Winter General Meeting

Friday, January 30, 2015

Light brunch 10-11, meeting/program 11-12:45

(Snow date – Friday, February 6, 2015 10am-12:45)

Single Rigid Mother – Pregnant Teen Daughter:

Is Family Therapy an Option?

Presenter: Judith Kuskin, MSW, LCSW

We welcome all members and non-members to our NJAWT General Meetings, at the United Methodist Church of Summit, 17 Kent Place Boulevard, Summit NJ.

Meetings are held either on Sundays, from 7 - 8:30 PM, following a light dinner from 6 - 7 PM, 0r on Fridays, from 10 Am—12:45 PM with a light brunch.

Meetings are free to members, and include 1.5 Continuing Education Contact

hours per meeting for LCSWs and LPCs. Non-member guests who wish to receive CE Contact hours may pay $25 per meeting.

This season two Meetings, October 5 and May 17, are on Sundays,

from 7 - 8:30 PM, following a light dinner from 6 - 7 PM. The January 30 meeting

will be Friday, from 10 AM to 12:45 PM with a light brunch.

(The Snow Date is Friday, February 6.)

For questions about any of our programs, please contact one of our program chairs:

Meryl Nadell, 908.654.9615 or Leslie Tsukroff, 973.879.1678.

If you plan to come for dinner, please RSVP to: Hospitality Chair, Debbie Haverson

at 973.476.4503 or e-mail at dhaverson@aim.com

Volume 33, No. 2 Winter 2015

The next newsletter, Spring 2015, will be the last publication of

The Third Ear. Please see page 5 for more information.

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President’s Letter

Dear Members,

It feels a little disorienting to be thinking that we are in the middle of

the 2014-2015 winter. Didn’t we prepare just a short while ago for the big

2000 New Year’s change over? That was 15 years ago!

In the middle of the winter many of us make New Year’s resolutions

and try to look to the future with optimism. I am wondering about the role that

the winter weather and the shortness of daylight have on our need to make

promises for the future. I come from Scandinavia where the winter daylight is especially short. I remem-

ber pedaling to school in the dark in the morning and having to use my bike light again in the late after-

noon while pedaling home. I hated to use the bike light since it made pedaling hard. The cold weather

made the trips tough enough. That was the 60s in Finland.

In the Finnish language we have the word “kaamos” that applies to the winter time in Lapland

where the sun does not rise for days. The white snow brightens the day a little. The moon, stars, and the

aurora borealis light up the scenery at night time. In the Southern part of Finland one might hear the use

of “kaamos aika” as a loose reference to the shortness of the daylight in the mid-winter. On overcast

days (which there are plenty of in the winter) “kaamos” feels like the appropriate word for the season

yet there is a sunrise and sunset. So maybe we all yearn for the brightness of the spring and the warmth

of the summer as we make New Year’s resolutions. The hopefulness about the future will carry us

forward towards the brighter days while we are still huddled inside our warm houses and overcoats.

I invite you to include participation in NJAWT in your New Year’s resolutions. Come and

huddle together with friends and colleagues in our next General Meeting on January 30th 2015. We are

again meeting in the middle of the day for our January meeting. We always have food ahead of the

meeting, nice chats with others and a learning experience with our presenter. At our first meeting of the

year Judith Kuskin will present “Single Rigid Mother - Pregnant Daughter: Is Family Therapy

an Option?”

I wish you all the warmth of friendship to carry you towards the warmer sunnier days of spring.

Warm regards,

Päivi Päivi Outinen, RN, LCSW

It’s January. Come in out of the cold….

Enjoy meeting with friends and colleagues

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Friday, January 30, 2015, 10 am—12:45 pm

(Snow date – Friday, February 6, 2015, 10am-12:45)

Light brunch/Networking 10 am-11 am

Meeting/Program 11am-12:45 pm

Single Rigid Mother – Pregnant Teen Daughter:

Is Family Therapy an Option?

Presenter: Judith Kuskin, MSW, LCSW

Through case presentations, we will address various systemic models/

theories illustrating the successful use of family therapy in problematic

parent-child relationships.

General Meetings 2015

Upcoming General Meeting

Sunday, May 17, 2015, 7 PM

Light supper/networking at 6 PM

Domestic Abuse: Where to Begin?

Presenter: Nicole Morella, MA

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Conversation Hours 2015

Friday, May 1, 2015 at 10 am

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique):

Helping Clients Turn Down

the Volume on Difficult Emotions!

EFT (otherwise known as “tapping”) is an energy-based therapy that utilizes the same

meridians as acupuncture and offers amazing healing benefits. Often referred to as

“emotional acupressure”, this method has widespread applications and results in restored

mind/body balance. Join us for a discussion and demonstration of EFT and learn how this

gentle, effective technique can complement your clinical work.

Presenter: Kim Goodrich, MSW, LCSW, LCADC

Hostess: Lynn Schiller, PhD, 32 Carol Road, Westfield, NJ 07090

Phone: (908) 410-8596

Please RSVP by Friday, April 24, 2015

Friday, March 13, 2015 at 10 am

The Star: A Tool for Understanding Yourself, Your Clients

and Others

So many people talk about the desire to be centered but also express not knowing how to

get there or even what it looks like. Join us in understanding the intricacies involved in

the relationship of the “self” in order to maintain balance in our own lives and in the lives

of our clients.

