May 30, 2025: Ethical Collaborative Care: Power Dynamics and Immigrant Health in Social Work Practice

Friday, May 30, 2025
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Pre-register by May 23, 2025

This is a virtual course, and will take place over Zoom.

A link to this virtual course will be sent one week prior to the event.

3 CEHs

$45.00 SLU Alumni and pre-registered SLU practicum instructors

$65.00 All others

Course Description
Presenter: Julia López Ph.D., MPH, LCSW

Title: Ethical Collaborative Care: Power Dynamics and Immigrant Health in Social Work Practice

Learning Objectives:

• Assess the ethical implications of how power differentials impact clinical care in the community focused on immigrant health
• Analyze practical examples of anti-oppressive practice in social work
• Using ethical decision-making and reflection in action skills, evaluate self in practice and discuss opportunities to be critically reflexive when working with immigrants

Course Description: In this CE course, social workers and clinical professionals will explore the guiding principles of anti-oppressive practice. Grounded in practical examples, the course will initially examine the impact of power in the clinical relationship and how it impacts immigrants who are seeking health and social services in the community. The course will foster the enhanced development of a self-reflective perspective on understanding and critically evaluating another dimension in the helping relationship: authority. Finally, the ethical implications that can arise from the interplay of power and authority in clinical practice with immigrant populations will be examined. 

Bio: Julia López, Ph.D., MPH, LCSW is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Work as well as a public health researcher in the field of sexual health using public health and social work theories and frameworks. She has previous clinical experience in a community mental health center. Additional areas of focus for research and presentation include health and mental health with sexual and gender minority individuals, health equity, and HIV/STI care.