GAIN Introduction to ASD Workshops

Intro to ASD: Best Practices for Diagnostic Assessment

DATE & TIME

Friday, September 15, 2023, 11am-3pm EST (8am-12pm PST)

Payment

Payment:

Learning Objectives

CE Credits

4.0 online CE contact hours will be awared to licensed psychologists and social workers who have met the attendance requirements below.

Psychologists: Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Department of Psychiatry, 525 E 68th St. New York, NY 10065, 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-0192. WCM is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. WCM maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Social Workers: The New York Presbyterian Hospital Department of Social Work is recognized by New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers # SW 0155. Social workers from other states, please confirm with your state licensing board. Please note that we do not specify type of credits (general, cultural competence, clinical, etc.)

CE Certificate Requirements

Please note that in order to receive your CE certificate for the 4.0 credit workshop, you must attend the entire workshop and complete the evaluation in accordance with NYSED and APA requirements. Please plan accordingly to sign in with your full name, log-in on time, and remain for the duration of each session. There is a 10 minute grace period at the start OR end of the webinar- no more than 10-minutes total can be missed. Participants who do not meet the attendance requirements will not receive a CE certificate or refund.

Each live webinar will begin promptly at 11:00am EST. Please plan to be logged in by 11:10am EST at the latest OR leaving no earlier than 2:50pm EST.

CE Distribution: Evaluation forms will be distributed via email following the workshop to those meeting the attendance requirements above. There will be one feedback evaluation and certificate awarding 4.0 CE hours for each workshop. Evaluations must be completed within one month of the workshop.

Complaints: The Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Psychiatry (WCM) is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles of Psychologists. WCM will comply with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content and in the treatment of program participants. The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards will be the responsibility of the members of the Continuing Education committee in consultation with the CE Chair. While WCM goes to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, there will be occasional issues which come to the attention of the program staff which require intervention and/or action on the part of the program staff or an officer of WCM.

To submit a complaint to the WCM CE committee, please see the WCM CE website: https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/education-training/continuing-education-committee-members

Prerequisite Training

Disclosures

Western Psychological Services (WPS), publisher of the ADOS-2, does not fund the GAIN program. GAIN focuses on the ADOS-2 only and will not include explicit training on other instruments.

Dr. Somer Bishop receives honoraria from WPS as an author of the ADOS-2. This will not influence her discussion and she will not make recommendations for commercial products. She has no non-financial disclosures related to ADOS-2. Dr. Amy Esler has no conflicts of interest or relevant financial or non-financial disclosures as related to ADOS-2.

Cancellation Policy

If you need to cancel your ticket after registration please send written notification to Angela Constantine at gain@med.cornell.edu. Refund requests will be processed according to the following guidelines:

Best Practices for Diagnostic Assessment-September 15, 2023

Refund Requests made:

Before Monday, August 21, 2023: Refund minus $10 fee
Between Monday, August 21 and Monday, September 4, 2023: Refund minus $15 fee
Between Tuesday, September 5 and Monday, September 11, 2023: Refund minus $20 fee
After Monday, September 11, 2023: No refund
Refunds will not be provided to those not meeting the CE attendance requirements.

Contact Us

For more information please contact Angela Constantine at GAIN@med.cornell.edu.

Lead Trainers

Amy Esler, Ph.D., L.P.

Dr. Amy Esler is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and licensed psychologist at the University of Minnesota.  She is the section head of the Autism and Neurodevelopment Clinic and leads the Fragile X Clinic. Dr. Esler is an expert diagnostician in autism across the lifespan. Her research and clinical interests focus on prevalence, reducing health disparities in autism, and developing evidence based practices for assessment and care of individuals at the severe end of the autism spectrum.

Somer Bishop, Ph.D.

Dr. Somer Bishop is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Weill Institute for Neurosciences at the University of California San Francisco. She is a clinical psychologist within the UCSF Center for ASD and NDDs, and participates in comprehensive, multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and adults with ASD and related disorders. Dr. Bishop's research and clinical interests focus on assessment and measurement of social-communication and restricted and repetitive behaviors associated with ASD/NDDs, and how these symptom dimensions are affected by developmental, comorbid emotional/behavioral and contextual factors.

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