Presenter: Marge Szypiotko, MSW, LCSW

Hostess: Leslie Tsukroff, MSW, LCSW, 72 Center Street, Clinton, NJ 08809

Phone: (973) 879-1678

Please RSVP by Friday, March 6, 2015

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Our Program Co-Chairs, Leslie and Meryl, wel-

come your suggestions for future General Meet-

ing programs and Conversation Hours. Their

contact information is on the front and back

pages of the newsletter.

The last issue of NJAWT newsletter, The Third Ear

Dear Members,

NJAWT will cease publishing The Third Ear with the Spring 2015 issue. We

have published The Third Ear for 33 years, since 1982. The Third Ear has been our

dependable communicator of meetings, social events, CE credits, and professional

information. But, like other media, we have been influenced and effected by the

changes wrought by digital technology.

Members will continue to get information through our website and the monthly

eBulletin. In addition, we are in the process of developing an alternative to the

newsletter, using email technology. We will keep you informed as we transition to this

new, digital communication tool.

My best wishes for a Happy New Year,

Arleen Soldati, Communications Chair

Program Co-Chairs

Leslie Tsukroff, MSW

Meryl Nadell, MSW

You’re invited to join my

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Consultation & Training group

• find congenial, supportive colleagues • become more comfortable using CBT

• really know cognitive behavior therapy

A desire to learn more than

you already know is

all you need to join.

The group meets

every other Friday,

9:30 to 11 AM, in Cranford.

To learn more,

contact me,

Lynn Mollick.

908-276-3888

LynnMollick@gmail.com

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Minutes from the NJAWT General Meeting October 5, 2014

Paivi Outinen called the meeting to order at 7 pm. She thanked Debbie Haverson, Hospitality Chair, for the lovely buffet salad supper. Paivi welcomed us back after the sum-

mer and introduced some new members. She noted that the two open Board positions for the 2014—2016 term have

been filled and thanked Arleen Soldati for taking on the Communications Chair position, and Janet Kessler for filling the role of Vice President.

The success of Team NJAWT, led by Publicity Chair Brenda Forte, in the

Walk to Prevent Suicide Out of the Darkness Community Walk, was noted. Team NJAWT raised $3,406. Member Leslie Tsukroff was the second highest individual fundraiser with $1,306.

Paivi reminded members that the next General Meeting with be on a Friday, with brunch from

10—11 am and the meeting beginning at 11 am. The next Conversation Hour was taking place Decem-ber 5th and Paivi asked members to RSVP in a timely way.

The meeting was turned over to Program Co-Chair, Meryl Nadell. Meryl introduced the present-

er for the evening, Katherine Heeg, MSW, LCSW, thanking her for filling in at the last minute. Kathe-rine presented “Transformational Therapy Tools: Introducing Brainspotting and The Comprehensive

Resource Model”.

Minutes respectfully submitted, Arleen Soldati (for Bebe Brusky, Recording Secretary)

***CONTINUING EDUCATION CONTACT HOURS***

Continuing education contact hours are awarded for attending programs offered at our General Meetings. These programs are offered three times a year, in the Fall, Winter, and Spring. Members who attend and complete the evaluation forms are given a certificate of attendance indicating they have earned 1.5 continuing education hours/credits.

NJAWT is an approved continuing education provider for LPCs and LMFTs until April 2016. Continuing education credits for licensed social workers are approved through the NJ Social Work Board of Examiners. The approval process for continuing education credits for LCSWs is an ongoing process, requiring each program to be approved separately. NJ state licensure by-laws require that licensed mental health clinicians (LCSWs, LPCs, and LMFTs) earn 40 continuing education contact hours/credits every two years.

NJAWT is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and may offer NBCC-approved clock

hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.

DATE PRESENTATION SPEAKER C.E.U.

5/18/2014 A�achment Theory: Implica-

�ons for Deepening Clinical

Prac�ce

Debra Roelke, PhD Approved 1.5 Clinical Hours

10/05/2014 Transforma�onal Therapy

Tools: Brainspo/ng

Katherine Heeg, MSW, LCSW Approved 1.5 Clinical Hours

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Go to our website!

NJAWT.org

Elisa Probst,

Web Master and administrative assistant

For information contact Elisa at

webmaster@njawt.org

You can find everything about

NJAWT on our website.

NJAWT LinkedIn Group

Members that would like to be

part of NJAWT LinkedIn group,

please contact our publicity chair

Brenda Forte at

bfortelcsw@gmail.com

Editorʹs Corner The Spring issue will be

the final publication of

The Third Ear .

See Page 5 for details.

Arleen Soldati, Communications Chair

asoldati.lcsw@verizon.net

Deadline for submissions for

Spring Newsletter is April 1, 2015

NJAWT

Goes to the Movies

The NJAWT MOVIE GROUP

will be starting up again in October.

