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12/1/2021 - 12/31/2050

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Originally offered as:
IPA 2021 Virtual Fall Conference Presentation #12
1.5 Hour of Category I CE credit
Friday, November 19th, 2023 2:30-4:00 p.m. ET

Extending the Implications of American Identity, Nationalism, and Patriotism: Applications for Research and Practice
In its comparably short history, the United States has generated a strong national identity that alternatively engenders pride and exclusivity. For example, the 2016 and 2020 elections were punctuated with anti-immigration sentiments rooted in xenophobic, racist, and pro-authoritarian views (Bergen, 2016). Although there is scholarship on the nature of nationalism, patriotism, in-group and out-group identification, and more recently, American identity (Manevska & Achternberg, 2010), little research within the field of counseling has explored the complex characterization of inclusion in American identity.

While counseling and psychology have been leaders in the multicultural movement, national identity has sparsely been addressed in the literature. Clinicians are tasked with conceptualizing how individuals integrate multiple cultural identities within the U.S. across the lifespan, experience Americanness as protective or exclusionary, and manage acculturative stress. This program informs the understanding of out-group derogation and inclusion/exclusion through quantitative and narrative findings. Specifically, this program will explore the ways in which clinicians, supervisors, and educators can engage in social advocacy and view clients through a cultural lens (Sehghal et al., 2011) through discussion, case studies, and personal reflection. Participants will be encouraged to seek parallels with the culturally complex context of the state of Indiana and broader national context.

Learning Objectives: 
By completing this program, participants will able to:
1.  analyze lesser-discussed cultural identities to include national identity and its relationship to the perception of immigrants or perceived outsiders.
2.  examine and conceptualize the ways in which American Identity is often defined within the United States as a protective or exclusionary identity variable. 
3.  discuss at least 3 ways in which national identity, intergroup conflict and internalized messages intersect within clinical, supervisory, and educational settings.


Presenter:  Noelany Pelc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences and Counseling- Marian University
Dr. 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. 

Please note that APA rules require that credit be given only to those who complete the entire workshop.  We ask that all participants watch the entire recording, then 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
IPA Platinum - $0
IPA New, Premier, & Emeritus-Practicing - $20
IPA Basic, Academic, Emeritus-Retired, & Affiliate Members - $25
Non-Members - Psychologists & Other Professionals $40
*If registered for 2021 IPA Fall Conference, please use discount code provided to register for this homestudy program at $0 cost.