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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Professional Development: Dalhousie University Continuing Education
Professional Development: Applying Research Innovations to Psychotherapy And Family Therapy - Surrey
Applying Research Innovations to Psychotherapy And Family Therapy For Deep And Lasting Change!
Recent research in neurobiology, attachment, trauma and
mindfulness have important implications for psychotherapy and family
therapy. Satir Transformational Systemic
Therapy integrates research with therapeutic practice to provide therapeutic
processes, assisting clients to transforming their intrapsychic and
interrelational systems. The changes
clients experience result in more internal peace, integration and empowerment
and more connected, accepting and positive relationships.
A recent survey of mental health practitioners in the
U.S.A. indicated that Virginia Satir remains among the top 5 most influential
therapists from history. When she was
alive, many people believed that her very successful results with people were
due to her charismatic and loving nature.
Since her death, her system of working therapeutically with people has
been developed and refined. Many of
these processes are now clearly supported by research.
"Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level I”
Dates: September 26, 27, Oct 24, 25, Nov 28, 29, 2015, Jan 9, 10,
Feb 13, 14, 2016 (One weekend a month)
Location: Phoenix Center, Surrey,
BC
Facilitator: Kathlyne Maki-Banmen,
MA, RCC, Individual, Couple and Family Counsellor
Fee $1250 for 10 days of
training
For more info Contact:
Satir Institute of the Pacific admin@satirpacific.org www.satirpacific.org
604-634-0572.
Employment: Alzheimer Society of British Columbia - Kamloops, Vancouver, Victoria
Three positions available – Victoria, Vancouver and
Kamloops
The Alzheimer Society of BC exists to alleviate the personal
and social consequences of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, to promote
public awareness, and to search for the causes and the cure. Due to the
expansion of our First Link ® early intervention service and Dementia Helpline
we have three exciting employment opportunities in British Columbia.
FIRST
LINK/SUPPORT & EDUCATION COORDINATOR – VICTORIA (Full Time) - This
position ensures the management of referral systems and outreach to clients, the
proper delivery of support and education programs, and consistent community
building.
FIRST LINK
DEMENTIA HELPLINE COORDINATOR – VANCOUVER (Full Time) - The primary responsibility of
this role is to ensure the smooth running of the First Link Dementia Helpline.
This includes recruiting, training and supporting a team of Helpline volunteers
to provide high quality telephone support and information to persons with
dementia, caregivers, health care providers, and the
public.
SUPPORT
& EDUCATION COORDINATOR – KAMLOOPS (Full Time Temporary to approximately
March 31, 2016 - likely extension) - This position ensures the management
of referral systems and outreach to clients, the proper delivery of support and
education programs, and consistent community building.
For more information and to apply, go to http://www.alzheimer.ca/en/bc/About-us/Employment-opportunities
Postings close on Monday, September 7, 2015.
Sunday, July 12, 2015
Employment: Child and Youth Mental Health Clinician - Keremeos, BC
Lower Similkameen Community
Services Society
CHILD & YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN
Permanent, Full-Time
The Lower Similkameen Community Services Society, in
partnership with the Ministry of Children and Family Development, Child and
Youth Mental Health Services, is seeking a qualified individual to deliver a
full range of mental health services to children and youth living in the
Keremeos area. Candidates will have a Master of Social Work degree or other
Masters level education in the human services field, or be a Registered
Psychiatric Nurse, with at least two years experience working in both a
psychiatric and a school setting.
Start date: August 2015
Hours: 35 per week
Use of a personal vehicle is required. Clearance through a
criminal record review is required.
This position is unionized, starting wage $31.56 per hour,
plus a comprehensive benefit package.
Closing date for applications: July 29, 2015, 4:00
pm
Please send applications marked “Confidential” - Competition
#2015-CYMH(K) by mail, facsimile or e-mail to:
Lower Similkameen Community Services Society
720 – 3rd Street
Keremeos, BC V0X 1N3
Fax: (250) 499-2333
E-Mail: admin@LSCSS.com
Monday, June 29, 2015
Regulation: B.C. is the first province to require social workers pass competency test
Daphne Bramham: B.C. is first to require social workers pass competency test
It’s a step toward much-needed change
Bramham, D. (2015). Vancouver Sun. Retrieved from: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Daphne+Bramham+first+require+social+workers+pass+competency+test/11170731/story.html
As the B.C. College of Social Workers’ registrar, John Mayr knows
only too well the havoc ill-prepared and poorly trained social workers
can cause for individuals, families and society.
