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Browse PlansEllen Fink-Samnick
DBH, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, CCM, CCTP, CRP, FCM
Dr. Ellen Fink-Samnick is an award-winning industry entrepreneur who empowers healthcare's interprofessional workforce. She is a subject matter expert on ethics, health equity and quality, integrated care, interprofessional teams, professional case management, and trauma-informed leadership. Her latest books include The Ethical Case Manager: Tools and Tactics, The Social Determinants of Health: Case Management's Next Frontier, End-of-Life Care for Case Management, and the upcoming book Social Determinants of Mental Health: Advancing Wholistic Practice Excellence.
Dr. Fink-Samnick has a doctorate in behavioral health with specialization in health equity, integrated care, quality, leadership, and trauma-informed practice. She is a licensed clinical social worker, board-certified case manager, and certified clinical trauma professional, as well as a member of the academic honor society Delta Epsilon Tau.
Dr. Fink-Samnick serves the industry through a variety of roles, with academic appointments at Cummings Graduate Institute for Behavioral Health Studies, George Mason University's College of Public Health, and the University of Buffalo School of Social Work. She is a clinical supervision trainer and instructor for the National Association of Social Workers of Virginia and Metro DC, lead for Rise Association's Social Determinants of Health Community, moderator of Ellen's Ethical Lens(TM) on LinkedIn, and author of the blog Ellen's Interprofessional Insights. She is also a consultant for the Case Management Institute and moderator of their Case Managers Community.
Dr. Fink-Samnick is known for her fierce professional voice. Along with leadership and committee roles across credentialing entities and professional associations, she has served on the Gravity Project and the National Coalition for Social Work and Health. She is a board consultant to the American Association of Doctors of Behavioral Health and is an editorial board member for the Professional Case Management Journal and for Case Management Monthly. Further information is available on her LinkedIn profile.
Courses with Ellen Fink-Samnick
Browse Course CatalogEthical Engagement: Essentials in Short-Term Behavioral Health
Presented by Ellen Fink-Samnick, DBH, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, CCM, CCTP, CRP, FCM
Ethical Engagement: Essentials in Short-Term Behavioral Health
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Video Runtime: 61 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 39 Minutes
The frontline interdisciplinary workforce faces an increased incidence and prevalence of complex chronic illnesses that encompass physical, behavioral, and psychosocial health. Patients within healthcare settings have become tougher to engage, which impacts successful engagement in treatment processes. Implicit and explicit biases can easily impede the ethical effort of any member of the care team. However, defined tactics will ensure greater success in maneuvering through these challenging themes.
This course is part of a three-part series that will address:
Ethical engagement of patients and colleagues
Ethical screening, assessment, and treatment planning
Application of ethical interventions for population-based treatment
This initial four-chapter course will enhance workforce understanding of how these biases impact patient engagement and provide clear strategies to reconcile these issues with application opportunities. The course content is applicable for all members of the interprofessional care team across the transitions of care, e.g., primary and specialty care, ambulatory, ED, acute and long-term care settings, home health, and community-based settings, particularly for case managers, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers.
The frontline interdisciplinary workforce faces an increased incidence and prevalence of complex chronic illnesses that encompass physical, behavioral, and psychosocial health. Patients within healthcare settings have become tougher to engage, which impacts successful engagement in treatment processes. Implicit and explicit biases can easily impede the ethical effort of any member of the care team. However, defined tactics will ensure greater success in maneuvering through these challenging themes.
This course is part of a three-part series that will address:
This initial four-chapter course will enhance workforce understanding of how these biases impact patient engagement and provide clear strategies to reconcile these issues with application opportunities. The course content is applicable for all members of the interprofessional care team across the transitions of care, e.g., primary and specialty care, ambulatory, ED, acute and long-term care settings, home health, and community-based settings, particularly for case managers, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers.
Embracing Ethical Screening and Assessment for Short-Term Behavioral Health
Presented by Ellen Fink-Samnick, DBH, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, CCM, CCTP, CRP, FCM
Embracing Ethical Screening and Assessment for Short-Term Behavioral Health
Subscribe now, and access clinical education
and patient education—anytime, anywhere—with video instruction from
recognized industry experts.
Video Runtime: 64 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 34 Minutes
The increased incidence and prevalence of physical, behavioral, and psychosocial health in healthcare settings means a moving target of issues for the practitioners to screen and assess patients. Implicit and explicit biases factor into screening and assessment, and they impact patient outcomes.
This course is part of a three-part series that will address
Ethical engagement of patients and colleagues
Ethical screening, assessment, and treatment planning
Application of ethical interventions for population-based treatment
This four-chapter course will provide the interprofessional workforce an ethical tool kit for more effective and efficient screening and assessment. This course content is applicable for all members of the interprofessional care team across the transitions of care (e.g., primary and specialty care, ambulatory, ED, acute and long-term care settings, home health, and community-based) particularly for case managers, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers.
The increased incidence and prevalence of physical, behavioral, and psychosocial health in healthcare settings means a moving target of issues for the practitioners to screen and assess patients. Implicit and explicit biases factor into screening and assessment, and they impact patient outcomes.
This course is part of a three-part series that will address
This four-chapter course will provide the interprofessional workforce an ethical tool kit for more effective and efficient screening and assessment. This course content is applicable for all members of the interprofessional care team across the transitions of care (e.g., primary and specialty care, ambulatory, ED, acute and long-term care settings, home health, and community-based) particularly for case managers, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers.
Embracing Ethical Interventions for Short-Term Behavioral Health
Presented by Ellen Fink-Samnick, DBH, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, CCM, CCTP, CRP, FCM
Embracing Ethical Interventions for Short-Term Behavioral Health
Subscribe now, and access clinical education
and patient education—anytime, anywhere—with video instruction from
recognized industry experts.
Video Runtime: 60 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 37 Minutes
Successful outcomes are only as good as the practitioner's ability to ethically engage, screen, assess, and intervene with each patient and their family. Implicit and explicit biases can weave their way into how the workforces walk with their populations on their intervention journey.
This course is part of a three-part series that will address
Ethical engagement of patients and colleagues
Ethical screening, assessment, and treatment planning
Application of ethical interventions for population-based treatment
This four-chapter course will provide the interprofessional workforce with distinct short-term interventions to advance the patient and provider relationship across specialty circumstances. The course content is applicable for all members of the interprofessional care team across the transitions of care (e.g., primary and specialty care, ambulatory, ED, acute and long-term care settings, home health, community-based), particularly for case managers, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers.
Successful outcomes are only as good as the practitioner's ability to ethically engage, screen, assess, and intervene with each patient and their family. Implicit and explicit biases can weave their way into how the workforces walk with their populations on their intervention journey.
This course is part of a three-part series that will address
This four-chapter course will provide the interprofessional workforce with distinct short-term interventions to advance the patient and provider relationship across specialty circumstances. The course content is applicable for all members of the interprofessional care team across the transitions of care (e.g., primary and specialty care, ambulatory, ED, acute and long-term care settings, home health, community-based), particularly for case managers, nurses, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, speech-language pathologists, and social workers.
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