Please note: This is a remote webinar that will be held outside the CE Institute. Webinar access instructions, evaluations, and certificates will be communicated by NASW NH Chapter a day before the webinar. You must attend the live workshop to receive CEs associated.
This program has been approved for 3.0 Continuing Education hours for licensure. NASW NH Authorization.
Perimenopause and menopause are often misunderstood, underrecognized, and frequently misattributed to lifestyle or psychogenic conditions causing many women in midlife to feel dismissed, mislabeled, and shamed. This workshop challenges common myths surrounding perimenopause and menopause and reframes these transitions through a biopsychosocial lens.
Designed for social workers, this 3-hour training explores how hormonal transitions intersect with mood, anxiety, cognition, trauma history, identity, relationships, and role strain. Participants will examine how midlife symptoms can mimic or exacerbate psychiatric conditions, why women are often overdiagnosed or undertreated during this life stage, and how cultural narratives about aging, productivity, and gender influence client experiences.
This workshop offers a high-level overview of hormone therapy without emphasizing prescribing or medical management. Instead, it centers on assessment, validation, psychoeducation, and therapeutic support. Through case examples and myth-busting discussions, social workers will gain practical tools to recognize menopausal transitions, reduce stigma, and more effectively support clients navigating midlife change, while collaborating thoughtfully with medical providers when appropriate.
Objectives:
- Identify and challenge common myths and misinformation about perimenopause and menopause that contribute to misdiagnosis, stigma, and invalidation of midlife clients.
- Recognize how hormonal transitions intersect with mental health, trauma history, identity, relationships, and role strain, rather than viewing symptoms as purely psychiatric or “psychological.”
- Differentiate menopausal-related mood, anxiety, and cognitive symptoms from primary psychiatric disorders, reducing overpathologizing and inappropriate labeling.
- Apply a biopsychosocial framework to assessment and support, including how social workers can validate experiences, support coping, and collaborate effectively with medical providers, without needing to prescribe or manage hormones.
If you would prefer to pay by check, please email Emryn at elessie.naswnh@socialworkers.org.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You will be sent a zoom link and any handouts received prior to the workshop. Please check your spam folders if you do not see the email by the morning of the training.
Questions? Email Emryn at the email above or Lynn at lcurrier.naswnh@socialworkers.org.
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