2025 JV Caprez Social Work Field Day
Friday, March 28, 2025
9:00am - 4:00pm CDT
Memorial Union Ballroom and Zoom
Lunch Break 12:00-1:00pm
Morning Session 9:00am-12:00pm:
Title: Cultural Formulation and Concepts of Distress in Assessment and Diagnosis
Speaker: Dr. Octavio Ramirez and Dr. Annette Clarke Jones
Sponsored by: Social Work Department
3 Diagnosis & Treatment CEUs available
Objectives:
- To analyze a patient’s cultural context and how it may influence their mental health presentation, leading to a more culturally sensitive diagnosis.
- To apply the various domains of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), thereby improving rapport and treatment efficacy.
- To understand how different cultures experience, express, and explain mental health symptoms, which can impact the accuracy of diagnosis and treatment planning.
Afternoon Session 1:00pm-4:00pm:
Title: The Intersection of Immigration, Assessment, Diagnosis, and Cultural Competency in Social Work Practice
Speaker: Dr. Octavio Ramirez and Dr. Annette Clarke Jones
Sponsored by: Social Work Department
3 Diagnosis & Treatment CEUs available
Objectives:
- To evaluate the psychosocial impact of parental migration on Jamaican barrel children and how social workers assess members of this immigrant population.
- To understand how anxiety and depression present in immigrant populations and how cultural factors influence symptom expression.
- To apply culturally responsive approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and intervention.
Social Work Field Work Information
This event is free, open to the public, and offered face to face as well as zoom. If you wish to attend and do not need CEUs, email socialwork@fhsu.edu your name, email address and if you are attending in person or via zoom, so we can register you.
If participants are requesting CEU for the event, the cost is $25 per session. Registration is non-refundable. If participants register as a zoom attendee, the zoom link will be emailed one day prior to the event. Attendees will receive CEU certificates after the event.
Parking: please park in lot A2 or lot A3 by the Memorial Union and behind the President’s House/Stroup Hall.
Registration now closed!
Complete your REGISTRATION if you are receiving CEUs.
Any questions about Field Day? Email socialwork@fhsu.edu
Resources
Presenter Information
Octavio Ramirez, PhD., LICSW
Dr. Octavio Ramirez, LSCSW, has 30 years of experience in the field of social work. He began his career as a Life Skills Counselor in the City of Camden, NJ, training and preparing adjudicated youth for independent living. Upon completing his BSW and MSW degrees from Rutgers University, Dr. Ramirez worked in various roles, including School Social Work, State Probation Officer, and Family Therapist. In 2005, Dr. Ramirez completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Walden University, and in 2014 completed post-doctoral studies at Loma Linda University.
In 2009, Dr. Ramirez was appointed by the Association of Social Work Boards as a subject matter expert to create questions for the National Social Work Licensing Exam. In 2012, he was promoted to the academic rank of Full Professor and was honored with the Distinguished Educator of the Year Award from the City of Huntsville, Alabama. A few years later, the Honorable Kay Ivey, Governor of the State of Alabama, appointed Dr. Ramirez as Chair of the State’s Licensing Board.
Dr. Ramirez currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Accreditation for the Council on Social Work Education. The Board of Accreditation oversees more than 548 Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) programs and 334 Master of Social Work (MSW) programs in North America, including Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Dr. Ramirez’s tenure at Fort Hays State University began in the Fall of 2021. He was appointed BSW Program Director at that time. His research interests include mental health, religious and spiritual practices among young people, and school bullying. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dr. Ramirez has provided mental health services to patients at HaysMed for the last two years. Dr. Ramirez enjoys interacting with patients, publishing scholarly articles, and presenting at peer-review conferences with his social work students.
Annette Clarke Jones, Ph.D., MS, MSW, RSW
Dr. Annette Clarke Jones was born on the beautiful island of Jamaica and grew up in the multicultural city of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Clarke Jones is an international social worker who has practiced in Canada and the United States. She has experience working in rural Canada with Canada's aboriginal people. She worked for Canada’s largest public healthcare system, Alberta Health Services, as well as Canada’s largest private mental health agency, Morneau Shepell, now Lifeworks Inc. She also practiced in rural Alabama, where she was instrumental in building alliances with multiple stakeholders. Clarke Jones has lived and worked in the Caribbean, Canada, the United States, and South Korea. She has also traveled and volunteered across the US, Canada, Asia, and the African and Caribbean continents. Her area of reach is immigrants and their families, in particular, "the Jamaican barrel children. She is an author, researcher, and mentor.