NOTE:  The follow workshop is approved for both social work and LPC credits.  Space still available - call today!
 
PROGRAM: Advanced Clinical Training for Interventions With LGBT Individuals And Communities 
DATE:  May 11, 2007
TIME:  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.          
LOCATION: NRCCE Building, WVU Evansdale Campus, Morgantown, WV
CEUs:  Approved for 7 social work CEUs and 6.5 LPC credits, lunch is provided
PRESENTER:  Kathleen Carrick, MSW, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work SPONSOR:  WVU Division of Social Work 
COST:  $80
 
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:This program is designed to help students develop a critical understanding of issues faced by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender clients.  The course will take a broad view, examining LGBT sexuality from legal, psychological, biological, cultural, ethical, and philosophical frameworks with a particular emphasis on appropriate clinical interventions with LGBT clients.   Topics to be examined include an overview of  LGBT history in the United States, LGBT culture and community resources, the coming out process, LGBT health disparities,  legal issues that affect LGBT clients, LGBT parenting and family concerns, diversity within the LGBT community, and social policy implications.This workshop is intended to help participants evaluate and improve critical analytical skills, and apply them to issues relating to sexuality. The emphasis is on how, not what, to think. That is to say, everyone's opinion and point of view will be respected in lectures and class discussions, but we will be challenging each other to examine critically the processes by which we reach and hold opinions and how these opinions impact our work with LGBT clients.  This session will challenge us to examine our clinical training and/or personal assumptions about the role gender, sexism, and heterosexism play in how we interact with our clients. 
 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to: explain the role that LGBT history and culture have played in meeting the needs of LGBT individuals in our society; recognize the multiple social and institutional barriers faced by members of the LGBT community; screen for LGBT health/mental health issues; and describe appropriate clinical and referral responses for LGBT patients during a mental health evaluation and/or treatment. 
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER, GO TO http://socialwork.wvu.edu/continuing_education or call Jacki Englehardt at 304-293-3501, ext. 3109 

 
Jacki Englehardt, MSW, ACSW
Coordinator of Professional and Community Education
Division of Social Work
West Virginia University
PO Box 6830
Morgantown, WV 26506
304-293-3501, ext. 3109
fax:  304-293-5936
cell: 304-282-0321
Summer Institute on Aging Website:  www.wvsioa.org