Certificate in Essential Skills for Assessing and Treating Children and Families

Facilitators: Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S., & Greg Lubimiv, MSW., CPT-S.
presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

March 5, 6 and April 29, 30, 2020
This 4-day certificate program is designed for practitioners who regularly work with children, adolescents, and their families and are interested in augmenting their clinical skills and therapeutic toolkit for a wide range of issues. The 4-key learning modules of this course will cover various topics including rapport-building, engaging resistant children and parents, implementing an innovative assessment model, strengthening core family therapy skills, and utilizing play and expressive arts techniques.
Module 1 | March 5: What's going on? An Innovative Model for Assessing Children and Teens. This workshop...

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Romantic/Erotic Love in the Age of #MeToo: Vulnerability and Cynicism

Dr. Virginia Goldner
presented by The Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Innis Town Hall Theatre, Innis College, University of Toronto
2 Sussex Ave., Toronto, M5S 1J5

Morning Session:
Representing and Regulating Sexuality in the Age of #MeToo
Sexual coercion coopts the erotic into a traumatic register, creating conditions of tormenting confusion for the preyed upon and agita for the predator, whose omnipotence is thrilling, but fragile. This paper addresses the politics and dynamics of erotic relations, and explores the tension between pleasure and danger, between consent and submission, and between the lure of romanticism, with its swampy lost and foundness, and the sobriety of politicization — the clear-eyed...

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2020 Rotman Research Institute Conference - Aging & Brain Healthy: Mental Health and Well-Being

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presented by

Donna Rose Addis, Linda Clare, JEff Daskalakis, Alexandra Fiocco, Joseph Gone, AManda Grenier, Nasreen Khatari, Ruth Lanius, Jutta LIndert, Nir Lipsman, Linda Mah, Mara Mather, Roger McIntyre, Margaret McKinnon, Jed Meltzer, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Allison Sekuler, Gustavo Turecki, Angie Troyer, Susan Vandermorris

Metro Toronto Convention Centre
North Building
255 Front Street West
Toronto, ON Canada

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Working with Violent, Suicidal and Self-destructive Adolescents: A collaborative strengths-based approach

Facilitator: Matthew D. Selekman, MSW., LCSW., CRADC
presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

This training is suitable for: Social workers and educators.
Description: Adolescents presenting with explosive and violent, highly oppositional, school disruptive, serious eating-distressed, heavy substance abuse and self-injury, and delinquent behaviors can be a nightmare to work with even for the most seasoned of therapists. Often, these youth come from families characterized by emotional disconnection, invalidation, and other destructive interactions. The adolescents’ extreme and provocative behaviors attract helping professionals and concerned members from their social networks like a magnet. To further complicate matters, the larger...

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Motivational Interviewing (MI): Incorporate Miller and Rollnik’s MI techniques into practice

Facilitator: Adam Lodzinski, Ph.D.
presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

This training is suitable for: Mental health and medical professionals, as well as direct service workers of all experience levels.
Description: This workshop teaches you the guiding principles, strategies and skills for incorporating Miller and Rollnik's Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques into your practice. Essentially, MI is a form of collaborative conversation for strengthening a client's motivation and commitment to change.
MI consists of a set of empirically validated counselling techniques designed to support client-centered work for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change by paying particular attention to...

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