Short Courses 2009-2010
To register for a short course, please contact the course instructor. Participants should make their checks out to "WSSCSW".
Emergency Mental Health: Risk Assessment, Stabilization, & Accessing Acute Levels of Care
Shauna Hill, LICSW
Saturday, February 27, 2010 9:00AM to 4:00PM
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Trauma in the Body: Right Brain and the Autonomic Nervous System—the Somatic Unconscious
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Panel Participants include Sal Ziz, LICSW, Peter Moore, PsyD., and Myrna Dunlop, LICSW
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Starting Your Own Private Practice
Karen Hansen, LICSW, and Shirley Bonney, LICSW
March 23, 30, April 6, 6:15-9:15pm
This seminar is designed to help participants assess their readiness for private practice and focus on the steps necessary to move toward establishing a successful practice. Topics that will be included go from the pragmatic (i.e., finding an office, getting on insurance panels, malpractice insurance, bookkeeping, methods for billing) to clinical dilemmas around boundaries, medication consultations, fee setting, anxiety related to uncertain income, as well as networking, marketing, ways to develop ongoing support and consultation.
Shirley Bonney, LICSW has over thirty years of experience as a clinical social worker. She completed her MSW at the University of Kansas in 1974 followed by a postgraduate fellowship at the Menninger School of Mental Health Sciences. Her practice includes psychotherapy with adults, adolescents, couples and families; clinical supervision and consultation; as well as teaching at the University of Washington School of Social Work. Shirley is past president of WSSCSW and the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study.
Karen Hansen, LICSW has over 32 years of experience as a clinical social worker. She received her MSW from the University of Washington in 1976. She offers in-depth psychotherapy to adults, adolescents and couples. Karen is Past /Founding Chair of the WSSCSW New Professional Program.
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Psych Meds: A review of current choices, typical uses, benefits, and cautions
Germaine D’Anniballe, ARNP
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Germaine D'Anniballe, ARNP, received her BSN at Case Western Reserve University, 1980; MSN at University of Washington, 1992. Germaine is currently in private practice and is a clinical faculty member at the UW School of Nursing. Her previous work experience includes inpatient and outpatient nursing settings, i.e., emergency, intensive care, women's health, hospice care, and international health. Her psychiatric nursing experience has been inpatient and outpatient mental health facilities including Harborview and the HIV/AIDS clinic in Seattle/King County Public Health.