CE Courses for Social Workers

Social workers, counselors, and other helping professionals provide support and care to individuals, often at the expense of their own well-being. Though these professionals care about the people they support, this work can be physically and emotionally exhausting, leading to fatigue, stress, and burnout. Due to this, it is critical for professionals to understand the risk factors associated with burnout and strategies to support their overall health and well-being. This webinar focuses on providing practitioners strategies to improve the quality of care to persons served while optimizing their own quality of life and work-life balance.

The media, policymakers, and advocacy groups have done much in recent years to raise awareness about the negative effects of mass incarceration, but often forgotten in these discussions are the millions of Americans who remain under correctional control through community supervision (i.e., probation and parole). This course explores the scope of mass supervision, its impact on individuals and families, efforts to reform the system, and the important role social workers can play in returning community supervision to its rehabilitative roots.

After the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision, many states enacted laws restricting access to abortion. This workshop provides social workers with a framework for managing ethical dilemmas that may arise when laws restricting access to abortion care conflict with their ethical duties to clients (e.g., self-determination, informed consent, privacy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence).

Effectively addressing and managing chronic pain is essential for mental health professionals. This webinar explores the complexities of chronic and introduces various strategies and interventions to aid clinicians in effectively addressing chronic pain in their practice.

Teen dating violence is prevalent and presents unique challenges for clinicians. This course provides background information on teen dating violence and a framework to assess and intervene with teens experiencing violence within their dating relationships.

Having an understanding of the underlying emotions and concerns that contribute to behavior that clinicians commonly find challenging to deal with when working with children in therapy is essential. This webinar explores how clinicians can use insight, empathy, and self-awareness to promote positive and effective parental involvement when working with children and parent/child relationship challenges in therapy.

This course is designed for clinicians who want more in-depth knowledge of EMDR. This course explores bilateral stimulation in EMDR, and bilateral stimulation techniques and provides a basic foundation of phases 3 and 4 in EMDR.

This course offers comprehensive insights into advanced dementia care strategies, equipping clinicians with the knowledge and skills to enhance patients' and their caregivers' quality of life. Through a blend of evidence-based techniques and empathetic communication approaches, participants explore the art of providing holistic support in the challenging landscape of dementia care.

Conversations of equity and racial injustice are present in our work and daily interactions with the larger world. The social work code of ethics has long identified social justice and recognition of systems of oppression as core values of the profession. This course examines the intersection of equity work and services to children, youth, and families. In addition, this course considers the role of self-awareness in equity work. It discusses how recognition of systemic injustices, systemic oppression, and historical traumas impact the day-to-day services provided to and received by children and families.

Motivational interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based clinical approach focusing on change. This webinar explores the use of MI with homeless/foster youth who have been trafficked and how to move beyond engagement effectively. This course is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 of this series is course #1758.