Homestudy Program: Re-Examining the American Dream and Belief in Opportunity: Implications in Practice (Pelc, orig. 11.2.2023)
11/13/2023 - 12/31/2050
Location: Virtual Event
Event Description
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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 2023 Webinar Series
1.5 Hours of Category I CE credit Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 8:00-9:30 am ET
Re-Examining the American Dream and Belief in Opportunity: Implications in Practice
The American Dream has functioned as an enduring narrative linked to various cultural ideals in the United States framing the potential for success. This dream encompasses strong tenets of the Protestant Ethic and meritocracy, providing hope in the forms of individual mobility and advancement through work and effort (Stober, 2022). The definition of the American Dream, however, has been a fluid notion, providing meaning and significance to diverse groups as an amorphous ideal across various points in time. For example, it is estimated that nearly 1,500,000 immigrants enter the U.S. annually, regardless of documentation status, with the hope of achieving a better quality of life (Wiley, Deaux, & Hagelskamp, 2012). Significant variations in its definition indicate that this concept varies by race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, generational cohort, among other identities, within the United States, with some groups striving for equal pay and others striving for personal safety and freedoms (Gurung et al., 2021; Stiuliuc, 2011; Wyatt-Nichol, 2011).
This session will call on participants to consider international, historical, economic, political, religious and social events that have shaped the American Dream as a beacon of hope and refuge, while simultaneously perpetuating myths of the meritocracy that maintain inequity and marginalization. More specifically, this presentation seeks to contextualize the role of clinicians, educators, supervisors, and consultants in addressing an indispensable macro-level social understanding of personal and collective success and opportunity as a human experience within a polarized and stratified 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 complex underpinnings and definitions of the American Dream, briefly including historical events, movements and social narratives.
2. Examine and conceptualize meritocracy as a means of achievement, and the macro, micro factors that present as barriers toward achieving the American Dream.
3. Discuss at least 3 ways in which motivation, self-efficacy and identity intersect with one's belief in the ability to define and achieve the American Dream in the United States, and how they intersect within clinical, supervisory, and educational settings.
Presenter Bio: Noelany Pelc, Ph.D.
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. 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.
