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Priority early registration is available only to NASW members until Tuesday, January 24th.

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Social Anxiety is a significantly limiting anxiety disorder which impacts social functioning and social growth over the lifespan. For people with social anxiety disorder, daily social interactions trigger anxiety, fear, and self-consciousness. Like most anxiety disorders, persons with social anxiety disorder may be trapped in a cycle of anxiety and avoidance.

Most progress over one’s life requires skillful social engagement – interviewing, networking, dating, or attending college. This unique course will offer an integrative-expressive approach in working through social fears through CBT Exposure therapy integrated with expressive techniques to help cultivate an authentic social style to engage with the world in a way that honors temperament and personal needs for solitude.

*PLEASE NOTE: Since this session is about social connection & social engagement with expressive exercises, attendees are requested to be on-camera for maximum benefit.

With this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Conceptualize and describe Social Anxiety Disorder within a cognitive behavioral framework
• Conceptualize individualized exposure hierarchies for clients specific to needs, temperament, and cultural/social context
• Apply cognitive, somatic, and expressive techniques in helping client cultivate authentic social styles.

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

3 SW CE Contact Hours

Reji Mathew, PhD, LCSW, REAT is a senior clinical social worker with over 15 years of direct clinical treatment experience at the New York University, Counseling & Wellness Student Health Center in college mental health. 

She is a CE and MSW clinical instructor specializing in evidence-based integrative skill therapies – DBT, CBT, ACT, Positive Psychology, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, CFT, Exposure Therapy, and Mindfulness. Dr. Mathew is a frequent instructor at NYU- Washington Square, NYU - SSW, NYU- STAC (St. Thomas Aquinas College), NYU - Sarah Lawrence, and has taught at Hunter College School of Social Work, and the Brooklyn OHEL Institute for Training.

For her arts advocacy work, Dr. Mathew is a board member of BRIDGES, the Rockland Independent Living Center for Independent Living, and on the advisory board for Rockland Music Conservatory. She is an Arts Reporter for the Arts & Recovery Team for Disastershock.com and also an Arts Accessibility Educator - Activist for Anti-Racists Art Teachers.

*Please note that new members take up to 3 business days to transfer information to NASW-NYC's system. Please plan accordingly to allow enough time for registration.

NASW-NYC is happy to try and fulfill any reasonable special accommodations requests following NYS laws, submitted in writing to workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org at least  fifteen business days prior to the workshop date. Requests received after the deadline may not be able to be processed or fulfilled in time for the event.

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. 

NASW-NYC's policy and practice is to email a post-workshop evaluation link to each attendee within 1-3 business days after the workshop date. The evaluation will be open for a minimum of 30 calendar days and is sent to the email address attendees provided to NASW-NYC upon registering for the workshop(s). Once an attendee completes their evaluation, their certificate is automatically generated by the system and emailed to them. Completing your evaluation also allows NASW-NYC to receive a copy of the certificate. Please ensure that your registration and evaluation information is accurate (name, e-mail, license type and number) as this will impact your continuing education certificates as your certificates will reflect the information you provided.  NASW-NYC is not responsible for the accuracy of your registration information. 

NASW-NYC will re-issue continuing education certificates for a fee of $10.00 per certificate.

NASW-NYC Refund Policy

All refund requests must be submitted in writing to accounting.naswnyc@socialworkers.org no later than four business days prior to the workshop date. 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. If a refund is requested later than four business days prior to the workshop date, NASW-NYC has the right to refuse the request.

- All refunds are subject to a fee of 25% for administrative processing fees

- Refund requests typically take 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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For any questions or issues, please contact workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org

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, and the Office of Addiction Services and Supports as an approved provider of CASAC credits #0288.