Empathy, Emotional Contagions and Velcro - Presented by the Wisconsin Chapter
This workshop includes a lecture, discussion and group interaction about Somatic Empathy Theory, which states that emotional energy moves between people and attaches to us like lint on Velcro. When we scan the environment for accurate information for safety and security considerations, ambient emotional energy is absorbed into our physical body. These automatic transfers occur with or without our awareness due to mirror neurons and universal nature related to our human empathic abilities. Everyone is born empathically connected to another’s felt experience, but some of us have heightened abilities.
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Social Isolation Among Older Adults: Hidden in Plain View
Social isolation is a potent killer! This is a fact as well as a clarion call for social workers to increase our intensity of support needed to eradicate social isolation, one of the 12 social work grand challenges. This webinar provides an overview of the literature on social isolation, addresses culture, and introduces practice-based solutions. Webinar participants will be encouraged to know, think and act to eradicate social isolation.
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Social Work in a Digital World Ethical and Risk-Management Challenges
This webinar will explore cutting-edge ethical issues arising out of social workers' and clients’ growing use of digital technology, electronic interventions and communications, and social media.
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The Social Worker, Psychotropic Medication, and Right to Refuse
The right to refuse medical treatment is a sacred right of patients in free societies--it is a recognition that individuals own their own lives and thus their own bodies, and that they should be free to refuse help offered to them for any reason or without providing reason. Yet, the right to refuse treatment is often neglected or outright violated in the field of psychiatry. Social workers--as professionals who work at the interface of medicine and the broader society--are uniquely positioned to deal with the moral and legal issues surrounding a patient's constitutional right to refuse treatment.
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Violence in Social Work Practice
This webinar addresses the problem of client violence toward social workers across practice settings, with the goal of raising participants’ awareness about their risk for encountering violence, learning about the risk and protective factors for such violence and addressing strategies to prevent client violence in office and field settings.
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Fighting Youth Sex Trafficking: The Social Worker’s Role
There are many misperceptions about youth sex trafficking – that it only occurs in foreign countries, that it’s only a problem in urban areas, that it only affects youth from certain backgrounds. Social workers are not immune from these misperceptions, which can prevent them from identifying and helping victims in their communities. This webinar will explore the roles social workers have in fighting youth sex trafficking.
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Vicarious Traumatization and Self-Care - Presented by the Wisconsin Chapter
This workshop will focus on the negative impacts of psychological trauma both among victims and among those who work with the victims.
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Mindfulness and Self-Care
The rewards of being a social worker are numerous, powerful and challenging. Mindfulness is now recognized as a legitimate and powerful tool for practitioners for their clients and for self-care. The practice of mindfulness can be integral to reducing stress and to increasing our coping capacity. Although mindfulness is best learned and reinforced through sustained and regular practice, many mindfulness-based strategies can be incorporated into daily life. This workshop will explore the basic principles of mindfulness, neuroscience, and self-care. Participants will be guided through basic meditation experiences, exercises, and provided ideas for daily integration.
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Children Who Act Their Pain - Sexual Behavior Problems - Presented by the Wisconsin Chapter
Children who act out sexually can present a challenging and complex diagnostic picture. This workshop will present a typology of sexual behavior problems in children, contrasting each category to what would be developmentally usual and expected. Implications for placements and treatment planning will be discussed for impulsive, attachment-seeking, neurologically-based, compulsive and exploitive sexual behaviors. We will focus on children in alternative care such as foster care, special school settings, residential treatment centers and inpatient hospitals.
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Ethical Management of Counter-Transference: Informed Consent, Competence and Self-Care
As social workers provide services to diverse populations, we inevitably encounter clients with values, lifestyles, symptoms, expectations and idiosyncrasies that evoke strong responses. In this self-study, Ravita presents the reality of counter-transference and ethical dilemmas inherent in the management of these experiences. She also considers ways to attend responsibly to standards regarding informed consent, competence, and self-care.
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My Client is Thinking about Suicide….Now What Do I Do? Presented by The Wisconsin Chapter
Most people who enter the social work or mental health field are well-versed and adaptive to their chosen career – except in one area. Suicide is not a required area of study. So when confronted with a person in their care who may be suicidal, many are left wondering what to do and how to do it. In this session, participants will learn about the risk factors and warning signs of suicidal ideation, how to talk to clients about suicide and how to work with the person in their care to address their suicidality.
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Good Grief: Logo Therapy and Other Strategies to Help Clients Cope With Loss
Client grief is one of the clinical areas that social workers indicate is most uncomfortable to address. In this workshop you will learn techniques from Logo Therapy, developed by the renowned psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl to help clients cope with loss. Other topics covered include: Stages of Grief and the Role of the Social Worker; Addressing Unspeakable and Ambivalent Losses; The Use of Art, Music and Storytelling as Non-traditional approaches to Grief Work, and Utilizing the Termination Phase of Counseling as Grief Work.
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Trauma Informed Care - Presented by the Wisconsin Chapter
This workshop will focus on the impact that trauma has on individuals across the lifespan; the importance of resilience and recovery; and beginning steps to implementing trauma informed care.
