IMPORTANT! 05/18 through 06/30 any client who is chronically homeless, should be referred to PATH to apply for housing assistance.

via IMPORTANT! 05/18 through 06/30 any client who is chronically homeless, should be referred to PATH to apply for housing assistance.

Health Psychology Associates is seeking an experienced and licensed psychologist

to work in our Long Beach office on a part-time basis. Position will begin at

one-half day per week working up to two days per week. Hours may vary. Position

is independent contractor. Population is late teens to older adults. Our team

environment consists of two psychologists, three neuropsychologists and one

biofeedback clinician.

Please fax resume to 562-590-5596 or email: healthpsychologyassociates@verixzon. net.

Website: hpaca.com

No phone calls please.
Angela Laskodi
Practice Manager
Health Psychology Associates
1045 Atlantic Ave. #806
Long Beach, CA 90813
Office: 562-590-5594
Fax: 562-590-5596

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Sarah Schulman | Familial Homophobia & HIV at the 2015 Coping With Hope conference.

If anyone wants to help with registration at Coping With Hope next week, please email Maya Gil-Cantu at mayauclapaetc@gmail.com or Susan Forrest at sforrest@bhs-inc.org ASAP!

Neurotypical Psychotherapists and Neurodivergent Clients

I’m often asked if I have any words of advice for psychotherapists and other professionals, on working with clients who are autistic and/or otherwise neurodivergent.

Why, yes. Yes I do. And I’ve been meaning for some time to type up some of those words of advice and make them publicly available.

The push that I needed finally came from Sarah Coenen and Helen Cha-Choe, two grad students pursuing their M.A. degrees in Counseling Psychotherapy at California Institute of Integral Studies (my own alma mater, where I currently teach in the undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies program from time to time). Ms. Coenen and Ms. Cha-Choe are collaborating on an excellent research project, for a Research Methods course taught by my dear friend and colleague Eri Çela.

In this project, Ms. Coenen and Ms. Cha-Choe are exploring the attitudes and perspectives of clinicians who work with autistic clients, and the impact those attitudes and perspectives have on the clients and on the quality of the clinicians’ work. I was delighted to learn that Ms. Coenen and Ms. Cha-Choe are grounding this project in the neurodiversity paradigm – that is, they’re approaching this as a diversity issue, recognizing that treating autistic clients as deficient or “lesser” is a manifestation of prejudice and lack of cultural competency, and recognizing that the pathology paradigm creates condescending and dismissive attitudes which manifest as microaggressions toward autistic clients.

FULL STORY: http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/neurotypical-psychotherapists-and-neurodivergent-clients/

04/27/15: LA County Health Integration Public Convening.

Click here for details on the stakeholder meeting about the unification of health services.