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Current research, including Dr. Brené Brown's work in shame and vulnerability, and Dr. Kristin Neff's work in Mindful Self-Compassion, has shed light on the impact of shame and negative self-talk on our mental health. Simply attending a therapy session can be shame-inducing and oftentimes, clients in therapy sessions feel vulnerable due to disclosure, shame as they explore challenging feelings, and might even feel marginalized due to socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, or even their diagnosis.

This presentation will explore traditional evidence-based clinical practices along with current evidence-based clinical practices, and how as clinicians we can reduce the impact of shame with our clients, as well as use a client-centered approach to improve therapeutic outcomes. Using borderline personality disorder (BPD) as a main example, this presentation will focus on how evidence-based practices, specifically Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), can integrate shame resilience techniques and be enhanced to reduce the stigma of a lifetime diagnosis while continuing to target the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are symptomatic of a diagnosis. This presentation will also focus on other areas of stigma, including race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and socioeconomic status.

By reducing shame in our practices and approaches with clients, we support clients in increasing motivation for receiving effective treatment, reducing stigma, and improving treatment outcomes. As providers, we can make a difference by inherently improving the quality of life for clients we serve. By increasing shame resilience, we are improving our clients’ use of skills to reduce instances of self-harm, explosive anger, emotional mood swings, as well as improving stable relationships, including the relationship built with the clinician.

With this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify language and therapeutic techniques that potentially increase feelings of shame in our clients
• Know how to integrate evidence-based practices, such as DBT and CBT, with building shame resilience
• Identify interventions for increasing shame resilience
• Implement interventions regarding mindfulness and self-compassion
• Identify potential areas of marginalization and shame in clients, such as diagnosis, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status

NASW-NYC Member: $54 | Other Chapter Member: $68 | Non-Member: $81

3 SW CE Contact Hours

Erin Iwanusa, LCSW is the founder and owner of Taproot Therapy in NYC, a practice that specializes in CBT, DBT, adolescents, eating disorders, and anxiety disorders. She is certified in The Daring Way™, a highly experiential methodology based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. She was previously a researcher in a NIH NIDA-funded study researching ways to effectively train counselors to implement evidence-based treatments. 

Erin has extensive experience implementing evidence-based treatments in the community and training practitioners how to successfully treat adolescent substance abuse. She received her Master of Social Work from Boston University.

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NASW-NYC Certificates Policy

As per New York State Continuing Education guidelines, attendees must arrive on time and attend the ENTIRE workshop to receive their Continuing Education Contact Hours. Any attendees who arrive late or leaves early to a workshop will not receive their certificate, is not allowed admittance into the workshop and is also not eligible for a refund in any way. 

Please ensure that your registration information is accurate as this may impact your continuing education certificates.  NASW-NYC is not responsible for the accuracy of your registration information. To receive your certificate of completion, you must be present for the entire webinar and complete an evaluation.

NASW-NYC Refund Policy

All refund requests must be submitted by e-mail to accounting.naswnyc@socialworkers.org. Refund e-mails must include the subject line "Refund Request" as well as the attendee's name, workshop date and title in the body of the e-mail. Valid requests must be received no later than three business days prior to course date. NASW-NYC reserves the right to refuse any refunds requested later than three days prior to the course date.

• All refunds are subject to a 30% administrative processing fee.
• Refund requests typically require 1-2 weeks processing time.
• Refunds ONLY; credit cannot be issued toward a future program date or substituted for another workshop.

If the workshop is cancelled, you will be informed ahead of time and fully refunded.

NOTICE OF FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Please be advised that photography, and audio and video recording of participants at NASW-NYC events may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to interview(s), photography, audio recording, and video recording (referred to as the “Recordings”) and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction for promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose reasonably related to the mission of the National Association of Social Workers.

You release NASW-NYC, its officers, employees and agents from any liability connected with such use of the Recordings and waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with such use of the Recordings. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by NASW-NYC or the person or entity designated to do so by NASW-NYC.

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NASW New York City Chapter is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0027, the State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists #MFT-0060, and the Office of Addiction Services and Supports as an approved provider of CASAC credits #0288.