Social Work
Continuing Education, Training,
and Conferences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Without Confusion: Integrating Nicene Theology and Psychological Science for Catholic Psychotherapy
The Catholic Psychotherapy Association is sponsoring a three hour webinar titled Without Confusion: Integrating Nicene Theology and Psychological Science for Catholic Psychotherapy. This webinar is led by Jeffrey Thompson.
Learning objectives include:
1. Define Barth's and Hunsinger’s "Chalcedonian Method" and Frankl's "Dimensional Ontology."
2. Evaluate Barth and Frankl's integrative methods from a Catholic perspective.
3. Apply these integrative methods to the practice of Catholic psychotherapy.
CEUs are offered through NBCC. 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.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Ethical Issues of Care with Older Adults
Rutgers University School of Social Work is hosting an online webinar on August 7, 2025. This webinar will be led by Ted Alter, PhD, MSW, ACSW—an Associate Professor of Social Work at Stockton University.
This webinar will focus on decision making capacity and tensions between personal values, the NASW Code of Ethics, and ethical principles, when working with cognitively compromised older adults. Participants will have the opportunity to apply learned skills in weighing the risks and benefits of actual case scenarios.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Seeking Safety Training
An online Seeking Safety training will be held on Tuesday, August 5. The cost is $150 and CEUs are available for licensed social workers for an additional fee.
Learning objectives include:
• Learn how to implement Seeking Safety with adults and/or adolescents
• Review research and clinical issues in treating trauma and substance abuse
• Increase empathy and understanding of trauma and substance abuse
• Learn how to conduct Seeking Safety, an evidence-based model for trauma and/or substance abuse
• Obtain assessment and treatment resources
Seeking Safety was developed by University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School adjunct professor Lisa Najavits, PhD.
Click here to register for this training.
Deepening Clinical Practice Conference
Smith College’s School for Social Work will host a one-day conference in Northampton, Massachusetts. This training will bring together practitioners and scholars sharing knowledge and research about current issues in clinical practice.
Up to 5.5 CEs for social workers available and lunch will be provided.
Click here for more information or to register.
Meaning-Based Harm from Medications: Clinical and Ethical Implications
Austen Riggs Center is hosting a one-hour webinar about “…the phenomenon of the nocebo response…”
The learning objectives for this event include:
• Identify potential sources of harm from medications that are mediated by meaning.
• Discuss ethical dilemmas related to iatrogenic meanings and efforts to avoid harm produced by the meanings of medication
• Use basic psychotherapeutic skills, including skills for developing a patient-centered alliance, to address harmful effects of medications mediated by meaning.
Social workers may receive one continuing credit hour through ASWB.
Mindfulness Interventions in Therapy
Keisha Cox, LCSW will lead a two-hour live webinar on July 24. NASW-New York is sponsoring this event.
Learning objectives include:
• Identify and describe at least 3 mindfulness tools.
• Describe at least 3 ways mindfulness can be used to improve mental health.
• Incorporate at least 3 mindfulness interventions into a therapeutic treatment plan.
Two continuing education hours are available for licensed social workers. Click here to register today.
QPR for Farmers and Farm Families
AgriSafe is sponsoring a webinar for community health workers about QPR—question, persuade, and refer.
This training will address:
• Information on the unique challenges farmers face that can lead to stress, depression, and suicide.
• Examples implementing each QPR component with someone at risk for suicide.
• Information on how to help someone at risk of suicide.
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 and to register.
Supporting Clients with Disabilities in the Transition to College
This live interactive webinar is led by Annie Tulkin, MS—founder of Accessible College.
The learning objectives for this online webinar include:
• Recognize the legal differences between the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Understand the disability support process in the college setting
• Identify reasonable accommodations and create supporting documentation
• Identify strategies to engage students around conversations about self advocacy and college accommodations
Continuing educations hours for social works is provided by ASWB.
AI for Social Work Organizations: Strategic Planning and Policy Implementation for Your Agency
Does your social work organization, agency, or program have a clear policy for the potential use of artificial intelligence?
Learning objectives for this event include:
• Describe the essential components of an effective AI implementation roadmap for strategic planning
• Describe strategies for creating foundational AI policies and guidelines within your organization or agency
• Describe ways to integrate generative AI into your organization’s vision and strategic plan to improve service delivery and outcomes
This live webinar will be led by Marina Badillo-Diaz, DSW. Continuing education credits are available for licensed social workers via ASWB.
CMSA Annual Conference
The annual conference of the Case Management Society of America will take place in Dallas, Texas from June 24 to June 27. The event will take place at the Hilton Anatole.
This year’s theme is Case Management: Innovative Solutions, Advanced Outcomes.
CMSA will provide CEs for licensed social workers through ASWB.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Seeking Safety Training
This one-day webinar training on Seeking Safety will take place via Zoom. This training is designed for anyone; no license, degree, or prior training is required. It is highly interactive with a lot of exercises.
Continuing educational hours for social workers are offered through ASWB.
For more information or to register, click here.
You can purchase Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse by Lisa Najavits by clicking or tapping here.
