The Dementias: Hope Through Research (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores the different types of dementia and includes an overview of Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal disorders, Lewy body dementia, and vascular dementia. Causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment are discussed. Risk factors for dementia and cognitive impairment are also explored. The course includes research supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute on Aging.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Readings:
The Dementias Hope Through Research- published by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke, National Institute on Aging
Alzheimer’s Disease Fact Sheet- published by the National Institute on Aging
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of dementia.
Learning Objectives: Compare different types of dementia. Identify risk factors for dementia and cognitive impairment. Describe diagnosis and treatment options.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.