Aetna Office Hour: ACEs are Not Destiny
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Follow up to presentation on November 9, 2021. This webinar will explore how trauma is a near universal experience of individuals who seek assistance from providers. Addressing trauma is now the expectation, not the exception, in community agencies. It is equally vital that we understand and build resilience in conjunction with understanding the impact of trauma. The combination of an individual’s experience of trauma and resilience impacts every area of human functioning — physical, mental, behavioral, social and spiritual. Workers and community providers are expected to view the people they serve through the trauma informed, resilience‐oriented lens and to competently intervene in this area. The good news is that trauma is treatable and organizations can become trauma‐informed and resilience‐oriented in order to best meet the needs of the people they serve. This training teaches participants about trauma, its prevalence and impact, including the latest information on trauma and the brain.
Presenters
Elizabeth Guroff
Elizabeth Guroff, MA, LCMFT, has more than 25 years of experience in the behavioral health field as both a clinician and administrator. She has worked in a range of clinical settings from treatment foster care and in-home treatment programs to outpatient mental health, private practice and community-based adult services to a variety of residential settings for children and adults. In all these settings, she has provided direct clinical services and provided clinical supervision and direction in all of those areas.
Before joining the National Council, Guroff was COO of a large mental health provider in Montgomery County, Md., where she oversaw and directed implementation of trauma-informed care practices across the entire agency. She was also the clinical supervisor at behavioral health clinic in Columbia, Md.
Guroff earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from The College of Wooster and her Master of Arts in human development and family services from the University of Connecticut.
Dr. Amelia Roeschlein
Amelia Roeschlein, DSW, MA, LMFT, is a skilled licensed clinician who has led health care teams in behavioral health programs for 20 years. She is currently faculty at the University of Southern California (USC) and excels at developing and implementing programs in health care settings.
Dr. Roeschlein has published research and spoken at numerous state, national, and international conferences on interpersonal violence, co-occurring disorders, trauma-informed care, compassion cultivation, leadership and team-based health care. She is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council’s list of qualified Mentalization Based Treatment Practitioners and active in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative.
She completed her doctorate at University of Southern California with a focus on innovation and creating large scale social change through transdisciplinary training of mental health practitioners.