Continuing Education Workshops
2008-2009 Schedule

LASW/LICSW Licensure Prep Course

LASW/LICSW Licensure Prep Course

Jonathan Beard, MSSW, LICSW, CPRP

This Licensure Examination Preparation Course will assist you in preparing to take either the clinical or advanced ASWB exams required for social work licensure in the State of Washington and most other states. The course includes a 200+ page manual plus a sample test.

The course includes an overview of test taking strategies, anxiety management techniques and helps licensure candidates to be confident in their ability to think clearly about what is being asked in order to choose the correct answers and earn a passing score. The course also includes a review of the major content areas of the examination including human development and behavior; assessment, diagnosis and intervention planning; direct practice methods; theories and models of treatment; diversity issues; professional values and ethics; and more.

Jonathan R. Beard, MSSW, LICSW, CPRP, is the owner of Progressive Strategies in Seattle, WA, where he provides a variety of project management, consulting, training, and program and/or organizational development services to public and nonprofit human service providers and organizations. He also provides private practice based clinical social work supervision to beginning and experienced social workers who are unable to obtain it where they work. Jonathan has many years of experience as a direct services provider, supervisor/manager and senior executive, primarily in mental health settings. He has taught this course to hundreds of social workers in Washington and throughout the Northwest to rave reviews.

The “Impossible” Patient
Presented by: NASW WA Chapter, Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work, and NW Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study

Glen O. Gabbard, MD

September 26, 2009

Workshop Description:

Workshop Objectives:

• To educate participants about management of extremely difficult patients in dynamic therapy and analysis
• To illustrate how different types of character pathology lead to treatment resistance
• To outline the psychotherapeutic strategies for patient to present different problems based on personality disorders

Segment Description:

The “Impossible” Patient
This opening lecture will discuss ways in which the term “impossible” is used. The use of the problematic term, “resistance,” is also explored.  Reasons that patients want to thwart the therapy are elucidated.

Managing the Erotized Transference
In this part of the program, numerous case examples will be used involving erotized transference. Difference in gender constellation will be elucidated, and psychotherapeutic strategies for maintaining boundaries while avoiding shaming the patient will be discussed.

The Antisocial and Psychopathic Patient
This lecture will focus on the necessity of distinguishing which patients with antisocial features are treatable and which are not. The common transference and countertransference problems in dealing with patients who have antisocial features will be described, and examples will be shown.

Mentalizing and Interpretation in the Dynamic Therapy of Borderline Personality Disorder
This lecture focuses on the ways one must vary the therapeutic approach with patients who have borderline personality disorder according to their individual characteristics. Illustrations of using mentalization techniques vs. transference interpretation will be presented. Clinical examples will be shown.

Presenter Biography:

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., is Brown Foundation Chair of Psychoanalysis and Professor of Psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.  He is also Training & Supervising Analyst at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute.  Prior to coming to Houston in 2001, he was at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, for 26 years, where he served as Director of the Menninger Hospital and Director of the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis. 

Dr. Gabbard was Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis from 2001-2007.  He also has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.  He has published over 300 scientific papers and book chapters, and he is the author or editor of 23 books, including Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting, Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Psychoanalysis, Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text, Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice: Fourth Edition, The Psychology of The Sopranos, and Psychiatry in the Cinema.

Dr. Gabbard has received numerous awards, including the 2000 Mary Sigourney Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis.  He has also received the 2004 Adolf Meyer Award from the American Psychiatric Association.  His main interests are in psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy, professional boundary violations, personality disorders, and the application of psychoanalytic thinking to the cinema and television.

Good Ethics, Good Practice

Juggling rules, risks & relationships in a complex era

Good Ethics, Good Practice:
Juggling Rules, Risks & Relationships in a Complex Era

Joan C. Golston, DCSW, LICSW

October 9, 2009

Workshop Description:

The sad truth is, when it comes to professional ethics and risk management, it’s no longer enough to do the best you can, have integrity and work hard. In this fast-paced workshop, armed with a library of handouts, we’ll review rules and regulations, spotlight commonly accepted practices that actually increase risk, build an individualized action plan, and learn to identify the seemingly innocent moments when ethical practice may hang in the balance.

