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...
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...
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...
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...
Impact of Health Care Reform on Social Work: Quality vs. Quantity
The Impact of Health Care Reform on Social Work: Quality vs. Quantity explores the implications of healthcare policy on social work practice. This course offers a comprehensive review of...
The Art of Sleep- A Good Night’s Sleep Goes A Long Way
Course Description The Art of Sleep explores sleep deprivation and proper sleep hygiene: understanding the relationship between our nutrition, diet, exercise, and circadian rhythms. Cognitive behavioral strategies, including today’s evidence-based...
Social Construction Theories- Power To The People
Course Description Social Construction Theory: Power To The People provides a framework for understanding individuals, groups, families, communities and organizations. In this module, emphasis is placed on theories of...
When Death The Unspoken Speaks: Bioethical Issues and End-of-Life Decisions
Course Description When Death The Unspoken Speaks: Bioethical Issues and End-of-Life Decisions explores two different approaches to medical ethics—one based on the application of ethical principles to individual cases,...