Upcoming Events

Education for Liberation is a brown bag lunch program co-sponsored by the Chicago Freedom School and the Adler School of Professional Psychology. This program will feature Dr. Kristin Atkinson, who will share findings and implications from her recent research project, Education for Liberation.

Education for Liberation was a participatory research project of the Chicago Freedom School's Freedom Fellowship program, which provides a comprehensive education and training experience with Chicago youth of color to develop their own unique voice, power and ability to impact and effect social change in their lives and in their communities.

Please RSVP by May 20th to Kat Ryan kathleen@chicagofreedomschool.org  to confirm your attendance. Any questions, please call Kat or Lindsay at 312-435-1201 or email to ipssj@adler.edu.

This class is held in the Wellness Studio on the Chicago campus.

Open to faculty, staff and students at the Adler School.

The Adler School LGBTQ Mental Health and Inclusion Center in affiliation with  Chicago Lakeshore Hospital present: Mental Health and Clinical Interventions with LGBQ Latino Youth.

2 C.E.U.’s will be offered for LCP, LCPC, and LCSW licenses.

This is a free Continuing Education event and dinner, which provides a forum for discussion of the social, cultural, and emotional components that impacts the life of LGBQ Latino/Hispanic adolescents and their families.

Participants will learn to:

• Understand the multiple minority identities of these adolescents.
• Increase understanding of the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity and culture.
• Identify psychosocial and cultural factors that influence the Latino/Hispanic GLBQ adolescent development and self-identity.
• Discuss the coming out process within a multiple minority identities framework.
• Identify and explain therapeutic interventions to strengthen the youth self-identity and improve the family dynamics.
• Identify community resources

R.S.V.P. is required, email CE@adler.edu.

The Office of Admissions invites you to join us for an Information Session! At an Information Session, you will meet one of our Admissions Counselors and receive a tour of the campus. Following the tour, Admissions Counselors will review program information and answer questions for those who are interested. Tours will begin promptly at 2:00pm, so please allow plenty of time to arrive to campus.

We encourage you to RSVP in advance, as space is limited.

This class is held in the Wellness Studio on the Chicago campus.

Open to faculty, staff and students at the Adler School.

This class is held in the Wellness Studio on the Chicago campus.

Open to faculty and staff at the Adler School.

We will be having two more Difficult Dialogues events to finish this academic year. We have two invited speakers who are experts in diversity training coming to help us continue our work together. 

May 28 -  Dr. Reginald Nettles

June 25 -  Dr. Kenneth Hardy

The morning will be for all staff, faculty, and administrators to participate and continue our diversity conversations. The afternoon will be for faculty and focus on integration into the curriculum and managing difficult dialogues in the classroom setting. More information to come.

This class is held in the Wellness Studio on the Chicago campus.

Open to faculty, staff and students at the Adler School.

...sets the gold standard for outcome and process of change research in the couple therapy field.

Join EFT Trainers Dr. Sue Johnson & Jeff Hickey in Chicago for a 4-day EFT Externship.

Participants learn to:
 

• View couple distress from an attachment perspective
• Help partners process and shift emotional responses that maintain distress
• Shape key new interaction and bonding events
• Overcome therapeutic impasses

The training includes:
 

• Presentations of theory and clinical techniques
• Observation of live therapy sessions
• Skills training exercises
• Discussion of clinical cases and issues

28 CEU’s available for: Social Workers, LCPC’s, Psychologists and Marriage & Family Therapists

Location:

Adler School of Professional Psychology – Community Hall
17 North Dearborn St. Chicago, IL 60602

Cost: $895 ($795 by April 15th)

Space is limited! Click here to register!

This class is held in the Wellness Studio on the Chicago campus.

Open to faculty, staff and students at the Adler School.