APTC Conference Presentation Highlights

March 8-11, 2012 in San Diego

 

Nurturing the Soul, Phyllis Terry Friedman and Don Morgan

· Nurturing the soul through creativity and travel …stunning photography & poem.

· How can we be more “intensely conscious” in our lives/clinics?

· Creativity is the “antidote” of dullness.

 

Self-Care, Colleague Support and Career Trajectory Among Women Professional Psychologists, Cheryl Munday 

· Described an inspiring and ongoing self-care group of five African-American women/professional psychologists who meet monthly.

 

(Un)healthy Internship Imbalance Bob Hatcher 

· Applicants increasing faster than positions – widening difference

· Tragedy of the commons-Hardin (1968) – open access but limited resources (e.g., pasture) leads to overuse and depletions.

· Users can’t stop problem but user groups can solve this.

· Key is differing quality standards.

 

Ethics and Self-Care for Training Clinic Directors, Erica Wise

· “Teach what we most need to learn.”

· Path of stress to improper behaviors neglects positive/coping.

· What can I control…what can I change?

· Optimism, flourishing health, gratitude, acceptance, mindfulness was central…

· What makes us happy?

 

Quality of Work Life Issues in a Psychology Training Clinic, Nicole Taylor

· How can you increase your self-care at work/home?

· Nicole Taylor Quality of Work Life in PTCs

· Life in a small PTC

· Myriad of other U responsibilities with tenure track position – good grief!

· Focused on challenges and struggles to balance work.

· Woo-ing versus reality a jarring contrast…

· Rocky roads to the new era! Trip to Greece!

· How are you surviving? 

 

Keynote:  Recipe For a Health Clinic:  Competency Early and Often

Dr. Nadya Fouad, UW-Milwaukee

PhD from the University of Minnesota, Counseling Psychology

Chair, Department of Educational Psychology

Published extensively in the areas of career, vocational development, multicultural issues, competency benchmarks, etc.

· Self-Care as a Benchmark Competency

· Training recommendation

· More transparency

· Model communitarian approach

· Teach self-reflection, self-assessment, and how to have conversations about comp with colleagues

· Help students anticipate comp problems

· Develop competence constellations

· Summary

· Competency problems are very stressful for us

· Develop own self-care competencies

· Early conversations better…concrete steps help

· Remediation framework helps set steps

· Competency early and often!

· How do we collectively help this student be as good as they can be?