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• Implicit Bias Training/Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice (Meets new MD Board of Social Work requirements)

  • When
    Sunday, April 28, 2024
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter Ed Geraty, LCSW-C (MD), LICSW (WV), LCSW (VA), LICSW (DC) 
  

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 (this training meets the Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice content requirement and will be noted on the CEU certificate)

  The purpose of this Implicit Bias Training, also referred to as Unconscious Bias Training, is to raise awareness about individuals' implicit biases and provide them with tools and strategies for impartial decision-making, thereby reducing the influence of these biases. Implicit bias affects the way we make choices, engage with others, and conduct ourselves.
  
  Research has consistently shown that implicit bias is linked to several adverse consequences, including lower-quality healthcare provision (e.g., treatment recommendations and empathy), unequal disciplinary actions in schools (e.g., suspensions and expulsions), discriminatory workplace practices (e.g., hiring, promotions, and retention), and racial disparities in criminal justice responses (e.g., arrests, law enforcement-involved shootings, and legal sentencing).
  
  Hence, it is essential to recognize and actively work towards mitigating implicit bias to ensure that our decisions, interactions, and conduct are equitable and devoid of discrimination. Furthermore, this training supports clinicians in their professional practice by enabling them to implement culturally informed approaches that mitigate the impact of implicit bias.
  

  Workshop Objectives:

  Upon finishing this training, participants will be able to:

  1. Articulate the concept of implicit bias and its underlying origins.
  2. Recognize the ramifications of implicit bias in both workplace and clinical settings.
  3. Engage in conversations about methods for self-exploration and for tracking and managing their individual implicit biases.
  4. Explain the process of implementing culturally sensitive frameworks and utilizing evidence-based strategies to address implicit bias within organizations and clinical practice.

  Agenda:

  • Intros
  • Pivotal Implications of unconscious biases
  • how to Address Blindspots and Racial Bias in a Session
  • Break
  • How To Reduce Implicit Bias
  • Promoting Inclusivity.
  • Different types of bias
  • Closing

  Recommended Reading:

  • Getting Serious About Diversity,” which received the McKinsey award for best Harvard Business Review article in 2020.
  • National Institute of Health, Implicit Bias. https://diversity.nih.gov/sociocultural-factors/implicit-bias-training-course
  • Page, S. E. (2008). The difference: How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies - new edition. Princeton University Press.
  • Sommers, S. R. (2006). On racial diversity and group decision making: Identifying multiple effects of racial composition on jury deliberations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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• Emerging from Covid-19: Addressing "Social Malnutrition" in Clinical Practice

  • When
    Saturday, May 04, 2024
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    10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library | 900 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
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  Presenter Joel Kanter
  

  CEUs: Category 1 | 1.5 

  Location: Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library - Small Room

  Although the trend toward a reduction in social ties and social isolation has been evident for over a decade, the "social malnutrition" of many children, teens and adolescents was exacerbated during the Covid-19 crisis.  As a result, the incidence of depression, anxiety, suicide and addiction has increased significantly, even attracting the attention of the Surgeon General as a public health crisis.  In our clinical work, we see the impact of increasing social isolation in our daily practice; a vicious cycle ensues where isolation impacts interpersonal competence and lack of interpersonal competence increases isolation.  

  Also, in our professional activities, we have all suffered from a loss of “professional nutrition” since Covid began four years ago: less collegiality, networking and opportunity to learn from colleagues. Join us IN-PERSON (with coffee and bagels!) and discuss these challenges to our personal and professional lives.

  
  

  Workshop Objectives:

  Upon finishing this training, participants will be able to:

  Identify the social trends that have greatly impacted the reduction in social ties and increase in social isolation.

  1. Identify the social trends that have greatly impacted the reduction in social ties and increase in social isolation.
  2. Identify how social isolation impairs personality develop in adolescents and young adults.
  3. Outline clinical social work interventions for addressing ongoing social isolation.

