Positive Mental Health: A Definition (Self-Study)
Self-Study
SELF-STUDY ONLINE SEMINAR
This seminar is clinically-based for anyone invested in improving their skills.
For only New York State Licensed LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, and CASACs,
2 CEUs are available once the post-test and evaluation are completed.
What do we need to know about positive mental health? What is the impact on our patients and clients when we move from a disease-based model of care and move toward a health-based or positive model of care.
What's behind each of the principles about Positive Mental Health ?
Join us, learn with us, enhance your practice and continue to make a difference in the lives of those you serve.
At the end of this seminar, you will have:
- Learned the framework of the Socratic Motivational Practice to increase your knowledge of what positive mental health means and how to use it in our practice.
- Learned the Principles, Techniques, Steps, and Do's and Don'ts of the Socratic Motivational Practice of positive mental health with our patients and clients
- Increased your tools to helping our patients and clients, by identifying at least one thing you will start doing differently at the end of the seminar, as a result of the Socratic Motivational Practice framework.
- Everything you want in one place, including an illustration of how to implement the newly learned skills during our role plays
HERE'S WHAT ATTENDEES ARE SAYING ABOUT OUR SWEET SEMINARS:
"I liked how easily we the audience could interact with the facilitator and receive direct answers and validation for our input. I liked that he presented in understandable terms and that he was extremely knowledgeable about the topic."
- Mary Grace, LCSW-R
"I really enjoyed the role playing, which was different from the usual schedule of how the webinars run. It was a way to be more interactive and learn, for me."
- Jennifer, LMSW
- In the State of New York, SWEET Institute is approved by the Office of Professions under Dr. Sidor Psychiatric Services as a CEU provider for social workers (#SW-0471) and mental health counselors (#MHC-0127)
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97% of SWEET course attendees feel that the courses give them practical information they can use in their everyday life
Your Facilitator and Co-Facilitator
Mardoche Sidor, MD is a quadruple board certified psychiatrist, with board certifications in Psychiatry and Neurology (General Adult Psychiatry), Child and Adolescent, Addiction, and Forensic, Psychiatry. He has training in public and community psychiatry, psychopharmacology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He also has training in Motivational Interviewing, psychodynamic psychotherapy, play therapy, and family and couples therapy. He has clinical, teaching, and supervision experience; he has mentorship, coaching, and management, skills; and he has experience as a primary care physician, in public speaking and writing. Dr. Sidor also has skills in leadership, research, program development and project management. His overall goal is to help all health professionals, throughout the United States and globally, access the tools they need to feel empowered to provide excellent patient care while also promoting their own self-care and burnout prevention. He is the main facilitator for the SWEET Institute, and he is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University.Dr. Sidor was recently the Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer for CASES (Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services) where he continues to provide psychiatric care. He speaks and writes fluently in four (4) languages—French, English, Spanish, and Creole, with intermediate proficiency in Portuguese and Italian.
Karen Dubin-McKnight, PhD, LCSW, has wide clinical, teaching, supervision and mentorship experience that spans 18 years. She also has a vast experience working in the criminal justice system, in community mental health, in teaching, and in management. Her added passion is in education, coaching, public relations, and mediation. Her goal is to ensure that social workers and other non-medical practitioners feel empowered and have a voice “at the table.” Dr. Dubin-McKnight is the co-facilitator for the SWEET Institute. She was most recently the Court Operations Director at CASES. She is currently Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University School of Social Work and Adelphi University School of Social Work. She is also a trainer at the CUCS Academy, and Howie T. Harp. She has a private practice for people impacted by loss and trauma and also provides clinical supervision.
"Webinars often feel impersonal and passive; this one did not at all. An effective and memorable learning experience."
- Janice, LMSW
"This webinar broke down a very difficult topic."
- Ellen, LCSW
"I really liked the manner and clarity of how the facilitators presented the material. Also, the incorporation of the role play cemented the theories and concepts into practice which further clarified and magnified the core principles."
- Barbara, LCSW