Events Calendar

This course will support and enhance the skills and knowledge required by Health Care Professionals across a variety of health care settings, to effectively acknowledge and respond to the complex mental health needs and psychological issues of people living with an advanced chronic and terminal illness, and that of their family and caregivers as they approach the last year of life. Health Care Professionals, especially Social Workers, encounter people living with the impacts of advanced chronic and terminal illness or their families and loved ones. Knowing how to screen and assess for psychological distress or mental health issues and then having access to evidence based therapeutic skills and knowledge to respond appropriately and in a timely, patient centered manner can impact positively on the individual's quality of life and that of their loved ones.

* Free event *

* FPS Relevant Activity *

This interactive and stimulating 2-day course will assist professionals to explore conflict and impart the essential principles and process of mediation. The structured 5-step mediation model and specific conflict resolution skills will be presented and practiced. The course can be utilised in many different areas of conflict e.g. client work, workplace disputes and interpersonal conflict.

* Discount for AASW members *

This workshop is suitable for AMHSWs and social workers who provide counselling and psychotherapeutic support to their clients

Learning outcomes

· Develop and understanding of the history of schema therapy and how the model works

· Understand how it can fit within a social work practice framework

· Practice some of the associated skills and techniques

Wednesday 20 September, 2017

5.30pm

Murray Bridge Golf Club

Ritter Street, Murray Bridge

Guest Speaker, Paul Hills, Social Worker, of Nunkuwarrin Yunti , Murray-Mallee region, who will lead a discussion on the topic ''Principles of Practice in Mental Health Assessment of Aboriginal Australians.''

Networking Group coordinator: Colleen Haskett

Thursday, 27 September, 2017

5.45pm

The Railway Hotel
247 Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

AASW SA Coordinator - Jennie Charlton

SA Branch Annual Members' Dinner 2017

Including branch elections

Thursday October 19th, 5.45 - 9.30pm

This one-day foundational interactive professional development training alerts attendees to the possibility that clients, staff members and/or practitioners may have experiences of trauma/s, from childhood, or more recently, which are affecting their health, wellbeing, and daily interactions and functioning.

Wednesday 25th of October 2017

5.30pm

Wheatsheaf Hotel 39 George Street, Thebarton
(Southern Lounge area)

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:

Tim Walsh

The emphasis of this two-day training program is upon imparting practical, accessible skills to use immediately with survivors of complex trauma (especially child abuse and neglect).

* FPS Relevant Activity *

We have an ageing population. Now more than ever Social Workers in a variety of contexts will be called upon to respond to seniors' distress. This course builds on existing Social Work knowledge about ageing contexts by adding a thorough psycho-social-emotional understanding of senior distress through a positive psychology lens. This course is particularly relevant for counsellors or those working in a para-therapeutic capacity who wish to direct their skill sets toward the growing number of older adults in our community.

This 2-day Master Class with the legendary Joan Farrell. PhD, is suitable for Schema Therapists at all levels and clinicians who have some knowledge and experience in using the basic schema therapy model, and want to learn more about core schema therapy interventions.

In this interactive workshop you will gain both a theoretical understanding of the ST model and practical skills in the application of Schema Therapy with children, adolescents, and their families. The workshop will teach participants to design developmentally appropriate approaches to implement experiential mode work with children and adolescents, including drawing, puppets, imagery, mode dialogues, imagery rescripting and story-telling.

Thursday, 23 November 2017

5.45pm

Robin Hood Hotel, 315 Portrush Road, Norwood
(Bar 1862 Lounge area)

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:

Daniel Allevi
0414682 575

Thursday, 18 January, 2018

5.45pm

The Railway Hotel
247 Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

AASW SA Coordinator - Jennie Charlton

Using Seven Phases to Integrating Loss & Grief to achieve and maintain Indigenous Prosperity

Deepen the understanding of ancestral intergenerational suppressed unresolved loss and grief and the effects of this compounding and complicating contemporary Aboriginal people. This provides the foundation and knowledge from where to practice Rosemary’s unique Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief.

Wednesday 28 February, 2018

5.30pm

Wheatsheaf Hotel 39 George Street, Thebarton
(Southern Lounge area)

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:

Tim Walsh

Thursday, 22 March, 2018

5.45pm arrival

Robin Hood Hotel, 315 Portrush Road, Norwood
(Bar 1862 Lounge area)

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:

Daniel Allevi
0414682 575

Thursday, 26 April, 2018

5.45pm

The Railway Hotel
247 Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

AASW SA Coordinator - Jennie Charlton

Wednesday 23 May, 2018

5.30pm

Wheatsheaf Hotel 39 George Street, Thebarton
(Southern Lounge area)

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:

Tim Walsh

This two-day workshop presents a highly practical and interactive workshop (case-based) for treating PTSD patients; the content is applicable to both adult and adolescent populations.

* FPS Relevant Activity *

Thursday, 28 June, 2018

5.45pm arrival

Robin Hood Hotel, 315 Portrush Road, Norwood
(Bar 1862 Lounge area)

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:

Daniel Allevi
0414682 575

Thursday, 26 July, 2018

5.45pm

The Railway Hotel
247 Vincent Street, Port Adelaide

AASW SA Coordinator - Jennie Charlton

Wednesday 23 May, 2018

5.30pm

Wheatsheaf Hotel 39 George Street, Thebarton
(Southern Lounge area)

Come and join your colleagues for a catch up and the opportunity to make new contacts with social workers in your region.

Coordinator:

Tim Walsh

The emphasis of this two-day training program is upon imparting practical, accessible skills to use immediately with survivors of complex trauma (especially child abuse and neglect).

* FPS Relevant Activity *