Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminars
Overview
The Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar brings together experts in the field of child and family trauma to discuss important topics related to prevention science, family intervention, best practices, and cutting-edge research.
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Mental Health for Moms: Increasing Scalability of Evidence-Based Treatment Using a Coaching Model In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Niles will showcase how Prospera leverages a unique model of mental health coaches to deliver scalable, evidence-based interventions specifically for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Dr.... Virtual Training | Added on 10/29/2024 | Space available! | Next available date: Wed, 12/4/2024 |
Paternal Mental Health in Family Health Promotion This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will introduce participants to paternal perinatal mental health. It will highlight the ways in which family health is interconnected, and how the consideration and treatment of paternal mental health... Virtual Training | Added on 10/8/2024 |
And How Are the Children? Suicidality in Adolescents and Young Adults In the United States, suicidality is rising in all ethnic categories (CDC, 2023), but in African American communities it is rising more rapidly and reaching more alarming heights. In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Roland will... Virtual Training | Added on 10/1/2024 |
An Introduction to Culturally Responsive Services for LGBTQI+ Individuals This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar is designed to develop provider skills in delivering culturally responsive prevention and treatment services for LGBTQI+ people. The training will include an introduction to key terms and concepts (s... Virtual Training | Added on 9/10/2024 |
Treatment Modalities for Youth Substance Use Disorders In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Jessica Lasater will cover various aspects of addressing substance use among youth. Dr. Lasater will begin with an overview of current trends, highlighting the increased use of substances lik... Virtual Training | 57 minutes | Added on 8/20/2024 | Anytime session available |
Best Practices in Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Focus on Stimulants and Opioids This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will begin with a discussion of the impact of stigma on the health and wellbeing of people with a substance use disorder. The presentation will provide an overview of the impact of stimulants and opi... Virtual Training | 58 minutes | Added on 7/16/2024 | Anytime session available |
"There's No Place Like Home": Preventing the Intergenerational Cycle of Foster Care In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Maria Griglio will discuss the reasons for and benefits of a preventative legal program for parents whose children are at risk of child welfare involvement. Griglio will provide historical contex... Virtual Training | 48 minutes | Added on 6/18/2024 | Anytime session available |
In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Sung-Jae Lee will offer a comprehensive overview of biomedical HIV prevention strategies geared toward ending the HIV epidemic. The focus will be on delineating two overarching frameworks for... Virtual Training | 54 minutes | Added on 5/14/2024 | Anytime session available |
The Unhappiness of Time Poverty Our most precious resource isn’t money — it’s time. We’re allotted just twenty-four hours a day and live in a culture that keeps us feeling rushed and like we never have enough. Having spent her career studying the interplay between time and ... Virtual Training | 1 hour 1 minute | Added on 4/8/2024 |
In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Borelli will provide an overview of relational savoring, a brief, strengths-based prevention and intervention approach that involves helping parents savor moments of close connection with the... Virtual Training | 56 minutes | Added on 3/7/2024 | Anytime session available |
Supporting Pregnant and Parenting People Struggling With Substance Use Through Plans of Safe Care Since the 1990s, federal legislation and state regulations have required that counties maintain 1) policies and procedures addressing the needs of infants prenatally exposed to substances, including the development of Plans of Safe Care, and 2) proce... Virtual Training | 1 hour 18 minutes | Added on 3/14/2024 | Anytime session available |
The Ethics and Practice of Applying Radical Healing In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, participants will be provided with a deep dive into the psychological framework of radical healing (French et al., 2020). This framework is centered on healing from racial trauma and builds from ... Virtual Training | 1 hour 27 minutes | Added on 2/8/2024 | Anytime session available |
Indigenous Wellness and Health Models, Processes, and Healing This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will consist of three components. The first part will involve the use of Indigenous epistemology as applied to models of health and wellbeing. These models incorporate Indigenous values and worldview... Virtual Training | 58 minutes | Added on 1/26/2024 | Anytime session available |
This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will provide an overview of the causes and consequences of policing homelessness and alternative solutions drawn from a case study of San Francisco. This presentation will draw from a decade of ethno... Virtual Training | 1 hour 8 minutes | Added on 12/8/2023 | Anytime session available |
