Trifecta: Updated Child Abuse Reporting and Recognition, Suicide Awareness, Ethics
May 17, 2018 - May 18, 2018
Spring Trifecta
Friday, May 18, 2018
Temple-Ambler Campus 580 Meetinghouse Road Ambler, PA 19002
Earn credits for all 3 mandatory workshops, Child Abuse, Suicide, and Ethics.
Updated Child Abuse and Trafficking Recognition and Reporting Training for Mandated Reporters in Pennsylvania
Time: 8:45am to 11:45am
Presented By: Ronald Fischman,Ed.D. and Ivan Haskell, Ph.D
3.0 CE credits
Act 48 credits
Important note: Even if you have taken this course during your last licensing period, this course is updated, allows for new CE credits, and satisfies your new requirement with the state of Pennsylvania in this new licensing period.
In accordance with a Pennsylvania mandate for all health care professionals and funeral directors, the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists presents this three hour workshop to discuss the obligation of mandated reporters and moral obligation of permissive reporters to report reasonable suspicions of child abuse and child labor and
sexual trafficking.
Objectives:
- Discussing the differences between Child Protective Services and General Protective Services
- Describing components of Child abuse and Exclusions to Child Abuse.
- Listing common signs of Child Abuse and Sexual abuse
- Describing Mandatory and Permissive Child Abuse Reporters and penalties for not reporting.
- Describing Sex and Labor Trafficking and Methods of Reporting.
Ron Fischman, Ed.D. has been a practicing school psychologist since 1971. Prior to starting psychological practice, he taught English in a Philadelphia junior high school for 4 years. Dr. Fischman graduated from the Temple University’s School Psychology Program with a Doctor of Education degree in January, 1974. He is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist.
For 34 years, Dr. Fischman was the Coordinator of Psychological Services at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. Certified as an English teacher, school psychologist, supervisor of psychological services, special education supervisor, director of pupil personnel services and holding a letter of eligibility as an IU executive director in Pennsylvania, Dr. Fischman also supervised related educational services of adapted physical education, OT/PT services and programs for gifted students. From 1986 until 2009, Dr. Fischman serviced as a Pennsylvania Special Education Due Process Hearing Officer. .From 1986 until 2012, Dr. Fischman served as a member of the Montgomery County Office of Children and Youth Multidisciplinary Team. For 33 years, he served as the liaison between the Intermediate Unit and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts.
Between 1975 and 1982, Dr. Fischman supervised a school psychology training clinic at Temple University. He has taught graduate courses in special education and psychology at Temple University, Pennsylvania State University, Thomas Jefferson University and Cabrini College. From 1975 until 2012, he had a private practice in Norristown, PA and in Richboro PA. From 1986 until 2009, He is a Fellow of both PSCP and PPA.
At the present time, Dr. Fischman, a former PSCP president and Chair of the continuing Education Committee, is serving as the membership chair of the Philadelphia Society of Clinical Psychologists. He has served on the School Psychology Committee of PPA and is a member of APA and NASP.
Ivan Haskell, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Joseph J. Peters Institute, an outpatient assessment, treatment and prevention program serving survivors of sexual abuse and offenders with specialized programs for children, adolescents and adults in Center City Philadelphia. Dr. Haskell has a Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina and is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania. Over the last fifteen years, his focus has been on the design, implementation, and direction of child and adult community mental health programs.
Dr. Haskell has served as the clinical and administrative director of several publicly-funded mental health programs in Philadelphia and surrounding communities. These programs have been located in traditional clinics as well as in school-based settings. In 2010, he assumed the role of Director of Social and Psychological Services at Mastery Charter Schools, where he was instrumental in creating its social work and counseling/therapy programs. Prior to assuming the role of Executive Director at the Joseph J. Peters Institute, Dr. Haskell served as the Chief Program and Clinical Officer at Northern Children’s Services. Dr. Haskell is interested in the application of evidence-based practice in community and school settings, the design and implementation of effective prevention programs, and the use of effective performance-based data for program improvement.
Suicide: Risk factors, protective factors, and safety planning
Time: 12pm to 1pm
Presented By: Kyle Holsinger, Psy.D
1.0 CE credit
Act 48 credit
The current presentation will highlight common risk factors and warning signs of suicide in a variety of populations and ages. In addition, protective factors and deterrents of suicide will be explored and discussed. Finally, the program will focus on a discussion of safety planning theory and incorporating a safety plan into patient treatment goals and practice.
Objectives:
- Able to describe and articulate Risk factors and Warning Signs of suicide.
