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Advocating For Older Adults as Mental Health Practitioners

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Virtual
1.5 CE Hour

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Description

This session will focus on how and why mental health practitioners should advocate for older adults.  Ageism is a continuing problem in the culture and mental health practitioners are in a unique position to advocate at multiple levels (Chang, 2012; Disability Belongs, 2024).  Older adults faced specific challenges during the COVID pandemic that counselors can address and advocate for policy change (Muller, et al., 2021; Richtel & Abelson, 2021).  Understanding government, medical, and social systems is essential to effective advocacy for older adults (Pierce, 2024).  This presentation will provide historical context of ageism and public policy and a model for advocacy for older adults.

Target Audience
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Psychologist
  • • Social Worker
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this session is to increase awareness of the needs of older adults and how to address those needs through an advocacy model.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Define advocacy and its necessity in mental health treatment.

  • Generate an action plan using information about federal and state government, medical and mental health systems, and best practices for individual practitioners.

  • Explain the phenomenon of infantilization of older adults and its detrimental effects.

  • Identify and explain the ethical codes inherent in advocacy, including advocacy for minoritized older adult populations.

References

  • Chang, C. (Ed.). (2012). Professional counseling excellence through leadership and advocacy. Routledge.

  • Disability Belongs. (2024). Retrieved from: https://www.respectability.org/people-with-disabilities-at-work/history/

  • Muller, C., Brodar, C., Brodar, K., Goodmand, K., & Brosco, J. (2021). Medical student choices regarding ventilator allocation for people with disabilities. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilites, 59(6). 441-445. Doi: 10.1352/1934-9556-59.6.441

  • Pierce, K. (2024). Bridging the gap between intentions and impact: Understanding disability culture to support disability justice. The Professional Counselor, 12(4). 486-495. Doi: 10.15241/klp.13.4.486

  • Richtel, M. & Abelson, R. (2021). Nursing homes confront new COVID outbreaks amid calls for staff vaccination mandates. International New York Times, NA-NA

Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Psychologist

Pending review.

Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 General continuing education credits. ASWB ACE Credit is not available in NY and NJ.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical, and Professional Development

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by the Association for Adult Development and Aging (AADA). There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Thomas Matthew Murphy, PhD, LMHC-D, ACS

Dr. Tom Murphy is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor based in Albany, New York.  He held a post as a tenured Associate Professor at The College of Saint Rose.  Dr. Murphy is now President Elect of the New York Mental Health Counselors Association and maintains a private practice called Trauma Informed Mental Health Counseling Associates, PLLC (TIMHCA).  Dr. Murphy received both his Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Doctorate in Counselor Education & Practice at Georgia State University and is an Approved Clinical Supervisor.  He is currently the Treasurer for the Association for Adult Development and Aging.

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