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Basic Psychopharmacology for People with Co-Occurring Diagnoses

This webinar takes a look at best practice as it applies to prescribing (or not prescribing) psychotropic medications for a person in recovery with both a mental illness and substance abuse (MISA) di...

15 Mind-Body, Somatic Techniques to Quiet the Neurological Landscape

All emotions are felt in the body, yet the physicality of stress is often ignored as a point of therapeutic intervention. We intuitively hold a crying baby, hug a teammate and place a hand on the sho...

7th Annual Challenging Racism Conference: A Call to Action

Designed with the practitioner in mind, this livestreamed webinar will provide social workers and allied professionals with a compelling learning opportunity on the topic of racial disparities. Atten...

A Review of Evidence-Based Practices and Optimal Treatment Models of Complex Trauma

This is a full-day webinar. This webinar will present an overview of single event and complex trauma, including a discussion of different types of traumatic events. The participants will learn abou...

ACEs and Complex (Developmental) Trauma in Children

This is a two-part webinar that provides an overview of the concept of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), the historical and contextual risk factors that set the stage for ACE’s, and the pot...

Addiction and Recovery 2023: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Going

This course examines how the field of addiction treatment and recovery has evolved since the development of 12-step recovery spaces in the 1950’s, from societal conceptualizations about addicti...

Advocacy and Collaboration Skills in Case Management

This highly interactive and fast-moving course assists participants in examining impediments to working with others and assisting the understanding working relationships. Discover strategies you can...

Assessment and Differential Diagnosis of Children

This four day webinar seeks to enhance the clinician's ability to diagnose child mental disorders accurately and comprehensively. We will address two major topic areas: 1) the key factors in accurate...

Attachment Theory: A Helpful Framework for Understanding and Intervening with At-Risk Children and Their Families

Secure attachment has been found to be associated with better social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of children. Maternal sensitivity is thought to be a major contributor to the development of ...

Basic Elements and Skills Necessary for Effective Volunteer Management

This two-day webinar focuses on the elements and skills which are necessary to ensure a well run, productive volunteer program. As the manager of a volunteer program, you will learn to: 1) create a p...

Behavioral Activation for Depression and Anxiety: One Effective Treatment for Two Difficult Issues

Lifetime prevalence rates of depression in the US are 8.4% (NIMH, 2020) and 15.6% for an anxiety disorder (CDC, 2019). Estimates show that 60% of those with one of these debilitating issues will also...

Best Practices in Nonprofit Budgeting

Many social workers choose a clinical track in their graduate school program. For those who choose to work in non-profit organizations, promotions at work often include additional administrative duti...

Beyond Checking and Washing: Understanding and Treating the Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum

Once thought to be a rare psychiatric illness, obsessive-compulsive disorder is now recognized to be quite common as 2-3 million Americans are believed to have it. Although they are not as well known...

Beyond Healing to Thriving: Posttraumatic Growth through Mindfulness, CBT and the Arts

This webinar will facilitate a better understanding of Posttraumatic Growth, how to encourage and promote it, and its implications to clinical practice and our communities. Participants will learn t...

Beyond the Individual: A Community Beset by Racial Trauma

The COVID-19 pandemic undeniably exposed endemic vulnerabilities within the black community resulting from centuries of systemic oppression. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study is a landmar...

Building the Helping Relationship

The purpose of this webinar is to explore how several microcounseling skills, including open invitations, open questions, reflections, and information giving, can be used by case managers to build st...

CBT with Anxiety Disorders

An estimated 40 million adults in the U.S. reportedly suffer from one of the anxiety disorders in a given year. The causes may be quite variable, ranging from reactions to life events to personality ...

CBT with Latino Populations

This Webinar will describe the adaptations of cognitive behavioral therapy for working with the Latino population. The main focus of this webinar is to discuss, and apply the fundamental concepts of ...

Clinical Presentations of Survivors: Impacting Our Lives, Impacting Our Communities

In this webinar, participants will learn how violence against women and children impacts survivors on an individual, relational and community level. We will touch on topics such as the multiple compo...

Clinical Work with LGBTQ Youth

LGBTQ youth have higher rates of mental health issues, substance abuse issues, involvement in the child welfare & criminal justice system and represent half of the homeless unaccompanied youth popula...

Clinical, Ethical, and Risk Management Consideration for Online Supervision

Supervising online presents a number of challenges for the Supervisor, many of which we are just beginning to understand. This webinar will focus on Preparation for On-Line supervision, the possible ...

