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General NYSPA WebinarsEthics & Risk Management: Navigating Patient Boundaries and Professional Conduct in 2023 - Eligible for 3 NYS CE Credit Hours Recorded 6/4/23 Presented by Matthew S. Feldman, Esq.; Sarah N. Rodman, Esq. - Feldman Kieffer LLP Mr. Feldman and Ms. Rodman will provide a three (3) hour workshop for professionals addressing information to help them remain compliant with respect to professional conduct regulations and ethical challenges that face psychologists concerning patient boundaries. Specifically, this workshop will provide the steps a psychologist must take to protect the psychologist-patient relationship and provide clarity as to steps a psychologist must take to avoid professional misconduct, including with respect to preparing accurate medical records and appropriate discharge of patients when treatment must be terminated. This workshop is primarily directed to psychologists in private practice but is applicable to all sites where health services are provided. This workshop is applicable to those who provide services to adults, as well as children.
NYSPA Members - $30 Click Here to Purchase/Download COVID Concerns: Answering Your Questions About Practicing Safely Recorded on 2/15/2023 Our guest: Dr. Lisa Cuchara Many of our colleagues have had anxiety and concerns about re-opening their practices while COVID is still an active threat. Join us as expert Lisa Cuchara engages us in a Q&A regarding this issue. Dr. Cuchara is a professor and researcher affiliated with Quinnipiac University in the area of biomedical sciences. She obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from SUNY New Paltz, a Master’s Degree in Biology from RPI, and both an MS and PhD in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics From Albany Medical College. Dr. Cuchara is the recipient of many awards in her field and has been involved in research on infectious disease, vaccines and vaccine hesitancy, antibiotic resistance, cancer, transplants, and autoimmune diseases. In addition to her awards as a researcher and educator, she is an accomplished and award-winning photographer. Webinar Recording Fees: MEMBERS ONLY: Click Here to View the Webinar for Free Gun Violence in America: Who is Pulling the Trigger?
Our guests: Drs. Michael Conforti, James Garbarino and Kirk Schneider The escalation of school shootings in America has become an overwhelming force in this culture of hate and fear. The statistics in the United States are staggering! In this webinar, our speakers emphasize the underlying dynamics, conscious and unconscious, in our individual and collective psyche, fueling the rise of gun violence to new heights. Dr. Conforti explores the dark archetypal force in the collective psyche, which results in the slaughter of innocent children. Dr. Garbarino highlights the multiple effects and sequela of gun violence creating a “war zone mentality." Dr. Kirk Schneider will elaborate on what he calls “the polarized mind.” which underlies our propensity to violence.
Webinar Recording Fee: Click Here to Purchase/Download Conversation About Practice in the Time of COVID and Thereafter Our guests: Patricia Pitta Ph.D., ABPP Dr. Pitta sent out a questionnaire in September about practice in the time of COVID. We had 218 members respond to the questionnaire. Join me and the attendees to explore what this means to your practice going forward. Will you be more inclined to see patients in person now that the CDC lifted mask requirements in doctor’s offices this past week? Let’s review the results of the polling and talk about our concerns and how to practice in the most effective manner for patients and therapists. We are psychologists supporting each other. Webinar Recording Fee: Click Here to Purchase/Download Forensic Psychology in Immigration Court: An Introduction Our guests: F. Barton Evans, PhD & Giselle A. Hass, PsyD Forensic psychological assessment in the area of immigration law presents unique and complex challenges for the assessment psychologist. Psychologists are increasingly being asked to offer expert opinions in a wide variety of immigration court proceedings beyond the well-known area of asylum law, including Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) self-petition, Relief for Victims of Trafficking, Relief for Victims of Criminal Activity, and Cancellation/Withholding of Removal (Deportation). In each of these areas, qualified psychologist experts have relevant knowledge and skills probative to the legal issues, for example, assessment of the effects of psychological trauma in VAWA proceedings. Dr. Hass and Evans will provide an introductory review of relevant areas of forensic psychological assessment in immigration court, including brief discussion of the underlying immigration law of extreme hardship, spousal abuse self-petition, relief from sexual trafficking and as they relate to the psycholegal questions to be addressed by forensic psychological evaluations. Additionally, they will discuss psychological evaluation methods pertinent to each area of assessment. Finally, they will discuss important aspects of this area of forensic practice such as cross-cultural issues and powerful countertransference in the assessor and immigrant relationship. Webinar Recording Fee: Click Here to Purchase/Download Office Practice 2022 in a Changing COVID Landscape: Practical, Legal and Ethical Considerations
