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• Substance Use Disorders 101

  • When
    Saturday, September 26, 2020
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  PRESENTER:  Eryca Kasse, LICSW

  Category 1 | 1.5 CEUs per session

  DESCRIPTION: 

  This program is geared toward clinicians interested in expanding their practices to include clients with substance use disorders, whether they work in clinics, hospitals, or private practice. Attendees will learn the DSM 5 diagnostic criteria and the effects of the 10 classes of substances. Upon completing the workshop, attendees will understand the continuum of treatment modalities and be able to assess clients for appropriate referrals. Case studies and group activities will be included.

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• Working with Spirituality and Religion in Therapy

  • When
    Friday, October 09, 2020
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter: Jeffrey Bryan, LICSW

  Category 1 | 3 CEUs 

  For beginning, intermediate, and advanced clinicians.  This workshop will explore making use of the client's spiritual and religious beliefs in therapy for inspiration and comfort, as a reference point, and as a guideline for behavior change. In addition we will discuss: applying some basic principles and interventions of therapy to this area of work with clients, the role of beliefs in living and in therapy, what to do when the therapist’s and the client’s beliefs conflict, challenging a client’s destructive/dysfunctional beliefs, countertransference issues, and exploring the therapist’s own beliefs about spirituality and religion.

  Participants will be able to:

  1. Understand the benefits of using a client’s spiritual and religious beliefs for inspiration and comfort, as a reference point, and as guidelines for behavior change
  2. Apply some basic principles and interventions of therapy to the area of spiritual and religious beliefs
  3. Understand the role of beliefs in life and in therapy
  4. Identify spiritual and religious beliefs
  5. Identify specific techniques for using spiritual and religious beliefs during a therapy session
  6. Encourage constructive beliefs and identify, discuss and challenge a client’s dysfunctional/destructive beliefs
  7. Recognize and work with countertransference issues.
  8. Identify some of their own spiritual and religious beliefs.

  You can read a series of six discussions about beliefs, called Letters for Insight and Innovation. Go to the index for the Letters at https://iifsd.org/library/newsletters/. Scroll down to section on beliefs beginning with February 2018.

  Book recommendation: Bryan, Jeffrey. The Operating Manual for the Self. 2016. Manualfortheself.com

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• Fall 2020 New Member Brunch! ZOOM GATHERING

  • When
    Sunday, October 11, 2020
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    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    ONLINE ZOOM

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  Who: Any GWSCSW member who has joined in the past 2 years are warmly invited to join us! 

  MSW students that are not current members, and interested in learning about GWSCSW are encouraged to attend.

  And all current members are invited to come meet new members! 

  This will be a virtual brunch... More details to follow as the time for the event nears.

  What: A chance to learn more about what GWSCSW can provide you, how you can get involved, plus a chance for us all to get to know each other better and enjoy a beautiful brunch!

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• 2020 Legislation & Advocacy Luncheon: Advocacy, Equity and Practice in the Age of Covid-19

  • When
    Saturday, October 17, 2020
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Please join us for our 2020 Legislation
  and Advocacy Luncheon-Virtual Event

  Advocacy, Equity and Practice in the Age of Covid-19

  Saturday, October 17 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 

  We will discuss how the Covid-19 Pandemic has affected our practice with our clients and look at how the pandemic has influenced the equitable access to mental health services in our country. Examining how our advocacy can impact both our clients and our professional well-being will help us become more effective communicators to influence both the public and legislators about the importance of the services we provide to the well-being of our country.

  We will hear from Margot Aronson, LICSW and Adele Natter, LICSW, LCSW-C, legislative Co-Chairs for DC; Judy Ratliff, LCSW, Virginia Chair, ; Judy Gallant, LCSW-C, Maryland Chair and Director of Legislation and Advocacy; Pam Metz Kasemeyer, JD., Maryland Lobbyist; and Sue Rowland, Virginia lobbyist.

  Special Guest: Laura W. Groshong, LICSW, Director of Policy and Practice, Seattle, Washington
  

  Registration is a free benefit to our members, but you must register to attend. TWO (2) CATEGORY 1 CEUs (FREE TO MEMBERS). We look forward to seeing you there!

  Our Society needs YOU to help us advocate and impact legislators in many different ways, or our messages simply will not get out. 

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• Trauma Informing the 12 Steps: Empowerment in Substance Misuse & Addiction Recovery

  • When
    Saturday, October 24, 2020
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter: Eryca Kasse

  Category 1 | 3 CEUs 

  Clients living with substance misuse & addiction often have histories of emotional, physical and/or sexual trauma. The 12 Step groups AA and NA are the most widespread and available peer support groups for addiction recovery, though some language of the 12 Steps may be contraindicated for survivors of trauma.
  
  This training:

  • provides an introduction to broadened definitions of trauma with examples throughout the lifespan and the key principles of Trauma Informed Care by SAMHSA; 
  • explores the relationship between unhealed trauma and the development of substance use disorders through an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES); 
  • analyzes language of the 12 steps through a trauma informed lens, offering alternative language options to promote healing empowerment & prevent re-traumatization; 
  • and provides resources to refer clients seeking peer support alternatives to 12 step.* 
    

  Note:  This training has no affiliation with AA, NA or any 12 step program or entity.
  

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• Rethinking Borderline: Relational Trauma (November 2020)

  • When
    Wednesday, November 11, 2020
  •  
    4:00 PM - 5:45 PM (EST)
  • Location
    ONLINE ZOOM
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  PRESENTER: Dalal Musa, LCSW

  Category 1 | 1.5 CEUs

  DESCRIPTION: This presentation will provide brief overview of history of borderline diagnosis, and deeper examination of how this diagnosis represents relational/developmental trauma; how it overlaps with dissociative spectrum, and psychodynamic approach to treatment. Discussion encouraged. The presentation is geared toward intermediate to advanced clinicians, however any post-graduate level practitioner welcome.

  WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:

  By the conclusion of the class, participants should be able to:

  • Have general understanding of psychodynamic origin of borderline diagnosis
  • Understand meaning of relational/complex trauma as distinguished from acute trauma
  • Have a basic understanding of dissociative continuum
  • Have increased understanding of necessity of psychodynamic treatment for individuals with relational trauma, sometimes in conjunction with DBT

  SPECIFIC AGENDA:

  5-6:30: Presentation of material (as outlined in objectives), with questions and discussion in process encouraged.

  Parking and entrance in back of building. Will provide parking passes for participants.

  ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Dalal Musa facilitated individual and group therapy with patients experiencing dissociative disorders, subsequent to developmental trauma, at inpatient unit of Center for Treatment Post Traumatic Disorders in DC from 2012 to 2017.  Ms. Musa has been in private practice in Falls Church since 2002, where she continues to provide therapy to individuals and couples, group therapy to survivors of early life trauma, and clinical supervision to new social work professionals.

  
  

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