Pearl Berman, PhD; Dana Hysock Witham, PhD; Terri Wells; and Whitney Carmichael, MA
The mission of Project FORECAST is to develop training partnerships with universities and their community-based workforce partners that will increase the competence of professionals entering child-serving sectors. As part of Project FORECAST, this interactive workshop introduces participants to a Problem-Based Learning Simulation (PBL-S) where they will acquire, practice, and apply the critical thinking skills that are necessary to effectively intervene with "real world" situations involving children and families exposed to traumatic stress.
Objectives
- Identify physical, emotional, and behavioral indicators of traumatic stress/child maltreatment within the case simulation.
- Discuss documentation pertaining to allegations of child maltreatment as it applies to the case simulation.
- Demonstrate critical thinking skills (in the form of facts, hunches/hypotheses, next steps, and learning issues) to generate the initial steps of an investigative plan based on available case information.
- Manage a trauma-informed investigation plan for the case simulation that includes involvement of multi-disciplinary investigative team (MDIT) disciplines.
Target Audience: Clinical personnel, counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators, criminal justice professionals, health care professionals.
Introductory level. CE credits offered = 1.5 contact hours.