Skip to content

The Political Act of Feminist Therapy: Working with Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence

Virtual
On Demand
1.25 CE Hour
General
Free

Recorded On

  • -

Location

  • On Demand
    Sessions will be available On-Demand
Description

The practice of mental health counseling and therapy is a political act. As therapists, we have an ethical responsibility to carefully contemplate our power and influence. We are invited to advocate on behalf of the people we serve each time we conduct an assessment, write a note, or assign a diagnosis. Our actions have the power to change the course of people’s lives when they are often at their most vulnerable. What would you like to do with your power and influence on behalf of the people you serve? This presentation explores the politics of therapy with women who are impacted by intimate partner violence. Explore frames of empowerment while learning beneficial institutional advocacy skills used to navigate the powerful interconnected systems that compose a coordinated community response.

Target Audience
  • Social Worker
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Counselor
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

To increase awareness of the influence and impact of therapeutic services on women who experience intimate partner violence and learn how to practice tools of empowerment.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain the influence and impact of therapeutic services on women who experience intimate partner violence.
  2. Identify at least three core principles of empowerment and explain how to effectively apply them in a therapeutic setting.
  3. Explain how social-cultural causes of distress can be transformed into empowered resiliency.
  4. Describe a professional plan for social change that can be implemented in practice
Introductory
General
Social Worker

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 Clinical continuing education credits.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.25 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.25 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Counselor

The Louisiana Counseling Association is approved by the Louisiana Licensed Professional Board of Examiners to offer continuing education clock hours. This presentation has been reviewed and has been approved for 1.25 CE clock hours for Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.25 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
The Political Act of Feminist Therapy Working with Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Mental Health System Power & Control Wheel
Pamela Gagnon da Silva

Pamela is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). She specializes in assisting women to integrate the impact of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and other forms of adversity and oppression encountered by women. She has over 30 years of experience working in community-based social services and 10 years exclusively with domestic abuse survivors. She is the founder of Resilient Women, a place of support and connection for women impacted by abuse. Resilient Women is designed in response to the expressed needs of survivors. Pamela provides individual and group mental health therapy, institutional advocacy, and peer-to-peer domestic abuse response education for mental health professionals. She teaches Intimate Partner Violence Dynamics and Community Response and Introduction to Feminist Therapy at College of the Atlantic. Pamela is the 2015 recipient of the John D. Burchard Award for her contributions to the mental health field, working with Maine teenagers seeking to end dating violence.

Share this event with your colleagues!

Sorry, there was an issue joining the session. Please try again or contact [email protected].

Create a TPN.health Account to Register for an Event

By creating a profile, you can seamlessly access your events and obtain CE certificates directly on our platform. Your profile is a vital part of verifying and tracking your attendance, and only takes minutes to get started

Already have a TPN.health profile? Sign in below to finish registration!