Advanced Clinical Practice Certificate Program

Offering Continuing Education Credit Hours toward the State of Minnesota Board of Social Work requirements in each of the six required areas including:

• Differential Diagnosis
• Clinical Interventions
• Assessment
• Evaluation Methodologies
• Social Work Ethics
• Culturally Specific Clinical Assessment & Intervention

Each workshop offers non-credit bearing continuing education offerings in each of the six clinical standards required by the Minnesota Board of Social Work, effective for licenses beginning in 2011.

Putting Attachment Theory into Practice with Children, Teens and Parents: Advances in Treatment Approaches

This will be a highly interactive, hands-on course for those with some background in developmental attachment theory and now working to put ideas into practice with client children, teens and parents. Participants will be challenged to think in new and more complex ways about diagnosis, case formation and core treatment components for children and teens with an array of behavioral issues and histories of attachment  disruption or maltreatment. Clinical clock hours will include differential diagnosis (2 hrs), assessment-based treatment planning (2 hrs), clinical intervention (5hrs), ethics (.5 hr). 

Krista Nelson, LICSW, LMFT
Dates: Oct 10, Oct 24, Nov 7, Nov 21
Time: All sessions meet 9:00 -11:30 am
Location: University of St. Thomas - McNeely Hall room 117

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You Can’t Make Me: Work with Involuntary Clients

This training will focus on best practices in engaging involuntary clients in both individual and group therapy. Involuntary clients include a wide range of individuals who are either court ordered and/or pressured from family members and professionals to change. Participants will learn a variety of engagement strategies in work with involuntary clients grounded in practice research. Through lecture, small group exercise, role play and videos, participants will gain skills in working with this challenging population. Clinical clock hours earned will include  assessment-based clinical treatment planning  (1 hr), clinical intervention (8 hrs), evaluation methodologies (1 hr),

Krista Nelson, LICSW, LMFT

Krista has over 20 years of therapy and social work experience working  with children and families going through difficult life transitions. For the last seven years, she has been the Project Coordinator of the Wilder Foundation Center for Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder. In addition, she has been co-owner of a group independent practice for the last ten years. Krista specializes in working with survivors of abuse and trauma and children and families in the child protection, foster and adoption systems. Krista is an adjunct faculty at St. Thomas, teaching Clinical Work with Children for the past two years.

Mike Chovanec, LICSW, LMFT

Mike has been an associate professor at the St. Catherine University/University of St. Thomas School of Social Work for the past 13 years. Mike received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of Minnesota, which examined the dropout problem in domestic abuse treatment. He has been a clinician for over 30 years and currently works part-time as coordinator and group facilitator for a county domestic abuse program which he helped develop in 1988. Mike is also a licensed Clinical Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist in Minnesota.

For More Information, Contact:

Colin Hollidge, Co-Director Advanced Clinical Practice Certificate Program cfhollidge@stthomas.edu    651-962-5818

David Roseborough, Co-Director  Advanced Clinical Practice Certificate Program  djroseboroug@stkate.edu    651-962-5804

For Registration Information, contact: 

Pam Kilpatrick   pekilpatrick@stthomas.edu  651-962-5826