Professional Workshops
Workshops and Presentations
Cardenas Institute is available upon request to provide presentations and workshops on a variety of topics. I have presentation and teaching experience, and offer the following topics to present. Please, contact Cardenas Institute directly for inquiries, or if you have a unique training request not listed below:
A. Working with Latin American asylum seekers/refugees/immigrants: unique characteristics.
Description:
This training will provide professionals with skills and knowledge in the treatment of mental health in this population. It will focus on the refugee/asylum seeker/immigrant experience and look at presentations of trauma, mental health symptoms, and suicidality. It will also identify ways to help them manage their symptoms despite the very difficult barriers they are currently experiencing.
Training Goals:
Through brief explanation participants will gain knowledge of the definition of asylum seeker, refugee, and immigrant.
Participants will gain understanding of different mental health symptoms in this population.
Participants will gain understanding on the role that assimilation and acculturation play when helping them work through their trauma.
B. Psychological Impact of Trauma/Abuse on Children and Adolescents
Training Goals:
Participants will increase understanding of trauma symptoms in children and adolescents.
Participants will learn to facilitate the development of self-regulation skills in children and adolescents.
Participants will learn how to identify dissociation in children and adolescents.
C. Traumatized Parent Parenting a Traumatized Child.
Training Goals:
Participants will increase understanding of factors that lead to challenges in parenting a traumatized child while parent currently experiencing own trauma symptoms.
Participants will learn concrete strategies for addressing parents’ and children’ needs, and building competencies among children.
Participants will learn how to help parents attune and respond with sensitivity to the emotions and traumatic memories underlying the child’s behaviors.
D. The Use of Sand tray Therapy in Clinical Practice.
Description:
This is a practical and hands on workshop that is rich with creative interventions, and inspiring cases that will allow you to leave the workshop having a great understanding on how to help clients find the unique wisdom and resources within themselves to meet challenges and face the pain in their life.
Training Goals:
Participants will learn what sand tray therapy involves.
Participants will learn and practice the "World Technique."
Participants will learn the difference between directive and non-directive sand tray work.
E. The Legacy of Domestic Violence: How to effectively address it when working with Latin American Immigrants/Refugees.
Training Goals:
Participants will increase understanding on the concepts of assimilation and acculturation.
Participants will explore and increase understanding on the connection between migration and escalation of domestic violence.
Can migration escalate domestic violence?