Survival Guide for Superheroes: Managing Paperwork, Productivity, and Personal and Professional Boundaries

Rachel Michaelsen

Training Description

Timely management of paperwork, meeting productivity requirements, maintaining professional boundaries with colleagues and clients, preventing vicarious traumatization from impacting our personal lives and client interventions all while making positive connections and impact with clients - that’s being a true SUPERHERO. Learn strategies for sustainable “superheroing” so you can provide super care and interventions to your system involved clients and their families. We will cover challenges and strategies to address challenges with paperwork, productivity, professional boundaries and vicarious traumatization and will develop a sustainable superhero plan to address the barriers to successfully meeting your clients’ needs while staying calm and focused.

Learning Objectives

• Determine at least one emotional block to managing timely and thorough paperwork;
• Identify at least 1 area that professional boundaries are challenged and 1-2 strategies to address the challenge;
• Identify at least 2 signs of vicarious traumatization and make a plan to address them;
• Develop a plan to facilitate providing timely, professional interventions with appropriate boundaries to clients.

Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 Introductions, Course Overview, Opening Exercise

9:30 – 9:45 What is and is not working for you getting your job done?

9:45 – 10:30 Challenges and Solution: technical

10:30 – 10:45 BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

10:45 – 11:30 Challenges and Solution: technical cont.

11:30 – 12:15 Challenges and Solution: organizational

12:15 – 12:45 LUNCH (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

12:45 – 1:15 Challenges and Solution: organizational cont.

1:15 – 2:15 Challenges and Solution: psychological

2:15 – 2:30 BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

2:30 – 3:30 Challenges and Solution: psychological cont.

3:30 – 4:00 Sustainable Superhero Plan

4:00 ADJOURNMENT

Meet Our Trainer

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, is a clinical social worker who has worked in HMOs, public agencies, and private practice as both a mental-health provider and a supervisor for over thirty years. She has taught courses in DSM-5, clinical supervision, law and ethics, childhood psychopathology, time management, boundaries, vicarious traumatization and energy psychology at universities, conferences, and mental-health agencies. She has a private psychotherapy practice, provides sound healing sessions and is also the Chair of the Humanitarian Committee for the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.

This course meets the qualifications for (6) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as re9:00quired by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.