The Brief Family Mirror Seminar with Emphasis on System-Involved Youth & Family Attachment & Trauma: A 4 Session Seminar
Thu, Jul 09
|Online Event
This is a four-week training, and participants are required to attend all four sessions. To register, you must have previously completed the prerequisite training, “Working with System-Involved Youth and Their Families Using Evidence-Informed Principles: An Overview” with Pamela Parkinson.
Time & Location
Jul 09, 2026, 2:00 PM PDT – Jul 30, 2026, 5:00 PM PDT
Online Event
About the Event
Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW
*THIS IS A FOUR-WEEK TRAINING, AND ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED FOR ALL SESSIONS. THE SESSIONS WILL BE HELD FROM 2:00-5:00 PM ON THE FOLLOWING DATES: 7/9/26, 7/16/26, 7/23/26, and 7/30/26.
Training Description
This training teaches how to understand family dynamics from a relational perspective that supports the development of plans for system-involved youth (SIY) using a strength-based lens with the Pain in the Heart (PITH) healing questions. These questions were developed to utilize evidence-based elements from structural and attachment-based family theories in an applied way for youth who have experienced multiple serious trauma and attachment ruptures. We will explore the link between past trauma, current feelings about the past trauma, and fear of what might happen in the future. Since system-involved youth can act out traumas in their behavioral symptoms, it is important to be able to understand these from their perspective so that we can more…