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Course Outline: |
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Participants will learn about the sources and scope of violence exposures, become familiar with specific effects of family violence upon the child along with understanding the developmental impacts of violence upon the child’s biopsychosocial domains. Tools for identifying and interviewing children exposed to family violence will also be discussed. |
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Presenter |
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Dr. Ange Puig holds an undergraduate degree from Iona College in business administration and a doctoral degree in psychology from Columbia University. He is a member of the National Register for Health Providers in Psychology, the International Society for the Study of Traumatic Stress, and holds a certificate of professional qualifications in psychology, which allows mobility in practice in a number of participating states. He specializes in providing training on workplace violence, mental health juvenile justice issues, critical incident stress debriefing and fitness for duty evaluations. He provides consultation with Youth Emergency Shelter, Mentor Therapeutic Foster Care Program and Youth Consultation Services. Dr. Puig is the current board president for the Prevention Plus Burlington County Drug and Alcohol Council and past president of the Mental Health Association of Southwest New Jersey. He has served on Acting Governor Codey’s Mental Health Task Force. His practice specialty focuses on assessment of parenting capacity, trauma specific therapeutic intervention, clinical supervision, risk assessments and psychological services for law enforcement agencies. |