Workshop # 3a & 3b
The PA Association of Social Work Education (PASWE) holds several workshops at the annual National Association of Social Work (NASW) Conference. For 2019, the PASWE Day at the NASW conference will be held on Monday 9/23/19 from 8am to 7pm. See below for one of our featured workshops.
Register as a PASWE Professional ($90) for the NASW Conference. This registration includes 6 CEs, 3 PASWE workshops, two keynotes, a sweet talk, student poster competition, breakfast, lunch, and dinner (see dinner menu below). If you would like to register for the full NASW Conference, you can attend all PASWE events–except the dinner which will be an extra $30.
Students can register for $25 which includes everything except breakfast & dinner.
Monday 9/23/19 4pm-5:30pm, Kalahari Resort
Workshop #3a 4pm-4:45pm
Transgender Clients in the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility
Transgender Clients in a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility PASWE NASW 2019
Transgender Clients in a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility PASWE NASW 2019
The presentation will review the struggles and successes that the Children’s Home of York Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) has faced as transgender individuals have become a regular part of clientele.
Struggles
We have encountered three ongoing struggles: (1) paperwork, (2) family dynamics, and (3) maintaining confidentiality.
(1) We strive to ensure that all paperwork and procedures reflects our open and accepting philosophy. This workshop will share how we handled improving paperwork related issues.
(2) We work with a number of families that have a hard time accepting that their adolescent is transgender and in this workshop we will discuss this in greater detail.
(3) We have also struggled with confidentiality for the transgender youth. Our protocol is to use a client’s identified name from the time of admission, if they identify as transgender prior to entering the facility. However, some clients know the transgender client from another facilities which prevents ensuring full confidentiality. We will share more about how we dealt with these struggles.
Successes
We have, also, had clear successes during this transition period such as commitment of (1) staff, (2) policy/procedure development, and (3) client achievement.
(1) Our staff have presented with a commitment to being open and accepting and to educating themselves.
(2) We created procedures specific to the clients for their comfort and safety in our community. We continue to change and grow, as needed. It is difficult working in a trauma focused PRTF that does not specialize in transgender treatment, while accommodating the mental health and emotional needs of transgender clients.
(3) At this time, all of our discharged clients have reported that they have felt accepted and respected as individuals. They have appreciated our willingness to set up transgender services for them post-discharge, as part of their next phase of care. They have reported satisfaction with the policies and procedures put in place for their comfort and safety.
Finally, the legal and clinical developments in transgender treatment will be touched upon, as will their impact on the development of best practice clinical treatment and procedural planning in the PRTF setting.
Presenter
Lisa Fritz, LCSW, Associate Director of Clinical Services
Children’s Home of York
Workshop #3a 4:45pm-5:30pm
Riding the Waves to Global Cultural Appreciation
The world is shrinking. Social work practice is no longer limited by geographic and cultural boundaries. Social workers provide services for clients from around the world, geographically and culturally. The classroom is only one venue for developing understanding and appreciation for the other. The presenter addresses his efforts to prepare students for global practice by introducing them to international travel and study opportunities. He has accompanied groups of students to Ireland, England, India, Korea, and Kenya, as well as finding placement opportunities for students in a number of countries around the world. The presentation is part travelogue and part appreciation for becoming the ‘other’ by being immersed in the geography and cultures of different countries.
Lloyd L. Lyter, Ph.D., Professor
Director, Marywood University Pocono
MSW Program at East Stroudsburg University