Social Work
Continuing Education, Training,
and Conferences
Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy
Stephen E. Finn, PhD, discusses Therapeutic Assessment in this live webinar.
Learning objectives include:
• Participants will be able to describe a model that uses psychological assessment as a brief intervention
• Participants will be able to explain 3 therapeutic elements in Therapeutic Assessment and how they are applicable to other forms of intervention
• Participants will be able to list at least 3 of the core values underlying Therapeutic Assessment
One social work educational credit is available via ASWB. For more information or to register, please click here.
Real Talk: Behind the Label - A Closer Look into Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Ivelisses (Eevee) Cooke, LCSW, SIFI, C-DBT is leading a three hour Zoom webinar about diagnosing borderline personality disorder. This event is sponsored by Monmouth University’s School of Social Work.
Learning objectives include:
• Participants will be able to identify and describe the diagnostic criteria, common symptoms, and clinical presentation of borderline personality disorder.
• Participants will be able to critically evaluate how diagnostic bias and misconceptions about BPD contribute to misdiagnosis, gender disparities, and negative therapeutic experiences.
• Participant will demonstrate how human rights frameworks apply to the treatment and support of individuals with BPD, with an emphasis on autonomy, dignity, informed consent, and freedom from discrimination.
One continuing education hour for ethics and two clinical hours are available for licensed social workers. The fee for this webinar is $60.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Forgotten in the Storm: Disaster Planning for Children in DCF and Incarcerated Individuals
This online webinar is being led by Shuei Kozu, PhD, LICSW for the National Organization of Forensic Social Work.
Learning objectives include:
• Compare the structural and ethical responsibilities of the state in ensuring safety, continuity of care, and dignity for individuals in state custody during disasters—across both the child welfare and correctional systems.
• Evaluate case examples and preparedness models for children in foster care and incarcerated individuals, identifying common systemic challenges (e.g., communication failures, staffing shortages, infrastructure gaps) and unique considerations for each group.
• Develop cross-system strategies that promote inclusive, equitable, and coordinated disaster response planning—centering on accountability, trauma-informed practice, and clear communication protocols for all individuals in state care.
Continuing education hours are available for licensed social workers. For more information or to register, please click here.
Dissociative Attunement: Rhythm and Resonance in Therapeutic Process
Houston Psychoanalytic Society is hosting a virtual program led by Karen Hopenwasser, MD.
Learning objectives include:
• identify the emergence of dissociative attunement in their treatment relationships.
• distinguish the difference between dissociative attunement and countertransference.
• describe some of the ways music, dance and poetry facilitate a rhythmic connection between individuals.
Continuing education credits are offered through the American Psychological Association. Licensed social workers may want to contact their state board to confirm that this training will meet their board’s requirements for continuing education hours.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Forensic Court Systems, Reporting and Testifying
The Forensic Social Work Alliance is sponsoring a live, virtual training on both April 7 and 8, 2026.
The cost is $195 FSWA Members and $245 for Non-Members. Seven (7) CEUs are available for licensed social workers.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Know Your Rights with ICE – Immigration Defense Project
The Forensic Social Work Alliance is leading a webinar titled Know Your Rights with ICE – Immigration Defense Project. Xochitl Esparza is leading this presentation.
Learning objectives include:
• Understanding Your Rights – What to do and say when interacting with law enforcement or immigration officials, whether at home, in public, or at your workplace.
• Family Readiness Planning – Steps to prepare important documents, identify emergency contacts, and make a safety plan in case of detention or family separation.
• Accessing Help and Reporting Incidents – Guidance on where and how to report immigration activity as well as which organizations can help you and your family if someone has been detained
1.5 continuing education hours are available. Click here for more information or to register.
Professional Association of Social Workers in HIV & AIDS Annual Conference
Save the date for PASWHA’s annual conference that will take place in San Antonio, Texas from May 20 to May 23, 2026.
PASWHA is the leading organization that supports the professional growth and development of HIV social workers and allied professionals, promotes evidence-informed practice, and advances equitable and just policies to end the HIV & AIDS epidemic.
