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Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture (CSREC) presents a 3-hour conference
10:50 - 11:45 Small groups 11:45 - 12:00 Break 12:00 - 12:45 Discussion in large group and closing Learning Objectives:
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Let’s gather to celebrate Michelle M. May’s new book, What I Couldn’t Tell My Therapist!
Date: Saturday, November 2, 2024 Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm Location: The Sky Room of the Continental Condominium at 851 N Glebe Rd, Arlington, Virginia, 22203 Program Description: You are cordially invited to the launch of What I Couldn't Tell My Therapist, the new book by Michelle M. May. Please join us for an evening of celebration, where you will have the opportunity to learn more about Michelle’s deeply insightful work, connect with fellow readers, meet new and old friends and colleagues, and enjoy a selection of wine and cheese. In addition to a reading from the author, there will be a moderated question-and-answer session, offering guests the chance to ask Michelle about her book and her therapeutic work. Michelle will also be selling and signing copies of her book, offering an opportunity to take home a personalized edition. Please note that registration is required to attend. We look forward to welcoming you to this special event. Warm regards, The New Washington School of Psychiatry
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Psychodynamic & Expressive Therapy for Older Adults: Healing in Late Life Date: Sunday, October 27, 2024 Time: 10:00am – 5:30pm Location: Online via Zoom
6.75 CEs offered
Program Description: This conference covers the essentials of Psychotherapeutic work with older adults. Contemporary psychodynamic thought and experiential therapy can be applied clinically to engage the older patient in psychotherapeutic work of depth and meaning. This work not only relieves suffering but also promotes growth. People are rarely too old to grow. Thinking otherwise is an earmark of ageism. The difficulties accompanying older age can affect psychological function. Presenters will examine the unique psychotherapeutic needs of this age group. Using clinical vignettes and assessment techniques for illustrative purposes the needs of this age group will be discussed and demonstrated. The conference explores the challenges, tasks, techniques, and accomplishments involved in the treatment of older adults. Topics discussed include the reemergence of earlier developmental challenges; the concurrent treatment of late life and revived early trauma; transference and countertransference; the functions of developing an enriched life narrative in restoring the self; existential issues; and mourning. The demand for mental health services for older adults is growing alongside increasing life spans, but the psychodynamic literature and teaching special skills to work with this population is neglected. This conference offers a guide to effective work with older adults for all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts , and experiential therapists. Schedule: 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Welcome and Review of Protocols [Rob Bamberger] 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM Keynote: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Older Adults: Transformative Approaches to Later Life [Tybe Diamond, MSW]] 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Assessment [Kathryn Chefetz, MSW] 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Individual Treatment with Case Vignette [Jane Brewster, MSW] 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM Break 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM Family Therapy with Case Vignette [Judy Peres, MSW] 12:45 PM – 1:15 PM Couples Therapy with Case Vignette [Glory Dierker, PhD] 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM Lunch Break 1:45 PM – 2:15 PM Group Therapy [Rob Bamberger, MSW, and George Saiger, MD] 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Expressive Therapies [Margo Silberstein, Ed.D.] 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Break 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM Poetry Therapy [Peggy Heller, MSW] 5:15 PM – 5:45 PM Closing Dialogue: Integrating the conference themes [Chair & Moderator: Tybe Diamond with the Faculty] Learning Objectives:
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Working in the Relationship with a Fragile Patient Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024 Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm Location: St. John's Episcopal Church, 6701 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland AND Zoom Online Program Description: Fragile patients suffer from extreme anxiety. Why? They often fear you will be like a traumatizing person in their past. In these cases, anxiety regulation does not work. After all, If you represent a traumatizer from the past, the patient cannot trust you. Instead, we must identify who we represent in the patient’s past (the transference). Then we need to help the patient see the difference between the therapist and who we represent. Then the patient can form an alliance with you rather than have a misalliance with the imagined traumatizer.
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NWSP Birthday Date: Saturday, June 15, 2024 Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm Location: Busboys and Poets, 235 Carroll Avenue NW, Takoma DC (just one block from Takoma Metro) Come join your New Washington School of Psychiatry colleagues to celebrate our first birthday!!
