This seminar will increase your conceptualizations and skills repertoire while providing overview of basic military cultural and clinical competencies in working with Active Duty personnel, Veterans, and their Families. For more information and to register: https://socialworkce.uconn.edu/serving-those-who-serve-essential-competencies-for-the-helping-professional/

In this engaging seminar, participants will:

• learn about the roots of Energy Psychology and tapping modalities
• learn the basics of energy meridian tapping, including Emotional Freedom Technique• understand the concept of cellular memory and its role in healing
• experience muscle testing, or kinesiology
• have a direct experience of the benefits of tapping
• have time to practice and gain confidence in using EFT
• learn how to use Emotional Freedom Technique with their clients and for their own self-care

For more information and to register: https://socialworkce.uconn.edu/emotional-freedom-technique-care-for-clients-practitioners/

Hosted by UConn's School of Social Work please join us for a BBRD led by Amy Hunter from Injury Prevention Center at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, see her bio below. Her discussion will be titled “Examining Child Maltreatment Beyond Child Protection Data”

The discussion will be in room HTB 215 from 12pm-1:30pm on Monday 3/25.

Amy Hunter is an injury epidemiologist and research scientist at the Injury Prevention Center at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. She serves as the principal investigator to the Connecticut Injury Surveillance System (CISS), and is responsible for the management, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of large data (emergency department, hospitalizations, crash data repository, death certificate). Dr. Hunter also holds the positions of Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in the departments of Pediatrics, and Community Medicine and Health Care, where she co-teaches a course in Injury and Violence Prevention; and Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College where she teaches in the Health Fellows Program. Dr. Hunter’s primary research is focused on analyzing factors impacting the risk of incident and recurrent child maltreatment. She has conducted comprehensive analysis of the relationship between child welfare policy and child maltreatment recurrence using the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS). She recently received joint funding from the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to evaluate perpetrators of fatal child maltreatment using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). Prior to her work in Connecticut, Dr. Hunter trained and completed her dissertation at the West Virginia University Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) under Dr. Ian Rockett.

The GSO Executive Committee will meet to discuss their agenda.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the GSO Co-Chairs by March 19th at sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu.

In this seminar, Irwin Krieger, author of Helping Your Transgender Teen: A Guide for Parents and Counseling Transgender and Non-Binary Youth: The Essential Guide, will guide you through the process of providing family therapy for transgender teens and young adults. For more information and to register: https://socialworkce.uconn.edu/family-therapy-with-transgender-youth/