Integrating Grief: Foundations for Building Your Therapeutic Toolkit, Monday, 8-26-24 (Live Webinar)

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Join Carolyn Gartner, LCSW, FT, for this essential webinar geared to equip mental health professionals with a solid foundation in grief counseling. We’ll delve into the Holistic Grief Assessment, a comprehensive tool that goes beyond symptoms to address the multifaceted nature of loss. Explore the evolution of grief models, from Freud’s early theories to contemporary frameworks. Gain confidence in your basic death competency, ensuring you can effectively support clients facing their own mortality or the loss of loved ones. We’ll also equip you with practical strategies for client homework, including therapeutic writing exercises and guided meditations. Plus, we’ll address frequently encountered challenges such as medication use, the impact of social media on grief processing, and navigating the DSM-5 classification system for mental health disorders related to bereavement. *This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 2 CE Credits.*

Ethics and Opioids: Treating Substance Use Disorders from an Ethical Perspective, Monday, 9-16-24 (Live Webinar)


Explore the ethics of treating substance use disorders with Jodi Geis-Crowder, LPC, ACS! In this interactive presentation, participants will discuss the ethics of varying attitudes and beliefs surrounding abstinence versus harm reduction treatment models around substance use. We will identify known facts regarding the etiology of Opioids such as fentanyl, methods used for screening, narcan intervention, and corresponding qualifications for safe administration. Participants will also consider ethical aspects of mandatory disclosure relevant to SUD treatment for clients addicted to opioids like fentanyl and other substances. *This webinar provides credits towards DC Public Health Priority requirements. This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 2 CE Credits – Ethics.*

Resilience and the Black Experience: Through the Lens of Cultural Humility, Thursday, 9-19-24 (Live Webinar)


Clinical psychologist Dr. Monique Swift offers deeper insights through a lens of cultural humility for practitioners working with Black clients and organizations serving the Black community. Participants will be equipped to better understand the historical context behind the present day psychological condition of Black people, review a model and operationalize key components of resilience, and describe a key construct, overlooked in mainstream psychology, pertinent to resilience in Black people. We will also learn a 3-pronged approach for strengthening resilience in Black people impacted by internalized racism/white supremacy. *This webinar meets the *NEW* Maryland Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice content requirement for Social Workers. This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 3 CE Credits – Cultural Competence.*

Implicit Bias Interrupted: How to Reveal, Confront, and Get Unconscious Biases Out of Your Way, Sunday, 9-22-24 (Live Webinar)


Join Dr. Michell A. Greenidge’s evening webinar, as we explore the features and corresponding behaviors associated with Implicit Bias. In this eye-opening discussion, participants will identify the social and systemic ramifications of Implicit Bias, study the historical and biological context and origin of biases and their impact on daily personal and professional interactions, as well as gain tools to help bring implicit biases into conscious awareness. This webinar also fulfills the NEW Implicit Bias requirement for MICHIGAN and MARYLAND licensees. This Live Webinar will include a pre and post test for Michigan Licensees to meet Michigan Implicit Bias Training Guidelines. This webinar meets the *NEW* Maryland Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice content requirement for Social Workers. This webinar also meets the DC “Key Public Health Priorities” training criteria for DC licensees. This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 3 CE/CME Credits.

Implicit Bias Interrupted: How to Reveal, Confront, and Get Unconscious Biases Out of Your Way, Monday, 10-7-24 (Live Webinar)


Join Dr. Michell A. Greenidge’s evening webinar, as we explore the features and corresponding behaviors associated with Implicit Bias. In this eye-opening discussion, participants will identify the social and systemic ramifications of Implicit Bias, study the historical and biological context and origin of biases and their impact on daily personal and professional interactions, as well as gain tools to help bring implicit biases into conscious awareness. This webinar also fulfills the NEW Implicit Bias requirement for MICHIGAN and MARYLAND licensees. This Live Webinar will include a pre and post test for Michigan Licensees to meet Michigan Implicit Bias Training Guidelines. This webinar meets the *NEW* Maryland Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice content requirement for Social Workers. This webinar also meets the DC “Key Public Health Priorities” training criteria for DC licensees. This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 3 CE/CME Credits.