Presented by Drs. Caroline C. Kaufman & Elena Kim
Date: Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Time: 5:00 pm PT / 6:00 pm MT / 7:00 pm CT / 8:00 p.m. ET
Webinar length is approx 90 min, ZOOM link will be sent a few days before the event
The purpose of this webinar is to expand knowledge regarding the role of spirituality and religion in clinical symptom presentation and treatment. This webinar will highlight spirituality/religion’s role as an aspect of diverse identities experiences that may be relevant to psychological treatment and will provide real-world examples of how to integrate spirituality/religion into treatment with several patient populations, including Jewish youth.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how spirituality and religion may be relevant to symptom presentation among treatment-seeking individuals.
- Describe why spirituality/religion may be relevant to psychological treatment.
- Identify 2 strategies of how to integrate spirituality/religion into evidence-based treatment approaches.
Kaufman bio:
Dr. Caroline C. Kaufman (she/her) is an Assistant Psychologist and Instructor in the Spirituality and Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Memphis and completed her predoctoral internship at Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her program of research broadly focuses on the intersection of adversity, mental health, and spirituality/mental health as well as in the integration of spirituality/religion into psychological treatment. She has a second line of research examining antisemitism and Jewish mental health. She is a licensed psychologist and primarily treats adolescents and young adults in her small private practice.
Kim bio:
Dr. Elena E. Kim (she/her) is the Director of the Research Institute for Spirituality and Eudaimonia, and her research has focused on the intersection of existential anxiety, spirituality, diversity, and psychotherapy. She was the recipient of a John Templeton Foundation research grant to examine the integration of Christianity into psychotherapy, and has authored peer-reviewed journal articles, textbook chapters, and presented at national and international research conferences on this topic. She is currently co-authoring a book on Existential Anxiety and Spirituality in Psychotherapy with Cambridge University Press and has experience in multicultural counselling. She was the inaugural Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Officer of the Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, and on the Diversity Committee for the Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy. She earned her PhD from Fordham University's Counseling Psychology program and completed her predoctoral internship at the Brooklyn VA Medical Hospital. She is a licensed psychologist and currently maintains a small private practice in New York and New Jersey with a focus on existential and spiritual identities.
