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W01 3 CE Credits
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Thursday, 4/3
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8:30 am - 11:30 am
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Navigating Social Media Relationships as a Psychologist
The focus of this presentation will be to help psychologists help clients understand how interactions with social media impact the way that they interact with themselves and others. There will be an additional focus on helping psychologists determine how they desire to show up professionally on platforms, understanding both desired and undesired impacts of potential clients viewing them in the social media space.
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Erika M. Dawkins, PsyD, MEd
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1. Explore social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube for evidence of relational dynamics.
2. Discuss techniques to mitigate social media-induced stress, screen time management, and fostering meaningful connections online.
3. Compare techniques to help clients build resilience against negative self-comparisons.
4. Demonstrate how to handle friend requests, comments, and direct messages from clients while maintaining professional integrity.
5. Design content creation strategies aligned with their expertise and values.
6. Utilize tools for monitoring online reputation, handling negative reviews, and responding to client inquiries to clean or create current social media presence.
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W02 1 CE Credit
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Thursday, 4/3
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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What We Know About Suicidal Ideation (And How This Can Help You Better Understand Your Suicidal Patients) Suicidal thoughts, which are a common predictor of a future suicidal attempt, vary considerably in their frequency, intensity, duration, and impact on patients. This program reviews what is known about suicidal ideation and how psychologists can use this knowledge to improve their assessment of suicidal patients. This workshop fulfills the Act 74 Suicide requirement.
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Samuel Knapp, EdD, ABPP
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1. Describe what is known about suicidal thoughts in terms of their frequency, duration, intensity, and impact on patients.
2. Identify strategies that will help patients to increase their likelihood of disclosing suicidal thoughts.
3. Explain how suicidal thoughts interact with contextual factors and life experiences to increase or mitigate the risk of a suicide attempt.
4. Identify suicide-adjacent thoughts that increase the likelihood of a future suicide attempt.
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W03 3 Ethics CE Credits
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Thursday, 4/3
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1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Ethical Approaches to Retirement Planning
This highly interactive workshop invites participants to consider strategies for approaching retirement that are both ethical and realistic. Topics considered include assessing our own competency, building communities to support this process, and writing a professional will. This workshop fulfills the Ethics requirement.
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Jeanne Slattery, PhD; Linda Knauss, PhD, ABPP
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1. Identify strategies for self-assessments of competency and cognitive biases affecting this process.
2. Develop a strategy for building professional communities to support this assessment process and brainstorm realistic options for the future.
3. Identify reasons to write a professional will and information to include.
| W04 1 CE Credit | Thursday, 4/3 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Integrating Parent Training into DBT for Vulnerable Teens This program explores integrating Behavioral Parent Training into Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to support vulnerable teens with OCD, anxiety, depression, self-harm, school avoidance, and more. The caregiver-based approach enhances treatment outcomes and promotes effective family involvement, with consideration for diverse populations. | Melanie Klein, PhD | 1. Describe how to integrate Behavioral Parent Training into DBT for vulnerable teens.
2. Analyze case examples of high-risk teens resistant to treatment and apply DBT and parent training strategies to similar cases.
3. Develop treatment plans that incorporate caregiver involvement and DBT principles to address behaviors like self-harm, suicidal ideation, and school avoidance.
4. Assess the effectiveness of integrated treatment approaches and critique outcomes based on case conceptualization. | W05 2 CE Credits | Friday, 4/4 | 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Coercive Control: Why divorcing a narcissist is almost as hard as staying married to one Coercive control is a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation that is used to harm, punish, or frighten a victim. Those who isolate, control, and humiliate their partners frequently evidence narcissistic traits. In this presentation we will talk about the "invisible chains" of coercive control and the reality of post-separation abuse. | Lauren Napolitano, PsyD | 1. Identify coercive control, post-separation abuse, and what is now called 'narcissistic abuse'.
