Continuing Education Workshops
2006-2007 Schedule

LASW/LICSW Licensure Prep Course
Jonathan Beard, MSSW, LICSW, CPRP

This Licensure Examination Preparation Course will assist you in preparing to take either the clinical or advanced ASWB exams required for social work licensure in the State of Washington and most other states. The course includes a 200+ page manual plus a sample test.

The course includes an overview of test taking strategies, anxiety management techniques and helps licensure candidates to be confident in their ability to think clearly about what is being asked in order to choose the correct answers and earn a passing score. The course also includes a review of the major content areas of the examination including human development and behavior; assessment, diagnosis and intervention planning; direct practice methods; theories and models of treatment; diversity issues; professional values and ethics; and more.

Jonathan R. Beard, MSSW, LICSW, CPRP, is the owner of Progressive Strategies in Seattle, WA, where he provides a variety of project management, consulting, training, and program and/or organizational development services to public and nonprofit human service providers and organizations. He also provides private practice based clinical social work supervision to beginning and experienced social workers who are unable to obtain it where they work. Jonathan has many years of experience as a direct services provider, supervisor/manager and senior executive, primarily in mental health settings. He has taught this course to hundreds of social workers in Washington and throughout the Northwest to rave reviews.

From Trauma to Transformation: Working with Negative Experiences in Psychotherapy

Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

June 20 and 21, 2008

8:00 AM - Registration begins
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Workshop

(Lunch is on your own)

Price:

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1. Register Online:
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   • Non Member
2. Download registration form to fax or mail

Workshop Description:

FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS, Dr. Gilligan has been teaching and practicing innovative approaches in both Ericksonian and Self-Relations  psychotherapy. This workshop presents his most recent model of Generative Self, and how it can be used in healing traumas and transforming negative experiences.  Generative Self emphasizes three minds – Somatic, Cognitive, and Field – and articulates three levels of each: Ordinary, Primitive, and Generative. The model describes how most adult functioning occurs at the  Ordinary (“inside the box”) level, until trauma or other significant life events shatters a person’s identity box and regresses them into a “trauma trance” at the Primitive Level. This “trauma trance” will remain unless a person can access the Generative Level, where healing and transformation can occur.

Generative Self describes the practical means by which this transformation can occur in psychotherapy. Developing Generative Somatic Mind involves having a person learn the transformational tools of relaxation, centering, developing “second skin”, re-claiming felt sense, and creating “energy containers” for negative experiences. Developing Generative Cognitive Mind is guided by the principle of sponsorship, which seeks to develop curious, skillful relationships with “problems.”  Developing Generative Field Mind opens and extends awareness to “include yet transcend” the different trauma fields (e.g., social, memory, family, body) so that identity and awareness is greater than the trauma. These different principles and their accompanying methods and techniques will be described and demonstrated, then organized into a coherent therapy framework for effectively transforming traumas and other severe problems.

Workshop Goals and Objectives:

1. To demonstrate 3 general methods for resolving traumas.
2. To show 3 techniques for changing a client’s somatic state so that traumas can be healed.
3. To show 3 techniques for changing a client’s cognitive state so that a trauma may be resolved.
4. To show 3 techniques for reorganizing a client’s field of awareness so that new resources can be utilized.

The workshop will has been approved for 12 CEUs and 4 Law and Ethics by the NASW - WA State Chapter for Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors.

About the Workshop Presenter:

Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D., is a Psychologist practicing in Encinitas, CA. His early mentors were Milton Erickson, Gregory Bateson, and Virginia Satir. He received a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. For the past 30 years he has been appreciated as one of the premier teachers and practitioners of Ericksonian hypnotherapy. In 2004, he was given the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the Erickson Foundation. His books include Therapeutic trances: The cooperation principle in Ericksonian psychotherapy, a classic in the field; The legacy of Erickson; The courage to love: Principles and practices of self-relations psychotherapy, and Walking in two worlds: The relational self in theory, practice, and community His new book, “Generative Trance”, will be out in 2008. His work is especially known for its emphasis on reconnecting mindbody processes, emphasizing embodied relationality, and encouraging and supporting radical change.

Ethical Challenges in Healthcare and Mental Health Settings: Risk-management Implications

Presenter: Dr. Frederick Reamer, PhD

Date: June 23, 2008

Sponsored by:

Time:

Registration: 8:00AM to 9:00AM
Workshop: 9:00AM to 5:00PM

(Lunch is on your own)

Price:

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1. Register Online:
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2. Download registration form to fax or mail

Description:

This conference will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of ethical, malpractice, and risk-management issues encountered in healthcare and mental health settings. Using extensive case material, participants will learn how to handle complex and difficult practice-based ethical dilemmas, protect clients, and prevent professional malpractice and liability. Emphasis will be on practical, state-of-the-art strategies designed to protect clients, practitioners, and employers. Participants will be provided with a typology of compelling ethical dilemmas and “high risk” areas, and acquainted with practical decision-making strategies. Key topics will include the limits to clients’ right to confidentiality, privileged communication, informed consent procedures, use of high-risk interventions, boundary issues and dual relationships, conflicts of interest, defamation of character, consultation and referral, supervision, termination of services, documentation, and the challenge of impaired colleagues.

