101429: Social Work Today July/August 2008

About the Course:

Substance Abuse and Sleep Disorders: A Toxic Brew Where you find one disorder, you will often find the other. Screening for both is essential.

Adoption Issues From a Strengths Perspective View predictable crises in the lives of adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees through a strengths perspective.

Is a Gerontology Career in Your Future? The knowledge and skill sets integral to social work are a great fit for a career in gerontology, a field in high demand as the older adult population increases.

Insatiable Hungers: Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse Learn the shared risk factors and characteristics of these two disorders and the different paths to recovery.

Weighing the Possibilities: Transferential Weight Issues in Therapy What are the common transference and countertransference issues in treating clients with eating disorders, and how can they be addressed?

Therapist’s Notebook: Case of Taylor A clinical learning experience featuring a case presentation and two discussants who review the case history and initial phase of treatment and offer observations and recommendations

Journal/Publisher:

Great Valley Publishing

Publication Date:

July/August 2008

Authors

Richard Currey, PA-C; Laura W. Groshong, LICSW; Richard G. Kensinger, MSW; Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, MEd; Adrienne Ressler, MA, LMSW, CEDS-(FL); Marlene I. Shapiro, LCSW; Deborah H. Siegel, PhD, LICSW, DCSW, ACSW; Barbara Worthington

About the Authors:

is a physician assistant based in the Washington, D.C., area who is currently practicing in sleep medicine. He works with several agencies within the National Institutes of Health as a writer and consultant.

is in private practice in Seattle.

is a clinical consultant and trainer and a faculty member in the psychology department at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson, PA.

is a cognitive-behavioral therapist and educator in Sarasota, FL. She has more than 25 years of experience treating compulsive/emotional and restrictive eaters and is the author of several books including of The Rules of “Normal” Eating—A Commonsense Approach for Dieters, Overeaters, Undereaters, and Everyone In Between!

is the national training director for The Renfrew Center Foundation. As a senior staff member, she has designed and conducted hundreds of training seminars for professionals throughout the United States and internationally on eating disorders and body image disturbance, sexual abuse, depression, and women’s issues.

is the program director of a partial hospitalization program for patients with psychotic disorders at Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore. In addition, she sees patients and families in a private practice.

is a professor in the School of Social Work at Rhode Island College, a clinician specializing in adoption issues, an adoption researcher, and an adoptive parent.

is an associate editor at Great Valley Publishing Company.

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for psychologists, counselors, social workers, and other healthcare professionals who seek knowledge about addiction and other mental health care concerns. It is appropriate for all levels of participants’ knowledge.

Course Objectives:

1. • Describe the relationship between substance abuse and sleep disorders and why they often co-occur.

2. • Discuss the transference and countertransference issues that can occur around weight in therapy with clients with weight and eating problems.

3. • Explain the issues in the “Case of Taylor,” a 49-year-old woman with depression and a negative self-image, and the recommendations of the two case discussants.

4. • Describe the similarities and differences between eating and substance abuse disorders and why they sometimes co-occur.

5. • Recognize the characteristics of a strengths perspective in working with adoption issues and how it differs from a deficits perspective.

6. • Discuss the opportunities available for social workers who seek a career in gerontology and why the knowledge and skill sets of their social work training prepares them well for it.