Our guest: Joe Scroppo, PhD, JD During the COVID period from March 2020 to the present, many thousands of individuals across the country have sought critically needed support and help from behavioral health practitioners. The demand for service has been enormous. Although in the first phase of the pandemic, a majority of clinicians practiced almost entirely virtually, more recently, despite the persistence of viral spread, many practitioners have taken steps to return to in person practices. This program is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive framework for understanding and implementing appropriate risk-management measures for service delivery in a changing landscape that reflect the highest standards for physical and psychological safety as well as legal, ethical and regulatory mandates and considerations. These would include some of the following: consideration of risk factors for in-person and virtual work; preparation of offices to align with state and federal safety and regulatory guidelines; health measures for practitioners; informed consent protocols; knowledge of interjurisdictional laws and regulations for interstate practice including models and processes; understanding current guidelines for insurer reimbursement of in-person and virtual services; and legal, ethical and regulatory considerations for hybrid practice. Webinar Recording Fee: Click Here to Purchase/Download Creativity, Brain and Cognition
Our guest: Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg In this webinar, we explore insights, mechanisms and clinical pearls related to creativity, brain and cognition with Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg of the Luria Neuroscience Institute in his exploration of the interaction of novelty, salience and prior knowledge as they relate to brain structures of the prefrontal cortex, right and left hemispheres and their roles in deliberate - effortful vs unconscious - spontaneous cognition and creativity. Webinar Recording Fee: Click Here to Purchase/Download The Four-Quadrant Model: New Paradigm for Trauma Informed Care- Eligible for 2 NYS CE Credit Hours
Our guest: Dr. Mitchell Slutzky The ground-breaking Four-Quadrant Model provides an exciting new way to understand the universality of emotions and behavior trans-species and across health challenges. The paradigm maps four core negative emotions—anger, anxiety, depression and dissociation—and four corresponding positive emotions, onto the intersection of individuals’ levels of activation and perceived risk. Learn immediate clinical applications of the 2x2 matrix to the treatment of patients who have experienced severe traumatic events including its role in the etiology and treatment of persons with dementia. Webinar Recording Fee (includes CE credits): Click Here to Purchase/Download The state of theory, knowledge, and research on the psychology of gender and gender fluidity: Implications for Clinical Practice - Eligible for 1 NYS CE Credit Hour Recorded on 10/30/2021 Our guest: Pani Farvid, PhD While gender has always been a fluid and evolving construct, in recent years those that identify as transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) have become more visible across the globe. In the US, such visibility has been met with uneven social, political, and clinical responses and understanding. Indeed, gender fluidity is not only a “hot-topic” but is also one that is poorly understood across the spectrum of various professionals. In this session, we seek to demystify the psychology of gender, by offering a snapshot of the current and cutting-edge theory, research and other knowledge related to the psychology of gender. This includes research that captures the experiences of those
identifying as TGNC, in terms of identity, development and psychological well-being. We attend to issues related to age, race, class, health, access to healthcare, geographic location – and what clinician’s working in the field of psychology can do
to best meet the needs of such clients. Webinar Recording Fee (includes CE credits): Click Here to Purchase/Download NYSPA Convention Keynote Presentation - Bringing Psychology to Our Communities: Creating Innovation, Hope and Access
- Eligible for 1.25 NYS CE Credit Hours
Our guest: Dr. Jeffrey Zimmerman "The news of my death is greatly exaggerated." There is a tremendous need for our services. Yet, many of us have learned a helplessness and a scarcity (vs abundance) mentality as if there is not enough work and not enough need for our services. Two stigmas also compound the problem of access and our sense of learned helplessness (i.e., getting treated and providing treatment in a private practice environment).Out skills are generalizable well beyond just diagnosing and treating psychiatric disorders. This is very unique in health care as it can allow us to bring our research and clinical services to those who are underserved, and those in need and suffering with or without a diagnosis, and in or out of the traditional healthcare delivery system. We need to think outside the box. Who needs our services and how can we make our services accessible so that they can be delivered (not just to people who can afford private pay, or have insurance, or have a diagnosis but) regardless of the many factors that lead to exclusion and to so many people being underserved? Practice success relies on our having a vision and infrastructure as a psychological services delivery organization (of 1 or more providers) that is ethical and sound and provides the foundation for our being able to deliver services on a sustained basis. What often holds us back is our lack of imagination and willingness to be creative in order to respond to the needs in our community. What needs can you identify? How are others addressing these needs in other communities around the country, and literally around the world? What can you do to address those needs (perhaps outside the usual service delivery mechanisms)? Most of us got into this work to make a positive difference in the lives of others. The world has changed in the last 40 years and will continue to change. Our challenge is to make that positive difference, reduce suffering and be of help those in our communities (without allowing ourselves to be stifled by others' lack of imagination and creativity).
