Continuing Education for Social Workers
2004-2005 Academic Year
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Questions about Saturday Series? Contact:
Dr. Chuck Kuhn: austink@gwm.sc.edu or (803) 777-4666
Friday, October 1, 2004
Assessment and Management of Dementia
Description:
This workshop will provide social workers with the knowledge and skills to work with clients with dementia and their families. The session will include an overview of dementia and practical information for assessment and management.
Objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1) Identify tools used to assess function and family dynamics (Mini Mental State Examination, Clock Drawing, Geriatric Depression Scale, Caregiver Burden Interview).
2) Describe techniques a social worker can use to help the clients with dementia and families understand the diagnosis and cope with changing needs.
Leader: Geri Adler, MSW, PhD
Geri Adler, MSW, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the College of Social Work and Director of the South Carolina Center for Gerontology at USC. She has over 15 years experience working at a memory loss clinic where she provided clinical services to patients and families and conducted research on older drivers with dementia.
Workshop # October 1, 2004; 8:30 AM-12:30 PM location TBA, 4 CE Contact Hours, $60
Friday October 8, 2004 (Session 1) & October 15, 2004 (Session 2)
Geriatric Counseling (Online Workshop)
Description:
This online workshop will present material on techniques and strategies for effective counseling with older adults. Specific techniques are necessary when counseling older persons with physical impairments, cognitive deficits, and for those older persons who are from various cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds. This workshop will explore specific communication skills that are effective in counseling older persons and will offer therapeutic interventions for groups, individuals, and families that are effective in geriatric counseling.
Each session will use lecture materials, Internet discussion with colleagues and Internet searches to enhance knowledge and skills in geriatric counseling.
Objectives:
Participants will:
1) Learn communication skills that are especially effective in counseling older persons.
2) Acquire knowledge of communication issues for older adults who have physical and mental impairments and for those older persons from various cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds.
3) Examine therapeutic interventions currently used in gerontological practice in individual, group, and family counseling.
Format:
This online workshop will be conducted in two sessions. Four hours of CEU’s will be awarded per session. For two consecutive weeks the participants will have online instructions (that should require about three hours to complete at their own pace). The online instruction will consist of lecture materials using PowerPoint slides, searches on the web for sites related to topics under study, and posting of material for interactive discussion with colleagues on Blackboard’s Discussion Board and a case analysis. Each participant will be enrolled in the University of South Carolina’s Blackboard site for web-based instruction. Each participant will have a User ID and a password for this workshop.
Total time involved is 7 hours in the two weeks. The work can be completed at any time (day or night) in the one week time frame prior to the next session.
Material should be posted within the week in order not to be considered missed session hours. Instructor will respond to email questions within three days.
Each session will require three hours of time in reading the lecture material, posting material or questions, and searching the web for additional information. Additional time will be allotted for a case analysis and a response from instructor.
This workshop is unique and innovative in that it is computer-based instruction and delivered via the Internet. The material covered is the same as that delivered in the traditional, on-campus workshop. An additional, significant difference is that participants will also be able to use the immense resources available on the World Wide Web (WWW). Because this class will not meet in the traditional fashion (but will meet in the virtual sense), additional participant responsibilities are required. Every participant must have access to a computer with a modem or broadband access and a printer as well as a word processing program.
For example, material for Session I will be available on Friday, October 8th, at 12:00 noon and postings should be completed by Thursday, October 14th, at midnight. On Friday, October 15th at 12:00 noon, session two will be available. Case analysis should be sent by email to the instructor by Friday, October 22nd.
Workshop Sessions Date to view and read material Date and Time for postings
1 Oct. 8th at noon Midnight Oct. 15th
2 Oct. 15th at noon Midnight Oct. 22nd
Case analysis sent in by email Oct. 22nd
You may log-on to the site at any time you choose during the week. Each week of this workshop consists of a lecture written by the instructor and interactive exercises to further enhance your understanding of the subject matter. Note that as you read through the lecture, you will come upon various interactive exercises, charts, graphs, or figures. These activities are designed to further explain and illustrate the lecture’s major concepts. Please note that the instructor will also provide voice instructions.
