The Process of Empowerment: Taking Clients from Powerless to Powerful
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The Process of Empowerment: Taking Clients from Powerless to Powerful

Sat, Apr 19th, 2025
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Empowering our clients is a common mantra of counseling, social work, and other human service disciplines. Empowerment can include providing something the client lacks, such as coping skills, information/education, and collaborative problem-solving. Additionally, bringing forth what a client already has by raising awareness of clients' strengths as well as respecting and reinforcing their autonomy in making their own choices is also a vital part of empowerment. This workshop will help practitioners evaluate their understanding of the process of empowering our clients, learn strategies to promote empowerment, and watch for pitfalls that can dis-empower and demotivate our clients. Case examples from various target populations and diagnoses will be shared.

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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

Angela R. Wood, Ph.D., LCSW-BACS, C-CATODSW

Angela R. Wood, Ph.D., LCSW-BACS, C-CATODSW

Dr. Angela “Angie” Wood earned her MSW from Southern Illinois University in 1992, and a Ph.D. in social work from Tulane University in 2006. She has been a licensed clinical social worker for over 25 years, working in a variety of behavioral health settings such as addictions, mental health, criminal/juvenile justice, and family preservation. As a workshop trainer and educator for over 15 years, Dr. Wood has presented on clinical supervision, motivational interviewing, and substance abuse. Her research interests include the dissemination and implementation of motivational interviewing across practice settings. Dr. Wood is an assistant professor with the undergraduate social work program at Southeastern Louisiana University and contributing for Walden University’s School of Social Work and Human Service. She is one of three members of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers residing in Louisiana and has conducted over 100 workshops related to motivational interviewing.

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 Recognize client empowerment as a multifaceted concept and process.
  2. 2 Apply empowerment concepts to appraise client strengths and needs.
  3. 3 Select strategies to evoke empowerment and instill activation of change within clients.

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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.

11:00-11:05 am - Introduction

11:05-11:30 am - Defining and exploring the role of empowerment among various client populations

11:30-12:00 pm - Approaches to assessing client empowerment and self-efficacy.

12:00-12:30 pm - Explanation of the Empowerment Process Model

12:30-12:45 pm - Break

12:45-1:15 pm - Empowerment strategies: Evocation

1:15-1:45 pm - Empowerment strategies: Instilling

1:45-2:05 pm - Empowerment strategies: Social Justice approaches

2:05-2:15 pm - Q&A


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