Description
Date: May 23, 2023
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Early Bird Pricing for members ends on April 28, 2023. Price will then go up to $25.
- Registration closes: May 21, 2023
- Any registrations after that time will incur a $15 late fee.
- No CE's offered for student registrations.
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Description:
This course will review information on using therapy books in clinical practice with families, youths, and children. Work in the course will include processing common questions and discussion points which most therapists have concerns for. Work includes finding good therapy books that will be able to be used in settings with children, teens, and caregivers. Further discussion points will include processing counselor concerns about using therapy books.
Objectives:
Learners will be able to identify a common fear counselors have in using children’s therapy books
Learners will be able to identify one intervention for overcoming their own fear of using children’s therapy books in session
About the Presenter
Leo DeBroeck is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Child Mental Health Specialist in Washington State. He is CBT Plus certified through the University of Washington and Harborview Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress Center. He works full-time at a community health center as a therapist with a team of Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners, and Psychologists. He has completed his Masters of Science in Clinical Psychology at Eastern Washington University with his thesis on factors in suicide. He has experience working with children and adolescents at an intensive inpatient program in Spokane, Washington for several years. He has worked in several different levels of care for mental health treatment including long-term inpatient care, WISe wraparound intensive services, school-based therapy services, and outpatient clinical settings. He also works as a quarterly faculty lecturer for Eastern Washington University’s satellite campus at Bellevue College. He teaches night classes to graduate and undergraduates in foundations of psychotherapy, trauma: assessment, management, and treatment, cognitive and behavior change, and others. He has published peer-reviewed scientific research on young adults related to suicidality. He has written several children's therapy books, which are published on Amazon, for use in therapy settings addressing grief, addiction, neglect, abuse, and others. He is the president and founder of Counselor's Choice Award, LLC which reviews and promotes scientifically validated counseling products, therapeutic tools, and books.
This course is approved for 1 CE hours for LMHC’s, LMFT’s, LCSW’s and all associate level licensees in Washington State.
Washington Mental Health Association (WMHCA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 2079. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. WMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
- 1 NBCC clock hours will be awarded at the conclusion of the course.
WMHCA Event Cancellation Policy: To receive a refund, less a $15 cancellation fee, cancellations must be made by contacting Sara@wmhca.org at least 48 hours prior to workshop date. There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the workshop date.