Professional Skills 5:
Proactive Approach Part 2

This is the fifth of 6 Professional Skills seminars.

Students review the material discussed in Part 1. Discuss preventative or proactive techniques, levels if intervention and heading off a crisis. students discuss various scenarios, brainstorm, and role-play selected techniques.

Instructor Pamela Parkinson, PhD, LCSW, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed clinical social worker with over 26 years in the field of providing services to children and families. Dr. Parkinson been trained in two disciplines (psychology and social work) and has worked as a residential counselor, a teaching assistant for special education, and a recreation specialist in residential treatment. Additionally, she has worked in the full continuum of services from residential and non-public school to community-based services such as outpatient clinics, school-based programs, diversion, kinship, etc.