  Agenda:

  • Intro: 10 minutes
  • Formal Presentation: 50 min
  • Coffee Break: 20 min
  • Discussion: 40 mins

  Recommended Reading:
  Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community (2023).

  Presenter bio:­ Joel Kanter, MSW, LCSW-C is in private practice of clinical social work in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is a faculty member of the Institute for Clinical Social Work and the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Clinical Social Work and Psychoanalytic Social Work Journals and has been recognized as a Distinguished Practitioner by the National Academy of Practice in Social Work. He has authored over 50 articles and chapters and the book Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott (Routledge).

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• Clinical Practice with LGBTQ+ Patients: An Intersubjective/Relational Approach

  • When
    Sunday, May 05, 2024
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
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  Presenter: Dr. Jonathan Lebolt 
  

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

  Appropriate for ALL LEVELS/WILL NOT BE RECORDED

  What do we mean by LGBTQ+ (especially the +)? How can we work effectively with patients with a different gender identity or sexual orientation from our own? Drawing on Gray's intersubjective, improvisational approach to psychoanalytic treatment, I will present a case in which I demonstrate how the clinician's use of self in the relationship with the patient leads to a sense of agency and growth. I will invite participants to share their own case material.

  Workshop Objectives:

  At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the meaning of LGBTQ+
  2. Define "intersubjective" and "relational"
  3. Explain Gray's improvisational psychoanalytic approach 
  4. Describe how clinicians may use their sense of self to move treatment forward in work with LGBTQ+ patients.

  Agenda:

  • Introduction
  • Define "intersubjective" and "relational"
  • Explain Gray's improvisational psychoanalytic approach
  • Q & A
  • Break
  • Case presentation
  • Participant cases
  • Wrap-up

  Recommended Reading:

  • Barsness, R. (Ed.) (2018). Core competencies of relational psychoanalysis: A guide to practice, study and research. Routledge.

  • Cornett, C. (Ed.) (1993). Affirmative dynamic psychotherapy with gay men. Jason Aronson.
  • Dimen, M. (2011). With culture in mind: Psychoanalytic stories. Routledge.
  • Domenici, T. & Lesser, R. (Eds.) (1995). Disorienting sexuality: Psychoanalytic reappraisals of sexual identities. Routledge.
  • Gray, A. (2015). Living truthfully under imaginary circumstances: Improvisation in psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25, 725–742.
  • Grossmark, R. (2018). The unobtrusive relational analyst: Explorations in psychoanalytic companioning. Routledge.
  • Guzzardi, S. (2024). Toward a queered psychology of the self: Empathy and passibility from the margins to the center. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 19, 33-48.
  • Lebolt, J. (1999). Gay affirmative psychotherapy: A phenomenological study. Clinical Social Work, 27, 355-370.
  • Malamed, C. (2022). A Safe Space to Play Dangerously: Contextualizing Gender Play in Therapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32, 198-206.
  • Suchet, M. (2011). Crossing Over. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2, 172-191.

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• Presentation and Discussion of DEI Strategic Plan, by Melanie Hood-Wilson

  • When
    Monday, May 06, 2024
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    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM

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  Category 2: 2 CEUs

  Please join for our next Town Hall Meeting, facilitated by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) consultant, Melanie Hood-Wilson!

  The meeting will include a presentation of GWSCSW's DEI Strategic Plan, as prepared by Ms. Hood-Wilson. This plan is the culmination of many hours of surveys and interviews with membership (you!) to outline the demographics that exist within our society, the feelings and needs of our members, and our growth areas as an organization. Ms. Hood-Wilson will also share key recommendations for our continued DEI work. There will be an opportunity for small group and large group discussion about the presentation and recommendations.

  Please consider attending! This is your organization, and your voice is important! This is an important moment for GWSCSW, as we make necessary changes to our organization to maintain relevance for ALL of our members, now and in future generations. We want as many members as possible to participate, to feel that you have a seat at the table for that change process.

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