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The Unfinished Business of Childhood: How Early Trauma Shapes Professional Identity
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET
Live Interactive Online Webinar
$60.00
Adam McCormick, PhD, MSSW

This webinar invites social workers and helping professionals to reflect on how early trauma adaptations, such as people-pleasing, over-functioning, or emotional detachment, can shape caregiving roles, workplace relationships, and professional identity. Drawing from trauma theory, attachment research, and neurobiology, the session helps participants explore how unresolved childhood wounds can contribute to burnout, boundary challenges, and moral injury in practice. The webinar offers experiential exercises, case examples, and concrete strategies for recognizing and responding to these patterns with curiosity and compassion. Participants will leave with tools to support authenticity, emotional regulation, and sustainable practice.

To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete an online course evaluation. Certificates of completion will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.
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3.0 Clinical
Objectives
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
  • Identify common childhood trauma adaptations that may influence caregiving roles and workplace dynamics
  • Describe how the tension between attachment and authenticity can shape professional identity and emotional labor
  • Apply neuroscience-informed strategies for emotional regulation and boundary setting in clinical and organizational settings
  • Audience
    Social Workers and Allied Health Professionals