Full Course Description
Domestic & Intimate Partner Violence
All clinicians are likely to encounter Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence at some point in their practice. And if you fail to recognize the abuse and properly respond, the consequences can be dire.
But abuse can be difficult to detect when the physical signs of violence fade. And now more than ever, you’re conducting video sessions, giving you a unique glimpse into clients homes and potential abuse. It’s a complicated situation that can leave you caught between confidentiality, autonomy, and your wider responsibilities to protect victims.
What clinical decisions should you make to balance supporting your client while adhering to your licensure requirements?
Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, has provided behavioral health counseling, crisis intervention and support to families and individuals facing domestic violence and abuse for over a decade.
This training will serve as an indispensable guide for improving outcomes for those impacted by domestic and intimate partner violence. Not only will she answer your most pressing questions, you’ll walk away with:
- Screening tools to assess for safety, risk and lethality
- Checklists and advocacy resources
- Documentation and confidentiality strategies
- Guidance on crisis intervention and safety planning
- Culturally competent responses to abuse
- Trauma-informed interventions for clients exposed to domestic violence
- Tips for handling complex domestic violence situations created by COVID-19 and video sessions
Plus, Katelyn will share 3 powerful techniques to help you manage the burnout and compassion fatigue that can weigh you down when working with these emotionally draining cases!
Whether you’re a social worker, counselor, psychologist, marriage and family therapist, nurse, or anyone in the helping professions, this is one program you can’t afford to miss.
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Program Information
Objectives
- Employ screening techniques to identify the signs of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) in clients.
- Investigate how evidence-based screenings and assessments can help clinicians determine level of risk and lethality so they can intervene in crisis situations.
- Analyze ways in which clinicians can ensure proper reporting and documentation when working with clients facing violence in their relationships or homes.
- Evaluate the types of domestic abuse including physical violence, sexual violence, threats and intimidation.
- Justify how an understanding of cultural factors can help clinicians to ensure a competent response to abuse.
- Develop safety plans with clients to help them leave an abusive or violent home.
- Utilize trauma-informed treatment techniques for survivors of abuse, violence and oppression.
Outline
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence 101
- Myths about domestic and intimate partner violence
- Defining Abuse: Types of domestic violence
- Who is at risk?
- Warning signs and symptoms
- Substance abuse and domestic violence
- Abuse in the LGBTQ Community
- COVID-19 and impact on DV/IPV
Recognize the Red Flags of Violence: What All Clinicians Need to Know
- Screening and assessment techniques
- Identify immediate danger
- Tools to assess for safety, risk and lethality
- Checklists and advocacy resources
- Technology and domestic/intimate partner violence
Reporting Requirements and Documentation Guidelines
- Privacy and confidentiality
- Who is required to report and when?
- Standards for making a report
- Domestic violence hotlines
- Proper documentation and confidentiality strategies
The Next Steps: Crisis Intervention & Safety Planning
- Barriers to leaving
- Safety plans while living with abusive partners
- Safety planning for children
- Emotional safety planning
- Plans for leaving and after leaving
- Restraining orders/protective orders
Culturally Competent Responses to Abuse
- Recognizing your own biases
- How survivors interpret domestic violence in their culture
- Adapting danger assessments for underserved populations
- What is victim blaming and how to avoid it
Trauma Informed Interventions: Transition Clients from Surviving to Thriving
- Assess for PTSD, anxiety, trauma and other mental health issues
- Understand the multilayered impact of DV/IPV
- Processing shame, anger and guilt
- Working with children exposed to domestic violence
- Research, limitations and treatment risks
Vicarious Trauma & The Clinician
- What is compassion fatigue
- Recognizing signs of burnout
- Self-care techniques for the professional
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Addiction Counselors
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Chaplains/Clergy
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Law Enforcement and First Responders
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
08/04/2023
Working with Victims of Violence
Those who work with victims of various types of violence can experience compassion fatigue and burnout when they feel they are unable to meet the needs of the people they work with. Providing tools to these workers, to increase feelings of competence and to address the needs of the victims they work with, improves outcomes for both parties. Workers being able to address feelings and experiences of vicarious trauma can prevent burnout and allow them to continue to do this important work.
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify the impact of trauma on a person’s whole being (body, brain and emotions).
- Describe how different types of violence may impact a person’s core beliefs and worldview.
- Identify 5 interventions for addressing trauma and restoring pre-trauma levels of functioning.
- Describe warning signs of burnout.
- Identify at least 3 ways to prevent compassion fatigue.
Outline
- Introduction – What is Trauma?
