Short Courses 2008-2009
To register for a short course, please contact the course instructor. Participants should make their checks out to "WSSCSW".
Psych Meds: A Review of Current Choices, Typical Uses, Benefits, and Cautions
Instructor: Germaine D'Anniballe, ARNP
Dates: October 14, 28; November 11; December 9
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Location: University of Washington School of Social Work, Room 306
Course Size: 20
Course Fee: WSSCSW members $175, New Professionals $150, Students $125,
Non-members $200
Continuing Education Credits: 6 hours CE
Requirements: Open to all clinician levels
To Register: 206-390-7186, germaine@q.com
Mail form & check to: 2719 E Madison #301, Seattle, WA 98112 DOWNLOAD FORM
This course will be in four sessions. The first will discuss the use of medication in treating depression; the second, anxiety; the third, bipolar disorder; and the final class will look at medications that affect dopamine, how they are used and their neurochemical effects. There will also be discussion of risks, side effects, and drug interactions. The impact of the use of medication on the psychotherapeutic process will be addressed, as well as issues of collaboration between therapist and prescriber.
Germaine D'Anniballe, ARNP, received her BSN at Case Western Reserve University, 1980; MSN at University of Washington, 1992. Germaine is currently in private practice and is a clinical faculty member at the UW School of Nursing. Her previous work experience includes inpatient and outpatient nursing settings, i.e., emergency, intensive care, women's health, hospice care, and international health. Her psychiatric nursing experience has been inpatient and outpatient mental health facilities including Harborview and the HIV/AIDS clinic in Seattle/King County Public Health.
Starting Your Own Private Practice
Instructors: Shirley Bonney, LICSW, and Karen Hansen, LICSW
Date: March 3 & 17, 2009
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Location: To be determined—Downtown or Fremont depending upon size
Course size: 8 Minimum/15 maximum
Course fee: WSSCSW members $175, New Professionals $150, Students $125. Non-members $200
Continuing education credits: Six hours
Requirements: Considering starting or just starting private
practice
Registration: Send payment to Shirley Bonney at 1507 Western Ave., Suite 603; Seattle, WA 98101 or for questions email shirleybonney@hotmail.com
This seminar is designed to help participants assess their readiness for private practice and focus on the steps necessary to move toward establishing a successful practice. Topics that will be included go from the pragmatic (i.e., finding an office, getting on insurance panels, malpractice insurance, bookkeeping, methods for billing) to clinical dilemmas around boundaries, medication consultations, fee setting, anxiety related to uncertain income, as well as networking, marketing, ways to develop ongoing support and consultation.
Shirley Bonney has over thirty years of experience as a clinical social worker. She completed her MSW at the University of Kansas in 1974 followed by a post-graduate fellowship at the Menninger School of Mental Health Sciences. Shirley is past president of WSSCSW and the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study.
Karen Hansen has over 22 years of experience as a clinical social worker. She received her MSW from the University of Washington in 1986. She offers in-depth psychotherapy to adults, adolescents, and couples. Shirley and Karen have taught many topics over the course of their careers, and are excited to offer their experience to those wanting to start a private practice.
Somatic Transformation: An innovative approach to the treatment of anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress and addictions
Instructor: Sharon A. Stanley, Ph.D.
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009
Time: 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Location: 6172 Old Mill Road, Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110
Course limit: 20
Course fee: $200.00
Registration: Sharon Stanley
Sharon Stanley, Ph.D. is a psychotherapeutic trauma specialist, educator and consultant with over 30 years of international experience with individuals and health care professionals working to transform the effects of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual trauma.
Dr. Stanley has combined private practice with University graduate level instruction in neurobiological and somatic approach to trauma resolution. She developed curriculum and taught somatic psychotherapy to First Nations and other professionals in Canada, psychiatrist and psychologists in Israel and professionals throughout the United States.
Somatic Transformation is a mind/body approach to treating anxiety, depression and addictive behaviors. Neurobiologically, it offers a research base to understand how acute and chronic stress and trauma can cause changes in the brain and autonomic nervous system.
