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08-311c
Counseling Oncology Patients and Their Families
Floyd V. Allen, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
Social workers in healthcare and mental health settings as well as those in private psychotherapy practice do not have easy access to specialized psychosocial training in helping people who are affected by cancer. Providing access to training in the basic concepts of the psychosocial management of cancer patients and their families to social workers in their varied settings, can greatly assist patients who have few cancer specific community based services available t them. This course provides social workers with a basic understanding of the issues facing cancer patients and develops a knowledge base of the tools the social worker needs to be better able to provide effective counseling for this population. The course focuses on the effect and impact a cancer diagnosis has on the lives of patients and their loved ones and illustrates the ways the ensuing crises disrupts their ability to function individually and as a unit. The course was designed to inform those without expertise working with cancer patients, to better understand the trajectory of a cancer diagnosis, the challenges inherent to treatment and its completion through survivorship, end of life and bereavement. The use of a strength based perspective in viewing the patient and family clinically is illustrated and reflects the trajectory of the crisis points, assessment and interventions in the patient’s experiential process with cancer. Counseling with people with cancer and families can be defined and conducted using a strength based perspective. The psychosocial adjustment to cancer is affected by the developmental stage of the person with the diagnosis, his/her previous experience with trauma, emotional resiliency and the level of intimacy of interpersonal relationships. Cancer is viewed as both an individual and family crisis from diagnosis to treatment, to recovery or recurrence, presenting specific psychosocial challenges. Helping a person navigate the impact of the diagnosis and manage the difficulties of treatment and side effects requires a strength based assessment and treatment planning. Interventions are required to guide the person with cancer and his/her family through the crisis points along the disease continuum. In this workshop, counseling methods will be described and illustrated for use with individuals, couples, families and children.
Faculty: Vivien Weiss, MA, LMHC Ms. Weiss has extensive experience working with issues of oncology. She currently works with Cancer Connections in Florence, MA and maintains a private practice in which she works with individuals and families around cancer and bereavement. Ms. Weiss also facilitates a number of groups including groups for women with ovarian cancer, caregivers of family member with cancer, and bereavement support groups.
08-312c
Tools for Solving Ethical Dilemmas
Catherine Clancy, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Many clinicians enter a profession because the ethics of that profession reflect their own personal values. As practice complexity increases, the clinician's values and ethics are constantly being challenged. To deal with the ethical dilemmas facing us in today's practice environment, we need tools to help us reach solutions that are based on reasoning and not emotion. This seminar will discuss ethical principles and theories used to assist in ethical decision -making and will examine the role codes of ethics play in this process. It will provide a practice model for solving ethical dilemmas and will give practitioners the opportunity to apply this model to practice situations.
Faculty: Catherine Clancy, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. -- Social Work Training Director, Michael E. DeBakey, VA Medical Center, Houston, TX. Private clinical, educational, and consulting practice. Clinical Instructor, Dept. of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Past Chair, Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners; Field Instructor, Smith College School for Social Work.
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08-313c
Art Therapy with Children
Laura Seftel, M.P.S., A.T.R.-B.C., L.M.H.C.
This course provides an overview of the use of art with children and teens in a range of treatment settings. Non-verbal modalities are best learned through a hands-on approach; participants will have opportunities to engage in art therapy exercises to experience first-hand the challenges and advantages of art-making in treatment. The course also features slide presentations of client artwork: a review of child art development and a look at client artwork. The seminar explores the benefits and pitfalls of relying on client artwork as an assessment tool, ways to engage reluctant clients, art therapy in groups, and confidentiality issues concerning artwork. Participants take with them not only a deeper understanding of the healing nature of the creative process, but specific art therapy techniques they can apply in their current practice.
Faculty: Laura Seftel, M.P.S, A.T.R.-B.C., L.M.H.C.- Board Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor; co-director of the Art Therapy Studio in Northampton, MA, private practice, supervision and training. National speaker for the American Art Therapy Association and author of Grief Unseen: Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts (2006).
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08-314c
Structural Theory of Dissociation
Denise J. Gelinas, Ph.D.
