Events
- Continuing Education
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Fit Testing
CategoriesStudents will be fit tested to ensure appropriate make, model and size respirator mask to use in healthcare settings that require contact precautions.
Date & Time: August 20 •9:00am – 3:30pmLocation: Garden City Campus -
Fit Testing
CategoriesStudents will be fit tested to ensure appropriate make, model and size respirator mask to use in healthcare settings that require contact precautions.
Date & Time: August 21 •9:00am – 3:30pmLocation: Garden City Campus -
This 6 week intensive workshop will enable an in-depth exploration of the neuropathological and psychosocial attributes of the full array of dementing disorders; the diagnostic evaluation components and the life-changing impacts of progressive symptoms upon patients and their families will be covered.
Date & Time: September 12 – October 17 •9:00am – 12:00pmLocation: Virtual -
Music therapy provides an evidence-based, integrative approach to supporting birthing individuals and their families throughout the perinatal continuum, particularly in the context of high-risk pregnancy.
Date & Time: September 17 •9:00am – 12:00pmLocation: Virtual -
The Strength in Struggle: What Trauma Can Teach Social Workers in Polarizing and Threatening Times
CategoriesThis workshop explores the importance of authenticity in social work practice, especially in times of uncertainty.
Date & Time: September 25 •10:00am – 1:00pmLocation: Virtual -
Technology and social media shape the identities and worldviews of today’s teens.
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Diagnostic Considerations In Making Relevant Therapeutic Decisions While Working With Couples
CategoriesIn this seminar we address approaches that work best as a function of the idiosyncratic qualities of every couple we see clinically.
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Picturing Change
CategoriesPicturing Change is a course that will harness the power of this visual second language and utilize it for positive change.
Date & Time: October 8 •9:30am – 11:00amLocation: Virtual -
Motivational Interviewing: Beyond the Basics
CategoriesThis workshop targets clinicians seeking an intermediate level of Motivational Interviewing training.
Date & Time: October 16 •9:00am – 4:00pmLocation: Virtual -
As we find ourselves mired in multiple layers of uncertainty and alarm, including the unfolding climate and ecological crisis, ongoing sociopolitical harm and emergent political upheaval, how do we as couple therapists work with these realities as they emerge in the clinical landscape?
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Technology has revolutionized access to mental health services for people around the world.
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This course walks clinicians through assessing suicidality in care, safety planning strategies, and identifying and/or monitoring high-risk clients.
Date & Time: November 5 •6:00pm – 8:00pmLocation: Virtual -
Join Dr. Victoria Grinman for an interactive workshop about the utility of yoga and mindfulness in working with children and teens with traumatic stress.
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Adolescence is a time when many young people explore romantic and sexual relationships and form their sexual identities.
Date & Time: November 7 •9:30am – 12:30pmLocation: Virtual -
In this interactive webinar, participants will deepen their understanding of how the “use of self” shapes the supervisory relationship and fosters professional growth.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers an empirically validated approach to the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related symptoms like unwanted thoughts, feelings, memories, and nightmares.
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Mental health professionals are charged with the legal and ethical responsibility to maintain professional boundaries, but the obligation isn’t always so easy to discern.
Date & Time: December 3 •10:00am – 1:00pmLocation: Virtual -
This conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of people with the goal of heightening self-awareness and broadening thinkability—the ways that we think about and respond to gender diverse children.
Date & Time: December 6 •9:00am – 4:00pmLocation: Ruth S. Harley University Center -
Group supervision offers unique opportunities for learning, collaboration, and professional connection—when done well.
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Ethical challenges in supervision often require balancing complex dynamics—between support and accountability, autonomy and responsibility.
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The Unfinished Business of Childhood: Healing the Social Worker’s Childhood Trauma Wounds Part 2
CategoriesBuilding on the insights of Part 1, this workshop continues the exploration of how unresolved childhood trauma can shape the professional and personal lives of social workers.
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Tolerance
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Physical and Mental health professionals cannot ignore the impact that various forms of bias play into the barriers to and disparities experienced in the delivery of care.
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When a couple reports “problems and communication”, they are describing a symptom, not the cause of it.