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• Social Work Licensing: DC, MD, VA (2023)

  • When
    Wednesday, December 13, 2023
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    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ONLINE ZOOM
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    61

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  Co-Sponsored with Catholic University

  This event will be recorded and added to the GWSCSW website, please pre-register so you receive all notifications and announcements for when the recording has been posted.

  FREE Presentation for Students (if you are not a student member of GWSCSW, please JOIN TODAY - Student Membership is free)

  Description: 

  This informative session will focus on what's and how's of social work professional licensing.  The focus will mainly be for the three local jurisdictions but there will be general information for obtaining your license in other states/jurisdictions.

  A Board representative from DC, MD, and VA will be present to answer your questions about general licenses, clinical licenses, as well as macro options.

  Registration Questions:  Contact Donna Dietz | GWSCSW Administrator at admin@gwscsw.org  

  Program questions? Contact Melissa Grady | grady@cua.edu

  CEU Credits: 2 Category ll
  

  OBJECTIVES:
  

  1. Participants will understand the rationale for licensing.
  2. Participants will understand and be able to access licensing information and know who to contact with questions.
  3. Participants will understand and be able to implement the process for obtaining licensure.
  4. Participants will understand and be able to implement the process for licensure renewal.
  5. Participants will understand and be able to implement the process for changing jurisdictions by endorsement or changing license levels.

  SPECIFIC AGENDA:

  Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Overview
  Panel Presentation
  Question/answer/discussion
  Wrap-Up

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• The Therapist's Journey: Reflections On What It Means to Be a Therapist

  • When
    Friday, January 12, 2024
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    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter: Robert Taibbi (VA), LCSW

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 
  

  Your work may be a calling, a career, or a job, but it is always a journey. Where are you in yours? How have you changed over the years of practice in your approach, your values, your style? What do you envision for your professional future? In this 3-hour, highly interactive workshop, you will have an opportunity to step back and take stock of the state of your clinical practice, workplace, career, and most of all you. Based on my newly-released book, The Therapist’s Journey, we’ll explore through guided imagery exercises, breakout discussions, readings, and written exercises where you are at that point in your life and look back and ahead to what might become.

  Workshop Objectives:

  At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Define the source of your decision to be a social worker.
  2. Discuss regrets, goals, visions of the future.
  3. Describe what you need most to move forward in your career.
  4. Evaluate how your clinical style has changed over time.

  Recommended Reading

  • Taibbi, R. The Therapist's Journey

  • Taibbi R. Doing Family Therapy
  • Taibbi, R. Doing Couple Therapy
  • Taibbi, R. Process-Focused Therapy

  About the Presenter:

  Robert Taibbi, LCSW is the author of 13 books and over 300 articles in the areas of clinical supervision, brief therapy, couple and family therapy, and an online columnist for Psychology Today entitled Fixing Families that has received over 20 million views. He has provided trainings nationally and internationally and is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.

  https://www.bobtaibbi.com/

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• Jungian Psychotherapy: Archetypes, the Collective Unconscious, and Methods

  • When
    Sunday, January 14, 2024
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter Ed Geraty, LCSW-C (MD), LICSW (WV), LCSW (VA), LICSW (DC) 
  

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

  One of Carl Jung’s great gifts to depth psychology was his recognition that mind and body are one and that our symptoms, psychological and physical, can be viewed as manifestations of some part of us that “wants to be known.” Jung came to this conclusion after years of working with his own inner world, undertaking the task of self-examination through a descent into his dreams, fantasies, and images. He came to see that even terrifying figures in dreams could be messengers and beneficial guides to psychological growth. 

  This workshop is appropriate for clinicians and students interested in the process and practice of Analytical psychotherapy.

