The Brief Family Mirror Seminar with an Emphasis on Family Relationships and Trauma: A Four Session Seminar
Thu, May 23
|Online Event
This is a (4)-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
May 23, 2024, 2:00 PM PDT – Jun 13, 2024, 5:00 PM PDT
Online Event
About the Event
Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW
*This is a (4)-week training and attendance is required for all four sessions. The sessions will be held from 2:00-5:00PM on 5/23/24, 5/30/24, 6/6/24, and 6/13/24.
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 evidence-based elements from 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…