What are cyber classrooms?
Each participant is required to participate meaningfully in on-line discussions which occur in cyber classrooms on the Discussion Board (not in chat rooms). These cyber classrooms are places for you to post your ideas about the readings, lecture, and assignments and to engage the professor and fellow participants in discussion of specific gerontological issues. The cyber classrooms are also a perfect place to raise questions you have about each week. I will be happy to try to answer your questions. I also encourage you to pursue issues that interest you but that neither I nor other participants have risen.
I am looking forward to meeting all of you and sharing our knowledge and experiences.
Leader: Terry Tirrito, MSW, PhD
Dr. Tirrito is a Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Tirrito has a Master of Social Work degree from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York and a Doctoral degree in Gerontological Social Work from Fordham University in New York. Dr. Tirrito is internationally and nationally recognized as an expert on aging issues and was designated as Expert Teacher by the Council on Social Work Education, John Hartford Foundation, SAGE Project (Strengthening Aging and Gerontology Education) in Social Work (SAGE-SW). Dr. Tirrito received USC’s highest award for research, the USC Educational Foundation Research Award for the Professional Schools, 2001. She was named Social Work Educator of the Year by the graduating classes of 1996 and 1999 of the College of Social Work. Dr. Tirrito has published over fourteen articles and made 100 presentations nationally and internationally.
Workshop # 100804A & 100804B: From October 8 (Friday) through October 14 (Thursday) & October 15 (Friday) through October 22 (Friday) 2004; must register by September 15, 2004, 4 CE Contact Hours per session, $60 (each session).
Saturday October 9, 2004
Maxed Out! How consumer credit addiction affects us all
Description:
Several sociologists who focus on economic trends have sounded an alarm about changing patterns of consumer behavior in America. Among the indicators of an impending social crisis are reductions in household savings (currently half of American households have no savings at all), rapid expansion of consumer indebtedness (credit card debt tripled in the 1980’s and doubled between 1990 and 1996), and increasing numbers if personal bankruptcies (1.5 million in 2002 – that’s more than graduated from college in the same year).
There is considerable inconsistency in how consumer overspending is explained. Much of the older content has been presented from a micro-level (and pathology-oriented) perspective. For example, DiGiulio and Janosik (1982) viewed financial difficulties as the outcome of poor money management skills or even personality disorders (e.g., narcissism). The DSM-IV-TR notes that a buying spree is one symptom of a mood disorder. In contrast, Ryan (1992) suggested that over-indebtedness is a cause, rather than a result, of anxiety and depression. His research showed that financial strain also is linked to physical symptoms of stress, and to marital and family problems.
Only recently has there been any generalized acknowledgement of how the larger American social context contributed to this social problem. Citizens are continuously encouraged to but, even if it results in spending beyond their means (Bauman, 1998; Schor, 1998). The average American is bombarded by more than 3,600 commercial images every day. Some sociologists (e.g., Manning, 2000; Ritzer, 1999; Schor, 1998) go so far as to compare credit card companies to drug pushers.
Attendees at this half-day workshop will learn about the brief history of consumer debt and the current status of consumerism in America. The role of the advertising and the banking industries in creating and enabling Americans’ addiction to buying on credit will be explored. Workshop participants will assess their “financial literacy” and evaluate their own spending habits – tools that can be applied to client situations.
Leader: Miriam Johnson, MSW, PhD
Miriam Johnson has earned graduate degrees in educational psychology and social work from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Alabama. She is an Associate Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina where she teaches courses in human behavior and in research. Dr. Johnson has twenty years of social work practice experience, mostly with children in out of home care and their families. She has also worked in refugee resettlement.
Workshop # 100904: October 9, 2004; 8:30 AM-12:30 PM, location TBA, 4 CE Contact Hours, $60
Friday, October 15, 2004
Reminiscence and Life Review as Tools for Therapeutic Intervention with Older Adults
Description:
This experiential workshop will help social workers, nurses, medical, and other human service practitioners to utilize reminiscence and life review in individual and group intervention with older adults. It is widely recognized that life review is a prominent developmental occurrence in later life. In recent years there has been increasing interest by practitioners in putting memories to work by guiding older persons toward reflection on the meaning of their lives. The workshop will incorporate a variety of activities and exercises to demonstrate the potential impact and importance of reminiscence and life review with both well-functioning and frail older adults in a variety of agencies and settings.