Despite evidence of the contribution of childhood trauma to the development of problematic cannabis use, its mediating pathways are largely unknown. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will review results from several projects derived ... Virtual Training | 58 minutes | Added on 11/3/2023 | Anytime session available |
Implementing Assembly Bill (AB) 2085: Guidance for Mandated Reporters in Los Angeles County Assembly Bill (AB) 2085 is a new California state law modifying the definition of reportable general neglect. This course provides Mandated Reporters in California with an overview of AB 2085 and guidance on how to implement the new law. Participant... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 10/25/2023 | Anytime session available |
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Adults In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Alex Kelman and Dr. Jessica Jeffrey will discuss why treatment options for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are limited and/or with limited efficacy. MDMA-assisted psychother... Virtual Training | 57 minutes | Added on 9/21/2023 | Anytime session available |
Sex Ed Saves Lives: Giving Young People Tools for Lifelong Health and Safety More Than Sex-Ed is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit delivering comprehensive, fact-based, and affirming sex education to students grades K–12. Join this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar to learn why sexuality education should happen earl... Virtual Training | Added on 9/6/2023 |
Supporting the Whole Child: Brain-Based Strategies to Support Emotion Regulation in Children Strategies designed to help reduce children’s emotional and behavioral challenges are often ineffective and may worsen the problem. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar aims to shift a psychologist’s lens from one of identifying mis... Virtual Training | 1 hour 28 minutes | Added on 7/13/2023 | Anytime session available |
Minority Stress and the Medical Professional: How Minority Stress Affects Mental Health This training contains information on depression and suicidality. You are encouraged to take care of yourself when participating in this training to feel safe and comfortable. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar opens with a personal ... Virtual Training | 1 hour 7 minutes | Added on 7/5/2023 | Anytime session available |
Depression Care for Diverse Individuals From Low-Income Backgrounds This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will describe the historical underpinnings of depression treatments for low-income, diverse individuals. The development and adaptation of psychotherapy interventions for various underserved populati... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 5/11/2023 | Anytime session available |
Co-designing a Mobile App to Meet the Needs of Minoritized and Under-Resourced Youth Within Schools Mental health apps have the potential to increase care for minoritized and under-resourced youth who face mental health inequities and barriers to mental health services, especially during this pressing time of heightened youth mental health needs. H... Virtual Training | 1 hour 2 minutes | Added on 4/11/2023 | Anytime session available |
“Sexual Healing:” Embracing a Sex-Positive Approach to Working With Youth and Families Did you know that, like all aspects of human development, people also develop sexually? Starting in infancy, sexual development is the process of changes in physical growth, sexual knowledge, and sexual beliefs youth come to learn and display through... Virtual Training | 57 minutes | Added on 3/14/2023 | Anytime session available |
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Primer Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment for folks who struggle with emotion dysregulation. DBT is helpful for folks with high emotional sensitivity (often rapidly shifting emotions), emotional reactivity (intense emotions), ... Virtual Training | 1 hour 19 minutes | Added on 3/1/2023 | Anytime session available |
SITREP: New Directions in Treatment for Veterans With Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Current evidence-based psychotherapies often provide less than satisfactory results for veterans struggling with the so-called "hidden wounds of war" (e.g., PTSD, anxiety, and depression). After 20 years of continuous warfare, veterans requ... Virtual Training | 1 hour 29 minutes | Added on 2/11/2023 | Anytime session available |
Overcoming Awkwardness: Discussing Body Development Does Not Have to Be a Horror Show Talking to youth about their body in an empowering and affirming way is critical for healthy development, and serves as one way to protect against sexual abuse. Effective communication about one’s own body helps youth understand how their body work... Virtual Training | 58 minutes | Added on 1/20/2023 | Anytime session available |
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy as a Tool on the Tool Belt to Address Population Mental Health In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Alex Kelman and Dr. Jessica Jeffrey will explain and present a high level primer on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP). Dr. Kelman and Dr. Jeffrey will be discussing the current legal p... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 11/30/2022 | Anytime session available |
The most recent societal unrest in response to the increased visibility of police killings of African Americans highlights the need for a deeper understanding of the collective historical trauma experienced by the African American population. In this... Virtual Training | Added on 11/9/2022 |
