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50 Minutes:
How to Conduct an Amazing First Session with Your New Client

In this webinar, we will discuss assessment, interviewing, and joining techniques that allow you to learn about your client as well as form the basis for a continued, healthy therapeutic alliance. Some key skills that will be taught are:

Joining, helping defuse tension feeling at ease, and setting the stage.

Assessment of the problem

Strengths-based interviewing

Related history taking

Reflection, collaboration, checking, and refining

responding to personality disorders in the intake process

statement of boundaries, appointment making, etc

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50 Minutes:
How to Conduct an Amazing First Session with Your New Client

Sunday, June 11, 2023, 2:00 PM America/New_York
$39.99 Simcha Feuerman, DHL, LCSW-R

In this webinar, we will discuss assessment, interviewing, and joining techniques that allow you to learn about your client as well as form the basis for a continued, healthy therapeutic alliance. Some key skills that will be taught are:

Joining, helping defuse tension feeling at ease, and setting the stage.

Assessment of the problem

Strengths-based interviewing

Related history taking

Reflection, collaboration, checking, and refining

responding to personality disorders in the intake process

statement of boundaries, appointment making, etc

About the Presenter

Simcha Feuerman is a clinical social worker with 25 years experience treating individuals, families and couples. His current practice specializes in high conflict couples and families and male sexual health.

This workshop Offers 2 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

50 Minutes:
How to Conduct an Amazing First Session with Your New Client

Sunday, June 11, 2023, 2:00 PM America/New_York

Presenter: Simcha Feuerman, DHL, LCSW-R

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Course Length: 2 Hours

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to describe to conduct effective intake and interview
  2. Participants will be able to list 3 techniques to assess and join with client
  3. Participants will be able to list 3 techniques to set goals and collaborate in the development of plan for treatment

This workshop Offers 2 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

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In this webinar, we will discuss assessment, interviewing, and joining techniques that allow you to learn about your client as well as form the basis for a continued, healthy therapeutic alliance. Some key skills that will be taught are:

Joining, helping defuse tension feeling at ease, and setting the stage.

Assessment of the problem

Strengths-based interviewing

Related history taking

Reflection, collaboration, checking, and refining

responding to personality disorders in the intake process

statement of boundaries, appointment making, etc

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to describe to conduct effective intake and interview
  2. Participants will be able to list 3 techniques to assess and join with client
  3. Participants will be able to list 3 techniques to set goals and collaborate in the development of plan for treatment

Agenda:

intro 10 min

Explain the practitioner's state of mind and focus 10 min

Skill set one (10 min): joining, helping defuse tension feeling at ease, setting the stage.

Skill set two (10 min) Assessment of the problem.

skill set three (10 min) Strengths-based interviewing

Skill set four (10 min) Related history taking.

Skill set five (10 min) Reflection, collaboration, checking, and refining.

Skill set six (10 min) personality disorders.

Skill set seven (20 min) Conclusion, statement of boundaries, appointment making, etc

Q and A and summary (20 min)

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
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • 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.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
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  • NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
  • NEFESH International 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-0048.
  • NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0046
  • This course, 50 Minutes:
    How to Conduct an Amazing First Session with Your New Client, Approval provided by NEFESH: The International Network of Orthodox Mental Health Professionals, is approved for continuing education by the New Jersey Social Work Continuing Education Approval Collaborative, which is administered by NASW-NJ. CE Approval Collaborative Approval Period: Tuesday,January 3, 2023 through August 31, 2024. New Jersey social workers will receive 2 Clinical CE credit for participating in this course.
  • CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland. CE You! maintains responsibility for this program..
  • NEFESH International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0116.
  • This program is co-sponsored by NEFESH International and Therapist Express. NEFESH International is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NEFESH International maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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