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Free State Social Work

This course describes differences in alcohol and substance use among East Asian American youth subgroups including Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese Americans. The course explores various factors that may influence substance use for EAA subgroups (stigma, acculturation, peers, norms) and challenges the Model Minority Myth. Culturally appropriate prevention and treatment preferences are discussed.

Free State Social Work

This course offers clinical guidance and discussion for mental health clinicians who work and collaborate with African American men. The course highlights the importance of Afrocentric values, including mutuality, emotional connection, and spirituality. Challenges of marginalization, oppression, and racism are explored along with other barriers to care. The course offers three frameworks for practice: social determinants of health, intersectionality, and narrative practice.

Free State Social Work

This course examines a qualitative research study that explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ young adults in mental healthcare. The course explores themes, describes barriers, and offers recommendations for affirmative mental healthcare for LGBTQ+ young adults.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course explores advocacy for Black women survivors of intimate partner violence and offers strategies that are survivor-centered, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and strengths-based. Using an intersectional approach, the course highlights the multiple forms of oppression experienced by Black survivors and details the overrepresentation of Black women among survivors of reproductive coercion, non-fatal strangulation, and intimate partner homicide.

Free State Social Work

Examines the impact of familism on victimization in Mexican families, using qualitative research including 50 interviews of people convicted of crimes in Mexico. Identifies four main processes: preventing victims from disclosing family violence, preventing families from denouncing violence, victims remaining with families despite abuse, and victims being forced to remain in abusive relationships.

Free State Social Work

This course highlights the political action and leadership of early African American social workers and their work challenging discrimination and injustice while advocating for systemic change. It uses Lane and Pritzker's five domains of political social work practice as a framework and includes the NASW 2021 Blueprint of Federal and Social Policy Priorities.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course explores the unique needs of special populations experiencing stimulant use disorders. The course examines treatment and care considerations for racial/ethnic minorities, women, men who have sex with men, the transgender and gender nonbinary community, adolescents, people experiencing homelessness, rural populations, people involved with the criminal justice system, people with or at risk for HIV/AIDs, and more. Strategies are given for improving engagement, rapport, and treatment outcomes.

Free State Social Work

This course is the second of a 3-part series on recovery from problematic substance use and offers a framework for supporting recovery with counseling. The course explores strengths-based, recovery-oriented counseling and includes a discussion of values, recovery capital, unconditional positive regard, cues for health and well-being, self-efficacy, and motivation.

Free State Social Work

This course explores trauma assessment and treatment considerations for lesbian, gay, and bisexual veterans. The course identifies unique stressors experienced by sexual minoritized veterans and provides context for minority stress and trauma. Topics of post-traumatic stress disorder, Criterion A events, diagnostic assessment, rapport, and evidence-based practice are discussed. Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy are highlighted.

Free State Social Work

This course examines supportive practices for working with LGBTQ+ families in foster care and adoption and offers guidance for building trusting and successful relationships. The course describes the advantages and challenges of engaging, recruiting, and helping LGBTQ+ families and aims to strengthen cultural competence for child welfare professionals.

Free State Social Work

This course examines suicide risk and cultural variation among high-achieving Asian Americans. The course explores cultural and family factors and offers examples of acculturation, acculturative stress, stereotype, obligatory stress, and cultural humility. A case example of a high-achieving Asian American adolescent in a large high school is presented. Recommendations for clinical interventions are provided.

Free State Social Work

This thought-provoking course explores the relationship between social work and the child welfare system and critiques the federal Title IV-E training program and the ethical conflicts involved in training MSW students to regulate families. The course examines the forces of racism, classism, misogyny, and injustice within the child welfare system.

Free State Social Work

This course explores culturally specific and responsive strategies for working with immigrant and refugee families. The course highlights the unique strengths of immigrant and refugee families, including a focus on family, education, work, faith, and community. The course also examines specific challenges faced by immigrant and refugee families, including difficulties with acculturation, language, economic hardship, legal concerns, and trauma.

Free State Social Work

This course offers guidance and positive strategies for mental health promotion and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ youth. The course highlights affirming environments, professional competence, culturally competent care, risk and protective factors, and sources of joy.

Free State Social Work

Zur Institute

Zur Institute

Zur Institute

Zur Institute

Zur Institute

Zur Institute

CE4Less

This course is part of a trauma-informed care series. It begins with a discussion of screening and assessment concepts, with a particular focus on trauma informed screening. It then highlights specific factors that influence screening and assessment, including timing and environment. Barriers and challenges in providing trauma-informed screening are discussed, along with culturally specific screening and assessment considerations and guidelines. Instrument selection, trauma-informed screening and assessment tools, and trauma-informed screening and assessment processes are also reviewed.