Spring 2021:
Join us Tuesday, March 16 • 2-3 pm
Melissa J. Earle, PhD, LCSW Director of Online Instruction, Clinical Assistant Professor
Meeting the Practice Challenges of COVID-19: MSW Students’ Perceptions of E-therapy and the Therapeutic Alliance
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a radical shift in social work practice. Overnight, social work intervention models provided in-person gave way to the utilization of technology to facilitate direct practice in virtual environments (e-therapy). Social work’s slow acceptance of e-therapy prior to the pandemic resulted in a lack of training for many social work practitioners and MSW student interns, who were required to make rapid transitions to online environments. It appears likely that e-therapy will continue after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, so integrating education about effective e-therapy techniques into social work curricula seems like a logical next step. A social worker’s ability to establish the therapeutic alliance, which is at the heart of all helping relationships, will be central to these curricula. Understanding social work students’ perceptions of e-therapy and the therapeutic alliance can help shape the development of this new curriculum. Using internal student email, students at two Research I universities were invited to participate in a fully online anonymous survey dealing with attitudes towards e-therapy and the therapeutic alliance. Surveys were conducted in 2018 and April-May 2020. Study results indicate that students having e-therapy experience, believe that a practitioner can build a good therapeutic alliance, and think that some form of e-therapy will continue after the pandemic. These results confirm that further exploration about the inclusion of e-therapy education and its efficacy in social work curricula requires urgent attention.
Join via Zoom: https://stonybrook.zoom.us/j/96383095474?pwd=cWMyck0yTVFZQ0FvUnAxa051U2xWUT09
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For more information about the SSW Research Seminar Series, please contact Dr. Michelle S. Ballan, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Welfare: Michelle.Ballan@stonybrook.edu
Join us
Tuesday, April 20 • 2-3 pm
Kathleen Monahan, DSW, LCSW, LMFT, CFC,
Associate Professor, Director of the Family Violence Education
and Research Center
Intimate Partner Violence and Brain Injury
This presentation will focus on Brain Injury among women who’ve experienced Intimate Partner Violence. Historical perspectives of current preliminary data on two projects: "Neuro-inflammation and Cognitive Impairment following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) of Domestic Violence Shelter Residents: A PET/MRI study" and “The ConQVerge Project,” will be reviewed.
Join via Zoom:
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Meeting ID: 934 3724 3816 Passcode: 470699 Dial by your location +1 646 876 9923 US (New York)
For more information about the SSW Research Seminar Series, please contact Dr. Michelle S. Ballan, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Welfare: Michelle.Ballan@stonybrook.edu
