2002 Fall Program
National
Association of Social Workers
NEW
YORK CITY CHAPTER
All
Day Saturday & Sunday and Evening Workshops
Experienced
Instructors
Reasonable
Prices
The NYC Chapter of NASW is pleased to offer this new series of high quality seminars that are both conceptually based and directly applicable to practice. Every year we refine and improve the program based on participant feedback. We are confident that the upcoming 2002 Fall program will continue to meet our members' high expectations.
Robert S. Schachter, D.S.W., A.C.S.W.
Executive Director
Michelle P. Maidenberg, Ph.D., ACSW, R-CSW
Workshops at a
glance
The New York City Chapter is an approved provider
of continuing education credits under the auspices of the New York State
Chapter of NASW Continuing Education Recognition Program.
1. Clinical Work With Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgendered Persons: A framework for Family and Individual Interventions
Working with persons across the range of sexual identity requires an in depth understanding of how an individual's relationship to their sexual orientation or gender minority status relates to their presenting problem. Session one will utilize case material and will focus on strengthening assessment skills. Interventions with immediate applicability will be presented. Clinical intervention strategies will reflect the presenter's orientation to strength based, solution focused treatment. Session two will focus on clinical work with male couples. Research has documented that male couples have a higher incidence of no monogamy than either heterosexual or lesbian couples. A framework for identifying where the couple is in terms of sexual exclusivity will be given, followed by case examples of where issues of sexual non-exclusivity have been a major theme of couples therapy. Social workers employed both in agencies; as well as private practice will find this workshop relevant to their work. Participants are encouraged to bring in cases that they would like to discuss. 6 hours.
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Part II: Michael Shernoff, MSW is in Private Practice, and is on the faculty of Columbia University School of Social Work. He is also senior consulting editor of The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, and has published widely.
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The Essential Tool Kit for Cognitive-Behavioral Social Work Practice
Cognitive behavioral therapy is increasingly a treatment of choice among mental health providers, clients, and reimbursement plans. Cognitive treatment is well suited to short term therapy and is compatible with the time limits set by managed care plans. This workshop will focus on the assessment and modification of maladaptive cognitions and behaviors related to a range of presenting problems such as substance abuse, depression, post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive, anxiety, and eating disorders. Practitioners familiar with cognitive behavioral interventions will be able to enhance their skills in using methods such as cognitive restructuring and behavioral assignments.
6 hours
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3. Exploring Multiple Approaches To Theory And Practice In Family Treatment
Successful family treatment requires the utilization of combinations of theories of interpersonal relationships in nuclear and extended families as well as in families of various structures and cultures. The workshop will draw upon several theorists (e.g., Bowen, Minuchin, White) for examining differential approaches in response to the differing needs of families. 3 hours
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4. Managing Your Career: Managing Your Job Search
This workshop has been developed for social workers who are just beginning their career and for those more experienced in the field who are interested in pursuing new opportunities. The workshop will include: self-assessment, short and long term goal planning, and discussion of job related values. Job-hunting skills, such as interviewing, networking, and resume and cover letter writing will be included. The workshop will also incorporate hands on tasks, (bring your resume and cover letter), group interaction and lectures. 6 hours
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5. From Practice to Print: Writing for Social Work Journals and Other Publications
Social workers have so much to contribute to the field of professional literature, but the demands on their time often keep them from writing. In addition, with an extensive number of publications, it is important to know the writing specifications for each one. The seminar will present a broad overview of the NASW Press publications, which rank number one in the world of social work literature. Participants will learn how to develop their articles, strengthen their writing, and follow individual publication guidelines. Emphasis will be placed on sharing the unique experience of those involved in writing for social work publications.
