The NASW Massachusetts Chapter has officially rescheduled Symposium 2020: Voices of Empowerment and Social Justice, as a virtual conference, on Thursday, April 15, and Friday, April 16, 2021, with our keynote speaker Dr. Joy DeGruy. Online registrations are now open!
You can submit your registration by mail.
Message to previous Symposium registrants:
All participants have received noticed that ALL 2020 registration items (including workshops and intensive selections) have automatically transferred to the new event date, at the current cost to attend.
Click here to download the Symposium's listing of workshop & intensives (PDF)
Instructions to register online:
- Confirm your registration type (i.e., member, nonmember, student, etc.)
- Select the admission type (Both Days, Thursday only, or Friday only)
- FYI: All agencies must select admission type for agencies to receive the NASW member rate for Symposium
- Choose your workshop selections:
- Please note that intensives workshops are optional and have an additional fee:
- Morning intensives workshops (Thursday | 3 CEUs | 8:30 - 11:45am)
- Evening intensive workshop (Thursday | 2 CEUs | 7:30 - 9:30pm)
- Complete and submit your registration
Registration Change/Cancellation Policy:
All cancellation and changes must be made no later than Monday, March 29, 2021. Cancellations received by this date will receive a full refund less $25 processing fee. No refunds will be made for cancellations received after Monday, March 29, 2021.
For refunds or cancellations, please email us at Symposium.naswma@socialworkers.org.
7:30AM - 9:30AM | THURSDAY BREAKFAST | SPONSORED Q&A SESSIONChat With Our Platinum Sponsors - Eliot Community Human Services and MGH Center for Community Health Improvement
- All Symposium 2021 participants will have the opportunity to chat directly with our Platinum Sponsors in an open virtual (Zoom) room.
8:30AM-11:45AM | MORNING WORKSHOP INTENSIVES | 3 CEUsA: Leadership: Moving Organizations from Unconscious Bias to Conscious Anti-Racism (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Betty Morningstar, PhD, LICSW; Angela Wangari Walter, PhD, MPH, MSW; Robbie Welch Christler Tourse, PhD, LICSW; Yvonne Ruiz, PhD, LICSW; Bet MacArthur, LICSW; Helene Kress, MSSS
Description: The Challenges of Recognizing Racial Bias and Creating Change in Social Work Organizations Draws from theories of systemic racism. The session will examine the complexities of overt and unconscious bias. Along with participants, we will develop recommendations for creating inclusive organizations.
B: Making the State House Work for You
With: Sophie Hansen, LCSW
Description: Participants will be given an overview of the Massachusetts legislature, how to contact and lobby legislators (via role play) and utilize them as a clinical resource.
C: Providing Gender-Affirming Clinical Care: Practical Guidance (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Ruben Hopwood, MDiv, PhD
Description: This workshop will support therapists with gender diverse clients to provide sensitive, relevant, and insightful counseling and/or medical treatment referrals.
D: Misery or Mastery TM: Mental Health Documentation Clarified
With: Beth Rontal, LICSW
Description: Translate your intuition into logical and insurance friendly documentation. Protect your income. Avoid legal nightmares. Learn to implement The Golden Thread to justify medical necessity.
E: Incorporating Telehealth in Behavioral Health Services (CEUs in professional ethics)
With: Myrtise Kretsedemas, LICSW
Description: This workshop will introduce social workers to telebehavioral health, familiarize participants with research on its effectiveness, address legal and ethics issues, and help social workers employed in health centers or in private practice assess their readiness to offer telehealth services.
H: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships
With: Amy Banks, MD
Description:This workshop will provide an update on the neuroscience of human relationships and will offer concrete strategies to help clinicians work with clients to build stronger neural pathways for connection leading to more rewarding relationships.
I: Improving mental health among Asian-American women via AWARE intervention (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Hyeouk "Chris" Hahm, PhD, LCSW
Description: This workshop focuses on the theoretical framework to understand poor mental health problems among young Asian American women. It also addresses the current research results and new evidence-based intervention regarding AWARE intervention in reducing depression, anxiety, PTSD symptoms.
J: Seeking Safety Where There is None: Impact of Immigration Policies on Asylum Seekers and Refugees (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Mojdeh Rohani, LICSW
Description: This workshop will provide an overview of the worldwide refugee crisis with a focus on the recent changes in the US policies and impact on asylum seekers and refugees. Trauma-informed and culturally sensitive approaches with these populations will be discussed.