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- Eligible for 1.25 NYS CE Credit Hours
Our guest: Dr. Alex Pieterse The focus of the presentation is to explore those racial dynamics that occur within clinical practice. For the purposes of the current discussion, clinical practice refers to direct clinical service, assessment, organizational consultation, and the provision of supervision. A framework will be provided in which the practitioner can locate their current position in regard to incorporating race in their practice and can imagine practicing from a place of humility and courage, free from the typical fears associated with confronting race in the clinical arena. The overarching goal of the presentation is to facilitate an appreciation of race as an important factor associated with clinical practice and to consider race in the context of well-being, resilience, and liberation.
Webinar Recording Fee (includes CE credits): Click Here to Purchase/Download NYSPA Pre-Convention Workshop - Differences Matter: Know Your Biases. Choose to Manage Them.- Eligible for 1 NYS CE Credit Hour Our guest: Dr. Greg Pennington This workshop focused on recognizing, understanding, and managing the dynamics of differences that appear in leadership within organizations. Videos, discussions, and small break-out rooms are utilized for reflection, in-depth learning, and action steps Council members can take next in their leadership roles. Participants will learn about Dr. Pennington’s D&ISight © Model that outlines five key assumptions to guide questions to increase insight and effectiveness managing dynamics of differences. These assumptions are:
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: Click Here to Purchase/Download Returning to work after COVID: Best practice guidelines Our guest: Dr. Joe Scroppo, JD, PhD Join us for the first in a series of presentations and discussions to help grapple with the questions and concerns we are facing about going back to our in-office practices. How should we prepare? Dr. Scroppo, a forensic psychologist and Risk Management Consultant for the American Insurance Trust since 2012, has been key for NYSPA in guiding us through the challenges of dealing with practice issues through the COVID period. He is currently consulting with psychologist groups around the country about legal, regulatory, health and safety issues related to reopening clinical practices.
Webinar Recording Fee: Click Here to Purchase/Download Starting a Private Practice - What Should I Know? Our guests: Drs. Bob Filewich, Barbara Kapetanakes, and Bill Pickner This event is a lecture hosted by the Early Career Division to meet the needs of our members. The lecture will be hosted by Dr. Barbara Kapetanakes, who is bringing in a panel of experts, Dr. Bill Picker, and Dr. Bob Filewich, along with herself, to discuss considerations for early career psychologists who are opening up a private practice. The lecture will review basic content relevant to starting a clinical practice, as well as provide an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of more experienced clinicians. Webinar Recording Fee: $5 Click Here to Purchase/Download CE Town Hall An open dialog, discussion, and Q&A regarding the new CE law for psychologists and the details you need to know. Moderator: Christine Allen, PhD, NYSPA President With:
Attendees share their questions and concerns. We are all in this together. You are part of NYSPA, and NYSPA is here to help all of us successfully navigate the new CE requirements. Webinar Recording Fee: $15 Click Here to Purchase/Download To Coach or Not to Coach: That IS the Question Our guests: Drs. Elvira Aletta, Chris Allen, Bruce Hammer, and Mark Sirkin. Many psychologists are interested in the possibility of adding coaching to their practice. They have questions about distinctions between coaching and psychotherapy, how to build their coaching business, whether they should have a separate website for their work as a coach. In this webinar, Drs. Elvira Aletta, Chris Allen, Bruce Hammer, and Mark Sirkin, who have each added coaching to their businesses, will talk about their paths to becoming coaches and address many of these questions. Each will speak for 15 minutes and then there will be 30 minutes for Q&A. Please come prepared if possible to have your Zoom cameras on as we would like this webinar to be highly interactive. Webinar Recording Fee: $10 Click Here to Purchase/Download Training & Interviewing in a Virtual Reality: Discussing the “art” of Zoom, training during COVID-19, general interviewing tips, & more! Our guests: Drs. Chris Morrison, Amanda Spray, Stephanie Solow. Webinar Recording Fee: Free Click Here to View the Webinar for Free Choosing Our Genes: The Ethics of CRISPR-ing The Human Genome Our guest: Dr. Josephine Johnston, Director of Research, The Hastings Center We now have reliable tools to alter the genes of living and future persons. When should we use them? U.S. law currently allows for the development of gene editing treatments for people living with disease, but prohibits anything that would result in heritable changes (alternations to the human genome that can be passed from one generation to another). This law is fragile, however. It must be renewed annually and could easily change. When that happens, we will be thrust headlong into the unsettled ethics of where to draw the line between genetic diseases that should be eliminated and genetic differences that should be embraced. This debate, which has links to inhumane state-sponsored eugenics programs but also to medicine’s longstanding goal of relieving suffering, goes to the heart of what it means to be human. At this meeting, we will explore new genome editing technologies, discuss how they might be applied in humans, and consider their ethical and policy implications. Webinar Recording Fee: $10