3 hours
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NOVEMBER
6. The Key Steps to Building a Successful and Effective Private Practice
This workshop is designed to help social workers build and maintain a rewarding and effective private practice. The workshop will cover the business and personal concerns of private practitioners, including the personal issues of isolation and autonomy. The four "P"s of marketing including: product, promotion, price and placement of your practice will be discussed. The workshop will also address the components of a thriving practice, i.e. advanced training and the development of a "niche market" or specialty. Other areas to be discussed are the choice of a full or part time practice, the recognition of clinical strengths and weaknesses, resistance to marketing, and the pros and cons of accepting managed care. 6 hours
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7. Working With What Cannot Be Spoken
As a way of lowering anxiety, clients may keep aspects of themselves or others out of their awareness. Some clients may then not be able to describe what is threatening, but instead communicate through interaction and enactment. The clinician may experience complementary reactions that can lead to collusions or stalemated treatments. This workshop will help clinicians identify the sensory cues, affective experience and cognitive styles associated with this dynamic and demonstrate techniques of effective intervention. 3 hours
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8. Into the Third Decade of HIV/AIDS: Mental Health And Combination Therapy
Combination therapies have radically altered the landscape of AIDS. This workshop will examine how to work with clients with HIV/AIDS; those who are benefiting from combination anti-HIV therapies and those clients who are NOT responding to the new therapies; how to work effectively with clients specifically around issues of medication adherence; and how to recognize and respond appropriately to the variety of counter-transferential situations that are likely to arise when providing mental health and case management services to clients on combination therapies. 3 hours
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9. Meeting Professional Standards for Culturally Competent Practice
Professional social work practice requires that social workers continually strive to achieve the highest professional standards possible. This workshop is designed to give social workers the opportunity to enhance their knowledge base and skills to practice at their best. Culturally competent social work practice is an ethical responsibility (NASW Code of Ethics, 1997), can increase employability and enhance leadership. Through discussions of case vignettes and brief exercises, social workers will have the opportunity to develop their skills as a culturally competent practitioner and supervisor. Participants are encouraged to bring written questions about their practice or supervisory concerns around cultural competence to this session for possible discussion or feedback. NASW's Standards for Cultural Competence will be provided to participants. 3 hours (*please note the reduced rates and the special change of location for this workshop on the registration form)
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10. Telling Our Story: Empowering our Professional Selves
Master the skills necessary to communicate to others the value of the work you do. The critical role of social work is often misunderstood by colleagues, allied professionals, elected officials and the public. It is imperative, in this era of cost containment with an emphasis on outcome measurements, that social workers have the ability to accurately and succinctly conceptualize and articulate the role of social work services and to evaluate the outcome of these services. At the conclusion of the workshop participants will have additional resources to assist them in clearly defining the role and outcome of their social work services. 3 hours
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11. Couples In Connection
Doing counseling with couples can feel like walking into a battleground. Social workers can feel pulled into the middle, being asked to be a referee, take sides and be the judge of right and wrong behavior. Couples often fight about differences in handling money, children, sex and extended family. Add to that mix the lack of financial and psychological resources and the background of deprivation and violence many of the families we serve face. What perspective and tools can help clients lower their reactivity and improve their communication and connection? Utilizing concepts from Imago Relationship Therapy, this workshop will provide an understanding of why people are unconsciously drawn to their partners, why the qualities they once loved drive them crazy and how they can use their relationship to help heal childhood wounds. Participants will learn a structured communication dialogue, which encourages understanding the partner's internal world rather than staying stuck in blame and defensiveness. 6 hours
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12. Reclaiming Our Roots And Striving Toward Wholeness: Spirituality And Social Work Practice
Despite social work's religious roots, there has been a longstanding taboo on inclusion of spiritual matters in clinical practice. This is ironic given the profession's commitment to the whole person, and that the majority of Americans believe in a personal God and many say that religion is very important to them. Since spirituality permeates many aspects of people's lives and is interlinked with ethnic and racial heritage, beliefs, problem definition and coping practices, disregarding spiritual influences may undermine therapeutic efforts or lead to inappropriate goals. In this workshop, participants will examine their own spiritual position, while learning to conduct spiritual/religious assessments. The participant will learn to differentiate between spiritual emergencies and psychopathology. A focus is placed on the integration of religious and spiritual practices in therapeutic plans while developing measurable goals. 6 hours
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13. Social Work With Individuals Deemed High-Risk for Violence: Bio-Social Context And Dialectical Dilemmas
A two-part, six-hour long workshop designed to challenge clinical and philosophical assumptions, offer alternative operational hypotheses and provide participants with field-tested tools and strategies with which to promote the "high-risk" individuals' recovery while safeguarding the community. The first session, entitled "Oppression & Resilience" and informed by the work of Fanon and Bulhan, will define oppression as the crucial risk factor in the social experiences of "high-risk" persons and highlight their native resilience as oppression's most effective antidote. The second session, "Assessment & Management of High-Risk Behavior in the Community," will underscore the need for holistic assessment and provide participants with field-tested protocols to manage threatening behaviors often rooted in personal trauma and fueled by abuse of intoxicants. 6 hours
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14. Preparing For The CSW Exam
Passing the CSW exam is an important step in becoming a professional social worker. This workshop supports success on the exam by familiarizing participants with the exam's purpose, structure, format, and content areas. Emphasis will be on learning effective test-taking principles and on applying these principles to practice questions.
