Stepping Beyond the Trauma: Liberatory Social Work Practice

9:00am to 12:00pm EST

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Dr. Laura Quiros, PhD., LSW

NASW-NYS Members: FREE

NASW Other Chapter Member (Including NYC): $60

Non-Members: $75

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Workshop Description
Liberatory social work practice is about creating spaces of liberation through a trauma informed social justice lens. There is a tendency to view trauma and traumatic experiences through a deficit lens, but what if we looked at trauma, the naming and defining of trauma, from the lens of opportunity? What is our responsibility as social workers to help our clients find joy? 
This course interrogates the field of social work from the places of trauma, joy and liberation. The presenter will discuss ways to address various forms of traumas, including  cultural, systemic, and individual trauma., The presenter will identify the manifestations of trauma and ways that trauma has the opportunity to bring joy and liberation. This workshop will,  unpack, deconstruct and position trauma as something normative that impacts our individual and collective consciousness. In addition, the workshop will offer ways that social workers can help their clients develop a liberatory and critical consciousness towards trauma. 

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Explain the definition and use of trauma from a critically conscious perspective
• Describe ways to integrate joy and liberation into practice with clients.
• Identify ways to integrate joy and liberation into social work pedagogy.
• Describe post traumatic growth.

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Laura Quiros, PhD., LMSW is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Montclair State University. Her research and scholarly interests focus on the social construction of racial and ethnic identity and trauma informed care from a social justice lens. The common thread in her consulting, teaching and scholarship is elevating complexity and furthering the mission of social justice, including diversity and inclusion. Dr. Quiros also coaches and trains executive level staff across higher education, corporate, non-profits, and the fashion industry; to dig deep and intimately connect to diversity and inclusion. Some of this work involves gently pushing the boundaries of overcoming the resistance to diversity and inclusion work.