Hello All,
Here are a couple upcoming FREE and timely webinars in the time of COVID-19:
Upcoming Webinars from the COVID-19 Special Task Group (STG) of SCP/CCPTP/ACCTA: Many thanks to the STG members and to our presenters below. These are very important and timely topics. Please join us and help spread the word.
· Work and Unemployment in the Time of COVID-19: Mental Health and Work-Based Implications with David L. Blustein. May 14, 2020, 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6u4-EYM-RPeKEegyFmw7q Unemployment has quickly emerged as a crisis within the pandemic crisis, affecting millions of people around the globe. The COVID-19 crisis has ruptured already fragile systems in nearly all sectors of life, including work, mental health, social and economic disparities, and of course, our physical health. This webinar will review the major mental health and vocational impacts of unemployment and work-based uncertainty that have been evoked by this crisis. Strategies for individuals and communities as well as systemic interventions also will be presented. David L. Blustein is a Professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. David is the author of The Psychology of Working: A New Perspective for Career Development, Counseling, and Public Policy and the recently published The Importance of Work in an Age of Uncertainty: The Eroding Experience of Work in America. He has contributed journal articles, book chapters, and advocacy work on unemployment, integrative mental health and work-based interventions, psychology of working theory, decent work, precarious work, relationships and work, and other aspects of the role of work in people's lives.
· Aging, Ageism, and Intersectionality in the Time of COVID-19 with Katherine Ramos, Maggie Syme, and Kate L. N. Hinrichs. May 20, 2020, 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BY9N6lEWSkGbKmNVQqrEbw. This webinar is specifically curated for counseling psychologists who are either working directly or indirectly with older adult colleagues, clients or with family members who have concerns about their older adult loved ones. Int this webinar, panelist will discuss aging and intersectionality across, age, race/ethnicity, and being LGBTQ+. Lastly, panels and attendees will engage in self-reflection and focus how we as members of Division 17 can be professional and personal allies to older adult populations and colleagues. Panel Q&A w/ a few slides on ageism defined and intersectionality, followed by Q&A. Katherine Ramos Ph.D., is a counseling psychologist and currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with Duke University. She is a current member with APA's Committee on Aging (CONA). She specialized in older adults and palliative care in her clinical training, and her research focuses on the development and implementation of psychosocial interventions for older adults and their caregivers. Maggie Syme, Ph.D., is a counseling psychologist and currently an Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research for the Center on Aging at Kansas State University. She specialized in older adults in her clinical training, and her research focuses on the psychological and socio-cultural factors of sexuality across the lifespan, with specific focus on the role of ageism. Kate L. M. Hinrichs, Ph.D., ABPP is a counseling psychologist in the VA Boston Healthcare System and is board certified in geropsychology. She is also an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She specialized in older adults in her clinical training, and her work focuses mainly in LGBTQ+ and aging communities. She is the co-chair of the Aging Committee within Division 44.
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