We’ll start by specifying broadly useful principles and obligations that apply to us all – whether mental health counselor, social worker or family therapist; in agency, institution or private practice; providing direct service or supervision. We’ll look at certain high risk populations, and how to moderate that risk to protect the best interests of clinician, client and agency.

In addition, we’ll devote time to a special module addressing what it takes to deal effectively with lawyers, courts and the law -- including subpoenas in light of new law just now coming into effect, expert testimony, responding to attorneys, confidentiality vs. privilege, and medical records vs. notes. These upcoming changes in State law call for revisions in our release and disclosure forms – we’ll review suggested new text for use in most practice settings, and sort out how to provide informed consent to clients even while we ourselves wait for the legal ‘bugs’ to get worked out.

Participants will come away with a refreshed understanding of current rules, professional roles and ethical theory -- as well having a set of highly practical tools to enhance their ability to meet the complex demands of ethics and law.

About the Presenter:

Joan C. Golston, DCSW, LICSW is a therapist, supervisor, and forensic and clinical consultant in private practice in Seattle, Washington. For over a decade she’s been chair of the NASW Washington Chapter Ethics Committee, was honored as the chapter’s 2006 Social Worker of the Year, and elected Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). She teaches in the ISSTD’s international courses on the psychotherapy of the dissociative disorders, recently co-presented a PsyBC.com course on attachment and chronic traumatization, has served as a consultant in a number of legal cases regarding professional standards, and is author of a series of articles on the treatment of traumatized populations.

She is a warm and engaging speaker who has presented over a hundred professional workshops and lectures, and is known as a teacher who makes complex things approachable, and even entertaining. She is currently writing The Torturer’s Apprentice, an examination of cruelty as an overlooked, enduring posttraumatic adaptation.

Advanced Clinical Supervision

Advanced Clinical Supervision: Theory and Practice

Marshall Jung, DSW

October 30 – 31, 2009

Workshop Description:

The objectives of this workshop are to increase the participant’s body of knowledge and skills associated with clinical supervision, address issues and concerns of participants in the practice of supervision, and provide a conceptual framework for integrating the vast body of knowledge and skills related to clinical practice. Special emphasis will be on methods of supervision and examining common problems and ethical issues faced by supervisors. The workshop will be presented in a practical manner with the use of case illustrations, video-tape sessions and role-playing.

Workshop Goals and Objectives:

Areas that will be focused on during this two day workshop are:

• Similarities and differences between teaching, training, and supervision.
• The body of knowledge and skills required of effective supervisors.
• Recognizing the characteristics of effective supervision.
• The various methods of supervision.
• The various models of supervision.
• The various responsibilities of clinical supervisors.
• The various legal and ethical problems.

Marshall Jung, DSW

Marshall Jung, DSW, Professor Emeritus, received his master’s from the University of Southern California and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He has over 35 years of social work experience in the capacity of community organizer, agency executive, educator, writer, supervisor, trainer, clinician, facilitator of retreats, and spiritual director. Dr. Jung has presented workshops for the NASW WA State Chapter and he has presented supervision workshops for the NASW California Chapter. Dr. Jung is a nationally recognized expert in marital and family therapy.

He is also recognized for his expertise in presenting models of practice including but not limited to Structural Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Solution Structural Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Case Management, and the Recovery Model of Practice, as well as for his expertise on clinical supervision and ethical practice. He has provided workshops at numerous national and state conferences as well as for developmental centers, family and social service agencies, mental health, health, and residential treatment facilities, and state and veteran’s hospitals throughout the Southwestern United State and Canada.

He has also published in several major professional journals and written two books on clinical practice the first being Constructional Marital Therapy; Theory and Practice and the second Chinese American Family Therapy. His current interest is the integration of spirituality and ego based psychology. He is currently writing his fourth book entitled Hope: A Journey into Mystery and Solitude.