THE 56th ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE IS NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION. SIGN UP NOW!
THE 56th ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE IS NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION. SIGN UP NOW!
ACE Foundation Programs
Many people come into psychotherapy reporting significant problems with their self-esteem, self-image and interpersonal relationships, the presence of which can be traced backward into childhood, but there the trail seems to go cold. They may report “normal” childhoods, but when asked for specific memories there appears to be an absence of detail. The absence of any major traumatic events and lack of any strong feelings about childhood can cause the person to believe that there is simply something wrong with them as a person that results in problems in their relationships and other adult life tasks, but the clinician has a strong sense that there was some pattern of adversity the person experienced as a child that explains their current struggles. This training describes how chronic sub-traumatic childhood adversity can cause a lack of memory integration, and several methods that can be used to begin to reconstruct the missing memory to help a person make sense of their current experiences.
*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.
If this is your first time taking an ACE Foundation program not not shared with the NYSSCSW, you will be prompted to make your complimentary account on the ACE Foundation Learning Center platform, where you will be able to access all current and future programs and course materials from your dashboard. You will be asked to set a password for your new ACE Foundation Learning Center account.
Please register by Thursday, November 6 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; licensed social workers #SW-0056; and licensed creative art therapists #CAT-0120.
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.
By the end of this continuing education activity, participants will be able to:
1. Participant will be able to describe the processes by which attachment disruption can result in problems with memory formation in children.
2. Participant will learn how to identify “core memories” that represent adversity patterns in childhood, and how to generalize these into assumed sets of experience.
3. Participant will learn how to identify elevated emotional responses to media that represent childhood emotional states, and how to use these to both elicit suppressed memory and develop cognitive and narrative integration of childhood experiences.
4. Participants will learn how to use projective identification with children in imagined scenarios that parallel their own lived childhood experiences to identify and attach both missing emotional content and associated missing gauge of severity.
5. Participants will learn how to identify and use client somatic reactions to content to elicit and reconnect detached or suppressed childhood emotional and narrative content.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists, mental health counselors and licensed creative art therapists.
This seminar is appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Originally from New Zealand, Ian Laidlaw moved to New York in 2007 and is the co-founder and clinical director for two specialty group practices in NY and NJ and specializes himself in working with family estrangement, childhood trauma recovery, and psychotic disorders. He co-established a Medicaid-focused NYS-licensed Article 31 clinic at a Rockland County mental health non-profit agency in 2015 and grew it over 7 years to employ more than 35 clinicians with a caseload of more than 500 clients. He has also taught a trauma course at Fordham University and worked in the UK and Japan with immigrants and refugees. He has given presentations on childhood trauma recovery, family estrangement, and medical necessity for several local social work societies. Ian runs several ongoing supervision groups, an ongoing business development group for group practice owners, and is on the board of the Rockland County clinical social work society where he is launching an ongoing group to support clinicians in private practice development and growth strategies.
Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed, as evidenced by signing in and out and completing a course evaluation. Instructions for evaluating the presentation will be emailed within 5 days of the course date. Once evaluation is complete, CE certificate will be emailed to you.
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.
