Resilient Families: Communication Cultivates Adaptability Within Family Systems
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Date & Time
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Educational Goal
Participants are expected to gain competence in communicating with families dealing with substance abuse.
Description
Recovery for families involves positive stress management, coping with change, and the availability of support. This course will examine how learning to cope with manageable stress is critical to developing resilience. Communication and community collaboration will be highlighted as essential to family members building skills, creating biological resistance to adversity, and experiencing resilient outcomes. Communication performances of bonding, bridging, and linking will be detailed as critical to family members’ cultivation of stability, finding a rhythm in family life with confidence to manage change. Throughout the webinar, participants will be asked to build upon ideas for family-practitioner-community collaboration to enhance resilience among families.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Karyl is an Internationally Certified Clinical Supervisor, is licensed in Ohio (LIDC) and Colorado (LAC), and has an earned doctorate in Interpersonal Communication from Ohio University. She taught for 21 years at Otterbein University, retired in 2010 and received Faculty Emeritus status. She served as an outpatient and inpatient counselor, a Trainer of Trainers for the Ohio Chemical Dependency Board & an organizational consultant. Presently, she is a Senior Instructor, with expertise in Relational Communication, in Communication Studies at Colorado State University. Her 1999 chapter in Communication in Recovery: Perspectives on Twelve-Step Groups examines communication styles of ACoA’s. She has led conference presentations for NAADAC National Conferences and NAADAC Webinars.