Month: October 2026

Diagnosis Decoded

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Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II

Wednesday, December 2, 2026Register Now
9 am – 12 pm
3 CECs

Registration Fee: $75
10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors

Link to webinar will be included in your email confirmation.

Accurate diagnosis starts with knowing the criteria well enough to recognize them in a real person, not just on a page. Diagnosis Decoded takes a practical look at the DSM-5-TR, exploring the diagnostic criteria and specifiers across key diagnoses and translating them into what clinicians actually see and hear in session. This training focuses on selected diagnoses commonly encountered in social work practice, with an emphasis on those that frequently overlap. Participants will learn how symptoms tend to present, how specifiers sharpen the clinical picture, and how to begin telling apart conditions that look alike on the surface. Whether you’re newer to assessment or want to strengthen your diagnostic confidence, this training builds skills for moving from observation to a well-supported diagnosis.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

  1. Review the diagnostic criteria and specifiers for selected DSM-5-TR diagnoses.
  2. Explore how symptoms of these diagnoses may present in clinical interviews and client behavior.
  3. Practice distinguishing between diagnoses with overlapping symptoms using introductory differential diagnosis considerations.
  4. Apply diagnostic criteria to case examples as a starting point for building a supported provisional diagnosis.

Power, Passion and Purpose: Understanding Clinician Burnout

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Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II

Meets 2 days
Mondays, November 2 and 9, 2026Register Now
9 am – 12 pm
6 CECs

Registration Fee: $150
10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors

Link to webinar will be included in your email confirmation

Trainings on clinician burnout typically focus on balance and self-care, which may increase healthy habits, but often won’t alleviate burnout. This 2-day webinar goes to the heart of the three most common causes of burnout, a lack of power, passion, and purpose, and how to build each one.

Learning objectives:

  • explore and evaluate traditional clinical burnout prevention techniques
  • examine the concept of power, what it is and how to build it in oneself and in the workplace
  • investigate passion by remembering early passion for work and how to reignite it
  • consider one’s purpose and how to increase its value to promote job satisfaction