Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Virtual
9:00 am – 12 pm (ET)
3 CECs

Registration Fee: $75
UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors receive a 10% discount

Link to webinar will be included in your email confirmation

Ready to take your private practice to the next level? This interactive workshop is designed exclusively for clinicians who have completed “Building Your Private Practice” and are eager to confidently apply what they’ve learned. Join Dr. Jenn and fellow professionals to tackle real-world challenges, troubleshoot obstacles, and refine your systems—so your practice not only survives, but truly thrives. Bring your questions, roadblocks, and ideas for a supportive, hands-on experience that turns insight into action.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and analyze common challenges faced in private practice, including workflow, client management, and business growth
• Develop personalized strategies for overcoming obstacles and optimizing key practice systems
• Apply workshop insights to troubleshoot specific issues in your own practice, with feedback from peers and Dr. Jenn
• 4. Strengthen confidence in maintaining, developing, and evolving a sustainable, client-centered private practice.

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
9 am – 12 pm (ET)

Live Webinar
3 CECs

Registration Fee: $75
10% discount for UCo7nn SSW Alumni and Current SSW Field Instructors

Clinicians are faced with significant strains on the boundaries of the clinical relationship in this politically charged, post-pandemic climate. Exhausted and pressured, clinicians need support and tools to navigate these unique stressors on clinical practice.

This training explores how clinician burnout has changed under the unique pressures we face today, and offers tools we need to address them.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the ethical strains on the clinical relationship due to the politically charged climate among health care clinicians
• Examine the concept of power, what it is and how to build it in oneself and in the workplace
• Investigate passion for work and how to reignite it when under pressure
• Connect the concept of values-based purpose with job satisfaction

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Jennifer Berton, LCSW, LICSW, PhD

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

9 am – 12 pm (ET)

3 CECs

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II
Wed, January 14, 2026
Webinar
9 am – 12 pm (ET)
3 CEC

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

Link will be emailed when your registration is complete.

This training marries the essential elements of a successful supervisory practice with the foundation of the diagnostic process. Participants will gain tools to ensure that each supervised clinician can learn how to diagnose disorders and conditions that will be a treatment focus. This training will give participants tools to both evaluate and improve diagnosing tools, and how to troubleshoot and intervene as may be needed.

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II

Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Webinar
9 am – 12 pm (ET)
3 CECs

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

Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete.

Historically mislabeled as a difficult population, this webinar will explore the characteristics of adolescent addiction, the recovery pitfalls, and effective treatment interventions that will engage your young clients.

Adolescent Addiction is a distinct problem, with biopsychosocial elements unique to this age group, which indicates there are unique treatment implications. This training explores the unique elements of adolescent addiction and discusses the best ways to both prevent and treat it. While the majority of the training addresses substance use, other addictions – gambling, sex, internet, fitness – will be included.

Adolescent Addiction is often guided by cultural, political, and social forces. Adolescents my be judged for wanting attention, submitting to peer pressure, or making “stupid” choices, depending on the culture in which the teen is a member. The degree that the addiction is accepted is often based on these influences. This training includes a discussion of these influences, not only in understanding how teen addiction develops, but also how recovery can be sabotaged or supported by these influences.

Participants will:

• learn the differences between the adult and adolescent brain
• explore the principles of addiction and how it affects the adolescent brain
• review updated assessment tools for this population

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Live Webinar
10 am – 12 pm (ET)
2 CECs

Registration fee: $50
10% Discount for UConn SSW Alumni and Current UConn SSW Field Instructors

Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete.

As social workers, we tend to have limited training in the grief of children. How they cognitively and psychologically understand loss is often omitted from our core learning objectives. For children in foster or residential or alternative care, the research is even more limited. This webinar will focus on the specific bereavement and grief experiences of children in alternative care. We will explore how a child, to even “be” in alternative care, is to be a griever. Any alternative care for a child, by its very definition, requires that the child in care has either lost a family member(s) to actual death or another form of loss that often feels like a death.

How have we systemically viewed these grieving children? Are we more likely to diagnose their expressions of grief as negative behaviors? Can the most oppositional child we treat be among the most bereaved children we have encountered?

This webinar will examine children in alternative care as disenfranchised grievers. We will address the bereavement needs that so often, and unintentionally, go untreated. We will also explore why this grief has been systemically undertreated due to a system that was never given adequate resources to address the bereavement needs of these children.

Participants will:

• be able to identify the common symptoms of grief experienced by children in care
• be able to identify how grief manifests in behavioral symptoms
• learn positive interventions to address grief and loss issues of children in alternative care

This workshop teaches new supervisors and updates those who are experienced about the range of skills involved in individual and group supervision in an array of service contexts. Supervisors are guided in structuring regularly scheduled supervisory sessions in accordance with the learning styles of supervisees and the appropriate use of individual versus group meetings. Emphasis is placed on supporting staff in self-assessment with careful attention to diversity, inclusion, and equity issues within the service context.

Learning Objectives (Supervisory Best Practices):

1. Structure regularly scheduled supervisory sessions in accordance with the learning styles of supervisees
2. Support supervisees in self-assessment and planning to advance their practice strengths, address challenges, and develop as professionals
3. Teach supervisees to use an “evidence-informed” approach to empirically evaluating practice
4. Model the behavior of striving for professional competence through ongoing education, supervision, and self-care
5. Structure group supervision sessions focused on common practice themes and situations (e.g., ethical dilemmas)
6. Utilize social work group facilitation skills to promote group process during group supervision

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II
Virtual
Thursday, November 13, 2025
9 am -12 pm (ET)
3 CECs

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

Webinar link will be included in your confirmation email.

All clinicians need to develop skills in conducting and interpreting the Mental Status Examination. This course offers a detailed exploration of the MSE components, enabling participants to assess cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning accurately.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify & describe the key components of the MSE
• Learn to conduct a more thorough MSE exam
• Practice recognizing elements of the MSE in vignettes
• Recognize the influence of cultural background and individual traits on MSE

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II
Tues, Jan 20, 2026
Webinar
9 am – 12 pm (ET)
3 CECs

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

Link will be emailed when your registration is complete.

This training marries the essential elements of a successful supervisory practice with the core ethical standards of helping professions. Participants will gain tools to ensure that each clinician can grow an ethical practice that will help protect the profession, the clinician, and every client they serve. This training will give participants tools to both evaluate the ethical practice of each clinician and to strengthen any ethically weak areas, which will allow participants to anticipate and address problems before ethical violations occur.