Click Here to Purchase/Download Psychologists Supporting Psychologists Meeting: Our guests: Drs. John Hogan-Chair of CE Committee and Rafael Javier-Chair of the Legal Legislative subcommittee of the CE Committee and Tom Buchan, J.D. (Lobbyist). As we are all aware, in January, 2021, CE credits will be required of all licensed psychologists in New York State. You will need to accrue 36 credits every three years. At our last meeting, attendees were asking: How will I be able to get my credits if my registration is due early in 2021. Who will provide CE's? Will CE's offered by APA and other venues be accepted by New York State? Other than taking CE's: Are there other ways of attaining CE credits (teaching, publishing papers in peer reviewed journals)? Can a member benefit of belonging to NYSPA be free CE's for attendance at NYSPA conferences, workshops and presentations? Another suggestion was could NYSPA membership offer 6 free credits each year as a member benefit? Drs. Hogan and Javier and their respective committee members (John Northman and Jerry Grodin) emailed each of you with the information concerning the upcoming CE requirement (see attached). Webinar Recording Fee: FREE
Click Here to View the Webinar for Free Staying Organized at a Distance: Helping Students Build Skills for Organization, Time Management and Planning Featuring: Dr. Elana Spira Dr. Elana Spira is a leading expert in executive functioning, organization, time management, and planning. In this webinar you will learn about executive functioning and it’s impact on organization. You will learn the skills necessary to help students to stay organized, manage their materials, manage their time, and plan in order to be successful during distance learning, in school learning, and beyond. Webinar Recording Fee: $10
Click Here to Purchase/Download NYSPA Panel: Addressing Racial Trauma Featuring: Maysa Akbar, PhD, Charmain F. Jackman, PhD, Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD Recent events are a painful reminder that members of the Black community remain under attack in our society. The murder of George Floyd demonstrates that although time continues to pass, the deep-seated racism and hatred remains an ugly stain for our nation. In this webinar, the presenters will address some of their personal and professional experiences trying to address racial trauma. Dr. Vaughans and Akbar will discuss the psychological impact intergenerational transmission of trauma. In his book The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents, Dr. Vaughan notes that the unresolved generational trauma among African-Americans, and black boys in particular, is a function of an unmourned original collective, historical trauma, as well as the episodic, persistent, terroristic, and oppressive social assault targeting the Black community at later periods in American history. Using her book, Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism as a guide, Dr. Akbar will describe the characteristics of how these traumas impact the personality of members of the Black community. Dr. Jackman will emphasize the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She will reflect on the shared responsibility that all members of society have to address violence and racism. She will highlight the critical role that members of White communities have in stepping up, leaning in, and speaking out. After their presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and process their experiences around racial trauma.
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Click Here to Purchase/Download “From Instant Sex to Endless Courtship” Presented by LGBT Task Force Featuring: Dr. Pani Farvid We are living in surreal and unprecedented times. Due to the global COVID-19 crisis, in just a few weeks, the world as we know it, turned upside down. As various shelter-in-place orders were mandated, the way we work, shop, take care of loved ones and socialize altered overnight. Dating app use saw a major spike and new platforms like “OkZoomer” and “Quarantine Together” sprouted. While anecdotal and descriptive media pieces sought to map shifts in mobile dating during “lockdown”, very little is known about what’s been going on with single people during this time. In this presentation, I draw on an international survey on mobile dating during COVID-19 to explain the ways in which people of diverse ages, genders and sexual orientations engaged in mobile dating during social distancing. Findings indicate that while the number of matches and conversations escalated, the process of mobile dating slowed down – offering greater capacity for intimacy-making. At the same time, a specific pattern of gendered conduct was identified, with reports of a cluster of men immediately requesting sexting, online sex, or in person casual sex (from both gay men and straight women). The new specter of the pleasures and pains of this mode of technologically mediated intimacy will be explicated, paying attention to the ways in which experiences varied across the axes of gender, race and sexual identity. In particular, the escalation of straight men’s demands on women’s immediate sexual labor will be teased out, as well as the ways in which the pandemic is pushing the limits of emotional coping for some individuals. The implications of this for re/shaping intimate conduct in uncertain times will also be discussed.
