Motivational Interviewing: Finding Our Resilience
Course Description Motivational Interviewing: Finding Our Resilience provides dynamic approaches to engage clients and inspire sustainable lifestyle change. Through stimulating self-reflection, clients will be able to recognize common ‘pit-falls’ and unhelpful...
Integrative Care: Mental Illness and Psychopharmacology
Course Description Integrative Care: Mental Illness and Psychopharmacology provides an integrative and culturally informed framework to understanding mental illness. A biological and epigenetic lens will be applied to examining mental illness....
Challenges In Telephonic Care Management
Course Description Challenges In Telephonic Care Management explores ways to mitigate barriers to health care delivery within the context of the following areas: best practices for care management coordination;...
Global Uncertainty Amidst COVID-19: Impact On Health Outcomes
Course Description Global Uncertainty Amidst COVID-19: Impact On Health Outcomes explores our present climate of global uncertainty, increased anxiety, profound loss of life and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on behavioral and medical...
Cognitive and Developmental Learning: Guides for Our Moral Compass
Course Description Cognitive and Developmental Learning Theories, are a body of theories that emphasize mental aspects of development (i.e. logic and memory). Emphasis will be placed on theories of...
Compassion Fatigue: Heal Thyself
Course Description Compassion Fatigue: Heal Thyself explores how vicarious stress and trauma can impact a clinician’s emotional health. Consideration is given to the importance of being mindful of one’s personal...
Attachment Theories: Weathering Our Childhood
Course Description Attachment Theories offer an ethological approach to social and personality development. These theories propose that evolutionary forces have endowed infants with genes that predispose them to form...
Two Faces of Love: Intimate Partner Violence
Course Description Intimate Partner Violence: The Two Faces of Love provides a post-structural view of abuse across, cultural and social norms, gender and sexual orientation. Drawing from a psychodynamic perspective,...
Psychodynamic Theories- The Truth Is Locked In Our Unconscious
Course Description Psychodynamic Theories (i.e. ego psychology, object relations) are presented as a lens for understanding personality development and human behavior spanning across childhood and adulthood. Emphasis is placed...
Prelude To Advance Care Planning and Bioethics
Course Description Prelude to Advance Care Planning and Bioethics explores advance directives and ways to support patient self-determination through the application of medical ethics. As Social Workers, we often play...