NOT AVAILABLE
Clinicians who treat traumatized individuals typically find that, with certain clients, the treatment can not be established or it loses momentum. The theory of structural dissociation explains many of the problems found in clients with repeated traumatization, including the loss of certain abilities and the presence of ego states. It teaches that when an individual experiences trauma, a split occurs in their personality, not randomly, but along evolutionarily prepared ‘fault lines’ between two major psychobiological systems, one responsible for physical survival during danger (i.e., an “Emotional Part” of the personality) and one for conducting everyday life (i.e., an “Apparently Normal Part”). This approach also provides a roadmap for working with the problems around repeated traumatization, including client difficulties in attachment with the therapist, avoidance (or inaccessibility) of traumatic material (especially affect), lack of cooperation by ego states, and resistance to resuming normal life. This seminar will illustrate the application of this approach by means of presentation, clinical examples, and group discussion.
Faculty: Denise J. Gelinas, Ph.D. – Member, Associate Professional Staff, Department of Psychiatry, Baystate Medical Center; EMDRIA Approved Consultant in EMDR; EMDR Institute Facilitator and Specialty Presenter on Dissociation. Author: Integrating EMDR into Phase-Oriented Treatment for Trauma (2003), and co-author, as part of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Task Force on Revision: Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults (2005). Private practice Northampton, MA.
08-315c
Orientation to the Field (for Smith Field Affiliates)
Carolyn du Bois, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W.
Anthony C. Hill, M.S.W.
(Limited to Smith Field Affiliates only)
This course will provide an orientation to the Smith College School for Social Work and address the general principals of supervision with a particular focus on the development of the supervisory relationship. The course will concentrate on assessment of supervisory/student teaching/learning styles, principles of adult learning, stages of clinical learning, boundaries within the supervisory relationship, the use of educational learning tools including process recordings/role play and the role of evaluation. The central issues of diversity in the supervisory process and meeting the needs of the agency, supervisor and students will also become major areas of attention. The format will include mini lecture, video material, case vignette(s) and group discussion. Participants are encouraged to bring examples and dilemmas from their own experience. (This course is ONLY open to those supervising for Smith College School for Social Work students) For those interested in further expanding their supervisory skills, please note that this course serves as a prerequisite for course 06-39c Dilemmas, Explorations and Questions in the Changing World of Supervision.
Faculty:
Carolyn du Bois, M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W. – Director Field Work, Smith College School for Social Work; Adjunct Faculty member, Smith College School for Social Work; private practice, Northampton, MA.
Anthony C. Hill, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. - Anthony has extensive experience in both the fields of social work and education and has been employed as a clinician, case manager, adjunct faculty member, school social worker, assistant principal, and principal. He works as the associate director of field work at Smith College School of Social Work. He received his Master of Social Work degree from University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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08-331c
Clinical Treatment of Problematic Anger, Hostility and Violent Behavior
Mark Nickerson, L.I.C.S.W.
Problematic anger, hostility and violent behavior take a huge toll on individuals and society. Yet, in general, this is an underaddressed clinical issue. Clients tend to avoid facing these issues in treatment, most clinicians are undertrained and intervention strategies are evolving. This workshop will define the scope and significance of the issue and connect it to a spectrum of clinical presenting issues including intimate partner violence, hostile and abusive parenting, and a range of other related client presentations that become increasingly evident to the trained clinical eye.
Faculty: Mark Nickerson, L.I.C.S.W. - has conducted individual and family psychotherapy practice for 25 years with specialties including work with trauma, interpersonal violence and conflict resolution. Co-founded the Men's Resource Center
of Western, MA 1985 and has led court sponsored programs for separated parents experiencing conflict for 15 years.
08-332c
Identifying and Addressing Vicarious Traumatization in Clinical Supervision
Rachel Michaelsen, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
Vicarious Traumatization (VT) is the transformation of one’s inner experience from one of optimism, a sense of safety and hopefulness to feelings of hopelessness, fear and pessimism. If VT is not recognized and addressed, therapists can be pulled into traumatic reenactments, they can become hopeless about positive outcomes and resentful of their clients. All of these negative possibilities can interfere dramatically in the healing process. To prevent VT, helping professionals and their supervisors benefit from being able to identify the symptoms and use effective strategies for prevention and transformation of VT.
In this course participants will develop a thorough understanding of VT and it’s negative effects on therapists and the therapeutic process, learn to recognize the symptoms in themselves and supervisees and learn to address and prevent VT in themselves and their supervisees.
Faculty: Rachel Michaelsen, MSW, LCSW – Training Consultant, Asian Pacific Psychological Services, Oakland, CA; Consultant to the Greater Bay Area Mental Health Education Workforce Collaborative; AB 3632 assessor Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services; Continuing Education Instructor, NASW, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, JFK University; Private Practice, Oakland, CA. Lecturer.