  Workshop Objectives:

  1. Learn about the concepts of Analytical psychology
  2. Be able to define the terms archetype, collective unconscious, persona, shadow. Etc
     
  3. Understand psychological types
     
  4. Become familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
     
  5. Become familiar with Jung’s methods in psychotherapy
     

  Agenda:

  10: to 10:30 introductions and overview
  10:30 to 11 Basic concepts in Analytical psychotherapy
  11 to 11:30 Archtypes, symbols, and Psychological Types
  11:30 to 11:45 break
  11:45 to 12:15 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
  12:15 to 12:45 Jung's Methods in Psychotherapy
  12:45 to 1:15 The prospective view. compensation, amplification, effectiveness
  1:15 to 1:30. summary and closure
  

  Recommended Reading:

  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung- In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung details his life and work, with a focus on his thoughts and feelings about psychology, spirituality, and the human experience.
  • Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung- In Man and His Symbols, Jung discusses the nature of symbols and their importance in human life.
  • Jung’s Map of the Soul: An Introduction by Murray B. Stein -Murray Stein’s Jung’s Map of the Soul is a dense, but informative read on Carl Jung’s map of the human psyche.
  • Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche by Robert A. Johnson

  
  

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• A Time for Moral Courage: Ethical obligations and resilience strategies for therapists in the face of overwork, burnout, moral distress, or disheartenment

  • When
    Friday, January 26, 2024
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    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM

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  Presenter: Frederic G. Reamer, Ph.D.

  Category 1 CEUs: 6.0 (ETHICS CREDIT)

  Many say that our profession is not for the weak of heart. During these challenging times, many practitioners complain of their own “heart break”—the emotional distress and psychic injury from the difficult, complex cases we witness and work with every week. Despite our attempt at basic self care, we are experiencing an increase of trauma diagnoses in our clients. We may be contending with a wave of symptoms and emotions in ourselves including secondary stress disorder; sleep dysfunction; physical illness; a sense of demoralization in the form of disheartenment, dejection, or hopelessness; loss of our social work values, burnout, and even despondency. These adverse effects are so common yet debilitating for those in the healing professions right now, that some practitioners will even leave the profession they love. Our presenter Frederic G. Reamer, the social work profession's foremost ethics expert, provides guidance to social workers and related professionals who grapple with these unwanted and unnerving situations and their aftermath. He inspires social workers to advocate for much-needed personal, social and organizational or policy changes to prevent harm. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience, Dr. Reamer helps us to understand the causes of moral distress and how to deal with the symptoms that can manifest; strategies for prevention, self-care, and resilience; and our legal and ethical obligations, including what it means to be a whistleblower. Above all, he shows us how to develop the moral courage that our role requires. Through extensive and relatable case studies, Dr. Reamer illustrates the myriad ethical dilemmas that most social workers will face in their careers and provides practical exercises and actionable solutions. This informative, enlightening, and inspiring workshop is based on his recent book: MORAL DISTRESS AND INJURY IN HUMAN SERVICES: CASES, CAUSES, AND STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION (2020) and offers us the guidance and fortitude to make the right decisions in hard cases, and the resilience to strengthen ourselves and our profession.

  Workshop Objectives:

  At the conclusion of this webinar participants will be able to:

  1. Identify challenging ethical issues and dilemmas in clinical social work
  2. Apply practical ethical decision-making frameworks and protocols
  3. Identify ethical issues that pose malpractice and liability risks
  4. Design strategies to protect clients and prevent litigation and licensing board complaints

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  About the Presenter:

  Dr. Frederic Reamer has dedicated his career to reforming the ethics, practice, and education of the social work field through his work as a researcher, an author, and a professor. His extensive experience in ethics research has helped NASW and the social work profession as a whole over the years. Reamer is a professor in the graduate program at the Rhode Island College School of Social Work, where he has taught since 1983. Over the years, his research has focused on a variety of human service issues, ranging from mental health and criminal justice to public welfare and professional ethics. Reamer has been a featured essayist on NPR’s Morning Edition, a commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered, and a guest on a variety of radio broadcasts on stations across the country. Starting in 2007, Reamer began as the host and producer of This I Believe – Rhode Island on NPR and Rhode Island Public Radio. He was featured as a commentator in the documentaries “America’s Serial Killers: Portraits of Evil” and “Rampage: Killing without Reason”. Reamer has appeared as an expert on the PBS series This Emotional Life. He has distinguished himself as an expert in the ethical use of technology within social work, and gave the keynote presentation “Managing Social Media and Electronic Communication in Social Work Practice: Ethical and Risk-management Issues” at the 2012 Association of Social Work Boards’ Education Conference, which introduced social work regulators to the ethical, practice and regulatory challenges posed by the quick rise of technology.  

