This webinar provides a comprehensive overview of the criminal legal system, guiding clinicians through each stage "from arrest to reintegration"while examining emotional, psychological, and social impacts at every phase. Designed for social workers, therapists, and counselors, the session offers practical, trauma-informed interventions and evidence-based tools, including mindfulness techniques for emotional regulation, cognitive restructuring methods for trauma processing, and family systems approaches to improve communication and foster healthier relationships. Participants will also learn strategies to build trust, enhance resilience, and support individuals and families as they work toward long-term stability and healing.
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.
1. Recognize the Criminal Legal Trajectory:
Identify key stages of the criminal legal process—from arrest to reentry—and examine the emotional, psychological, and social impacts on justice-involved individuals and their families.
2. Identify Systemic Challenges and Trauma:
Gain insight into the common forms of trauma, stigma, and systemic barriers faced by clients, and understand how these factors influence overall well-being and engagement in services.
3. Apply Evidence-Based Interventions:
Explore and practice core therapeutic interventions—such as mindfulness techniques, cognitive restructuring methods, and family systems approaches—to address trauma and enhance coping, communication, and personal growth.
4. Foster Resilience and Healing:
Develop strategies to build resilience, strengthen therapeutic rapport, and foster trust, empowering clients, and families as they work toward stability, reintegration, and long-term healing.
5. Integrate a Trauma-Informed, Person-Centered Framework:
Learn to apply a holistic, trauma-informed lens and person-centered principles to ensure culturally responsive, ethically grounded, and effective clinical support for justice-impacted clients.