L: The Power of Shame
With: Linda (Lynn)Sanford, LICSW
Description: Shame is a common sequelae to trauma and often an underlying cause of behaviors that bring people to the attention of helping professionals. This workshop will explore the role shame plays in such behaviors, and cover implications for treatment approaches, and challenges to countertransference management.
M: The Art of Diagnosis
With: Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW , CADC-II
Description: Although a large component of the daily work of social workers is to diagnose psychiatric illnesses, there is little education on how to do that well. This training teaches how to differentially diagnose using specific questions and provides distinct tools that clinicians can use in clinical sessions.
N: Clinical Ethics in Social Work: A Pragmatic Guide (CEUs in professional ethics)
With:Stephen, O'Neill, JD, LICSW, BCD
Description: Using clinical case vignettes and didactics, this workshop will review changes to the NASW Code of Ethics, including social media, and provide tools to approaching ethical binds within clinical practice.
11:45AM - 12:45PM | THURSDAY LUNCHEON
12:45PM - 2:45PM | KEYNOTE ADDRESS | 1.5 CEUs (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
2:45PM - 4:15PM | SESSION 1: WORKSHOPS | 1.5 CEUs
008: Cultural Conundrums: Can Parenting Programs Become More Diverse? (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Karen Zilberstein, MSW
Description: Compare and contrast how parent training programs that fit the values, practices, and constraints of racially, ethnically, and economically diverse parents can improve interventions and increase participation and positive outcomes.
012: The Neurobiological Treatment of Trauma
With: Judith Swack, PhD; Wendy Rawlings, MS, LMHC
Description: Participants will learn the structure of trauma and an evidence-based technique from the field of Energy Psychology for rapidly clearing trauma from the conscious mind, unconscious mind and body.
021: Re-Thinking Challenging Kids: The Collaborative Problem Solving Model
With: Ben Stich, MSW, M.Ed
Description: Introduction to Collaborative Problem Solving®, an evidence-based practice to help behaviorally challenging kids build crucial thinking skills like problem-solving, frustration tolerance and cognitive flexibility.
023: The Confident Leader: Maximizing Your Potential for Everyday Success
With: Julie McGarth, LICSW
Description:Social work = challenging career; this workshop is designed for managers and clinicians to help them uncover unhelpful habits that prevent them from reaching their full potential.
034: Yoga-CBT: A Mind Body Solution for Anxiety
With:Julie Greiner-Ferris, LICSW
Description: Yoga Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a research based group treatment that blends CBT with yoga, targeting both the physical and cognitive symptoms of anxiety simultaneously.
036: So You’ve Learned About Microaggressions. Now What??? (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Ashley Davis, Ph.D., MSW
Description: Social workers have an ethical obligation to address oppression in all forms. Participants will practice intervention strategies to mitigate harm and increase social justice.
045: Collaborative Approaches to Mentoring Youth Impacted by Foster Care
With:Victoria Murray, LCSW
Description: We will explore and deepen our understanding of tangible tools and practices that support long-term, sustainable, and supportive mentoring relationships for youth impacted by foster care.
059: What Does "Trauma Informed" Look Like in Practice?
With: Michelle Wexelbla, LICSW
Description:This presentation will discuss best practices for broad implementation of trauma informed care, and will introduce and demonstrate a schema that any support service can use to evaluate their practices.
064: Demystifying Clinical Work with Non-Binary Clients (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Kelly Exley-Smith, LICSW; Jennifer Harris, LICSW; Caitlin Van Slooten, LICSW
Description: Think gender is just male and female? It's so much more! Come explore all that exists beyond the gender binary and how to incorporate more inclusive practices into your work.
104: Beyond Awareness: My Life My Choice Prevention Solution Model
With: Kyle Mushkin, LICSW, MPH; Audrey Morrissey
Description: My Life My Choice has developed a survivor-led prevention model for youth sexual exploitation, which includes the development of specialized policies and procedures. Participants will learn about our enhanced Prevention Curriculum and applying it to programs within their jurisdiction.
110: Follow-up to Keynote Address (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Johnnie Hamiliton-Mason, PhD, LICSW
Description: 1619-2020: Post, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Adaptation, Resilience and Healing: Joy DeGruy’s concept of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome has been studied in the literature under various names - including race-based traumatic stress, insidious trauma, intergenerational trauma, psychological trauma and racism. Following up on Dr. DeGruy’s keynote, this workshop will expand on adaptive behaviors, both positive and negative - and discuss implications for interventions aimed at the individual, as well as undoing systemic institutional structures.