Community Practice in the Post Pandemic Era

The Covid-19 pandemic is entering a less acute phase. The effects of the pandemic are long-lasting, however, and some community agencies are struggling to meet clients' needs. By contrast, other a...

Conceptualizing Crisis Intervention When Working with Adoptive Families

This webinar clearly presents the therapeutic nuances that must be comprehended when helping adoptive families work through crisis. Roberts' Seven-Stage Model of Crisis Intervention is used as the fr...

Core Issues in Clinical Supervision

This interactive webinar will focus on demonstrating major elements of clinical supervision in social work and counseling. Participants will have the opportunity to observe modeled activities, discu...

Creating Organizations Where Members Thrive

Working professionals experience both organizational function and dysfunction. Unfortunately, we tend to remember the negatives far more than the positive experiences. This often results in a desire...

Current Drug Trends and Emerging Drugs of Abuse

Many new drugs are making local and national headlines such as K2/Spice and Bath Salts. This interactive webinar will discuss the latest developments and information regarding synthetic cannabinoids...

Dare to Lead Training Program

The world needs social workers who are willing to model transparency, vulnerability, and authenticity - foundational skills for cultivating conditions of equity, inclusion, and belonging. Based on th...

Dealing with Angry Students and Tantrums Effectively

It seems each year we are faced with more and more students who are getting angrier and angrier. Why are our students angry? How do we deal with students when they are annoyed, frustrated or otherw...

Dealing with Challenges When Working with Parents and Families

Whether you're an educator, CST member, administrator or mental health professional you share one thing in common-dealing with difficult parents and families. All of us have experienced problematic,...

Dear Black Males...

This webinar will focus on the depiction of Black males in today’s world, including the unique issues Black males go through and face. We will examine cultural mistrust, which influences percep...

Depression and Suicide in Older Adults

Depression and suicide in older adults are major public health issues requiring greater attention in the United States as well as other countries. Whereas suicide attempts are more common among adol...

Developing Cultural Competence in a Multicultural Society

Commitment to cultural competence is growing among healthcare professionals and providers. This webinar will explore cultural competence from a global perspective and demonstrate how all healthcare ...

DSM-5-TR: What to Know and How to Apply It

This is a full day webinar. Competence in assessment and diagnosis is an ongoing area of development in clinical practice. For most practitioners, this requires having a solid understanding of the ...

Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating: Examining Clinical Language & Deconstructing Pathology-Based Lenses in the Therapy Room

This course examines the clinical lens of eating disorders and treatment, including the language and conceptualizations of the current categories of eating disorders as seen in the DSM. Participants...

Elder Justice for All

Over 10,000 baby boomers will be turning 65 every day for the next 17 years and 1 in 10 will be a victim of elder abuse thus creating 1,000 victims a day! To address this ethical dilemma and human ri...

Embracing Differences and Diversity in the Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents

This webinar addresses ethnic and cultural differences relevant to the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. The webinar will use examples from Latino, African American, and African C...

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) a Mind-Body Approach to the Anxiety Spectrum Disorders and Pain

This How-to Do-IT, neurologically informed workshop focuses on learning self-applied, meridian techniques to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders that includes GAD, Social Anxiety, Phobias, unwanted ...

Emotional Process in Society - How it Promotes Regressive and Progressive Periods and its Influence on Families

Societal Emotional Process, a Bowen concept, describes how both progressive and regressive periods in societies are strongly influenced by an emotional system operating on a societal level. During re...

Essential Attributes of Leadership

In today's changing and dynamic human services environment, there is a need for strong leaders. In this webinar human services managers in the nonprofit and public arena will learn what it takes to b...

Ethical and Legal Issues in Substance Abuse Counseling

This interactive webinar focuses on the major elements of legal issues surrounding counselors in working with patients who have substance use disorders. In this webinar, participants will learn about...

Ethical Issues in Social Work Practice

Clinicians face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis and must make ethical decisions as a part of their practice. In this interactive experiential webinar, participants will explore theories of ethical ...

Ethical Issues of Care with Older Adults

This webinar will focus on decision making capacity and tensions between personal values, the NASW Code of Ethics, and ethical principles, when working with cognitively compromised older adults. Part...

Examining and Understanding Diversity of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

How do sexual orientation and gender identity differ? This webinar will offer a detailed examination of these two topics as well as how psychological and social issues influence the LGB and T commun...

