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    Complex Trauma: From Understanding to Intervention

    This workshop explores the distinctions between single-event PTSD and complex trauma — including its effects on the brain, attachment, and dissociation — and equips participants with essential, immediately applicable interventions.
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    Maintaining Appropriate Professional Boundaries for Mental Health Professionals

    Mental health professionals are charged with the legal and ethical responsibility to maintain professional boundaries, but this obligation isn’t always clear. This course addresses the ethical and legal responsibilities of licensees in New York State in relation to professional practice with patients. Topics include dual relationships, making informed decisions, and addressing ethical dilemmas. This course emphasizes establishing and maintaining boundaries in the professional relationship. Additionally, this course will review the laws, rules and regulations for mental health professionals practicing in New York State.

    It is now mandatory for psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals to complete three continuing education hours on issues related to “Maintaining appropriate boundaries with patients/clients” during every three-year registration period for registration periods beginning on and after April 1, 2023. These credits must be obtained from NYSED approved providers only.
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    Rooted in Resilience: Cultivating Courage and Well-Being Through Nature Informed Social Work Practice

    As social work professionals face rising levels of trauma, burnout, and systemic stress, Nature-Informed Therapy (NIT) offers an innovative path forward. Rooted in ecopsychology, trauma theory, and attachment theory, NIT integrates traditional therapeutic practices with intentional engagement with the natural world to build resilience and support well-being.

    This round table explores the science behind nature's impact on the nervous system, including anxiety reduction and attention restoration, alongside the biopsychosocial well-being model underlying NIT. Attendees will explore practical strategies—mindfulness, somatic techniques, and nature-based metaphors—for incorporating nature-informed interventions across settings, grounded in core social work values including person-in-environment, systems theory, trauma-informed care, and cultural humility.

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    Social Work Practice Fellows

    Social Work Practice Fellows (SWPF) is a premier professional development program for MSW supervisors from community-based agencies. The proven educational model includes face-to-face interactive workshops taught by academic and practice-based experts, including practitioners and scholars, utilizing brief didactic presentations; group learning activities; discussions of cases and supervision experiences; and the provision of extensive educational materials.
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