Leader: Gerald L. Euster, DSW
Gerald L. Euster, DSW, is former Director of Gerontology Studies, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, College of Social Work, University of South Carolina. He is a Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.
Workshop # 101204; October 15, 2004; 8::30 AM-12:30 PM, location TBA, 4 CE Contact Hours, $60
Friday, October 15, 2004
Conducting Performance Evaluations & Using Progressive Discipline Effectively
Description:
When social workers take supervisory and management positions, they often have great difficulty with two tasks – evaluating the performance of subordinates and confronting those whose work is substandard or who are “problem employees” in other ways. The workshop examines why these tasks are so difficult and stressful for social workers, and why they need not be. It then presents the correct ways to perform them – ways that are beneficial to all concerned. Emphasis is placed upon liability issues and ethical issues of fairness and consideration (requirements of the NASW Code of Ethics).
Leader: Bob Weinbach, MSW, PhD
Bob Weinbach is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina’s College of Social Work, where he continues to teach courses in research, evaluation, and management. His most recent book, Evaluating Social Work Services and Programs, was published in July, 2004.
Workshop # . Friday, October 15, 2004.12:30pm - 4:30pm location TBA, CE Contact Hours, $60
Friday October 29, 2004
Boundary Hunters: The Journey from Enmeshment to Semi-Permeability & Individual within the Family
Description:
Boundaries are what tell us where our limits are. They provide for us a set of rules by which we navigate within interpersonal relationships. Without healthy boundaries, we are not to truly express our national selves. When our boundaries are rigid or loose, or when we have not defined our boundaries and are therefore boundary less, we are not equipped to dialogue with others in a spirit of mutual openness and discovery; nor are we able to balance love and caring for ourselves and others. This workshop will provide its participants with an opportunity to understand the importance of having healthy boundaries, as well as understanding the life-damaging effects of unhealthy boundaries.
Objectives:
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
• Convert rigid, loose, or no boundaries into semi-permeable ones
• Make an assessment of own and other’s form of boundaries
• Identify three kinds of boundaries and several properties of each
• Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy boundaries
• Understand the five major developmental stages’ effects on boundary formation
• Describe emotional wounding and its etiology
• Compare dependency needs and human needs
• Comprehend the importance of age regression
• Relate to own core issues with safe people
• Resolve inner conflicts
Leader: Michael Newman, LISW, EdD
Michael K. Newman, EdD, LISW, has more than 30 years of experience in the counseling field. He has worked as a psychiatric social worker in mental health departments in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. While performing his duties as Director of Consultation, Education, and Training in North Carolina, Dr. Newman earned his supervising level of membership in AAMFT through Wake Forest University. He holds an MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University and EdD in psycho-education
Workshop # 102904: October 29, 2004; 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, location TBA, 6 CE Contact Hours, $90
Friday November 5, 2004
Practical Techniques for Time-Limited Practice
Description:
Social workers and other human service professionals are experiencing significant change not only in the funding, delivery, and evaluation criteria of their programs, but also in the amount of time available to work with clients and consumers of services. This workshop will use a hands-on approach to provide practical techniques that can be used to assess, intervene, and evaluate outcomes in a time-limited setting. Case examples will be used to integrate the techniques and participants are encouraged to bring their own cases and experiences to review and discuss during the workshop.
Learning Objectives:
• Articulate time-limited and crisis management approaches
• Apply clinical components to case examples
• Demonstrate ability to develop effective and measurable goals
• Integrate techniques with system and organizational demands
Leader: Jan Ligon, PhD, LCSW
Associate Professor and BSW Program Director, Georgia State University
School of Social Work
Dr. Ligon is Associate Professor of Social Work at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the past President of the Georgia Chapter of NASW and was recently appointed by the Governor to the state’s licensure board for social workers. His practice, teaching, and research experience has included time-limited practice in crisis intervention, managed care, and employee assistance programs in both public and private sectors. He is the author of book chapters on crisis management (in Roberts, 2000, Crisis Intervention Handbook, Oxford University Press) and brief treatment (in Roberts & Greene, 2002, Social Workers’ Desk Reference, Oxford University Press) as well as articles in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Crisis Intervention and Time-Limited Treatment, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, and the Journal of Family Psychotherapy.
