301 South Livingston Avenue,
2nd Floor
Livingston, NJ 07039
Phone: (973) 629-1001
Fax: (973) 629-1003
E-mail: acapnj@acapnj.org






 

*Please click events on calendar for details

 

ACAP is Offering Communication and Skills Training to Workers who Serve Vulnerable Elderly with Challenging Behaviors.

  Non-profit organizations and individuals
 are eligible to participate

This five-session interactive curriculum offers real life scenarios, innovative  strategies, and issue specific skills to improve Communication with the vulnerable and challenging elderly.  A track is opening specific to nurses with provision of continuing education credits.  The series is made up of five, two-hour sessions in small groups. Topics may include:  

  • Good Aging, Changes in the Aging Body and Mind
  • Assessment of the Cognitively Impaired elderly
  • Interventions with the Hostile, Aggressive or Agitated Elderly
  • Strategies for the Withdrawn and Non-responsive Elderly
  • Approaches to the Mentally Ill Elderly
  • Working with Family Members of the Elderly
  • How to care for Substance Abusing Elderly
  • Managing the Needy or Manipulative Elderly Person
  • Communication through the Body-Illness to Somatization
  • New Approaches to communicating with the Elderly about Loss
  • The Language of Non-Verbal Communication in the Elderly
  • OR DEVELOP YOUR OWN TOPIC!

 

Requests for programming will be accepted through September 25, 2010.
Contact Annette Vaccaro for information about participation: 973-629-7808 or Vaccaroaj@aol.com

 

 

Announcement!

Mini-Course: Introduction to Modern Psychoanalysis

What exactly is Modern Psychoanalysis? It may not be what you think! 

10 sessions: Wednesdays  6- 8:15pm  Sept 22; Oct 6, 20;  Nov 3, 17;  Dec 1, 15, 2010

For Registration Information email: events@acapnj.org or call 973-251-9312