About this Event
Advance Practice for Child Welfare Professionals—Focusing on OARS and the Righting Reflex
Trainer: Marya Wright, DSW, MSW
Date: July 10th, 2024
Time: 9:15pm - 3:15pm
Location: Virtual – Zoom
Agency: A Better Way Inc.
Participants must complete registration via the A Better Way Inc. website in order to gain full access to the training course.
COMPLETE REGISTRATION HERE:
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A Better Way is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor Continuing Education for LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, LEP (62361). This course meets the qualifications for Continuing Education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. A Better Way maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Description:
This is an advanced course developed for case managers and clinicians who have a basic understanding of MI. Participants will build on the knowledge gained from an introductory MI course. Participants will increase their understanding of open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries (OARS). The content explores each interviewing technique in-depth to enhance the participants tool kit of MI responses with system-involved youth and adolescents. Participants will be able to apply the tools learned in this course to establish reports, collaboration, and understanding for their current clients. This course will provide practical skills and strategies to resist the righting reflex when met with client resistance. Participants will increase their understanding of the righting reflex. The content explores MI four guiding principles, represented by the acronym R.U.L.E. Participants will gain a general understanding of how resistance may show up when working with system-involved youth and families. The course will provide strategies on appropriate response to resistance. As well as what could be said in response to resistance rather than using the righting reflex. The material will be delivered by PowerPoint presentation, short video clips, group discussion, breakout (small group) discussions and participant workbook (handout).
Objective:
- Trainees will be able to evaluate how the righting reflex affects their practice when working with system-involved youth and families.
- Trainees will be able to describe multiple differences between inappropriate and appropriate responses to client resistance.
- Trainees will be able to distinguish at least 2 differences between open- and closed-ended questions and demonstrate the ability to convert questions to elicit change talk.
- Trainees will be able to list five examples of how to respond when a client is ambivalent or expresses resistance to change.
Measurable Learning:
- By the end of the course, trainees will be able to select client strengths and use them to formulate an affirmation for their client.
- When engaging with system-involved youth and families, trainees will be able to distinguish the differences between issue and relational resistance and provide appropriate responses.
Participants must complete registration via the A Better Way Inc. website in order to gain full access to the training course.
COMPLETE REGISTRATION HERE: https://training.abetterwayinc.net/courses/4354
Please email the training department at for further assistance.
A Better Way is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor Continuing Education for LCSW, LMFT, LPCC, LEP (62361). This course meets the qualifications for Continuing Education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. A Better Way maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
T rainer Bio:M ARYA WRIGHT, DSW, MSW
Marya Wright, DSW MSW BSW, is a nationally recognized social worker, consultant, educator, and facilitator with extensive experience in organizational leadership, child welfare services, and curriculum development. As the President and CEO of Wright Community Services LLC, Dr. Wright is dedicated to empowering system-involved families through awareness, services, and education. She also provides consultation, training, and facilitation to agencies serving these communities.
Dr. Wright earned her master’s in social work from Cal State East Bay, specializing in Child Welfare Policy and Research, and a bachelor’s in social work with a focus on Child Welfare Services and Motivational Interviewing from San Diego State University. She holds a Doctorate in Social Work from the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, focusing on achieving equal opportunity and justice in the child welfare system.
As a community leader, Dr. Wright prioritizes building relationships, networking, and collaborating with stakeholders to address social and economic issues faced by clients, aiming for justice and peace. She serves as a qualified expert witness and forensic social worker. Additionally, Dr. Wright sits on the Board of Directors for the California Society of Clinical Social Work and is actively involved with the National Association of Social Workers and California Chapter.
Dr. Wright’s research interests include child sexual exploitation, foster care, and algorithmic decision-making in child welfare. She has published articles and lectured extensively on these topics. Dr. Wright’s teaching experience includes courses in sociology and social work at Cal State East Bay, focusing on sexualities, child welfare policy, family sociology, and sexual violence. Currently, she serves as a professor in the graduate program teaching generalist practice, human behavior and social environment, and advance practice children youth and families.
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