Boundaries and Counter-Transference with System-Involved Youth

Sonja Lenz-Rashid, PhD, LCSW

Training Description

The training will take a developmental approach, focusing on the various emotional and physical boundaries that inevitably arise with working with system involved youth and children in foster care. This training will also utilize case vignettes and small group sharing to dig deep into the various counter-transference experiences we may face when working with system involved youth and children in foster care and how counter-transference may impact our information gathering efforts and strategies to support them.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify at least 3 types of boundary and ethical dilemmas that can arise within efforts to support system involved youth.

2. Explain at least one way trauma may impact a system involved youth's experiences with boundaries and identify at least one way Counter-transference can impact information gathering and strategies to support system involved youth.