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Virtual: Effective Client and Family Engagement: Working with Resistive Clients

  • June 08, 2020
  • 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Remote via Zoom
  • 10

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A 6 hour training event with Scott Meyer MSW, Ph.D., LICSW

8:30am – 4:00pm on June 8, 2020                     

This training has been changed to remote only!

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PRESENTATION:  The ability to effectively engage clients who display resistive behaviors is a core skill for clinical staff and supervisors to continually examine in order to maximize desired client outcomes.  This training will provide an opportunity for attendees to learn the array of factors that underlie resistive behaviors in clients and families as well as to perform reflective practice techniques to enhance their ability to effectively engage those in need of service.  Issues of countertransference in practice will be examined.  This presentation will explain how techniques including motivational interviewing and conflict resolution techniques can be used to decrease resistive behaviors such as manipulation, avoidance, anger, defensiveness, etc.  The role of substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders in contributing to resistive behaviors will be taught.  Participants will be equipped with the skills for improved reflective practice and a range of clinical strategies to employ with those clients and families who have unique challenges that inhibit effective engagement to best achieve desired outcomes.  As a result of this training: 


  • Participants will learn techniques to increase efficiency and effectiveness in responding to a range of challenging mental health and substance abuse related behaviors in clients and family contacts.
  • Those attending will learn reflective practice techniques to monitor and improve their own emotional responses as they impact work with clients and family contacts.
  • Attendees will gain heightened awareness of the factors which underlie resistive behaviors in some clients and families that we attempt to engage with.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:  Scott Meyer, MSW, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus of social work at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH.  Dr. Meyer’s MSW is in clinical social work from Adelphi University, Garden City, NY.  His doctorate is in sociology from Boston University specializing in organizational behavior, medical sociology and mental health.  He served as an executive administrator for social rehabilitation and was on faculty at the BU School of Medicine as a clinical instructor of psychiatry. He taught at Curry College, MA and at Roger Williams College, RI.  He provided counseling services as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in NH and is a Board-Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work through the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work. Dr. Meyer works with public and private agencies providing organizational and clinical, supervisory and administrative consultation, training, program evaluation and grant writing services. 

REGISTRATION FEE: *NHADACA Members:  $55;   *Non-Members $65;   *NBCC add $5.   Lunch will be on your own.  For registration information contact:  603-225-7060       traininginstitute@nhadaca.org

6 Contact Hours Available 

CRSW Performance Domains: 3, 4
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence:  3, 5-7, 14-18
CPS Domains:  6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category A) & Psychologist Category A
NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY ONE REGISTRANT PER FORM. FOR MULTIPLE REGISTRANTS YOU MUST REGISTER EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY. THANK YOU

This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.


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