Stress Busting - Writing to Boost Resilience and Lower Stress

CEs: 2

Course Overview

We all have stress due to a variety of external and internal factors. In this 2-hour interactive workshop, participants will be given a template for a one-hour journal group on stress busting through writing. You will be guided through the experience of creating new relationships with stress through short, structured, sequenced writes. We’ll talk about ways you can use this ready-made template with clients and client groups in treatment. You’ll leave the workshop with a simple, yet powerful, tool to share with clients and students, individually or in groups. And you’ll have a valuable new method for your own stress busting!

Educational Objectives

• Learn about the Pennebaker landmark study that linked writing to improved health outcomes
• Learn 5 reasons why structured, guided writing works to contain big emotions and try 5 structures
• Use writing as an act of self-care to reduce anxiety and rumination and promote emotional regulation

Tuition Rates

• $60 – Registration Fee
• $40 – Alumni, Field Instructor, Field Liaison, AUSSW Staff
• $20 – Veteran/AUSSW Student

Lead Faculty

Nancy Scherlong, LCSW-R, PTR, CJT, M-S

Nancy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the states of NY and CT. She is also a Registered Poetry/Biblio Therapist, Certified Journal Therapist and an approved trainer in both methods. She is the current President for the International Federation of Biblio-Poetry Therapy (IFBPT), one of the six expressive arts credentialing organizations. Nancy is a writer and an integrative psychotherapist specializing in stress management, trauma and addiction and has worked in the field of therapeutic writing for over 25 years. She provides workshops as well as distance coaching, consultation and training services. An Adelphi alum (1997) and adjunct faculty since 2008, she also provides online campus advising for Columbia University and is a member of core faculty of the Therapeutic Writing Institute and on the training staff of Kint Institute. For more about her work please visit Change Your Narrative, LCSW PLLC at www.changeyournarrativetherapy.com.

Credentialing Information

Adelphi University School of Social Work is an approved provider for continuing education credits for the following:

• NYSED Social Workers
• NYSED LMHC
• NYSED LMFT
• NYSED LCAT
• CASAC Renewal
• NYSED Psychology
• ASWB ACE Social Work CEs

Successful completion for the award of approved continuing education credits requires attendance at the entire training/workshop and submission of a completed evaluation form.

ACE Approved Provider of Continuing Education Contact Hours

Adelphi University School of Social Work: Continuing Education and Professional Development, #1786, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Adelphi University School of Social Work: Continuing Education and Professional Development maintain responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/03/2022 – 03/03/206. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education Provider in the states of New York and West Virginia unless the event is outside of West VA. Adelphi University School of Social Work is an approved NYSED CE provider in New York State.

55 states/jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. Successful completion for the award of approved continuing education credits requires attendance at the entire training/workshop and submission of a completed evaluation form. See full credentialing information and CEUs

Cancellation Policy

Unfortunately, we cannot provide refunds for cancellations made seven working days or fewer before the event for any reason—or for no-shows. We can provide credit towards a future workshop up to 24 hours before the event. After that, no credit will be issued.

Accessibility Statement

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Adelphi University require that all events be accessible. To request a reasonable accommodation, please contact the event host identified on the event webpage; please allow for a reasonable time frame. The event host, when necessary, will collaborate with the Student Access Office.