Professional Development Opportunities
Section members can earn 1.5 free Social Work CEs by reading this annual bulletin and passing the online post test. This year's articles cover:
- Diversity
- Disparities
- Leadership
- Trends
- Interventions
- Public health
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 (12-1pm)
An Hour with Private Practice: Questions & Answers is a free
question and answer session for NASW members. Unless noted otherwise on the
schedule, the call-in sessions focus on a specific private practice subject and
are led by Mirean Coleman, LICSW, Clinical Manager at NASW.
Monday, November 9, 2020 (1 – 3 pm ET)
Presenters:
Cheryl Aguilar, LICSW, LCSW-C; Laura Patricia Minero, PhD;
German Cadenas, PhD; Liliana Campos, M.S., Doctoral Candidate, USF
CEs: 2 Cross Cultural contact hours of CEs
With the pandemic impacting communities across the nation,
leading to a new mental health crisis, community members who are underserved,
oppressed and experience mental health stigma are at a greater risk of facing
mental health distress. The risks increase when policy and politics dictate and
limit community members’ access, rights, and opportunities that enable
individuals to secure basic safety, physiological and health needs.
While immigrants have commonly been implicated by various
social determinants of health, the pandemic, increased racist political
climate, and upcoming presidential election have led to a rise in anxiety,
depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in immigrants with temporary or
undocumented statuses. As social workers, our code of ethics calls to respond
to community’s distress and injustices through micro, mezzo, macro approaches.
This webinar, featuring an interdisciplinary team of mental
health providers, scholars, and Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
recipients, will provide trauma-informed and culturally responsive strategies
to respond to promote the mental wellbeing DACA recipient.
Cost: SPS Members: Free
Friday, November 20, 2020 (1 – 2 pm ET)
Presenter: Tracy Ross, LCSW
CE Category: 1 Social Work contact hour
Families are at home living under the same roof in a way
that no one ever expected. Parents who completed the developmental phase of
separating from and launching their college age and adult children, are now
living together indefinitely. Old family dynamics are resurfacing and new
issues are coming into play. Family of origin challenges including parent/child
dynamics, sibling conflicts, triangles, coalitions, and cut offs are
resurfacing and showing up in new ways.
Adult children returning to the family
home and living under the same roof as parents and siblings is not an expected
developmental phase in the family life cycle. For many, the global crisis has
triggered not only a personal family crisis but also an opportunity and
willingness to address unhealed wounds and engage in family therapy as never
before.
Cost: SPS Members: Free