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Dear Derner Community:
I feel very honored and privileged to be writing to you all—our faculty, staff, students and alumni—as the seventh dean of our storied School. As individuals and as a community, you are vital to continuing Derner’s growth and success.
Let me start by thanking all those who contributed to the search process and to our retiring dean, Jacques Barber, PhD, for his stewardship of our school, his hard work on behalf of our community, his many contributions and, perhaps most of all, his integrity. He has set a high bar for me and future deans.
As many of you know, my journey to this point in my personal and professional life has afforded me many opportunities that have sensitized me to the potentials in negotiating differences—critical to informing my research, teaching and service. Though there are differences in Derner’s professional and foundational identities, these have only advanced and can further advance how we understand and can help the human condition. We are positioned more than ever to better realize our overall identity as an integrative, empirically informed school of psychology with a long psychoanalytic tradition and commitment to social justice.
In the coming weeks, months and years, I hope that you will see the results of our shared work and that the pride you have in Derner is only intensified.
Please join me as we chart this progress in the Derner Insights newsletter.
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J. Christopher Muran, PhD
Dean and Professor
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Adelphi Appoints J. Christopher Muran, PhD, New Dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology
The 14-year Derner veteran now brings his expertise to his role as the School's seventh dean, positioning Derner for a bright future.
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Jacques Barber, PhD, Steps Down as Dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology
Prior to his retirement, Dr. Barber reflected on his achievements during his 12-year tenure and shared his thoughts on where the field of psychology is going in the years ahead.
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Jennifer Chmielewski, PhD, Brings Her Expertise in Feminist Social Psychology to Derner
Women have long had to navigate being shamed for discussing their sexual desires. Derner's new assistant professor wants to help women openly express, acknowledge and understand their feelings.
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TD Charitable Foundation Awards Grant to Adelphi's Derner Hempstead Child Clinic
The Derner Hempstead Child Clinic is staffed by clinical psychology and school psychology doctoral students, who provide individual and family psychotherapy to children and teens in the historically underserved community of Hempstead, New York. This $30,000 grant from the TD Charitable Foundation will support the clinic's new and ongoing mental health services.
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The Derner Postgraduate Programs Scholarship Fund
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As we celebrate the postgraduate program’s 60th anniversary, you can help provide financial support for our postgraduate program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Your gift at any level ensures that psychoanalytic training at Derner continues to thrive.
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J. Christopher Muran, PhD, dean and professor, and Catherine Eubanks, PhD, professor, recently published Rupture and Repair in Psychotherapy: A Critical Process for Change (American Psychological Association) with colleague Lisa Wallner Samstag, PhD, of Long Island University, Brooklyn.
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Chana Etengoff, PhD, associate professor, published a book with colleague Eric M. Rodriguez, PhD, from New York City College of Technology, titled The LGBTQ+ Muslim Experience (Routledge). She also published three papers as first author in peer-reviewed journals, two of which were done in collaboration with alumni Zachary Hopkins ’20 and Emily Luong, MA ’22, a doctoral candidate in Derner's clinical psychology program.
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Carolyn Springer, PhD, associate professor, was awarded a scholarship from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health to attend the Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute’s course Rethinking Criminal Justice as Public Health.
Karolina Lempert, PhD, assistant professor, was awarded a $377,484 grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health for a project titled “Individual and Age Differences in Temporal Discounting: The Role of Memory for Time.” This study, which will be conducted in both younger and older adults, will investigate whether people who perceive time as going by faster are more willing to delay gratification. The study will also examine the neural basis of that effect using neuroimaging.
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Hosted by David Hescheles, PsyD, and Amira Simha-Alpern, PhD, director of postgraduate psychology and psychotherapy center at Adelphi
Leonard's Palazzo, Great Neck, New York
Saturday, November 4, 7:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
When You Need More than Zoom in the Room: Deepening the Effectiveness of Online Couple and Family Therapy With Creative Engagement
Speakers: Fran Levy, EdD, and Michael Zentman, PhD, adjunct faculty member at Adelphi
This workshop is designed to teach the integration of verbal and nonverbal methods of expression in an effort to reduce destructive reactivity within relationships and to replace old behavior patterns with self-awareness, self-regulation and empathy. We will explore the impact of somatic transference and countertransference within relationships.
Sunday, October 1, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
Maintaining Professional Boundaries in Psychotherapy
Speaker: Bruce V. Hillowe, JD, PhD
This 3-credit course meets the New York State Board of Regents' mandatory requirement on the maintenance of professional boundaries with patients. It covers New York laws, rules and regulations related to unprofessional conduct.
Friday, October 13, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
Aging and Limitation: Clinical Reflections
Speaker: Nancy McWilliams, PhD
This talk will focus on issues of aging and limitation as they affect both therapists and patients. Dr. McWilliams will discuss aging in the therapist, including practical and ethical challenges for professionals facing the diminishments of later life (e.g., cognitive decline, hearing loss and energy depletion).
Friday, December 1, 12:00 noon–2:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
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Locations: Garden City • Hauppauge • Manhattan • New York's Hudson Valley • Online
adelphi.edu • 800.ADELPHI
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Financial and other information about Adelphi University's programs and activities can be obtained by contacting the New York State Attorney General Charities Bureau, 28 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10005, be found on the New York Attorney General’s website at www.charitiesnys.com or by contacting the Charities Bureau at (212) 416-8401.
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