Outline

• Ethical and risk management issues in healthcare and mental health settings: An introduction with case examples
• Key concepts: ethical dilemmas, ethical decision-making, standards of care, negligence, malpractice, liability, risk management
• Major risk areas: confidentiality, privacy, privileged communication, informed consent, unethical and high-risk interventions, boundary issues (dual/multiple relationships), conflicts of interest, defamation of character, negligent consultation/referral, supervision, abandonment/termination, documentation, impaired practitioners
• Ethical decision-making strategies (decision-making protocols, ethics committees, codes of ethics, ethics literature, relevant regulations and statutes)
• Questions/answers

Objectives

• At the conclusion of this workshop participants should be:
• Familiar with common ethical dilemmas in healthcare and mental health settings
• Familiar with ethical decision-making frameworks and protocols designed to protect clients
• Able to identify ethical issues that pose malpractice and liability risks
• Able to design strategies to prevent ethics complaints and lawsuits

Frederick G Reamer, PhD

This workshop has been approved for 6 Law and Ethics by the NASW-WA State Chapter for Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors.

Frederic G. Reamer is Professor in the graduate program of the School of Social Work, Rhode Island College, where he has been on the faculty since 1983. His research and teaching have addressed a wide range of human service issues, including mental health, health care, criminal justice, public welfare, and professional ethics. Dr. Reamer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1978) and has served as a social worker in correctional and mental health settings. He has also served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration (1978-1981), and the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Social Work (1981-1983). Dr. Reamer has served as Director of the National Juvenile Justice Assessment Center of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (1979-1981); as Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor of Rhode Island (1987-1990); and as a Commissioner of the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation, the state housing finance agency (1987-1995). Since 1992 Dr. Reamer has served on the State of Rhode Island Parole Board. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Social Work Education (1990-1994). He currently serves as Associate Editor of the forthcoming National Association of Social Workers Encyclopedia of Social Work (20th edition).

Dr. Reamer has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on the subjects of professional ethics and professional malpractice and liability. He chaired the national task force that wrote the current Code of Ethics adopted by the National Association of Social Workers. Dr. Reamer received the "Distinguished Contributions to Social Work Education" award from the Council on Social Work Education (1995); the Presidential Award from the National Association of Social Workers (1997); the Richard Lodge Prize from Adelphi University for “outstanding contributions to the development of social work theory” (2005); and the Edith Abbott Award from the University of Chicago for “distinguished service to society and outstanding contributions at the local, national or international levels” (2005).

An Attachment-Focused Family Therapy

Daniel Hughes, PhD.

September 12 & 13, 2008

Location:

8:00 AM - Registration begins
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM - Workshop

(Lunch is on your own)

Price:

Register two ways:

1. Register Online:
   • Member
   • Non Member
2. Download registration form to fax or mail

Workshop Description:

This workshop will present a family treatment model whose principles rely heavily on the theories of attachment and intersubjectivity. After first presenting an overview of their crucial role in human development, the workshop will then demonstrate how attachment and intersubjectivity can be utilized in effective family treatment. The family treatment of problems ranging from conflict and miscommunication to abuse and neglect will be presented, including using this model for children/youth in alternative care settings. Formal presentation, discussions, handouts, role-play (if possible), and DVDs of treatment sessions will be employed.

Workshop Goals and Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to describe how attachment and intersubjectivity are central to healthy human development.
2. Participants will be able to describe the attitude of PACE and its role in family therapy.
3. Participants will be able to describe the role and nature of parent preparation before the onset of family treatment.
4. Participants will be able to describe how the therapist utilizes his or her own intersubjective presence in facilitating the flow of the treatment process.

This workshop has been approved for 12 CEUs and 4 Law and Ethics CEUs by the NASW-WA State Chapter for Licensed Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors.

About the Workshop Presenter:

For most of his professional life, Dan Hughes has been a clinician specializing in the treatment of children and youth with severe emotional and behavioral problems. Many of his clients had histories of abuse, neglect, and multiple losses and were extremely unwilling and unable to form a relationship with a therapist or with a caregiver. Working primarily with foster and adopted children, Dan borrowed heavily from attachment and intersubjectivity theories and research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP is a very directive, client-centered approach, influenced by psychodynamic, gestalt, Rogerian, and Ericksonian traditions, brought together within the dance of affect attunement that is seen most powerfully in the relationship between a parent and her/his infant and toddler. DDP gradually became applied to less severe problems between parent and child as well as to marital and family relationships. Dan is the author of two books and many articles regarding the use of DDP with children and youth with severe attachment problems due to trauma and loss. The 2nd Edition of Building the Bonds of Attachment was published in 2006. A third book, Attachment-focused Family Therapy, published in May, 2007 by W.W. Norton, presents the basic principles and interventions of DDP as a general model of family therapy.

Dan’s primary interest is the training of therapists in the DDP model. He gives weekly training programs in Maine during the summer and in London during the year. He has recently moved to Annville, PA, outside of Philadelphia, and in 2008 began to provide training, supervision, and consultation programs there in conjunction with a small clinical practice. He is also a visiting tutor at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, which is a graduate program for psychotherapists. He has provided therapist training, conducted seminars and spoken at Conferences around the US for the past ten years. He also provides ongoing supervision and consultation to various clinicians and agencies, while speaking regularly to groups of parents.

Participants frequently indicate that Dan’s training has had a great impact on their professional and personal lives. As they become proficient in utilizing these attachment-based interventions in therapy, they invariably report discovering new ways of becoming engaged with and deepening their relationships with their own children as well as with their partners and the other attachment figures in their lives. Dan presents in a very engaging manner that is congruent with how he conducts therapy and attempts to live his life. His presentations provide an integrated cognitive and affective understanding of his model of psychotherapy and parenting.