Jewish Experience in Racial Reckoning: Openings and Obstacles Speakers: Janna Sandmeyer, PhD and Julie Hyman, LCSW Facilitator: Kate Leslie, LICSW Date: Sunday, May 5, 2024 Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm Location: A Virtual Zoom Event 2.0 CEs Offered Program Description: In this program, Dr. Sandmeyer will share her thoughts about how the transgenerational transmission of trauma that has marked Jewish experience from its inception, intersects with a transgenerational transmission of privilege within the psychoanalytic psychotherapy community. While all members of dialogues addressing racial reckoning are confronted simultaneously with multiple self-other configurations that may be consciously in conflict with each other and/or unconscious and dissociated, this seemingly discordant coupling of privilege and trauma with regard to Jewish experience generally remains unspoken, is sometimes disavowed, and often results in confusing interactions that stem from split off affect states. Analogous to the psychoanalytic psychotherapy situation, the aim of this discussion is to engage these dissociated, disavowed and/or conflicted parts, such that they become accessible not just to Jewish participants, but to all participants, thereby deepening mutual understanding and expanding self-awareness. Dr. Sandmeyer will use her personal experiences, contextualized within psychoanalytic theory, to illustrate how dissociated affects states such as shame and terror can animate or impede efforts at racial reckoning within our institutes. Julie Hyman, LCSW will offer her thoughts and reflections, and Kate Leslie, LICSW, will facilitate. Objectives: After attending this program, participants will be able to:
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THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF AGING AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS (CSCSA) presents a one-day conference Retirement: Challenges and Opportunities Keynote Speakers: Bartolome Freire, PhD and Richard Margolies, PhD Co-Chairs: Kathryn Chefetz & Linda Geurkink Date: Sunday, April 7, 2024 Time: 9:00am – 5:30pm Location: A Virtual Zoom Event 6.75 CEs offered Faculty: Jane Brewster, Kathryn Chefetz, Bartolome Freire, Richard Margolies, Margo Silberstein Program Description: Retirement represents a major shift in established life patterns, bringing with it a variety of significant changes. Bartolome Freire and Richard Margolies will present their collaborative research and findings from a socio-psychoanalytic study of 150 individuals and their experience of separating from work and making the transition into retirement. Five major ways people adapt to their retirement are defined. During the conference, a variety of issues related to retirement will be discussed in individual presentations, plenary sessions, and small breakout groups. Topics will include preparation for retirement, transition stress, the impact of quality of job satisfaction, effects on relationships with partners, family and friends, therapists’ challenges including transference and countertransference difficulties, and new possibilities for growth and creativity. The conference will conclude with an experiential exercise utilizing psychodrama. Who should attend: Mental health professionals, service providers for aging adults, and individuals interested in the areas of aging and retirement will benefit from attending this conference. Click here for more information about the Center for the Study of Aging and Clinical Applications (CSCSA) Click here for Accreditation Statement and AMEDCO Continuing Education Certification
THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF AGING AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS (CSCSA) Presents a One-day Conference Confronting the Complexities of Aging: What We All Need to Know Faculty: Irene Jackson-Brown, Venus Masselam, Yara Moustafa, Judith Peres, George Saiger, Margo Silberstein Date: Sunday, January 21, 2024 Time: 9:00 am – 5:30 pm ET Location: Zoom Online 6 CEUs offered Program Description: We know that older adults represent an increasingly large demographic. This is an opportunity for clinicians and anyone who works in the field of aging, anyone who is interested in aging issues, and anyone personally caring for an aging loved one. The design for the day will include both interactive and didactic segments and facilitated discussion. Presentations will include adult developmental psychology, as well as the medical and sociocultural influences on aging. The conference will also address why and how psychotherapy with older adults belongs in the toolbox of everyone who confronts aging as a “carer.” The program will enlighten and provide important knowledge and skills to better serve aging adults in a wide range of settings – home, senior living community, hospital, nursing home, senior center, to cite just a few. Agenda: SESSION #1 THE AGING PROCESS: AN OVERVIEW
SESSION #2 WHAT TO DO ABOUT AGING? WORKING WITH OLDER ADULT POPULATIONS
SESSION #3 “WHOSE SHOES ARE YOU IN?”
Objectives: After attending this program, participants will be able to:
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Teaching Clinical Thinking: the student as supervisor to the supervisor Presenter: Jon Frederickson, MSW Date: January 13, 2024 Time: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm EST Location: Zoom Online 6 CEUs offered. Effective supervision teaches therapists how to think clinically to intervene effectively. Thus, the supervisor asks decision tree questions so the student learns the sequence of steps in clinical thinking. The student's answers supervise the supervisor. They tell the supervisor what the student is integrating and not integrating. This informs the supervisor's next intervention. This presentation illustrated the teaching/assessment process in supervision by which we teach students how to think clinically and assess their interventions. And it showed how to listen to unconscious supervision by the student of the supervisor. We started with a supervision case showing a student how to become aware of her countertransference, how to use it for clinical thinking, and how to use it to understand how the patient experiences the therapy. As a result, a misalliance is resolved. In the second case, we showed how to help a student begin to think relationally: how does the patient perceive me on an unconscious level? How does this influence how she perceives my interventions? How might my interventions be supporting the problem we are trying to resolve? Further, we saw how to resolve a student's transference to the supervisor and how that relates to the parallel process. This presentation is useful to any therapist wanting to learn to think clinically and useful to any teacher or supervisor wanting to become more effective at teaching clinical thinking. Schedule 9:30-10:15 Introductory theory of metacognition in supervision 10:15-10:30 coffee 10:30-12:00 Supervision case analysis 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:30 Supervision case analysis 2:30-2:45 coffee 2:45-5:00 Supervision case analysis
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Friday, September 29th at 2:00 PM We are a membership organization. During our initial months we focused on setting up the New Washington School of Psychiatry’s infrastructure. While we are purposely a different organization from the WSP, we will carry forward our storied history of the interpersonal tradition. We want to hear from the community now, and continually going forward. This is the beginning of defining our future, often called ‘visioning’. Subsequent to the Town Hall will be other interactions over time, drafts, and discussions. Please join us in launching this iterative visioning process. We are happy to report that one of the most passionate and dedicated stakeholder groups of the old WSP, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Culture (CSREC), is an important part of the New Washington School of Psychiatry. They are partners in planning this Town Hall listening session. Please invest an hour or so to tell us how to keep our vital tradition serving the larger community. You will be with other members of the clinical community, hearing their ideas, and building on each other’s contributions. As clinicians we know that asking good questions opens up new vistas. Several questions to stimulate our listening session are below. You can also offer questions when you register. What would you like the NWSP to become, now and in 25 years? What would distinguish the NWSP in the DC Metro area and our nation from other post-graduate centers? Town Hall meeting Friday, September 29 at 2:00 PM |
