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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Resilience and Coping Skills and Practices for Child Protection Workers with Dr. Mary Pulido
9/10/2020 - 9/10/20202:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Event Description
Registration is free for this zoom chat. Psychology and social work CE credits are available for this session at $5 members/$15 for non-members.
Child protection professionals are under a tremendous amount of stress trying to provide services to their clients and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as they give so much of their time and energy to their critical work, it is equally as important that they have the tools to care for themselves and know how to offset the stressors of their jobs. Developing and maintaining a regular self-care practice is important in supporting overall wellness and managing the stress in their lives. Both their work and personal lives can be negatively impacted if they don’t practice self-care, including their physical and mental health. The session will cover recognizing stress symptoms, how the brain responds to stress, positive reframing techniques, how to recognize adaptive versus maladaptive coping strategies, creating a self-care plan and the importance of maintaining it during the pandemic.
About Dr. Mary Pulido:
Mary L. Pulido, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the first child protection agency in the world. She has held senior
management positions at the Child Protection Center of Montefiore Medical Center (a Child Advocacy Center), the Children’s Village, and at Covenant House/Under 21. Dr. Pulido’s protocol for crisis debriefing following child fatality and critical incidents is utilized throughout the New York City Child Protective Services system. Dr. Pulido is a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She serves on the National Board of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and on the NYS Chapter Board and is Chair of their Public Policy Committee. She also is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Childhood Foundation. In 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Dr. Pulido to the New York City Child Fatality Review Team (CFRT) where she served until 2015. She is currently a principal investigator on a project to design a child sexual abuse prevention curriculum for elite, Olympic gymnasts, coaches and parents following the child sexual abuse scandal involving Larry Nassar.
Dr. Pulido holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the City University of New York, and Master’s Degrees in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work and in Teaching from Sacred Heart University. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She has published in the areas of detection and prevention of child abuse and neglect, providing supervised visitation services, crisis debriefing, child sexual abuse prevention and preventing secondary traumatic stress. She has been featured on WNBC, The New York Daily News, NY1, WPIX-TV, ABC News, cbsnews.com, Inside Edition and is a dedicated blogger on issue of child protection for Huffington Post and Medium.
References:
Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (2020). Self-Care Inventory, The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, www.NCTSN.org
Holahan, C.J., Moos, R.H., & Schaefer, J.A. (1996). Coping, stress resistance and growth: Conceptualizing adaptive functioning, Chapter 2, p.24-43. In Zeidner, M., & Endler, N.S. Handbook for Coping; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: New York.
Schafer, W. “Stress Management for Wellness” Rinehart & Winston publishers, New York, NY, 4th edition.
Wicks, R. (2008). The Resilient Clinician, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
Pulido, M. L., & Lacina, J. M. (2010). Supporting child protective services (CPS) staff following a child fatality and other
critical incidents. American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) Advisor, 22 (4), 16-22.
Craun, S., Bourke, M., (2014). The Use of Humor to Cope with Secondary Traumatic
Stress, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23: 840-852.
Learning Objectives:
Child protection professionals are under a tremendous amount of stress trying to provide services to their clients and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as they give so much of their time and energy to their critical work, it is equally as important that they have the tools to care for themselves and know how to offset the stressors of their jobs. Developing and maintaining a regular self-care practice is important in supporting overall wellness and managing the stress in their lives. Both their work and personal lives can be negatively impacted if they don’t practice self-care, including their physical and mental health. The session will cover recognizing stress symptoms, how the brain responds to stress, positive reframing techniques, how to recognize adaptive versus maladaptive coping strategies, creating a self-care plan and the importance of maintaining it during the pandemic.
About Dr. Mary Pulido:
Mary L. Pulido, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the first child protection agency in the world. She has held senior
management positions at the Child Protection Center of Montefiore Medical Center (a Child Advocacy Center), the Children’s Village, and at Covenant House/Under 21. Dr. Pulido’s protocol for crisis debriefing following child fatality and critical incidents is utilized throughout the New York City Child Protective Services system. Dr. Pulido is a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She serves on the National Board of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and on the NYS Chapter Board and is Chair of their Public Policy Committee. She also is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Childhood Foundation. In 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Dr. Pulido to the New York City Child Fatality Review Team (CFRT) where she served until 2015. She is currently a principal investigator on a project to design a child sexual abuse prevention curriculum for elite, Olympic gymnasts, coaches and parents following the child sexual abuse scandal involving Larry Nassar.
Dr. Pulido holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the City University of New York, and Master’s Degrees in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work and in Teaching from Sacred Heart University. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She has published in the areas of detection and prevention of child abuse and neglect, providing supervised visitation services, crisis debriefing, child sexual abuse prevention and preventing secondary traumatic stress. She has been featured on WNBC, The New York Daily News, NY1, WPIX-TV, ABC News, cbsnews.com, Inside Edition and is a dedicated blogger on issue of child protection for Huffington Post and Medium.
References:
Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (2020). Self-Care Inventory, The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, www.NCTSN.org
Holahan, C.J., Moos, R.H., & Schaefer, J.A. (1996). Coping, stress resistance and growth: Conceptualizing adaptive functioning, Chapter 2, p.24-43. In Zeidner, M., & Endler, N.S. Handbook for Coping; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: New York.
Schafer, W. “Stress Management for Wellness” Rinehart & Winston publishers, New York, NY, 4th edition.
Wicks, R. (2008). The Resilient Clinician, Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
Pulido, M. L., & Lacina, J. M. (2010). Supporting child protective services (CPS) staff following a child fatality and other
critical incidents. American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) Advisor, 22 (4), 16-22.
Craun, S., Bourke, M., (2014). The Use of Humor to Cope with Secondary Traumatic
Stress, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23: 840-852.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognizing the impact of primary and secondary stress on your physical and psychological functioning and decision-making capabilities
- How to use cognitive reframing to change unhelpful patterns in cognitions (e.g., thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes), behaviors, and emotional regulation, to reduce stress
- Determining if your coping process is adaptive or maladaptive
- Understand the key components of self-care (physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual and workplace/professional)