Upcoming Trainings
Please save the date of June 2nd, 2018 at 9:30 to 11:30 for an ISCSW sponsored training event. The presenter will be Jed Magen, DO MS. Jed is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at Michigan State University. 2 CEU's will be given for attendees. The training is: The Treatment and Diagnosis of Children & Adolescents through a Psychiatry Lens
Psychopharmacology for Social Workers
This one hour CEU session will focus on commonly used medications in child and adolescent psychiatry and discuss commonly seen side effects. The session will also discuss strategies for medication adherence, issues around compliance, and issues around how psychotherapists and psychiatrists administering medications can collaborate.
Diagnosis in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This one hour CEU session will focus on why it is so difficult to make reliable and valid DSM-5 diagnoses in children and adolescents and will include discussion of the lack of biomarkers, the spectrum concept of psychiatric disorders, epigenetics and environmental effects.
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This training is being offered in conjunction with Boise State University, School of Social Work. 
WHO WE ARE
We are a broad-based, active, statewide group that comes together to offer networking, mutual support, and learning opportunities that are encouraging, fun, inspirational and rewarding; to ultimately enhance the well being of vulnerable populations and the professional social workers that serve them.
OUR WORK
To support professional social workers in Idaho by promoting excellence in clinical practice and enhancing the emotional health and well being of vulnerable populations.
