Notes from the Field: Pushing Back and Beyond (In-Person)

An International Conference Presented by CIIS Clinical Psychology Dotoral Program.

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As clinicians in today’s current socio-political climate, we are tasked with helping our clients manage an increasingly challenging and threatening world, internally and externally. At the same time, we are experiencing impingements on the very fabric of our work and within our own psyches. Depth-oriented psychology, centering a holistic approach to both the individual and collective, offers clinicians a way of orienting to the work in these precarious times that both pushes back and offers a vision beyond.

Our conference will cover a range of topics, each offering a unique window into how our community is navigating this moment and envisioning the future. In the morning portion of our conference, we will hear from a roundtable of clinicians about their lived experience working with immigrant communities and how they are holding their work from a depth-oriented perspective. Then we will join alumna Dr. Margaret Clausen in exploring how sound can be used to expand consciousness and transformation, inviting us to open to new possibilities and potentialities within ourselves and our work. After a lunch featuring conversations and connection, our keynote speaker, Dr. Diane Ehrensaft, director of the UCSF Mental Health Child and Adolescent Gender Center and one of the most recognized voices on the development of gender-diverse children, will discuss a range of topics including the evolution of gender-affirming care and the threats gender-diverse children face in the current socio-cultural-political climate. Weaving together developmental and psychodynamic relational theory, research, clinical observations, and reported lived experiences, Dr. Ehrensaft will demonstrate the manner in which the relational matrix of gender unfolds for each child over time, and how as clinicians we can build gender resilience in the face of adversity for all children and families in our care and in the community at large.

As our conferences are designed to create community, we offer treats throughout the day and lunch, providing space for relationship-building between attendees. We hope to have you join us.

To support our conference, you are invited to choose our General Admission or Generosity Rate tickets. To contribute to the Clinical Psychology Program's scholarship fund please use this link: https://www.ciis.edu/gift and choose PsyD Scholarships under the dropdown menu.

Agenda

9:00am-10:00am: Welcome, Coffee & Socializing

10:20am-11:30am: Opening Plenary: Immigration Roundtable

11:30am-12:00pm: Fika Coffee Break

12:00pm-1:15pm: Dr. Margaret Clausen

1:15pm-2:15pm: Lunch and Poster Sessions

2:15pm-3:45pm: Dr. Diane Ehrensaft

3:45pm: Closing

CEUs will be available for Dr. Diane Ehrensaft keynote address. All registrants will receive a link to sign up for CEUs prior to the event.

CPD hours are available for the California BOP. Please consult with any other licensing agency about their requirements for professional development hours.

· CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Resource Center (SCRC) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

· The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.

· LCSWs, MFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.

· SCRC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California.

· For questions about receiving your Certificate of Attendance, contact Dr. David Cushman [email protected]. For questions about CE, visit www.spiritualcompetency.com or contact David Lukoff, PhD at [email protected].

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