School of Social Work: Professional Education Institute Workshops & Certificates

BSU School of Social Work
Professional Education Workshops 2025 - 2026

WORKSHOP INFORMATION

• The cost is $60 per workshop.  A fee of $20 is offered to current supervisors of BSU SSW students.  
• Three (3) Continuing Education Credits in Social Work will be awarded for each completed workshop. 

To Register for any of the workshops below, click on the Registration button on the bottom of this page.

“Culture, Trauma and the DSM-5TR: Using Cultural Formulation to Interview in Diagnosing”
November 7, 2025, 10AM-1PM (in person on BSU campus)

• Discuss impact of cultural meaning system in understanding clinical presentation and worldview.
• Empirically tested framework for improving diagnosis and treatment engagement.
• Ways to reduce misdiagnosis of psychosis and bipolar disorders.

Beth Craft, LICSW
Adjunct professor at Boston College and consultant to organizations around a framework of considering culture in mental health assessment.

Legal Issues in Practice: Words of Wisdom from a Defense Attorney
January 23, 2026, 9AM-12PM Via zoom

• How to avoid and/or prepare for Board of Registration complaints
• In the framework of ethics, what practices can leave a social worker vulnerable to malpractice?
• Client information: Parameters for protecting yourself and clients when materials are requested.
  Considerations when supervising

Robert Landau, Esq.
 

Fostering a Disability-Affirming Social Work Practice
March 27, 2026, 9AM-12PM via zoom

• Explore the difference between a focus on access and inclusion alone with the newer framework of disability affirming culture.
• Review the social construction of impairment and disability.
• Explore how the medical and social models used by social workers impact practice, and to understand specific steps that can be taken to change practice.
• Discuss the importance of positive disability culture and integration into practice, and to recognize our own ableism privilege.

Elspeth Slayer, MSW, PHD
Professor Emeritus,  Salem State University 
 

REGISTRATION
 

Please contact Carol Masshardt, LICSW with any questions at cmasshardt@bridgew.edu