CE Courses for Social Workers

This course provides an overview of contributing factors to and implications of low self-esteem on mental health as well as individuals’ professional and personal lives. Participants gain an understanding of CBT techniques used to address low self-esteem and help clients reframe their self-critical thinking and build self-acceptance.

Working with individuals impacted by trauma requires more than understanding trauma and its impact. This webinar explores integrating neuroscience concepts into trauma-informed care and utilizing a resilience-oriented approach for greater treatment effectiveness.

This course educates and informs participants on how disrupted placements, including removal from the birth family, impact children and young people. The course provides practitioners with practical strategies based on evidence-based practice and top tips to help minimize disruption and distress for children involved in the child welfare system. Special consideration is given to how to form and maintain positive working relationships with birth parents.

Following the days of a traumatic event, our most vulnerable populations may struggle with reliving the trauma and recalling the harrowing cries for help, fears of an untimely rescue, and surviving the guilt of losing a beloved friend, peer, or school-based professional. This is the third course of a three-part series focusing on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and evidence-based practices for modeling, role-playing, and teaching young survivors stress relaxation management, grounding exercises, and mindfulness strategies.

In this course, participants learn about contributing factors to adolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviors and how to intervene in these situations. Application via case study examples are discussed.

Trauma-informed practice with boys and men requires exploring the relationship between unhealthy masculinity and issues such as dating violence, sexual violence, mass school violence, risky sex, and mental illness. This course addresses strategies and interventions to facilitate transformative and trauma-informed practice with boys and men.

In this course, practitioners will delve into the value of self-care and its impact on their overall well-being. Through the use of somatic techniques and evidence-based interventions, participants will gain useful strategies to implement self-care in their lives.

Too Young to Say Goodbye is Part II of the Young Survivors Traumatic Grief Series. In the aftermath of a suicidal death, school or community shooting, or related tragic event, adolescents are likely to receive the news via a media outlet, social media, friend, or family member. They seek answers to better cope with emotional distress and the unforgettable loss of a neighbor, friend, school faculty or staff, or loved one. For adolescents, there may be more significant implications for more detailed discussions about school and community safety and security, law enforcement, and legislators enacting laws to protect school districts, effectively regulating post-traumatic stress, and developing a new normal after a crisis. Throughout this training, participants will gain practical strategies for responding to adolescents who are faced with grief and tragic loss.

Thanatology is the study of death and loss. This course examines death, grief, and loss and explores coping techniques, bereavement interventions, and the use of therapeutic exposure in traumatic grief.

Trauma-informed practice with boys and men requires exploring the relationship between unhealthy masculinity and issues such as dating violence, sexual violence, mass school violence, risky sex, and mental illness. This course addresses key themes related to power, control, and privilege and how social workers can address these dynamics while maintaining ethical standards.