AAPCSW BENEFITS: AN INVITATION TO JOIN AAPCSW
The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW) is inviting you to join its membership. Here are some reasons for becoming a member:
- The AAPCSW remains committed to ongoing education with many local area conferences. Also, we have a reputation as sponsoring one of the best national clinical social work conferences
- The AAPCSW monitors federal and state legislative activity to safeguard the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy for clinical social workers. Our involvement with state level legislation seeks to ensure that clinical social workers who are qualified to practice psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy are protected from any restrictive new laws regulating psychoanalysis and are not adversely affected by new regulations. In addition, we monitor any proposed legislation that could affect us.
- AAPCSW is an active member of the Psychoanalytic Consortium that is composed of the AAPCSW, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association, and Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association. One outcome of our work has been that qualified psychoanalysts of each of the disciplines serve as supervisors, faculty and training analysts at institutes. We have worked diligently for this type of parity among the mental health disciplines.
- Members of the AAPCSW, along with psychoanalysts of the other disciplines, serve on the Board of the Accreditation Council for Psychoanalytic Education (ACPEinc.), an organization that is an outgrowth of the Consortium.
- AAPCSW has formed a number of committees supporting knowledge and training: The Study Group; Child and Adolescent Practice; Culture, Race and Ethnicity; Social Responsibility and Social Justice.
- AAPCSW published books by its Study Group include: Fostering Healing and Growth: A Psychoanalytic Social Work Approach; The Social Work Psychoanalyst’s Casebook: Clinical Voices in Honor of Jean Sanville; and Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice: Relational Principles and Techniques.
- AAPCSW has established a Speaker's Bureau providing information about experts in clinical theory and practice who are available to speak at local conferences.
- AAPCSW publishes a triannual Newsletter containing clinical papers and book reviews by our members.
- AAPCSW maintains an active internet listserv that contains relevant information, articles and referrals, and an online journal.
- Members receive discounted rates for psychoanalytic journals and books, liability and office insurance and professional website development. We are currently working on getting sufficient members interested to subscribe to PEP.
- AAPCSW has developed its own continuing education website that offers self-study credits applicable for state licensure requirements. See http://www.psychoanalyticce-credit.com
- A membership application can be found at www.aapcsw.org. Please feel free to contact John Chiaramonte, Membership Chair / phone: 908.918.1192 / email: johnlcsw1@verizon.net.