7 - 11am AK / 8am - 12pm PT / 9am - 1pm MT
Narrative therapy ideas and practices provide clinicians with ways of quickly engaging people in deeply meaningful and useful conversations. These practices are a perfect fit for settings in which just a brief encounter with clients is possible. Karen will share discoveries made during her many years working at a walk-in clinic and providing brief therapy, about what aspects of narrative practice are particularly useful in these settings. Remarkable conversations that are "enough" can take place in very brief contexts when the clinician has knowledge and skills that allow for respectful engagement in meaningful conversation quickly. These practices make it possible for clinicians and therapists to make the most of every session in all of their work. Recordings and transcripts of sessions will be used to demonstrate the ideas and practices. Some practice exercises will be included to develop participants' skills.
Participants will learn to:
Karen is the Director of Windz Centre. She is an institute faculty teaching many of the Windz workshops and certificate programs. She organizes and designs training, oversees research projects, provides narrative therapy supervision and consults and trains walk-in clinics. For over 16 years, Karen supervised and provided single session therapy at a walk-in therapy clinic. Karen has provided consultation and clinical training to many organizations in Ontario, across Canada, and internationally regarding re-structuring service pathways to include brief services such as walk-in clinics. She has been teaching narrative and brief narrative therapy for over 30 years and is a therapist with 36 years of experience working with children and families. Karen has contributed numerous publications regarding applications of brief narrative therapy and research in brief services and walk-in therapy. She co-authored the Brief Services policy paper for the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health (Duvall, J., Young, K., Kays-Burden, A., 2012), No more, no less: Brief Mental Health Services for Children and Youth. Karen was the lead in the first in Ontario Brief Services Evaluation Project, 2014, a multi-organization evaluation of brief services. Karen has a great deal of knowledge and passion for narrative practices and is one of the few trainers who can teach the traditional aspects of the approach and new evolutions in the thinking. She has particular expertise in the application of narrative in brief and walk-in therapies. Karen is regarded as a trainer who conveys narrative ideas in very clear and useable ways.
**CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT DETAILS: Physicians, physician assistants, primary care ARNPs, psychologists, and other health care providers may be eligible for CME or CEUs for completing the course. Retain your Certificate of Completion and verify its suitability for CME/CEUS with your licensing/credentialing entity. The University of Washington is an approved provider of continuing education for DOH licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychologists, chemical dependency professionals, nurses and physicians under the provisions of: WAC 246-809-610, WAC 246-809-620, WAC 246-811-200, WAC 246-840-210, WAC 246-919-460 and WAC 246-924-240.