114: The Experience of Sharing Therapy Notes Directly with Patients (CEUs in professional ethics)
With:Stephen O'Neill, JD, LICSW, BCD
Description: The clinical, research, and ethical implications of 6+ years of experience in overseeing the opening up of therapy notes directly to patients at BIDMC and elsewhere will be reviewed.
4:45PM - 6:15PM | SESSION 2: WORKSHOPS | 1.5 CEUs004: Gay Men: A Rich History and A Few Misconceptions (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Elliott Kronenfeld, MS, LICSW, CST
Description: Why are gay male relationships different? Learn a rich history of change, challenge, and continuity to help better serve gay men. Acceptance doesn't mean understood!
005: Our Federal and State Budgets: Possible Solutions to Ongoing Concerns
With:Jeff Schrenzel, PhD, LICSW
Description: This presentation explores our Federal and State budgets and their impact on services. Funding priorities, concerns, and solutions will be discussed. Useful internet policy websites will also be shared.
026: Stress-Reduction for Social Workers and Clients: Integrating Yoga to Enhance Self-Care
With: Samarrah Clayman, MSW; Laura Stevens, LICSW
Description: This workshop will teach you tools including yogic postures and breathing techniques to reduce stress and improve self-care for both you and your clients.
035: Grieving Death by Suicide: Facilitating a Compassionate Journey
With: Cheri Andes, MA, BA; Carly Burton, MSW
Description: Learn what is unique about grieving a death by suicide. Hear directly from those who have lost someone to suicide how best to provide support.
037: Bilingualism and The Clinical Encounter (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Beth Craft, MSW
Description: Understand and apply concepts of bilingualism to enhance the clinician's ability to develop therapeutic rapport, communicate cultural concepts, and appreciate how language affects identity and emotional expression.
050: Building Supervision Skills for Integrated Behavioral Health Settings
With: Nora Padykula, PhD, LICSW; Julie Barrett-Abebee, LICSW; Terri Haven, LICSW
Description: Geared towards those experienced in providing supervision, participants will gain supervision skills to use within integrated behavioral healthcare to enhance interprofessional teamwork.
062: The Journey To Mental Health: Create A Roadmap
With: Carly Sebastian, MSW
Description:Mental health starts before we are born! Help create a roadmap on how to assess and obtain services tailored to each person's situation in order to achieve recovery and success
078: Being the Grownup: Love, Limits, and the Natural Authority of Parenthood
With: Adelia Moore, PhD
Description: Learn how to help translate parents' determination to care for their children into a more confident expression of both love and limits without the use of verbal or physical coercion.
100: Trauma and Beyond: Treatment of Maltreated Children with Neurodevelopmental Challenges
With: Karen Zilberstein, MSW
Description: Neurodevelopmental difficulties in maltreated youth compromise their responses to standard trauma-informed treatments. Differentiating symptoms and modifying interventions is crucial to treatment.
6:00PM - 7:30PM | STUDENT POSTER SESSION
Third Biennial Student Poster Session | Symposium 2021 | Thursday evening, April 15, 2021
7:30PM - 9:30PM | EVENING INTENSIVE WORKSHOP | 2 CEUs (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)O: Suitcase Stories: Amplifying Immigrant and Refugee Voices
With: Alexandra Weber, MSW, LICSW, along with featured Suitcase Stories storytellers
Description: Suitcase Stories® is a signature program of the International Institute of New England that raises the profile of refugees and immigrants while fostering community through the art of storytelling. In this session featuring live performances by guest storytellers, explore how the stories we tell about immigrant and refugee experiences influence how others view their neighbors, and the world.
Click here to download the Symposium's listing of workshop & intensives (PDF)
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7:30AM - 9:00AM | FRIDAY BREAKFAST | SPONSORED Q&A SESSIONChat with our Premier Exhibitor & Breakfast Sponsor - AdCare Hospital (7:30am - 9:00am)
- All Symposium 2021 participants will have the opportunity to chat directly with our Exhibitor AdCare Hospital, in an open virtual (Zoom) room.
