Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions at Connecticut College

Student Counseling Services (SCS) at Connecticut College is pleased to announce two postdoctoral fellowship positions: (1) an LGBTQ counseling postdoctoral fellowship position, and (2) a Multicultural Counseling postdoctoral position. These are two year, academic appointments (Mid-August thru May, ending May 2018) are geared toward training early career professionals in working within a campus community providing a range of individual, group, and campus community based services. The postdoctoral fellows are expected to engage in the full range of activities typical of professional staff members at SCS while receiving supervision from licensed psychologists. The fellows may have the opportunity to provide supervision to doctoral level practicum students at SCS.  The postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to accrue requisite hours (practice and supervision) for licensure and support in preparing for the Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology. The successful candidates will receive an annual non-negotiable salary of $40,000.

Clinical Visiting Assistant Professor Position

Clinical Visiting Assistant Professor Position

The Department of Psychology at Connecticut College, a private, highly selective liberal arts college, invites applications for a visiting assistant professor position in clinical or counseling psychology to begin July 1, 2016. The appointment will be for a single year, but will be renewable for a second year. A Ph.D. in clinical or counseling psychology is expected at the time of appointment. We seek a colleague who is an excellent teacher and a dedicated undergraduate advisor and research mentor. Teaching responsibilities include Introduction to Psychology and Psychology of Personality, as well as courses to support our offerings in clinical psychology and contribute to our ongoing effort to address issues of diversity in psychology. The full-time visiting faculty teaching load is three courses/sections per semester. 

 Connecticut College values the contributions visitors bring to our community and encourages their active engagement with the department and all aspects of campus life during the course of their appointment. Visiting faculty are initially participating members of the faculty and voting members in their second and subsequent years; their presence is welcome at all faculty meetings.

Psychology faculty members at Connecticut College work collaboratively with students on a wide range of research and community projects. Our department was recognized by the APA with the Culture of Service Award in 2013. More information about our department and its undergraduate and MA programs can be found at the following links to our college website: Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Program. 

 Connecticut College seeks creative scholars excited about working in a liberal arts setting, with its strong focus on engaged teaching and research, participation in shared governance, and active involvement in an institution-wide advancement of diversity. The College has a demonstrated commitment to supporting outstanding teaching, most notably through programming by the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching and Learning. Visiting faculty are also eligible for funding to support enhanced student-faculty engagement associated with their courses.

 Recognizing that intellectual vitality and diversity are inseparable, the College is continuing with what has been a very successful initiative to diversify its faculty, staff, and student body. The College is also fully engaged in a campus-wide effort to implement a new general education curriculum in which full participation and inclusion are central themes. Information about the Connections Program can be found at http://www.conncoll.edu/news/news-archive/2015/connections-announcement/#.VgBbDiBViko.  AA/EEO

Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vita and three letters of recommendation to Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/34198. In your cover letter, please summarize your teaching and research activities. Review of applications will begin on March 4, 2016, and continue until the position is filled.

Serve as Editor of the Society for the Psychology of Women’s newsletter, “The Feminist Psychologist.”

HELP WANTED…SPW is seeking a creative, energetic and organized feminist with strong writing skills to serve as Editor of the Society for the Psychology of Women’s newsletter, “The Feminist Psychologist.”  The Feminist Psychologist is one of two official publications of the Society for the Psychology of Women (SPW), APA Division 35.  TFP Newsletter is published four times per year (quarterly). A hard copy and an electronic version of the newsletter are currently available to paid members of SPW. The newsletter routinely reaches over 3000 readers immediately upon publication online and in hardcopy approximately six to eight weeks after that. The new editor will help to develop the newsletter as it makes a transition to a completely online version, using new software and embedded video clips.  

The Editor of the newsletter must have strong writing and organizational skills and is responsible for pre- and post-production processes including announcing upcoming deadlines, reviewing and proofing submitted copy, and coordinating Editorial Board assignments. Other duties include copy design, layout and final submission for production in coordination with APA Staff. As the official newsletter of the Society for Psychology of Women, the Editor should be skilled at handling editorial disputes and negotiating organizational politics. The Editor is also responsible for managing the budget for the newsletter. The position requires the ability to work under tight deadlines in order to insure that up-to-date and relevant materials are included in the publication. The Editor must have access to, and be proficient in, the use of Microsoft Office Publisher (or other online publishing software), Microsoft Word, and PDF programs such as Adobe.  

The Feminist Psychologist newsletter editor is a member of the SPW Publication Committee. There is a small stipend/honorarium associated with the production of each issue of the publication.

