Enhancing Your Influence: Teaching Tips for Clinical Social Workers

Whether facilitating a family meeting, conducting an advance care planning conversation, or providing discharge planning, health social workers are involved as educators in almost every aspect of their practice, yet few have had explicit training to maximize their effectiveness in this role. This interactive webinar will cover principles of adult education (andragogy) and explore strategies to enhance your influence and impact, whether in formal educational roles (giving grand rounds, guest speaking, presenting at conferences), as supervisors, mentors or sponsors (giving feedback and coaching support), or as organizational and community experts (providing advocacy regarding the impact of policies, etc.). We’ll discuss strategies to expand your influence and provide resources to further your confidence and competence in this important skill.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Social workers who take this class will be able to:

1. Describe how incorporating adult learning principles into clinical practices increases health social workers' influence and impact as change agents.
2. Identify opportunities for social workers to apply these educational principles into their clinical practice with various audiences and in multiple settings.
3. Identify strategies to further their confidence and competence in this important skill.

Shirley Otis-Green’s career is dedicated to transforming the delivery of care to more equitably address the symptoms and stress of serious illness. Her education, research, and consultation efforts focus on quality-of-life, palliative care, and interprofessional leadership. As Principal Investigator on studies with over $3.5 million in external funding, her work has been disseminated through more than 100 publications and 500 professional presentations. 

Shirley is a National Association of Social Workers Pioneer and has been recognized with Fellowships by the Association of Oncology Social Work, California Health Care Foundation, and the National Academies of Practice. She was among the first to receive an international Master of Arts in Health Research - Palliative Care degree from Lancaster University in Great Britain, and is co-editor of The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work, 2e, now in its Second Edition. Shirley is also the Founder and Consultant for Collaborative Caring, and a Co-Investigator of the National Cancer Institute-funded: ESPEC Oncology: Transforming Psychosocial and Palliative Cancer Care, a national workforce initiative designed to enhance the leadership and clinical quality improvement skills of oncology social workers.

Continuing Education Hours

Completion of this class will result in the receipt of two (2) continuing education hours. CEHs are not awarded for partial completion of the class.

You will receive the Zoom link for joining the class by the day before the class. IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE LINK BY THIS TIME, PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER. 

You will need a computer and a reliable WiFi connection. The computer may be a desktop or a laptop. It may be an Apple or Windows computer.

If you have never used Zoom before, you will likely be prompted to download an applet, which is a small program that allows Zoom to communicate with your computer. This is safe and you will need to do this to join the class.

It is NOT advised that you participate using a table (e.g., an iPad) or a cellular phone. The software is not optimized for these devices.

Please plan to join the online class 15 minutes before the start time to be sure that you don’t have any problems connecting. We cannot provide technical support to you and refunds won’t be offered if you have technical problems. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please contact us at [email protected] at least a few days before the class.