Family Assessment Workshop

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Family Assessment Workshop

By SWCSS Margaret Vennard

Date and time

Tue, Jan 23, 2018 8:30 AM - Wed, Jan 24, 2018 4:00 PM MST

Location

Italian Canadian Cultural Centre

1511 St. Edward Blvd. North Lethbridge, Alberta T1H 2P9 Canada

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

Description

Level 1 Family Assessment

This two-day training is for professionals who regularly work with children, adolescents, and their families and are looking for specialized knowledge in assessing and understanding family dynamics that may be influencing their clients behaviour and overall functioning.

Based on family systems theory, the foundation of the training is identification of family structure and family functioning within the system and it’s influence on key aspects of the clients’ life.

Areas of Focus:

  • Family Emotional System
  • Multi-generational transmission of Symptoms
  • Under-functioning/Over-functioning
  • Emotional-off vs. Distancing
  • Closeness-Distance Cycle
  • Sibling Position
  • Gender Patterns
  • Use of Genograms
  • Stepfamilies
  • Grief and Trauma as a Family Process
  • Therapeutic Relationship vs. Alliances

About the Presenter: Kevin Cameron

Eight days after the Columbine school shooting, Mr. Cameron led the crisis response during the 1999 school shooting incident in Taber, Alberta. Shortly thereafter he was seconded by the Alberta Government to a 13-month initiative where he studied traumatic aftermath from a "human systems approach." Through consultation with several American sites that had experienced school shootings, and other trauma sites throughout North America, Mr. Cameron developed the Traumatic Event Systems (TES) Model.

In concert with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Behavioural Sciences Unit, he developed Canada's first comprehensive, multidisciplinary Violence Threat Risk Assessment training program.

In March 2001, Mr. Cameron was invited to Washington, D.C. by the United States Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Education, where he presented parts of the TES Model and opened international collaborative relations for the development of threat assessment protocols and related training.

He is a “Subject-Matter Expert” for Threat Assessment and Trauma Response for British Columbia Government’s ERASE initiative as well as the Lead Clinician for the Surrey Wrap Youth Gang Prevention Program.

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