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Learning Objectives

• Identify ways that clients can access intuition, challenge and counteract client negative self-talk and increase client self-confidence and self-expression.
• Describe ways to compassionately challenge clients' reluctance and internal blocks to setting boundaries.
• Apply collaboration techniques with clients on Action/Treatment Plans to ensure consistency and completion.

Learning Levels

• Intermediate

Target Audience

Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

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  Ellen Blaufox

  Ellen Blaufox, LCSW-R has been a professional speaker and trainer for mental health professionals for almost three decades. She has trained mental health professionals in a variety of social service agencies, higher education institutions (NYU, Adelphi, Stony Brook, Rutgers), and private organizations providing continuing education . As an Adjunct Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work on the Westchester Campus, Ellen taught Diversity, Racism, Oppression & Privilege for multiple semesters. She was also an Adjunct Professor at Iona College where she taught Trauma in Film. In her clinical and supervisory work, Ellen was fortunate to be part of the development and implementation of myriad evidence-based, trauma treatment models.Clinical Director of the largest psychiatric treatment facility for adolescents in New York State for almost ten years, her Senior Leadership role, lead to the creation of a specialized unit for adolescent survivors or human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Ellen's clinical and supervisory work has contributed to the research, and development of various, remarkable, innovative & helpful treatment models including Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress (SPARCS) and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT) for Residential Populations, LGBTQ + and survivors of Human Trafficking. In addition Additionally, Ellen was a Core Team member at the Jewish Board that worked with Dr. Sandra Bloom in the adaptation and implementation of the Sanctuary Model from adult (SELF) to adolescent (SAGE) populations. Ellen Blaufox, LCSW-R has been trained (and trains others in) such evidenced-based practices as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Ellen believes that a therapeutic relationship that ensures safety, open communication and transparency, as well as hope and optimism are the proven key ingredients in patient satisfaction and successful prognosis.

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