Self-nominations are encouraged. Please send a vita and a short note about your interest to Dr. Maureen McHugh at mcmchugh@iup.edu ASAP, but no later than March 1, 2016.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF OUR BODIES OURSELVES

Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), a highly respected feminist nonprofit organization, seeks an Executive Director who is passionate about women’s health and social justice to lead its essential work. 

The Executive Director will be responsible for overall management, including infrastructure development, fundraising, and program oversight. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic and skilled communicator who can serve as the organization’s primary public spokesperson and fundraising leader. The position requires the ability to balance visioning and strategic planning with day-to-day supervision of staff as well as coordination with the Board and OBOS founders. 

All applicants should have familiarity with the content and philosophy of OBOS (the books as well as the organization’s work as reflected on its website and in its programmatic activities) and possess a strong commitment to expanding OBOS’ involvement with all women, including women from communities of color, immigrant and refugee women, women in prison, and women with disabilities. Applicants should also be sensitive to issues surrounding gender identity and gender expression, and, preferably, have a background in women’s health. 

Leadership Qualities and Characteristics

Applicants should be feminists capable of envisioning and helping to implement effective means of advancing the health and human rights of women and girls globally. We seek an Executive Director who is: 

- Dynamic, entrepreneurial, and inspirational 

- A highly motivated self-starter with demonstrated ability to lead a nonprofit, public, or professional organization 

- Committed to building coalitions, engaging with diverse constituencies, and maintaining strong communication and synergy among Board members, staff, founders, donors, and volunteers 

Skills

- Ability to design, obtain funding for, and implement programs, projects, and public activities to study, synthesize, and disseminate the best available information about how to improve women’s health 

- Ability to conceive, develop, and execute creative, successful fundraising strategies 

- Excellent communications skills 

- Budgeting and financial skills 

- Ability to develop partnerships and alliances with individuals and other institutions as well as build effective, collegial working relationships with staff members 

- Cross-cultural competency, preferably including some global travel and knowledge of Spanish or another language 

- Demonstrated advocacy skills on behalf of mission-driven organizations

Responsibilities

- Oversee finances and fundraising, including spearheading initiatives to obtain funds from foundations, public agencies, and individual donors 

- Establish clear program objectives and priorities 

- Oversee communications, marketing, and all print and digital publications 

- Leverage OBOS’ assets, including editorial content and brand 

- Develop policy in the areas covered by OBOS’ mission 

- Manage and oversee all operations 

- Supervise staff and volunteers 

- Collaborate with leaders of other organizations 

- Serve as the primary media spokesperson, representing OBOS at conferences and meetings to advance the organization’s vision and mission 

 

Experience 

- 3-5 years of relevant experience, preferably some of which is international, managing a nonprofit, public, or professional organization 

- Working with diverse communities of women and/or managing a team committed to feminist values 

- Speaking at conferences, public gatherings, and to the media 

 

Please send a cover letter and resume by March 1, 2016 to Joan Rachlin, Search Committee Chair, at EDsearch@ourbodiesourselves.org. 

First Annual Graduate Research Symposium at Columbia University.

The WISC Graduate Research Symposium (WGRS) is a multi-disciplinary research conference that aims to highlight and celebrate emerging research conducted by women graduate students in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.
We want to highlight your research! We will have awards for best poster and presentations. These awards will include monetary compensation.

https://womeninscienceatcolumbia.org/symposium/
 

2016 ORI’s Annual Conference: Women's Voices in Psychoanalysis: Erased or Forgotten

– Co-sponsored by St. John’s University’s Psychology Department and the Office of Postgraduate Professional Development Programs

Date & time: Saturday, March 19th, 2016 (9:15 am - 4:30 pm)

Location: St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus, 101 Astor Place, NYC, 10003

Earn 4.5 CE / post-graduate / psychoanalytic education credits! [NYS CEU for SW credits – are pending]

Presenters: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD and B. William Brennan, ThM, MA, LMHC

Discussant: Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP

Moderator: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NCPsyA, D.Litt

This full day conference will put a highlight on lives and contributions to psychoanalysis by women who were “erased or forgotten”: Sabina Spielrein, Izette de Forest, Elizabeth Severn, Clara Thompson, Alice Balint, and Enid Balint.

Psychoanalytic theory and practice was originated and advanced by men. To say that psychoanalysis was male-centric would be an understatement. From Freud’s original work to the Wednesday Psychological Society, women had only a faint voice in the early psychoanalytic movement. However, as the 20th century progressed so did the presence of women in psychoanalysis.  Theorist/clinicians such as Anna Freud,  Melanie Klein, Karen Horney, Hanna Segal, Helene Deutsch, Joyce McDougal, to name a few, had begun to make significantand enduring contributions, garnering their share of notoriety, respect and recognition, challenging the male dominated establishment. 