3 hours (*please note the reduced rates and the special change of location for this workshop on the registration form)
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15. The Police-Social Work Connection: Teamwork in Crisis, Critical Incidents, and Disasters
To be successful intervening in a critical incident, crisis, or disaster, it is essential that social workers have the skills to collaborate with others and across systems. Working effectively with the police poses unique challenges and, too often, social workers and police find themselves inadvertently working at cross-purposes. This workshop, led by two of the top experts in this area of practice, will engage participants in a dialogue about a police-social work model that is collaborative and will identify a skill set for successful intervention. 6 hours
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Grace Telesco, Ph.D, MA is Assistant Professor of Sociology at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. Dr. Telesco is a retired lieutenant with the New York City Police Department and served as the Inter-agency Coordinator of the mental health response at the Family Assistance Center, following the September 11th attacks.
DECEMBER
16. Everything Private Practitioners Need to Know about Negligence and Malpractice ..... But Were Afraid to Ask!
Clinical social workers who have a private practice do not have the risk-management and legal supports provided by an agency setting. Therefore, they are particularly vulnerable to being successfully sued for malpractice. This workshop will provide the core of what private practitioners need to know to effectively manage the risks inherent in solo practice. Learn proven risk-management techniques for creating a "teflon private practice."
6 hours
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Surviving Adolescence: A Framework for Successful Family Intervention
Parenting children of any age is a challenge. Parenting adolescents, in particular difficult or out-of-control adolescents, can be more than that, as the risks of stalemating between parent and child escalate. With an emphasis on practical and strategic interventions, this presentation will focus on a variety of topics intended to help clinicians guide the families they work with.
3 hours
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18. Managing Countertransference: A Self Psychology Perspective for Working With Depressed, Self-Abusive Female Clients
Depressed, self-abusive female clients pose many stressors and challenges in the course of developing and sustaining a therapeutic relationship. This workshop will inform participants about the core tenets of self-psychology and trauma and will apply this model to treatment with this vulnerable, "at-risk" client population. 6 hours
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19. Diagnosing And Treating Trauma Disorders: The Importance Of Systematic Assessment And Phase Oriented Treatment Approaches
This workshop will examine how PTSD related phenomena, such as avoidance and traumatic reminders, complicate the diagnostic process and discuss semi-structured approaches useful for its accurate diagnosis. Gender and ethno-cultural aspects of trauma disorders and the key elements of evidence-based approaches, such as phased-oriented approaches, will be discussed. The knowledge and skills presented will enable clinicians to effectively diagnose PTSD and differentiate it from co-morbid conditions, thereby enhancing the ability to offer trauma-specific treatment. 3 hours
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20. The Dramatic, The Eccentric And The Fearful: Personality Disorders Revisited
The uniqueness of the individual is illustrated in a consistent pattern of behaviors, attitudes and emotional traits. This is, then, the individual personality. There is a range of variation in personality structure. To differentiate this uniqueness from maladaptive functioning can be challenging for social workers. This workshop will focus on the differential diagnoses of personality disorders, and will increase awareness of the impact of culture and address culture bound syndromes. Individual response to trauma will also be addressed, and its relation to personality disorders. 3 hours
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21. Meeting the Needs of Elders: A Family Focused Framework
As the population ages, the need and demand for skilled social workers is greater than ever. This workshop will provide state of the art clinical approaches for the treatment of elders. Assessment of the family/kin network and genogram information will be utilized enabling participants to better understand the needs of the system. The workshop topics will include the cultural context of the family, the meaning of receiving help, the impact of illness on the family and the shift in roles for everyone in the system and the interaction of the larger system on the family. The social worker's use of self will be considered to include an awareness of how their values can affect their work with families. Consideration of transferential issues will also be raised. 3 hours
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Continuing Education Coordinator
OCTOBER
Monday, October 21, 6:00-9:00 p.m. & Monday, October 28, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Part I: Dava Weinstein, MSW is a consultant/trainer and private practitioner. Professional publications relate to family treatment, led clinical issues, and addictions. She is co-author of Different Kinds of Love, a mental health training video.