8:15AM - 9:45AM | SESSION 3: WORKSHOPS | 1.5 CEUs002: Effects of Emotional Abuse: From a Survivor's Perspective (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Kerriann Ostlund, LCSW
Description: Learn from a survivor's perspective and witness real-life media examples of how emotional abuse is glamorized for teenagers. How does this impact our work?
011: My Brother's Keeper: Promoting Healthy Masculinity (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Anthony Hil, Ed.D, LCSW
Description:This workshop will promote healthy, respectful manhood and healthy relationships and discuss concrete ways to decrease language and actions that degrade women and girls.
025: The Pathway Home: Gay Sons and Their Mothers (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Richard Miller, MSW
Description:The emotional connection between gay sons and their mothers has been unexplored and pathologized. This moving workshop provides a strength-based multicultural perspective of hope including lectures and multimedia interviews. Bring Kleenex!
027: The Sensory Nature of Attachment
With: Katherine Walbam, PhD, LICSW
Description: An association between sensory processing and attachment has the potential to shift how we conceptualize and provide treatment to families. Utilizing current research, this presentation will examine practice and policy implications."
032: Becoming a Supervisor: Managing a New Professional Role
With: Paula Nieman, LCSW, PhD Candidate
Description:New supervisors face increased administrative responsibility, changed collegial relationships, and many new duties. Apply different models of supervision to manage challenges of your new role.
043: The ABC’s of QI (Quality Improvement), Please!,
With: Megan Wroldson, LICSW; Michelle Streeter, RN
Description:Use Quality Improvement practices to keep clients, staff, and funders happy. Create and sustain change using tools like Plan-Do-Study-Act, flowcharting, and more.
054: The Intersection of Social Work and Criminal Justice System on Practice and Policy
With: Opal Stone,MBA; Sarah Abbott, PhD, LSW; Vincent Lorenti, JD
Description: Join this panel of experienced practitioners to discuss Therapeutic Jurisprudence, practical social work applications with the criminal-justice involved, and how your work can impact future policy and practice.
060: Let's Talk About Sex(uality) Through Transition (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Rebecca Minor, LICSW
Description: How do we talk to clients about changes in sex(uality) during gender affirmation? Explore the impact of these changes on identity and what trauma-informed language to utilize with clients.
066: Deconstructing Racial Scaffolding: Implications for Practice (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Johnnie Hamilton-Mason, PhD, LICSW, Nancy Wewiorski, PhD, LICSW, & Robbie Tourse, PhD, LICSW.
Description: Systemic racism impacts the work of social workers both directly and indirectly. This workshop will help practitioners identify and understand the psychological, social, and societal influences of systemic racism that mitigate effective social work practice.
073: Violence in Relationships (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Brenda Westberry, MS
Description: Violence against women is a significant social and public health problem affecting all societies. What are the implications of staying versus leaving an abusive relationship, and how can clinicians help?
079: Odd Couple No More: Social Work and ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis)
With: Rebecca Imming, LICSW, BCBA, LABA
Description: See how the field of Applied Behavior Analysis and Social Work can have a happy, mutually beneficial relationship! Applications for clinical practice, collaboration, and staff and program management included.
106: Tools for Your Toolbox to Manage Conflict Effectively
With: Gail Packer, MSW
Description: This interactive workshop will improve your skills at handling conflict, relevant for all aspects of social work practice including staff management and client interaction.
112: Supporting K-12 Students with Serious Mental Health Challenges: The BRYT Model
With: Katherine Houle, LICSW
Description: BRYT is a school-based program created by Brookline Center for Community Mental Health, operating at 135 schools. It systematically addresses the needs of students challenged by hospitalization or prolonged absences due to mental illness. Learn about the BRYT model and approach.
10:15AM - 11:45AM | SESSION 4: WORKSHOPS | 1.5 CEUs003: Bringing Nervous System-Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga into the Session
With: Joann Lutz, MSW
Description: Participants will experience, and learn the benefits of, Nervous System-Informed, Trauma-Sensitive Yoga. This approach can re-regulate the dysregulated autonomic nervous system, preparing the client for focused trauma therapy.
007: Latinx Narrative Therapy (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Yvonne Ruiz, PhD, LICSW
Description: Narrative therapy is an effective clinical approach to working with Latinx individuals and the cultural, relational, and social challenges that are commonly experienced by Latinx.
014: Intensive Trauma-Focused Therapy
With: Ricky Greenwald, PsyD
Description: This workshop will outline the potential benefits and pitfalls of intensive trauma-focused therapy, review the research, and explain how to do it.