  Career Highlights:
  

  Dr. Reamer has previously worked as the Director of the National Juvenile Justice Assessment Center at the US Department of Justice in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention from 1979 to 1981, as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor of Rhode Island from 1987 to 1990, and as a Commissioner of the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation from 1987 to 1995. He served on the Rhode Island Parole Board from 1992 to 2016. Reamer was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Social Work Education from 1990 to 1994, Associate Editor of the NASW Encyclopedia of Social Work (20th Edition) and is currently an Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Work Online. He has lectured around the world on professional ethics, professional malpractice, and liability, including presenting at the 2014 NASW National Conference. Reamer has participated in research projects sponsored by many groups including The Hastings Center, the Carnegie Corporation, the Haas Foundation, and the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare at the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. 

  Biographic Data: 

  Dr. Reamer received his BA in Criminology from the University of Maryland in 1974, his Masters in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1975, and his PhD in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 1978.

  Significant Achievements & Awards Received:
  

  Dr. Reamer received the "Distinguished Contributions to Social Work Education" award from the Council on Social Work Education (1995); Presidential Award from the National Association of Social Workers (1997); Richard Lodge Prize from Adelphi University for “outstanding contributions to the development of social work theory” (2005); Edith Abbott Award from the University of Chicago for “distinguished service to society and outstanding contributions at the local, national or international levels” (2005); Neil J. Houston, Jr. Memorial Award for “dedicated service and citizen contribution toward the criminal justice profession and the public interest” (2009); International Rhoda G. Sarnat Award from the National Association of Social Workers for significantly advancing "the public image of social work" (2012), and the Excellence in Ethics Award from the National Association of Social Workers (2015).  
  

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• Healing the Inner Child; Resolving Childhood Trauma

  • When
    Sunday, February 11, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    39

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  Presenter Ed Geraty, LCSW-C (MD), LICSW (WV), LCSW (VA), LICSW (DC) 
  

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

  Teaching your client how to heal their inner child can be a powerful and transformative journey that can help them heal past wounds and traumas, increase self-awareness and self-love, and live a more fulfilling life. By understanding the role of the inner child, identifying wounds, and practicing healing techniques, they can release negative beliefs and patterns that no longer serve them. Cultivating self-love, forgiveness, and healthy relationships can lead to a more fulfilling and joyful life.
  

  Workshop Objectives:

  1. Learn how the Inner Child gets wounded.
     
  2. Recognize the signs of an enmeshed family.
     
  3. Recognize the signs of Inner Child wounds.
     
  4. Learn re-parenting skills.
  5. Learn how to maintain an ongoing Inner Child healing practice.
  6. Practice Inner Child meditation.

  Agenda:

  10:30 am to 10:45 introduction
  10:45 to 11:15 Learning how the Inner Child gets wounded.
  11:15 to 11:45 Recognizing the signs of an enmeshed family.
  11:45 to noon break
  12 to 12:30 Recognizing the signs of Inner Child wounds.
  12:30 to 1 pm Learn re-parenting skills.
  1 to 1:20 Learn how to maintain an ongoing Inner Child healing practice.
  1:30 to 1:45 Practice Inner Child meditation.
  

  Recommended Reading:

  • Homecoming by John Bradshaw
  • Recovery of Your Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self by Capacchione, Lucia.
  • The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away Paperback by Cathryn L. Taylor
  • Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child Paperback by Thich Nhat Hanh

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