Understanding Depression 2.0

Friday, April 10, 2020 at 9:00am to 11:00am (EDT)


Live Webinar

Friday, April 10, 2020 from 9am-11am EDT

2 CEU for LMSWs, LCSWs, and LMHCs

In the midst of this pandemic, symptoms of depression likely to emerge, and suicide, being one of the ten most common causes of death is likely to increase, given symptoms of depression being the number one contributing factor to suicide. The best way for us to help is to rethink depression from the latest scientific discoveries. With a clearer, deeper, and more sophisticated understanding of depression, we can then derive effective and efficient tools that will truly make a difference during this crucial time and beyond.
Please join us, add some tools to your clinical, professional, and personal, kit. Enhance your skills hence the difference you can make in the lives of your loved ones and those of your patients and clients.

Please note: This is a full day webinar where all three modules will be presented. To participate in that full day training, enrollment in all three webinars is a requirement

Click Here to Enroll for the Full Day Training: https://sweetinstitute.teachable.com/p/skills_depression_fullday

AT THE END OF THIS WEBINAR, YOU WILL:

  1. Learned the framework of the Socratic Motivational Practice to work with our patients and clients who are living with depression.
  2. Learned the Principles, Techniques, Steps, and Do's and Don'ts of the Socratic Motivational Practice to work with our patients and clients who are living with depression.
  3. Increased your tools to talking with patients and clients by identifying at least one thing you will start doing differently, at the end of the webinar, as a result of the Socratic Motivational Practice framework.
  4. Everything you want in one place, including an illustration of how to implement the newly learned skills during our role plays
  5. Received your certificate by email immediately after your post-test and evaluation are completed.

HERE'S WHAT OUR ATTENDEES ARE SAYING ABOUT OUR SWEET WEBINARS:

"Learning style and content is always excellent. very concrete, action steps to use to integrate in treatment immediately. Excellent and practical training."

– Grace, LCSW-R

"It was very interesting, organized and appropriate for my work. The entire system/philosophy was new to me and really useful."

- Susan, LMSW

"Very organized. Information was applicable to my setting. Easy to access. Facilitator had a great demeanor, made it enjoyable to listen to. There were specific tools that I can take away and implement in my practice immediately. "

- Deborah, LMSW



There are a handful of states that the NASW does not cover because those states want to maintain their independent authority to approve, or not, providers and courses. In New York State, the Office of Professions controls the approval process. We are an approved provider by the NY State Office of Professions. In other words:

  • 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).
  • Our live and self-study webinars are individually approved by the NASW National CE Approval Program in 46 additional states. SWEET courses are NOT approved by the NASW National CE Approval Program in: Michigan, New Jersey, and West Virginia.


89% of SWEET Webinar Attendees felt that the course they attended gave them practical information they could use in their everyday life

Your Facilitator and Co-Facilitator


Mardoche Sidor, MD & Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW
Mardoche Sidor, MD & Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW

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

"Instructors were friendly, acknowledged all participants, answered all questions, spread proportionate time on the various concepts."

-Vito, LMSW


"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