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.