Annual Convention 2021

Thank you for making our virtual convention a success!
PPA2021: June 17-19, 2021

Click here for a listing of PPA2021 Workshops
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Thank you to all who attended!

Missed attending sessions live? They will be available as webinar home studies in August 2021. Check out the PPA Store for more information!

Highlights

Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation Virtual Silent Auction
Please join us for our first ever Virtual Silent Auction to benefit the Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation (PPF). Virtual bidding will begin at Noon on Monday, June 14, 2021. Browse through and bid on exciting items donated by fellow PPA members, including wine, artwork, vacation stays, and more! More information coming soon.

Coffee and Snack Break Social Times
All convention attendees will have the ability to attend any of our six designated social times. Each half-hour slot will consist of three, 10-minute shuffles so that attendees can meet and interact with new people each day! Coffee/tea and snacks for each break will be provided to attendees registered for the All-Access Pass or at least 6 credits. Please be sure to register by Friday, May 14, 2021 so that you can receive these items in your goodie bag! Click here to check out our Schedule at a Glance to see when these sessions are scheduled!

Thursday, June 17
PennPsyPAC Virtual Wine Tasting: A Toast to Sam Knapp
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Support our Political Action Committee and celebrate Sam's retirement by participating in our first virtual wine tasting event hosted by PennPsyPAC and Cullari Vineyards & Winery. Participate by donating a minimum of $150 to PennPsyPAC. Wine is sold out - you may still donate to attend the event.
According to state campaign laws, only individuals and other political action committees are permitted to make contributions. PennPsyPAC contributions are not tax deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.
Friday, June 18
Keynote Address - How Can Psychology Flourish as a Profession?
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Please join us for Dr. Sam Knapp's Keynote Address at PPA2021! Professional psychologists undergo extensive training so that they can make informed judgements about hot to promote public health and wellbeing. This workshop reviews the factors that allow professions and professionals to flourish. The presenter contends that flourishing will more likely occur if psychologists - both as individuals and through professional associations - reflect on their strength and weaknesses, conscientiously strive to improve the quality of their services, and cooperatively focus on ways to advance public wellbeing.
- Benefits of Group Membership: What Psychological Science Tells Us About Strengthening Our Professional Association
  - 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
    - Human beings have a fundamental need for affiliation, which underlies the formation of many types of groups including professional associations. Research shows that group membership improves performance and health, both physical and psychological.
    - Using PPA as an example, we will explore the ways that groups can best enhance the well-being of its members, and how this information helped PPA respond to the challenges of the past year and plan for those ahead.
- Presidential Addresses including presentation of Distinguished Service and Public Service Awards
  - 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
    - Hear from outgoing president, Dr. Dea Silbertrust as she wraps up her presidential year, and incoming president, Dr. Brad Norford, as he highlights his goals for 2021-2022. We will also be celebrating the recipients of this years Distinguished Service Award and the Public Service Award. Concluding the event is the "passing of the gavel" from Dr. Dea Silbertrust to Dr. Brad Norford.
- Dr. Dea Silbertrust's 2020-2021 Presidential Theme - Creating Stability in a Time of Change
  - 2020 was a tumultuous year that required all of us to react quickly and flexibly. PPA strived to provide a stable home for its members while the world changed seemingly overnight. Initially, the focus was helping our members deal with the pandemic, especially the many intricacies involved in converting to virtual workplaces. Later, this expanded to coping with volatile political and social events.
  - As individuals and organizations, we create stability by strengthening our core. PPA was able to respond effectively to COVID-19's impact on psychological practice because it had a strong foundation: excellent staff, sound finances, and engaged members.
  - The goal of this past year was to keep this core strong, so PPA could continue to support our members to better serve their clients, trainees, and the community.
- Dr. Brad Norford's 2021-2022 Presidential Theme - "Being in the Room Where It Happens"
  - Emerging from an unprecedented year of isolation, we'll explore what psychologists have gleaned from this experience and how PPA can help forge new social and professional connections for all our members. Satisfying or not, all of us spent significant time meeting, educating, and training in virtual rooms. PPA will be providing you ways to enhance the benefit of our virtual platforms to further build connections.
  - At the onset of the outbreak, COVID-19 presented as an "equal opportunity destroyer" of lives, employment, finances, and student education. With each passing month, though, the advantage of "privilege" became more apparent in its intersection with diversity and survival. We'll consider Hamilton's "The Room Where it Happens" as it applies to PPA leadership and initiatives, the pandemic response, and how all of us benefit from furthering diversity and inclusion in its many forms, to add new voices toward goals of reducing health inequities and other disparities.
Saturday, June 19
- Virtual Student Awards Ceremony and Closing of the Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation Silent Auction
  - 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
    - Join us as we honor the winners of the Pennsylvania Psychological Foundation Student Education Awards and the Student Multiculturalism Research Award. All Convention attendees will have access to attend this event though Whova. Those not attending Convention, including parents, professors, friends, and colleagues of the award winners will have the ability to register separately for this FREE event! Attendees will have the opportunity to make donations to the Foundation as well as make any final bids on auction items, as the PPF Virtual Silent Auction will close at the conclusion of this event. *Bidding for the PPF Virtual Silent Auction will begin at Noon on Monday, June 14, 2021.

Cancellation Policy
All workshop registration cancellation requests must be made in writing to Iva Brimmer, Business Manager (iva@papsy.org) - no phone cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation requests made more than 72 hours before the workshop will result in a 50% refund of the registration fee. PPA cannot postpone registrations and/or transfer fees to future events. PAC Wine Tasting event tickets are non-refundable.

Cancellations made less than 72 hours before the workshop and no shows for the Convention will result in forfeiture of the entire registration fee.

PPA recognizes that serious issues, out of the attendee’s control, may arise and could prevent an attendee from cancelling their registration by the

Program Categories
Introductory: Participants need no prior knowledge of your specific topic or content to participate fully and effectively in the program. The information you are presenting or the skills you are teaching will be unfamiliar to those enrolled although they will be practicing mental health providers or active teachers/researchers.

Intermediate: Participants should have some basic knowledge of the specific content you will cover, but need not have in-depth knowledge or skills. The program will provide information at a level beyond the basic knowledge of the topic.

Advanced: To participate fully, those enrolled must possess a substantial working knowledge or skill level in your specific content area. Generally, the knowledge or skill involved is currently used by the participant in his/her job. At this level, advanced techniques or knowledge would be offered to refine and expand current expertise.

Session Handouts:

W01 - Contemporary Innovations in Clinical Suicidology Jobes

W02 - Coping with Anxiety and Stress During COVID-19

W03 - Medical Marijuana Vrana

W04 - Foundations Ethical Decision-Making Knapp-Shmidheiser

W07 - Assessment and Clinical Response to Suicidal Intent or Motivation to Die

W08 - Principle Based Approach to Ethics

W09 - A Time for Transformation: Exploring Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives in PPA

W10 - Pennsylvania Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting - larger print

W10 - Pennsylvania Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting

W10 - Pennsylvania Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting - table and questions

W11 - Suicide Risk Assessment