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NYSPA Insurance Committee Webinars
Nuts and Bolts of Telehealth for Psychotherapy Practice Presented by Joe Scroppo, PhD This was the first in a series of offerings from NYSPA's Insurance Committee. It is designed to provide fundamental and clear information about what you need to know in the clinical and regulatory arenas to safely and effectively practice psychotherapy in New York using electronic communication services. In the regulatory sphere, the webinar covers relevant ethical, licensing board, and legal factors for telepsychology practice. Clinical issues include factors in clinician competence, patient suitability for teletherapy, informed consent, insurance and payment matters, selection of electronic communication services, and crisis management. In addition, this webinar addresses recent changes to federal and NY law in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.
Teletherapy in a Pandemic: Making Clinical Process Changes Work Presented by Todd Essig, PhD This was the second in a series of offerings from NYSPA's Insurance Committee to address the challenges of both maintaining the capacity to work in a transformed clinical environment while delivering the quality of care we are trained and committed to provide. This presentation focuses on making the clinical process work: how to engage patients, and your own experience, to help facilitate meaningful clinical change when familiar clinical processes are reshaped by the absence of shared physical presence. The webinar describes the clinical context of our emergency conversion to telehealth, including the clinical consequences of how technologically-mediated relationships work and how they differ from in person communication. It then offers strategies for how to better understand and intervene in what we and our patients are experiencing. Todd Essig, PhD has been studying and writing about telehealth for over 20 years. He’s a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute and currently serves as co-Chair of APsaA’s COVID-19 response team.
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COVID-19 Financial Business Information for Psychologists Presented by Jay L. Hack, Esq Congress passed part 2 of the COVID-19 financial package aimed to assist small businesses impacted by the countrywide lockdown. Although psychologists have found ways to continue their vital work through remote services and other means, many have nonetheless been impacted. In fact, members have been asking questions about accessing the COVID-19 funding to support their practices. We are pleased to offer a session in which we will have an opportunity to hear from an expert for an overview about this issue and have important questions answered including about eligibility, pros and cons of applying, what materials are needed, the application process and the crucial question of loan forgiveness. Although many applied, we wanted to make sure that those of you who might still be interested and/or have additional questions about the process get the best information available, geared to psychologists. Jay Hack is a partner at Gallet Dreyer and Berkey, LLP whose primary practice focus has been to provide a full range of legal services on financial matters. He has written extensively about the financial aspects of the COVID Support Program and has provided on going assistance to banks, companies and individuals involved in the this monumental effort to support businesses. He is the former Chair of the Business Law Section of the NYS Bar Association and was the Bar Association’s principal speaker at its SBA PPP Loan Program legal education seminar.
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Back to the Future: Reopening Our In-Person Practices Presented by Todd Essig, PhD, Alan Hack, PhD, and Joe Scroppo, PhD This webinar was designed to help us weigh options for continuing our clinical work in the age of this pandemic. Hear from our stellar NYSPA experts Joe Scroppo, JD, PhD and Todd Essig, PhD on the legal, ethical, and clinical issues that must be understood and considered and get to ask them questions. Then join us for an extended Q&A/discussion/comment period - an opportunity to raise and share issues of concern, confusion, and interest about this important step - facilitated by NYSPA Past-President Alan Hack, PhD and members of the NYSPA Insurance Committee.
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Click Here to Purchase/Download NYSPA Division WebinarsExecutive Functions and the Frontal Lobes Executive functions represent the highest level of cognitive control and involve goal formation, planning, mental flexibility, impulse control, and working memory. Executive functions are mediated by the frontal cortex and related structures. In this webinar we examined their cognitive composition, neural mechanisms, changes throughout the lifespan, and gender differences. We also examined the role of executive functions in creativity and their relationship to intelligence.
