Dr. Sara J. Corse is a clinical community psychologist with over 35 years of experience as a therapist, supervisor, workshop leader, researcher, teacher and community builder. Her clinical approach is systemic and integrative and her areas of expertise include depression and anxiety, grief and loss, trauma (EMDR), couples communication, and parenting effectiveness.
Dr. Corse is the Director of the Community Partnerships Initiative, a Council for Relationships program involving collaboration with diverse organizations to provide therapy and support groups to marginalized people throughout the city of Philadelphia, as well as consultation support for agency staff.
Dr. Corse is the author of "Cradled All the While: The Unexpected Gifts of a Mother's Death". In the midst of early career and child-rearing, and having lost her father at a young age, Dr. Corse became her mother’s primary caregiver through to her death from cancer. It is a story of family healing, as the often-strained relationship between Dr. Corse and her mother is transformed as they negotiate this life passage.
Dr. Corse presents seminars and workshops at various organizations on healthy relationships, parenting, trauma, loss and grief, and emotional and spiritual issues in caring for the dying and grieving and has taught graduate-level courses in Group and Community Intervention.
Therapeutic Groups for Children and Adolescents: Creating Space for Healing and Growth
Group therapy is an effective mode of treatment for children and adolescents, either alone or as an adjunct to individual or family therapy. Typical reasons for referral to group treatment are social, emotional and behavioral challenges at school or home, exposure to traumatic events and grieving a loss. Group interventions bring the social context of children and adolescents into the therapy space, enabling learning and healing in real time. Group participants observe and experience support from the co-leaders and are encouraged to engage in mutual support with their peers. Group treatment...Read more is particularly valuable in the aftermath of COVID pandemic measures that increased isolation and impacted children's opportunities to learn and socialize together, and in the light of increased exposure to community trauma. Grounded in a trauma-informed perspective, participants will learn about launching, structuring and creating materials for an effective group for children or adolescents. The developmental tasks of children at different ages will be reviewed, along with how to structure and facilitate group interaction at these different stages. Leadership and co-facilitation skills for group engagement will be presented. Group work with children and adolescents can activate different aspects of the self of the therapist. There will be opportunities to reflect on how personal experiences and qualities of the therapist can impact group facilitation with children and adolescents, and how this self knowledge and trust in co-leaders can enhance group effectiveness. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Learners will be able to identify 3 aspects of group structure important to a successful group
- Learners will be able to define important developmental stages in children's social and emotional learning and how these influence group structure and leadership
- Learners will be able to describe 2-3 aspects of their own self of the therapist that present as challenges and 2-3 that present as strengths in group facilitation with children and/or adolescents
Learning Levels
- Beginner
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Live Interactive Webinar
01:00 PM EDT - 04:00 PM EDT
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EARN 3 CE Credit Hours
About the speakers
Sara J Corse, PhD
Priscilla Singleton, MSW, LMFT, LCSW (she, her, hers)
Director of Clinical Standards
Priscilla Singleton is the Director of Clinical Standards at CFR. Priscilla is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), a clinical member of AAMFT, and an AAMFT-approved supervisor. She received her MSW from Temple University in 1982 and completed her post-graduate marriage and family therapy training at Council for Relationships in 1989. Priscilla has completed additional training and certifications in EMDR, Sandtray therapy, and co-parent counseling/parent coordination. Priscilla has been in practice for over twenty-five years. Before coming to the Council in 1994, Priscilla worked with children, youth, and families in the child welfare system, with women in a crime victim center, with families of children with developmental differences, and with individuals and families in her private practice. Her areas of special interests are separating and divorcing families, adoption, and promotion of child and adolescent connection in their families.
Mike Butera, MFT, (he/him/his)
Mike Butera is a pre-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist providing individual, couples, and group therapy services at Council for Relationships. He works through the lens of psychodynamic, emotionally focused, and family systems therapy in an effort to promote self-awareness of unconscious functioning and an understanding of attachment behavior while navigating relationships. Mike helps coordinate and facilitate groups for young children and adolescents at Paul L. Dunbar School and Southwark School as part of the Community Partnerships Initiative program. Mike is a graduate from the Thomas Jefferson University's Masters of Couples and Family Therapy program.
CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours
CE Approvals
American Psychological Association
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