Short Courses 2009-2010

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

Germaine D’Anniballe, ARNP
Saturday, January 23, 2010, 9am – 4pm

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.

Emergency Mental Health: Risk Assessment, Stabilization, & Accessing Acute Levels of Care

Shauna Hill, LICSW
Saturday, January 16th, 2010; 9am – 4pm

Starting Your Own Private Practice

Karen Hansen, LICSW, and Shirley Bonney, LICSW
March 23, 30, April 6, 6:30-9:30pm

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.