Training Name: Helping Justice-Involved Clients Build Relationship Skills
Learning Objectives
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
1) Identify key relational and psychological challenges that justice-involved individuals face during reintegration, particularly in social and romantic contexts.
2) Apply trauma-informed and accountability-centered clinical strategies to support clients in building safe, respectful, and consensual relationships.
3) Demonstrate core healthy relationship skills—including setting boundaries, communicating effectively, regulating emotions, and navigating vulnerability—to clients who may lack previous models of safe and supportive partnership.
4) Express client support in exploring their self-concept and identity reconstruction, with an emphasis on reducing shame and fostering self-awareness, self-respect, and relational integrity.
5) Describe the practical and emotional complexities of dating post-incarceration, including decision-making, disclosure, consent, rejection resilience, and developing respectful approaches to initiating and sustaining connection.
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