Family Treatment Approaches in Working with Trauma

When trauma impacts a family member the entire system is affected. This webinar will explore the intersection of the context and the impact of trauma on members of a family and the varied response of...

Fatherhood Engagement and Social Connections

This webinar focuses on the importance of engaging fathers and father figures in practice. The goal is to change our practice from being “Mother Focused” into the “Full Family Engag...

Focus on the Solution, Not the Problem: Solution Focused Practice

Social Workers aim to support, encourage, help and empower their clients. One tool to add to your toolbox of clinical skills is Solution Focused Practice. Moving forward to success, solutions, and pr...

Foundations and Models of Crisis Intervention and Trauma Response

This 2-day webinar will examine the history of crisis intervention and trauma response over the past century. This will be done as a means to understand the current response models and intervention t...

Gender Diversity Level I - An Introduction

How can I keep track of the many types of gender identity terms and experiences out there? What are the best ways to talk to clients about gender identity? How do I know what I don't know about gen...

Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment

This program is the second in a series, and is recommended (but not required) after taking the Introduction to Gender Diversity webinar (#5371WEB) for those who do not have a strong basis of prior in...

Gender Diversity Level III - Treatment of Gender Dysphoria

It is highly recommended to take this training only after taking Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment.

This training utilizes specific learning about sub-t...

Generating Ease in Troubled Times: Lessons from Neuroscience

During this pandemic, all of us are facing challenges and stressors we never imagined we would experience in our lifetime. We need simple, quick “hacks” to regulate our stress response a...

Getting Beyond Blaming Self or Others - Becoming Factual about 500 Pound Gorilla Multigenerational Patterns

This webinar explores the Multigenerational Transmission Process, a Bowen family systems theory concept and how understanding the facts of a family across generations is a means of identifying persis...

Group Counseling with Survivors

This webinar will identify and explore techniques relative to group counseling with survivors of violence and allow participants to gain an understanding of skill application in group process, group ...

Group Treatment Approaches in Working with Trauma

Working together in a group atmosphere provides people who have survived a traumatic event with an opportunity to substantially cope with their reactions to this event. This webinar will help partic...

Handling Crisis in Case Management

Crisis intervention and crisis management are skills necessary to case managers. In this webinar, participants will learn how to identify an authentic crisis and assist clients in crisis. The element...

Harm Reduction: From Principles to Practice

This interactive webinar will discuss all aspects of harm reduction. Participants will be able to identify at least 3 principles of harm reduction work. Participants will be able to define harm reduc...

Human Trafficking: Protecting the Most Vulnerable

New Jersey has increasingly become aware of the presence of the human trafficking and domestic minor sex trafficking. Healthcare providers play a crucial role in helping victims of human trafficking ...

Improving Cultural Competence: Addressing Implicit Bias, Bias and Microaggressions

Given the persistent racial and ethnic disparities in the United States, cultural competence trainings for health professionals are more common than ever. Coupled with the respect for cultural and r...

Improving Networking Skills and Enhancing Interagency Relationships

This webinar will address the fundamental need of front-line workers to communicate more successfully, build effective coalitions and enhance their networking potential. Participants will learn stra...

Individual Treatment Approaches in Working with Trauma

The decision for someone to seek help, rely on oneself, or do nothing about a problem after a traumatic event is a complicated one. Providing clinicians with an overview of the major stages for the h...

Introduction to Social Emotional Learning

As many are aware, SEL is a buzzword that is usually associated with school-aged children, but parents, stakeholders, and overall community members are left out of the discussion. This SEL webinar wi...

LCSW/LSW Examination Preparation Course

This is a full-day webinar. It is wise to do everything you can to pass the exam the first time. This popular interactive webinar will give participants the opportunity to learn test-taking strategi...

Legal and Ethical Issues in Clinical Supervision

This interactive webinar focuses on major legal and ethical issues involved in clinical supervision. Participants will have the opportunity to rate their own ethical and legal knowledge, discuss the ...

Legal and Ethical Issues in Working with Trans Youth

What if we are going on an overnight field trip? Questions like this arise regarding the obligations for school districts, residential, inpatient facilities, employers when working with Trans Individ...

Let's Talk about Opposition in Adolescence

Opposition in adolescence has become synonymous with oppositional defiant disorder. This view of opposition as a disorder is limiting and puts adults in conflict with youth. This webinar will focus...

Let's Talk About-Intersectionality

This is a 2-day webinar and each day is 2 hours. Mental health providers are being asked to provide culturally competent care to an increasingly diverse clientele. This is also reflected in the ethi...

