The Brief Family Mirror Seminar with Emphasis on System-Involved Youth & Family Attachment & Trauma: A 4 Session Seminar
Thu, Jul 10
|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
Jul 10, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT – Jul 31, 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 7/10/25, 7/17/25, 7/24/25, and 7/31/25.
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 foster the…