Power & Control - improve your screening methods & understanding of clients

What you need to know about Power and Control to improve your screening methods and understanding of clients!
About this Event

Speakers: Chris Griffith, LPCC-S, BIP

Speaker Qualifications:

Chris is Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor-Supervisor and current Program Manager for Family Life Counseling Service who has been employed by Christian Appalachian Project for 27 years. He is the Past President of the KY Mental Health Counselors Association, Past Chair of the KY Board of Licensed Professional Counselors where he served for 8 years. He sits as a Board member and Past Board Chair for Turning Point Domestic Violence Services. He received the 2013 and 2015 Mental Health Counselor of the Year Award, 2023 Outstanding Clinical Supervisor Award and was the 2020 recipient of the Dr. Bill Braden Award for outstanding service and promotion of the profession of counseling in Ky from the KY Counseling Association. He has been involved in extensive training in the areas of Intimate Partner Violence, Legal and Ethical Concerns for Counselors and advanced clinical techniques. He lives with his wife, Dee Dee and cat CoCo.

Learn from someone with decades of experience with the power and control wheels about things like:

1. Different types of power and control wheels to use when trying to identify domestic/intimate partner violence.

2. How to use the wheels

3. Duluth criticisms and responses

4. The Equality Wheel

5. LGBTQ+ Wheel

6. How violence affects children

7. Q&A

For this event, it’s okay for lawyers and their paralegals to attend.

Rules on recording:

• This will not be recorded so please join us for the live virtual

• All participants must honor these rules as the discussion topics are sensitive and involve law enforcement issues.

• Third-party recordings or participant recordings are strictly forbidden.

This is an interdisciplinary seminar, so please be mindful that we will have individuals of various levels of knowledge attending and have law enforcement, therapists, and other anti-trafficking professionals in attendance. It will be an excellent opportunity for all.