08-0333c
Basic Intersubjectivity
Joan C. Dasteel, M.S.W., Ph.D.
This course is designed to familiarize participants with Robert Stolorow’s Intersubjectivity Theory and to explore its basic concepts as they relate to case material. As Stolorow explains, “a field evolves in which psychological phenomena crystallize and experience is continually and mutually shaped” (the Intersubjective Perspective, p. ix.). Other theories of intersubjectiviity will be mentioned but not focused upon. Topics to be covered include: a) the myth of the isolated mind; b) three realms of the unconscious; c) evolving organizing principles; e) creation of the intersubjective field; d) transference and countertransference. The instructor will give case examples and articipants will be encouraged to discuss this material and that from their own cases as it relates to the theory.
Faculty: Joan C. Dasteel, M.S.W., Ph.D. – Private practice in west Los Angeles specializing in psychoanalysis and couples therapy; faculty and training analyst at I.C.P., senior teacher at U.C.L.A. Extension Division; volunteer faculty at U.C.L.A. School of Medicine Doctoring Program; clinical consultant to L.A. GOAL, serving adults with developmental difficulties; Sanville Institute past board president and current steering committee member of Psychotherapy Services.
08-334c
Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Adolescents
Susie Ryder, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
Class participants will receive an interactive training on the Solution-Based Therapy model. Therapists from all theoretical orientations will benefit from learning this focused treatment approach. Special emphasis will be placed on how to apply this model to children, adolescents and their families. The course will include videotapes, audiotapes and class exercises.
Faculty: Susan Ryder, L.C.S.W.- The Mental Health Center Serving Boulder and Broomfield Counties, Boulder, CO; Team Leader, Intervention/Prevention Team. Couple's Therapist/Coach, The Divorce Busting Center, Boulder, CO. Faculty Field Advisor and Admissions Reader, Smith College School for Social Work.
08-335c
What’s the Evidence on Evidence-Based Practice? Surviving and Thriving in
Today’s Accountable Practice Environment
Daniel L. Buccino, L.C.S.W.-C., B.C.D.
Regardless of one’s practice setting or stage of career, social workers and other mental health professionals are being called to new levels of accountability. Evidence-based practices are often touted as a key mechanism to ensure the most competent services. Those who ignore evidence-based practices will be poorly positioned for future growth and development in the field. This seminar will provide an overview of some of the often contested and confusing debates on evidence-based practices in individual and family practice settings, as well as in mental health and addictions treatment settings, and allow practitioners to understand and respond to requests to implement evidence-based practices. More importantly, this workshop will consider ways to promote one’s own practice-based evidence and ensure effectiveness. This seminar will also review some of the evidence that is most consistent across the professional literature regarding what really makes a difference in treatment and program outcomes.
This seminar is designed to translate “evidence-based practices” from obscure scientific and research discourse into language that will best allow practitioners to implement feasible and useful evidence-based practices and practice-based evidence to provide the most competent and effective services.
Faculty: Daniel L. Buccino, L.C.S.W.-C., B.C.D. - Founder and Director of the Baltimore Psychotherapy Institute and Clinical Supervisor and Student Coordinator in the Community Psychiatry Program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. Serves on the clinical faculties at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, the Smith College School for Social Work, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
08-336c
Cultivating Curiosity in the Clinical Inquiry
Anton Hart, Ph.D.
There are many patients who are anxious about and resistant to the process of psychotherapeutic inquiry. This workshop is designed to help psychotherapists to establish the conditions in their work that are most conducive to lively engagement and growth. Starting from the premise that all forms of psychopathology can be usefully understood as representing traumatically incurred failures of curiosity, we examine the extent to which having a mind can be experienced as dangerous, requiring various forms of dissociative defense in the interest of preserving continuity of being. We explore the fragility of curiosity in the parent-child relationship with a particular focus on the power of anxiety to shut down the very aliveness and interest to essential to psychotherapeutic work. Drawing on the work of Edgar Levenson, Thomas Ogden, Adam Phillips, Donnel Stern and Warren Wilner as well as the instructor’s own contribution, this course uses case material from the instructor and the participants in the interest of enhancing the ability to provide psychotherapeutic experiences that challenge curiosity-obscuring ways of being from the very first moment.
Faculty: Anton H. Hart, Ph.D. – Fellow, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Private practice in New York City and Poughkeepsie, NY.
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