This training will be offered as a webinar

This training is suitable for: Educators: Teachers, ECE, School administration, Support Staff. Mental Health Professionals: Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Psychologists, Social Workers. Medical Professionals:  Nurses, Psychiatrists, Pediatricians, Family Doctors. Direct Service Workers: Child and Youth Workers.

Topics covered will include:

• Media/digital literacy
• Strategies and tools to help mediate and monitor tech use
• Harm reduction vs. abstinence when containing social media use
• The good: connecting, resources, peer supports
• The bad: cyber bullying, pornography, on-line luring, poison envy
• Balance during COVID-19 and increased dependency on digital media for all contact and connection, work and education

Learning objectives:

• The opportunities and risks of using social/digital media. 
• How to bridge the divide between therapist and (young) clients when using social/digital media. 
• How to enhance safety and privacy online when seeing young people in the therapy.

Registration closes January 13, 2021.

To register, click here.