Workshop Title:

Understanding the Impact of Trauma and Psychiatric Illness in Women 

 

Credit Hours:

3

 

Location:

Chicago, Illinois

 

Date:

Saturday, May 5th

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Tuition:

$45 Regular Rate

 

Workshop Description:

Female patients often respond to overwhelmingly negative events in their life such as sexual assault, domestic violence, miscarriage, post-partum depression, abandonment, break-ups, and death by engaging in dangerous activities such as drug/alcohol use and sex work, which can cause additional trauma. After experiencing an overwhelmingly traumatic experience many women may go through a period of depression or other psychiatric responses. This workshop will help clinical professionals support patients in accepting their diagnosis and learn how to cultivate a life apart from it. This workshop will also help professionals provide more empathic, gender-responsive and trauma-informed treatment to each individual patient. After this workshop clinical professionals will leave with a toolkit of pertinent insight on trauma as it relates to mental health, which they can directly incorporate into their own treatment practices. 

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Continuing Education Approval:

• AODA Professionals: Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be awarded a certificate of completion for 3 CE hours/credits as approved by the Illinois Certification Board for the following categories: Counselor I or II, Preventionist I or II, CARS I or II, MISA I or II or III, PCGC II, CCJP II, CAAP I, CRSS I or II, CPRS I or II, MAATP I or II, RDDP, NCRS II, CFPP II, GCE, CVSS II.  

• Professional Counselors: Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be awarded a certificate of completion for 3 CE hours/credits as approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for LPCs and LCPCs.

• Social Workers: Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be awarded a certificate of completion for 3 CE hours/credits as approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for LSWs and LCSWs. *This seminar satisfies the cultural competence requirement for Illinois social workers.* 

• Nurses: Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be awarded a certificate of completion for 3 CE hours/credits as approved by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for APNs, RNs and LPNs.