Workshop # 110504; November 5, 2004; 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, location TBA, 6 CE Contact Hours, $90
Friday November 19, 2004
Perspectives in Personality Disorders
Description:
This workshop will focus on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disordered clients. These clients often represent diagnosis and treatment problems because their character difficulties are a part of an Axis I condition.
Objectives:
This workshop will address the importance of learning to carefully assess, diagnose, and successfully treat personality disordered clients. In addition participants will:
• Understand the process of assessment of Axis II personality disorders
• Understand key issues in the development of personality disorder
• Be able to distinguish Axis II from Axis I client conditions
• Learn how to tailor intervention techniques to different personality disorders
• Be able to make more effective use of themselves in working with personality disordered clients
Workshop Outline:
Understanding the Personality Disorder Stages
• Stages of personality development
• Diagnosis and the difference it makes
Character Disordered Clients in Helping Situations
• Typical client behavior toward others
• Typical behaviors toward workers
• Barriers to helping
Intervention Strategies
• Where do I put my effort?
• What seems to work?
• Working with target symptoms
• Psychosocial approaches
• Behavioral approaches
The Worker and Personality Disorders
• When two disorder meet
• Knowing who has the problem
• Working through problem situations
• Using supervisors and peers
Leader: Jerry Randolph, DSW
Dr. Jerry Randolph is Professor Emeritus at the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina. Over his long career he has presented over 300 workshops and training sessions on personality disorders, diagnostic issues, substance abuse, the development of alternative treatment strategies and the person as therapist. Dr. Randolph continues to teach on a part time basis, providing training and supervision for LISW certification and conduct workshops of a variety of topics. His primary professional interest is in helping new social workers build a strong practice base to sustain their careers.
Workshop # 111904; November 19, 2004; 9:00 AM-4:00 PM location TBA, 6 CE Contact Hours, $90
Saturday November 20, 2004
Treatment of Co-Dependence: The Psychopathology of Co-Perception & Dysfunctional Family Relationships
Description:
Co-dependence is a pattern of abnormal or exaggerated dependence upon people with a certain character type. This pattern of excessive dependency consists of learned behaviors, beliefs, and feelings that generally make liked very painful. When the pain becomes too great to bear, clients will present with various psychological disorders including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, chemical dependency, relationship problems, and many others. An understanding of the family psychodynamics of co-dependency prepares the counselor for treating the underlying causes of individual and family relationship dysfunction.
Objectives:
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
• Define co-dependence
• Differentiate between the false self and the true self
• List the characteristics of one’s inner life
• Assess degrees of co-dependence in clients
• Explain basic dependency needs and human needs
• Compare own true self with pretend self
• List family negative rules and messages
• Discuss and treat 15 core issues
• Grieve the parts of self that have been denied by toxic shame
Leader: Michael Newman, LISW, Ed. D.
Michael K. Newman, Ed.D., LISW, has more than 30 years of experience in the counseling field. He has worked as a psychiatric social worker in mental health departments in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. While performing his duties as Director of Consultation, Education, and Training in North Carolina, Dr. Newman earned his supervising level of membership in AAMFT through Wake Forest University. He holds an MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University and Ed.D. in psycho-education.
Workshop #112004 November 20, 2004; 9:00 AM- 4:00 PM, location TBA, 6 CE Contact Hours, $90
Friday, December 3, 2004
Creating Your Logic Model: A practical Guide to Success
Description:
A well-articulated logic model is a valuable asset. It can be a useful tool for creating and managing a well-integrated, effective program. It also can have financial advantages, as more and more funding organizations rely on a program’s logic model to assist them in making critical funding decisions. Yet, confusion often exists about what a logic model really is and what its various components are supposed to be.
