LECTURE INFORMATION
Description:
Many child clinicians are not trained in group work, yet they are often called upon to lead such groups. This program will offer a description of group work with children, summarizing curative factors and clinical applications. It will provide direct strategies for leading groups and understanding the clinical process. By detailing best practices, it will help participants apply the knowledge to their clinical work.
This program is intended for psychoanalytically oriented mental health professionals at all skill levels.
CME Objectives: (Participants will be able to:)
- Describe three advantages to group work with youth.
- Describe the phenomenon of scapegoating and how it applies to groups.
- Explain five curative factors in child/adolescent groups.
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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY
Seth Aronson, Psy.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst, Director of Admissions/Training, Fellow at the William Alanson White Institute (WAWI), where he has also served as Director of Curriculum. He is on the teaching faculty of the psychoanalytic and child psychotherapy training programs at WAWI. At Long Island University’s doctoral program, he taught child and adolescent psychopathology and psychotherapy. He has facilitated process groups for rabbinical students at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah for 18 years. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and served on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
Beyond these formal roles, he has also presented and taught in many venues around the world, including Japan, China, Kazakhstan and Israel and has led a study program for mental health professionals and clergy for seven years.
Dr. Aronson has written extensively on a variety of topics in the field, including group work with children and adolescents, play in analytic supervision, application of psychoanalytic ideas to work with youth in the community, working as a psychoanalyst and wearing a yarmulke, and the analyst's bereavement. Together with Craig Haen, he is co-editor of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy (Routledge, 2017).
He is in private practice in New York City.
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REGISTRATION DETAILS
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM (MDT)
Cost: To help cover costs, there is a fee to attend this event. Please choose the appropriate level when registering.
- General Attendance (No CME Credit): $20
- CME Credit - DPS Member: $30
- CME Credit - Non DPS Member: $40
- Students: Free
Location: Virtual using Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the event.
Many of our emails get filtered through secondary inboxes, so please do a search within your inbox for key words such as: Denver Psychoanalytic Society, DPS, Zoom link, and/or the name of the speaker or title of the event to find the email with the link.
Registration: Registration is required and must be completed by March 17, 2025. A confirmation email will be sent once registration is completed.
This lecture will not be recorded.
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CME INFORMATION
1.5 CME credits available
CME Certificates: To receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, attend the session with your name clearly labeled in Zoom, and complete an online evaluation within 7 days following the program.
An email with the evaluation link will be emailed after the program. Credit will be issued for actual participation time in 15-minute increments. CME certificates will be emailed within 2 weeks following the event if the evaluation is completed. Enabling your video while participating is strongly encouraged.
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Denver Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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POLICIES
Confidentiality: During all programs, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this program. Recording without authorization is prohibited.
Cancellation: There will be no refunds after March 17, 2025.
Certificate Replacement: If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office must resend a certificate.
To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.
