Available Workshop Topics

Cruz and Associates specializes in providing cutting edge professional continuing education for licensed social workers. We offer private in-house training sessions tailored to meet the individual needs of your agency/company/group.

This is our current list of workshop topics, however if the topic you are interested is not listed below, drop us a line as we are able to custom tailor workshops to the needs and demands of your agency.

Cruz and Associates is a board authorized sponsor by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to provide social work continuing education and maintains full responsibility for their programs.

Workshop Topics

Ethics

Substance Abuse

Forensics

Direct Service Situation: Balancing Ethical Responsibilities
Practice and Ethical Consideration: Organizational Ethics
Exploring Bio-Ethical Issues and Principles
Ethical and Cultural Issues in a Healthcare Setting
Ethical Decision Making: a Crisis Intervention Approach
Exploring the ethics of duty to report
Ethical and Cultural Issues: Youth & Addiction

Forensics

Substance Abuse

Forensics

The Psychological Effects of Detention/ Incarceration
Juveniles charged as adults: At the crossroads of Psychology, Human Development and the Law
Early Attachments: a key for resiliency or a risk factor for juvenile offenders
Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System
PTSD: Understanding how the victim becomes the accused
From Prison to Home: The Psychological Challenges of Re-Entry

Substance Abuse

Effects of Parental Substance Abuse on Children & Extended Family
Addiction across the Lifespan: From Prenatal to Geriatrics
Youth and Addiction: Exploring Trends, Human Development, Co-Morbidity, and Treatment Modalities
Women & Addiction: Exploring the role of trauma

Mental Health

Substance Abuse

Beyond Cutting: An In-depth Look at Self-Injury Behaviors
Borderlines: Understanding the Gray Spectrum
The Trauma of Sexual Abuse
Addicted to Likes: Social Media and Mental Health
Peer Victimization: Modes of Bullying and their emotional, psychological and social outcomes

Cultural

Mental Health

Adolescence

Machismo: Exploring fact, fiction, culture, mental health and treatment modalities
Cultural Competency and Mitigation Work: Effectively using elements in report writing
Understanding & Exploring the trauma of undocumented immigrants

Adolescence

Mental Health

Adolescence

Understanding and Addressing the Complex Web of Childhood Abuse and Trauma
Children and Adolescence: The growing trend of Mental Health Diagnosis and Medication
Child Abuse: Its Collateral Consequences and Treatment Modalities
Absent Parents: the emotional and psychological effects on the child psyche

Available Workshop Topics

Workshop Topics

Ethics

Substance Abuse

Forensics

Forensics

Substance Abuse

Forensics

Substance Abuse

Substance Abuse

Substance Abuse

Mental Health

Mental Health

Substance Abuse

Cultural

Mental Health

Adolescence

Adolescence

Mental Health

Adolescence

In-House Training Request