Working with Survivors of Neglect and Abandonment
This live NASW-Michigan Zoom webinar will be led by Kaytlyn Gillis, LMSW-Clinical.
The primary objective of this training will be, “…focused on supporting clients in healing from parental abandonment and neglect.”
NASW-Michigan members can attend at no cost. There is a $15 fee for non-members.
For more information or to register, click here.
Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy
Brin Grenyer, PhD will lead a live webinar titled Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy.Learning objectives include:
• Compare various methods for conducting psychoanalytic research, especially contrasting case study with process-outcome methods
• Describe methods for quantifying key analytic constructs including transference, attachment, and psychosocial maturity conflicts
• Identify specific challenges in research in borderline personality disorder, especially in relation to patient non-response
1.5 continuing education hours are available for social workers. Click here for more information or to register.
Understanding and Addressing Compassion Fatigue
The University of Michigan School of Social Work is sponsoring an online webinar titled Understanding and Addressing Compassion Fatigue on December 5, 2025. Colleen E. Crane, LMSW will be leading the webinar.
Learning objectives include:
• Differentiate compassion fatigue from burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Identify the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue in themselves and others.
• Identify risk factors and personal vulnerabilities contributing to compassion fatigue.
• Apply practical strategies to prevent and mitigate compassion fatigue in clinical practice and develop a personalized self-care and resilience plan.
Three (3) continuing education hours are available for licensed social workers. For more information or to register, please click here.
Black Grief, Community, and Connection During the Holidays
Howard University School of Social Work is hosting an online webinar on December 4, 2025 between 12:00 pm and 1:30 pm EST. Jihan Eley, LCSW-C, LICSW will facilitate this training.
Learning objectives:
• Identify cultural and historical dimensions of grief within Black families, including the impact of systemic oppression and collective loss
• Describe how grief during the holiday season uniquely affects Black communities, particularly in contexts of family gatherings, rituals, and remembrance
• Explore the role of community-based practices, such as storytelling, music, ritual, and movement to transform grief and foster resilience
• Integrate insights from Black grief researchers and healing practitioners to reimagine grief as a site of connection rather than isolation
• Reflect (via prompts) on their own relationship to grief, community, and holidays, and consider how they might apply these insights in their families or professional settings
For more information or to register, please click here.
Should Psychotherapy Be Fun? Let's Talk About Dopamine
Rutgers University School of Social Work is offering a live, interactive webinar titled Should Psychotherapy Be Fun? Let's Talk About Dopamine. This webinar is being led by Elaine Edelman, PhD, LCSW, CASAC-Advance.
Learning objectives include:
• Identify how access to, and deprivation from, our usual (and sometimes unconscious) coping skills affects our mood and ability to regulate our emotions
• Identify how neurotransmitters impact how we feel
• Discuss the phenomenon of learned helplessness and how it can lead to depression
• Explain how using different parts of our brain can prevent burnout
Three (3) continuing education hours are available for licensed social workers.
For more information or to register, please click here.
30th Annual ISITDBT Conference
Save the date for International Society for the Improvement and Teaching of DBT’s annual conference.
This year the event will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Hyatt Regency. For more information about this conference, please click here.
The Pseudo-Self
Austen Riggs Center presents a webinar with Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP, who will focus on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity.
Licensed social workers may earn 1.5 continuing education credits for this webinar.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Child-Centered Play Therapy for Autistic Children: Best Practices and Modification
This presentation will be lead by Regine Chung, PhD, LMHC, RPT™️, RP, CAS.
The learning objectives for this live webinar include:
• Participants will be able to integrate the CCPT perspective to better understand autistic children’s play behaviors.
• Participants will describe at least three neurodiversity-affirming strategies that align with CCPT practice.
• Participants will articulate the holistic change process for autistic children in CCPT.
• Participants will identify possible modifications to CCPT protocol for autistic children.
• Participants will identify research evidence supporting the use of CCPT with autistic children.