Supporting Parents Through Pregnancy After Perinatal Loss In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Kiley Hanish will explain and present the unique challenges and mental health risks of becoming pregnant after a loss. She will be discussing specific techniques to encourage bereaved parents... Virtual Training | 1 hour 14 minutes | Added on 10/13/2022 | Anytime session available |
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Parent Coaching and Family Therapy In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, we will cover challenges and strategies related to the application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with adolescents, young adults, and their parents. We will focus on strategies for orienti... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 9/29/2022 | Anytime session available |
Cultivating Spaces for Healing and Wellbeing for Educators In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, participants will explore restorative and wellbeing practices from a trauma and racially informed perspective, focusing on creating healing-centered spaces for educators. Participants will also e... Virtual Training | 1 hour 30 minutes | Added on 8/31/2022 | Anytime session available |
Supporting Parents After Loss: Mental Health and Peer Support Providers In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Kiley Hanish will be describing various types of perinatal loss along with the mental health risk factors associated with loss. Additionally, participants will learn about the parental experi... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 8/16/2022 | Anytime session available |
Protecting Youth Online: Clinical and Legal Perspectives on Social Media and Online Risk-Taking Social media use is ubiquitous among teens, with use having increased even further during the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation will enhance participants' ability to articulate the many risks facing youth as they interact online, as well as the re... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 7/28/2022 | Anytime session available |
The Science of Handling Bullying: Lessons From the UCLA PEERS Clinic This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar is intended to provide an overview of strategies for handling direct and indirect forms of bullying from one of the only evidence-based social skills interventions for youth with autism and social ch... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 5/26/2022 | Anytime session available |
As a child psychologist utilizing play-based activities, Dr. Millette had an insight that similar activities done at home by parents could help children to sleep. That was almost 15 years ago and Dr. Millette, and her team of associates, have been us... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 3/24/2022 | Anytime session available |
Understanding Problematic Sexual Behavior Among Preteen Children Preteen children with problematic sexual behavior (PSB) are increasingly coming to the attention of the general public, resulting in greater numbers of referrals for mental health services and public policy initiatives. Unfortunately, relatively litt... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 5/5/2022 | Anytime session available |
Counseling Grieving Children and Teens This presentation will provide an overview of the most widely accepted theories which describe how children grieve at different developmental stages. Intervention strategies will be shared that have been based on over 25 years of clinical practice wi... Virtual Training | 1 hour 30 minutes | Added on 2/5/2022 | Anytime session available |
Trauma Informed Sex Trafficking Training for Mental Health Professionals Upon completion of this training, participants will understand the realities of human trafficking including current statistics. Participants will learn the health consequences and mental health challenges associated with sex trafficking. Participants... Virtual Training | 1 hour 30 minutes | Added on 1/20/2022 | Anytime session available |
Structural Competency: Medicine for the Inequalities That Are Making Us Sick This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will outline structural competency, a framework to enable clinical practitioners to address the community, institutional, and policy level drivers of inequalities in health and enhance health justice... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 11/12/2021 | Anytime session available |
Chronic Pain and Stress in Youth: From Trauma to Resilience Pediatric chronic pain has far-reaching implications on the lives of children and adolescents, disrupting school attendance and performance, social lives, emotional health, and physical functioning. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar ... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 10/26/2021 | Anytime session available |
The Families OverComing Under Stress for Early Childhood program (FOCUS-EC) is a trauma-informed, family-centered preventive intervention designed to enhance resilience in families with young children that have experienced trauma or adversity (Mogil ... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 10/1/2021 | Anytime session available |
Body Based Strategies to Support Provider Wellbeing This experiential workshop will provide an overview of accessible body based and mindfulness techniques to support providers. Participants will learn somatic strategies to implement in their own lives to support stress management and wellness. The wo... Virtual Training | 1 hour 30 minutes | Added on 8/25/2021 | Anytime session available |
Attending to Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (2003) defines pediatric medical traumatic stress as “a set of psychological and physiological responses of children and their families to pain, injury, serious illness, medical procedures, and invasive o... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 8/5/2021 | Anytime session available |