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What Social Workers Need to Know About Chronic Pain Management - Presented by the Wisconsin Chapter
Based upon different organizations, an estimated 80-100 million Americans experience chronic pain. According to the Institute of Medicine, one-quarter of these people note pain severe enough to limit quality of life. This lecture will inform clinicians of the many different treatment options available and how to best address the psychosocial needs of people with chronic pain.
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Cultural Formulation in DSM 5
This workshop will describe the role of cultural formulation in DSM-5 diagnostic assessment, identify the four ways the DSM-5 provides guidance in developing a cultural formulation, list and explain the eight domains of a cultural formulation interview, and discuss the strengths and limitations of the cultural formulation as described and operationalized in DSM-5.
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Self-Care in Social Work: A Guide for Practitioners, Supervisors, and Administrators
This webinar will cover the personal and organizational sources of stress faced by many social workers, while distinguishing between burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and vicarious traumatic stress.
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Using Harm Reduction Methods with Adolescents Having Substance Use Disorders
The purpose of this webinar is to help the participants develop a comprehensive understanding of and recognition of the links between alcohol and various drugs of abuse and aggression and violent behaviors among adolescents. Additionally, this webinar is designed to help the participant gain a deeper appreciation for the need for comprehensive evaluation of both aggression and violence relative to adolescent substance use disorders. Relative to specific substances the three critical times in which aggression and/or violence is most likely to occur is discussed (drub acquisition, usage and recovery phases). Harm reduction methods and techniques are highlighted in this webinar as a progressive way to address both substance use and aggressive and violent behaviors.
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Social Work in a Digital World Ethical and Risk-Management Challenges
This webinar will explore cutting-edge ethical issues arising out of social workers' and clients’ growing use of digital technology, electronic interventions and communications, and social media.
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Universal Trauma-Informed Family Services: Interrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Adversity - Presented by the Wisconsin Chapter
The intergenerational transmission of adversity and trauma represents a primary threat to public health and social welfare in the 21st Century. One promising means to address the generational transfer of trauma is through early childhood home visiting interventions.
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The Intersection of Mindfulness, Women and Childhood Abuse
The Intersection of Mindfulness, Women and Childhood Abuse
Presenter: Char Wilkins, MSW, LCSW
54 minutes
1 Continuing Education Credit
Format: Slide presentation, audio
Fees: $20 Members; $35 Nonmembers
The challenges of working with women who have experienced childhood abuse are multiple and often as overwhelming for the clinician as they are for the client. Looking at our and their conditioned thoughts and behavior through the lens of mindfulness, we can view resistance as the fear-based way in which we all try to take care of ourselves, no matter how destructive the behavior may seem.
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Using Harm Reduction Methods with Adolescents Having Substance Use Disorders
The purpose of this webinar is to help the participants develop a comprehensive understanding of and recognition of the links between alcohol and various drugs of abuse and aggression and violent behaviors among adolescents. Additionally, this webinar is designed to help the participant gain a deeper appreciation for the need for comprehensive evaluation of both aggression and violence relative to adolescent substance use disorders. Relative to specific substances the three critical times in which aggression and/or violence is most likely to occur is discussed (drub acquisition, usage and recovery phases). Harm reduction methods and techniques are highlighted in this webinar as a progressive way to address both substance use and aggressive and violent behaviors.
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The Social Worker, Psychotropic Medication, and Right to Refuse
The right to refuse medical treatment is a sacred right of patients in free societies--it is a recognition that individuals own their own lives and thus their own bodies, and that they should be free to refuse help offered to them for any reason or without providing reason. Yet, the right to refuse treatment is often neglected or outright violated in the field of psychiatry. Social workers--as professionals who work at the interface of medicine and the broader society--are uniquely positioned to deal with the moral and legal issues surrounding a patient's constitutional right to refuse treatment.
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Fighting Youth Sex Trafficking: The Social Worker’s Role
There are many misperceptions about youth sex trafficking – that it only occurs in foreign countries, that it’s only a problem in urban areas, that it only affects youth from certain backgrounds. Social workers are not immune from these misperceptions, which can prevent them from identifying and helping victims in their communities. This webinar will explore the roles social workers have in fighting youth sex trafficking.
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Addressing the Opioid Epidemic and the Social Impact on Individuals in the Community
This webinar will examine the extent of the opioid epidemic in Wisconsin and its impact on individuals and families. It will review current efforts statewide on a multidisciplinary level to address this problem and the role of social workers with this epidemic. The webinar will also consider how to address stigma with different professionals and how to help clients advocate against stigma.
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Using Technology to Provide a Helping Hand: Ideas for Caregivers
This webinar will explore how the innovative uses of technology can assist caregivers with their loved-one. Special focus will be given to selecting and integrating assistive technologies for long-distance caregivers who desire to feel connected and involved in the day-to-day care of family members.
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Requests and Disclosures: Ethical Quandaries
Social workers oftentimes receive requests from various parties to disclose information. What ethical considerations do we need to consider? How do we respond responsibly? In this 1 hour webinar, Ravita shares guidelines for prudent practice.
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