PSCP TRIFECTA
March 22
PSCP TRIFECTA
Earn credits for all 3 mandatory workshops, Child Abuse, Suicide, and Ethics
Friday, March 22, 2024
All Day Training
Location: Online Workshop
***Please note the PSCP Spring 2024 Trifecta is sold out***
Updated Child Abuse and Trafficking Recognition and Reporting Training for Mandated Reporters in Pennsylvania: 2023-2025 Update
Presented By: Ron Fischman, Ed.D.
Registration: 7:45am Program: 8:15am to 11:15am
3 CE credits
Act 31 Credits
Act 48 Credits Available
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, PSCP: The Psychology Network 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:
- Identify the various categories of child abuse.
- Recognize common indicators of child abuse/when there may be reasonable cause to suspect a child is a victim of child abuse.
- Understand the mandatory reporting requirements for suspected child abuse.
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 in Pennsylvania. Certified in Pennsylvania 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 Intermediate Unit executive director, Dr. Fischman also supervised related educational services of adapted physical education, OT/PT services and programs for intellectually gifted students. From 1986 until 2012, Dr. Fischman served as a member of the Montgomery County Office of Children and Youth’s Multidisciplinary Team. From 1986 to 2009, Dr. Fischman served as a Pennsylvania Special Education Due Process Hearing officer. 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 to 2012, he had a private practice in Norristown, PA and in Richboro, PA. He is a Fellow of PSCP: The Psychology Network and of the Pennsylvania Psychology Association.
At the present time, Dr. Fischman, a former PSCP president and chair of the continuing education committee, is now serving as the membership chair. He has served on the School Psychology Committee of PPA and is a member of APA and NASP.
Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Your Therapy with Suicidal Patients
Presented By: Brett E. Schur, Ph.D.
Registration: 11:15am Time: 11:45am to 12:45pm
1 CE Credits
Act 48 Credit Available
Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the U.S. In a 2019 survey, 92% of Pennsylvania psychologists had a patient with suicidal ideation and 24% had a patient who attempted suicide while in treatment. The efficacy of a number of strategies for working with suicidal patients is well-documented in the clinical literature, yet many of these strategies are not commonly followed by clinicians.
Objectives:
- Describe evidence supporting lethal means restriction in working with suicidal patients.
- Describe a strategy for turning a suicidal crisis into a learning opportunity for the patient.
- Describe one strategy for improving the efficacy of patient safety plans.
Dr. Brett Schur, Ph.D. works part-time on the Inpatient Psychiatry unit for the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Administration Medical Center in Philadelphia. He also co-directs the Practicum Program, serves on the Intern Training Committee, and lectures on ethics for the Post-Doctoral Psychology Residents. He has been in solo private practice for over 30 years, working with adults of all ages, including patients with chronic medical illness, serious and persistent mental illness, anxiety, depression and trauma. He is Adjunct Instructor at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where he teaches Ethics in Psychology and History & Systems of Psychology. Dr. Schur has recently lectured on suicide prevention, ethics, placebos, and anger management.
Working with Difficult Clients Using a Positive Ethics Frame
Presented By: Jeanne M. Slattery, Ph.D.
Registration 1pm Program: 1:30pm to 4:30pm
3 CE Credits
Act 48 Credits Available
This interactive webinar distinguishes between positive and remedial ethics frameworks, then invites participants to consider ethical dilemmas relating to work with a range of difficult clients (e.g., “resistant” clients, those holding challenging viewpoints, multiple relationships) as we pull together a decision-making framework for work with challenging people and dilemmas.
Objectives:
- Differentiate between remedial ethics and positive ethics;
- Identify factors that are used to make ethical decisions about working with difficult clients;
- Apply a positive ethics frame to ethical dilemmas.
Jeanne M. Slattery, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Assistant Chair at Pennsylvania Western University and has authored or coauthored several books including Empathic counseling: Building skills to empower change; Trauma, meaning, and spirituality: Translating research into clinical practice; and Counseling diverse clients: Bringing context into therapy. She is currently serving as past-president of Pennsylvania Psychological Association, where she has led a series of conversations on ethical dilemmas that have become a regular column in Pennsylvania Psychologist. She is also serving as Secretary to APA’s Div. 31. She has a small private practice working with adults and with mood and anxiety disorders, especially subsequent to a history of trauma.
PSCP: The Psychology Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PSCP: The Psychology Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.