Child Center & Adult Services, Inc

Child Center & Adult Services, Inc presents the following dates for Fall CE programs:

October 1, 2010 Ethical Issues in Spiritually Sensitive Practice - A Hands on Approach
CATHLEEN GRAY, PH.D. & MICHAEL SHERIDAN PH.D.

Although most clinicians know that religion and spirituality can be important aspects of clients' lives, they struggle with how to address this area in their practice. This workshop will focus on how to incorporate attention to religion and spirituality in a way that is both effective and ethical. Participants will have the opportunity to explore various methods of spiritual assessment and history-taking, as well as learn ethical guidelines for the use of spiritually-oriented interventions. Our learning objections are:
Raise question about spirituality in psychotherapy practice
• Identify spiritual resources and struggles in psychotherapy
• Identify ethical decision making within psychotherapy
• Plan spiritually-based intervention with ethical guidelines

Dr. Gray is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America and Director
of the Center for Spirituality and Social Work. Dr. Sheridan is Research Associate
Professor at Catholic University. She is also the Research Director of the Center for
Spirituality and Social Work.

October 22, 2010 Working with newly Arrived African Immigrants
JOSHUA OKUNDAYE, PH.D

Although Africans are one of the largest and fastest growing immigrant populations, few professionals are trained to assess and intervene with newly arrived African immigrants. Without understanding the demographics, reason for migration, religious and spiritual beliefs, immigration status, a practitioner's effectiveness is greatly diminished when working with this population. Ineffective interventions and unnecessarily high levels of frustration and stress can result. This workshop will familiarize participants with current demographic and immigration patterns regarding Africans migrating to our country. They will learn how to adapt their assessments to the different contexts and examine how context/culture, English proficiency and poverty impacts help seeking and the professional. A multisystemic approach will be discussed with case vignettes from at least three African counties. Attendees will gain new understanding and skills and will learn how to integrate these skills into their repertoire of effective interventions.

Joshua N. Okunkaye, Ph.D. will lead this workshop. Dr. Okundaye has degrees in social work from UMBC, where he has been an associate professor since 2004. Along with his work with immigrants, he is also working on a project supporting offenders to avoid recidivism and initiate new goals.

November 19, 2010 Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy - An Introduction
EFT is a short term, structured approach t couples therapy formulated in the early 80's by Drs. Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg. Research studies find that 70-75% of couples in EFT move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements. Distressed couples include partners suffering from disorders such as depression, post traumatic stress disorders and chronic illness. EFT is based on clear, explicit conceptualizations of marital distress and adult love. Participants will be able to understand and describe how the couple bond and couple distress can be viewed in light of Attachment theory; recognize and identify the four main process skills in EFT; identify and describe how creating an attachment narrative is central to change in EFT; identify and describe how attachment related emotion is utilized to facilitate change in EFT; identify and describe how creating moments of safe and responsive contact can help facilitate change in EFT

Doug Tilley, LCSW-C has specialized in EFT, since his training in 1996. He founded the Maryland Center for EFT and the Washington Baltimore Center for EFT. He is co-author of Becoming an Emotionally Focused Therapist with Sue Johnson et al.

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