Mark your calendars for:

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Friday, May 15, 2015

Friday dates attend evening shows and Sunday

dates attend matinees. All groups go

to dinner following the movie. All

members are welcome to join us.

Hope to meet at the movies!!!

Contact Janet Kessler at 908-522-9048

or tilitoiler@aol.com

E-Bulletin Description

from Lynn Mollick, Corresponding

Secretary and eBulletin Editor

Members are welcome to post free of charge.

There is a sixty word limit.

1) Announcements of specialized mental health services they offer in their practices (e.g. a mind-fulness group, specialized train-ing or supervision); 2) Classified ads for offices to share, rent, sublet, or sought; Since members receive the eBulletin as an email, it is important to keep no-tices brief. The Editor may make small changes in the text in order to keep the entire eBulletin lively and readable. If the notices are received early enough, members will have an opportunity to approve any changes. Send notices to LynnMollick@gmail.com 7 days

on or before the first day of each new month.

NJAWT offers many opportunities to meet

colleagues, to network, and,

to make new friends.

Invite your colleagues to a meeting.

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The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) walk was a great success. NJAWT shined in it as well. The event raised $21,703.00 and NJAWT raised and contributed $3,406.00. We were the highest money raising group of the event!! Leslie Tsukroff was the second highest individual fund raiser of everyone having raised $1,306.00. Seven of us walked among the 161 participants, some with their dogs. Sunday morning started out cold but warmed up fast, with the sun shining on us as we walked the grounds of Wa-terloo Village in Stanhope. I felt proud to be part of the event and very proud to represent NJAWT. This kind of ac-tion on behalf of a great cause feels to me the best way to contribute and at the same time also let people know us. Thank you Brenda Forte for organizing the event and-keeping us focused, and members, thank you for your great support for this event. We can all be very proud. Paivi Outinen, President

TEAM NJAWT

contributes to the success of

Out of Darkness Walk to Prevent Suicide

Leslie Tsukroff,

second highest

individual fundraiser

Team NJAWT (From the left)

Paivi Outinen,

Barbara Von Klem-

perer,

Team Captain

Brenda Forte with

Sachi,

Debra Haverson,

Sue Orshan,

Kim Goodrich

Leslie Tsukroff

Brenda Forte,

Team Captain,

Publicity Chair

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

An Invitation to Learn Jon Kabat-Zinn's Powerful Methods for

Reducing Stress and Enhancing Overall Health and Well-being

Winter 2015 course in Summit NJ begins January 21 Wed. eves 7:30-9:30; Jan. 21, 28; Feb. 4, 11, 25; March 1*, 4, 11**

Temple Sinai, Summit NJ * Sunday 2:00-6:00 pm ** Snow date

All are welcome. Reservations are required.

Diane Handlin, Ph.D., Lic. Psychologist NJ Lic. #3306

The only person in NJ Certified to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress

Reduction Program by the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School.

(Summer 2015 course in Edison NJ)

For more information or to reserve a place:

www.mindfulnessnj.com 732-549-9100

Peer Groups

Anyone interested in joining or forming a private

practice peer group to have a forum to discuss dif-

ficult and challenging cases and gain support, or to

explore private practice issues can take advantage

of this opportunity within NJAWT. Many of you

indicated an interest in this at previous NJAWT

meetings. Come to the General Meetings, where

you can meet each other and network. If you have

not yet signed up, but are interested, please call or

email Janet Kessler at 908-522-9048 or tilitoil-

er@aol.com to submit your name or to ask any

questions related to peer groups.

NJAWT Member’s Corner

OFFICE TO SHARE

CHATHAM / MADISON AREA

Available immediately. Large fur-nished office that can accommodate groups, in building with mostly M.H. professionals. Includes waiting room. Flexible schedule, no lease, abundant off-street parking. Five minutes to Mor-ristown Memorial & Rte. 287.

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2014-2016 NJAWT Board President Paivi Outinen, RN, MSW, LCSW

(973) 600-5744

Vice President Janet Kessler

(908) 522-9048

Recording Secretary Bebe Brusky, LCSW

(908) 208-2119

Corresponding Secretary Lynn Mollick, PhD

(908) 276-3888

Treasurer Cathy Stephens, MSW, LCSW

(908) 244-4101

President ex-Officio Amy Mahoney, MA, LPC

(908) 898-0329

Membership Chair Lila Redmount, MSW, LCSW

(908) 418-8606

Program Co-Chairs Meryl Nadell, MSW, LCSW

Leslie Tsukroff, MSW, LCSW

(908) 654–9615

(973) 879-1678

Publicity Chair Brenda Forte, MSW, LCSW

(973) 538-2818

Hospitality Chair Debra Haverson, MSW, LCSW

(973) 476-4503

Nominating Chair Sharon McCobin, MSW, LCSW

(201)-906-9951

Communications Chair Arleen Soldati, MSW, LCSW

(908) 391-7401

Members-at-Large Susan Orshan, PsyD

Kimberly Goodrich, MSW, LCSW

(908) 306-0355

(908) 334-0261