Shantalea Johns EdD, LMSW presents "Neuroscience for Social Workers: Integrating the Brain into Practice", which provides an overview of the importance of neuroscience in social work training, research, and intervention.  

Course objectives:

• Participants will become aware of four key elements involved in response to stress. 
• Participants will identity how repeated traumatic exposure impacts the brain.   
• Participants will review how the nervous system coordinates actions and sensation through a complex network of nerve receptors that report back to the brain  
• Participants will identity three strategies for post-traumatic growth and building resiliency skills in your client 

Steps to complete this course:

1. Pay for the course: The cost of the lecture with CEs is $15. The lecture is open to all licensed social work practitioners and is worth 2 Continuing Education Clock Hours. Non-Social Workers will obtain a certificate of completion. Payment must be submitted to obtain course content. Please use your computer, (not a phone), to pay.  Click here to pay for this course.

2. Complete Course: You will be sent a document containing course materials and Post-Test. Complete the directions in this document.

Pending a passing test score and payment in full, a CE certificate will be e-mailed to you within 7 to 10 business days.

Refund Policy:

If you pay for this course before completing it, you will have up to 60 days after payment to complete this course. After that, no refunds will be issued.

For further information or any questions, please contact the CE department at  ce_ssw@wayne.edu.