REGISTER NOW FOR OUR UPCOMING ACE LEARNING CENTER PROGRAM “CLINICAL PRACTICE WITH LGBTQ+ PATIENTS”. LEARN MORE!
REGISTER NOW FOR OUR UPCOMING ACE LEARNING CENTER PROGRAM “CLINICAL PRACTICE WITH LGBTQ+ PATIENTS”. LEARN MORE!
ACE Foundation Programs
Aging and the aging body are universal experiences that impact us both personally and in our clinical work. People as they age often respond with disbelief seeing their reflection in the mirror and are taken aback by the difference between how they feel on the inside and how they appear on the outside. This didactic and experiential workshop illuminates the numerous and necessary tensions we hold, (ex. to fight versus to accept, dependence versus interdependence, etc.) while navigating our aging processes. We explore the multiple dialectics of aging and look deeply at issues of accepting, challenging, and honoring diverse narratives and lived experiences of aging.
We see/interpret aging and aging bodies against the backdrop of social and cultural constructs, economic inequities, and marginalization. From this broader perspective, we open the door to more expansive thinking that can engender curiosity instead of dread in both us and our clients. Further, we elucidate some of the countertransference challenges that may emerge in our clinical work.
*NYSSCSW Discount applies to NYSSCSW current members only.
**Student Discount only applies to full time students currently enrolled in social work and MHP master level programs.
Please Register by Thursday, January 2 at 5pm.
Live Online via Zoom
The Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0028; licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0045; licensed psychoanalysts #P-0017; licensed psychologists #PSY-0121; and licensed social workers #SW-0056.
Out-of-state providers are welcome to request a certificate upon completion of the presentation evaluation but must check with their own state licensing boards to inquire about whether or not the certificate is recognized as transferrable for CEs in their state’s jurisdiction.
1. Demonstrate a greater understanding of social-cultural constructions/constrictions and how they are enacted through numerous tensions related to aging and the aging body.
2. Identify the commonalities and differences between our aging bodies, our clients’ aging bodies, our similar and diverse experiences, and the clinical and countertransferential implications.
3. Apply new ways of thinking about aging and our clients.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists and mental health counselors.
This seminar is appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW, ACSW
Lela Zaphiropoulos, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice for over 40 years is a WTCI Board and faculty member as well as co-director emeritus of WTCI postgraduate training program. She leads didactic, experiential workshops on issues of aging. Prior to private practice she worked at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. She completed postgraduate training at The Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy. She is co-author of Eating Problems: A Feminist, Psychoanalytic Model (1995), and of
Kids, Carrots, and Candy: A Practical, Positive Approach to Raising Children Free of Food and Weight Problems (revised 2012). She is a founding member of Endangered Bodies NY, a global initiative to challenge the industries that promote body insecurity.
Debra Kram-Fernandez, PhD, LCSW, MS-DMT, 200-RYT
Debra Kram-Fernandez obtained her PhD in Social Welfare from the City University of New York Graduate Center/Hunter College School of Social Work after obtaining her LCSW-R. She also holds a MSW and MS in Dance- Movement Therapy from Hunter College. Dr. Kram-Fernandez is a graduate of WTCI’s postgraduate training program. Her areas of expertise include understanding serious mental illness, group work facilitation, understanding forgiveness, childhood trauma, and creative arts and healing. She is currently an Associate Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) Empire and has a small private practice.
Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed, as evidenced by signing in and out and completing a course evaluation. Certificates will be emailed approximately ten business days after the completion of the course.
ACE welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact Kristin or Debbie at info.acefoundation@gmail.com, at time of registration, to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA), Section 505 of the Rehabilitation ACT.
Cancellations made at least five days before the event will be refunded less a 10% cancellation fee. For cancellation please call 1-800-288-4279, or email us at info.acefoundation@gmail.com.
Should Inclement weather occur, we will be notifying all registrants via the email by which the registrant signed up. Please be sure to check your email before you leave for the course.
