Block B - 3 hour workshops
The Dynamics and Skills of Supervision: The Parallel Process and the Interactional Model
Lawrence Shulman, MSW, EdD
The focus of this workshop will be on method - what
the supervisor does in interaction with staff. The Interactional Model
will be presented as the constant element in supervision and then
elaborated to address the variant elements introduced by setting (e.g.,
family counseling agency, hospital, child welfare), the supervisor’s
discipline (e.g., social worker, psychologist) and the population served
(e.g., mandatory, adult, children). The four phases of work
(preliminary, beginning, work, and ending/transitions) will be used to
organize the discussion. Essential skills in communication,
relationship, and group leadership will be described and illustrated,
and participants will share their own experiences. Issues to be raised
may include contracting with staff members as a new supervisor promoted
from within, or contracting with new staff member, supervising defensive
staff members, staff apathy and resistance to change, the supervisor's
role as teacher, helping staff to develop skills for professional impact
when dealing with other staff, and addressing staff primary and
secondary trauma. A parallel process will be identified in that the way
supervisors deal with staff will be viewed as modeling for staff how to
relate to clients. The idea that more is “caught” than “taught” will be
central. The workshop will also address supervision of Evidenced-Based
Practice (e.g., MI, SFP and CBT) in an integrative rather than
prescriptive manner so as to increase E.B.P. sustainability in the
setting.
Parent Coaching as Clinical Intervention
Jude Thaddeus Currier, LICSW
With an alarming increase of mental health diagnoses
in children, especially those coming from chaotic families, the mental
health system continues to focus on an individual pathology model, a
model ill suite to children. Parent coaching can address system issues
that often affect a child's emotional functioning, as well as correct
behavioral issues that are often mistaken for mental health pathology.
This presentation will outline the parenting model, Choice Consequence
Parenting, and its application and deployment within this population.
Focus will be on providing steps for healthy behavioral and emotional
outcomes for these vulnerable children while sidestepping the mistake of
identifying their behaviors as a function of individual pathology.
Ethical Issues Related to Assisted Dying
Kenneth Norton LICSW
Laws in several countries as well as US states have
changed in recent years to allow individuals with terminal illnesses to
end their life under the care of a physician. This issue presents
challenges and difficult personal, religious, sociocultural, and
professional considerations for clinicians, health care providers, and
suicide prevention advocates. Even the terminology, as indicated in the
title, is emotionally-charged. This workshop will provide a historical
context by reviewing important religious, medical and legal decisions
impacting on this issue as well as looking at the arguments for and
against the issue. The workshop will facilitate a structured dialogue
represented by the perspectives of workshop participants about how to
better understand the complexities of this issue.
This workshop qualifies for 3 Category A CEUs in Ethics and Suicide Prevention
Becoming an Intuitive Wizard: An Intuitive and Integrative Approach to Social Work Practice
Bette Freedson, LCSW, LICSW, CGP
In this didactic and experiential workshop we will
examine the therapeutic utilization of intuition from the perspective of
three key phenomena of an approach that integrates both linear and
non-linear concepts and interventions. 1. The therapist’s state of
receptivity to his/her own intuitive ideas, sensations, images and
mini-thoughts. 2. The therapist’s intuitive state of readiness to
utilize significant material from the client’s personal story. 3.
Intuitive utilization of metaphors, re-imagined stories, and
dissociation in the service of creating integrative experiential
moments. Participants will also be introduced to The ACE Schema, an
innovative 3-step model that can guide the development of the
counselor’s intuitive skills.
Ethics and Technology 2020
Lee Pozzi Rush, LICSW
The use of technology in social work is no longer a
remote possibility but a necessary and integral part of our everyday
life. The recent revisions to NASW’s Code of Ethics have led social
workers to re-visit their ethical decision-making practices. This
workshop will expand this discussion and look at how social workers
develop social media policies, both in agency settings and as individual
social workers. Other questions that will be addressed: How will social
workers ensure that they are competent in using technology effectively
and ethically in their practice? Can social work practice be delivered
effectively with the use of technology? This workshop will explore
ethical decision-making especially as it relates to the use of
technology in social work or clinical practice. and the implications for
our work. Participants will learn to apply ethical decision-making
standards to the use of technology in social work. Workshop will be
engaging and interactive as it explores the use of social media,
telehealth, and videoconferencing in social work and psychotherapy.
Workshop will advance beyond the new NASW Code of Ethics and address
current agency and individual integration of technology in the practice
of social work.
This workshop qualifies for 3 Category A CEUs in Ethics