Setting Boundaries and Client De-escalation Strategies
NASW-WA Live Webinar
Setting Boundaries and Client De-escalation Strategies
Date and Time: February 6, 2025, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, PST, via Zoom
CEs: 3 CE Credits
Price: $75/NASW Members, $120/Non-Members
Presenter: Crystal Bennett, LMSW
Register Now: https://tinyurl.com/ysyx5m78
Webinar Summary:
In this workshop, participants are encouraged to recognize the widespread impact of trauma and understand potential paths for recovery. It emphasizes the importance of realizing the effects of trauma, proactively setting boundaries to minimize over-involvement and under-involvement with clients, and recognizing the signs and symptoms of a client’s trauma responses in order to respond accordingly to escalating behaviors and resist re-traumatization.
Objectives:
- Participants will be able to explain the principles of trauma-informed practices and evaluate what such practices look like, feel like, and sound like when implemented effectively.
- Participants will explore potential triggers of a client’s fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response.
- Participants will be able to verbalize the importance of using trauma-informed de-escalation techniques and evaluate proactive versus reactive responses.
- Participants will be able to develop personalized plans and strategies for supporting individuals through crises and promoting recovery
About the presenter:
Crystal Bennett, LMSW, is an educator, an advocate, a survivor, and a self-proclaimed thriver! For the past 25 years, she has been driven by her personal experiences of trauma to elevate and amplify the voices of individuals and communities in order to promote healing and opportunities to move from surviving to thriving.
Crystal has demonstrated a passion in sharing her experiences in order to help individuals heal from their personal traumas and work alongside professionals to create trauma-informed, culturally inclusive, and person-centered spaces. Her experiences include advocacy within the child welfare system, oversight of child and youth programs, crisis hotline response, delivery of community-based mental health services, and implementing trauma-informed strategies and programs for school districts. She has been called upon to provide training, coaching, and consultation across the nation in the subject areas of Human Trafficking, Suicide Prevention, Motivational Interviewing, Child Trauma & Maltreatment, and Racial Trauma. She is a fierce advocate for social justice and leads courageously to dismantle oppressive systems and create equitable and just services, policies, and programs.
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