NOON HOUR WEBINAR: Understanding Infant Mental Health as a Place where Trauma Starts and where we can Heal Presented by Elizabeth Lanter, LCSW NASWWI Chapter / 2/16/2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 0 1751 Understanding our client’s, as well as our own trauma experiences, emotional development/health and attachment style as a universal understanding of human experience rather than an "us vs. them" approach to our work, as we are all one in the same; We all experience emotional development in infancy and we all are susceptible to trauma in our lifetime. We all function in relationships that can serve as a source of stress/trauma and resiliency. 1 CEH REGISTER HERE Read more
WEBINAR: Ethics and Boundaries: When Culture Affects Decision Making Presented by Sheng Lee Yang, MSW, LCSW NASWWI Chapter / 2/20/2023 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM 0 2780 This course examines how one’s culture impacts decision making in various treatment settings. Providers are constantly faced with ethical choices resulting in ambiguous outcomes and difficult decisions that may be morally confusing. Understanding cultural concepts enables providers to bridge the difference between themselves and diverse populations. Participants will acquire a better understanding of the ethical decision-making process when cross-cultural conflicts occur while addressing implications of unconscious biases. The workshop will address these issues through a combination of interactive dialogue, focused discussion, applied-practice exercises, and small group work. 4 Ethics and Boundaries CEH's This Webinar is Now Full Read more
WEBINAR: Ethics and Boundaries in Trauma Work: Unique Challenges and Opportunities Workshop Presented by Debra Minsky-Kelly, MSW, LCSW NASWWI Chapter / 1/12/2023 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM 0 3808 The subject of trauma is gaining more attention as a significant public health issue. Social workers and other mental health professionals are on the front lines of addressing the multitude of social ills that result from trauma exposure. This workshop examines the unique ethical questions raised by our work with trauma survivors. Participants will explore the adequacy of current definitions of trauma and ways our profession can address traumatizing effects of toxic stressors such as racism, poverty and other forms of oppression. The unique ethical and boundary questions raised by trauma work will be reviewed. This presentation will look at ethical issues of trauma work through a social justice lens. 4 Ethics and Boundaries CEH's This Webinar is now full Read more
WEBINAR: Ethics & Boundaries: Things That Make You Go Hmm…Boundaries, Barriers, and Shame Oh My! Presented by Dana Johnson, MSW, CAPSW NASWWI Chapter / 2/24/2023 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM 0 2541 (This webinar is now full) Have that gut instinct, feeling of rumbling in your stomach, those things that make you go hmm…? This training offers participants an opportunity to explore the difference between boundaries and barriers in peer-to-peer and client relationships. It explores personal boundaries, trust, shame, vulnerability, and use of self-assessment tools. Participants learn new strategies in paradigm thinking, communication and conflict management in the workplace; through examining challenges they face when colleagues are unethical or cross professional boundaries. The training provides related information to enhance the workplace, conflict resolution strategies, and developing ethically informed decision-making model of practice with peer to peer and client to practitioner relationships. It furthers the development of teams, colleague’s adherence to the NASW Code of Ethics and improves performance in agency ethical decision making. 4 Ethics and Boundaries CEH's Read more
NOON HOUR WEBINAR: Burnout and Self-Care in Social Work: A Guidebook in Mental Health and Related Professions Presented by SaraKay Smullens, MSW, LCSW, DCSW, CGP, CFLE, BCD NASWWI Chapter / 2/22/2023 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 0 1628 This webinar is based on findings in SaraKay’s fourth book, Burnout and Self-Care in Social Work: A Guidebook for Students and Those in Mental Health and Related Professions, ed 2, (NASW Press), where 5 burnout arenas, 4 underlying psycho-social causes (attendant syndromes), and care strategies (both self and societal) to address and alleviate burnout are highlighted. SaraKay explains: “Like life itself, there is nothing neat about my evidence-based categorizations. They hold a great deal of overlap and are offered for understanding, prevention, and discussion.” This edition also notes both differences and similarities between burnout and depression from a social work perspective. Deeply concerned about what she calls “pathologized human reactions,” SaraKay emphasizes that in both burnout and depression reactions are usually understandable and appropriate reactions to life events. (She does discuss, however, when depressive reactions are psychiatric illnesses, requiring more than “the talking cure.”) 1.5 CEH's REGISTER HERE Read more