FREE CEUs available for Social Work and Behavioral Health

Juliana E. Karras, Ph.D.

Juliana Karras, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the A.R.C. Lab dedicated to Advancing the Rights of Children through psychological science at San Francisco State University. She completed her: postdoc in Human Development & Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the Graduate Center City University of New York; and M.A. in Human Development & Social Intervention at New York University. Dr. Karras’ work straddles both developmental and social research areas by focusing on the social development of children and adolescents in context. Specifically: the intersection of race, inequality, and civic development; attitudes towards and conceptions of children’s human rights; and ethnic/racial inequality across contexts. The goal of her work is to advance the human rights of children through actionable science by generating empirical knowledge that researchers, practitioners, and policymakers can use to identify and rectify social systems that reproduce inequality in development.

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Registration: $20

FREE Ethics CEUs available (3 hours)

Presenter’s bio: Margaret Lloyd Sieger, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in the Department of Population Health. Dr. Lloyd Sieger’s research focuses on practice and policy addressing parental substance use and child welfare, with particular attention to families with infants and young children. Her current research, funded by NIDA and NIJ, examines policies on substance use in pregnancy, family treatment court effectiveness, and best practice standards implementation. She has published over 50 articles and chapters in peer-reviewed literature on these topics. She earned her doctorate at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, masters at Avila University, and bachelors at the University of Arizona.

Workshop description: this 3-hour interactive workshop explores evidence-based practices and ethical challenges in caring for pregnant patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). Participants will review current guidelines for medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) during pregnancy, trauma-informed care, and strategies to reduce stigma and improve maternal–infant outcomes. Through case discussions and applied ethics exercises, attendees will examine real-world dilemmas—such as balancing maternal autonomy with fetal well-being, navigating mandated reporting, and coordinating care across medical and social service systems. The session equips providers with practical tools to deliver compassionate, effective, and ethically grounded care for pregnant and parenting patients affected by OUD.

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Participation is FREE with registration in advance.

CEUs available for social work: $10 for 1 credit hour

Lecture description: This lecture will present the speaker’s empirical research into family court responses to custody cases involving family abuse and parental alienation allegations.  These cases are often characterized as “high conflict.” The findings shed light on courts’ reluctance to believe domestic violence and particularly – child abuse – allegations by mothers against fathers; and the powerful role of crossclaims of parental alienation in reinforcing that reluctance. The findings also describe the rates at which mothers lose custody after alleging abuse.

Lecturer: Joan Meier,  Professor of Law and Director of  National Family Violence Law Center, George Washington University Law School

Prof. Joan Meier has been a clinical Law Professor for over 30 years at George Washington Law, where she founded three pioneering and nationally recognized interdisciplinary domestic violence clinical programs. She has published widely on domestic violence, custody, clinical teaching, criminal procedure, and various Supreme court decisions. Her major study “Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations,” funded by the National Institute of Justice, was completed in 2019. Its findings have been written about in scholarship and multiple media outlets including The Washington Post and The New Yorker.

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