020: Divorce and Family Mediation 101: Helping Family Divorce and Resolve Conflicts
With: Ben Stich, MSW, MEd
Description: Mediation is an effective and complementary intervention to therapy that social workers are uniquely qualified to practice. This session provides an introduction to the practice of family and divorce mediation.
022: Unlikely Partners: Divorce Attorney and Couples' Therapist
With: Elliott Kronenfeld, LICSW, CST
Description: Social worker + Divorce attorney = Magical collaboration! Learn how this unlikely pairing can strengthen connections even during the process of separation.
053: Supervisory Challenges: Leading Staff in Trauma Resilience
With: Mary Byrne, PhD, LICSW; Carol Masshardt, LICSW
Description: Supervisors have multiple demands that can challenge leadership in traumatic situations. This workshop focuses on advancing relationships with supervisees to foster mutual growth amidst turmoil.
068: Unaccompanied Minors: Adjustment, Education, Trauma, and Employment (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Kerri Evans, LCSW; Robert Hassan III, PhD, LICSW
Description: Unaccompanied children are an increasing population of immigrants in the US. We will discuss innovative interventions at the clinical and macro levels to ensure their well-being.
103: Exploring Legacies of Relational and Environmental Trauma: Fear and/or Moral Injury?
With: Kathryn Basham,PhD, LICSW, BA
Description: Psychological and social theories inform ways that trauma disrupts attachments in individuals, families, and communities. Resilience and fear-based vs. moral injury-based trauma are highlighted in clinical vignettes.
109: Working with Managed Care Companies: A Panel Discussion
With: Jennifer Erbe-Leggett, LICSW; Pat Howe, LICSW; and panelists from NASW-MA's Managed Care Commission
Description: MCO representatives will respond to moderator and audience questions regarding their insurance plans/services, network practices, claims processes, and future plans. Panelists will summarize recent changes in policies and practices, and issues being addressed by the NASW-MA Managed Care Commission.
12:00PM - 1:15PM | FRIDAY LUNCHEON
1:45PM - 3:15PM | SESSION 5: WORKSHOPS | 1.5 CEUs001: What Causes Change in Psychotherapy? Seeking Common Factors
With: James Drisko, PhD, LICSW
Description: This presentation explores and updates the common factors model, showing that client, relationship, and clinician factors generate more therapeutic change than do specific therapies.
009: How to Support Your Clients Through Divorce
With:Beth Aarons, JD, LCSW; Ben Stich, EdD, LICSW
Description: Support clients before, during and after divorce. We will review the emotional and legal impact of divorce, explain divorce process options and resources, and describe common parenting and financial decisions.
013: Incest Aware: Abuse of Children in Families (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Suzanne Isaza, MSA
Description: Despite #MeToo, no one is talking about incest abuse. This presentation will explore the incest dynamic, its impact on survivors, how best to support survivors, and prevention and awareness strategies.
015: Progressive Counting: An Efficient, Effective, Well Tolerated Trauma Treatment
With: Ricky Greenwald,PsyD
Description: Progressive counting (PC) is an efficient, effective, well tolerated research-supported trauma treatment. This workshop will introduce PC, review the research, and provide a brief PC experience.
051: Taking the Leap of Faith into Private Practice
With: Zaza Sakhat, LICSW; Katie Ricciardi, LICSW
Description: This is a panel workshop presentation based on professional experiences of three clinical social workers as well as focusing on the concept of social entrepreneurship.
055: Human Rights, Social Justice, and Advanced Generalist Practice (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Joseph Wronka, PhD
Description: Viewing human rights as the foundation of social justice, this workshop examines the implications of a human rights culture for advanced generalist social work practice.
071: Culturally Adapting Clinical Interventions: A 10-step process
With: Susan Tohn, MSW, LICSW; Ximena Soto, LICSW
Description: This ten-step process for culturally adapting clinical interventions creates an evidence-based clinical practice that is effective with under-served populations. We will practice Spanish adaptations.
074: Opiate Treatment in the Epicenter of the Epidemic
With: Christine Flynn-Saulnier, MSW, PhD, LICSW; Ebeneezer Ayiku, MSW Candidate; Nancy Bello, MSW Candidate
Description: Opiate treatment retention is tied to success so we examined retention records. Participants will identify unintentional retention barriers and plan how to decrease premature departures.