LGBTQ+ Youth in Foster Care: Where Are Their Resource Families? The disproportionate number of LGBTQ+ youth lingering in foster care is a longstanding issue in the child welfare system, both locally in Los Angeles and nationally across the country. This video will increase attendees' understanding of why resource... Virtual Training | 1 hour 30 minutes | Added on 7/13/2021 | Anytime session available |
Anti-Racism in Autism Research and Treatment: Discussing a Way Forward Racial disparities in autism diagnosis, research, and treatment need to be discussed in healthcare. Dr. Erin Graham describes the barriers that minorities, specifically African Americans, face in receiving care and the history behind the cultural rel... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 6/24/2021 | Anytime session available |
Afraid and Awake: The Interaction Between Trauma and Sleep in Children and Adolescents Traumatic experiences and sleep disturbances are both common in children and adolescents. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar introduces how sleep-related issues and trauma responses share physiologic commonalities and thus interact wi... Virtual Training | 1 hour 30 minutes | Added on 6/17/2021 | Anytime session available |
Racial Protective Factors for Black Youth: Cultivating Resilience Black children and teens are exposed to myriad risks, particularly those that emanate from the legacy of racism in this country. Yet, despite historical deficit-oriented narratives concerning them, Black youth—and their families—have continued to... Virtual Training | 57 minutes | Added on 6/4/2021 | Anytime session available |
Pandemics and Policing: On Racism, Adversity, and Health This seminar explores the connections between racism, adversity, and health outcomes. Attendees will be introduced to anti-racist approaches to adversity and current policy proposals in California. Recorded on: 3/10/2021 Virtual Training | 59 minutes | Added on 4/6/2021 | Anytime session available |
Review the theory of intersectionality, a framework to actively reflect on axes of power and oppression, and how this subsequently informs interpersonal relationships and subsequent care for others. This recording does not include the interactive di... Virtual Training | 23 minutes | Added on 3/9/2021 | Anytime session available |
Training Health Care Professionals in Suicide Prevention: Washington State's Story This seminar will highlight the important role of health care providers in suicide prevention. Participants will learn about Washington's effort to improve the suicide care clinical pathway and the training of health care professionals. Recorded on: ... Virtual Training | 51 minutes | Added on 1/8/2021 | Featuring: Jennifer Stuber, PhD | Anytime session available |
This session traces the impact of historical and present day structural racism on Black mothers and infants. It also highlights data regarding current disparities for Black women and infants in the U.S. with a selective focus on California and a few ... Virtual Training | 54 minutes | Added on 12/8/2020 | Featuring: Valencia P. Walker, MD, MPH | Anytime session available |
Reducing Racial and Ethnic Bias in Child Abuse Reporting This seminar will strengthen the child abuse reporting skills of staff members and administrators in their work with families of color. This seminar will work toward that goal through a brief history of child protective services and its role in socie... Virtual Training | 1 hour 30 minutes | Added on 9/29/2020 | Featuring: Lori A. Barker, PhD | Anytime session available |
One of the many disturbing aspects of grieving is experiencing a variety of unexpected or seemingly uncontrollable emotions and/or physical sensations. Often African American/Black men who mourn fear that they “are going crazy” or somehow “abno... Virtual Training | 56 minutes | Added on 8/27/2020 | Featuring: Allen E. Lipscomb, PsyD, LCSW | Anytime session available |
Foundations of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Working With Adolescents and Families This video explains Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) theory and skills and using these with adolescents and families. The biosocial model of case conceptualization, emotion dysregulation, and mindfulness skills will be covered. Recorded on: 6/17/20... Virtual Training | 1 hour | Added on 7/11/2020 | Featuring: Kristen Roye, PsyD | Anytime session available |
Bi+ Affirmative Psychotherapy: Supporting Bisexual, Pansexual, and Non-Monosexual Youth More and more youth are coming out as bisexual, pansexual, queer, or sexually fluid (AKA "bi+"). Become informed on the psychosocial concerns specific to bi+ youth and how to use concrete bi-affirmative interventions in your work. Recorded... Virtual Training | 1 hour 19 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Mimi Hoang, PhD | Anytime session available |
Understanding Gifted Children: Common Characteristics and Treatment Consideration Gifted youth not only have advanced cognitive needs, but also unique emotional characteristics and complex social dynamics to contend with. Learn about the key issues that gifted youths often have to contend with and how you can help support their gr... Virtual Training | 1 hour 25 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Vula Baliotis, PhD | Anytime session available |
Social and systemic factors impact the daily lives of vulnerable populations such as youth involved in the juvenile justice system and youth impacted by HIV. Get to know concrete community-based strategies to increase the overall participation of vul... Virtual Training | 52 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Susana A. Lopez, PhD & Sung-Jae Lee, PhD | Anytime session available |
