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Health Social Work Grand Rounds — The Strength in Struggle: What Trauma Can Teach Social Workers in Polarizing & Threatening Times

Location: HDB 1.208 Auditorium & Zoom

Address: 1601 Trinity St., Bldg. B, Austin, Texas 78712 | View Map »

Date: Monday, September 29, 2025

Time: 12–1 p.m.

Contact: Vicki Wooten

About the Event

This installment of Health Social Work Grand Rounds features Adam McCormick, Ph.D., a professor of social work in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at St. Edward’s University.

Participants will explore and examine the impact of systemic stressors on social workers and develop practical tools and strategies to reconnect with their authentic selves, advocate for their needs, and foster resilience in themselves and their clients.

Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.

For questions, email DellMedHealthSocialWork@austin.utexas.edu.

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Target Audience

  • Interprofessional and multidisciplinary health care providers, educators, and students.

Objectives

  • Examine the impact of systemic stressors on social workers, including funding instability, political instability, organizational constraints and ethical dilemmas.
  • Explore the concept of moral injury in helping professionals and its connection to disconnection from authenticity and purpose.
  • Develop practical tools and strategies to reconnect with their authentic selves, advocate for their needs and foster resilience in themselves and their clients.