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Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Jennifer Roman-Martin, LICSW

Trauma Informed Care
Trauma-informed care is a widely used term, but its definition and implementation often lack clarity. This training will explore how to embody its principles and practices to actively resist re-traumatization, promote stabilization, and effectively advocate for healing-centered approaches. Participants will learn to enact trauma-responsive social work practices that support diverse and individualized paths toward well-being across the lifespan. Through interactive modules, case studies, and breakout sessions, participants will apply the core principles of trauma-informed care at individual, relational, and organizational levels, fostering environments of safety, trust, and healing.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will understand the current conceptualization of trauma, trauma-informed care, and the impact of trauma.
2. Participants will learn trauma-responsive intervention strategies for social work practice at organizational, supervisory, peer, and client levels.
3. Participants will examine the practitioner's role in developing a healing system with the client.
4. Participants will identify and respond to vicarious traumatization and secondary traumatic stress as they present in oneself and in interactions with clients, provider teams, and systems.

Course Fee: $150
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Betsy Harris, LICSW

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adults
This intensive course will provide an overview of the basics of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) as well as move toward a deeper understanding of DBT. The course is designed for mental health professionals invested in a better understanding of DBT and the ability to implement the treatment in their settings. Following a review of Dialectical philosophy and Biosocial Theory, participants will learn several fundamental DBT skills to use with their clients right away. This course also addresses components of comprehensive DBT, treatment targets, and how to apply fundamental DBT strategies. Lectures, videotapes, small group exercises, and clinical examples are utilized to teach DBT theory and illustrate strategies.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will identify DBT and what client population it was originally designed to treat.
2. Participants will be able to explain Biosocial Theory.
3. Participants will be able to define what it means to be dialectical.
4. Participants will understand the essential components and importance of a comprehensive DBT treatment.
5. Participants will be able to identify the four skills training modules taught in the DBT Skills Training Manual.
6. Participants will learn at least one skill in Core Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.

Course Fee: $150
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Amanda Platner, PsyD

Neurodevelopmental Disorders for Children, Youth, and Families
This course is geared towards experienced clinicians looking to gain a deeper understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders. The course will review diagnostic criteria and will then delve into gold standard procedures for assessment and diagnosis, as well as evidence-based treatment and support options for individuals and families. We will also discuss special topics such as the impact of neurodevelopmental disorders on families, access and barriers to care, and other timely topics.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to accurately describe each of the neurodevelopmental disorders according to the DSM-5.
2. Participants will be able to discuss their previous clinical knowledge and their new knowledge of these disorders. Participants will be able to discuss and implement evidence-based interventions for children, adolescents, and families.
3. Participants will be able to read and interpret a neuropsychological report and learn how to integrate results into their practice.

Course Fee: $150
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Sara Keary, PhD, LICSW

Issues Facing Older Adults
This course will explore a variety of issues facing older adults and their caregivers in an aging society. We will review the strengths and challenges of aging in the 21st century within the context of medical advancements; where and how people live as they age; the impact of intergenerational trauma and epigenetics on aging; how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected aging people and their formal and informal caregivers; how social workers in all settings can familiarize themselves with issues facing aging people; and the ways in which intersecting identities of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, religion/spirituality, and socioeconomic status all impact the ways people receive medical care, facilitate advance care planning, and plan for the wide range of their needs in later life.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will identify important issues facing the older adult community.
2. Participants will learn about and how to access important resources to help facilitate care for older adults regardless of their practice settings (i.e., Health Care Proxy documents, geriatric care managers, elder law attorneys, institutional and community-based resources).
3. Participants will have a general knowledge base of medical and legal issues related to aging, especially in the context of dementia and/or cognitive impairment and other serious illnesses.
4. Participants will have an understanding of how clinician awareness and advocacy regarding intersectionality are vital in meeting older adult clients’ needs.

