For White Social Workers: RE/UN/DIScover Heuristic for Dual Awareness in Ongoing Anti-Racist Practice (1 credit hour)

Program Summary:  This course offers a heuristic or a guide for White social workers for anti-racist social work practice that includes three sets of practices:  REcover, UNcover, and DIScover.  REcover practices seek to help White social workers shift to a window of tolerance with activities like brief pauses and paced breathing.  UNcover practices seek to help White social workers critically examine beliefs, biases, and power. DIScover practices seek to help White social workers look at what is possible, while resisting the urge to fix and control.  The course emphasizes the importance of learning in relationship and holding space for racialized discomfort.

This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.  

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Reading:  For White Social Workers:  RE/UN/DIScover Heuristic for Dual Awareness in Ongoing Anti-Racist Practice  Author:  Elizabeth King Keenan, PHD, LCSW Publisher:  Advances in Social Work

Course Objectives:  To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring ways to engage in ongoing anti-racist practice using the REcover, UNcover, and DIScover heuristic.

Learning Objectives:  Describe ways to REcover with compassion.  Describe ways to UNcover with curiosity and critical reflection.  Describe ways to DIScover with creative courage.

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Course Available Until: October 31, 2028.

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1: White people often become activated because they have not had to learn how to
 
 
 
2: Figure 1// REcover practices ask
 
 
 
3: Figure 1//  UNcover practices ask
 
 
 
4: Figure 1//  DIScover practices ask
 
 
 
5: White people interacting in predominantly White spaces often do not need to tune into self because the spaces provide White people with comfort through various norms and taboos mitigating against discussing racism and White supremacy.
 
 
6: Figure 2//  Paced breathing is an example of _________ practices.
 
 
 
7: Figure 2//  Examining one's beliefs and biases is an example of ___________ practices.
 
 
 
8: Figure 2//  Resisting the urge to fix is an example of __________ practices.
 
 
 
9: Which of the following is a White group-level defensive behavior emerging from psychological defenses?
 
 
 
 
 
 
10: Vinsky and Preyatt-Hyles used the metaphor of ____________ to describe the pervasive ways in which dominant cultural sets of practices and ideas influence one's thinking, feeling, inner experiences, and practice actions.
 
 
 
 

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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 1 continuing education credit.

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 has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.

Course Available Until: October 31, 2028.
Filed under: Anti-Racism, Anti-Discrimination