YOUR CONSENT PROCESS – IS IT A BIT BORING?

This will be an engaging professional development seminar where numerous strategies will be shared to encourage the client to be an active participant in the consent process. Professor Dawn McBride will share how she uses props, expressive arts, and metaphors to help clients realize the great importance of the consent process in counselling. Professor Dawn will also invite discussion of your pet peeves surrounding the consent process and explore ways we can make the consent process more enjoyable for all parties. All are welcome.

Dr. Dawn McBride, RPsych

Dr. Dawn McBride is an associate professor in counsellor education (University of Lethbridge, Canada) and is a registered psychologist in Alberta. Her main areas of study include relational ethics – consent and record keeping, multiculturalism, supervision/training, family violence & trauma, and the advance use of many therapeutic approaches (e.g., emotional regulation, EMDR, play therapies, psychodynamic, somatic interventions, & transactional analysis). She has won numerous teaching awards and has an active research agenda.