When we move beyond the women mentioned above, the voices of the early psychoanalytic contributors become even more remote and faint. If one was to ask, “Who was Sabina Spielrein?” – the best answer will be mostly based on Sabina’s story of her time as a patient of Carl Jung, who he treated forhysteria, who later became infamously known as Carl Jung’s lover.  But her story does not end there; following her time with both Jung and Freud, she too became an analyst, and also an original thinker in this new field.  Very few will know that Sabina Spielrein was the first one who proposed the idea of the duality of instinctual life, represented in the life and death instincts, which was incorporated by Sigmund Freud, and given a credit in his Beyond the Pleasure Principle. It was Sabina who discussed with Melanie Klein her interest in child development and the importance of early oral feeding (sucking), and the mother’s breast; and she was the first female who had presented a psychoanalytic paper for the doctorate degree, and promoted psychoanalytic thought in Russia, adding that she was a pioneer in the treatment of children in a “psychoanalytic nursery”, until Stalin banned psychoanalysis all together.

Similarly, if one is asked about Izette de Forest, Elizabeth Severn, or even Clara Thompson (who was considered to be Ferenczi’s American protégé) – it will usually take a “Ferenzian” to tell you that – besides being “Ett.,” “R.N.,” and “Dm.” in Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary – these women had contributed significantly to Ferenczi’s revolutionary clinical armamentarium of "relaxation", "elastic",  and "active" techniques, as well as his “mutual analysis” therapeutic experiment; and increased empathy in working with trauma, something that prior psychoanalytic tradition did not consider to prioritize, but what is on the top of the list in the context of the contemporary psychoanalytic thinking worldwide.

This conference aims to reach further into the historical record and bring long overdue recognition to the incredibly influential female voices in the formative phase of psychoanalysis, much of whom were discarded, marginalized, or forgotten (perhaps repressed) from the narrative of the psychoanalytic movement.   Our distinguished speakers will include: Jeffrey Lewis, PhD (representing the voice of Sabina Spielrein); B. William Brennan, ThM, MA, LMHC (representing the voices of “Ferenczi’s women,” Izette de Forest, Elizabeth Severn, and Clara Thompson); and Eva Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP (our discussant, who also will bring to light the contributions to psychoanalysis of two wives of Michael Balint, Alice and Enid Balint). We will dedicate a significant part of this conference to the panel discussion and to questions and answers between the presenters and the attendees. Let their voices be heard!

For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.orinyc.org/conf.html .

To register: send your registration forms (http://www.orinyc.org/Registration-form.html) and payment to: ORI Administrator; 75-15 187 Street; Fresh Meadows, NY, 11366-1725. Or, email the registration form and the PayPal receipt to adminorinyc@gmail.com. 

Special scholarships for undergraduate/ graduate students, retiredpractitioners, as well as for group registration, are available. For more information, contact ORI administrator by email Admin@ORINYC.org or by phone 646-522-1056.

Complementary Maternal Mental Health 101 Webinar - 2020mom.org

Learn about the various Maternal Mental Health Disorders, the differences between them, risk factors and treatment options.  The course is designed for providers, administrators and public health employees, though all are welcome.  CEUs/CMEs are not available for this event.


RSVP for one of the sessions. You will be sent instructions with the webinar link after registering.

Faculty:
Birdie Gunyon Meyer, RN, MA, CLC
Postpartum Support International Training Director and Past President
Wendy N. Davis PhD.
Executive Director of Postpartum Support International
Joy Burkhard, MBA
Founder & Director 2020 Mom Project

February 11, 2016 – 10:30 AM-12 noon PST

Register here

"Sweet Dreams". A Special Film Screening at the YWCA of Brooklyn

The New York Times calls this film "FASCINATING. SUBTLE and DRAMATIC" in its portrayal of Rwanda's first ever ice cream shop created by a group of women drummers who emerge from the devastation of genocide to create a new future for themselves.  This film brilliantly captures how with help from Brooklyn's own Blue Marble Ice Cream these women fulfill their Sweet Dreams. 

Tickets available now at

ywcabkdrummingupdreams.eventbrite.com

 

Division of Women’s Issues (DOWI) - Outstanding Dissertation Award $500

The Division of Women’s Issues (DOWI) of the NY State Psychological Association is pleased to announce its award for an Outstanding Dissertation to a student or recent graduate.

