This training will provide an overview and discussion of the 'nature of helping' relationships between a healthcare professional and client. It will cover the components and the steps in building such relationships including trust and confidentiality. Various types of verbal and non-verbal communication techniques are reviewed as well as exploring effective engagement strategies. Therapeutic boundaries […]

This advanced training, designed for agency executives and program administrators, will explore complex ethical and risk-management challenges that arise in behavioral health organizations.  This unique training will be provided by an attorney and ethics expert who have extensive experience consulting on ethics issues that can expose behavioral health organizations to legal risk.  Attorney Robert Landau […]

As mental health providers, it is important for us to distinguish the diversity within the Latino population as we assess and treat trauma. During this presentation, we will discuss the diversity within the Latino community in Rhode Island and how trauma impacts the Latino community. We will also provide clinicians with specific-trauma informed techniques to utilize when working […]

This one-day interactive workshop will provide participants with different models for integrating care-delivery. An emphasis on understanding how practitioner attitudes and beliefs about abstinence, self-help, and medication assisted treatment impact treatment effectiveness and client retention rates will be examined. The use of real world examples will augment a review of the core principles of client-centered and recovery-oriented care. […]

This training will examine the co-occurrence of trauma and substance use, and review the negative effects of both on family systems. The course will explore how substance use and trauma related issues are impacting the child welfare system, and  address the frequency of trauma, as well as the short and long term effects of trauma. […]