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Tags: Short Self-Study PSY Contact Hours ASWB
Recorded webinar.
A great deal of attention has been focused on vicarious trauma for clinicians who work with survivors of trauma. However, the concept of vicarious resilience is just as important for therapists. Vicarious resilience goes beyond self-care. Vicarious Resilience is defined as the positive impact on and personal growth of therapists resulting from exposure to clients’ resilience (Hernandez, Engstrom, & Gangsei, 2007). While resilience is defined as adapting in the face of adversity, it can also involve profound personal growth. Participants will have the opportunity to identify resilience- and strength-based clinical models and identify and assess their own vicarious resilience through a self-assessment tool. There will be a focus on the 7 possible dimensions of vicarious resilience. Participants will be given time to develop a plan to evaluate their own resilience and use these tools on an ongoing basis. Finally, the training will explore ways participants can use their vicarious resilience to promote resilience informed therapy to their clients.
Learning Objectives:
Research: The American Psychological Association maintains a database on publications about trauma. Google Scholar includes links to numerous articles on vicarious trauma and vicarious resilience.
Target Audience: social workers, mental health practitioners, creative arts therapists, marriage and facility therapists, psychologists, addiction professionals, case managers, and other interested individuals.
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University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0001. Continuing education Self-Study contact hours: 2
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0008. Continuing education Self-Study contact hours: 2
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0007. Continuing education Self-Study contact hours: 2
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0003. Continuing education Self-Study contact hours: 2
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0062. Continuing education Self-Study contact hours: 2
NYS OASAS Provider #0045: 2 hours for CPP & CPS Initial Hours, Section 1; CASAC, CPP & CPS Renewal Hours.
2 Hours
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Agenda (0.04 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Therapy and The Use of Self Part 3 PowerPoint (1.03 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Higher Adaptive Defenses (0.05 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Relationship with Work Inventory (0.12 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Professional Quality of Life Scale (0.10 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Vicarious Resilience Scale (0.06 MB) | Available after Purchase |
The Concise ProQOL Manual (1.40 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Development of the Vicarious Resilience Scale (0.12 MB) | Available after Purchase |
The Neuroscience of Resilience (0.39 MB) | Available after Purchase |
The aging mind - Neuroplasticity (0.51 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Ecological Systems Framework (0.25 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Epigenetics Underlying Susceptibility and Resilience Relating to Stress (0.26 MB) | Available after Purchase |
References (0.07 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Additional Recommended Readings (0.07 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Sarah Smith, ACSW, LCSW-R is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant in Buffalo, NY. Sarah obtained her MSW in social work in 1994 and worked in a community mental health for several years. She worked primarily with addictions and mental health. Early in her career she observed women in addiction treatment had encountered specific challenges to treatment, and was able to address some of these needs through specialized groups. She was trained in EMDR at the University of Buffalo in 2008 and that training was a game changer for her career. She specifically sought training and consultation to work with complex PTSD and dissociative disorders. She continues to specialize in co-occurring disorders. She is currently an Approved Consultant through EMDRIA. In 2011 she went into private practice and in 2014 founded The Center for Clarity in Amherst, NY.
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