Ethnically diverse immigrant population can experience socio-cultural, contextual-structural, and clinical-procedural barriers. Become familiar with the application of a community-based participatory research approach to prevention research with Lati... Virtual Training | 54 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Diana Santacrose, PhD | Anytime session available |
A population behavioral health approach can be implemented at a system level to improve wellbeing. Learn about how Los Angeles county is applying a trauma informed approach to various systems. Recorded on: 5/15/2019 Virtual Training | 56 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Patricia Lester, MD | Anytime session available |
Racial stress and trauma can significantly affect youth of color. Gain strategies to address racial stress and trauma and promote resilience for youth of color. Recorded on: 4/17/2019 Virtual Training | 50 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Farzana Saleem, PhD | Anytime session available |
Hands-On Play to Promote Executive Functioning in Young Children Practicing executive functioning skills in 'cool' moments helps young children deploy those skills in 'hot' moments. Watch how everyday play activities can be intentionally used to build executive functioning in young children. Recorded on: 3/20/2019... Virtual Training | 1 hour 19 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Jolie Delja, MS & Clare Gorospe | Anytime session available |
The Development of Executive Functions in Early Childhood Executive functioning is cognitive skills utilized for purposeful, future-oriented behavior, that underlie flexible adaptation to changing task demands, including regulation of attention, inhibition of inappropriate responses, and coordination of inf... Virtual Training | 45 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Jennie Grammer, PhD | Anytime session available |
Understanding the Adolescent Brain and Behavior in the Context of Foster Care/Adoption Trauma can have a substantial impact on brain development. Learn how histories of trauma, grief, and loss can impact the therapeutic process and gain tools to work with teens in the foster care and adoption population. Recorded on: 12/11/2018 Virtual Training | 1 hour 18 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Martha Rios, PhD & Alycia Davis, PsyD | Anytime session available |
An Introduction to Mindful Self Compassion Mindful Self Compassion is a skills-based program delivering mindfulness practices that cultivate self-compassion and interconnectedness. Experience a guided Mindful Self Compassion practice. Recorded on: 10/17/2018 Virtual Training | 1 hour 18 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Kate Sheehan, LCSW | Anytime session available |
There are many health disparities among transgender and gender-diverse children. Learn about the existing yet limited guidelines and standards of care, and how to apply the principles of the Gender Affirmative Model in your practice. Virtual Training | 49 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Elizabeth Ollen, PhD | Anytime session available |
The Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Youth Preparedness Scan Service providers need to be well informed and prepared to serve LGBTQ+ youth. Explore the findings of the preparedness scan to identify areas for organizational improvement with regard to policy, welcoming environments, and other aspects of improvin... Virtual Training | 58 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Khushnuma Cooper, MSW, PhD | Anytime session available |
Adolescent Substance Use: Identifying and Responding to Misuse Addressing substance use with adolescents is challenging, specifically, if adolescents are not being transparent about their use. Learn to apply best practices for working with adolescents. Recorded on: 5/16/2018 Virtual Training | 1 hour 29 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Scott Hunter, MD, MHS | Anytime session available |
Project Fatherhood: Father Involvement Is a Game-Changer There are individual and systemic barriers that hinder father-child engagement. Get to know the theoretical and evidence-based framework to support fathers from diverse families in addressing barriers and engaging in relationships with their children... Virtual Training | 58 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Alan-Michael Graves, MSPA | Anytime session available |
The grief process looks different for children and adults. Watch this video to learn best practices in supporting families experiencing grief and recognize how personal beliefs, cultural differences, and history with death influences the therapeutic ... Virtual Training | 1 hour 28 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Dolly Phillips, MA, LMFT & Loren Delgado, MSW | Anytime session available |
Beat the Odds: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming Drumming without expectations of perfection or mastery reduces self-judgment and performance anxiety and encourages a growth mindset that is essential to learning and academic performance. Learn how to incorporate drumming into your work with childre... Virtual Training | 54 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Ping Ho, MA, MPH | Anytime session available |
How to Provide Effective, Sensitive, and Family-Centered Feedback to Parents of Young Children Poorly received feedback can negatively impact a provider and parent/caregiver relationship. Learn tools to provide effective feedback to parents/caregivers of young children in a sensitive manner. Recorded on: 2/15/2017 Virtual Training | 1 hour 24 minutes | Added on 5/28/2020 | Featuring: Blair Paley, PhD | Anytime session available |