Council for Relationships - Helping people understand, respect, and improve the quality of their relationships

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Learning Objectives

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Objective #1: Identify legal and ethical dilemmas facing couple and family therapists.*

Objective #2: Discuss key components of the ethical code of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the Pennsylvania State Code.*

Objective #3: Apply a process of legal and ethical decision-making to clinical situations in Couple and Family Therapy.*

Objective #1: Identify risks and solutions to breaches of confidentiality in new teletherapy practice.*

Objective #2: Create a protocol to support clients in reducing distraction in their environment.*

Objective #3: Rehearse tactics for addressing shared pandemic/social distancing stressors with clients.*

Objective #4: Develop telehealth approach to offering containing function for clients.*

Objective #1: Discuss the role of the mental health professionals who treat clients on psychoactive medications.*

Objective #2: Discuss the role of neurotransmitter systems in the etiology of mental disorders and how psychoactive medications affect them.*

Objective #3: List the major classes of drugs that are used to treat mental disorders.*

Objective #4: Describe the adverse effects and drug interactions of commonly prescribed medication and when to alert the prescriber about them.*

Objective #5: Analyze the role of half-life in the efficacy of insomnia medications and how it may affect the patient.*

Objective #1: Describe the profound impact of both COVID and social inequality on the functioning of clients within the community mental health system and discuss clinical approaches that effectively address these challenges.*

Objective #2: Identify clinical approaches that address both recent and historical trauma, which interact to intensify the negative influences contributing to clinical problems.*

Objective #3: Discuss the continuum of trauma treatments, their focus on different domains of human experience, and the importance of integrating a systemic orientation to understanding the impact of traumatic experiences.*

Objective #4: Explain the contributions of the Transcending Trauma Project to our understanding of factors that mediate coping and adaptation after extreme trauma.*

Objective #1: Outline suicide risk factors including racial disparities indicated with COVID-19.*

Objective #2: Describe challenges and strategies in conducting virtual suicide risk assessments.*

Objective #3: List questions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and racial bias to integrate into risk assessments*

Objective #4: Discuss research-based strategies to effectively intervene virtually with suicidal clients.*

Objective #1: Explain how early life stress affects brain development.*

Objective #2: Apply knowledge of brain functioning to development of treatment plans.*

Objective #3: Identify patterns of state shifting in clients during therapy sessions.*

Objective #4: Use knowledge about neurobiology to reframe client’s symptoms and increase motivation for working on change.*

Objective #1: Apply the concept of “blocked care” to working with “stressed-out” parents.*

Objective #2: Help parents learn to be “social bufferers” to their children.*

Objective #3: Apply the concept of PACE to help engage “hard to engage” children.*

Objective #1: Use knowledge about the self-regulating brain to help their clients understand themselves better.*

Objective #2: Apply the concept of “double safety” to integrate relational and intra-personal processes in treatment.*

Objective #3: Teach couples how to practice shifting from “first looks to second looks” to improve communication and build trust.*

Objective #1: Indicate increased comfort when addressing and discussing a wide range of sexual topics related to the self and others.*

Objective #2: Describe how to promote non-judgmental and respectful attitudes toward others whose attitudes, values, feelings, beliefs, and sexual behaviors differ from those of the SAR participant.*

Objective #3: Verbally express increased awareness of personal attitudes, values, feelings, and beliefs about numerous aspects of sexuality.*

Objective #4: Discuss the connection between sexual knowledge and self-awareness about human sexuality.*

Objective #5: Articulate an understanding of the wide spectrum of human sexual arousal and behavior.*

Objective #6: Explain how participating in a SAR contributes to the ethical use of self as a therapist in the treatment setting.*

Objective #7: Discuss alternate sexual behaviors, tendencies, and preferences (including, but not limited to, heterosexual, homosexual, pansexual, kink, fetish, BDSM, trans persons, etc.).*

Objective #8: Articulate feelings about topics of comfort and discomfort.*

Objective #9: Describe aspects of human sexual behavior and/or sexual expression that represent areas for further professional exploration.*

Objective #10: Assess and describe increased tolerance and acceptance of specific sexual practices.*

Objective #1: Invite their teams into conversations about race, racial inequality, racial trauma, white privilege, and other potentially uncomfortable but important issues without the typical guilt and/or anger associated with such discussions.*

Objective #2: Formulate effective trauma strategies for Persons of Color, Blacks and African Americans which are practical and relevant.*

Objective #3: Identify specific strategies for addressing the effects and impacts of systemic racism and anti-blackness in mental healthcare.*

Objective #1: Describe the profound impact of both COVID and social inequality on the functioning of clients within the community mental health system and discuss clinical approaches that effectively address these challenges.*

Objective #2: Identify clinical approaches that address both recent and historical trauma, which interact to intensify the negative influences contributing to clinical problems.*

Objective #3: Discuss the continuum of trauma treatments, their focus on different domains of human experience, and the importance of integrating a systemic orientation to understanding the impact of traumatic experiences.*

Objective #4: Explain the contributions of the Transcending Trauma Project to our understanding of factors that mediate coping and adaptation after extreme trauma.*

Instruction

Teaching methods were effective.*

Visual aids, handouts, and oral presentations clarified content.*

Presenter 1

Alexis Bové, M.S., J.D., MFT

Karen L. Smith MSS, LCSW

Joel Horwitz, PhD

Cynthia Chestnut, PhD

Terri Erbacher, PhD

Jonathan Baylin, PhD

Alishia Kalos, PsyD, CST

Ann Colley, LMFT, MDiv, MBA

Knew the subject matter.*

Presented content effectively (i.e., promoted deep reasoning and learning).*

Maintained my interest.*

Answered questions effectively.*

Was responsive to questions, comments, and opinions.*

Provided a variety of applied examples (e.g., case presentations).*

Presenter 2

Bea Hollander-Goldfein, PhD, LMFT

Thomas Wood, LCSW, PhD, CST

Knew the subject matter.*

Presented content effectively (i.e., promoted deep reasoning and learning).*

Maintained my interest.*

Answered questions effectively.*

Was responsive to questions, comments, and opinions.*

Provided a variety of applied examples (e.g., case presentations).*

Setting and Program Logistics

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Online/virtual

Facility was adequate for my needs.*

Facility was comfortable and accessible.*

Virtual platform was easy to access and navigate.*

Technology was appropriate to support participant learning.*

Special needs were met or accommodated appropriately.*

Program brochure was informative and accurate.*

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Learning

Information could be applied to my practice or other work context.*

Information contributes to achieving personal or professional goals.*

Issues of diversity were addressed.*

How much did you learn as a result of this program?*

How useful was the content of this program for your practice or other professional development?*

I would recommend this program to others.*

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