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• Psychodynamic Peer Clinical Consultation Group (June 2025)

  • When
    Saturday, June 14, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Location
    ONLINE ZOOM Meeting

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  Join us for a monthly peer consultation group designed for clinical social workers interested in understanding and working through a psychodynamic lens in a supportive, collegial environment. Transference, countertransference and other relational dynamics will be explored to further our understanding and clinical work with our clients. This is a CSCSW members only group open to those at all levels of practice, including students, ASW’s and LCSW’s.

  NOTE: This Consultation Group does not meet supervision requirements for licensure hours, and neither the leader nor the CSCSW is responsible for the participants’ clinical work. 

  If you are not a member join today - click here to learn more. 

  MEMBER'S ONLY EVENT - FREE FOR ALL MEMBERS This Consultation/Support Group does not award CEUs.

  
  

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• Support group for Social Work students and ASW’s (June 2025)

  • When
    Thursday, June 19, 2025
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    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    ONLINE ZOOM Meeting

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  Please join us at our next support group for Social work students and ASWs.

  Feeling lost, stressed, excited? Don't have time for the self care everyone keeps talking about? You are not alone! 

  Bring your questions and concerns, share your journey and connect with others, through this open group for any social work student or ASW in need of support.  The group will meet with members once a month to discuss topics related to being a social work student or graduate in pursuit of a clinical license.

  The forum will provide a semi-structured discussion in a safe and encouraging space. Topics are expected to be broad in range but may include: internships, managing hours and licensing exams, supervisors and supervision.  The goal of this group is to meet with other aspiring clinical social workers and share successes, challenges, stressors and ethical issues.

  Group will meet on Zoom the third Thursday of each month from 5:00 to 6:00.  Cost is free to members and non-members.

  If you have any questions about the support group, please contact Emily Plain, MSW |   cscswgla@gmail.com

  If you are not a member join today - click here to learn more. 

  This Consultation/Support Group does not award CEUs.

  
  

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• Retirement Discussion Group - June 2025

  • When
    Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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    8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM

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  Retirement! Is it on the horizon for you? The California Society for Clinical Social Work (CSCSW) invites you to join its Retirement Discussion Group (RDG). 

  Free group for CSCSW Members who are thinking about retiring

  The group will provide a mutually supportive space for participants to explore how it's done, logistics, tapering down, clinical issues with clients, and our feelings about it. As we benefit from consultation and assistance at the beginning and middle phases of our careers, it is no different when it comes to closing out a fulfilling career in a way that we feel is ethically and practically sound. 

  Make a cup of coffee and join us 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. 

  
  

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• Incorporating Behavioral Activation for Depression into Clinical Practice

  • When
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Online WEBINAR
  • Registered
    196 registrants

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  Presenters: Nina Josefowitz ONLINE ZOOM -  WILL BE RECORDED Costs: CSCSW Member: FREE | Nonmember (with CEUs): $35 | Student: FREE 1 CEU

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  Description:

  Behavioral Activation is one of the most effective treatments for depression. It has been endorsed as an evidence-based treatment by psychiatric and psychological

  associations in the United States, Canada, England, Australia and New Zealand. Behavioral activation is based on disrupting the vicious cycle of depression. Individuals who are depressed start to avoid daily activities, even ones they previously found pleasurable. While this can provide short-term relief, when people avoid, they become more depressed and then want to avoid more. This sets up the vicious cycle where depression leads to avoiding activities, which leads to more depression, which leads to more avoidance and increasing depression.

  Behavioral Activation focuses on breaking this cycle. This workshop will start with how to develop a collaborative case conceptualization to help your client understand their depression. We will then demonstrate the steps involved in behavioral activation interventions: 1) how to assess your depressed client's daily life using the Daily

  Activities Schedule and 2) how to use what you discover in the Daily Activities Schedule to systematically and effectively incorporate activities into your clients’ lives that improve their functioning and mood.

  The second part of the workshop will focus on how to improve the overall effectiveness of behavioral activation and client motivation by using strategies associated with third-wave CBT. We will specifically look at the role of mindfulness and values-based action. The workshop will be helpful to clinicians who have wanted to include behavioral activation into their practice but are not sure where to begin, as well as clinicians who regularly use behavioral activation and are looking for strategies to improve their effectiveness and client motivation.

