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The CE-CERT Model for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions

Presented by: 

Oreta Draper, LMFT & Tiffany Dawson, PsyD

Dates: 

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 & Thursday, May 23, 2024 (8:30am-12:30pm)

Location:

The Guidance Center
Training Room, 2nd Floor.

1301 Pine Avenue Long Beach, CA 90813 

Content

This program will provide an overview of the CE-CERT model and assist practitioners in implementing the five skills components in their own practice to support and sustain a career in helping professions. CE-CERT (Components for Enhancing Clinician Experience and Reducing Trauma) is a set of evidence-informed skills for supporting the emotion regulation of practitioners. CE-CERT is a synthetic model that integrates skills and practices from research bodies including evidence-based trauma treatment, mindfulness and third-wave approaches, cognitive behavioral therapies and narratology, and sociology and occupational psychology. The resulting skill portfolio defines five practice domains:

1. Experiential Engagement (synthesized from trauma treatments and consistent with exposure therapies, ACT, and mindfulness-based psychotherapies);

2. Reducing rumination (derived from cognitive behavioral therapies with emphasis on rumination-focused CBT (RF-CBT));

3. Conscious Narrative (supported by CBT research and clinical narratology);

4. Reducing Emotional Labor (supported by sociological and occupational psychology research on emotional labor); and

5. Parasympathetic Recovery (supported by medical/physiological research on the stress response and stress effects and psychological research on grounding and mindfulness approaches).

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Describe each of the five skills components that comprise the CE-CERT model;

2. Describe the role of each domain in supporting trauma worker’s sense of well-being and emotion regulation during times of stress exposure;

3. Formulate personal action plan for implementing one or more of these skills in their own personal, clinical, or administrative practice;

4. Distinguish concepts of “self-care” and stress recovery from active, on-the-job emotion regulation skills.

About the Presenters

Oreta Draper, LMFT has 25+ years of experience working in community mental health with children, adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, and relational problems through various treatment modalities. Oreta has been with The Guidance Center for 25 years working in multiple roles, and for the past four years, has had the position of Director of Quality Care in our agency. In addition, Oreta has a small private practice where she works with adults suffering from depression, grief and anxiety. Oreta is certified in evidenced based modalities including MAP, CORS, TF-CBT, IPT, Seeking Safety and CPP.

Dr. Tiffany Dawson has over 20 years of experience impacting the lives of children, adolescents and young adults with emotional disturbances and often extensive trauma histories. Dr. Dawson has dedicated most of her career to community mental health work but has also worked in various settings including juvenile hall, nonpublic schools, and hospital settings. Dr. Dawson has been with The Guidance Center for over 12 years and for the past 6 years has had the role of Program Manager of The Guidance Center Compton clinic. In this role Dr. Dawson focuses on development of clinical staff, providing high quality care, and connections to the community served. In addition, Dr. Dawson also has a private practice where she specializes in teens. Dr. Dawson is certified in various evidenced based treatment modalities including MAP, TF-CBT, IPT, Seeking Safety, AMSR and CAMs Care and is certified to train other clinicians in MAP, TF-CBT, and Seeking Safety. 

Registration Information

Cost: $15

(TGC staff, trainees, and interns: Please register via link provided in email.)

Provider Approval

The Guidance Center is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Guidance Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) accepts programs offered by approved APA sponsors of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed clinical social workers. 

Conflict of Interest

There is no commercial support for this CE program or instructor. There are no known conflicts of interest.

Program Contact

For additional questions regarding this training including the schedule, please contact the program administrator, Amy Bullock Morse, Psy.D. at [email protected].