“We’re still seeing social work graduates who are completely unprepared for practice even though there is a practicum placement of about 700 hours over two years before graduation,” he says.
“Social workers should be regulated because social workers can cause harm. Full stop. End of story.”
Starting this fall, British Columbia will be the first jurisdiction in Canada where graduates of university social work programs won’t automatically be licensed by the college.
Come September, they will need to pass a four-hour, 170-question competency exam in order to become registered social workers.
(Graduates who are already members of the college or join before September will be exempt from the testing. Since the testing was announced, the college’s membership has jumped by 400 — an increase of nearly 10 per cent.)
The college is a self-regulatory body established by provincial legislation to protect the public interest by establishing and upholding high standards of conduct.
Social work is the only one of B.C.’s 26 health professions without a competency exam.
Fewer than 10 per cent of those hired by the B.C. government to do social work are registered with the college.
One in three social workers in the province doesn’t meet the minimum requirements set out in the B.C. Social Work Act for a singular and bizarre reason: The same legislation that sets social workers’ qualifications exempts the provincial and federal governments, municipalities, school boards, Indian bands, tribal councils and First Nations organizations from having to hire people who meet those qualifications.
The result is that the people making life-altering decisions lack the specialized knowledge and training to assess and identify crisis situations and diagnose the best remedy to keep children safe.
And, as too many reports by B.C.’s representative of children and youth point out, those bad decisions can have fatal consequences.
The most recent was Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s 75-page litany of neglect and abuse suffered by a 19-year-old girl named Paige.
“Social workers, doctors, police. They all fell down,” Mayr says, referring to the report. “But the important piece is we have to do something.”
While registered social workers overwhelming support the testing, Mayr says it has pitted the college against the B.C. government and faculties of the province’s 10 schools of social work.
The testing won’t change the fact that unless the government amends the Social Work Act removing all of the exemptions and requiring that all people doing social work at least meet the minimum qualifications. The government has committed to removing the exemptions, but has yet to do so.
As for the social work faculties, Mayr says, educational institutions have opposed the testing. It may be because of the experience in the U.S., where the failure rate among graduates on similar licensing tests is about 20 per cent.
“They (social work faculties) told us that it’s not up to them to prepare them to practice (social work), they’re only there to provide them with an education,” says Mayr. “It’s a bit of a different education system (in the U.S.). So, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that the failure rate here is less here.
“But my heart will go out to students who fail because the universities will wash their hands of them and it will take a couple of years to drive home the message to them that they have a responsibility to their students.”
“We’re still seeing social work graduates who are completely unprepared for practice even though there is a practicum placement of about 700 hours over two years before graduation,” he says.
“Social workers should be regulated because social workers can cause harm. Full stop. End of story.”
Starting this fall, British Columbia will be the first jurisdiction in Canada where graduates of university social work programs won’t automatically be licensed by the college.
Come September, they will need to pass a four-hour, 170-question competency exam in order to become registered social workers.
(Graduates who are already members of the college or join before September will be exempt from the testing. Since the testing was announced, the college’s membership has jumped by 400 — an increase of nearly 10 per cent.)
The college is a self-regulatory body established by provincial legislation to protect the public interest by establishing and upholding high standards of conduct.
Social work is the only one of B.C.’s 26 health professions without a competency exam.
Fewer than 10 per cent of those hired by the B.C. government to do social work are registered with the college.
One in three social workers in the province doesn’t meet the minimum requirements set out in the B.C. Social Work Act for a singular and bizarre reason: The same legislation that sets social workers’ qualifications exempts the provincial and federal governments, municipalities, school boards, Indian bands, tribal councils and First Nations organizations from having to hire people who meet those qualifications.
The result is that the people making life-altering decisions lack the specialized knowledge and training to assess and identify crisis situations and diagnose the best remedy to keep children safe.
And, as too many reports by B.C.’s representative of children and youth point out, those bad decisions can have fatal consequences.
The most recent was Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s 75-page litany of neglect and abuse suffered by a 19-year-old girl named Paige.
“Social workers, doctors, police. They all fell down,” Mayr says, referring to the report. “But the important piece is we have to do something.”
While registered social workers overwhelming support the testing, Mayr says it has pitted the college against the B.C. government and faculties of the province’s 10 schools of social work.
The testing won’t change the fact that unless the government amends the Social Work Act removing all of the exemptions and requiring that all people doing social work at least meet the minimum qualifications. The government has committed to removing the exemptions, but has yet to do so.
