CEU: The Weight of Pain: Rethinking Suicide
- Alumni
- Community/Public
- Current Adult & Continuing Studies Students
- Current Graduate Students
- Current Undergraduate Students
This seminar explores suicide through a compassionate, trauma-informed, and social work-centered lens. Participants will consider how helping professionals respond to suicide risk with care, clarity, and ethical responsibility. The seminar will invite social workers to move beyond fear-based responses and toward grounded, humane, and clinically thoughtful ways of working with clients who are experiencing suicidal pain.
Event Details:
- Open to: All students, faculty, staff, community
- When: February 2, 6:00-8:00 pm
- 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. Registration closes the day before the event. (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(s):
Rebecca Vlam MSS, LCSW has over 30 years of social work practice experience in clinical and administrative roles, as well as in academic graduate level roles. They enjoy teaching in-person and online, utilizing a variety of teaching methods to engage students in a student-centered and experiential learning process. Professor Vlam strives to model the ethos of social work values and ethics in their interactions with others, whether engaged in teaching, mentoring, collaborating, or in social work practice with individuals, families, groups, and communities.