10/9/2023 - 12/31/2050


Location: Virtual Event

We are pleased that you are interested in IPA's Homestudy Continuing Education Programs!

This process is straightforward:  Watch the recording. Complete the evaluation and pass the short test. Receive CE certificate via email.

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Originally offered as:
IPA 2022 Webinar Series
1.5 Hour of Category I CE credit
Thursday, November 10th, 2022, 1:30 - 3:00 pm ET

Examining Dehumanization, Outgroups and Fear: Advocacy and Applications in Practice
Narratives surrounding cultural contamination of dominant White culture within the United States revolve around the perception that the very essence of American identity is at risk of becoming diluted, polluted, or fouled (Brown, 2013; Newman et al., 2012). Historically, immigrants and outgroups have been linked to concepts of disease or contamination, and images associated with vermin (Green et al., 2010). Although disgust, fear and threat are natural and largely unlearned responses to stimuli and objects, they can also be translated and transmitted through socialization to apply to members of outgroups (Green et al., 2010; Schwartz et al., 2012; Schroeder & Epley, 2016). Given that "humanness is not ascribed to the same degree to everyone," (van Noorden et al.,, 2014, p. 320), socialization experiences rooted in language, images (Schroeder & Epley, 2016), and interactions can foment stereotypes and biases that influence dehumanization. 

This presentation is grounded in literature linking fear-based xenophobia (Veer et al., 2013), disgust responses (Green et al., 2010), prejudicial attitudes (Joffe & Staerkle, 2007), and narrative responses to illustrate processes by which immigrants and people of Color are portrayed, experience inhumane treatment, and are marginalized (Dovidio et al., 2010). More specifically, this presentation seeks to contextualize the role of clinicians, educators, supervisors, and consultants in addressing an indispensable macro-level social understanding of inclusion/exclusion, and the human experience within a polarized and a diverse sociopolitical setting. Objectives will be advanced through the use of discussion, case studies and personal reflection.
 
Learning Objectives: 
By completing this program, participants will able to:
1.  analyze the understanding of outgroup derogation/dehumanization through discussion of experimental and narrative findings.
2.  examine and conceptualize related to system-legitimizing narratives that serve to maintain harmful depictions of people of Color and immigrants at various stages of development.
3.  discuss at least 3 ways in which dehumanization, contamination theory, fear, threat, outgroup dynamics, and internalized messages intersect within clinical, supervisory, and educational settings.


Presenter Bio:  Noelany Pelc, PhD
Dr. Noelany Pelc is an Assistant Professor at Marian University, and is a licensed psychologist in the state of New York and in Indiana. She previously served as the Clinical Coordinator for MA/EdS students in Professional Counseling and School Counseling before serving as the Academic Director of the online School Counseling and Professional Counseling programs for two years at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. She is active in APA’s Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women), the Society for Teaching of Psychology (STP) and in the Advancement for Women in Psychology (AWP). During her training and post-graduation, she gained clinical experience working with women and children who were survivors of trauma and relational violence, particularly as those experiences intersected with marginalized and disenfranchised identities. She gathered experience working with college counseling students, dual-diagnosis mental health concerns and cross-addiction within a residential setting, and training in psychological assessment for impaired professionals. Her current areas of research center on experience of women in the Academy, the socialization of polarized national attitudes. and applications of cultural humility in research, teaching and mentorship. Her professional interests include relational-cultural theory, feminist theory, and pedagogy.

Dr. Noelany Pelc

Special Note to Conference Attendees
The Indiana Psychological Association (IPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Indiana Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
 
Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Health Board:

• IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for psychologists.
• IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC.

Licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice. Non-Indiana licensees are also advised to check with their state's licensing board to assure their state accepts continuing education programs approved by entities approved by the APA.
 
We ask that all participants watch the entire recorded presentation, and complete the post-program evaluation form and homestudy test at the conclusion of the program. Dr. Pelc and IPA have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.
 
CE certificates will be distributed via email within two weeks after a passing test (75+%) is submitted. 
 
Registration Fees
*If registered for 2022 IPA Fall Conference, use discount code - $0
IPA Platinum Members (membership includes Fall Conference registration) - $0
IPA New, Premier, & Emeritus-Practicing Members - $30
IPA Basic, Academic, Emeritus-Retired, & Affiliate Members - $35
Non-Members - Psychologists & Other Professionals $50