Fundamentals of Social Work with Immigrants Part 2

1:00pm to 4:00pm ET

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Dr. Blanca Ramos, PhD, LMSW

NASW-NYS Members: $45

NASW Other Chapter Member (Including NYC): $75

Non-Members: $90

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

Please ensure that you register and/or join on Zoom with the name you would like to appear on your certificate.

Workshop DescriptionThis course will strengthen practitioners’ preparedness to work effectively with clients who are immigrants and refugees. The course will focus on the psychological strain stemming from the complex, multiple psychosocial adjustments and disparities associated with the processes of migration and resettlement. Acculturation, acculturative stress and their potential adverse impacts on clients’ well-being will be highlighted. Practice skills, professional values and ethics, and theoretical concepts and strategies for assessment will be discussed. Some of the content of this course could also be applicable in social work practice with diverse, oppressed, and marginalized populations.
 

Learning Objectives

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

1. Describe the macro level forces and immigration policies that affect the lives of immigrants and refugees.
2. Discuss the psychological strain stemming from the multiple psychosocial adjustments and disparities associated with migration and resettlement.
3. Describe acculturation and the potential adverse impacts of acculturative stress, social injustice, xenophobia, prejudice, racism, and discrimination on clients’ well-being.
4. Discuss ways to apply practice skills, self-awareness, culturally appropriate strategies and the profession’s values and ethics in social work with immigrants and refugees.
5. Describe the cultural congruence of selected theoretical approaches and practice models for effective practice with clients who are immigrants and refugees

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:

Dr. Blanca M. Ramos, PhD LMSW, Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare and Department of Latin American Studies, at the University at Albany has extensive experience conducting workshops and presentations, at the national and international levels, focused on immigrants and refugees. Dr. Ramos developed a Master’s level advanced clinical course, Social Work Practice with Immigrants, which she has taught consecutively for over 15 years. Dr. Ramos is the first author of an upcoming textbook on social sork practice with immigrants and refugees.