Course Fee: $150
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Rachel DiBella, PsyD, MSW, LICSW

Attachment Theory
Clinicians and macro social workers alike benefit from understanding the role attachment plays in how we -- and our clients -- engage in organizational life, including the workplace. This course will explore the principles of attachment theory, including adult attachment, and will uncover the relationship between insecure attachment and leadership development using insights from the latest research in the field.

Designed with interactive activities and evidence-based frameworks, this learning experience proposes a model for supporting growth and resilience in teams and leaders working in increasingly unpredictable, ambiguous, and complex organizational contexts. This course equips participants with a toolkit to foster greater attachment security in our own professional lives, as well as the lives of our clients.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to describe early and contemporary theories of attachment, including neurobiology, and their uses in clinical and macro social work.
2. Participants will be able to engage in "use of self" to understand one's own attachment experiences, their impacts on social work practice, and strategies for being a secure base for self and others.
3. Participants will be able to recognize the role attachment plays in adult relationships across contexts, including organizational life and professional settings.
4. Participants will be able to describe recent discoveries and limitations in scholarly research on attachment and leadership development, including attachment as an adult developmental phenomenon.
5. Participants will be able to apply working understandings of adult attachment to support leadership development, team cohesion, and organizational effectiveness in social work practice.

Course Fee: $150
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructors: Greg Hallowell and Helen Stojanov-Acford, CAGS, MA, LADC-1

Motivational Interviewing for Adults
Motivational Interviewing (MI) encompasses therapeutic strategies for assisting clients with behavior changes that are more collaborative than prescriptive, while respecting the client’s autonomy and beliefs. We will cover basic (and some advanced) principles of MI including detailed strategies for engagement and collaborative practice. We will strengthen empathic skills, eliciting change talk, and learn to roll with resistance by focusing on MI’s OARS interviewing model (i.e., Open-ended questions, Affirmation, Reflective listening, Summarizing). We will use the classroom methods of lecture, discussion, demonstration, and practice together. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, present cases, complete practice exercises together, and learn the ways in which MI can be practiced in other arenas, not only in clinical practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will have direct practice and experience of using open ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summarizations.
2. Participants will learn the fundamental client language cues (change talk and resistance), that allow continued feedback and learning in practice.
3. Participants will experience and practice an MI style for meeting resistance.

Course Fee: $150
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Kristan Bagley-Jones, MSW, LICSW

Play Therapy for Children, Youth, and Families
This course will explore effective clinical practice with children via the use of play therapy. An overview of theories informing the practice of play therapy will be discussed. Key factors in play therapy such as the play therapy relationships, exploring symbolic play and themes in play, setting effective limits, and understanding interpretation in play treatment will be explored. Participants will learn specific play therapy techniques for effective assessment and practice consistent with the theoretical perspectives presented. Practical (and fun!) interventions will be explored.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify the major play therapy theories, therapeutic powers of play, strategies, and techniques commonly used in play treatment.
2. Participants will explore play interventions such as sand tray play, therapeutic game play, puppets, and other play interventions.
3. Participants will gain understanding of the use of the treatment relationship to shape new patterns of emotions and behaviors, set therapeutic limits, and address differences.

Course Fee: $150
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Matt Mooney, PhD, LICSW

Narrative Therapy for Children, Youth, and Families
This course will introduce students to the social justice perspective a Narrative Worldview offers when working with children, youth, and families. A thorough examination of the distinction between Narrative and Normative Worldviews will be followed by a brief exploration of the two pillars of narrative practice: Deconstructing and Reauthoring. Students will learn about the radically respectful and collaborative approach that narrative therapists take in working with people who are experiencing problems in their lives and relationships. Brief examples of practice will be shared and participants will take part in practice activities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will begin to understand the distinction between Narrative and Normative Worldviews.
2. Participants will begin to understand the stance of the narrative practitioner.
3. Participants will begin to learn externalizing practices.

Course Fee: $150
CEUs: 6