LGBT Issues and the Law

Being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered often requires clients to view who they are and what their rights are as defined by law. A general understanding of what the law says is required in man...

Looking Through Invisible Borders: A Cross-Cultural Response to Trauma Survivors

This webinar's scope utilizes a cross cultural perspective in examining, exploring and identifying appropriate clinical strategies in trauma response. Sexual violence is endemic amongst all races, c...

Managing Differences and Challenging Dynamics in Clinical Supervision

Being able to successfully manage differences and challenges in supervision is a hallmark of the clinically prepared supervisor. In this interactive webinar some of the major reasons for challenges i...

Medical and Legal Marijuana in NJ: Practice and Policy Issues

The goal of this interactive webinar is to identify the changes that have occurred in the NJ Medical Marijuana Program. The history of marijuana legalization and major events that have shaped this hi...

Mindful and Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Leadership is often learned through the role models you grow up and work with. This results in leadership experiences that are more often “caught than taught”. Is what you have “ca...

Models and Techniques in Clinical Supervision

The goal of this webinar is to provide a theoretically based, focused, and practical experience in the use of supervision models. This interactive workshop will focus on three different models of sup...

Motivational Interviewing: Foundations of Motivational Interviewing

This webinar is a review of motivational interviewing’s basic concepts and an update on changes made to the model over the past decade, including new research and insights. You will learn how ...

Multicultural Perspectives in Developmental Disabilities

In this webinar participants will learn about ways for exploring and discovering the values and belief systems that shape the behavior of various ethnic groups, and the ways that various cultures app...

Normality or Pathology: An Exploration of Child Development and Mental Health

Where does normality end and pathology begin? This question is especially pertinent for clinicians working with children whose developmental stage has a tremendous impact on their current level of fu...

Not Just Benzodiazepines: Alternative Treatments of Anxiety and Depression

The primary goal of this webinar is to explore non-pharmaceutical treatment of depression and anxiety. The number of people looking for non-pharmaceutical interventions is increasing in both the ps...

Older Adults, Disasters and the Service Providing Agency

Older adults are disproportionately impacted by disasters in terms of their psychosocial and economic losses, injuries, and even death. Service-providing agencies will be called on for an increase i...

Opioids: How Do They Work and How Do We Help?

Opioid use has increased dramatically in the United States and across the globe. It is an issue for entire communities, not just for those professionals working in addiction medicine. This webinar wi...

Parents as Healers: Bringing the Caregiver into the Healing Process Through Play and Home-Based Strategies

Therapists are increasingly interested in the value of including the caregiver in impactful and fun ways in treatment sessions. This workshop will teach an overall approach, “Parents as Healers...

Parents as Healers: Recovering from the Trauma of Domestic Violence-

This webinar will introduce an overall approach, Parents as Healers, which among other things gives the caregiver the knowledge and encouragement they need to be a dynamic partner with the therapist ...

Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders: Diagnosis, Current Research, and Providing Effective Treatment

Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMAD) occur in 1 in 5 pregnant mothers, and 1 in 7 new mothers. Experts agree that this statistic may be drastically underestimated, as more than 80% of new moms...

Perpetration of Violence Against Women

This webinar explores dynamics of the perpetration of violence against women. The morning addresses issues of sexual violence, including those at greatest risk in a culturally sensitive framework. ...

Practical Social Skills Workshop for Children and Students with Developmental Disabilities

This webinar will focus on the practical skills needed to help children and adolescents with developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders. The goal in this webinar is to teach about p...

Preparing Children for Adoption

In this interactive webinar, clinicians will define and develop their role as the adoption therapist in relation to working with foster and adoptive families. Clinicians will describe the impact of ...

Prescription Opioid Misuse and Dependence: What Social Workers Need to Know

This webinar takes a deep dive into prescription opioid misuse and dependence, including its role in the addiction and overdose crisis facing our state and nation. Attendees will be informed of the a...

Pro-Active Anger Management

As our society becomes more prone to violence, social workers must be equipped to help our clients gain effective and age-appropriate anger management strategies. Anger can be very difficult to dea...

Psychopharmacology with Adolescents and Children

A comprehensive psychiatric assessment is crucial for determining the appropriate use of psychotropic medications as part of mental health treatment of children or adolescents. This webinar explores...

Racial Justice in Social Work Practice

This webinar explores the topic of racial justice and how it relates to social work. We will engage in conversations about racial justice work that help to foster authentic engagement with social wor...

