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Social Work Today: Summer 2020

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About the Course

This course covers a number of trending practice topics in the field of social work. The topics covered are how to appropriately utilize prayer with clients such that clients benefit, no harm is done, and ethical standards are upheld. Also the use of creative arts as a means of expressing latent feelings is covered in this course. The article examines the impact upon expression from these creative arts. Finally, the social worker participating in this course will examine the role social worker maintain in preserving patient engagement and rapport in a managed care setting.

This course is based on the reading online article, Social Work Today: Summer 2020 created by Sue Coyle, MSW et al in 2020.

Publication Details

Publication Date: Volume 20, Number 4 2020

Course Material Authors

Course Material Authors authored the material only, and were not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Sue Coyle, MSW

Sue Coyle, MSW, is a freelance writer and social worker in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Scott Janssen, MA, MSW, LCSW

Scott Janssen, MA, MSW, LCSW, is a hospice social worker with UNC Health Care Hospice, and a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s trauma-informed care work group.

Lauren Dennelly, MSW, LCSW

Lauren Dennelly, MSW, LCSW, is a doctoral candidate and behavioral health specialist in integrated primary care in Lehigh Valley, PA. She is currently conducting research on the interpersonal dynamics underlying the patient-provider relationship in primary care with patients who have behavioral health needs.

Course Creator

Sandi Cardaman

Sandi Cardaman has been a Licensed Mental Health Counselor for more than 15 years. She has worked with eating disorders, domestic violence and clients who are working with the dependency system.

Target Audience

Social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Participants will be develop knowledge of how creative and expressive therapies may assist clients with substance use disorders cope with feelings by improving communication of unexpressed feelings.
  2. 2 Participants will gain knowledge of how prayer may be used to comfort patients in a manner that is both respectful and adheres to ethical standards.
  3. 3 Participants will gain knowledge of how behavioral health needs of patients are shifting toward primary care physicians and how this is impacting social work practice.

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Sandi Cardaman – None to report.

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