About This Event
ICSW Alumni Committee, Virtual Munch and Learn
Relevance of Social Policy to Clinical Practice
Friday, March 7, 2025
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. CT
Description: This workshop will review a new 3-volume set of books called “The Concise History of Social Policy”. It will focus on the relevance of social policy and its history to clinical practice. It will show how what we do in the field of mental health is embedded in a social policy environment that has been evolving over many years. It will also show how policies affect funding, availability of services, and even what we are (and are not) able to do in our practice.
Objectives:
Participants will learn:
- Why social policy history is relevant to clinical practice
- How the US has approached the issue of mental health through history
- How our current system of care has been shaped by mental health policy over the years
Presenter:
Barry J. Koch Ph.D., LCSW has worked in the field of Social Work for 43 years in the roles of psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, professor, and consultant. He currently provides clinical consultation to psychotherapists in private practice, and teaches in the MSW program for the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He is a 2004 graduate of ICSW.
FREE VIA ZOOM – Will be recorded
To receive 1.5 CEUs - $20 for ICSW Community
(contact Elree C. Smith, esmith@icsw.edu for ICSW Community registration link)
$35 for General Public
Questions, Contact: Leah Harp - leahharp@gmail.com
Registration and attendance at, or participation in, ICSW classes, meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ICSW's use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events and activities.
About This Event
ICSW Alumni Committee, Virtual Munch and Learn
Relevance of Social Policy to Clinical Practice
Friday, March 7, 2025
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. CT
Description: This workshop will review a new 3-volume set of books called “The Concise History of Social Policy”. It will focus on the relevance of social policy and its history to clinical practice. It will show how what we do in the field of mental health is embedded in a social policy environment that has been evolving over many years. It will also show how policies affect funding, availability of services, and even what we are (and are not) able to do in our practice.
Objectives:
Participants will learn:
- Why social policy history is relevant to clinical practice
- How the US has approached the issue of mental health through history
- How our current system of care has been shaped by mental health policy over the years
Presenter:
Barry J. Koch Ph.D., LCSW has worked in the field of Social Work for 43 years in the roles of psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, professor, and consultant. He currently provides clinical consultation to psychotherapists in private practice, and teaches in the MSW program for the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He is a 2004 graduate of ICSW.
FREE VIA ZOOM – Will be recorded
To receive 1.5 CEUs - $20 for ICSW Community
(contact Elree C. Smith, esmith@icsw.edu for ICSW Community registration link)
$35 for General Public
Questions, Contact: Leah Harp - leahharp@gmail.com
Registration and attendance at, or participation in, ICSW classes, meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ICSW's use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events and activities.