The fee for his webinar is $100 per participant. Licensed social workers may want to contact their state board to confirm that this training will meet their board’s requirements for continuing education credits.
Click here for more information or to register.
Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting
The Gerontological Society of American will hold its annual meeting in Boston from November 12 to 15. GSA 2025. You can find this year’s schedule of presentations here.
Continuing education hours for social workers are provided through ASWB.
Dreaming the Future
The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work will host their biennial conference in Austin, Texas starting November 6, 2025 at the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown, 700 San Jacinto Street. The theme of the conference is Dreaming the Future.
Ricardo Ainslie, PhD will be the plenary speaker.
NAMI Texas Conference
This year’s conference, Going to Bat for Mental Health, will be held at the Sheraton Georgetown Hotel & Conference Center—1101 Woodlawn Avenue Georgetown, Texas.
Speakers include:
• Jennifer Erasime, LCSW-S will speak about Transforming Service Delivery Models in Permanent Supportive Housing
• Quianta Moore, MD, JD who will address the topic Who Can I Trust? Exploring Mistrust in Youth Behavioral Health
• Jason McLemore who will speak about Dual Diagnosis: Integrating Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Continuing education hours are available for social workers and other licensed professionals.
Suicide Risk & Assessment Training - LRAMP
This online training is designed for students, pre-licensed and licensed professionals looking to sharpen their suicide risk assessment skills using the Linehan Risk Assessment and Management Protocol. Time will be made for experiential exercises and modeling of LRAMP utilization in the moment.
The cost for this virtual training is $125. Six CEUs are available for licensed social workers for an additional fee.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Spiritually Sensitive Social Work and Mental Health Practice
Rutgers University School of Social Work together with Anthony Nicotera, JD, DSW, LSW will present a live, interactive webinar titled Spiritually Sensitive Social Work and Mental Health Practice.
Three continuing educational hours are available. The cost of this webinar is $60.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Demystifying Interoceptive Exposure: What It Is, Why It Works, and How To Do It
This three-hour online workshop is being led by Clair Robbins, PhD.
Learning objectives include:
• Understand why interoceptive exposure is helpful in working with strong emotions
• Describe to clients the rationale for engaging in interoceptive exposure using clear, easy-to-understand language
• Generate and tailor interoceptive exposure exercises for diverse clients and presenting problems
• Describe how to implement interoceptive exposure in clinical practice
• Understand how to navigate common questions or concerns clients have about interoceptive exposure
Continuing education hours are being offered through the American Psychological Association (APA). Social workers may want to contact their state board about receiving continuing education credits for this training.
For more information, click here.
Introduction to DBT Informed School Counseling Strategies
This 2 day virtual training will provide school mental health staff with an overview of how Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and strategies can be provided within the school environment using a MTSS model. School mental health staff will be taught how to identify student goals and behavioral targets for counseling sessions as well as the rationale of using a chain analysis as a method of assessment and guide to determining effective solutions.
Learning objectives include:
• Understand the modes and functions of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in the clinical setting.
• Understand how the modes and functions of DBT have been adapted to a school-based setting.
• Understand the rationale for the different applications of DBT in the school context.
• Understand and use DBT approaches to goal setting and behavioral targeting.
Social workers can earn up to 11 continuing education hours. Click here for more information or to register.
Stuck in the Story: How to Use Narrative Therapy to Help Our Clients Get Unstuck
This live Zoom training will be led by Linda Buchanan, PhD.
Learning objectives include:
• Educate their clients on the various factors that affect the nature of narrative.
• Utilize a template designed to enable their clients to increase mindfulness of the false narratives that they have developed, which may be preventing them from having a satisfying life and decreasing their ability to utilize therapy effectively.
• Utilize a template designed to enable their clients to re-evaluate their false narratives and write a new narrative that is more effective and true to their authentic selves.
• Utilize specific mindfulness strategies from a variety of sources, such as ACT, DBT, and CBT, for rewiring the old story and replacing it with the new narrative.
