Why Children Lie: Development, Trauma, and Supporting the Truth - 12/02/23 - Webinar

December 2, 2023

Session Description

Lying is a complex, layered behavior that involves both the person telling the lie and the perception of the person receiving it, as well as each person’s history and development. Surprised it’s not so black and white? This training will take you through understanding what lying is, why it happens and how to support the truth.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 Participation
    Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Course opens: 
02/01/2022
Course expires: 
12/02/2023
Event starts: 
12/02/2023 - 9:00am PST
Event ends: 
12/02/2023 - 12:00pm PST
Part of: 
Why Children Lie: Development, Trauma, and Supporting the Truth
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Penny Michel - mpen300@uw.edu

Penny Michel is a Development and Facilitation Specialist at the Alliance.  She is member of a team who is responsible for development and facilitation of pre-licensing and continuing education trainings for licensed caregivers, kinship caregivers, adoptive parents and community members.

She began her career in early childhood education and transitioned into the human services field.  This experience provided an opportunity to work in positions as a licensor for childcare and foster care.  She came to the Alliance in 2014 and became a Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) Practitioner in 2019.

She received her Masters of Social Work (MSW) from UW-Seattle and completed the process to become and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LISCW.)

Her ideal self-care consists of Forest Bathing with her Dog Nation while they get their zoomies out and traveling with overweight luggage to faraway places to swim with the fishes.

Available Credit

  • 3.00 Participation
    Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Please login or register to take this course.

At least one day before the scheduled event, you will receive an email with the links to join the webinar and the supplemental handouts for the class. If you do not receive your link, please check your spam or junk folder, then contact the assigned trainer. 

The webinar will start at the designated time. Please plan to be on time. We cannot give credit or a certificate of 
completion for courses when more than 15 minutes of the class time has been missed and you will not be admitted to 
the class. 

Please sign on via the emailed link in advance of the start time to address any technical issues that may arise. We will not be able to assist you after class has started. 

If you are having issues logging on to the webinar, please contact Trainer Penny Michel at mpen300@uw.edu 

Registration is required. Need help? Email: alliancesupport@uw.edu 
Please include your name, phone number or email, and the course title in your request for assistance. 

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alliancesupport@uw.edu 
Por favor incluya su nombre, número de teléfono o dirección de su correo electrónico y agregue el nombre de la clase 
por la que está solicitando ayuda.