Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Thursday, May 4, 2017 (6 hours CPD)

Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Grief, Loss, and Mourning - Dr. Melissa Reeves

This session is designed to enhance a school psychologist’s existing knowledge base about grief, loss, and mourning. Through didactic presentation, case examples, and group discussion, participants will increase their levels of comfort in dealing with grief; better understand the differences between normal and complicated grieving; and learn intervention strategies to address both. Participants will achieve a better understanding of factors that influence grief and morning, and develop specialized skills for helping children and adolescents cope more successfully with these intensely felt emotions.

Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools- Dr. John Murphy

This workshop provides practical strategies of Solution-Focused Counseling (SFC), a culturally respectful, research-supported approach to building school solutions from the unique strengths and resources of preschool through secondary students. Strategies include building collaborative relationships with “resistant” students, creating goals that matter, asking change-focused questions, building on strengths and resources, collecting feedback, and empowering small changes.

*Dr. Murphy's book, "Solutions Focused Counseling in the Schools - 3^rd Edition," can be included in your registration fee (see registration options here).

Thursday, May 4, 2017 (Evening)

Friday, May 5, 2016 (3.25 hours CPD)

When Everything You’ve Tried Hasn’t Worked: Creative Techniques for Difficult Behavior Problems- Dr. John Murphy

This workshop equips teachers, counselors, parents, and other helping professionals with a toolbox of creative techniques for addressing difficult problems that are unresponsive to conventional techniques. Based on systems theory, brief therapy, and research on “what works” in changing persistent problems, this session demonstrates how to “do something different” versus more of the same when faced with chronic problems at school or elsewhere. Techniques include re-framing, externalizing, being unpredictable, asking change-focused questions, building resilience/resource interventions, and interviewing the internalized other.