The Sándor Ferenczi Center

February 25, 2021

Working Across the Racial Divide: A Workshop for Mental Health Providers

Presents

Working Across the Racial Divide: A Workshop for Mental Health Providers

with Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D., ABPP,
Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D.,
and Warren E. Spielberg, Ph.D.

Sunday, March 27, 2022
11:00 AM – 3:30 PM (with a 30 minute break)

Online via Zoom

Purchase tickets HERE

Professionals: $100
Young professionals: $60
CE credit add-on: $25
Students: $30
NSSR & NYU Postdoc students: Free 
(email NSSRFerencziCenter@gmail.com with your student N# to reserve a spot; limited number of seats available)

CE Credits (4 hours) available for
New York Psychologists, Social Workers, and MHCs
APA CE credits available for Psychologists

For students and practitioners of all levels 

The purpose of this workshop is to help clinicians expand their capacity to work across racial, cultural and ethnic divides in order to enhance their effectiveness in the delivery of mental health services. In this workshop we will discuss how we approach working with individuals from different racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds in cross racial dyads. We will also explore the challenges of working in diverse groups in various organizational formats. Through the use of exercises, didactic material, role play and case presentation the facilitators along with the workshop participants will develop a “mental space” for further intrapsychic, interpersonal and institutional exploration in the following locations.

The workshop will focus on:
1) Understanding Racial Trauma
2) Transference and Countertransference issues in working with diversity
3) Understanding the nature of transgenerational trauma in treatment
4) Understanding Racial Enactments
5) Understanding the impediments of people of color in attaining treatment.

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Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board-certified psychologist and a psychoanalyst who founded Psychological Assets, PC and Kliger Consulting Group, LLC, more than 30 years ago. Having a broad professional practice, she works with children/adolescents and adults, with families, organizations, and communities, from diverse social, generational, and cultural backgrounds. She specializes in complex cases involving people who have suffered from multiple crises, disaster, and/or historical and transgenerational trauma and other stress-based adversities. She is a leadership and organizational consultant. Dr. Kliger teaches at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Kliger is a member of APsaA and IPA, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO), American Psychological Association (APA), and Black Psychoanalysts Speak (BPS). Her article with William R. Nixon, Jr, PhD, “The Mind of the Executive through Eyes of Psychoanalytic Partners,” Psychoanalytic Inquiry, July 2012, speaks to her long standing work with leaders in family businesses but also offers an innovative approach to working side by side with an analyst partner in consultation. Her most recent work involves developing “Bridging Psychoanalysis and the Community” initiative for APsaA’s DPE Oregon Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Kliger was awarded a 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist Award in Poetry and Illustrations for “Power Your Heart, You Power Your Mind: Self Study, Then Build a Bridge to Someone.” found on Amazon.

Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Fellow (training and supervising Analyst) of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research {IPTAR}, Adjunct Professor in both the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the Mitchell Center as well as Clinical Director of the Derner/Hempstead Child Clinic and Senior Adjunct Professor at the Derner Institute and former Director of the Postgraduate Program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. He is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and serves on the boards of the Holmes Commission of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychotherapy Institute {IPI} and the Harlem Family Institute and was the former Regional Director of the New Hope Guild Centers for Children’s Mental Health of Brooklyn. He is the founding Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-edited the volumes, The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents and has published articles on generational trauma and the school to prison pipeline. In addition, he has presented at over 130 conferences and panels and maintains a private practice in New York City.

Warren Spielberg, Ph.D., Fulbright Scholar, psychologist, psychoanalyst is an Associate Teaching Professor at the New School in New York. He is also visiting faculty at the William Alanson White Child and Adolescent Training Program and faculty at the Adelphi University Trauma Program. In addition he is a visiting teaching fellow at the Child Institute at Al Quds University on the West Bank. He is Co-Editor of “The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents- Two Volumes”, Praeger 2015. He is also the co-author of  the upcoming report “Making the Connections – Male Norms and Trauma” published by PROMUNDO GLOBAL, an international NGO that works to promote gender equity and prevent violence by engaging men and boys in healthy practices in partnership with women and girls. He is an acknowledged authority on the problems of boys and men and is a member of the American Psychological  Association (APA) Task Force on treatment guidelines for boys and men. He is the recipient of the Practitioner of the Year Award by the APA for his work with the FDNY post 9/11. His consultative work has included the U.N. Office of Migration, UNICEF, the NYC Mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative and the Obama Foundation. He maintains a private practice in Brooklyn Heights, where he works with children, families and adults. His website is warrenspielberg.com. He and Dr. Vaughans have a joint website: warrenandkirklandconsulting.com.  

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Participants who wish to receive CE credits must attend the event in its entirety; attendance will be recorded to track each participant’s entry and exit time.

Participants with physical or sensory disabilities are encouraged to contact the CE committee members at least 2 weeks in advance of the event to plan for appropriate accommodations. Please contact us via phone or email:
Nichelle Horlacher (Department Secretary) T 212.229.5727 x3223
SteeleM@newschool.edu (Miriam Steele, Ph.D.)
LittL@newschool.edu (Lisa Litt, Ph.D.)
NSSRFerencziCenter@gmail.com (CJ Healy, Student Coordinator for the Sándor Ferenczi Center)

Participants may also contact CE committee members with any concerns. You may also share concerns when you receive your evaluation form after the event.

Tickets may be refunded up to 24 hours prior to the start of the event. Please email NSSRFerencziCenter@gmail.com to cancel your ticket and request a refund.

The New School for Social Research, Department of Psychology SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0199.
The New School for Social Research, Department of Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0120.
The New School of Social Research, Department of Psychology is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0146.
The New School for Social Research, Department of Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
The New School for Social Research Clinical Psychology Department maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The Sponsors of this event report no conflicts of interest or commercial support.