Member News
April, 2011
Theresa Aiello, PhD, LCSW, Karen Baker, LMSW, Judith Batchelor, MSW, PhD, Penny Rosen, MSW, BCD-P, and Howard Snooks, PhD were inducted as new distinguished practitioners from ten healthcare professions into the National Academies of Practice (NAP) at a gala membership banquet on March 26, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia. Social Work is one of the ten disciplines represented. Allen Du Mont, Chair of the Social Work Academy, presented the awards, and Ann Segall, a NAP member, was present at the ceremony. NAP was established twenty years ago in recognition of the need for interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare. Following its annual forum on public policy issues, NAP will issue a public policy statement based on this year’s focus of achieving interdisciplinary care. For more information about NAP visit www.NAPractice.org.
Patty Antin, MSW, PhD, has started a free, community outreach program with one of her senior colleagues sponsored by The Psychoanalytic Center of California. Emerge, From the Inside to the Outside is a weekly group for families and babies from birth to six months using the Tavistock method of Infant Observation. With intervention facilitated though observation, parents’ capacity to receive, understand, and give meaning to their infant’s communication is enhanced. This type of applied Infant Observation, never done in the United States, promotes healthy bonding and attachment while identifying any early states of disturbance or difficulty within the baby or dyad and offering the potential for intervention at the earliest moments of life. For more information, visit the website, emergebaby.com. Patty and her colleagues welcome any questions or referrals.
Jerrold Brandell, PhD presented a half-day workshop on “Dynamic Storytelling with Children” by invitation to social work faculty and advanced social work graduate students at Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, Spain, April 4, 2011.
He also presented an invitational colloquium titled, “Enter Freud: Psychodynamic thinking and clinical social work” to advanced graduate students and faculty at the University of Barcelona Department of Social Work, Barcelona, Spain, April 8, 2011.
Jerry’s recent publication, along with Shoshana Ringel, PhD: Ringel, Shoshana and Brandell, Jerrold (Eds.), “Trauma: Contemporary Directions in Theory, Practice and Research.” Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 249 pages (2011).
Daniel Buccino, MSW, BCD, of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and the Baltimore Psychotherapy Institute was a discussant at the 18th Annual Conference of the Consortium for Psychoanalytic Research in Washington, DC on February 27, 2011 on cycles of change in psychodynamic psychotherapy. The featured speaker was Phil Lebovitz, MD from the Chicago, and James Kleiger, PhD, from the Baltimore-Washington, was the other discussant.
In May, Rita Karuna Cahn, LCSW, co-chair of the Northern California Chapter of AAPCSW, presented her paper, Bearing Witness in Israel/Palestine; The Defiance of Hope, at the Bystanders No More Conference at the New York Academy of Medicine. This a multi-disciplinary conference was sponsored by the Training and Research in Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP). Her paper is an expanded version of the winning essay she recently presented at the AAPCSW National Conference. Both papers are based on her travels in Israel/Palestine with The Compassionate Listening Project in 2003 and again in 2004.
Gail DeLyser, PhD, LCSW, has published her article At Midlife, Intentionally Childfree Women and Their Experiences of Regret in the Clinical Social Work Journal. The paper, which is based on qualitative research, is currently available online. Gail is a graduate of Chicago’s Institute for Clinical Social Work, PhD program, and Loyola University, Chicago's School of Social Work.
Daniel Farrell, MSW is now the Vice President for Programs at HELP USA, an organization that runs many homeless shelters and supportive housing programs. Primarily NYC based (with about 20 programs in the NYC area), there are also programs in other cities including Houston, Buffalo, Philadelphia and Las Vegas. Daniel oversees all shelters and transitional housing programs.
Sally Fine, MSW, MA, and first author Paul Fine, MD have published an article entitled " Psychodynamic Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Community Psychiatry" in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 39(1)93-110, 2011. The article suggests that psychodynamics have passed the test of time, and that a psychodynamic orientation is uniquely helpful in complex community- based clinical situations. Competence depends upon experience with well supervised psychodynamic psychotherapy and interdisciplinary collaboration in a variety of cultures and settings.
Now retired from social work faculties at the combined Creighton University - University of Nebraska Dept. of Psychiatry, Omaha, NE, and Mercer Medical School of Medicine, Macon, Ga., Sally is in part time private practice with children and families in Omaha.
Jerry Katz, LCSW lectured at the Psychotherapy Institute in Bayramoglu, Turkey in May on Comparing Developmental Theories, and on The Theory and Treatment of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder. In August he will address the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counselors at Vancouver Island University on The Borderline Personality Disorder.
Christine Schmidt, MSW wrote a chapter about her experience as a school social worker entitled "From Within: Practicing White Anti-racism in Public Schools" in Accountability and White Anti-racist Organizing: Stories from Our Work, Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, 2010.
Lee Whitman-Raymond, PhD, MSW, MFA gave poetry readings at Assumption college in Worcester MA in November 2010, Simmons College School for Social Work, Boston MA, in Februrary, and a poetry reading and discussion of her long poem about the experience of analysis on May 2 for the Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Providence RI. She also had two poems accepted for publication in the International Journal for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.