EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 55TH ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE. LEARN MORE!
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 55TH ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE. LEARN MORE!
ACE Foundation Programs
Living in this age of COVID, each of us has suffered a sequela of complicated physiological and psychological effects. In 2005, Oliver Sachs co-authored an op-ed in the Times, emphasizing that discrete flu viruses could cause “shadow pandemics.” Although his focus was on the neurological complications, he reminded and presented us with the idea of shadow aftermaths to the original viral contagion. “Such post-viral diseases have been recorded since the time of Hippocrates.”
The focus of our conference is to trace and honor the legacy of our collective experience during this current pandemic. In our first Saturday presentation we consider the heartbreaking emotional and physical challenges of personal loss and grief as well as long-term health conditions of those who have survived Covid 19. In our second Saturday presentation, we will consider reflections of the past two years and the experiential nature of loneliness and solitude as well as the potential for recreating our lives in more fulfilling ways.
Presentation 1
Circling the Unthinkable: Death Anxiety by Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., M.F.A.
Invoking the rite of birth is a duality that includes the rite of death. Our cultural and existential anxiety regarding dying can shadow the sacredness of our passage from the physical life. The ego feels fear and the honoring of the rite and rituals of dying can become lost. Our current collective pandemic moment requires an even more attentive gaze, self-reflection, and honored remembrance of the conjunction of birth and death. Might this attentive gaze ease our anxiety? My talk and our discussion seek to allow for the discomfort as well as possible egoic comfort regarding the important rite of passage of dying. Being alive to truly living, as many of us seek to do, must also require an acceptance and peaceful attention to the inevitability of death. Through talking together perhaps we can find ways to support the full grace of everyday living.
Moderator: Susan Klett, Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW-R
Presentation 2
NEUROCOVID-19: Cognitive, Psychiatric, and Psychological Manifestations by Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP.,
COVID-19 can affect the brain of infected individuals, which may result in a wide range of neurocognitive and psychiatric symptoms. It can also have multiple psychological and psychiatric impacts on the general population. In this presentation, Dr. Goldberg will discuss the concept of “neuro-COVID” and examine the expanding knowledge of its impact on specific brain systems. He will explain the causal role on neuro-COVID in dementia and delirium; in executive deficit, memory impairment and other specific cognitive impairments; in psychosis and psychiatric and psychological disorders; and its pediatric manifestations. We will also learn about the emerging therapeutic approaches, global research and clinical initiatives, and how one can participate in them.
Moderator: Marsha Wineburgh, DSW, LCSW-R
*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.
Registration is closed.
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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.
Presentation 1:
After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
Presentation 2:
After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists and mental health counselors.
These presentaitons are appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., M.F.A. is a Jungian analyst and Professor of Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a writer of nonfiction including African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows (Routledge, 2017), Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss (Routledge, 2018) and The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race. (Routledge, 2019). Dr. Brewster is a lecturer and workshop presenter on Jungian related topics that address Dreamwork, American Culture and Creativity. She is a faculty member at the New York C.G. Jung Foundation and an analyst member with the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts.
Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP., is a clinical neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine and Diplomate of The American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology. Dr. Goldberg has authored numerous research papers on functional cortical organization, hemispheric specialization, frontal lobe functions and dysfunction, memory and amnesias, traumatic brain injury, dementias, and schizophrenia. His books The Executive Brain (2001), The Wisdom Paradox (2005), and The New Executive Brain (2009) have met with international acclaim. Dr. Goldberg co-authored The Sharp Brains Guide to Cognitive Fitness (2013). He was a student and close associate of the eminent neuropsychologist Alexander Luria.
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 Jennifer 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 fully refunded. 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.
