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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

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Daniel Morehead, MD

Neuroscience
Neuroscience constitutes an exciting though vast and disorienting field. This course will synthesize information from primary neuroscience into a coherent and usable form for clinical social work, human social life, and everyday life. We will review brain structure and function, then discuss illuminating aspects of brain science in human development, adversity, resilience, and health. Finally, we will connect specific mental health disorders and treatments to neuropathology, as well as social challenges and inequities. Throughout the course, we will emphasize the brain as one aspect of human nature, a level of dynamic organization that both reflects and influences social and psychological experience, and ultimately cannot be separated from them. No prior knowledge of neuroscience is required, and the class format will be interactive.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will learn brain anatomy and function for the purposes of understanding relevant clinical literature and neuroscience-based theories.
2. Participants will learn the neuroscience and physiology of normal stress and its relation to the development of mental illness.
3. Participants will learn the neuroscience of fear and trauma, including the developmental consequences of early life adversity.
4. Participants will explore the neuroscience of major depression, PTSD, anxiety, and their treatment.
5. Participants will be exposed to the complex and mutual interactions between biological, psychological, and social factors in mental health.

Course Fee: $180
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Kelsey Taylor, MS, LMHC

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children, Youth, and Families
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps children explore their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and how they are interconnected. CBT is frequently used in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and trauma in children and adolescents. This course provides an orientation and overview of CBT. Learn practical skills for individual, group, and family therapy. Explore interventions focused on problem solving, cognitive restructuring, self-regulation, affect identification, and relaxation. Through case studies, interactive discussions, role-plays, and worksheets, you will take away practical CBT strategies to use immediately with any client.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will recognize the Cognitive Triangle and Thinking Errors/Cognitive Distortions.
2. Participants will identify interventions to target feelings, thoughts, and behaviors and when to best implement them in treatment.
3. Participants will identify problem solving techniques.
4. Participants will practice skills for relaxation.

Course Fee: $180
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Kenna Sullivan, LCSW

Suicide Prevention Across the Lifespan
One of the most challenging issues a clinician can face is a client’s suicidal crisis. This course will address the psychological, medical, and mental health factors that contribute to suicide and the specific challenges faced by clients at different phases of life. We will review the multi-dimensional aspects of suicide including biological, psychological, interpersonal, sociological, cultural, ethical, and philosophical/existential elements in the suicide event. We will address the management of suicidality and the unique challenges facing clients at different ages. We will identify and examine risk factors as well as treatment interventions and best practices in dealing with the suicidal and the bereaved of all ages. Information and resources will be shared on local and national suicide prevention efforts specific to children, adults, and older adults.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will discuss the terminology, incidence, prevalence, and epidemiology of suicide behavior.
2. Participants will examine three high risk factors for suicide in each of these age groups.
3. Participants will review best practices in suicide assessment and strategies for managing both acute and chronic suicidal clients.
4. Participants will describe various treatment approaches (CBT, DBT, Interpersonal Therapy) for suicidality and therapeutic risk management.
5. Participants will review the most current national and local efforts on suicide prevention and how strategies vary according to the targeted age group.

Course Fee: $180
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Chitra Gopalan, LMHC

Motivational Interviewing for Children, Youth, and Families
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based practice that is broadly used by practitioners. This approach can be used with clients with a variety of mental health, substance use, or physical health disorders. MI interventions involve empathically collaborating with the client to enhance intrinsic motivation for change while understanding, addressing, and resolving ambivalence. This course will review the fundamental principles of MI, highlight the techniques for facilitating change that are associated with this approach, and consider how to most effectively employ MI skills in working with children and their caregivers. The Transtheoretical Model of Change will also be reviewed, as will MI interventions that guide progress through the stage of change. This course includes multiple opportunities to practice skills and techniques that are reviewed, heavily incorporating practice exercises for participants to complete in breakout rooms.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to define motivational interviewing (MI).
2. Participants will be able to describe the spirit and the principles of MI.
3. Participants will identify the Stages of Change.
4. Participants will recognize and elicit change talk in clients.
5. Participants will identify MI core skills and tools.

