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…

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…

Formerly titled: Growing Old Together: Aging and Family Caregiving. Families have always been the primary caregivers for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD)…

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…

Former title: Violence Against Women and PTSD. It is important for individuals working within the field of violence against women to have a strong understanding of PTSD, including symptoms and…

This interactive webinar will provide an overview of understanding the signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression in youth as well as strategies to aid families during challenging times. Through…

Formerly titled: Interventions for Parents with Personality Disorders. Recognize the personality disorder traits (features) for dependent, borderline and narcissistic personality disorders.…

Formerly titled: Management of Budgeting and Finance. Many social workers choose a clinical track in their graduate school program. For those who choose to work in non-profit organizations,…

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…

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 to what still…

Technology has revolutionized access to mental health services for people around the world. However, the ethical challenges presented by the rapid expansion of the use of technology in our field…

Trauma, by definition, is unbearable and intolerable.  It affects not only those who are directly exposed to it, but also those who are exposed to it vicariously.  Trauma treatment…

Over the past years, the approach utilized in supporting adults with developmental disabilities has been evolving and changing from an institution-based service delivery system to a community…

Formerly titled: Kinship Adoption. This webinar will explore the unique issues and life style changes that kinship caregivers experience as a temporary stay of a child turns in to a permanent…

The Bowen family systems theory concept Nuclear Family Emotional Process describes the basic patterns of emotional functioning among and between members of two successive generations of a family -…

Hoarding is often a secretive condition that impacts individuals as well as their family members.…

A child's degree of relationship dependence is a product of forces that promote and undermine that child's emotional separation from the family. According to Bowen family systems theory, when…

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…

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…