When

Tuesday March 7, 2017 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM EST
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Association for Mental Health & Wellness 
2040 Ocean Avenue
Training Room
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779  

 
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Contact

Alexis Rodgers, LMSW 
Association for Mental Health and Wellness 
631-471-7242 x1315 
arodgers@mhaw.org 

 

Meeting the Needs of the Angry Client While Tending to Our Own Wellness

3 Continuing Education Hours
LMSW/LCSW/LMHC/LCAT/LMFT

Anger can be a difficult emotion to encounter in our work with clients. In this workshop we will explore two important intersecting topics: working with what is often very challenging – anger – and self care.  We will seek to understand the many faces of anger, the ways we are impacted by it, strategies for effectively dealing with it, and then shift gears into the topic of compassion fatigue, self care, and post-traumatic growth.

Who Should Attend:
Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Creative Arts Therapists, Marriage and Family Therapists, and any professional that is working with adults affected by anger and hurt. 

The following topics will be discussed:
We will explore the topic of anger in depth - understanding it as an 'iceberg emotion', the many ways it presents, what it triggers in us, and strategies for effectively helping someone.  We will then explore compassion fatigue, secondary trauma, and self care with a focus on post-traumatic growth.

Participants will learn to balance the needs of the client with their own, particularly as it relates to the difficult emotion of anger.  They will also learn the importance of self care in mitigating the effects of secondary trauma. The concept of post-traumatic growth will be explored.

The participant will be able to:
  • Gain a deeper understanding of anger in ourselves and our clients.
  • Learn effective ways to communicate with clients where anger is present.
  • Gain an understanding of the effects of compassion fatigue and secondary trauma as well as strategies for dealing with these effects.

    APPROVED FOR 3 CE HOURS (LMSW/LCSW/LMHC/LCAT/LMFT)

Association for Mental Health and Wellness 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. (Provider #0156)

Association for Mental Health and Wellness 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. (Provider #MHC-0014)

Association for Mental Health and Wellness 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. (Provider #MFT-0010)

Association for Mental Health and Wellness 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. (Provider #CAT-0004)
 

*New York State Office of the Professions (NYSED) regulations require that participants attend the entire approved educational activity in order to receive continuing education credits, from 10:00am-1:00pm.

NOTE: No refunds will be issued for cancellations

Certiticate of completion will be provided at the end of the workshop.

Space is limited!! Register now! 

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Meryl Cassidy, LMSW
Meryl Cassidy, LMSW, is currently Executive Director of Response of Suffolk County, Inc., Assistant Professor in the Human Services Program at Suffolk County Community College, and Co-Chair of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Long Island. After receiving her MSW in 1983 from Columbia University, Ms. Cassidy spent the first third of her career developing and managing innovative housing programs for a variety of at-risk populations in Manhattan and Queens. She moved to Suffolk County where she expanded her focus to include work with at-risk families and youth in clinical and agency settings, school districts, and with the Suffolk County Probation Department. Throughout her career, she has maintained a passion for training other social workers and human service professionals and sees this as a vital part of her role as Executive Director of Response.