NYSPA Members - $60 Click Here to Purchase/Download Supporting Autonomy in a Time of Challenge: An Introduction to "Aging in Place" Strategies for Clinicians Working with Vulnerable Adults According to a recent national survey (AP/NORC, 2021) 88% of the American public would prefer remaining in their own homes in later years to the option of moving to an adult care setting. A scant subset of these individuals know how to access necessary support to enable them to safely “age in place”. Mental health professionals can help older adult clients by familiarizing themselves with "aging in place" strategies, and referring clients to programs and allied professionals that may extend their ability to remain in the community.
NYSPA Members - $20 Click Here to Purchase/Download Exploring the 4 Pillars of Consulting Long NEURO-COVID: Cognitive, Psychiatric and Psychological Manifestations Recorded10/28/23 Presented by Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg, PhD., ABPP. Acute COVID-19 illness is often followed by long sequelae, sometimes referred to as “long covid.” These sequelae may include lasting neurological, psychiatric and neurocognitive complications. In this webinar we reviewed the state-of-the-art knowledge of these symptoms and the underlying mechanisms. We described the growing concerns about COVID-19 as a risk factor in neurodegenerative diseases in later life and other possible very long-term complications, as well as the future role of psychology and RR in the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of these complications.
Webinar Recording Fees: Click Here to Purchase/Download Exploring the 4 Pillars of Consulting Recorded10/26/23 Presented by Mark Sirkin and Carolyn Alroy Psychologists are uniquely qualified to provide workplace consultation. This lunch and learn hour explained the four pillars on which a good comprehensive consulting practice is built and how you can develop them. Experts Mark Sirkin and Carolyn Alroy are your guides and answer questions!
Webinar Recording Fees: Click Here to Purchase/Download Suicide Risk Assessment in Forensic Context: An Update Recorded10/22/23 Presented by Ali Khadivi, PhD., ABAP Understanding and evaluating the risk of suicide is a crucial clinical skill for many forensic psychological examinations. This workshop provided updated guidelines and critically examine the evidence-based literature on suicide risk assessment. The workshop employed a lecture format and case examples to examine suicide risk factors in different settings and forensic contexts. Issues of diversity related to suicide risk, the significance of suicide risk formulation, the limitation of suicidal ideation as a risk factor, and no-suicide contracts were also analyzed. Additionally, the strengths and limitations of psychological testing and other specialized tools in assessing suicide risk in a forensic context were discussed.
Webinar Recording Fees: Click Here to Purchase/Download Forensic Psychologists and Resentencing Under the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) Recorded 7/27/23 Sponsored by the Forensic Division Presented by Dr. Trica L. Peterson, PhD, ABPP This presentation will provide an overview of the DVSJA passed in 2019, allowing certain defendants with a history of domestic violence to apply for resentencing their criminal cases if various criteria are met. The three main criteria forensic psychologists are used to addressing in these cases will be discussed, along with a review of anticipated ethical concerns encountered in that work. Specific evaluation techniques and protocols will not be covered in this introductory presentation. A live/in-person, advanced skills-based training for DVSJA cases will be offered in October 2023 by the Forensic Division—details to follow.
Webinar Recording Fees: Click Here to Purchase/Download The Troubled History of Schizophrenia: How Understanding Cultural and Historical Structural Factors Can Improve Treatment Approaches to Schizophrenia Recorded 5/24/23 Sponsored by the Division of Culture, Race and Ethnicity Presented by Dr. Stephen Smith, PhD Dr. Stephen Smith’s presentation will explore current and longstanding racial disparities and health inequities that exist in our mental health system, with a specific focus on diagnostic bias. By tracing the evolution of the schizophrenia diagnosis, the presentation will explore how structural factors and social climate worked to shift medical and popular understanding of the diagnosis and specifically how that has led to the over-diagnosis of schizophrenia for black individuals. This presentation will also provide clinical considerations and best practices for providing culturally and structurally informed care.
Webinar Recording Fees: Click Here to Purchase/Download Getting Onboard: The Why and How of Building an Effective Board Recorded 5/11/23 Presented by Organization, Consulting and Work Division Leaders We are entering election season for NYSPA Division and NYSPA-wide offices and many of our NYSPA Regional Affiliates are also in the process of seeking nominations for their Boards. The Division of Organization, Consulting, and Work Psychology, with the support of the NYSPA Leadership, would like to share in a panel discussion some strategies, best practices for recruiting and retaining quality Board members as well as for succession planning for the Board. Come meet with our panel who can address your concerns and questions while sharing success stories and practices.
Webinar Recording Fees: Click Here to Purchase/Download Psychologists Supporting Psychologist: Duty to Warn Regarding the Spreading of Covid of Patients in TreatmentRecorded on 8/28/2020
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