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Workshop Name:	Working With Children and Families: An Online Course for Frontline Staff - [ WCF 3000]
Description:	Families present themselves in many ways and offer varying challenges to helping professionals. As children change through their developmental stages, new challenges to the counselor are presented. Past experiences with other agencies may have affected the parents’ ability to trust and cooperate. Often the goals of the parents and children are so different that they appear permanently and discouragingly polarized. This flexible online certificate course offers an exciting educational opportunity to professionals aspiring to further their knowledge and work with families. Upon course completion you will be able to: - describe a competency-based theoretical framework for working with families - utilize ideas that will build therapeutic rapport and cooperation with all family members - develop methods for clarifying problem definition and family “goal consensus” - challenge intergenerational family scripts using genograms and time-lines - know when to include the children in counselling - assess motivation and offer lines of inquiry to move change forward - demonstrate familiarity with a broad repertoire of questions that elicit hope, focus, and family resources content This course requires an average of three hours per week of online participation for 8 weeks, for a total of 24 hours. You will have the opportunity to get to know the other participants and familiarize yourself with the online format of learning. There are four modules that will contain online, moderated discussions of the module content and course readings. Participants will have an opportunity to work with an e-partner for some group work and assignments. Requirements for the course include Internet access, an email account, MS Word, and word processing and file management knowledge. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will receive a dual certificate through The University of Toronto Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and the Gail Appel Institute. Please note that registration for this online course should be made directly through the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre at 416.972.1935, x3345 or online at www.peopleware.net/2323.
Fee:	early enrollment: $269.00 (HST included) regular: $299.00 (HST included)
Dates:	Fall October 17 - December 8, 2011 Winter January 30 - March 23, 2012

Instructor(s):	Scot Cooper, BA Scot is the Director of The Brief Therapy Network and author of a Competency-Based Classroom: A Classroom manual. He is a supervisor and a child and family clinical therapist at a children's mental health centre where he works collaboratively with children and families in various contexts. Scot's focus is on precise questioning, techniques, and working assumptions that can assist clinicians in their everyday work. Eric King, MSW, RSW Eric is the clinical director of Brief Therapy Training Centres-International. He is the Director of Admissions and Family Programming at the Pine River Institute, a therapeutic Boarding School for adolescents dealing with addictions. He is also the residential training coordinator at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre. Eric has been actively involved in brief and family therapy practice and training since 1985. He has a cross appointment to the Division of Child Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.