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
With the recent social upheaval and turmoil over the past ten months related to the Black Lives Matter movement, following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery (amongst others), and the social inequities exposed by the COVID19 pandemic disproportionally affecting Black, Brown, and poor urban communities, our society’s consciousness has been raised to forces of power, privilege, cultural difference, social hierarchies, oppression, and discrimination, that have always been present, to a level that has not been seen since the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s.
This context gives mental health providers a special opportunity to examine these powerful and ubiquitous social and cultural forces as they relate to the theoretical underpinnings and practice of psychotherapy, understanding ourselves and our clients as racial/cultural beings, and providing multiculturally competent counseling services to our clients. The overall goal of this webinar is to provide mental health providers with relevant knowledge of systemic sociocultural forces that affect their understanding of themselves, their clients, and how they provide services to their clients; and to help them develop new perspectives and skills in providing multiculturally competent services to their clients.
To this end, this webinar will: a.) define and explore systemic racism and differentiate it from individual thoughts, affect, and behaviors that result in prejudice and discrimination; b.) examine power and privilege (or the lack there of) related to social hierarchies around racial/cultural group memberships and how these phenomena may affect how clinicians see, understand, and provide services to their clients, and affect their clients’ psychological realities and functioning; and c.) assist participants in examining themselves as racial/cultural beings as well as how they may benefit (or not) from systemic racism (or other systemic forms of oppression) and develop/generate new perspectives and skills to address these systemic sociocultural forces in working with their clients.
*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.
This is an ACE Foundation Program. If this is your first time taking an ACE Foundation program not co-sponsored by an 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 program information, course materials and information for future ACE Foundation programs from your member dashboard. You will be asked to set a password for your new ACE Foundation Learning Center account.
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.
As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
Social workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, 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.
Dr. Jonathan Rust is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Counselor Education at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. As a faculty member in the Counselor Education program, he is responsible for training the school counseling and mental health counseling students. Relevant courses he teaches include Multicultural Counseling and Group Dynamics and Counseling. He is a Certified Group Relations Consultant with the AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems as well as a member of the affiliate organization the New York Center for the Study of Groups, Organizations and Social Systems. Furthermore, Dr. Rust is a NYS licensed psychologist and a National Certified Counselor, who maintains a private practice in Poughkeepsie, NY. His areas of expertise in research, teaching, psychotherapy, and consulting include understanding how racial/cultural factors—and the societal power and privilege dynamics associated with these factors—systemically affect the psychosocial development and mental health of racially/culturally diverse groups. He has conducted training workshops on diversity and multicultural counseling for the Hudson Valley Psychological Association, the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and for Vassar College’s Counseling Service. In addition, Dr. Rust has provided consultative services to the Greenburgh Eleven Union Free School District assessing the racial/cultural attitudes and dynamics that affected the school district’s task of educating a racially/ethnically diverse student body.
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.
