Starting Point: The Importance of Being Culturally Attuned With Children and Families, Monday, 4-19-21 (Live Webinar)
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Starting Point: The Importance of Being Culturally Attuned With Children and Families
This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 2 CE Credits – Cultural Competence. For many states, live, interactive webinars count the same as in person.
Presenter: Sabra Starnes, LICSW,LCSW-C, M.ED, RPT-S
Monday, April 19, 2021
8:00PM – 10:00PM EDT
Live Webinar
$39.99
Being a culturally attuned therapist is vital to understanding clients’ ecosystem and their place within it. Sabra Starnes, LICSW,LCSW-C, M.ED, RPT-S will explore awareness skills and knowledge acquired and applied through expressive therapy and play therapy interventions. Participants will examine how Exosystemic Theory can be used to guide the treatment of clients across many cultural backgrounds, stages in the development of intercultural sensitivity, as well as the application of expressive arts in the play therapy setting with clients.
Sabra D. Starnes is a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland and Washington, DC. She has worked as a clinical social worker in the Washington, DC area, for over 20 years in various settings, hospitals, adoption agencies, schools, daycares, outpatient clinics and inpatient treatment centers.
Sabra has a Masters in Social Work from Catholic University and a Master’s in Education from American University. She has her certification in Life Crisis Skills, Sand Tray, Play Therapy, Trauma, Loss and Grief. She is a Parenting the Love and Logic Way expert. She specializes in adoption, foster care, parenting issues and skills. She is very knowledgeable on support resources in the DMV, and often provides guidance to those needing immediate support. As a lifelong learner, she enjoys attending trainings, workshops and self-guided learning on new skills and techniques to enhance her clinical work with children, adults, families and couples.
Sabra is the owner and psychotherapist of Next Place Therapy, a small private practice, with offices in Maryland and Washington, D.C. She has owned her own business since 2001. They provide individual group and family therapy to children, couples and families. They also offer monthly parenting workshops and support groups to parents on such topics as balancing parenting and life, how to communicate and listen effectively to your children, helping young adults launch into the world, safety and the internet, understanding mental illness, loss and grief, and divorce. She has done workshops for children, families and adults on diversity, LGBTQ, growth and development, drug and alcohol prevention, warning signs of depression and other mental illness. Sabra supervises and trains mental health professionals on areas of child social emotional development, adoption and foster care, navigating the school system, and helping parents understand their child’s IEP or 504.
Sabra is an active member in her community. She is instrumental in providing support on pressing issues in our community today. She is very passionate about working with youths and families at risk. She provides pro bono counseling to those who are unable to pay for therapy through the Pro Bono Counseling Project. She has served on various boards in the community.
In her personal life, Sabra is an adoptive mother of two sons, a wife, new grandma and someone who loves to live life to the fullest by traveling, spending time with family and friends, enjoying the outdoors. She enjoys swimming, bike riding, hiking, yoga and meditating.
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Learning objectives – Participants will gain enhanced insight surrounding:
- How Exosystemic Theory can be used to guide the treatment of clients across many cultural backgrounds
- The stages in the development of intercultural sensitivity
- The application of expressive arts in the play therapy setting with clients
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
and is beneficial for:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
CE You LLC #1573 is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE You LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period 3/27/2021 – 3/27/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
CE You LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0437