What’s Your Type? How Personality, Communication & Learning Styles Can Affect Your Support for System Involved Youth

Rachel Michaelsen

Training Description

We all have our strengths and weaknesses when supporting system involved youth and families involved. Some of them come from who we naturally are and what comes easiest to us versus what challenges us. Although we want to provide the most effective support for our vulnerable youth and families in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, the challenging areas can interfere with providing thorough and excellent support. Learn your type [Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), communication style, learning style and more] and how to use your strengths and address your areas of challenge to support improvements in outcomes for system involved youth and families.

Learning Objective

• Identify their MBTI, learning style and communication style;
• Identify at least 3 benefits of their types to meeting the needs of system involved youth and families;
• Identify at least 3 challenges of their type to meeting the needs of system involved youth and families; and
• Identify at least 3 ways to address their challenges to meeting the needs of system involved youth and families.

Agenda 

9:00 – 9:15am  Introductions and Logistics

9:15 – 10:00am  Types – what are they

10:00 – 10:30am  Completing the MBTI

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

10:45 – 11:15am  Skills and Behaviors for different roles

11:15 – 11:45am  Identify your strengths and weakness

11:45 – 12:15pm  How to address challenges that inhibit excellent support for system involved youth

12:15pm  Adjourn

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 diagnoses, clinical supervision, law and ethics, childhood psychopathology, time management, vicarious traumatization, energy psychology and more at universities, conferences, and mental-health agencies.

This course meets the qualifications for (3.0) BBS CEUs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.