Engaging Resistant Children in Psychotherapy: The First Two Sessions
This presentation will focus on teaching mental health professionals how to engage children and adolescents in the psychotherapy process. The workshop will address methods of guiding parents to introduce psychotherapy to children, goals for the early sessions, and various child-friendly methods of implementing these goals.
Chaim Neuhoff Ph.D.. is a clinical Psychologist who specializes in working with anger management as well as behavioral issues of children & adolescents in his private practice based in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Neuhoff is also the founder and co-director of Nachas Consulting where he supervises Nachas Consulting associates, organizes trainings, and conducts anger-management and related groups for both children and parents. He is also Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at Ferkauf Graduate School where he supervises advanced doctoral students.
https://nefesh.org/workshops/psychotherapy/viewFREE WEBINAR
Learning Objectives:
- Identify goals for the early sessions of psychotherapy with children.
- Use an instructional child-friendly approach to establish rapport, set goals, and create structure with child psychotherapy clients.
- Learn how to work with parents to prepare child for psychotherapy
Agenda:
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: intermediate
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
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Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
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Refund Policy:
Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
48 hours before: full refund less $5.00 processing fee. After event no refund will be given.
*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.