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Roundtable #6: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in the Second Half of Life - Moderated by Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP (Live Webinar)
Erik Erikson outlined specific tasks associated with developmental stages across the life cycle. In Erikson’s model generativity, stagnation, ego integrity, and despair are all potential aspects of development in the second half of life. Aging brings a crisis and an opportunity to revisit and psychically rework all of Erikson’s eight stages. In this panel, three experts will examine the mental health challenges in the second half of life including: loneliness and the importance of relationships, loss of physical and cognitive capacities and adaptations to these changes, and spiritual concerns related to meaning, purpose, and approaching the end of life. A crisis may emerge when physical and cognitive health declines, when stigma increases isolation, and when persistent economic and healthcare disparities threaten the social safety net. Our three panelists will discuss these issues and ways to address mental health in later life.
Robert Waldinger, MD is the Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, author, and Zen priest. He will speak about what he has learned through the Harvard Study and the importance of social connections and relationships throughout the life cycle, but particularly in the second half of life. Willard Ashley, MDiv, DMin, DH, Rev, SCP, NCPsyA, CGP is both a psychoanalyst and Protestant minister. He will speak about developmental challenges in the second half of life and the importance of community and generativity in sustaining mental health. Nancy McWilliams, PhD will speak about the challenges of physical health, loss, transition, wisdom, and generativity in the second half of life. Through this roundtable, participants will learn about the developmental and mental health challenges in the second half of life and what research, clinical practice, and cumulative wisdom can teach us.
Panelists:
- Willard Ashley, MDiv, DMIN, DH, REv, SCP, NCPsyA, CGP - Psychoanalyst, Consultant, and Motivational Speaker in New Jersey
- Nancy McWilliams, PhD - Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology with a private practice in Lambertville, NJ
- Robert Waldinger, MD - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development
Target Audience
______ Introductory ___X___ Intermediate ______ Advanced
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to describe the challenges to mental health in the second half of life.
- Participants will be able to identify research-based findings that support the importance of community and social connections in later life.
- Participants will be able to describe opportunities for sustained generativity, hope, and social roles in the second half of life.
Moderator:
Jane Tillman, PhD, ABPP, serves as the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center. In this role, she works to develop existing and new programs to support psychoanalytic education, training, scholarship, research, interdisciplinary studies, and advocacy that contribute to knowledge about human development across the lifespan and the ways identity is shaped in various sociocultural and historical contexts. Developing Riggs’ institutional archives and specialty library to contribute to scholarly research is also a significant aspect of the Erikson Institute. Applying the clinical learning available at the Austen Riggs Center to larger social contexts and problems in order to contribute to our local community and beyond by improving access to mental health care, addressing issues of stigma, collaborative care, and suicide prevention are all aspects of the Erikson Institute.
As a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, Dr. Tillman treats patients at the Center. And, as a researcher, she is interested in suicide prevention and post-vention.
Panelists:
- Willard Ashley, MDiv, DMIN, DH, REv, SCP, NCPsyA, CGP - Psychoanalyst and Protestant minister
- Nancy McWilliams, PhD - Visiting Professor Emerita at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology with a private practice in Lambertville, NJ
- Robert Waldinger, MD - Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, author, and Zen priest
Available Credit
- 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.50 APA
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 1.50 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.
- 1.50 ASWB-ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this Webinar live course will receive 1.50 continuing education credit(s).
- 1.50 Contact Hours/ ParticipationA certificate of attendance for all Learners.