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  Learning Objectives:

  At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Understand the theoretical assumptions underlying behavioral activation
  2. Outline the key steps of behavioral activation
  3. Identify clients’ patterns of mood boosting and mood busting behaviors
  4. Collaboratively develop effective behavioral activation plans
  5. Identify and troubleshoot motivational barriers

  ABOUT THE PRESENTER Dr. Nina Josefowitz has over thirty years of experience as a CBT therapist and teacher. She has spent most of her career as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education//University of Toronto. She teaches a graduate course in cognitive behavioural therapy as well as counselling courses in the Global Mental Health program. Dr. Josefowitz was on the Council of the College of Psychologists for 9 years and President of the College from 2001 to 2003. She has published in the area of cognitive behaviour therapy, trauma, women’s issues, forensic assessment, ethics and clinical psychology. The second edition of her book CBT Made Simple: A Clinicians Guide to Practicing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy was published 2021. Her most recent book, The Behavioral Activation Workbook on Depression, which she co-authored with Dr. Stephen Swallow, was published this year.

  This ONLINE WEBINAR meets the qualifications for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.  Note: With supervisor approval, registered ASWs may use CEs toward LCSW hours. Cancellation Policy 14 days or more before event date: Full refund 13-7 days before event date: 75% refund 6 days or less before event date: No refund Note:  Registration will be canceled if payment is not made at least 7 days prior to the event.

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• Clinical Practice Peer Support Group (July 2025)

  • When
    Saturday, July 12, 2025
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    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    ONLINE ZOOM Meeting

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  After five years, our Telehealth Consultation and Support Group will be evolving to the "Clinical Practice Peer Support Group" in which members will be able to provide mutual support to one another in addressing non-clinical practice topics in a broader manner, such as, telehealth, professional boundaries, insurance or fees, ethical or legal considerations, and compliance with regulations, etc.

  Whether you work in an agency or private practice, you are welcome to participate in this group. Members have an opportunity to network and make connections with other practitioners across the state. All CSCSW members are welcome!

  PLEASE REGISTER AND A ZOOM LINK WILL BE FORWARDED TO YOUR EMAIL.

  If you are not a member join today - click here to learn more. 

  MEMBER'S ONLY EVENT - FREE FOR ALL MEMBERS This Consultation/Support Group does not award CEUs.

  
  

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• Engaging with Families Impacted by Individual, Intergenerational, and Historical Trauma

  • When
    Sunday, August 17, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM

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  ONLINE ZOOM WEBINAR -  WILL NOT BE RECORDED
  

  Costs: Member - $95.00 | Nonmember - $135.00 | Student - $30   
  Presenter:  Jeanette Lopez-Urbina, LCSW

  In this training, participants will learn about principles of engagement that can be applied when providing services to families who have experienced generations of trauma, including individual, intergenerational, and historical trauma. Typical challenges found in the engagement process in supporting this population will also be identified, such as cultural implications, bias, and social justice issues. Lastly, we will discuss practices and effective strategies for the engagement process and in building a positive alliance with families from a trauma informed and multicultural perspective.

  Workshop Objectives:   

   Review definition and importance of engagement in service delivery.  

  Review, at least, 3 principles typically valued and applied in the engagement process during service delivery.  

  Identify, at least, 3 challenges found in engagement as well as identify, at least, 5 strategies to address the challenges.  

  Review and apply, at least, 3 approaches in building positive alliance from a multicultural perspective.   

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  About the Presenter:

  Jeanette Lopez-Urbina, LCSW has worked in the mental health/social services field since the year 2000, in various settings in Northern and Southern California, including residential and community-based services, through services such as Wraparound, psychotherapy, and violence prevention work. Jeanette has worked extensively with youth and families, especially in the area of trauma, including supporting youth and families in specialized services that address gang involvement, sexual exploitation, immigration trauma, and issues related oppression, racism, and acculturation issues. Jeanette is a bilingual first-generation Salvadoran American practitioner who enjoys practicing mostly from a social justice, relational, and psychodynamic approach. She currently is the owner of a group Private Practice in Berkeley, is adjunct faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and has been a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Jeanette provides trainings throughout the Bay Area on topics related to best practices in serving the Latine population, trauma informed care, and culturally responsive services. 

  This webinar meets the qualifications for 3.0 hours continuing education credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.  Note: With supervisor approval, registered ASWs may use CEs toward LCSW hours. Cancellation Policy 14 days or more before event date: Full refund 13-7 days before event date: 75% refund 6 days or less before event date: No refund Note:  Registration will be canceled if payment is not made at least 7 days prior to the event.

  
  

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