Showing events starting from November 1, 2014 up to November 30, 2014
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Understanding Licensure (Repeat)
November 7, 2014 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Michelle Woods demystifies licensure.
*This is a repeat session of 10/20.
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HIV/AIDS: Evidence Based Programs, Policies and Services
November 8, 2014 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET
This mini-course will acquaint students with the basic and advanced facts about AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), sensitize students to the multitude of public health, social policy and social service delivery issues that AIDS presents, and provide US and global perspectives to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. Students will be sensitized to the special challenges AIDS presents for social work practice. Students will be presented with an approach to evidence based practice, and will review the state of HIV related evidence based prevention practice from national and global perspectives.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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CBT for Major Depression and Other Related Mood Disorders
November 8, 2014 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET
This course will include a comprehensive review of cognitive-behavioral therapy for major depression and other related mood disorders. Behavioral activation, problem solving, and cognitive restructuring techniques will be reviewed and practiced in an interactive format. Video-taped and live CBT interventions will presented throughout the course. Training in intervention related homework exercises and techniques for enhancing adherence to outside of session exercises will also be an integral part of the course.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education - UC San Diego
November 8, 2014 - 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
An admissions representive will attend the California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education at UC San Diego to share information about U-M's MSW and PhD programs. For more information contact ssw.msw.info.umich.edu.
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CASC DECLARE Retreat
November 8, 2014 to November 9, 2014
CASC is launching a new retreat called “Declare: Develop Explore Challenge Learn Act Reflect Empower.” Retreats will focus around critical social identity reflection, community engagement, and self-development.
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Alumni Lunch Series: Vanessa Vaughn, Clinical Social Worker at Henry Ford Hospital
November 10, 2014 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Alumna Vanessa Vaughn will discuss her work as a clinical social worker at the Henry Ford Hospital.
This event may be of special interest to Interpersonal Practice, Mental Health, and other students interested in working in a hospital setting.
*Lunch will be provided
Please RSVP to ssw-cso@umich.edu with any dietary restrictions
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Global Lens: Social Work Reflective Photo Exhibition 2014
November 10, 2014 to November 24, 2014
The Office of Global Activities and the International Social Work Student Association are holding a reflective photo exhibition as a part of Global Social Work Week (November 10-14, 2014). Share your experience living and working in another country through photos and stories. This is a way for students, staff or faculty to express, compare, and contrast their experience in a new place, and to raise awareness for international students and education abroad opportunities on campus. The exhibition will be on display in the SSWB across from the Office of Student Services from November 10-24, 2014.
The Reflective Photo Gallery is a project for all students, alumni, faculty and staff in the School of Social Work to reflect on their identity as a visitor through photography and narratives of when they were abroad. Students with U.S. citizenships as well as international students are encouraged to participate in the process of reflecting and sharing their experience in cross-national and cross-cultural settings. Participants are encouraged to submit photos of their time abroad using the lens of a camera to capture and reflect on issues of Privilege, Oppression, Diversity, and Social Justice.
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Los Angeles Idealist Grad Fair
November 10, 2014 - 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
Stop by the Idealist.org Graduate School Fair to speak with an admissions representative about U-M's MSW and PhD programs. The fair is free and open to anyone considering graduate school.
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“Goodbye Lenin” Film Screening and Discussion
November 10, 2014 - 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM ET
“Goodbye Lenin” is a lighthearted film that provides a funny, thoughtful presentation of the short and longer term effects of the fall of the Wall in routine family life. Reflections about the personal and social impact of the fall are facilitated by a small group of faculty, staff and students who engaged in community work in Amsterdam and Berlin in May 2014 as part of the SSW 503 "International Community Organizing" course.
Pizza will be served.
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November Social Justice Grand Rounds Series: Ethics CEU's
November 11, 2014 - 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM ET
The UMHS Department of Social Work Education Committee and the UMHS Department of Social Work Staff Development Committee invite you to attend the fall term 2014 Social Justice Grand Rounds Series. These rounds offer unique opportunities for both social work students, UMHS social work staff, and U-M SSW faculty.
*CE availability: 1.5 CE per event. No registration is necessary.
Social Justice Grand Rounds is the only structured event at U-M that formally unites graduate students in social work, field instructors, other social workers, and social work faculty in a collaborative effort to address social injustice through the use of an actual case illustrative of injustice in health care, as presented by a student in Field at UMHS. This event will have Stephany Trujillo as the student presenter.