In case you missed it, the July CCAPS meeting was held last Friday.  Mr. Ramon Zelaya, LPC and Bobby Kizer, PhD presented on Privacy and Telecommunications in the Practice of Psychology.  They reviewed informed consent, cyber security, electronic record keeping, and teletherapy.  They discussed online applications for secure file storage, password protection/encryption, and much more.

Here is a copy of their presentation:
Powerpoint: Technology in the Practice of Psychology
pdf: Technology in the Practice of Psychology

Additionally, they provided these samples of Electronic Communications Informed Consent Forms:

Example 1: SampleElectronicCommunicationPolicy
Example 2: VPC-Electronic-Communication-Consent-Form-1

Stay tuned for news about our September meeting.

Hello CCAPS!

The May meeting of CCAPS will be held on Friday, May 19, at Andrea’s restaurant, Located off Causeway Blvd. at 3100 19th Street, Metairie, LA 70002

Happy hour will begin at 6:30 pm with dinner at 7 followed by a speaker.  The menu is a choice of 2 entrees Eggplant Parmesan or Cannelloni Andrea (you can decide at the restaurant).  This is served with a salad and a dessert with tea or coffee.  The fixed price for this dinner is $35. There is a cash or credit bar. Please bring $35 for dinner in cash to be able to give to Elaine Salzer, our president elect at the meeting (correct change is appreciated).

Our topic will be Ethical Practice in the use of Technology. Our speaker is Dr. Allyson Bennett of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Xavier here in New Orleans. We very much look forward to learning from her and appreciate her sharing her knowledge with our group!

We will be offering CEU credit for our meeting and the topic will qualify as an ethics presentation.  It’s close to summer and continuing education reporting time, so we’re hoping this ethics credit will be helpful to a number of our members.

If planning to attend, please send an RSVP to the president, Georganna Leavesley by email at ganaandjim@aol.com or text 504-427-3673.

Looking forward to seeing you at Andrea’s!!

The minutes from executive leadership meetings will now be posted online, here on our CCAPS website (towards the bottom of the “About” page). Here are the highlights from February meeting:

Drs. Weyand, Leavesley, Salzer, and Gillespie met to plan and organize our upcoming year. The dates of our upcoming meetings are on the 3rd Friday of every other month. Keep in mind that your attendance earns one hour of continuing education! Please feel free to mark your calendars for the following dates, locations, and topics:
-March 24th at Dr. Salzer’s home – Drs. Gillespie and VanGeffen will discuss the new and most recently updated LSBEP Continuing Education rules.
-May 19th at Andrea’s Italian Restaurant in Metairie – Dr. Weyand will discuss the ethics of technology, with the assistance of some on the LPA ethics committee.
-July 21st at Dr. Leavesley’s home – Dr. Bobby Kizer, along with Ramon Zelaya, LPC will discuss how to get your practice up-to-date with all aspects of technology, including information related to privacy and security.
-September 22nd at Orleans Bistro in Metairie – Topic yet to be decided
-November 20th is our annual holiday party at a location to be announced.

Also discussed were various roles for each office-holder, potential candidates for future elections, the balance of CCAPS donated dues (currently at $515), and finding a speaker for the September meeting from the LPA Speaker’s Bureau.  You can always check CCAPS website for any updates.  Please pass this information on to anyone who could potentially be interested in joining CCAPS.

Hello CCAPS members–
Please make note in your calendars that the March meeting of CCAPS will NOT be on the third Friday of the month. That day is St. Patrick’s Day and we decided at the January meeting not to compete with or attempt to curtail any of our members’ celebrations or solemn commemorations of that occasion.

The meeting will be held on
Friday, March 24, 2017
6:30 pm
at the home of our president elect, Dr. Elaine Salzer.

She will be providing the meat for our dinner and we will bring side dishes, salads, appetizers or desserts and your beverage of choice.  Details about the meeting’s program will follow at a later date.

You’ll also receive a reminder of the meeting closer to the date.

Looking forward to seeing you at Elaine’s!
Georganna Leavesley, PhD
President, CCAPS

Greetings from your new president! I’m very happy to be able to serve our organization in this role. I am looking forward to our first meeting of the year:

when: Friday, January 20, 2017, 6:30 PM
where: The home of our past president, Dr. Weyand

We will be having happy hour, dinner and an after-dinner speaker. We will follow our pot-luck tradition for meetings in members’ homes. Bring an appetizer, a side dish, salad, bread, or dessert and beverage of your choosing. Carolyn is making a New England classic, American Chop Suey. I know it will be a great treat, she says it is to New Englanders what Jambalaya is to New Orleanians. Its essence is macaroni, ground beef, and tomato sauce and she will add her own special gourmet embellishments.

I will be the speaker at this meeting, and my topic is Communicating and interacting with people with dementia. This discussion should be of interest to psychologists who encounter issues of the elderly in their practice, either in clients or in the family members of their younger clients. It should also benefit those of us who deal with aging and/or dementia in our own families and friends. It is a favorite topic for me and I feel well experienced in this area. Working with the elderly and dementia has been a long time interest in my education and practice for both my careers (as a registered nurse and as a clinical psychologist) I am also personally prepared through my experiences as an only child caring for my parents through my mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and my father’s vascular dementia, which lead to their deaths. My mission is to bring a positive focus to enhancing our experiences with the elderly and dementia.

Hoping to see many of you at the meeting!
Please RSVP to DR. Weyand for this event by email or one of the phone numbers below:
Office: 504-895-2901
Mobile: 832-563-2658
Fax: 504-891-3039

With my regards,

Georganna Leavesley, PhD
President, CCAPS

You are all invited to CCAPS’ 4th Annual Gourmet Holiday Feast on November 18th.   Being a primarily social occasion, please bring your significant others!  Our Gourmet Holiday Feast is our most successful event.  You’ll be sure to see old friends at the gathering.

This year’s Feast will be at Dr. Weyand’s house.  If you need the address, please contact her at carolynweyand@gmail.com

Socializing begins at 6:30pm with wine and appetizers.  Later comes the buffet feast of potluck delicacies, followed by dessert.

Kim VanGeffen, Gail Gillespie, and Gana Leavesley again volunteered to plan and organize the event.  Please pay attention to your email box, they will be sending more details soon about what to bring.

The September General Meeting was a huge success!  We had about 20 in attendance including 2 students from the new PsyD program at the Chicago School at Xavier New Orleans.  We ate some amazing Chinese food and networked with one another.  We discussed the new website (which you are now reading).  If you have not yet “joined” the CCAPS webpage, please follow the join link and enter your information.  We also heard about events with the Louisiana Psychological Association and a number of our members described their local volunteer activities.  We also heard an enlightening presentation by our very own CCAPS President, Dr. Carolyn Weyand, on working with dreams in psychotherapy.  Come to the next meeting in November to join in the CCAPS fun and professional development!