NASW Courses Available (Virginia)
| Title | Credits | Description |
| Multiculturally Inclusive Practice With Older Adults | 3.0 | This workshop is designed to help participants embrace their own cultural aging experience. It begins with recognition that culture becomes more important to individuals as they grow older. Therefore, if we practitioners are to provide optimal services to our older adult population, we must move beyond the passive approach of cultural competence, to an activist approach of cultural inclusion. |
| Golden Memories of Social Work | 3.0 | This workshop focuses on the practice of social work a half century ago. NASW members who practiced in the 1950s and 1960s share their reflections about social work prior to computers, the administration of drugs, judicial activism, managed care, and de-institutionalization. More than nostalgia, the workshop is intended to celebrate our accomplishments and help us focus on where the profession may go in the next fifty years. |
| Restorative Principles: Calming Victims, Bullies and Communities Together | 3.0 | This workshop features discussion and experiences of a successful paradigm for settling conflict and simultaneously improving community relations. The social work mission for assisting personal, organizational and community development toward justice and fair opportunity is supported through an increase in the use of restorative justice principles that is gaining use worldwide to repair harms and build connections that heal bullies and victims and all their relations. |
| Rural Social Work: Looking Forward by Looking Behind | 2.0 | This workshop explores the future of rural practice through an historical lens. Connections with the present to early writings and issues of rural social work, which is approaching its 100-year mark, are made. Projects for the future of rural practice are suggested. |
| The Five Cycles of Emotional Abuse: A Personal/Professional/Political Continuum: Origins, Implications and Treatment | 2.0 | This workshop focuses on emotional abuse as an outright category, not as ancillary to other types. The presenter suggests a new codification: five cycles of emotional abuse (rage, abandonment, enmeshment, neglect, and overprotection) which begin in childhood, and perpetuate in future relationships, with disastrous effects on family, community, and society. |
| AA, MM, RR, SMART, DSM: Chemical Dependency and Social Work | 3.0 | This workshop reviews major self (and mutual) help groups for the chemically dependent (Alcoholics Anonymous, Moderation Management, Rational Recovery, SMART Recovery), identifying underlying premises of each. It also reviews Substance Related Disorders from DSM IV TR. Knowledge of these groups and the disorders helps social workers better serve substance-using clients or their significant others. |
| Relaxation Training: An Innovative Solution in the Treatment of Anger Management | 3.0 | As incidents of violence increase, Relaxation Training with its potential for brain synchronization and re-organization is an innovative solution in the treatment of anger management. Relaxation Training decreases stress and anger and is easy to use with clients in many social settings. Relaxation training creates work-life balances and improves health. |
| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | 3.0 | This program provides an overview and working knowledge of DSM IV TR, the primary tool for making psychiatric diagnosis. Major topics include: Historic division of DSM, Primary purposes of DSM, The five Axes of DSM, Diagnosis Groups, and Application in Assessment and Diagnosis. |
| Economic Human Rights | 2.0 | This program is designed to develop beginning skills in using this alternative framework in their daily practice. The program assesses assumptions about the poor and poverty that inform practice; explores key elements of economic human rights framework, and applies the framework to practice in a variety of settings. |
| Narrative Approaches in Clinical Social Work | 2.0 | This program will introduce you to Narrative Therapy and the theories and strategies that are used in the approach to treatment. Careful listening, reflecting, summarizing, and paraphrasing are techniques demonstrated in the program. |
| Issues in Domestic Violence | see below | The five courses in Issues in Domestic Violence, are designed as a comprehensive curriculum, but no restrictions are placed on which ones or how many a registrant may take. The five Domestic Violence courses would be worth 15 credit hours, if all five were taken, which is half the total credit required by the deadline. Click the link below for more information. |