Become a student ambassador!
NASW recognizes the value student members play in the future success of the Social Work profession.
Student Ambassadors will generate recognition of their Social Work program, network with other social work students and professionals, and provide relevant NASW information to fellow students such as Legislative Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD), facts about licensing, and ways to get involved to promote the profession.
Benefits:
• Develop leadership skills by acting as a liaison between NASW-MA and your school of social work.
• Free NASW-MA Licensing Test Prep Course, valued at $155.
• Jumpstart your social work career by networking and connecting with social work students and professionals across the state.
• Free admission to NASW events for the school year.
• Be recognized in NASW-MA Social Work Voice newsletter, website, and social media.
• Boost your resume.
Program Description:
• 1-2 NASW-MA Student Members will be selected from each school of Social Work in Massachusetts.
- Students must either be in their final year or advanced standing.
• Term: September 2019 to May 2020.
• Time Commitment: 4 hours each month plus 2 NASW volunteer opportunities.
• Student Ambassador role includes but is not limited to:
- Being the voice of NASW by distributing and promoting NASW member benefits, news, and events.
- Volunteering at two major NASW events (i.e. LEAD, Awards Gala, Professional Development Programs, etc.)
- Updating Student Ambassador Coordinator each month on school activities and student feedback.
- Participating in the Facebook group to access documents, offer feedback, and connect with other Student Ambassadors.
- Recruiting Student Ambassadors for the following year and assisting with NASW Graduation Cords program.
Application Deadline is August 31st, 2019
FILL OUT AN APPLICATION
To learn more, please contact: Noël Schutz, Membership Manager nschutz.naswma@socialworkers.org, 617-227-9877 x167
"Two of Them, One of Me: The Art of Holding Two Perspectives in Couples Therapy", Presenter: Nancy Knudsen, LMFT
Webinar on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET.
Course description:
This live webinar with Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Nancy Knudsen, explains how doing effective therapy with more than one person in the room is a whole different endeavor from working with an individual.
Couple therapists often find that people come in not to make changes in themselves but to get the therapist’s help in changing the other. Shifting the frame from the problem lying inside one person to one that stems from an interactive pattern between two people can be a major undertaking.
How to accomplish this task while offering deep empathy and validation for each member of the couple involves skillfully shifting back and forth from the systemic view of the couple to the careful exploration of the inner worlds of each individual.
This webinar is based on the basic concepts of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidence-based approach that has been shown to be highly effective in helping distressed couples repair and create a secure bond.
Based on an integration of structural systems theory, the theory of attachment and emotional bonding, and an experiential humanistic approach to exploring emotions, EFT offers a roadmap to help couples stuck in a perpetual cycle of conflict find their way back to loving connection.
If you are considering offering couple therapy or have already started seeing couples without a clear road map, this webinar can begin to orient you to the particular challenges of this important specialty.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the fundamental differences between individual and couple therapy
2. Explain the challenges of holding two competing perspectives simultaneously
3. List three contra-indicators for couples therapy
4. Define the role of the therapist as the safe attachment figure
About Nancy Knudsen:
Nancy Knudsen, LMFT, is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Northampton, MA with over 30 years experience. Over the past 10 years, Nancy’s primary clinical modality has been Emotionally Focused Therapy. She is a certified EFT therapist and supervisor and has taught a number of workshops on EFT. Additionally, she is a past President of the Massachusetts Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is currently the director of the Couple and Family Institute of New England.
Webinar Fee:
Early registration: $30 (until July 5)
Regular registration: $39
Continuing Education Credits*:
1.5 CEs for social workers and psychologists. CEs for psychologists are offered through Orlando Behavior Health.
Register here
* To receive CE credits, you must attend the entirety of the webinar. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the presentation. Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. Participants must also complete a post-test and an evaluation at the end of the webinar.
"Building Better Brains: Effective Tools for Understanding ADHD, Improving Executive Functioning Skills and Empowering Kids for Success" Presenter: Sharon Saline, Psy.D
Webinar on Wednesday, August 7, 2019, at 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET.
Course description:
In this live webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline, veteran psychologist and author of “What your ADHD child wishes you knew: Working together to empower kids for success in school and life,” offers rare insights into how kids honestly think and feel about having ADHD and what best helps them.
She assists professionals and parents to think differently about the challenges these children and teens face and explores new ways of listening to and working with them for improved cooperation and success.
Based on her unique, strength-based approach–’the 5C’s of ADHD parenting,’ Dr. Saline shares a variety of helpful and practical solutions to teach kids essential daily living skills that reduce stress and increase positivity. Her collaborative approach integrates mindfulness, cognitive therapy, and positive psychology while teaching effective skills to reduce the stress in everyone's lives.
Armed with these techniques for more cooperation and less arguing, you can successfully nurture resilience and independence in your clients.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the major concerns of kids with ADHD
2. Explain what ADHD is and why executive functioning skills matter.
3. Use and convey the ‘The 5C’s of ADHD Parenting’ approach
4. Describe strength-based, practical tools for managing challenging behaviors
Webinar Fee:
Early registration: $30 (until July 17)
Regular registration: $39
Continuing Education Credits*:
1.5 CEs for social workers and psychologists. CEs for psychologists are offered through Orlando Behavior Health.
About Sharon Saline:
Sharon Saline, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life, specializes in how ADHD, learning disabilities and mental health issues affect children, teens, young adults and families. Her unique perspective, namely growing up in a household with a sibling who wrestled with untreated ADHD, combined with decades of clinical experience, assists her in guiding families as they navigate the confusing maze of information, emotions, stress and conflict related to ADHD. She helps them appreciate the positive aspect of living with ADHD and create successful dialogues, interventions and connections. Dr. Saline has also worked extensively with schools on mental health issues in the classroom, interpreting psychological evaluations and improving teacher/parent communication.
Register here
* To receive CE credits, you must attend the entirety of the webinar. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the presentation. Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. Participants must also complete a post-test and an evaluation at the end of the webinar.