Friday, March 28th, 2025
Class 1: 10:00 AM EDT
Class 2: 1:45 PM EDT
M. Elizabeth Bowman, PhD, LICSW, LCSW-C,
Webinar Description
Full Day Webinar
March 28th 2025
10:00 AM - 4:45 PM EST
The cost of the full program is $99.99, an individual class is $59.99
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Class 1
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Become Unstuck: Alliance Building with Challenging Clients
Mental health clinicians routinely encounter individuals with challenging personalities and behaviors. With these clients, we can become stuck in patterns of interaction that are not therapeutic, leave us feeling frustrated, and block us from engaging in healing relationships with our clients. This workshop will offer a deeper understanding of personality functioning and provide insights into improved working relationships with challenging individuals. In this workshop we will move toward a deeper understanding of the concept of personality and learn how to form therapeutic alliances in challenging professional relationships. Initially, the workshop will cover DSM-5’s alternative model for personality disorders with a focus on the elements of identity, self-direction, empathy, and intimacy and how individuals exist along a continuum for each of these elements.
The workshop will examine how these elements manifest for clients along the spectrum, from little to no impairment through severe impairment. With insight into these personality elements, practical case examples will be reviewed along with exploration of how to form alliances with individuals who fall on the far ends of the spectrum. The outcome of the workshop will be a deeper understanding of personality more generally as well as some take-home tools for creating stronger therapeutic alliances with challenging clients.
3 Hours
About The Presenter:
(Trainer - Dr. Sharen Barboza is a licensed clinical psychologist and internationally recognized expert in suicide prevention, crisis management, self-injury reduction, and self-care in institution settings. She holds a master’s degree in psychology from Tufts University, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and is certified in Wholebeing Positive Psychology)
Class 2
1:45 PM - 4:45 PM EST
Human Trafficking and Trauma-informed Care as Ethical Practice
Domestic minor sex trafficking, also known as the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), is defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA, 2000) as any “commercial sex act induced by force, fraud, or coercion, in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age.” This impacts an estimated 10,000 children across the US each year.
This training provides an overview of CSEC/sex trafficking, focusing on how to effectively engage with at-risk populations such as foster youth, unhoused children, individuals with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups. Participants will examine trafficking risks from a systems perspective, exploring how societal factors—such as mental health care, education, economic systems, and service accessibility—contribute to vulnerability. The training also covers ethical practices when working with trafficking survivors, emphasizing trauma-informed care and empowerment-focused approaches. Attendees will learn to Identify warning signs of trafficking, use effective, empowerment-based intervention strategies, and connect clients with appropriate resources and assistance.
3 Hours
About The Presenter:
(Trainer - M. Elizabeth Bowman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at Gallaudet University. She is also a minor domestic sex trafficking survivor, anti-trafficking advocate, researcher, and speaker. In her clinical practice she works with trafficking survivors using trauma-informed yoga therapy and also has a clinical practice supporting children and adolescents with anxiety and other challenges. Her nonprofit, The Restoring Ivy Collective, works to establish intentional community for survivors through authentic social connection and mental health support. Her research areas include the intersection of child welfare and sex trafficking, organizational culture and supervision in child welfare, and special populations issues in trafficking including LGBT and Deaf youth. She holds clinical social work licensure in DC and Maryland and is a Registered Yoga Teacher, RYT-200. She is a mother of two teenagers and in her abundant free time enjoys long walks and napping.)
This One Day Seminar includes two excellent classes, a total of 6 CEs. You may attend an individual class for $59.99.
Webinars included in this package:
Become Unstuck: Alliance Building with Challenging Clients
Human Trafficking and Trauma-informed Care as Ethical Practice
Accreditation - These webinars offer 6 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
- CE You LLC #1573 is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE You LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period 3/27/2024 – 3/27/27. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program. - CE You LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0437
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Additional information
- Refunds: Registrants who are unable to attend a CeYou! Plus! seminar or live webinars may ask for, and will receive, a credit or refund (your choice). Refund requests will be processed within 3 business days. When an attendee knows in advance that they are unable to attend we ask that they inform CeYou! Plus! ahead of time by emailing [email protected] or by calling or texting 607-249-4585 this allows us to free up the spot in the training in the event that a training is at or near capacity.
- Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
- Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly.
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- Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
- There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.