YOUR CONTINUING EDUCATION PLANNER:
A
Guide
to
Continuing
Plan Now For Your Re-licensure!
LOCATION OF WORKSHOPS: Sessions
will be held in on the Chestnut Hill campus
as follows: Gasson Hall Room 100 (June
18), The Heights Room in Corcoran Commons (June 19) and the Walsh Hall Function
Room (June 25, 26). For campus directions
please go to: http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/
about/maps.html.
Contact Kellyann Stewart at 617.552.0865
or email: kellyann.stewart@bc.edu with any
questions.
PARKING
INFORMATION:
Parking
is
available at BC Campus Garage located on
Beacon St. Please park on the designated
Visitors’ levels only. Take a ticket as you
enter. Upon your departure visit the Pay
Station near the main entrance to the
Garage. Insert your ticket, then pay your
designated parking fee amount with a credit
card. Finally, insert the card you receive back
from the Pay Station at the exit gate. The
gate will then lift for you so you can drive
Education
Sessions
for
June
2015.
Session A: Advanced Skills in Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative goal-oriented method of
communication with particular attention to the language of change. This approach
to interviewing can be used with a wide range of client problems/diagnoses. Its
aim is to strengthen personal motivation for, and commitment to, a change goal by
eliciting and exploring the individual’s own arguments for change. This workshop
is designed to assist participants who ALREADY have a basic understanding of MI
skills such as OARS, rolling with resistance and recognizing/evoking change talk
towards committing towards an action plan. We will conduct exercises, role-plays,
discussions of cases and demonstrations throughout the day’s training.
Instructor: Greg Plante, Psy.D., Eliot Community Human Services
Thursday, June 18, 9:30-4:45, 7 CEUsFee: $100.00
Session B: Effective Approaches in Serving Substance Using Clients
This workshop addresses the challenges of working with substance using and dual
diagnosis individuals from a person-centered, strengths-based perspective. It will
focus on the various tools of engagement that are useful with ambivalent clients
(with an emphasis on implementing motivational interviewing skills). We also will
address topics such as relapse issues, recognizing and “rolling with” resistance,
maintaining personal boundaries, managing client and practitioner safety, stageof-change treatment planning and knowledge of treatment options and resources
(abstinence, harm-reduction, etc.).
Instructor: Brendan Clarke, LMHC, Eliot Community Human Services
Friday, June 19, 1:30-4:45; 3.5 CEUs Fee: $50.00
out of the garage Fees: $3.00 per hour.
Maximum daily rate: $25.00.
GENERAL ISSUES: Refreshments will be
provided; lunches may be purchased in the
BC dining halls. We may cancel any session
due to insufficient enrollment one week
before the event. In such a case we will refund your payment or you may apply it to
another session if you wish. If you cancel,
refund requests need to be made at least
two weeks before an event in order to
receive a refund (less a $10 processing fee).
If you cancel less than two weeks before an
event, we will issue you a full credit you may
apply to any future CE workshop.
Session C: Trauma Informed Care and Interventions for Children, Youth and Families
This workshop will address strategies for working with children, youth (and
families of children/youth) where psychological, sexual or physical trauma has
been present. Trauma Informed Care is the cornerstone of best practices service
delivery in all programs that provide services to children, youth and families.
Trauma and traumatic stress touch the lives of vast numbers of children, youth
and families that are served by residential, outpatient and community-based
programs. As such, the need for a comprehensive framework for ensuring trauma
informed service delivery in these programs is abundantly clear. This workshop
provides and overview of evidence-based screening, assessment and interventions
in cases involving trauma and complex trauma. Several evidence-based treatment
modalities including Attachment Self-Regulation (ARC), Trauma Focused Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy (TFCBT), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) will be presented.
Practical tools for use in individual, family, group and milieu settings will be
learned and practiced during the workshop. Practitioner self-care and vicarious
traumatization will also be discussed and explored.
PROGRAM INFORMATION (CONTINUED)
Practical examples, case studies, group activities, audio clips,
video and other visual tools will be employed in this interactive
multi-media training. We will utilize a detailed PowerPoint
presentation, lecture, discussion and active participant
engagement as methods to achieve our learning objectives.
Instructor: Zane FitzGerald, LICSW and Kelsey Taylor, LMHC,
Eliot Community Human Services
Thursday, June 25, 9:30-4:45, 7.0 CEUs Fee: $100.00
Session D: Interventions and Skills of Trauma Informed Care with
Adult Clients
Individuals respond to trauma based on a number of factors,
including the psychological, emotional, sociocultural, spiritual
and familial. This training will concentrate on understanding
and applying the evidence-based theories and skills found
in the “Triphasic Trauma Therapy Model.” These phases
include: strategies for stabilizing and managing the traumatic
response; how to assist in processing and grieving traumatic
memories; strategies for re-connecting with the world. Case
examples will be provided for discussion and you are invited to
bring questions from your own clinical practice as well.
Instructor: Greg Plante, Psy.D., Eliot Community Human
Services
Friday, June 26, 9:30-4:45, 7.0 CEUsFee: $100.00
A Unique Program to be Offered this Fall…
This Fall we at BCSSW will be offering a thirty-hour certificate
program on Motivational Interviewing (MI). In addition to the
certificate, thirty hours of social work CEUs will be awarded.
We expect it will be offered on Wednesday evenings starting
in late September. This evidence-based aaproach to clinical
interviewing is designed to achieve successful behavior change
for clients. We will provide participants with an in-depth
understanding of MI principles including: understanding the
dynamics of behavior change, ambivalence/resistance around
change, understanding the “stages of change” (and how to
assist clients achieve successful and enduring change in their
lives). Case studies, videos, role-playing and strategies for
applying MI principles in participants’ own cases will also be
provided.
Our instructor, Dr. Greg Plante has completed advanced
trainings and certifications in Motivational Interviewing
and is a member of the highly esteemed Motivational
Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). We expect this to
be a very popular offering. Space will be limited. We are giving
registration priority to BCSSW alums. We are working to keep
it affordable for our alums. If this interests you and you wish
priority consideration please e-mail Kellyann Stewart as soon
as possible at Kellyann.Stewart@bc.edu and indicate you are
highly interested in enrolling and wish detailed information
as soon as it becomes available. A flier that contains more
detailed information will be e-mailed to all BCSSW alums in
the area in late June.
REGISTRATION FORM
If you wish to pay by credit card you need to register
online. Please go to:
www.bc.edu/swcereg
Then, click “register online” and proceed
You may use this mail-in form below for payments by check.
If you are paying by check, make your check payable to:
Boston College SSW. If you are paying for more than one
person with a single check, please make multiple copies of
this form and complete one for each person to be registered.
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Registration Questions? Contact Kellyann Stewart at
617.552.0865 or: kellyann.stewart@bc.edu
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