Tuesday, October 22, 6:00-9:00 p.m. & Tuesday, October 29, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Andrew Hamid, Ph.D. is a Professor of Social Work at Columbia University where he teaches in the area of clinical practice with a focus on addictive behaviors.
Thursday, October 24, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Florence Vigilante, DSW teaches family treatment and clinical practice at the Hunter College School of Social Work. She is editor of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work, the Director of the Hunter College Employee Assistance Program and practices with individuals, couples and families.
Saturday, October 26, 10:00-5:00 p.m. (10-1, 2-5)
Rosemary Lavinski, ACSW, BCD is a Social Work Psychotherapist, career coach, E.A.P Consultant, and Corporate Trainer with 30 years experience in private practice, counseling individuals, couples, groups internationally in their personal and professional lives.
Monday, October 28, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
The NASW Press publications department management team and an editor-in-chief from one of the NASW Press journals will conduct the seminar.
Saturday, November 2, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (10-1, 2-5)
Rosemary Lavinski, ACSW, BCD (see workshop # 4 for details).
Monday, November 4, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Leslie M. Goldstein, CSW, is a Vice Chair, faculty member and supervisor for the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, a faculty member and supervisor for the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, and maintains a private practice.
Tuesday, November 5, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Michael Shernoff, MSW (see workshop # 1 for details).
Wednesday, November 6, 6:00-9:00 pm.
Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, DSW, ACSW is Associate Professor at Hunter College School of Social Work. She is a past-President of the NYC Chapter of NASW, and was a major contributor to the development of NASW's Standards for Cultural Competence.
Thursday, November 7, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Darrell P. Wheeler Ph.D., M.P.H., A.C.S.W. is on the faculty of the Hunter College School of Social Work and recently served on the National Board of Directors of NASW.
Saturday, November 9, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (10-1, 2-5)
Cheryl Dolinger Brown, CSW is a psychotherapist in private practice with couples, individuals and groups. She has an MSW from Hunter College, a psychoanalyst certificate from National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and is an Advanced Clinician in Imago Relationship Therapy.
Tuesday, November 12, 6:00-9:00 p.m. & Tuesday, November 19, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Zulema E. Suarez, Ph.D., ACSW has practiced and taught graduate social work in the Midwest and New York City. Her quest for spiritual knowledge has led her to explore a number of eastern and western spiritual traditions and practices.
Wednesday, November 13, 6:00-9:00 p.m. & Wednesday, November 20, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Jack Carney, DSW, ACSW, CSW-R is Director of Forensic Treatment Services at FEGS in New York City, overseeing that agency's Intensive Case Management and Forensic DBT programs. He also maintains a small private practice in family therapy and consultation.
Thursday, November 14, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Louise Skolnik, DSW has been a faculty member at the Adelphi University School of Social Work since 1976. She has had over 20 years experience preparing students for the CSW exam.
Saturday, November 16, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (10-1, 2-5)
George T. Patterson, Ph.D, ACSW, CSW-R is Assistant Professor of Social Work at New York University, Ehrenkranz School of Social Work and was a police social worker.
Monday, December 2, 6:00-9:00 p.m. & Monday, December 9, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Paul Kurzman, Ph.D., ACSW is Professor of Social Work at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the former chair of NASW's Insurance Trust and is the current chair of NASW's National Competence Certification Commission.
Thursday, December 5, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Steven Friedfeld, CSW is a clinical social worker who, for the past twenty years, has specialized in psychotherapy with children and adolescents.
Saturday, December 7, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (10-1, 2-5)
Judith Marks Mishne, DSW is a Professor at New York University School of Social Work
Wednesday, December 11, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Robert Abramovitz, MD is Chief Psychiatrist and Director the Center for Trauma Program Innovation at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. He is an experienced teacher, regular public media spokesperson and principal investigator on numerous Federal grants.
Thursday, December 12, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Milagros Sanchez-Nester, CSW is a full time clinical instructor at the NYU Ehrenkranz School of Social Work. She has a private practice in the Bronx with a specialty in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Monday, December 16, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Leonie Nowitz, CSW is the Director of the Center for Lifelong Growth and is a founding member of GCM. She has worked with older people and their families for 28 years, both in institutional and community settings. She is on the faculty of the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College.
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