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
https://nefesh.org/workshops/50Minutesmay2023/viewFREE WEBINAR
50 Minutes:
How to Conduct an Amazing First Session with Your New Client
Previously Recorded
Presenter: Simcha Feuerman, DHL, LCSW-R
Course Length: 2 Hours
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to describe to conduct effective intake and interview
- Participants will be able to list 3 techniques to assess and join with client
- Participants will be able to list 3 techniques to set goals and collaborate in the development of plan for treatment
This workshop Offers 2 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.
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:
- Participants will be able to describe to conduct effective intake and interview
- Participants will be able to list 3 techniques to assess and join with client
- 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
- 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! 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. These credits are also accepted by the Maryland Boards for Professional Counselors, Psychology, and Certification of Residential Child Care Program Professionals, and many other states and disciplines