- Changes to Body
- Changes to Brain
- Changes to Emotions
Witnessing Violence – Implications on Body, Brain and Emotions
- Gang Violence
- Domestic Violence
- Community Based-Mass Violence
- Healing Trauma
- Interventions for Body
- Interventions for Brain
- Interventions for Emotions
Burnout Prevention and Vicarious Trauma in Workers
- Defining Self Care
- Emotion Regulation and Managing Grief
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
06/27/2023
Safely Leaving the Abusive Relationship
Leaving a toxic relationship isn’t easy. Manipulation, coercion, shame, self-doubt, and a sense of losing oneself can keep clients trapped in the abuse. And when they do make the decision to leave, the fear of dangerous explosive reactions can be very real. You need knowledge and interventions targeted at this population to help clients exit these relationships safely. View Katelyn Baxter-Musser, licensed clinical social worker and expert on intimate partner violence for this session and get the tools and interventions you need to increase your clinical competency in supporting clients exiting abusive relationships.
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze how complex barriers to leaving abusive relationships impact your role as a therapist.
- Employ a trauma-informed approach that respects clients’ autonomy.
- Utilize strategies to enhance clinical support and safety for clients exiting abusive relationships.
Outline
- Barriers to leaving narcissistic abuse relationships
- Trauma-informed approaches that respect clients’ autonomy
- Strategies to enhance clinical support and safety
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
- Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
01/28/2022
Ethical and Legal Challenges of Working with Minors: Tools to Navigate Mandatory Reporting, Documentation, Boundary Issues, and More
Working with minor clients and their families can feel like navigating a minefield.
There can be confusion over changing ethical standards and laws....
Fear that parental factors may cause complications or interfere with treatment...
Anxiety that at any moment we might unintentionally cross a line that could jeopardize our professional license or otherwise put us in legal peril.
As a result, working ethically and legally with children and adolescents requires that mental health professionals have a special set of knowledge, skills, and resources.
So, join Ethics expert Dr. Terry Casey as he shows you how to integrate ethical and legal requirements into your practice and shares the resources and tools you need that will allow you to focus on what truly matters – the well-being of your young clients.
From consent and confidentiality to reporting child abuse and navigating the nuances of divorced parents, he’s shown thousands of therapists how to make ethical decisions with more confidence and less worry.
In this one-day training, Dr. Casey will break it all down with detailed instruction and real-world examples so you know exactly what to do in some of the most challenging ethical/legal situations you face in your work including:
- How to strike the right balance between transparency and confidentiality
- Determine when HIPAA or FERPA applies
- Consent rules and issues involving minors
- Ways to navigate boundary issues with minors and their parents
- Access to a minor’s records
- And so much more!
Get the peace of mind that you are ethically and legally serving the needs of your most vulnerable clients!
Register today!
Program Information
Objectives
- Analyze legal and ethical responsibilities when working with minors in clinical practice.
- Describe the circumstances in which a parent/guardian or others can legally provide consent for a minor.
- Identify the legal and ethical limits within which parents/guardians or others may access a minor’s private records.
- Determine ethical implications associated with boundaries, multiple relationships, and power differentials involving minors and parents/guardians.
- Outline confidentiality standards for minor clients and when limits to these standards can be applied to the clinical relationship.
- Determine the ethical and legal course of action to take in situations involving conflicting desires of divorced parents of minor clients.
Outline
Society & Vulnerability of Minors: Navigating Ethical and Legal Issues
- The ethical and legal landscape
- Vulnerability and power differentials
- Federal and state laws outlining legal responsibilities
- Licensing rules
- Suggestions & resources for avoiding problems and mitigating risk
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
The Necessity of a Decision-making Model
- The Multiple Perspective Model: Step-by-step guide
- The five essential perspectives
- Consult, consult, consult
- Decision & documentation
Different States, Different Laws!
- Variability among state laws pertaining to minors
- Documenting that parents are informed
- Checking assumptions of parents & minors
- Guidance to parental & minors rights resources
Consent Rules and Issues Involving Minors
- Consent vs. assent
- Who can provide consent?
- Parental rights and consent rules
- Special rules for older adolescents
- Informed consent process
Who is the Identified Client and why this Matters
- When does an individual become a client?
- Personal representatives
- Ethical vs. legal considerations
Confidentiality Standards and Limits with Minors
- Limits of confidentiality
- Communications with minors and parents
- Progressive scenarios technique
- Parental agreements
Parental Rights…and Wrongs
- Default rights
- Special situations
- Exceptions
Responding to Requests for Records
- Health care records vs. educational records
- HIPAA vs. FERPA
- Who has access?
- Clinical records and psychotherapy notes
Caught in the Middle of Divorced Parents
- Informed consent process
- Parenting plans
- Other legal considerations
Mandatory Reporting: The “what”, “when” and “to whom”
- Mandatory reporting – state laws
- Federal definition of child abuse
- Variability among state laws
- Ethical considerations
Relationships and Boundaries with Minors
- Social media policies
- Boundary issues with minors, and parents/guardians
- Multiple relationships
- Power differentials
- Virtual relationships
- Vulnerability of minors & potential for exploitation
- Texting and messaging
- Physical touch: When it is appropriate, and when it is not Informed consent
- Organizational policies
Vignettes
- The Phone Intake - reporting abuse & more
- Client in a Bind – multiple relationships
- The Dilemma with Julia – disagreeing parents
- Ashley’s tweets – multiple relationships & more
- Celeste and Her Father – parental access to records
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
05/17/2024