- Able to list the steps necessary to assess a variety of populations at risk for suicide.
- Able to articulate ways manage and treat patients who are at risks of suicide.
- Able to describe and implement a Safety Plan in treatment with patients at risk for suicide.
- Able to describe and incorporate suicide theory into assessment and practice.
Kyle Holsinger, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist in the state of Pennsylvania, and he received a Doctorate of Psychology degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2005. He is the Clinical Director for Delaware County Professional Services (DCPS). DCPS is an outpatient mental health practice with 60 therapists and psychiatrist, servicing all ages and providing individual, couples, and family therapies. He developed the practice’s Primary Health Care Integration program, and has collaborated with numerous internal medicine, family medicine and pediatric offices. DCPS currently has therapists inside of 10 primary care physician offices. Dr. Holsinger has a special interest in treating populations with chronic medical conditions.
Ethics- Part 2 Licensure Law and Disciplinary Process- A Prosecutor and Defense Attorney’s Perspectives
Time: 1:15pm to 4:15pm
Presented By: Jan Grossman, Esq., Ph.D.,JD, Mary Ann Grossman, Esq., BS, JD, and Bridget K. Guilfoyle, Esq
3.0 CE credits
Act 48 credits
Any practicing psychologist should have at least working understanding of the Pennsylvania Psychology Licensing Board, its functioning, and, specifically the prosecutorial function of Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs and the course of a licensure prosecution. Emphasis will be placed on ethical avoidance of common mistakes leading to prosecution.
Objectives:
- Understand a psychologist’s ethical role with clients involved in licensure issues.
- Learn approaches for preventing licensure issues.
- Learn how to respond to a licensure investigator.
- Understand the various criteria against your clinical behavior will be judged.
- Learn the licensure prosecution procedure from complaint, investigation, Order to Show Cause, Consent Order, through hearing, if necessary.
Jan C. Grossman, Ph.D., J.D., is a Past President of PSCP and Co-Chair of the PSCP Ethics Committee. Jan is a practicing forensic psychologist, as well as a family law and criminal defense attorney who has lectured widely on psychology, ethics and the law. He is a Diplomate of the Professional Academy of Custody Evaluators, Certified Parent Coordinator, and a member of the Family Institute of Philadelphia. On any given day, Jan might be litigating a custody case, working on a complex divorce, representing a psychologist in a licensure matter, or performing a custody evaluation. Jan volunteers his time representing indigent victims in protection from abuse actions. Jan serves as a police psychologist for numerous local law enforcement agencies. Jan was honored by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association as one of the Fifty Most Influential Psychologists of the Past Fifty Years and by PSCP for his contributions to the field.
Mary Ann Grossman, Esq., B.S., J.D.
Coming from a background of Special Education, Mary Ann has been a practicing Family Law attorney for the past fifteen years. She has devoted her legal career to public service and assisting victims of domestic violence in legal situations, initially as a Legal Aid Attorney and later as Director of the Woman’s Place Legal Program in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. For the past four years, she has been a Managing Partner of We Care Legal Services Pa.LLC, a multi-office law firm, with outreach to the five local counties and South Jersey. Mary Ann has served on Judicial Committees and has worked with the State Legislature in formulating new laws pertaining to children and families. She is a recognized expert in Pennsylvania’s Protection From Abuse and Child Custody Laws. In one capacity or another, Mary Ann’s professional life has been devoted to protecting children at risk and victims of domestic violence.
Bridget K. Guilfoyle, Esquire
Ms. Guilfoyle is a prosecuting attorney for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State, Office of Chief Counsel. For nearly 15 years, she has represented the Commonwealth in disciplinary actions before numerous licensing boards, including the State Boards of Psychology, Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Physical Therapy, Speech-Language and Hearing, Nursing, Social Work, and Chiropractic. From 2015 to 2017, Ms. Guilfoyle served as legal counsel to the State Board of Nursing, State Board of Vehicle Manufacturers, Dealers and Salespersons, State Board of Dentistry, and the State Board of Architects Licensure, before returning to her role as prosecuting attorney in mid-2017. She serves as the New Attorney Orientation Training Officer for the Department of State Legal Office and provides training and guidance to the Department’s staff of professional conduct investigators. Prior to her arrival at the Department of State, Ms. Guilfoyle was an associate attorney at Bechtol, Lee and Eberhardt in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she specialized in labor and employment law with a focus on workers’ compensation defense. Ms. Guilfoyle also served as a law clerk for several Judges at the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1991and the Duquesne University School of Law in 1994.