Social workers can earn continuing education hours with these new courses:
- Rewinding Racism: Applying a Non-Judgment Code of Ethics for Healthcare Professionals — Health-care professionals face multiple cultural differences in caring transactions among patients, co-workers, and other professionals. Participants learn the social sources of these judgments and practice how to apply a nonjudgment code of ethics with options to confront and challenge societal expectations that would deny such behaviors. This course, led by Ken Taber, runs 6-9 p.m. February 13, 2013. It costs $45. To register, click here.
- Beginning the Ending of Life – Often we begin to plan for the end of life after few choices remain or too little time remains to carry out the plan. This workshop explores the relationships of the person who is dying with an attorney, relatives, physician and hospice. The class, led by Beth A. Swagman, costs $35. It runs 6-8 p.m. February 21. To register, click here.
- The Process of Addiction — This seminar looks at the biological, social and physical aspects of the addiction process, with emphasis on the biology of the brain and addiction. The class, led by Dennis Potter, runs 6-8 p.m. February 26 and costs $35. To register, click here.