Joining Forces is a program developed by The Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis (ACAP), to provide administrators, mental health center workers and teachers with assistance in serving their most challenging situations, clients, supervisees and students. By joining together to explore intervention strategies that can be effective with our most difficult daily experiences, we can enhance our skills in working with people in many different settings.
Joining Forces has allowed 25 people from varied settings such as juvenile justice, human resources, schools, DYFS and therapy offices to participate in training that enhances their understanding of human motivation and has been shown to decrease stress levels. This is what one agency’s supervisor said about ACAP training:
“Modern Psychoanalytic supervision and training allows me to step back and study more. Then I understand the client and intervene in a way that meets them where they are in their current situation. I’m more patient with myself and my workers and more effective overall.”
Joining Forces training entails three courses over one year of study at ACAP. Participants are eligible to enroll in one courses each semester such as: Psychopathology, Modern Psychoanalytic Methods, and Maturation in Adolescence. In addition, participants are part of a small group supervision every other week for one year where they can discuss application of the method to one’s own specific work and life situations and hear about the experiences of applications in various other populations and settings.
Corporations, schools, mental health agencies, and social service providers may find it helpful to sponsor an in-house worker or make a scholarship available to an important person in their own community. You are welcome to make a donation of a scholarship in support of a worker or current student in need. In addition to the tuition scholarship, CE credits are available for many professions.
Joining Forces
was made possible by a generous pilot program grant funded by the
Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey
(The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey was founded by the
Jewish Community)
Joining Forces Students are matriculated into courses
Such as Psychopathology, Modern Psychoanalytic Concepts,
And Small Group Supervisions. Below are students
participating in a Spring 2007 course.
Joining Forces is a Training Program developed through a partnership between
The Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis
And the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey
Joining Forces provides training to Mental Health Workers and Teachers
Who Serve Multi-Challenged Families
Experiencing Problems with Mental Health and Substance Abuse
(The Healthcare Foundation was founded by the Jewish Community) |
IMPACT:
• In Year I, Joining
Forces provided training
for 25 workers from
7 agencies
• In Year I, Joining
Forces provided outreach
to 9 locations.
350 contacts were
made to inform and
introduce workers to
modern psychoanalytic
methods
• By training workers
who have established
relationships with people
in their own communities
and settings,
Joining Forces has not
only had an impact on
25 workers but potentially
impacted the
5,583 children they
serve.
• In year II, by assisting
workers in the proposed
train the trainer
program to work with
others at their sites, we
can multiply this effect
in potentially reaching
the 14,466 children
served at each agency
or school.
• Joining Forces is a
proven model to help
in the reduction of
stress of healthcare
workers. It has impacted
the disparity of
stress on the job in
workers in the Greater
Newark Area. This
model can be applied
to a variety of settings
and populations.
Call ACAP at
973-629-7808 for more
Information about available
training opportunities or to
sponsor your important
Person.
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