About this webinar
Date: April 10, 2025
Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Adele Lafrance, PhD, C.Psych.
This training is suitable for:
- Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
- Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors.
- Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.
- Educators: teachers, ECE, school administration, support staff.
Level of training: Introductory
Client age category: For professionals who work with clients aged 12 to adulthood
Trigger warning: Triggers are always possible when discussing trauma/self-blame.
Description: Research has demonstrated that when parents carry self-blame, not only do they suffer but their caregiving can be negatively affected as well. In fact, when self-blame is deep, typical strategies to lift self-blame may be ineffective. This training will provide participants with a series of cognitive and emotion-focused strategies to transform caregiver self-blame, including a specifically designed chair-work intervention.
Benefits of these interventions include:
- Reduced shame and self-blame
- Better quality of life
- Decreased defensiveness
- Increased sense of empowerment/engagement
- Increased access to caregiving instincts
Participants will be introduced to the theory and several interventions to implement with parents post-training. A video demonstration will also be included. Participation can be active or passive.
Learning objectives:
- Identify emotional markers underlying therapy-interfering behaviours in caregivers.
- Apply cognitive techniques to attenuate caregiver self-blame and related behaviours.
- Apply emotion processing skills to attenuate caregiver self-blame and related behaviours.
This training meets the criteria towards certification through the International Institute for EFFT.
SickKids CCMH Learning Institute is pleased to partner with Caversham Booksellers to offer a 20% discount and a $5 flat shipping rate (from $10) towards the facilitator’s published books, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy: A Transdiagnostic Model for Caregiver-Focused Interventions, and What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers.
To receive this benefit, enter the discount code SKCCMHLI24 at checkout when purchasing the book on Caversham Booksellers’ website.
Continuing Education (CE) Information: SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education (CE) hours. Full-day programs equal six CE hours; half-day programs equal three CE hours; for less than half-day programs, one hour of programming equals one CE hour. SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the programs.
Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and Certificate of Participation for their consideration.
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Accessibility
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