For Social Workers
Join us for a day of training and discussion on issues that affect your day-to-day efforts working with elder adults/adults at risk. The sessions are primarily designed for county elder adults/adults at risk/adult protective services workers but will also provide helpful information to other professionals who work with individuals at risk: law enforcement, guardian ad litems, ADRC and MCO staff and others.
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This workshop draws on cutting edge theory and research to reinforce the relevance of these four core intervention strategies, and will make use of therapeutic videos, demonstrations and exercises to convey how these methods work and feel in the context of practice. As a result, participants will leave with a clearer conceptualization of processes that foster constructive meaning-making in bereavement.
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Symposium on Adolescent Health Issues
Feb. 4 and 5, 2010, Neenah, Wis.
Make plans now to participate in the 2010 Adolescent Health Symposium. You will have a unique opportunity to focus on adolescent health risks and health protection factors. Become invigorated with health enhancement updates, practical activities, colleague insights and an array of resource materials to better prepare you to address your responsibilities in working with youth.
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Spirituality, Science and Healing: Empowering Discoveries for Social Workers
Many social workers today are interested in healing, and so are influenced by ideas from medicine, a profession shaped by science in modern times. According to Dr. Larry Dossey, a physician of internal medicine who has written extensively, modern medicine exhibits three basic paradigms. The dominant paradigm is “mechanical medicine,” where the body is viewed as a machine unaffected by the mind. The second is “mind-body” medicine, where one’s mind may affect one’s own body. This paradigm has achieved scientific support in recent years. The third paradigm, however, remains a scientific heresy: it suggests that one’s mind can affect someone else’s body. Labeled “nonlocal” or “Era III medicine” by Dr. Dossey, the model is troublesome because nothing in western science suggests such a possibility. Yet a little known body of research lends support, and seems to suggest the existence of something Dr. Dossey calls “nonlocal mind.”
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This workshop is designed to assist clinical supervisors in strengthening their supervision skills. It will focus on a collaborative, strength based model of supervision that philosophically is consistent with that of solution-focused therapy. The workshop will feature role play opportunities and a live supervision session.
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