Ethical Considerations in Play Therapy
This online training will be led by Alyssa M. Cedillo LPC-S, RPT-S™ and Teddy Morrison LPC-Associate supervised by Alyssa Cedillo LPC-S, RPT-S.
Learning objectives include:
• Review ethical codes and decision-making models for providing culturally competent play therapy, and identify how to apply these in clinical practice.
• Participants will identify common ethical issues faced by play therapists and identify strategies to address these challenges.
• Participants will explore ethical challenges play therapists encounter in the digital age and post-crisis/pandemic settings, and identify tools to navigate these complexities.
The cost is $150 and 2.5 continuing education hours are available through the Association for Play Therapy. 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 to register today.
CBT for Panic Disorder
On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 8:45 am, Elevate Continuing Education will host a three (3) hour training on cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for panic disorder. This training will be led by Lily Brown, PhD via Zoom.
Three continuing education credits are available for social workers. Please click here for additional information or to register today.
Using Mindfulness in Social Work Practice
This online webinar was created with social workers in mind!
Nita Baucom, LCSW-BACS will lead this live Zoom training on Wednesday, March 12 from 12:15 to 4:30 pm Central. Licensed social workers may receive four (4) CEUs.
Questions? Text Nita at 504-931-8784 or email at nbaucom@nitabaucom.com. Click here for more information or to register.
Tailoring DBT for Autistic Clients
This self-paced, on-demand course was created by DBT therapists Rachel Leah Kraus, LCSW-C and Amara Brook, PhD, ABPP. The cost is $250.
Learning objectives include:
• Identify the difference between the deficit-based model versus the neurodiversity model in understanding and serving Autistic clients.
• Identify 2 specific ways to convey neuro-humility through their communication with clients.
• List two traits of many autistic people that may call for modifications to standard DBT.
• List two general things to tailor to make their own practice more accessible for Autistic clients.
• Identify four specific ways that they can modify the DBT skills training modules in their practice to increase efficacy for autistic clients.
Five (5) CEUs are available for licensed social workers. For more information or to register, click here.
Optimizing DBT for Autistic Adults
This virtual event will be led by dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) experts Samantha Ascanio, LCSW-C, Lisa Guy, Ph.D., and and Lorie Ritschel, Ph.D.
Registration for the day is $120 for residents of North Carolina and $180 for individuals living outside of the state. CEUs are available. Click here to learn more and register for this event.
You can learn more about TEACCH by clicking here.
Embodying Ethical Boundaries in the Workplace
This in-person training will be hosted by Dayna Guido LCSW, ACSW and Becca Odom, LCSW, E-RYT 200 in Asheville, North Carolina.
Attendees will:
• Practice somatic posturing for navigating power dynamics in relation to those with whom we work.
• Develop systems to track boundaries for addressing personal physical health needs.
• Illustrate decision making processes around ethical dilemmas in the workplace.
The cost is $149 and this event has been approved for three (3) social work (including two hours of ethics) continuing education hours. Click here for additional information and to register.
Brain, and Body: Neuropsychoanalysis and the Impact of Individual Differences on Subjective Experience
Jane Abrams, DSW, LCSW & Christina Peters, PhD, LCSW will host a Zoom presentation on the topic of neuroscience and memory science from a psychoanalytic perspective for social workers, graduate students, and other healthcare professionals. This is an intermediate level presentation.
A total of three (3) continuing education hours are available for this online event. The cost is $50 and you can register by clicking here.
NASW Texas Conference
This year’s event will take place in Irving, Texas at the Irving Convention Center.
NASW CEO, Anthony Estreet, PhD, MBA, LCSW-C will present the keynote, "Empowering Social Workers to Break Barriers and Lead Transformation.”
Licensed social workers can earn up to 21 continuing education hours. Click here to register today.
Beyond Borders: Competence, Compassion, and Action
The North American Association of Christians in Social Work will host their annual conference in Dallas, Texas from Thursday, October 10 through Saturday, October 12. The event will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Dallas near Galleria (4099 Valley View Ln, Dallas, TX 75244). Attendees may also participate virtually.
This year’s theme is Beyond Borders: Compassion, Competency, and Action. Attendees can receive up to 20 continuing education hours. Students are welcome.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Seeking Safety Training (Webinar)
On September 17, 2024, an online Seeking Safety training will be held. The cost is $150 and CEUs are available for licensed social workers for an additional fee.
Seeking Safety was developed by University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School adjunct professor Lisa Najavits, PhD.
Click here to register for this training.
Michigan Association of Court Mediators
Join author and social worker Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD for an important training with the Michigan Association of Court Meditators. The training will take place at The Park Place in Traverse City, Michigan.
Licensed social workers can earn continuing education credits. Click here to register today.
Advancing Decolonization in Social Work: Principles and Practices for Change
This training will be held via Zoom and will be led by Kiva Harper, MSSW, LCSW-S.
Social workers can earn three cultural competency continuing education hours.
The fee for this training is $59 for NASW members. Click here to register today.
International Federation of Social Workers Annual Conference 2024
The Social Work & Social Development – SWSD 2024 world conference jointly organised by IFSW, IASSW & ICSW will be held from 4th to 7th April in Panama City, Panama. This years’s theme is Respecting Diversity Through Joint Social Action.
Click here to register today.