Workshop Name: |
Neuroscience and Social Work Practice |
Description: |
Advances in fields such as neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognitive psychology have provided important new evidence about how we think, feel, learn, and change. Brain imaging and other technologies have begun to reveal how the brain works. Neuroscience offers a major new paradigm for social work that promises to significantly impact how we see ourselves and how we work with clients. In this one-day workshop you will learn - Fundamentals of the brain - The brain-body connection - The social brain - Thinking, feeling, and acting - Memory and emotion - Brain-based psychotherapy - Neuroscience and mindfulness A special focus will be on how we learn and teach from a brain-compatible perspective, incorporating recent research findings that relate to brain functioning. Related to this, we will how this new knowledge is refining psychotherapy into forms such as neuropsychotherapy and interpersonal neurobiology. Other topics include: consciousness and the new unconscious; the profound impact of environment and culture on the brain and human functioning; empathy and mirror neurons; attachment and the brain; mental health; and affect and neural regulation.No science background is required. This course would be appropriate for any human service professionalinterested in education and clinical practice. Participants are asked to bring their brains to class.
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Fee: |
$159 (HST included) |
Dates |
[NEUROF] September 17th, 2011 [NEUROS1] November 20th, 2011 [NEUROW] March 17th, 2012 |
Instructor(s): |
Robert MacFadden, MSW, PhD.
Dr. MacFadden has been a professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social |