The workshop will clarify what a logic model is (and what it isn’t). Numerous real-life examples will be offered. While every program can be described accurately using a logic model, many managers struggle with the differences among (especially) program activities, outputs and outcomes, and with identifying credible outcome indicators. Participants are invited to discuss their individual programs and the problems they face. They should leave the workshop with a clear understanding of logic models in general, and how to use them to produce an accurate, positive description of their programs.
Leader: Bob Weinbach, MSW, Ph.D.
Bob Weinbach is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, College of Social Work, where he continues to teach courses in research, evaluation and management. His most recent book, Evaluating social Work Services and Programs was published in July, 2004.
Workshop # 120304 December 3, 2004 12:30 AM- 4:30 PM location Limestone College 4 CE Contact Hours, $60.00
Saturday, December 4, 2004
On Being a Therapist
Description:
This workshop will focus on the development of the knowledge and skills to become an effective therapist. Participants will be helped to identify their personal strengths as a therapist and means to enhance the development of a grater level of expertise in the helping process. An additional focus will be on the therapeutic use of self in treatment and techniques to build strong relationships with clients that will promote positive changes.
Objectives
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Identify a conceptual framework for practice
• Describe/discuss the use of self as a practice tool
• Identify transference and counter-transference issues in practice
• Describe effective interventions across a wider range of clinical situations
• Identify techniques for more effective self appraisal and self evaluation
Workshop Outline
• The importance of self in practice
• Identifying personal knowledge, values and skills
• Developing a conceptual framework for practice
• Case examples/case consultations
• Film festival- “The good, the bad and the ugly”
• Summary, evaluation and adjournment
Leader: Jerry Randolph, DSW
Dr. Jerry Randolph is Professor Emeritus at the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina. Over his long career he has presented over 300 workshops and training sessions on personality disorders, diagnostic issues, substance abuse, the development of alternative treatment strategies and the person as therapist. Dr. Randolph continues to teach on a part time basis, providing training and supervision for LISW certification and conduct workshops of a variety of topics. His primary professional interest is in helping new social workers build a strong practice base to sustain their careers.
Workshop # 120404 December 4, 2004; 9:00AM- 4:00PM, location Calcott Room 011, 6 CE Contact Hours, $90
Friday, December 10, 2004
Engaging the Difficult Client
Client Resistance in the Therapeutic Relationship
Description:
Social service workers are often confronted with clients who are extremely difficult to engage in the helping process even in essentially voluntary situations. These clients are frustrating for many workers and frequently require an investment of great amounts of time and energy, often with little payoff.
Objectives:
This seminar will focus on how to understand and work more effectively with difficult clients. In addition, you will:
• Understand the origin of resistant behavior from an psychological and social perspective;
• Identify resistant behaviors from the subtle to the proactive;
• Identify which elements of resistant behavior it is feasible to change or attempt to combat;
• Find out how to help workers make better use of themselves in working with resistant clients, and:
• Learn how other social workers and human service providers deal with resistant clients through presentation of case materials.
Workshop Outline
Understanding resistance
• Defining resistance
• Distinguishing between resistance and ambivalence
Diagnosing resistance
• Identifying forms of resistance
• Understanding the origins of resistant behavior
• Resistance as adaptive behavior
Intervention strategies
• What can you change?
• Personality disorders and resistance
• Working with target symptoms
• Psychosocial approaches
• Behavioral approaches
The worker and resistance
• Common worker reactions
• Knowing who has the problem
• Overcoming problem situations
• Peer consultation
Leader: Jerry Randolph, DSW
Dr. Jerry Randolph is Professor Emeritus at the college of Social Work, University of South Carolina. Over his long career he has presented over 300 workshops and training sessions on personality disorders, diagnostic issues, substance abuse, the development of alternative treatment strategies and the person as therapist. Dr. Randolph continues to teach on a part time basis, providing training and supervision for LISW certification and conduct workshops of a variety of topics. His primary professional interest is in helping new social workers build a strong practice base to sustain their careers.
Workshop # 121004 December 10, 2004; 9:00Am- 4:00PM, location Limestone College, 6 CE Contact Hours, $90
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