The dissertation or doctoral project should be on a feminist topic pertaining to women and girls and must have been completed in 2015 by November 1, 2015. Completion is defined to mean all requirements are accepted and signed off by the applicant’s institution.

Each nominee must submit a three- page abstract including statement of purpose, hypotheses, methods (including participants, measures, and procedure), results and discussion. In addition to the three pages, selected references should be included.

A panel designated by DOWI based on criteria of will judge all submissions:

  • Significance to the field
  • Relevance to women’s issues
  • Clarity and quality of the research

A monetary amount of $500 comes with the award. The winner will be announced at the annual NYSPA Convention, have the opportunity to present her/his paper, and receive a one-year membership to DOWI. Please send submissions and questions to Vanessa Li:

vanessali@mail.adelphi.edu

Comedy Night at Gotham Comedy Club to benefit the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault

Invite from Kim Baranowski, Co-Chair of the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault's Associated Board.

Every year we host a Comedy Night at Gotham Comedy Club to benefit the Alliance and all of the incredible work the organization does to prevent sexual assault and reduce the harm it causes to individuals, families, and society.

This year, our Comedy Night will be held on Tuesday, October 20th at 6:30pm at the Gotham Comedy Club (208 West 23rd Street). Admission is $32 and tickets can be purchased at www.svfreenyc.org.


First Volume of Little Women Is Published: Everett Cafe TC 9/30

News Display: First Volume of Little Women Is Published

Little Women: or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868), is Louisa May Alcott's first bestseller, beloved children's classic, and semi-autobiographical account of childhood in Concord, Massachusetts. The first volume of Alcott's novel was published on September 30, 1868, with a run of 2,0000 copies, and its immediate success prompted Alcott to write the second volume, Good Wives (1869), which was afterwards published together with Little Women.

Sequels successfully followed: Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys (1871) and Jo's Boys: and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" (1886).

This newspaper exhibit showcases the life and literary career of one of America's best-known authors, Louisa May Alcott, also known by her nom de plume, A. M. Barnard.

Need to keep current, look to the past, teach a topic? The Everett Cafe features daily postings of headlines from around the world, as well as wide-ranging educational news displays.

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IRWGS Columbia University Graduate Student Open House 5pm - Sept. 29th

The Columbia Institute for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is holding our graduate student open house at 5:00pm on TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29.

This event is an excellent opportunity to connect with new and old colleagues while exploring the many resources IRWGS has to offer. Students new to Columbia and IRWGS are especially encouraged to attend. We will be available to answer questions about our courses, events, and graduate certificate program, as well as soliciting works-in-progress for our graduate student colloquium. Please stop by for snacks, drinks, and conversation with a vibrant and supportive community of scholars working in feminist and queer studies across academic disciplines. Also, CHILDREN ARE VERY WELCOME at this event!

WOMEN & THERAPY CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE: Trauma and Well-Being among AAPI Women

 

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 1st, 2015

Special Issue Editors: Khanh T. Dinh, Ph.D., Ivy K. Ho, Ph.D., & Yuying Tsong, Ph.D.

 

The Special Issue will focus on various aspects of trauma and wellbeing, including physical health, mental health, social health and other important life outcomes among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women.  The various aspects of trauma may include the effects of war trauma, migration trauma, sexual violence/harassment trauma, domestic violence trauma, childhood sexual abuse trauma, economic trauma (poverty), discrimination trauma, and other kinds of trauma.  In other words, this special issue seeks to capture comprehensively the research and clinical knowledge regarding the effects of trauma in the lives of AAPI women. 

 

The editors invite abstract submissions of quantitative and/or qualitative works. We also invite abstract submissions of theoretical pieces, review papers, and best practices.  Submitted abstracts should contain original and unpublished work and must be written in English.  Preferences in the selection and review process will be given to potential manuscripts that attend to contexts and critical analysis/integration of the intersection of race/ethnicity and gender, as well as other marginalized statuses in understanding trauma and outcomes of well-being.  Furthermore, manuscripts will be evaluated on their incorporation of principles from feminist theories and clinical practice, including feminist approaches in working with AAPI women on issues of trauma.

 

Submission Instructions: Interested authors should submit (1) a title page and (2) a 2 to 4-page abstract to the special issue editors at http://tinyurl.com/WT-AAPIW-Trauma-Submission by December 1st, 2015 (early submissions are welcome).  Submissions should follow APA style (6th Edition).  The special issue editors will review abstracts and select 12-15 for further development.  Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to develop full papers.  In addition to review by the special issue editors, papers will be subjected to the regular W&T peer-review process.  Questions about special issue may be directed to editors at WT_Trauma@uml.edu.