November 17, 2021
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2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
EST
This workshop will aim to highlight the importance of understanding the impact dementia and related illnesses have on a person’s ability to communicate. As a result, care partners and care professionals may need to shift their communication approach and gain insight into the variety of ways individuals living with dementia may communicate. Through this workshop, we will look to reframe typical “problem behaviors” sometimes exhibited by individuals living with dementia as expressions of need and explore the myriad ways individuals with dementia commonly communicate their needs, especially as the illness progresses. Participants will explore strategies to proactively meet needs, as well as develop tools to de-escalate and diffuse situations if they arise. This workshop is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions.
A complete course description, including objectives, agenda, speaker bio and cancellation policy, is available here.
2 continuing education (CE) hours from the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Social Work are available. 2 CE hours from The Commission for Case Manager Certification are also available to CCM® board certified case managers.
Registration fee: $25
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This program is approved by the National Association of Social Work (Approval #886446769-1454) for 2 continuing education contact hours.
Understanding Behaviors as Forms of Communication, Course #3600, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Alzheimer’s Foundation of America as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 05/26/2021 – 05/26/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 2 General Social Work Practice continuing education credits.
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, Inc. SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0222.
This program has been pre-approved by The Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education credit to CCM® board certified case managers. The course is approved for 2 CE contact hour(s). Activity code: I00046173 Approval Number: 210001542.
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