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  1. Clinical Strategies to Treat The Relationship to Pain

    May 1, 2025 (all day)

    This course will explore how to assess and understand pain in clinical settings. Focus will be placed on utilizing the language of the client to explore the roots of pain, impact on identity and relationships. Interactive assessment tools will be introduced to explore sources of pain, history of pain, connection of pain to lifestyle and relational adaptions. The course will utilize tools from multiple modalities to explore treatment interventions related to pain.

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  2. Empowering Excellence: Unlocking Potential Through Strengths-based Supervision

    May 2, 2025 - 1:00 PM to 4:15 PM ET

    A strengths-based approach to supervising child welfare workers sets the tone for a supportive work environment that values and builds on the competencies of staff, enhances problem-solving skills, promotes resilience and prevents burn-out. The strengths-based supervision approach supports the implementation of family-centered practice, modeling and reinforcing the same principles caseworkers use with families to explore family strengths and resources. This approach to supervision creates a supportive environment that nurtures the resilience of both workers and by extension, the families they support. The course equips child welfare supervisors with the knowledge, skills, and tools to implement a strengths-based approach to supervision. Participants will learn how to apply strengths-based principles to support, develop, and empower their staff while promoting positive outcomes for children and families.

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  3. School of Social Work Spring Commencement 2025

    May 3, 2025 - 1:30 PM ET

    The School of Social Work Spring Commencement for Social Work students will be held in person at the Power Center and livestreamed on the SSW website. Power Center doors will open for guests and graduates beginning at 12:30pm.

    A light reception will be held in the Power Center Lobby immediately following the commencement ceremony.

    Specific instructions and information will be added to this page as commencement approaches. In the meantime, view the School of Social Work Commencement Guide for general commencement information.

    Parking: The Fletcher street parking structure located at 201 Fletcher Street will also be open to the public for parking at no charge. The Thayer street parking structure located at 216 S. Thayer Street will be open to the public for parking at no charge. Handicap parking is available in both structures. For driving directions & campus maps: https://campusinfo.umich.edu/campusmap 

    Have questions? Contact: [email protected]

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  4. Mandatory Pre-Field Orientation Virtual Webinar for MSW Students Starting Field in the Spring/Summer 2025 Term

    May 6, 2025 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

    This event is for students starting Field, residential and online, for the Spring/Summer 2025 term. This mandatory session will help to provide an overview of what to expect in Field your first term, what is required for a successful grade, and to answer any questions students may have. Please ensure you are attending the correct Field Faculty meeting. If you are unsure of who your Field Faculty is, check your SW 515 canvas site. If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact the field office at [email protected]. Please register for this Webinar below. 

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  5. Alumni Webinar Series | From Values to Vision: Building a Thriving Private Practice

    May 8, 2025 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET

    Participants will learn how to build a private practice rooted in the core values of social work while mastering essential entrepreneurial and marketing skills. Whether you are just starting out or looking to grow your practice, this course will provide actionable strategies to lay a strong foundation, attract ideal clients, and create a thriving business that aligns with your professional ethics...

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  6. Sexuality, Social Work, and Exploring Implicit Bias

    May 9, 2025 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

    This course challenges learners to explore their personal values, beliefs and judgements related to issues of sexuality. Interpersonal practice tools will be offered to assist clients in holding personal beliefs and values and remaining present to client's sexual self, needs, beliefs. Lecture and discussion will examine how implicit bias can limit services and harm clients, particular limits to sexually diverse populations. Sexual health will be considered as a social justice issue.

    This course has been developed to meet the Michigan implicit bias training requirements for health professionals.

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  7. SSW Meeting - Executive Committee

    May 13, 2025 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

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  8. Anti-Saneism in Mental Healthcare: Mad/Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice

    May 14, 2025 - 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET

    Saneism is one of the many interconnected systems of oppression in our culture, and is a variation of ableism. It refers to the systematic power and privilege granted to people who conform to our culture’s socially constructed definition of “normal” ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, and the oppression and pathologizing of people who deviate from this definition of “normal”. The conventional mental health system in our culture is built on saneist foundations, and this can lead to “iatrogenic” harm – harm caused by clinical interventions that are intended to help. But thanks to the activism and scholarship of people in the Disability Justice, Mad Pride, and Neurodiversity movements (and the academic disciplines of Disability Studies and Mad Studies), there are now ample tools available to support clinicians in providing mental healthcare without saneism. ...

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