• Identify and use strategies that prevent them from getting stuck in their clients’ stories.
Five (5) continuing education hours are available for social workers through the Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW).
For more information or to register, please click here.
Black Children of Incarcerated Parents: Understanding Challenges, Recognizing Resilience Factors
NASW—Washington is sponsoring a three-hour webinar. This virtual event is being led by Tonisha Taylor, MSW, LSW. She is a contributing author to Social Revolution: Black Children of Incarcerated Parents Speak Truth to Power.
Learning objectives include:
• Recognize the racial disparities among incarcerated parents in the United States
• Understand the impact of parental incarceration as an adverse childhood experience
• Identify protective factors that mitigate the impact of ACEs and amplify these areas of resiliency
Three continuing educational hours are available. For more information or to register, please click here.
1st Annual Civility Summit
This is an in-person event taking place in Carmel, Indiana.
Keynote speakers:
Alexandra Hudson, author of The Soul of Civility
Ken Sande, author of Relational Wisdom 360 and The Peacemaker
John Wood, Jr., National Ambassador for Braver Angels and a noted writer and speaker on issues of racial and political reconciliation.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Staying in Bounds: Ethical Decision-Making in Sport Psychology
Erin Haugen, PhD, LP, CMPC will be leading this live Zoom webinar on September 26, 2025.
Learning objectives include:
• Describe three elements to consider regarding potential ethical challenges in applied sport psychology
• Identify three ethics code themes relevant within various applied sport psychology roles
• Describe resource accumulation as a risk mitigation strategy within applied sport psychology
• Explain an ethical decision-making model grounded in positive psychology and apply to ethical challenges
This course is approved by the North Dakota Board of Social Work Examiners (NDBSWE) to sponsor continuing education for social workers in North Dakota (approval through 4/5/26, provider #P-217). This course is listed on CE Broker for 3.0 continuing education hours in ethics.
Strengthening Administrative Responses to Client-Perpetrated Violence
Howard University’s School of Social Work is hosting this in-person event. Christie T. Nebedum, DSW will facilitate.
Learning objectives include:
• Recognize the organizational impact and risk patterns associated with CPV.
• Assess current agency practices and identify gaps in trauma-informed policies.
• Describe the components of the R.E.S.T.O.R.E. framework and apply them to policy development.
• Use the ten-policy blueprint across prevention, intervention, and postvention phases.
• Apply real-world case examples to operationalize policies in diverse settings.
• Develop concrete action steps to enhance leadership accountability, staff safety, reporting, and follow-up.
Two CEUs are available for licensed social workers. For more information or to register, please click here.
The Cost of Being Too Available: Boundaries, Burnout, and Ethical Red Flags
Leslie S. Tsukroff, MSW, LCSW will be leading this live ethics webinar via Zoom.
Learning objectives include:
• Recognize at least two risks associated with excessive client accessibility outside of session.
• Identify ethical digital and after-hours communication practices based on relevant codes of ethics and best practice standards.
• Describe strategies to set and communicate clear boundaries around availability, digital contact, and emergency protocol in private practice.
The cost is $75 per person and continuing education is available for licensed social workers through ASWB.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Stronger Together!
NAMI’s Florida annual conference will take place in Orlando between September 18 and September 20, 2025.
This year’s conference — Stronger Together! — will feature workshops and presentations covering:
• Navigating the Behavioral Health Ecosystem - Understanding how the publicly and privately funded systems work and how to access needed resources and supports
• Clinical Innovations & Research – The latest advancements in behavioral health treatment
• Hope, Recovery & Empowerment – Personal stories and strategies for well-being
• Underserved Communities – Empathy and connection with diverse groups, including rural communities, faith communities, BIPOC, and LGBTQA
• Criminal Justice Diversion – Innovative programs to provide help, not handcuffs
CEUs are available for licensed social workers. Click here to register now.
Sexual Abuse in Detention Settings: Understanding the Crisis and Best Practices for Addressing It
The National Organization of Forensic Social Work is hosting a webinar led by Vanessa Sapien, MA of Just Detention International.
