Description of Workshop:

Our clients can become involved in various types of litigation while they are in therapy. Or sometimes their lawyers send them to therapy to establish Pain & Suffering damages in civil litigation (e.g., car accident; sexual harassment, etc.). And, of course, the most common type of litigation for clinicians with whom I provide legal consultation to assist them ethically navigate this high-risk situation is divorcing parents.Many of you probably did not become clinicians because you were eager to go to court. This webinar is a Basic 101 for Clinicians to help you understand the “game” of litigation and how to navigate the white waters ethically and arrive on the bank unscathed.

Please join us to discuss participants’ or their colleagues’ dilemmas, close calls, or worse (!) that caused them great angst. I will also share as many case examples as time permits during the webinar. Participants are encouraged to submit situations ahead of time if desired.

Trainings are three (3) hours and certificates will be provided at the end of the seminar.

Register HERE for this webinar or both.

Description of Workshop:

In this Clinical/Diagnosis webinar, we will discuss various clinical considerations for your clients, including divorcing parents and their children. Have you found yourself worried about your clients in this category? Adult clients who are in the midst of (usually) contentious litigation that is eroding whatever may be left of their decent behavior with the other spouse. Or perhaps the clients you worry most about are the children of divorce, who are (frequently) caught between their parents in escalating co-parenting conflict.We will look at the helpfulness of Divorce Groups for Kids and how several clinicians might structure these groups with your combined kid clients, and perhaps also manage to form a Co-Parenting Group for some of the willing parent clients of your combined practices. If you cannot offer the groups, finding these resources is vital.

We will also discuss the following ideas that may or may not fit into your practice model:

1. Visiting child clients at their schools to talk with teachers about their emotional state (and possibly behavior issues) exhibited at school.
2. If group is not possible for the warring parents, the option of meeting with each separately or the two of them together if they can be slightly civil with each other (or agree to your “rules” for the joint session). The goal of this joint session (or more if you can get their cooperation) is to guide the parents to consider the long-term “business” of co-parenting and encourage them to make changes for the emotional wellbeing of their children.
3. Referral networks for this type of work (i.e., co-parenting groups or other therapists with same orientation = “the business of co-parenting” and divorce groups for kids and/or parents) are fantastic and perhaps some such networking could be begun through this webinar.

Just like in the above webinar, Participants are encouraged to submit situations ahead of time if desired.

Trainings are three (3) hours and certificates will be provided at the end of the seminar.

Register HERE for this webinar or both.

Description of Workshop:

1. Risks Inherent with Couples Therapy
2. Risks Associated with Divorced Couples
3. Risks when Treating Children of Divorced Parents
4. Risks for Therapists when Caught in the Middle of Custody Litigation

Do you find yourself worrying about a couple you are seeing – maybe caught in the midst of their differing agendas for the therapy? Or wondering how to deal with secrets that pop up and undermine therapy?

What about anxiety concerning your work with a divorced/divorcing couple? Are you the treating therapist for the children of these high-risk adults? Have you found yourself dragged into the parents’ conflicts by way of subpoena or requests for an opinion letter from you?

Are you finding yourself wondering about possible fallouts against you, e.g., Licensing Board Complaints/Grievances? These are extremely high-risk clinical cases and my job in this workshop is to help you practice in the most self-protective way possible to keep you as safe as possible in the maelstrom of couples therapy and divorcing parents. We will be discussing a variety of situations from my legal experiences and from all of your clinical examples. Come learn how to protect yourself and your practice!

Trainings are three (3) hours and certificates will be provided at the end of the seminar.

REGISTER NOW for your (3) hours of Ethics before renewal time.

Description of Workshop:

1. Duty to Protect & Advance Client Welfare
2. Clinical Issues with Boomers – expanded
3. Reminiscent Therapy
4. Special Topics with Guest Speakers
   1. 5-year plan (guest)
   2. Consulting with Older Therapists (guest)
   3. Countertransference
   4. Develop a “Team” for your Boomer Client
   5. Use of Collaterals in Boomer Therapy and Risks
   6. Medication Metabolism Changes with Aging
5. Case examples

This workshop will cover numerous issues that abound with our boomer clients, which present dilemmas for clinicians. I have invited some therapists to present as guest speakers to share their ideas/experiences in addition to my suggestions, and as always, all participants are welcome to share dilemmas for analysis and discussion during the workshop.

The boomer population is growing and many of us are a part of this esteemed group! And, there are many clinical challenges that may arise; we will be examining as many as we can during the workshop and discussing clinical ‘best practices’ for this client group.

I always encourage participants to send me issues or clinical dilemmas prior to the workshop, although we will also have time for these case examples to be presented in the workshop. Come join us!!

Trainings are three (3) hours and certificates will be provided at the end of the seminar.

REGISTER NOW for your (3) hours of Clinical/Diagnosis before renewal time.