Using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy with Adolescents: Effective Strategies for Difficult to Treat Teens & Families
Instructor: Jennifer Gross, LMHC
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009
Time:. 9AM-4:30PM.
Location: 3876 Bridge Way North, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98103.
Course size:
Course fee: WSSCSW Member 160; New Professional Member: 130; Student: $130; Non-WSSCSW Member: $195.
Continuing Education credits: Eight (8) CEs offered
Contact: Jennifer Gross, 206-300-6644 jennifergross@comcast.net
Self harm, suicidal behaviors, eating disorders, drug abuse, and therapy noncompliance are some of the issues that DBT has successfully addressed. For many clinicians, implementing the full evidence based treatment is impractical in their setting. This Short Course will highlight the core elements of DBT and how to apply it in outpatient or private practice settings. It also addresses how to involve families in treatment.
Jennifer will cover the framing of treatment issues, gaining commitment and motivation to change (clients and families) and skills-based interventions to build new behaviors. DBT skills will be reviewed in a modified form suitable for youth and their families, with handouts to take home.
Jennifer Gross, MA, LMHC has been working in Child Mental Health for over 20 years. She has worked in residential, therapeutic foster care, home based services, and outpatient clinic settings with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities, mood disorders, and severe behavioral disorders. She has worked for Children’s Hospital Regional Medical Center in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Outpatient clinic since September 2001, co-administering the Outpatient Adolescent Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Program for 13-18 year olds; individual and group therapy; parent coaching and psycho-education. She has spoken extensively on DBT with adolescents at local, regional, and national conferences. Jennifer has been adjunct faculty in the Masters of Mental Health Counseling Program at Seattle University and Argosy University from 2002 through 2007. She has a small private practice, and is a foster adopt parent to two lovely children.
Approved Supervision Course
Instructor: Multiple instructors, including Bill Etnyre PhD, LICSW, BCD.
Date: Spring 2009 (specific dates TBA)
Time: To be announced
Location: To be announced
Contact: WSSCSW e-mail: admin@wsscsw.org
This 15-hour course meets requirements for becoming an “Approved Supervisor” in Washington State. An Approved Supervisor must supervise candidates who wish to become licensed as Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors in order for their supervision to count towards licensure. LICSWs, LMFTs, and LMHCs with at least two years post-licensure experience, one year of experience as a supervisor and 15 hours of training in supervision are eligible to become an Approved Supervisor.
This Course covers the following topics in lecture, discussion, role play, small groups, and video:
- Models of clinical supervision
- Supervisory relationship
- Dual/multiple roles of supervisor
- Diversity issues in supervision
- State requirements for approved supervision and licensure
- Ethical issues for supervision in agency and private practice
- Contextual issues
Self Care for Clinicians: Nurturing Ourselves through mindfulness
Instructor: Carolyn Sharp, LICSW
Date: Saturday, April 18; Saturday May 2, 2009; 9AM-1:30PM
Location: 3876 Bridge Way North, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98103
Continuing Education credits: Eight (8) CEs offered
Registration: (206) 291-8377 Carolynsharplicsw@comcast.net
Providing therapy in both private practice and agency settings can be isolating. Carolyn will go over the and symptoms of compassion fatigue, vicarious traumatization, and problematic counter-transference, using case examples to demonstrate and normalize this process. She will share techniques for healing these issues, with opportunities for practitioners to develop their own self care tools. She will lead participants through exercises demonstrating tools for healing. Participants will present case examples, and discuss challenges for the practitioner. Clinicians will have a more in depth understanding and acceptance for the challenges for self care for therapists, as well as the tools and peer support for addressing them.
Carolyn Sharp is in private practice seeing children, adolescents, adults and families. She has worked at the YMCA of Seattle, first as a Child & Family Therapist in Treatment Foster Care, then as Clinical Director, supervising therapists in the foster, group, shelter, independent living and outpatient therapy programs. Currently she specializes in client-centered, psychodynamic and mindfulness based psychotherapy to children, adolescents and adults. She provides in office and in vivo family therapy helping families develop healthier ways of relating with one another. Carolyn has taught trainings on self care to individuals, groups and agencies at the local and state level.