This course does not offer CE Credits.
The same course is available for purchase and offers 1.5 CE hour for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
Trauma doesn’t wait for the perfect moment — it strikes without warning and often leaves children, youth, and their families struggling to find the support they need.
While telehealth has improved access to care for many, especially those in rural or underserved areas, it has also presented clinicians with unique challenges in engaging clients effectively, building trust, and adapting evidence-based trauma interventions to a virtual environment.
Dr. Ritchie Rubio, a distinguished expert in trauma-focused therapy and telehealth, has curated this comprehensive course to empower mental health practitioners like you with the tools and techniques to deliver exceptional trauma care remotely.
This course will primarily expand your skills on telehealth adaptations of trauma-focused and trauma-informed interventions in working with children and youth clients.
With this course, you'll gain invaluable knowledge to distinguish among some of the most commonly used and widely researched trauma-focused interventions, including play therapy, in working with children and youth clients who present with acute, chronic, or complex trauma.
Given the context of inequities in the use of telehealth and the digital divide, you will also learn how to integrate telehealth adaptations of some culturally-adapted trauma-focused interventions in working with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) clients.
Plus, Dr. Rubio will share insights from the latest research on telehealth and trauma-focused intervention to help you stay at the forefront of this critical field.
This course is your chance to expand your toolkit and enhance your ability to effectively support clients navigating and overcoming trauma, regardless of geographical barriers - don't miss it!
Register today and empower yourself with the skills to transform your practice and profoundly impact the lives of those who need it most.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
Instruction consists of 1.5 hours of video instruction and a course evaluation.
From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.
Learning objectives
- Identify and describe at least two clinical considerations when using telehealth and tele-play therapy for working with clients exposed to trauma and/or experiencing ongoing trauma.
- Appraise the applicability of at least two core elements of trauma-focused interventions, including play therapy, in engaging behavioral health clients in telehealth.
- Illustrate at least two ways of addressing telehealth inequities and culturally-adapting trauma-focused interventions when working with BIPOC clients.
Ritchie Rubio Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Rubio works as a clinical child psychologist, play and expressive arts therapist, researcher-storyteller, program evaluator, statistical consultant, data analyst, telehealth trainer/consultant, and associate professor/lecturer in a variety of clinical and academic settings including public health systems, universities, pediatric hospitals, community mental health settings, schools, and research institutes in three countries: the Philippines, U.S.A., and New Zealand. He moved from the Philippines at the age of 25, completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a Child and Family emphasis from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) through a Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP) grant. He is currently the Director of Practice Improvement and Analytics of the Children, Youth, and Families System of Care (CYF-SOC) Behavioral Health Services (BHS) at the San Francisco Department of Public Health in California, USA. In that role, he plans and coordinates a clinical practice improvement and evaluation program focused on identifying best trauma-informed and diversity-responsive practices; and utilizing implementation science to design and strengthen clinical assessment and interventions. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor at the Counseling Psychology programs of the University of San Francisco and the Berkeley Wright Institute. He teaches courses such as Research and Statistics; Crisis and Trauma Counseling; Neuroscience; Child and Adolescent Counseling; Family Violence and Protection; Individual, and Family Development; and Clinical Assessment and Measures. His clinical work was/is primarily with immigrant and multicultural children/youth and their families. He mostly integrates psychodynamic, attachment, family systems, multicultural, expressive arts, play therapy, and CBT orientations.
This course does not offer CE credits, just great content.
The same course is available for purchase and offers 1.5 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of attendance to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.
This is a non-interactive, self-study course.
To receive your certificate of attendance you must complete the course in its entirety.
To complete a Training Video Course, one must register, log in, select the My Courses option from the menu items, click the Course Title, attend to the video content, and complete the course evaluation, then claim the certificate of attendance.
You can download or print your certificate of attendance by logging into your account, navigating to the course by selecting the My Courses option from the menu items, clicking the Course Title, scrolling to the Certificate of Attendance section, and clicking on the Certificate of Attendance link to either download it or print it.
Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of attendance to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.
Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.
This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
Practice level: Intermediate
This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, and a course evaluation.
This course was recorded 1/21/22
