The Brief Family Mirror Seminar with Emphasis on System-Involved Youth & Family Attachment & Trauma: A 4 Session Seminar
Tue, Oct 07
|Online Event
This is a four-week training, and attendance is required for all four sessions. Eligibility for registration requires prior completion of the prerequisite training, "Working with System-Involved Youth and Their Families Using Evidence-Informed Principles: An Overview" with Pamela Parkinson.
Time & Location
Oct 07, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT – Oct 28, 2025, 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 10/7/25, 10/14/25, 10/21/25, and 10/28/25.
Training Description
This training teaches how to understand family dynamics from a relational perspective that supports the development of plans for system-involved youth 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 & attachment-based family theories in an applied way for youth who have experienced multiple serious trauma & attachment ruptures. We will explore the link between past trauma, current feelings about the past trauma, & 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 easily respond and…