Courses & Workshops
Professional Development Series
CEU credits: 15 hours of NASW accreditation
Location: JBFCS, 120 W 57 Street between 6th and 7th Avenues
To register or to arrange for training at your location, call: 212 632 4667
Discount: 10% for three or more people from same agency/institution
Date/Time: October 17 through November 14, 2007
April 16 through May 21, 2008 (no class April 23)
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
The Professional Development Sessions reflects a philosophic understanding of strengths and challenges from an individual and family perspective.
• Assessment begins with engaging the client in the helping process, includes intrapsychic and systemic evaluation of both individuals and families and also conveys an understanding of families and individuals from a developmental frame of reference
• Assessment determines and initiates therapeutic interventions, which target problems of the individual and family in a time-effective manner
• The sessions stress the importance of seeing the family and the individual within the sociocultural, ethnic system within which they operate
• Emphasis is placed on understanding of psychological factors in the treatment process
Assessment and Treatment Planning for Community Mental Health Programs
This 5-week course will focus on the development of the skills necessary to do rapid assessment, treatment planning, and treatment in the time-effective, managed care environment of the clinics. The course will include both theory and practice. Actual cases will be presented and followed. This course is intended to enhance the link between treatment recommendations and practice.
Assessment and Treatment Planning for Youths in Residential Treatment
This 5-week course will focus on the development of skills necessary to work with severely traumatized children and adolescents in the more intensive environment of a day treatment program or residential facility. The diagnostic and assessment skills that will be taught will stress attention to risk factors, symptom picture, co-morbidity and functional impairment.
Assessment and Treatment Planning: Adults with Serious Mental Illness
This 5-week course will focus on the development of skills necessary to work with seriously disturbed and/or physically ill adults in intensive programs. The skills to be taught will stress attention to risk factors, symptom picture, co-morbidity and functional impairment as they present in persons with long-term disorders potentially complicated by simultaneous conditions such as substance abuse or AIDS.
Assessment and Treatment Planning: Preventive Services, Domestic Violence Services, Children’s Case Management Services
This 5-week course will focus on the development of clinical skills for those who are working in programs in which the client is identified within the context of a family. An eclectic approach to a strength-based model will be utilized. Client input into the assessment process will be discussed. Case presentations by participants will be used to integrate theory and practice.
Psychopharmacology
This 5-week course provides an overview of psychiatric medication. Topics include: parameters relevant to seeking a psychiatric evaluation, review of brain physiology, framework for understanding the mechanisms of drug action, classes of psychotropic medications and indications for use and common side effects, treatment of special populations, and the combination of medication with psychotherapy.
Recognizing and Engaging the Addicted Client: Basic Facts
This 5-week course will focus on the development of clinical skills for those who are working in programs in which the client is identified within the context of a family. An eclectic approach to a strength-based model will be utilized. Client input into the assessment process will be discussed. Case presentations by participants will be used to integrate theory and practice.
Racial and Cultural Identity: Historical, Social, Political Context in Work with Clients and Staff
This 5-week course will focus on the development of clinical skills for those who are working in programs in which the client is identified within the context of a family. An eclectic approach to a strength-based model will be utilized. Client input into the assessment process will be discussed. Case presentations by participants will be used to integrate theory and practice.
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