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Strengthen Your Practice with The Network’s Fall 2026 Webinar Series
This fall, join the Network for Professional Education at BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) for a series of timely fall webinars on relevant topics for social workers and health and human service professionals. Hosted by experts in the fields of social work and behavioral health, these sessions will strengthen your practice with relevant skills and practical tools.
9/23: Practical Tools for Nervous System Regulation
Learn how to recognize signs of stress during client interactions and use evidence-informed strategies to promote stress regulation. Participants in this webinar will explore the three primary states of the nervous system and learn somatic grounding techniques to empower self-regulation and build long term resilience.
10/8: Behavioral Strategies in Dementia: Tools, Tactics, and Practices
People living with dementia can often experience behavioral symptoms that create stress both for the individual, their caregivers, and the professionals who support them. In this webinar, participants will learn how to recognize, assess, and manage these symptoms in ways that uphold dignity and safety.
11/18: Compassion in Clinical Practice: Science, Skills, and Application
This foundational session introduces social workers and other professionals to the science of compassion and how to incorporate it into their work, both with clients and in their own self-care. Learners will study the Compassion Focused Therapy approach and come away with ways to apply evidence-informed strategies to their clinical work.