Professional Development
Continuing Education
CCYSB is accredited by the Maryland Board of Social Workers to provide continuing education credits to social workers who attend agency sponsored trainings. CCYSB offers a full day training annually for staff and mental health professionals in the area. In addition, there are half-day workshops offered throughout the year for staff and community mental health providers, space permitting. CEU Coordinator Nan Billingslea at 410-848-2500 x8643 or 443-244-8643.
Upcoming Trainings
Social Workers As Ethical Professionals
Date: May 5, 2010, 9 am - 12 pm
**Register by April 28, 2010**
Click Here to download the registration form
Location: Carroll County Youth Service Bureau
59 Kate Wagner Rd.
Westminster, MD 21157
Presenter: Mary Raphel, Ph.D., LCSW-C, Private Practitioner
Synopsis: Becoming a therapist doesn't make you perfect or superhuman. As a social worker, you have or will make some mistakes. This workshop will help you to ethically reflect on what you are doing and whose needs are primary. Through discussion, case examples and interactive exercises, we will explore the most common client behaviors as sources of therapist stress, social worker impairment, and staying alive professionally.
Learning Objectives:
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Define the impaired practitioner
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Review various codes of ethics which address practitioner impairment
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Explore the stresses of being an over-responsive therapist
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Identify and become aware of possible causes of burn-out
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Recognize signs that indicate you are becoming professionally depleted
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Develop a method of self assessment for danger signs leading to impairment
*Please note: this workshop meets the MD Board of Social Work Examiners three hour ethics requirment for licensure renewal
CE: 3, Category 1
Cost: $60