Learning objectives include:
• Develop an understanding of the incidence and dynamics of sexual abuse in prisons, jails and other detention settings.
• Identify the steps prisons, jails and other detention facilities are required to take under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards to prevent, address and monitor sexual abuse and sexual harassment.
• Call upon trauma-informed approaches for supporting incarcerated people who have experienced sexual abuse – whether it occurred during their current incarceration or at some other point(s) in their lives.
Continuing education credits are available for licensed social workers.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Grief, Sex, and Trauma
The Silver School of Social Work at NYU is hosting an online webinar. This event is being led by Nikita Fernandes, LMHC, CST.
Learning objectives include:
• Identify and describe how grief and trauma impact sexual desire, relational patterns, and embodied intimacy through the lenses of attachment theory and somatic trauma models.
• Apply trauma-informed sex therapy interventions—including the Dual Control Model and sensate focus—to support clients navigating grief, loss, and trauma.
• Analyze the role of systemic oppression and marginalized identities in shaping experiences of grief, trauma, and sexuality, and integrate this understanding into inclusive, justice-oriented clinical practice.
Two continuing educational hours are available for social workers through ASWB. The cost is $75.
The Paternal Function in Anorexia Nervosa
Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-C, will explore the role of the father, both flesh-and-blood and symbolic, in a subset of families of patients with anorexia nervosa on September 12, 2025.
Social work continuing education hours are available for this virtual event sponsored by Austen Riggs Center.
Inclusive Autism Assessment: Navigating ADHD, BPD, and Bipolar Overlap
Rischa Gottlieb, Ph.D is leading a Google Meet webinar assessing for and diagnosing autism, ADHD, BPD, and bipolar disorder. This is an opportunity to understand more about the nuanced overlap in these diagnoses.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Preparing for Your ASWB Clinical Exam: Psychological Defense Mechanisms
Did you know that the pass rate for ASWB’s clinical exam in 2023 was just 73.4%?
You want to pass your first try.
Join me for a free 60 minute review of Psychological Defense Mechanisms—a topic that may be part of your exam.
This live event will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 8:00 am Central.
Get ready to:
• Identify primary defense mechanisms and applicable theorists
• Describe defense mechanisms in clinical social work
• Help assess client psychological strengths
• Practice with 10 questions to help you to prepare for your exam
While this is a free review, you must register. Click here to register today.
For more information, please email me at amanda(at)socialworkersareawesome.com.
Understanding and Supporting Clients After Abortions: A Training for Social Workers
NASW-IL is hosting a live webinar about supporting clients post-abortion on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.
From the event description:
This NASW-IL training will provide social workers with foundational information about working with clients who have had abortions. Attendees will learn about the myths and facts about the relationships between abortions, mental health, and emotions, as well as receive a framework through which to understand their clients' experiences. Attendees will also reflect on their own abortion-related values, and practice identifying and vetting additional supportive resources for their clients.
Continuing education hours are available for licensed social workers. For more information or to register, click here.
Substance Use and the Court System: Opportunities and Challenges
CSWE is sponsoring a live webinar on August 14, 2025. Presenters include Pilar Horner, MSW, PhD, Erik Wittrup, MSW, and Patty Stoddard Dare, PhD, MSW.
Learning Objectives:
• Analyze the ways in which the court system impacts individuals with substance use disorders.
• Describe the role of specialized courts (such as drug courts) and their effectiveness in supporting recovery.
• Identify best practices and ethical considerations for social workers engaging with clients involved in the court system.
For more information or to register, please click here.
A Social History of Estrogen and Testosterone
This live webinar will be led by Bob Ostertag, author of Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen and Testosterone.
Learning Objectives:
• The long history of medical scandals involving estrogen and testosterone
• The ways estrogen and testosterone have been used to treat homosexuality
• The ways estrogen and testosterone have been seen and used by the LGBT community
• The role of estrogen and testosterone in the creation of Big Pharma
1.5 continuing education hours are available through NBCC. Click here to register.