CEU: Exploring the Brain, Body, Mind Connection and Its Importance to Mental Health
- Alumni
- Community/Public
- Current Adult & Continuing Studies Students
- Current Graduate Students
- Current Undergraduate Students
This will be a talk augmented with PowerPoint, polls, and discussion. Building and repairing a healthy body is vital to a person’s ability to be resilient, to heal from physical and psychological stress and trauma, and to live a good life. Focusing on this foundation will enhance the success of most psycho-social therapies and interventions. Additionally, a special focus will be on applying this to supporting people with neurological differences and their supporters. In this presentation, Dr. Barol will draw on current research and her experience working and living within this paradigm over the past five decades.
Event Details:
- Open to: All, students, faculty, staff, community
- When: September 29, 6 - 8pm
- Where: Online
- Registration: Registering is the only way to receive CEUs. If you would like to attend but do not need CEUs, you may attend for free! Advance registration is required for all attendees. (Widener SW Alumni: please contact socialwork@widener.edu for discount coupon code).
CEU events and CEUs are free for current Widener students, faculty, and field instructors. Widener alumni need to pay $10; everyone else, $25. After the event, you will be emailed your certificate.
After registering, you should receive a confirmation email within 2 business days.
Questions? Reach out! socialwork@widener.edu
About the presenter:
Dr. Beth I. Barol, PhD, LSW, BCB, NADD-CC, has dedicated the past 50 years to serving and supporting people with intellectual, developmental, and neurological differences (ID) who also experience challenging behaviors and co-occurring mental health conditions. She began her career as a direct support worker and live-in houseparent and has since served in numerous leadership and clinical roles, including community-based project director, residential program director, facility director, and clinician.
Dr. Barol served for 10 years as Clinical Director for the Pennsylvania Office of Developmental Programs’ statewide Training and Technical Assistance initiative, with a focus on individuals with dual diagnoses. She later retired from Widener University, where she held the roles of Associate Professor, Associate Dean, and Director of the Center for Social Work Education. During her 17 years at the university, she taught graduate students in clinical social work.
For more than 30 years, Dr. Barol has worked extensively with Biographical Timelines and has trained facilitators and trainers in the process. Her areas of special interest include positive approaches for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and challenging behaviors, co-occurring mental illness, trauma, neurological differences, holistic health, and a “food as medicine” approach. She applies her expertise through clinical practice as well as through work in group process, conflict resolution, partnership building, leadership development, systems change, and management.
Dr. Barol is trained in EMDR, biofeedback, brain health, and neurofeedback. She is also pursuing certification in Functional Medicine Coaching and is integrating these modalities into her work.
In 2020, Dr. Barol received the Earl L. Loschen, MD Award for Clinical Practice from the National Association for Dual Diagnosis in recognition of her contributions to clinical practice.
She currently serves as Co-Director of the Capacity Building Institute for Pennsylvania and as a consultant team member for the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services Capacity Building Institute.