Interventions for Family Support: Risk & Resiliency

Recorded 2022

Families face risks for addiction, child sexual abuse, violence, and other major causes of toxic stress. This course will review the evidence provided by research and teach participants how to integrate interventions to reduce risks and build resiliency into their practice.

Areas of focus for the course will include the impact of risk factors on individuals, families, and communities. From there the interventions that can be used to reduce these risks will be discussed including examples of how to implement them into practice. Research on current understanding of efforts of building resiliency versus reducing risks if further discussed in context of using the information in a psychoeducational way. The clinical use of these strategies, handouts, and Socratic values based questioning will be completed.

Workshop attendees can expect to:

•Objective 1) Learner will be able to identify what a risk factor and protective factor is and is not and list one example of each.

•Objective 2) Learner will be able to identify how aces impact communities, families, and individuals.

•Objective 3) Learner will be able to identify Risk factors for individuals and at least 1 intervention for use with individuals.

•Objective 4) Learner will be able to identify Risk factors for families and at least 1 intervention for use with families.

•Objective 5) Learner will be able to identify Risk factors for sexual assault and at least 1 intervention for preventing it or addressing it after.

•Objective 6) Learner will be able to identify prevention (resiliency) for individuals, families, and communities.

Workshop materials

EPDC CE Hours: 2.5

Presenter: Leo DeBroeck

Leo DeBroeck, MS, LMHC, CMHS, MHP  received his BA in Psychology from Gonzaga University and his Masters in Psychology from Eastern Washington University.   Leo is currently a Child and Family Therapist at Sea Mar Community Health.  He is the Founder/CEO of Counselor’s Choice Award, LLC, and a Quarterly Faculty Member at Eastern Washington University, Bellevue where he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes and seminars. Mr. DeBroeck has written several articles and books about Suicide, Trauma, Abuse and Neglect, and children dealing with parental drug and alcohol dependency. Leo also has volunteered for Everett School District, Boy Scouts of America and Compass Health