Course Fee: $180
CEUs: 6

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

Psychodynamic Therapy for Adults
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is an empirically validated form of treatment that produces lasting change via a collaborative effort between client and therapist. Psychodynamic therapy is a highly developed model that not only recognizes external and visible symptomatic manifestations of one’s struggles but also the often unconscious forces behind various behavioral and interpersonal patterns. Originally derived from Freud’s psychoanalysis, the psychodynamic model offers a contemporary perspective resulting from decades of subsequent growth and development with theoretical and clinical contributions from ego psychology, object relations, self-psychology, attachment theory, and relational theory. This course will review some fundamental assumptions of the psychodynamic approach, familiarize participants with the work of a few of the key contributors, and apply theory to clinical situations that arise in a variety of social work settings.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to describe fundamental concepts from Drive Theory, Object Relations Theory, Self Psychology, and Relational Theory that underlie contemporary practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy.
2. Participants will be able to articulate how dynamic factors interact with biological predispositions and societal forces to inform their understanding of individuals’ clinical presentation.
3. Participants will be able to identify a set of clinical techniques utilized in psychodynamic therapy to promote formation of insight, development of agency, and greater integration within a relational context.

Course Fee: $180
CEUs: 6

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 and Interpersonal Violence for Children, Youth, and Families
Trauma can impact children, youth, and families in both similar and unique ways. Interpersonal violence can be a particularly harmful type of trauma. To provide effective treatment and promote healing, it is crucial to understand trauma through a developmental and interpersonal lens. This course will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the impact of trauma and interpersonal violence on children, youth, and families. Through interactive modules, case studies, and breakout sessions, participants will explore trauma-informed case conceptualization and evidence-based intervention strategies to promote healing and resilience for young people and their families.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will identify the potential impacts of trauma on children, youth, and families.
2. Participants will explore common traumatic stress symptoms and differential diagnostic considerations in a developmental context.
3. Participants will practice case conceptualization and treatment planning for interpersonal violence from a trauma perspective.
4. Participants will learn effective intervention skills to promote the healing of children, youth, and families in clinical practice.

Course Fee: $180
CEUs: 6

Online via Zoom • 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (lunch break 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.)
Instructor: Angela Belleville, LMHC

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an evidence-based, short-term therapy shown to decrease symptomology and improve mood and daily functioning by teaching clients self-coaching skills to identify, evaluate, and modify unhelpful thinking and behavioral patterns. This course will provide Master's level clinicians with an understanding of the Cognitive Behavioral model that will include a brief history, populations most commonly treated, basic empirical research, essential components and structure, and commonly used techniques. Participants will learn some essential skills that can be integrated into a CBT treatment plan or used as standalone interventions that they can immediately incorporate into their practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to articulate basic theory and key components of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
2. Participants will learn effective ways to socialize clients to the model and gain "buy in".
3. Participants will be able to describe the functions of collaborative case conceptualization.
4. Participants will be familiarized with skills to manage anxiety and worry.
5. Participants will learn the steps to Behavioral Activation, an effective stand-alone intervention for adult clients presenting with depression.

Course Fee: $180
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: $180
CEUs: 6

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

Sexuality and Gender Across the Lifespan
This course provides an overview of gender and sexuality development across the lifespan, focusing on key concepts, influential factors, and implications for social work practice by exploring the complex interplay between gender and sexuality across different stages of human development. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students will examine various theoretical perspectives, research findings, and societal influences on gender identity and sexual orientation from infancy to late adulthood. Topics include biological, psychological, social, and cultural aspects of gender and sexuality, as well as the implications for individual development, relationships, and society as a whole.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will understand gender and sexuality concepts in human development.
2. Participants will explore biological and environmental influences on gender and sexuality.
3. Participants will examine gender identity and sexual orientation development.
4. Participants will analyze societal influences on gender roles and sexual behaviors.
5. Participants will discuss challenges faced by sexual and gender minority individuals.
6. Participants will address ethical and legal considerations in social work practice regarding gender and sexuality.

Course Fee: $180
CEUs: 6