Strength Based Interventions

Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/27/2026
8:30 am - 12:00 pm

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• Training

Key Strengths-Based Interventions: Tools for your Toolbox
Kevin Powell, PhD.
Friday March 27, 2026
8:30am to 12pm

3 Psychology CE’s Available

** Training will be virtual via Zoom **

There is growing awareness and empirical support for utilizing a Strengths-Based Approach (SBA) when providing mental health services to children, adolescents, families, and adults. SBA is an effective approach when working with youth who are struggling with a variety of presenting problems, including harmful sexual behaviors. A strengths-based orientation helps create an atmosphere in which youth (and their families) begin to feel psychologically safe, open, and engaged in services.

This presentation will provide participants with information about key strengths-based interventions (Powell, 2015; 2026), which target eleven areas of healthy development: 1) Relationship development, 2) Safe environment development, 3) Social connections development, 4) Hope and self-efficacy development; 5) Self-worth development; 6) Approach goal development, 7) Resilience development, 8) Self-regulation development, 9) Prosocial development, 10) Intellectual development, and 11) Provider development.

The training objectives are to….

1) Describe ‘what is’ a Strengths-Based Approach

2) Implement interventions that promote Hope & Self-Efficacy

3) Explain the difference between an Approach Goal vs. an avoidant goal.

4) Describe Protective Factors commonly associated with Resilience in youth and adults

Kevin M. Powell, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, trainer, consultant, and author who has provided assessment and treatment services to at-risk (or what he likes to call ‘at-promise’) children, adolescents, and their families for over 3 decades. He has worked in schools, community-based agencies, a hospital, and residential programs including 20+ years in a maximum-security detention center.  Dr. Powell is also an adjunct professor at Colorado State University in the Department of Psychology where he teaches, provides clinical supervision, and conducts research on protective factors associated with resilience in youth and adults (Arkfeld, Powell et al., 2025; Powell et al., 2021).

Kevin presents nationally and internationally, on a variety of strengths-based topics to help promote healthy, prosocial development in youth and families.  Additional information can be found at www.kevinpowellphd.com.

Registration Fees :

NJATSA Member – Free

NJATSA Member 3 Psychology CEs – $40

Non-Member – $10

Non-Member 3 Psychology CEs – $60

** REGISTRATION CLOSES THURSDAY 3/26/26 AT 12:00PM and the ZOOM link will be sent out 3/26/26 by 7pm EST**

Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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