As for the social work faculties, Mayr says, educational institutions have opposed the testing. It may be because of the experience in the U.S., where the failure rate among graduates on similar licensing tests is about 20 per cent.
“They (social work faculties) told us that it’s not up to them to prepare them to practice (social work), they’re only there to provide them with an education,” says Mayr. “It’s a bit of a different education system (in the U.S.). So, we’re keeping our fingers crossed that the failure rate here is less here.
“But my heart will go out to students who fail because the universities will wash their hands of them and it will take a couple of years to drive home the message to them that they have a responsibility to their students.”
The B.C. college approached its counterparts across
Canada to try to enlist them to all introduce competency testing at the
same time. But they all declined and are waiting to see how it works out
in British Columbia.
There’s a reason for their caution — potentially conflicting interests.
Because while colleges are charged with protecting the public, social workers are often also members of unions and other professional organizations like the B.C. Association of Social Workers, whose mandate is to support members, strengthen the profession and advocate for social justice.
While it would be nice to think that an overriding goal of all professional organizations is upholding the highest possible standards, one need only look to what happened with the B.C. College of Teachers to see how complicated it can become.
That college was disbanded in 2011 after being deemed “dysfunctional” due to ongoing conflicts with the B.C. Teachers Federation.
It doesn’t have to happen. And for the sake of British Columbians who depend on social workers’ help at a time of gravest need, one has to hope that this step toward higher standards is embraced by all.
dbramham@vancouversun.com
There’s a reason for their caution — potentially conflicting interests.
Because while colleges are charged with protecting the public, social workers are often also members of unions and other professional organizations like the B.C. Association of Social Workers, whose mandate is to support members, strengthen the profession and advocate for social justice.
While it would be nice to think that an overriding goal of all professional organizations is upholding the highest possible standards, one need only look to what happened with the B.C. College of Teachers to see how complicated it can become.
That college was disbanded in 2011 after being deemed “dysfunctional” due to ongoing conflicts with the B.C. Teachers Federation.
It doesn’t have to happen. And for the sake of British Columbians who depend on social workers’ help at a time of gravest need, one has to hope that this step toward higher standards is embraced by all.
dbramham@vancouversun.com
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Employment: Child Protection Worker
BC Public
Service
Ministry of
Children and Family Development
Multiple
Positions Available
Social
Program Officer - Child Protection Worker (Growth)
Salary $50,371 - $66,652 annually
As a Child Protection Worker, through assessment and collaboration, you develop plans with families to ensure the safety of children and youth. Your skill set will include interviewing clients, evaluating vulnerability factors, investigating child welfare reports and determining a plan of action for your clients including family support services.
Salary $50,371 - $66,652 annually
As a Child Protection Worker, through assessment and collaboration, you develop plans with families to ensure the safety of children and youth. Your skill set will include interviewing clients, evaluating vulnerability factors, investigating child welfare reports and determining a plan of action for your clients including family support services.
Working
for the BC
Public Service
includes engaging in rewarding work with real career development opportunities
and receiving a benefits package that helps support you in finding work/life
balance. For more information, please visit the Social
Work career page.
To
learn more about this opportunity and to apply online by July 19, 2015, please
visit:
Attention: only
applications submitted through the BC Public Service’s employment website (see
link above) will be accepted.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Private Practice: Marketing and Business Advice and Tools
Dear therapist colleague
As the saying goes, “time flies when you are having fun”.
As the saying goes, “time flies when you are having fun”.
And I’ve sure been having fun doing
The Ask Juliet & Clinton Show with my co-host, Vancouver copywriter and
marketing coach Juliet Austin. I can’t believe we’ve already published
14 episodes!
All 14 episodes are now published on
Australia Counselling Members - Or, you can also listen or
watch them on The Ask Juliet & Clinton Show website.
Here’s a glimpse of some of the marketing questions we have answered already:
Here’s a glimpse of some of the marketing questions we have answered already:
Episode 12: How can I get former clients to refer to me?
Hope you can listen or watch a few episodes.
Thanks again for those of you who have
given us feedback on the show --and keep sending in your questions! - We love answering them.
To your success,
Clinton Power
Founder, Australia Counselling
P.S. If you want to receive an email update every Wednesday morning when we release our latest episode, you can sign up here: http://askjulietandclinton.com/updates You can also subscribe on itunes at http://askjulietandclinton.com/itunes
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