Home Region News & Events Region M News
Region M News Print
Critical Thinking:

An Ethical Approach to Social Work Practice

Psycho-Social and Cultural

Aspects of Pain Management

This workshop is CE approved for 5 hours of Social Work Ethics AND one hour of pain/pain symptom management.

Saturday ~ January 28, 2012

MISD – Michigan/Superior Rooms

9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Presenters:
Dr. Roger Manela, LMSW, ACSW - School Social Worker Detroit Public Schools

Pamela Manela, LMSW, ACSW - Retired School Social Worker Southfield Public School, Member of State of Michigan Board of Social Work

Ethical issues in social work practice will be described and discussed using a model of critical thinking to help social workers identify and avoid biased and narrow perspectives that could lead to ethical problems in social work practice.  This presentation will help sensitize participants to ethical issues in social work practice and how to resolve ethical dilemmas that could arise. It also will describe processes for mitigating ethical problems and procedures used to investigate and deal with ethical complaints.  The Social Work Code of Ethics will be examined, with special attention paid to areas of ethical social work practice that are particularly relevant to school social workers.

In addition, the psycho-social and cultural aspects of pain and pain management will be discussed from a perspective that is especially relevant to social work practice.

AGENDA
8:30   Registration (continental breakfast provided) Please have your license number available at registration.

9:00 – 12:00 (15 minute break provided) SOCIAL WORK ETHICS

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch (provided)

12:30 – 2:30 SOCIAL WORK ETHICS  (cont.)

2:30 Break

2:45 – 4:00  (15 minute break provided) PSYCHO-SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF PAIN MANAGEMENT

Cost and Registration: (Space limited)
Cost $30 for MASSW members, $35 for non-members.   Please make checks payable to MASSW, and mark Attention: Anne Marie Timpf, Dakota High School, 21051 21 Mile Road, Macomb MI, 48044. There is a $10 CE fee for non-members of MASSW.

Registration is mandatory. You may register beginning 12/22/11 at www.misd.net. Click on the Course Offering tab and click on view by month, choose January. Link will be listed under Special Education, click and register.

Note: This event is open to all social workers.



Handouts/Links from 1/13/12:

Seclusions and Restraint Document**

Discipline Procedures**

Handouts from 9/23/11:

ACSSW Handout from the Summer

Creating Meaningful and Measurable Early Childhood IEP Goals

Hello Everyone,

Welcome back to a new school year!  You should've received a notice  regarding upcoming mandatory Medicaid trainings held at the MISD  PLEASE keep in mind that we have our first MASSW meeting scheduled for Friday September 23rd from 12:30 to 3:30.  Please consider this when you register for the Medicaid training.

Yes, our September presentation is a 3 hour CE approved session, Developing Standards for Effective School Social Work Practice. Sue Welcome, school social worker from the Oakland Intermediate School District will facilitate the afternoon session.  She will lead a discussion on the roles of school social workers, provide information on evidence-based screening tools, and spend the majority of the afternoon addressing goals and objectives of interventions.

Please mark your calendars ~ MASSW schedule for the 2011-2012 school year:

1/14/12 - Michigan/Superior - 12:30 p.m.

3/23/12 - Michigan/Superior - 12:30 p.m.

5/4/12 - Michigan/Superior - 12:30 p.m.

Please plan to attend September's meeting.  It's a GREAT way to start off the school year!!!!

Your MASSW Region M Board,

Anne Marie
Glynnis
Mary
Alan
Steve

Note: Non-MASSW members will be charged $10 for CE's.

----------------------------------------------

Previous Meetings' Handouts

3/12/10- AGENDA

3/12/10- CE FORM

3/12/10- RTI HANDOUT

 

WEBSITE: www.misd.net/ssw

Additional Websites:

-CARE of Macomb- www.careofmacomb.com

- Macomb Connection- www.misd.net/connection/content.htm

------------------------------------------------

Officers:

President: ANNE MARIE TIMPF, Chippewa Valley Schools, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 586.723.2768

Vice-President: GLYNIS DALE, Van Dyke Public Schools, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 586.759-9470

Delegate: STEVE WHITMORE, Utica Community Schools, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 586.797.3944

Treasurer: ALAN KOSHKO, Warren Woods Public Schools, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 586.439.4626

Secretary: MARY BROOKS, East Detroit Public Schools, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 586.445.4665 and 586.445.4640


 


Last Updated on Friday, January 13 2012 11:59