Supporting Family Caregivers Navigating Mental Health and Wellness: Clinical Implications for Professionals
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Supporting Family Caregivers Navigating Mental Health and Wellness: Clinical Implications for Professionals

Fri, Mar 14th, 2025
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Over 53 million family caregivers nationwide are estimated to provide care to a loved one (National Alliance for Caregiving, 2020). The number of family caregivers in the United States is projected to increase substantially in the next decade. Caregiving is multi-faceted and takes many forms--with family caregivers caring for young children, an aging spouse or parent, a loved one with a lifelong disability, or those navigating unique multiple caregiving roles for 2 or more care recipients. The roles and responsibilities associated with family caregiving are often coupled with many rewards and joys, but also can pose many challenges for caregivers in the United States and worldwide.

Caregiving, for some, can be associated with caregiver burden, a reduction in quality of life, and adverse health and mental health outcomes. As such, professionals are critical in providing resources, services, and therapeutic support for family caregivers. Counselors, social workers, health providers, and other professionals often provide support to care recipients and their family caregivers. This training will provide an understanding of the intricacies of family caregiving, as well as clinical implications, resources, and supports for family caregivers who provide care for one or more loved ones. Supporting the mental health needs and strategies to support wellness will be a focus of this webinar.

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This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Christina Marsack-Topolewski

Christina Marsack-Topolewski

Dr. Christina Marsack-Topolewski is an associate professor of Social Work in the College of Health and Human Services at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Marsack-Topolewski received her PhD in Social Work with a dual title in Gerontology from Wayne State University. She has worked with individuals with various intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) for 20 years. Her research focuses on individuals with autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities, their caregivers, advance care planning, the service delivery model, and service utilization. She has over 90 publications in national and international journals and encyclopedias, mainly focusing on individuals with IDDs, caregiving, as well as services and supports. In addition, she has presented her work locally, nationally, and internationally.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Explain various types of visible and invisible family caregivers.
  2. 2 Summarize the differences between formal and informal social support networks and their utility in supporting family caregivers.
  3. 3 List 3 therapeutic strategies to promote positive mental health outcomes and caregiver wellness.

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Marsack-Topolewski, C. N. (2021). Relationship between caregiver burden and basic and instrumental activities of daily living among compound and noncompound caregivers. Journal of Family Social Work, 24(4), 299-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2020.1861157

Marsack, C. N., & Perry, T. E. (2018). Aging in place in every community: Social exclusion experiences of parents of adult children with autism spectrum disorder. Research on aging, 40(6), 535-557. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027517717044

Marsack‐Topolewski, C. N., Perry, T. E., & Chan, K. T. (2021). “I'm Glad She Chose Me as Her Parent”: Rewards of Caregiving for Adults With Autism. Family Relations, 70(5), 1465-1476. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12515

Marsack-Topolewski, C. N., & Wilson, K. P. (2021). Coping strategies used by aging parental caregivers of adults with autism spectrum disorder. Families in Society, 102(1), 119-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/1044389420913121

Samuel, P. S., Wright, K., Marsack-Topolewski, C., & DiZazzo-Miller, R. (2022). When more is too much: Compound caregiving, barriers to services, and service support for older families of people with disabilities. Families in Society, 103(2), 180-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/ 10443894211048456

Tamizi, Z., Fallahi-Khoshknab, M., Dalvandi, A., Mohammadi-Shahboulaghi, F., Mohammadi, E., & Bakhshi, E. (2020). Caregiving burden in family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia: A qualitative study. Journal of education and health promotion, 9(1), 12. DOI: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_356_19

Wang, F., Marsack-Topolewski, C. N., DiZazzo-Miller, R., & Samuel, P. S. (2022). Health of aging families: Comparing compound and noncompound caregivers. Journal of gerontological social work, 65(3), 290-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2021.1963024

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00-11:10am - Introduction and orientation of the topic 

11:10-11:40am - What is caregiving? Who are our visible and invisible caregivers?

11:40-12:15pm - Roles, responsibilities, joys, and trials of caregiving

12:15-12:30pm - Video and case study


12:30-12:45pm - Break 


12:45-1:05pm - Strategies and supports to navigate unique, multi-faceted, and/or multiple caregiving roles 

1:05-1:15pm - Utilizing formal and informal social support networks to support family caregivers; navigating service systems

1:15-1:35pm - Therapeutic interventions and clinical implications to support family caregivers 

1:35-1:45pm - Supporting the enhancement of wellness and self care for family caregivers

1:45-2:00pm - Resources for family caregivers

2:00-2:15pm - Recap and Q&A

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