This is a 6-hour virtual workshop designed to help professionals sustain and strengthen their use of Motivational Interviewing (MI) when supporting individuals with mental health, substance use, and/or medical challenges. MI is an evidence-based, collaborative, person-centered approach that helps individuals explore and strengthen their own motivation for change. Participants will learn and practice more complex OARS skills, apply additional MI strategies and tools, and develop skills for effectively responding to sustain talk and discord. The workshop will also introduce basic concepts related to MI fidelity and provide guidance on next steps for continued MI skill development.

As helping professionals, we carry many individuals and families through life's traumas. Through this provision of care and support, we simultaneously collect the stories of countless people and communities we serve. This component of trauma-responsive practice creates a unique burden resulting from deep empathy – magnified by our collective professional and ethical orientation to social justice. Leaders and providers alike remain in the unique position of having to simultaneously lead, mentor, and effectively navigate and make sense of the sometimes-traumatic nature of social work practice. This educational session seeks to illustrate the impact of trauma on supervisors and supervisees; highlight the role of self-reflection in implementing supporting practice; and provide insights and reflections on self-stewardship and trauma-responsive practice within the context of clinical and organizational leadership.

We carry all of our identities with us into supervision, as supervisees and supervisors alike. If we want to create and foster supervision spaces that are safe and affirming—spaces where both parties can show up authentically—we must bring awareness and intentionality to the process.

Solution Focused Therapy is very effective when working with couples, because it breaks through typical couples’ patterns that cause problems between people. Solution Focused Therapy challenges the couple to share their vision for their future and then the clinician expertly amplifies these “solutions” in order to help the couple find their common ground.

Join NASW for a free virtual informational webinar to learn about the Opioid Response Network (ORN), a SAMHSA-funded initiative that provides evidence-based training and technical assistance to support the prevention, treatment, and recovery of opioid and stimulant use disorders.

Presenters Kathryn Cates-Wessel and Dr. Aimee Campbell will discuss ORN's work, resources available to social workers, and opportunities to engage as consultants in ORN initiatives nationwide.

📅 June 29 | ⏰ 2:00–3:00 PM EST
💲 Free for Members & Non-Members
🎓 No CE Credits