The Addictive Disorders committee is offering peer consultation. We welcome case consultation questions from any member of SDPA about client addiction issues.
Please join us by video on the 2nd Tuesday of every other month.
Please email tom.horvath@practicalrecovery.com for the link.
SDPA Board Meeting (For SDPA Board Members Only)
San Diego Psychological Association Office 4699 Murphy Canyon Rd. (in the United Way Building) SD 92123
CULTURAL DIVERSITY COMMITTEE MEETING
The Cultural Diversity Committee serves the members of SDPA by providing consultations, continuing education training, professional development, and resources related to serving clients from diverse and underrepresented groups.
Meeting Dates 3rd Tuesday of the Month except December
12636 High Bluff Dr. Suite 400 Del Mar, CA
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by Coastal Continuing Education
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DATE/TIME: April 25, 2020 Saturday, 8:00 am to 3:30 pm PST
(this is NOT and SDPA Event)
LOCATION:
Earn 6 CE credits to satisfy your Law & Ethics requirement for licensure renewal while participating in this engaging & interactive course!
Join us on the beautiful campus at the University of San Diego for an engaging and interactive 6 hour course on legal and ethical issues in mental health. Licensed Mental Health Professionals can earn 6 continuing education credits to satisfy the Law & Ethics requirement for licensure renewal.
Course Description:
Ethical and legal obligations are frequently taught to therapists as a set of rigid rules that must be applied unequivocally. However, the realities of clinical practice are that we are often faced with situations that do not allow for a clear identification and application of relevant laws and ethical guidelines. Broadening our knowledge of law and ethics through a deeper understanding of the standard of care in the clinical practice of psychotherapy can help us feel less anxious and make more informed legal, ethical and clinical decisions. This course will address relevant ethical and legal considerations and the practical application of the following principles: risk management, mandated reporting, limits of confidentiality, informed consent, key issues in treating children and adolescents, record keeping guidelines, telehealth practice, HIPAA guidelines, marketing, responding to requests for records and subpoenas, and establishing a professional will.
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the law and ethical principles related to limits of confidentiality including mandated reporting and responding to danger to others
2. Apply legal and ethical responsibilities around informed consent in clinical practice
3. Identify suicide risk assessment methods and empirically supported suicide prevention interventions
4. Practice implementing professional will procedures and practice
5. Summarize the current legal and ethical status of child abuse reporting mandates
6. List requirements for the ethical and legal practice of telehealth mental health services
Coastal Continuing Education is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs,LPCCs, LEPs and RNs in CA. Coastal Continuing Education maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
**We will take an hour break for lunch which can be ordered in advance (see "add-on" when registering for this course), or you can drive off-campus to a number of cafes nearby.
For groups of 3 or more, use Discount Code "GROUP3" for a 10% discount. Be sure to enter & apply the discount code when registering before you enter your personal details in order for the discount to be applied.
Cancellations are subject to a $50.00 processing fee and must be received 14 days prior to be eligible for a refund.
ADDICTIVE DISORDERS - LUNCH MEETING
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm
Humphreys, Sheraton La Jolla 3299 Holiday Ct. La Jolla, CA 92037
The Addictivie Disorders committee welcomes new members. Please RSVP to email tom.horvath@practicalrecovery.com
Please join us the 2nd Tuesday of each month. In odd numbered months we meet for lunch. In even numbered months we meet by video conference call. On these calls we offer case consultation for any SDPA member, about any addictive problem (you don't need to stay for the whole meeting). All attendees pay for their own lunch.
EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONALS COMMITTEE
Managing Subpoenas and Court Orders plus 2020 Update of Laws
DATE/TIME:
May 12, 2019 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
San Diego Psychological Association 4699 Murphy Canyon Rd. San Diego, CA 92104
(in the United Way Building)
Please join us for an interactive event with SDPA Attorney David Leatherberry, JD. David will be discussing how to Manage Subpoenas and Court Orders as well as the 2020 Update of Lawns including AB 1775 (downloading etc. of child porn).
An opportunity for networking will be provided from 6-6:30 PM and after the presentation until 8:30 PM. David will also be available to answer questions after the presentation. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
This event is geared toward Early Career Professionals and those newly starting private practice. The event is for psychotherapists, not office staff.
Please email Melissa Lanza @ drlanza.phd@gmail.com for more information.
Hold Me Tight© Couples Workshop:
A Relationship Enrichment Program
At the Cottage Clinic
May 30-30, 2020
Space is limited. Sign up early, this program sells out.
Based on Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (and sprinkled with AEDP ~ Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy)
For all Committed Couples
Facilitated by Dr. Diana Weiss-Wisdom; Assisted by a team of EFT Trained Therapists
Join us for this positive, research-based program for all couples that want to strengthen and deepen their relationship. Pre-marital couples that want to prepare and learn how to make love last for a lifetime will benefit from this program. You will take home tools that you can keep using in your relationship. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The workshop is two days from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at The Cottage Clinic 14249 Rancho Santa Fe Farms Road, Rancho Santa Fe, California, 92067. The Cottage Clinic is located in a nature retreat on private property. Our setting provides a relaxing and secluded experience that is conducive to letting down one's guard and focusing on your relationship. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We bring in a healthy catered lunch so that couples can stay on the property and enjoy some quality time together.