Responding to Disaster

In this webinar, mental health professionals will explore the psychosocial impact of disasters and terrorism, as well as strategies and systems for assessing the need for mental health intervention a...

Rethinking Therapeutic Approaches with Older Adults

Most therapeutic approaches assume all adults are the same regardless of where they are in the lifespan. However, we know that older adults are a distinct population with specific needs and challenge...

School to Prison Pipeline: Understanding the Relationship Between School Discipline, Dropout, and Incarceration

This is a 2 hour webinar. The school-to-prison pipeline is an epidemic that is plaguing schools across the nation. Far too often, students are suspended, expelled or even arrested for minor offenses...

Screening and Assessment of Trauma in Children and Adolescents

This webinar will explore Screening for Trauma and Assessment of Trauma in children and adolescents. We will review the use of both formal and informal tools as well as other clinical methodologies....

Shame: The Master Emotion

Unaddressed shame has destructive consequences for individuals, for families and for communities. Shame can cause and exacerbate depression, anxiety, addictions, criminal activity, aggression and cod...

Shifting Perspectives: Developing a Culturally Syntonic Approach for Working with Black Clients

There has been considerable attention to the impact of racism, structural oppression, and other abuses suffered by Black people. This webinar seeks to advance this conversation from a problem focused...

Social Media's Influence on Self-Harm Behaviors and Self-Regulation

This webinar will begin with an introduction to how social media influences both self-esteem and self-regulating behaviors. We will then move into examining various social media outlets. Newer soci...

Social Work and Urban Education

This webinar focuses on the role that school social workers can play in addressing the issues in urban education. We start by outlining the major challenges to urban schools (i.e. poor facilities, ...

Social Work Meets Sports

This training will discuss how athletes, as a group, are generally a more vulnerable and susceptible population who are more prone to mental health issues whether by injury or environmental factors a...

Strategic Management

Nonprofit organizations differ from their for profit counterparts in one key way: dedication to the charitable mission. Strategic management starts with setting the organization's mission, vision, an...

Strategies for Managing Behaviors in Adoptive Families

The primary focus of work with traumatized children is to teach and support them to learn new ways of effectively managing their emotions and behaviors. In this interactive/skill based webinar, clin...

Suicide Prevention in School Setting: Identification and Intervention

This webinar is designed to help school social workers, school counselors, and teachers understand their role in identifying students at risk for suicide. In this webinar risk factors and indicators ...

Supporting Youth with Disabilities in the Transition to Adult Life

Adopting the roles of adults, such as worker, post-secondary student, or family member, can be difficult and intimidating for any young person. When the young person has a disability, the challenges ...

The Comprehensive Assessment and Case Plan: Development, Implementation and Evaluation

This is a 2 day webinar. The case plan is a partnership agreement between the case manager and the client. Its development and implementation require a complex set of activities usually involving se...

The Dynamics of Addiction, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse

It is clear that all forms of abuse are destructive. This webinar will address the interrelationships between addiction, domestic violence and child abuse and the devastating impact they have on all ...

The Effects of Trauma Across the Developmental Spectrum

A traumatic event has dramatic short and long term effects across all stages of human development. In this webinar we will examine these effects on infants, children, adolescents and adults, as well ...

The Impact of Racial Difference in Supervision and Management: Exploration and Tools for Practice

This experiential and interactive workshop is designed to provide examples, support and practice in facilitating difficult conversations across differences in supervision. A majority of this workshop...

The Neurobiology of Trauma/PTSD

The overall goal of this webinar is for practitioners to understand that the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not merely a psychosocial phenomenon and to be better able to prov...

The Opioid Crisis in NJ: Current Trends and Evidence-Based Treatment Options

This interactive webinar will discuss the latest developments and trends regarding natural opiates, semi-synthetic opioids, and synthetic opioids. Participants will be able to identify national and l...

The Psychology of Adoption

This webinar sets the stage for the Clinical Certificate Program in Adoption. The focus will be on contemporary trends in adoption and the psychological benefits and risks associated with adoption. O...

The Role of Diversity in Trauma Treatment: Overcoming Barriers and Empowering Ethnic Identity

Trauma treatment requires culturally compassionate and responsive clinical interventions. Culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and other identities play a significant role in how trauma affects not onl...

The Rose that Bloomed from the Concrete: How African American Males can be Academically Successful

The problem of black male underachievement has captured the attention of school social workers, policy makers and theorists. Rather than focus on how and black male students “fall through the ...

