Faith-Based Continuing Education for Professionals
All courses will have a Friday session that starts Friday at 6pm - 10pm and Saturday from 9am - 4pm. The cost for each course is $120 for CEU's and $80 to audit.
Spring 2013
Counseling Adolescents and Their Families
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Date |
March 1st and 2nd |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Tina Lips |
This course examines and synthesizes adolescent growth and developmental stages, examines normal and abnormal adolescent behaviors, identifies common adolescent problems/symptoms and presents counseling techniques and skills resulting in the ability to successfully work with adolescent populations. The intervention focus will be on Collaborative Problem Solving and DBT for teens.
Sand Tray Therapy
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Date |
March 8th and 9th |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Julie Lerwick Chong |
This course will cover an introduction to the theory and practice of sandtray therapy as a therapeutic approach when working with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and groups. Development of a therapist-child relationship and utilization of sandtray media in the counseling process is emphasized as a means to facilitate expression, self-understanding, and person growth & development – for both the client and the counselor. Didactic and experiential methods are used.
Career Counseling: Strategies in Counseling People Going Through a Career Change or Trying to get back into the Job Market
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Date |
March 15th and 16th |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Cole Chatterton |
With near-record unemployment in 2012, the competition in this year's job market is fierce. Counseling clients may require assistance in managing the emotional, spiritual and practical aspects of their job search process. Employers have their pick of top-notch candidates for relatively few job openings. As more employers use the Internet for candidate research, having an online presence is critical for both finding and keeping a job. Learn how to ensure clients are ready to undergo a productive career-search process, design your own approach to career coaching, and leverage contemporary tools and techniques to deliver an enriching and rewarding experience.
Reluctance and You: Increasing Confidence in Client Building
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Date |
April 12th and 13th |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Gloria Morris, M.S., LMFT |
Provides exposure to various theoretical models and the opportunity to practice group play therapy skills with a range of emotional/behavioral problems.
Experiential Communication For Counselors
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Date |
April 19th and 20th |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Diane Moore, MA |
This course provides a very experiential approach to communicating in the counselor chair. Experiential communication is communicating to create understanding rather than just knowledge. Experiential learning and real understanding promote deeper change in clients. It is less conscious but more believable. It involves using time, space, objects, pictures, stories and music and much more. After the class, each student will have the opportunity to use what they have learned to develop their own experiential exercise to share.
Prepare/Enrich Training
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Date |
April 26th and 27th |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Brandi Walters, MA |
This course focuses on specific training tools for premarital therapy and supporting a healthy marriage. The training provided certifies students to become facilitators who administer and use a specific relationship inventory and exercises (Prepare/Enrich) with couples in all stages of relationship. Attention is given to practical interventions that helping professionals (counselors, pastors, social workers, ministry leaders) can use with couples for premarital therapy and marriage enrichment.
Art Therapy
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Date |
May 3rd and 4th |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Gloria Morris, M.S., LMFT |
Provides state-of-the-art research and wisdom for graduate students in art therapy, and for any therapist who wishes to use art expression in clinical work.
Bringing Recovery to Groups and Individuals Utilizing the Genesis Process: Intervention Strategies that Work with Broken People
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Date |
May 17th and 18th |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Kathy Rodriguez, PsyD |
Working with addictions isn't an option for today's counselors; rather it is a necessity. Understanding the brain's role in creating and maintaining addictions is crucial to working with clients with chemical and/or behavioral addictions. This weekend elective will lay the physical and theoretical foundation for understanding addiction along with many practical exercises utilizing Michael Dye's, Genesis Change Process through the lens of group therapy. After this seminar, you will be able to give your clients clinical understanding and practical tools for addressing this rapidly growing problem inside and outside the church in a group therapy setting.
Applied Techniques in Group Therapy
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Date |
June 14th and 15th |
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Location |
Multnomah University Campus |
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Instructor |
Dan Carpenter, PsyD |
Registration and Contact Info
Phone: (503) 251-6446
E-mail: elist@multnomah.edu