dr. Hughes has specialized in the treatment of children who manifest serious deficits in their emotional, cognitive, and behavioral development, and at the same time demonstrate considerable difficulty establishing and maintaining secure attachment relationships.

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3-part virtual workshop

Registration: $30

CEUs available for Social Work: $75 per 7.5 credit hours

Workshop description

In a supportive manner, a motivational interviewer encourages clients to talk about their need for change and their own reasons for wanting to change. The role of the interviewer is mainly to evoke a conversation about change and commitment. The interviewer listens and reflects back the client’s thoughts so that the client can hear their reasons and motivations expressed back to them.

Jon Kratz, LCSW

Jonathan Kratz is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Tulsa. He is a licensed clinical social worker with extensive experience serving Spanish speaking populations in forensic, school-based, and outpatient mental health settings. Jonathan is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

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3-part virtual workshop

Registration: $15

CEUs available for social work: $45 for 4.5 credit hours

Lecturer: Dr. Daphna Ginio Dollberg

Daphna Ginio Dollberg, Ph.D. is an Israeli licensed Clinical and Developmental psychologist. She is a senior lecturer at the graduate programs in Clinical and in Developmental Psychology at the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel. Dr. Dollberg is a Haruv-certified practitioner and trainer in trauma-focused child-parent psychotherapy, a member and of the Israeli association of parent-child psychotherapy, and an instructor in its postgraduate training program.

Workshop description:

Mentalization, and particularly parental mentalization, is a key factor in parent child relationship and is thought of as promoting healthy child socioemotional development.  It involves the parent’s willingness to imagine the child’s inner experiences and to see things from the child’s perspective, as well as inferring about the child’s mental states from observing the child’s behavior. Yet, parents’ ability to mentalize depends partially on the degree to which the parent’s mind is affected by a significant other, as well as on the parent’s current stress level. Hence, inviting parents who have been themselves traumatized, or those who are highly worried about their children’s behavior and development to focus on their own and child’s mental states is often challenging. In this workshop Dr. Daphna Ginio Dollberg will introduce the concepts of parental mentalization and parental reflective functioning and how we can work with parents to enhance these capacities to allow them to better understand their children’s challenging behaviors and to better address their regulation needs, and hence feel more competent as parents.

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Virtual Training and Simulation

August 12, 2021 | 9 am-2:45 pm

The training will be a combination of how to respond to crisis/navigating difficult conversations, and how to stay connected virtually.

Ashleigh Kraft, LPC-S

Ashleigh Kraft, LPC-S is the owner of Balanced Perspectives LLC where she provides consultation and training in the areas of infant mental health, non-profit leadership, and trauma-informed care. The major areas of focus in her professional experiences have included working with survivors of domestic violence, child maltreatment, and interpersonal trauma. She is trained to provide Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Circle of Security, and Reflective Supervision. She is a state-wide trainer for CPP in Oklahoma and is endorsed through Zero to Three as a provisionally certified state trainer for DC:0-5. Ashleigh is passionate about the power of relationships, supporting the professional growth of therapists, and the importance of early relationships.

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9am-10:30am

Thursday, January 28

9am-10:30am

by Avital Kaye Tzadok, PhD 

(Haruv USA Director)

and DeJon Knapp, LCSW

(Haruv USA Coordinator)

This workshop is only available for staff working at organizations affiliated with OCADVSA.  

3-hour CEU credits for CDSVRP and social work available through OCADVSA

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