5b: August 22, 2025: Understanding Implicit Bias, Oppression, and Grief as Tools for Building Professional Resilience

Friday, August 22, 2025
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Pre-register by August 15, 2024

This course will be in-person on SLU Campus

3 CEHs

$45.00 SLU Alumni and pre-registered SLU practicum instructors

$65.00 All others

Course Description
Presenter: Beth S. Barrett, MSW, LCSW, CDFT

Title: Understanding Implicit Bias, Oppression, and Grief as Tools for Building Professional Resilience
*Meets Implicit Bias Requirements

Learning Objectives: 
  • Understand resilience as a professional skill 
  • Identify one’s own implicit biases as they impact professional practice 
  • Explore one’s experiences with oppression as well as resulting grief responses 
  • Develop strategies for building new skills for professional resilience 
Course Description: Professional resilience is a key to successful and balanced social work practice. One can develop their ability to manage or adapt to challenges, stressors, and change by deliberately building skills of resilience. This CE course will explore fostering one’s professional resiliency through the impact of one’s implicit biases, experiences of oppression, and related grief. Using activities of self-exploration and self-reflection, participants will consider the influence of their own social identities and lived experiences on the biases they may hold, losses or changes they may have experienced, and the resulting griefwork that they may need to address. In identifying and addressing these factors, one can implement new skills of resilience into their professional work. 

Bio: Beth Barrett, MSW, LCSW, CDFT is an Associate Clinical Professor and Faculty Field Liaison for SLU’s School of Social Work.  She teaches courses in social work clinical skills, end-of-life, grief, and integrative practice seminar. Beth specializes in end of life and grief issues, change and loss across the life cycle, field education, and professional development for social workers. Her clinical experience includes working with children, adolescents, and adults facing life threatening illness, as well as their families, from diagnosis through death and bereavement. Beth holds the NCCJ St. Louis’ Certified Diversity FaciliTrainer certification and serves on the School’s DEI Committee.

Price:

$65.00