Brought to you by the New York Mental Health Counselors Association
This presentation will focus on enhancing your work with caregivers and increasing confidence in your ability to effectively establish a collaborative working relationship. We will focus on skills necessary to effectively establish relationships and will learn how to put your counseling skills to work, specifically in relation to caregiver support. We will address the confusion and lack of assuredness in work with caregivers, regarding how much or how little support we can offer. We will address how to structure caregiver meetings and general caregiver communication in an efficient and meaningful way that will help you feel more adept at this nuanced work, while also maintaining effective boundaries that feel right for you. We will also learn intervention that can be used immediately in work with caregivers, this work will focus on not only ways the caregivers can support their child, but also ways to help caregivers heal themselves.