12 CE’s area available for psychologists attending with their partner as well as other mental health professionals.
To register and for more information, please go to www.holdmetightworkshops.com
Community Mental Health Committee Meeting
Next meeting:
June 5th 1:30-3:00 pm
Kings Fish House in Mission Valley 825 Camino De La Reina San Diego, CA 92108
If you would like to learn more about this committee, want to attend or have questions please contact the Chair: Dr. Karen Zappone - 619-291-6126
The purpose of the Community Mental Health Committee shall be to monitor developments in the area of community mental health, establishing liaisons with community mental health agencies and organizations, and helping to facilitate the delivery of services by practicing psychologists to the underserved in the public mental health system in San Diego County.
Transforming Resistance: Working with the Challenges of Defense & Anxiety - 12 CEs
A San Diego ISTDP Community sponsored event with AEDP Faculty Member Steve Shapiro, PhD
Saturday and Sunday June 6-7, 2020 9:00am – 4:30pm
Location: Pt Loma Nazarene University, Fermanian Conference Center 3900 Lomaland Drive
This seminar is intended for professionals in mental health and the healing arts and sciences.
Registration Fees (including CEs and Lunch both days):
Registration for Transforming Resistance: Working with the Challenges of Defense and Anxiety. Click link below:
https://www.academeca.com/CEUReg/Seminarinfo.aspx?seminarld=3218
Ironically, many clients interfere with the very progress they seek either through their own resistance to the psychotherapy process or because their anxiety is too high and there is too much dysregulation to use the process effectively. Not infrequently, they terminate prematurely before reaching their goals. This results in tragic consequences for the client, as well as frustration and a sense of failure for the therapist. While clients enter treatment with conscious motivation, resistance is unconscious and, therefore, difficult to address without a coherent system. Therapists typically interpret resistance in a personal way becoming confused, frustrated, and hopeless, with a tendency to hold the client responsible and label him/her as “unmotivated or resistant”. Participants will learn to move beyond resistance and simple symptom management into deep, transformational processes that releases resources of health and resilience. Learn to accelerate treatment using innovative techniques that implore clients to abandon chronic coping patterns that were once necessary, but have long outlived their usefulness and are now causing untoward suffering.
Therapists offer the promise of help often based on the presumption that the client will arrive with sufficient initial motivation, openness and willingness to face painful realities. Frequently this is not the case. Clinicians are rarely adequately prepared to address resistance directly and therapeutically, making it difficult to help more challenging clients. Defenses can be seen as “a problem,” rather than an inevitable part of the process; defense restructuring can mistakenly be understood as an adversarial task, that we then avoid, rather than a compassionate and collaborative venture.
Therapists of all orientations and levels of experience will gain a clear understanding of the nature and function of defenses, and ways to transform them therapeutically so clients can align with the healthy, buried and previously inaccessible internal resources, as well as effective ways to regulate anxiety when it is too high. The principles taught can be readily integrated with your existing orientation and skill set. By adopting an active, focused, precise, experiential, attachment-based and emotionally engaged stance, therapists can create the safety and attunement necessary for patients to risk abandoning their resistance and shift to healthier functioning. The ultimate goal is to accelerate the healing process for clients, but also to help clinicians practice in a way that substantially reduces counter transference, is deeply rewarding, effective, and authentic, fully compatible with your personal and professional history.
Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, Counselors/Marriage and Family Therapists, Creative Arts Therapists – All Levels. There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
JUNE 11 - JUNE 13, 2020
It is our pleasure to invite you to an international conference co-sponsored by the World Dignity Project, University of San Diego, and University of California San Diego, which will take place in San Diego, California USA from Thursday, 11 June to Saturday 13 June 2020.
The World Dignity Project has a mission to advocate for mental health and well-being for all, with equality of treatment and dignity in experience as a basic human right.
We aim to mobilize the public to ensure dignity in mental health is a reality by improving mental health and health literacy, changing the public mindset about mental health, encouraging people to talk about mental health and providing hope for people with mental illness.
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San Diego Marriott Mission Valley
Gender Odyssey is open to all. Anyone may attend regardless of gender identity or gender expression. We embrace the presence and participation of our families, spouses and partners, organizations, and allies. We encourage the attendance of those who serve this community to expand their knowledge and understanding of gender diversity and transgender issues.
Presented by Dr. Trish Stanley, Psy.D, MFT
Art & Science of Love Workshop's offered:
The workshop is designed for all couples in a committed relationship. If you have a strong relationship, this workshop will provide you with insights and tools to make it a great one. If your relationship is distressed, this two-day workshop will provide a road map for repair.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm
August 7th 1:30-3:00 pm
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm
October 2nd 1:30-3:00 pm
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm
December 4th 1:30-3:00 pm
Contact Us:San Diego Psychological Association4699 Murphy Canyon Rd. Suite 105San Diego, CA 92123
Tami Magaro (Office Manager) Office (858) 277-1463 Fax (858) 277-1402 E-Mail sdpa@sdpsych.org