The Secret Life of Hoarding

According to the International OCD Foundation (IOCD): "Hoarding has been a hidden disorder for many years and before the early 1990?s, there was little research on topic." Increased awareness with ho...

The Therapeutic Dance: Keeping One Eye on the Client and One Eye on Ourselves

In these unprecedented times, it is more important than ever to become aware of how our own experiences and traumas affect our relationships with clients. This webinar will provide a review of attac...

This is a Time of Suffering: Comforting Ourselves through Self-Compassion

There is no denying that this time in our history is one of the most stressful in our lifetime. Prolonged exposure to stress is scientifically proven to be detrimental to our physical and emotional ...

Through Our Eyes - Children, Violence and Trauma

In this webinar, we will look at the incidence, patterns, and occurrences of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Additionally, the webinar will review how PTSD negatively affects children in var...

Trauma Informed Spaces of Liberation

This webinar unpacks trauma informed practice from a social justice lens and concludes with ways to create spaces of joy and liberation in practice. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Interventio...

Triggered in Sessions? Tools to Handle Delicate Situations

All clinicians occasionally experience reactions or countertransference when working with a particular client. This webinar offers guidance and a toolkit to be used in the management of delicate mome...

Triggers and Boundary Crossings

When we work with other human beings, it is inevitable that we will be triggered at one time or another. A trigger has been likened to “emotional shrapnel,” and can serve as a guidepost ...

Understand the Trans/Nonbinary Experience & Providing Affirming Care

Many transgender and non-binary people struggle to find therapists that are affirming of their identities, and even clinicians that are well meaning often have to be educated by their clients when it...

Understanding and Addressing Racial Trauma

We are exposed to the issue of racism through media and daily experience and so are our clients. Many times our clients need a safe space to navigate all of the input they receive and come to terms ...

Understanding and Managing Problem Behaviors

Problem behaviors present a significant barrier to community life and success for many people with developmental disabilities. This webinar will review approaches to investigating the reasons for the...

Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Attendees of this workshop will gain a thorough understanding of the DSM 5 diagnostic criteria for BDD, as well as the rationale for its inclusion in the new category of Obsessive-Compulsive and Rela...

Understanding the Immigration Process and Supporting Immigrant Families through Traumatic Experiences

Immigrants experience many traumatic experiences on their journey to arrive in the United States. Immigrants to the U.S. experience stress related to acculturation, discrimination, employment, legal...

Understanding the Intersection of IPV and Reproductive Health through a Social Justice Lens

Working with clients who are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) poses a unique area of learning in order to offer individuals and families the best support. In recent years, the field has p...

Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Inform Social Work Policy and Practice

Drawing on spatial analysis, this hands-on webinar introduces attendees to basic geographic information system (GIS) methods. Using their computers, census data, and Social Explorer, attendees will l...

Violence Against Women in Diverse Populations

Recognizing the critical impact that issues of race, culture, sexual orientation, religious identity, ability and other diverse identities has on victims' experiences of violence, this webinar provid...

Waiting for the Mud to Settle: Mindfulness as a Coping Strategy During Chaotic Times

During times of uncertainty and chaos, feelings of fear, anxiety, overwhelm and grief are likely to rise to the surface and dominate our awareness. Mindfulness involves focusing awareness and non-ju...

What's Eating You? The Psychology of Eating

This webinar focuses on understanding the psychological processes underlying humans development of eating behaviors and the adoption of both healthy and maladaptive cognitions and behaviors concernin...

Wherever I Go, There I am (Eventually): Repercussions of Escaping an "Impossible" Family

Emotional cutoff, a Bowen family systems theory concept, describes how unresolved emotional issues with parents, siblings, and other family members are managed by reducing or totally cutting off emot...

Working with Trauma: Understanding Vicarious Trauma, Vicarious Resilience, and the Importance of Self-Care

Trauma affects everyone it touches. Working with trauma survivors and ongoing exposure to traumatic material puts professionals and their supervisors at risk for secondary traumatic stress (vicariou...

Working with Undocumented Clients: Addressing the Myths and Understanding the Challenges

Many immigrants living in the US have experienced unique stressors that have significantly shaped their lives. This webinar will explore the myths about undocumented immigrants, leading to a better u...

Yoga for Emotional Regulation and Resilience

In this three hour webinar, participants will learn yoga and mindfulness based interventions that aid in bolstering resilience and help tolerate distress. Participants will gain an understanding of t...