what is a practice where an individual uses a technique such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity
What is meditation?
(True or False) You can pursue your Social Work License after attending any Masters Social Work Program.
What is False? The MSW program must be through a CSWE accredited University.
3/19/19 Prof Development Seminar
Instructor: Noel B. Ramirez, MPH, MSW, LCSW, BCD
Entrepreneur and CEO, this person started his career in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in social work from Hardin-Simmons University. He founded a marketing firm, S. Graham & Associates, and began the non-profit organization, Athletes Against Drugs. Yet, he’s most famous for being romantically linked to Oprah Winfrey. He and the media proprietor have had a “spiritual union” since 1986.
This social worker works at an agency full time and has private clients outside of their agency role. This person also supervises on the side. What do they do?
What is a social workers private practice.
This treatment modality uses horses to address psychotherapy goals set forth by the mental health professional and the client. Due to their sensitivity, horses react and respond to people differently based upon the person's emotional state.
What is Equine-facilitated psychotherapy (EFP) ?
This is the most popular, but not necessarily followed, form of self-care in the United States.
What is Sleep
more than a third of American adults are not getting enough sleep on a regular basis, according to a new study in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
This is the name of the association that coordinates the social work licensing exams.
Who is the Association of Social Work Boards
(ASWB)?
3/19/19 Prof Development Seminar
Instructor: Noel B. Ramirez, MPH, MSW, LCSW, BCD
Before becoming a critically acclaimed actor, this person attended Atlanta’s Morehouse College and majored in social work. He joined the Civil Rights Movement to advocate for Black Power and equal rights. By 1972, he made his feature film debut in Together for Days. Now, this person has a total box office gross over $4.6 million from movies like Pulp Fiction and The Negotiator.
Social workers have used this practice to complement traditional therapies for years. This includes breath work, meditation and movement.
What is Yoga
Yoga is beginning to be included in workshops and courses in social work educational programs across the country, providing social workers the opportunity to learn more about the health benefits of this practice.
This treatment modality uses open ended questions, affirmation, reflective listening and summaries to explore ambivalence around change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational interviewing: Helping People Change. 3nd Ed. New York: Guilford Press.
This form of self-care is characterized by a person using words of affirmation and care towards themselves.
What is positive self talk
People who can master positive self-talk are thought to be more confident, motivated, and productive
This is the average MSW salary range in Philadelphia.
DAILY DOUBLE
This person is a pioneer in the country music scene. She has been involved in charitable giving since she begun her career, recently she funded a large part of the Moderna vaccine and has expanded her Imagination Library charity to Philadelphia. She broke into acting through a movie called 9 to 5 and it features female empowerment in the workforce.
This social worker lives in the area they grew up in and are employed by the local community center. They are marketing themselves online to promote themselves to speak at community events. This person also customizes presentations to facilitate learning based on agency needs.
What is being a paid contractor?
(public speaker, trainer and/or a social media presence are examples of acceptable answers)
This treatment modality is evidence based practice that challenges and changes cognitive distortions and behaviors, improves emotional regulation, and leads to the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/about/pac-20384610
This form of self-care is the one which college students struggle to follow the most.
What is eating healthy
This is an average LCSW salary range.
This person is known as the “mother” of social work. They were a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women’s suffrage and world peace.
In 1889 she co-founded Hull House, and in 1920 she was a co-founder for the ACLU. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States.
This social worker hold a full time job and has decided to make the transition to their own venture. They are going to open a medical needs based business. Some of their ideas include an equipment assessment and installation service and transportation contracts for people who use wheelchairs.
What is a social entrepreneurship venture?
This is a comprehensive program of treatment consisting of individual therapy, group therapy, and a therapist consultation team. There are five primary functions that are addressed: 1. Enhancing capabilities 2. Generalizing capabilities 3. Improving motivation and reducing dysfunctional behaviors 4. Enhancing and maintaining therapist capabilities and motivation 5 Structuring the environment
Describe the best way social workers can reduce their stress levels and prevent burnout?
Create a detailed self-care plan and follow it regularly.
To pursue your LCSW you must complete this amount of clinical supervision hours (individual and group) within this amount of time.
What are 3,000 hours over 2-6 years post graduation?
3/19/19 Prof Development Seminar
Instructor: Noel B. Ramirez, MPH, MSW, LCSW, BCD
This music artist started a non profit foundation with this mission statement "Our goal is take kids off the streets, provide education, financial literacy, and hope for a real future," This artist also founded Take A Stand Records, a record label which will not release music with offensive lyrics. The proceeds from Take A Stand Records go to scholarships for underprivileged youth.
Who is Master P?
An agency, organization or institution selected to receive and manage benefits on behalf of an incapable or legally incompetent beneficiary is?
What is an organizational payee
Beginning January 2019, FFS organizations may collect a fee of up to 10 percent of the total monthly benefits from beneficiaries, up to a maximum of $43 per month. FFS organizations may collect a fee up to 10 percent of the total monthly benefits , up to a maximum of $82 per month, from beneficiaries entitled to disability benefits that have a drug addiction and/or alcoholism condition. SSA must authorize the higher $82 fee.
This psychotherapy treatment alleviates distress associated with traumatic memories. During therapy the client focuses on memories while focusing on an external stimulus. The therapist uses directed lateral eye movements, most commonly. The hypothesis is that you access the traumatic memory network, so that information processing is enhanced, here new associations forged between the traumatic memory and more adaptive memories or information.