The Brief Family Mirror Seminar with an Emphasis on Family Attachment and Trauma: A Four Session Seminar
Thu, Jun 03
|Online Event
This is a four-week training and attendance is required for all four sessions. In order to register for this training, you must have completed the “Working with Families in our Systems of Care Using Evidence Informed Principles: An Overview” pre-requisite training with Pamela Parkinson.


Time & Location
Jun 03, 2021, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Online Event
About the Event
Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW
*This is a four-week training and attendance is required for all four sessions. The sessions will be held on the following Thursdays 6/3/21, 6/10/21, 6/17/21, and 6/24/21.
Training Description
This training teaches how to understand family dynamics from a relational perspective that will allow us to develop case plans for our system-involved youth using a strength-based lens with the Pain in the Heart Healing (PITH) Questions. These questions were developed specifically to utilize structural and attachment-based family theories in an applied way for kids in our continuum of care who have experienced multiple serious trauma and attachment ruptures in their lives. We will explore the link between past trauma, current feelings about the past trauma, and the fear of what might happen in the future. Since our kids are acting out these traumas in their behavioral symptoms, it is important to be able to understand these…