Spaces still available in the following workshops, register today!! 
More info and registration form are attached and available for download
at http://socialwork.wvu.edu/continuing_education

October 16, 2008, 9am-4pm, South Branch Inn, Moorefield, WV
To Cross or Not to Cross: Boundary Dilemmas In The Therapeutic
Relationship
Jane B. Riffe, EdD, MSW, LPC, WVU Extension Specialist in Human
Development and Family Relations, Families and Health Center
CEU’s: 6 Social Work hours (Approved for 6 SW Ethics hours); 5.5 LPC
hours (Approved for 5.5 Counseling Ethics CEUs for LPCs)
Registration Fee: $65 

Maintaining clear and ethical boundaries in the therapy relationship can
be challenging. Clinicians must have solid skills in conceptualizing,
setting, and maintaining ethical boundaries throughout the client’s
experience. The power imbalance in the professional helping relationship
creates many potential pitfalls to violate boundaries in subtle ways
that do not serve the client. 

Participants in this session will examine in detail their own practices
of operationalizing boundaries in relationships with clients. Tools
needed to resolve common boundary dilemmas common in everyday practice
will be discussed. The ACA and the NASW Code of Ethics will be used as a
basis to explore the nuances of dual relationships, confidentiality in
rural settings, “therapeutic boundary crossings” vs. boundary
violations, client enmeshment/dependency, couples therapy, and other
potential boundary breakdowns.  The format will be didactic,
interspersed with focus group discussions applying the professional
codes to practice situations.  Discussion of practices which could limit
malpractice liability will be included. 

October 17, 2008, 9am-5pm, Tamarack, Beckley, WV
Understanding the Borderline Personality: Dancing with Fear
Linda Ferrise, Linda Ferrise, MSW, Clinical Associate Professor and BSW
Program Director, WVU Division of Social Work and Chatman Neely, LCSW,
ACSW, PhD Candidate, Senior Lecturer, Wheeling MSW Site Coordinator, WVU
Division of Social Work
CEUs: 7 Social Work hours, 6.5 LPC hours
Registration Fee: $75.00 (Early bird rate of $67.50 by September 26,
2008)
Target Audience:  All levels of practitioners.

The notion “stably unstable” is often used to describe people with
Borderline Personality Disorder.  This workshop presents a psychodynamic
perspective on how this unique pathology develops.  We will examine the
relationships that develop between a borderline client and the people
who care for them. Treatment models will be presented that promote
mutual growth in both client and helper.  The central dynamic for
treatment revolves around dealing with notions of fear of real vs.
imagined abandonment.  A treatment approach promoting the need for
"structure + consistently = safety" will be presented through case
presentations, role-play and art.
October 17, 2008, 9am-5pm, Tamarack, Beckley, WV
Understanding the Borderline Personality: Dancing with Fear
Linda Ferrise, Linda Ferrise, MSW, Clinical Associate Professor and BSW
Program Director, WVU Division of Social Work and Chatman Neely, LCSW,
ACSW, PhD Candidate, Senior Lecturer, Wheeling MSW Site Coordinator, WVU
Division of Social Work
CEUs: 7 Social Work hours, 6.5 LPC hours
Registration Fee: $75.00 

The notion “stably unstable” is often used to describe people with
Borderline Personality Disorder.  This workshop presents a psychodynamic
perspective on how this unique pathology develops.  We will examine the
relationships that develop between a borderline client and the people
who care for them. Treatment models will be presented that promote
mutual growth in both client and helper.  The central dynamic for
treatment revolves around dealing with notions of fear of real vs.
imagined abandonment.  A treatment approach promoting the need for
"structure + consistently = safety" will be presented through case
presentations, role-play and art.

October 21, 2008, 1-5pm, Center for Corporate and CommunCathy McConnell, Esq., Executive Director, West Virginia Senior Legal
Aid
CEU’s: 4 Social Work hours; 3.75 LPC hours
Registration Fee: $45 

The presenter will describe the basics of the following elderlaw issues
relevant to senior West Virginians:  dying without a will and wills
generally; legal decision-making devices (DPOA, Guardianship,
Conservatorship, MPOA, HCS); long-term care Medicaid basics and recent
changes; dealing with debt and preserving assets (including basics of
reverse mortgages); divorce in later life; Medicare basics; and housing
& homeownership issues.  This workshop will help participants identify
and debunk common legal myths, spot legal issues ripe for referral to
legal services, and link to resources for more in-depth learning.

October 22, 2008, 9am-12pm, National Resource Center for Coal and Energy
(NRCCE) Building, Room 101B, Morgantown, WV
Ethical Decision Making:  Let’s Make this Ethics Workshop Interesting
and Fun!
Judy Kramer, LICSW, ACSW, Life Reflections Counseling, Elkins, WV
CEUs: 3 Social Work hours (approved for 3 SW Ethics hours), 2.75 LPC
hours
Registration Fee: $35 or take afternoon session for a combined fee of
$65 

The social work code of ethics is broad guidelines which are designed to
maintain a standard of professional conduct.  Because there are so many
“gray” areas for decision-making and the guidelines are generalized,
there is much room for personal interpretation.  Therefore we must work
on being in touch with our own values and ethics and its impact on our
professional decision-making.   Join Ms. Kramer for an ethics workshop
that is engaging, quick paced, and fun.

October 22, 2008, 1:30-4:30pm, National Resource Center for Coal and
Energy (NRCCE) Building, Room 101B, Morgantown, WV
The Supervisor’s Role in Understanding and Managing the Secondary Trauma
of Front-line Helpers
Patricia Chase, LCSW, EdD, Clinical Assistant Professor, WVU Division of
Social Work
CEUs: 3 Social Work hours, 2.75 LPC hours
Registration Fee: $35 or take morning session for a combined fee of $65 

This workshop will explore the harmful consequences of work assignments
that require social workers to be continuously exposed to human
suffering, violence, and trauma.  Participants will learn to recognize
the symptoms of secondary trauma in persons they supervise, and will be
provided with strategies for assisting employees to build personal
protective factors that can help insolate them from potential harm and
ease symptoms when they experience them.

October 24, 2008, 9am-5:30pm, Dorothy McCormack Center, Suite 2500,
Martinsburg, WV
Hate Crimes: Family and Community Responses 
Kathleen Carrick, MSW, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh School of
Social Work
CEU’s: 7 Social Work hours; 6.5 LPC hours
Registration Fee: $75 
	
Hate crimes are committed based upon actual or perceived differences in
racial, ethnic, religious, or sexual orientation. Recruitment efforts of
hate groups as well as organizations that monitor and track hate crimes
and hate groups have changed drastically with the internet.  Topics to
be examined throughout the day include an overview of historical and
present day hate crimes; psychological and cultural factors; community
responses; grief and the healing process; and resources for coping in
the aftermath of a hate crime.  We will discuss methods to improve
tolerance and respect for diversity within a community; and changes in
both state and federal legislation for persecution of hate crimes.








Ҩ7ᵘği 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
WVU Division of Social Work Website:  http://socialwork.wvu.edu

March is National Professional Social Work Month