CEs: 2 | Level: Intermediate
Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, CST, offers an interactive exploration of the overlaps and intersections of socially-just therapy, radical clinical practices and erotic and sexual template awareness in the therapeutic relationship. It will acknowledge that socially-just talk therapy should inherently include an introductory level understanding of sex and gender therapy.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Elisa Nebolsine, LCSW, explore the role of emotions in adolescence and learn CBT strategies for managing feelings and staying in control.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Wendy Ashley, Psy.D., LCSW and Allen Eugene Lipscomb, Psy.D., LCSW, discuss raising critical consciousness, anti-racist accountability and empowerment in the clinical supervisory relationship.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Toby Davis, M.Ed., discusses core social justice concepts such as privilege, power, intersectionality and oppression and helps participants analyze their own experiences of privilege and oppression and identify concrete steps to apply a liberatory consciousness to their own spheres of influence.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Elisa E. Nebolsine, LCSW, teaches clinicians at all levels the basics of using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with youth.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
T.J. Jourian, Ph.D., reviews the current gaps in service provision systemically, along with recommendations for engaging in affirmative programs and interactions with TNB people of color, including TNB staff of color.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Karen Bullock, Ph.D., LCSW, APHSW-C, discusses the revised NASW Code of Ethics, its values and principles, the barriers and mediating factors influencing healthcare inequities and cultural competence as a tool for addressing racism in palliative social work.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Karen Bullock, Ph.D., LCSW, APHSW-C, provides participants with knowledge and understanding of the revised NASW Standards and Indicators for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice.
CEs: 2 | Level: Intermediate
Sharon Saline, Psy.D., veteran psychologist and author of What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life, offers rare insights into how kids honestly think and feel about having ADHD and what best helps them.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Stephanie Washington, Ed.D., LCSW-S, assists beginning and experienced supervisors in the development of practical tools and responses to ethical transactions with supervisees across varying contexts and developmental levels.
CEs: none available | Level: Intermediate
Marianne Yoshioka, M.S.W., MBA, Ph.D., LCSW, provides attendees with an overview of teaching as an adjunct faculty member from point of hire to understanding the objectives of an effective university instructor or advisor to being in the classroom.
CEs: 2 | Level: Intermediate
Davey Shlasko, M.Ed., will explore the nuance and diversity of gender identity, key terminology and concepts for understanding trans identities and barriers, risks and resilience factors common in trans communities.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Jeffrey Anvari-Clark, Ph.D., MA, LMSW, explores how the financial domain is rarely addressed in social work practice yet financial concerns can have a profound impact on individual well-being.
CEs: 2 | Level: Intermediate
Sharon Saline, Psy.D., examines the complicated journey of growing up as a neurodivergent female by looking first at the biological, cognitive and psychosocial factors affecting girls today. She will cover topics related to puberty/hormonal changes, gender identity, sexual orientation, racism, societal standards of beauty, twice exceptionality, bullying and perfectionism.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Marsha Kline Pruett, Ph.D., MSL, ABPP, will present the Ann Hartman Memorial Lecture, exploring facets of her work that intersect with the focus and values reflected in the distinguished career of Dean Emerita Ann Hartman, M.S.S. ’54, Ph.D. Hartman’s approach to the discipline of social work deeply valued clinical practice, respect for empiricism and commitment to equity, inclusion and social justice.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Jennifer Halpern, Ph.D., LMSW, APHSW-C, reviews some of the numerous roles for passionate palliative/hospice social workers, introduces social worker’s role in the micro, meso and macro levels of health-related organizations and the community and discusses how the experienced practitioner is likely to incorporate all of these approaches.
CEs: 2 | Level: Intermediate
Shannon L. Sennott, M.S.W., CST, LICSW, presents an interactive exploration of the overlaps and intersections of socially-just therapy, radical clinical practices and erotic and sexual template awareness in the therapeutic relationship.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Katherine Glick, LPC, LCADC, ACS, MAC, SAP, assists participants in understanding variations in non-monogamous and polyamorous relationship structures, in order to enhance their therapeutic skills when working with individuals and relationships that are not traditionally monogamous.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Sarah Yang Mumma, Ph.D., LCSW, draws from empirical research to address common racial dynamics within the multiracial therapist and client dyad. The course will explore how multiracial therapists experience, understand, and navigate racial dynamics in psychotherapy with diverse clients and provide information on common racial clinical experiences multiracial therapists have including racial coding, countertransference, therapists use of own race and disclosure.
CEs: 2 | Level: Intermediate
Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, CST, will introduce participants to the Alternative Family Structures Approach (AFSA), an eight-session foundational guide for clinicians who are working with clients who wish to be in consensually non-monogamous relationships or redefine their family structure to include other emotional, sexual, or intimate partnerships.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Craig James, LCSW, LSATP, MAC, and Cyndi Turner, LCSW, LSATP, MAC, present an overview of harm reduction, differentiate types of drinkers and their treatment needs, interpret the Alcohol Moderation Assessment, develop a Moderate Drinking Plan, and teach tools for alcohol moderation.
CEs: 1.25 | Level: Intermediate
Melissa D. Grady, M.S.W., Ph.D., LICSW, LCSW, will identify how the evidence-based practice process (EBP) can and should be a critical part of every social work practice, and how its principles can be a complement to, and enhancement of, the psychodynamic interventions that clinical social workers are using within their practices.
CEs: 1.25 | Level: Intermediate
Jessica Pryce, Ph.D., examines racial identity development and the importance of understanding one’s own racial identity. Participants will learn the different stages of Racial Identity Development and how one’s racial identity impacts one’s work with families.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Introductory
Allison Abrams, LCSW-R and Liat Shklarski, Ph.D., LCSW, will present the results of a mixed-methods study about effective remote supervision during this transition period, some of the most important mediating variables for culturally competent supervision based on empirical evidence and ways to incorporate social justice into clinical supervision.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, CST, will provide an affirmative framework for working clinically with erotically marginalized clients in a psychotherapy or sex therapy setting.
CEs: None available | Level: Intermediate
Jen Erbe Leggett, M.S.W. '99, LICSW, Ronjonette O’Bannon, Ph.D. '20, LCSW, and Sara Schieffelin, M.S.W. '08, LICSW, answer questions about starting a private practice. Topics will include things to know before you start your practice, balancing business with social work values and how to support the administrative side of a clinical practice.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Dean Marianne Yoshioka, M.S.W., MBA, Ph.D., LICSW, and panelists Hye-Kyung Kang, M.A., M.S.W., Ph.D., Rani Varghese, M.S.W., Ed.D. and Phuongloan Vo, M.S.W, LISW-S, discuss the current challenges facing the AAPI community and the roots of AAPI racism in the United States.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Damon Constantinides, M.S.W., Ph.D., LCSW, CST, introduces trans-centered care as an active model of practicing towards a world that centers justice and healing.
CEs: None available | Level: Intermediate
Cohosts Mary Curtin, M.S.W. '00, LICSW, and Toby Davis, M.Ed.,will lead a discussion with panelists TAYLOR ALXNDR, Lorelei Erisis and Miles Collins-Sibley around the common reasons trans folx seek treatment, common missteps cis therapists make and the skills, characteristics and best practices that are most helpful in working with trans-identified individuals.
CEs: 1.5 | Level: Intermediate
Sharon Saline, Psy.D., provides a strength based, collaborative approach to motivate ADHD teens who are out of the box thinkers. Saline will share strategies to teach all-important executive functioning skills that increase personal accountability and foster independence.