057-1: Inclusivity of Expansive Sexual Identity in Clinical Practice (must attend part 2 in Session 6 to get full CE credit) (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Michelle Wexelblat,LICSW; Rebecca Minor, LICSW
Description: This presentation will explore current understanding of sexualites beyond and between hetero/homosexuality through interactive, evaluative, and explorative measures as well as group discussion to improve clinical assessment and treatment.
070-1: Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy (must attend part 2 in Session 6 to get full CE credit)
With: Danielle Green, LICSW; Suzanne McCarthy, PsyD
Description: Recent research notes that when we have a secure connection to the people we love, we are healthier and feel more satisfied with ourselves and our lives.
3:45PM - 5:15PM | SESSION 6: WORKSHOPS | 1.5 CEUs006: The Art of Apology and How to Own Bad Behavior Without Shame
With: Jenn Brandel, LICSW
Description:Discover the power of skillful apology and explore how accepting responsibility for behaviors and understanding our impact on others allows us to evolve, deepen connections, and live with greater ease.
010: Using an Executive Functioning Informed Approach to Coach for Economic Mobility
With: Raysheema Rainey, MPA; Caroline koty, MSW, LICSW
Description:Learn how research informs Economic Mobility Pathways’ Mobility Mentoring® model and can inform your work with persons experiencing poverty.
017: Women Growing Older: Our Bodies Ourselves
With: Joan Ditzion, MSW, MA, BA
Description: With increased longevity women over 60 are facing new opportunities /challenges. We need to embrace aging, affirm women’s growth potential and change the aging paradigm.
031: The Communication of Suicidal Intent: Implications for Practitioners
With: Rebecca Mirick, PhD, LICSW; Jim McCauley, LICSW
Description:Led by experienced clinicians, this presentation focuses on identifying and interpreting direct and indirect communication of suicidal intent and understanding barriers to effective responses to this communication.
038: The Role of Exercise in Eating Disorder Recovery
With: Matthew Stranberg, MS
Description: This presentation helps clinicians understand the role of physical activity during mental health treatment, how to identify problematic physical activity, and address the physiological and psychological aspects of problematic activity.
044: Attunement, Empowerment and Integration: Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy,
With: Pamela Szczygiel, DSW, LICSW, CYT-500; Angelica Emery-Fetitta, LCSW, TCTSY-F
Description: Engaging with survivors of complex trauma requires adaptability and a commitment to non-coercion. Trauma-informed yoga offers practitioners an evidence-based and relationally focused tool to integrate into treatment.
061: Supporting Post-Secondary Success for Foster Care and Homeless Students (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With:Jennifer Propp, PhD; Marjorie Rodriguez, LICSW
Description: Findings and recommendations from a program to support the academic success of foster care and homeless students at Westfield State University will be highlighted.
072: Lessons I Have Learned; Journey to Compassionate Communication
With: Brenda Westberry, MS
Description: Learn how to respond to others when dealing with situations of conflict. Communication effectiveness can be enhanced through cultivating flexibility in responding to others.
076: Slaying the Lonely Dragon: Therapeutic Role-Playing Games
With: Molly Reider, MSW
Description: Integrating neuroscience and social learning theory, therapeutic role-playing games allow clients to break away self-defeating from identities. Explores loneliness, stress, self-concept, and resilience.
108: Military Sexual Trauma Assessment Including Clinical Considerations and Interventions (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Laila Swydan, LICSW
Description: Participants will be educated on Military Sexual Trauma including the scope and impact, reporting mechanisms and co-morbidities in the context of military environment and culture, as well as assessment and best clinical practices for trauma informed treatment.
057-2: Inclusivity ff Expansive Sexual Identity In Clinical Practice (must attend part 1 in Session 5 to get full CE credit) (CEUs in cross-cultural practice)
With: Michelle Wexelblat, LICSW; Rebecca Minor, LICSW
Description: This presentation will explore current understanding of sexualites beyond and between hetero/homosexuality through interactive, evaluative, and explorative measures as well as group discussion to improve clinical assessment and treatment.
070-2: Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy (must attend part 1 in Session 5 to get full CE credit)
With: Danielle Green, LICSW; Suzanne McCarthy, PsyD
Description:Recent research notes that when we have a secure connection to the people we love, we are healthier and feel more satisfied with ourselves and our lives.
For questions, please email us at Symposium.naswma@socialworkers.org.
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