2. Support, validate, and empower their clients who are subjected to coercive control.
3. Discuss the cost benefit analysis of staying married to versus divorcing a coercive controller.
4. Identify and educate their clients about post-separation financial abuse.
5. Recite Pennsylvania laws regarding domestic violence and coercive control. | W06 2 CE Credits | Friday, 4/4 | 11:30 am - 1:30 pm | Act 31: Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting In 2013 and 2014 Pennsylvania enacted numerous changes to the Child Protective Services Law. The purpose of this workshop is to review the signs leading to the recognition of child abuse and the reporting requirements for suspected child abuse in Pennsylvania. Those mandated reporters who complete this course will fulfill their mandatory requirements for licensing renewal and applicants for health care licenses in Pennsylvania will fulfill their requirement for education in child abuse reporting and recognition in Pennsylvania. This workshop describes the child welfare services in Pennsylvania, defines important terms related to the child abuse reporting law, and delineates the responsibilities of mandated reporters, ways to recognize child abuse, and other topics. This workshop fulfills the Act 31 requirement. | Rachael Baturin, MPH, JD; Molly Cowan, PsyD | 1. Describe the child welfare system in Pennsylvania;
2. Define child, child abuse, perpetrators, and other relevant terms;
3. Paraphrase the responsibilities of mandated reporters;
4. Recognize the signs of child abuse and situations where child abuse must be reported; and
5. Understand how to fulfill their responsibilities as mandated reporters of child abuse. | W07 3 CE Credits | Friday, 4/4 | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | What Clinicians Need to Know About Psychedelics Despite advances in the mental health field there is a need for novel treatments for chronic psychological concerns such as PTSD and depression. Psychedelic medicines may well fill this niche. This presentation will discuss the clinical application of psychedelic medicines including Ketamine, Psilocybin, and MDMA. We will include best practices for working with the preparation, dosing, and integration of these medicines. | Heidi Dalzell, PsyD | 1. Identify current approaches to PTSD treatment and how psychedelic medications can address limitations.
2. Describe the legality, therapeutic applications and rationale for use of classic psychedelics, empathogens, and other classes of psychedelic medicines.
3. Discuss factors in providing psychedelic assisted therapy (competencies, integration strategies). |
The Spring 2025 Virtual Continuing Education Conference will be held on Thursday, April 3 and Friday, April 4, 2025.
Cancellation Policy
All workshop registration cancellation requests must be made in writing to Justin Danner, Business Manager (justin@papsy.org) - no phone cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation requests made more than 72 hours before the workshop will result in a 50% refund of the registration fee. PPA cannot postpone registrations and/or transfer fees to future events. Cancellations made less than 72 hours before the workshop and no shows for the Spring 2025 Virtual Continuing Education Conference will result in forfeiture of the entire registration fee. PPA recognizes that serious issues, out of the attendee’s control, may arise and could prevent an attendee from cancelling their registration by the cancellation deadline. Please contact PPA within one week of the final date of the conference if you have any questions about your cancellation.
Continuing Education Credits
The Spring 2025 Virtual Continuing Education Conference is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association. The Pennsylvania Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PPA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Workshops that qualify for the ethics requirement as mandated by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology are noted in the workshop descriptions. Certificates of Completion will be available online to participants who attend the entire workshop and complete the evaluation form. Partial credits will not be given. PPA's Act 31 program is approved by the Department of Human Services (formerly the Department of Public Welfare) and the Department of State to offer the 2 continuing education credits needed to fulfill the child abuse requirement. PA CE Provider Number: CACE000007 IMPORTANT REMINDER! A participant may arrive no more than 10 minutes late nor leave more than 10 minutes early to receive credit for a program. There will be no exceptions. Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors in Pennsylvania can receive continuing education from continuing education providers approved by the American Psychological Association. Since the Pennsylvania Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education, licensed social workers, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirement by attending PPA continuing education programs. Credits Offered The number of Continuing Education Credits for each workshop are listed in the schedule above. Sessions are worth 1, 2 or 3 credits. If a workshop is not eligible for credit, it will be listed as such.
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