TUH Social Work Continuing Education Conference: January 19, 2011

FREE to Alumni

ATTENTION SOCIAL WORKERS

Each workshop has been approved for three (3) continuing education hours by Temple University, a pre-approved provider of continuing education by the PA State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors. AM Workshops: “Legal and Ethical Conflicts Confronting Social Workers” and “Technical Ethics” fulfills the ethics requirement by the state licensing board.

Morning Session Options-9am-12

Option A: Legal and Ethical Conflicts Confronting Social Workers

Instructor: Professor Ronald W. Costen, Ph.D., Esquire, attorney and social gerontologist, and Director of the Pennsylvania Institute on Protective Services

This continuing education seminar will differentiate ethical and legal perspectives and focus attention on four pressing social and ethical problems confronting the US & the profession of social work. These problems are poverty; ethnic and "racial" minority inequality of treatment & outcome; the growing utilization of prison by the criminal justice system; and long term care issues for those who are experiencing limiting physical and cognitive issues. The NASW Code of Ethics will be explored as will specific ethical theories and legislative enactments.

Participants will be able to:

Describe and differentiate the meaning of ethical analysis and legal analysis;
Describe four important systems of ethics;
Describe the sources of ethics and law;
Understand the structure of the NASW Code of Ethics & the social justice duties imposed on social workers by the Code of Ethics;
Identify at least two current important ethical and legal issues.

This course fulfills the 3 hours ethics requirement by the state licensing board.

Option B: Technical Ethics

Instructor: James Corbin, LSW, Professor, Temple University College of Health Professions and Social Work, School of Social Work

The presentation will discuss the unique ethical implications of using advanced technologies in the therapeutic milieu. Participants will receive information and discuss ethical guidelines for Etherapy and what our profession has learned from related practices such as tele-medicine. The presentation will illustrate and discuss the utility and limits to practices employing various technologies.

Participants will

Understand the unique ethical implications of using advanced technologies in the therapeutic milieu.
Identify ethical guidelines for Etherapy and related practices such as tele-medicine.
Demonstrate knowledge of the utility and limits to practices employing technology.

This course fulfills the 3 hours ethics requirement by the state licensing board.

Afternoon Session Options-1-4 pm

Option C: Tobacco Cessation Intervention and Referral Skills for Social Workers

Instructor: David A. Zannis, PhD, Associate Professor, Temple University College of Health Professions and Social Work, School of Social Work, Director of Temple NEST

Participants will learn how to assess tobacco use among vulnerable adults and youth commonly served by social workers. Counseling techniques will be reviewed that focus on motivational interviewing and problem solving. Participants will also learn about the effectiveness of various medications used to assist in tobacco cessation. Finally, participants will obtain a comprehensive working knowledge of free community resources available in Pennsylvania to assist social workers in making appropriate referrals.

Participants will:

Learn about the incidence and prevalence of tobacco use in the US and Pennsylvania
Learn about the causes and consequences of tobacco use and the important role of social workers in addressing tobacco use with vulnerable populations
Learn how to assess tobacco use and children´s exposure to secondhand smoke and how to apply evidence based interventions
Learn how to implement different counseling approaches and medication assisted treatment interventions to address tobacco use behaviors
Gain knowledge about specific community resources available for tobacco cessation services

Option D: Using Practice-Based Evidence: Special Tools to Improve Therapist Effectiveness

Your clients can make you a better counselor or therapist if you apply certain evaluative tools as an adjunct to the counseling process. Three devices are presented: Outcome Results Scale, Session Effectiveness Scale, and Goal Attainment Scaling. The first two are brief, unobtrusive, self-reports: one administered at the outset and the other at the closing of each counseling session. They provide a client-centered focus for each counseling session, a reinforcement of therapeutic alliance, and a measureable gauge of progress from the client´s perspective. The third tool, Goal Attainment Scaling, provides a flexible apparatus for establishing an individualized action plan grounded on the client´s circumstances and desired objectives. This workshop provides the instruments, software tracking programs (free), demonstration, and supporting resources for each.

Participants will:

Understand the key elements of an effective therapeutic process
Learn how to use the three instruments to enhance each of the key elements
Learn how to use the software tools provided to compile scores, track cases, and generate summary analyses
Appreciate the importance of integrating evaluation tools as an adjunct to the therapeutic practice
Learn how case level evaluation can be aggregated to assess caseloads and programs

Option E: The Legacy of Addiction: Adult Children of Alcoholics

Instructor: Claudia Dewane, LCSW, DEd, Associate Professor Temple University College of Health Professions and Social Work, School of Social Work

People who have grown up with alcoholism in the home have experienced a form of trauma, which some experts have likened to a form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This workshop will explore the long-term residuals of living with alcoholism in the formative years. Participants will receive a self-help tool to quell unhealthy "emotional flashbacks" stemming from patterns learned as a child in an alcoholic environment.

Participants will be able to:

Define and apply the diagnostic category of Complex PTSD
Enumerate potential emotional residuals of growing up in an alcoholic environment
Explain the concept of "emotional flashbacks" and utilize a self-help tool with clients.