Today was a Zoom meeting and there were about 30 of us on line. After 15 minutes of talking amongst ourselves President Ralph Witcher opened the meeting at 7:30 A.M. Jeanne Shipe gave a very nice invocation;
GUESTS ON LINE:
Cassandra and Amanda, guests of Gail Micca; and Pat Witcher, wife of Ralph.
Pres. Ralph began the meeting by having the members recite The Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag. Then he asked Marlene Heller to take over.
THE FOUR-WAY TEST EXAMPLES:
Marlene asked for a volunteer or two to tell a story indicative their application of ethical standards recently. Bill Palmer and Gail Micca each gave an example.
LOTTERY RAFFLE UPDATE::
Dennis Houser reports that 54 Raffle tickets have been sold so far.
Marlene Heller noted that there is a brochure available for us to use. Also she will send out a sample appeal write-up that we can use to e-mail others for donations. AW Rotarians can share the Raffle story on Facebook, BUT be sure to include a specific link to our raffle website.
Next week a member will have a chance to win a lottery ticket by answering a Rotary question correctly.
Marlene and Ralph advocate that members buy raffle tickets each week in lieu of the breakfast that they did not buy.
GREEN THUMB GARDEN UPDATE:
Gail Micca reported on the synergism of working in the garden and the connections being made. See separate article.
KINGDOM LIFE FOOD CENTER DISTRIBUTION:
Pres. Ralph reported that last Saturday he and Ron Coleman were the AW volunteers that helped distribute food packs to about 150 families. The plan is that KLFC volunteers will be doing this every week going forward.
DISTRICT CHANGEOVER IS COMING:
July 27 at 7:00 P.M. will be our virtual annual D7430 Changeover where we will officially confirm Janet Kolepp as our new DG. PDG Herb Klotz urges us to register and attend. AWRC is expected to receive FIVE separate awards relating to our accomplishments during the 2019-20 Rotary year.
MORNING MEETINGS;
The AWRC B.O.D. has suspended all AWRC face-to-face meetings until further notice. Zoom meetings are now scheduled for each Wednesday at 7:30 A.M.
NEXT MORNING MEETING:
Wednesday July 22nd starting at 7:30 a.m. We will use Zoom to meet Our program will be PA Senator Pat Browne discussing the Impact of COVID 19 on the Pennsylvania economy.
NEXT THURSDAY EVENING MEETING:
July 23rd as a Happy Hour Zoom meeting starting at 5:30 P.M.
HAPPY DOLLARS and MEMBER NEWS:
Pres. Ralph conducted this part and kept score on who owes how much money.
Katrina Sundstrom thanks AW Rotarians for their support of Parkland C.A.R.E.S.
Bill Palmer is happy that he and Tony had a pizza and beer on the Gio Italian Grill patio yesterday noon.
Pat Witcher is happy to reports that son, Seth, is in great demand to perform in the Lehigh Valley.
Marlene Heller expresses great thanks to Jeanne Shipe and Jean Machamer for their support with her project.
Ralph Witcher said that their son, Solomon, just got back from Germany and is safe.
Ralph thanks Herb Klotz for his excellent district leadership work.
PROGRAM:
Amir Famili introduced “the one and only” Rotarian Dr. Bob Gordon to discuss "Researching telepsychotherapy during the pandemic and what can we learn about keeping our relations.”
Dr. Bob is double board ABPP certified, teaches clinical and forensic assessment and is well published in peer refereed journals. He has written 9 books and over 90 articles. He does worldwide consultations through video conferencing or phone. He has been in practice since 1976 specializing in Psychoanalysis and Forensic Psychology.
Dr. Bob now is a licensed psychologist in Florida and in Pennsylvania. He is an expert diagnostician and does forensic, employment assessments,
Bob described how he had to undergo being psychoanalyzed 4 days a week for almost all 5 years that he was attending school to become a psychoanalyst himself. That’s over 8 years of post-graduate study.
Using a series of PowerPoint slides --- copies are available upon request -- Dr. Bob led us through the year+ research that he did with 4 minute surveys. And over his many years of doing research he has learned to ask survey questions that will yield usable responses.
Here is an abstract written by Dr. Bob about his presentation:
“We received 1,490 survey responses from practitioners from 56 regions and countries who remotely treated patients psychoanalytically during the early phase of the pandemic. We assessed their opinion of the effectiveness of teletherapy vs. in-office treatment and their concept of what matters most in psychoanalytic treatment.
“We found that practitioners increased in their positive opinions of teletherapy during the pandemic, and expected teletherapy to become a stable part of their practice in the future, especially when the patient is house-bound or when travel would be difficult or impractical.
“Those with mainly negative opinions, generally feel that working with transference, resistance and relational problems are not effective in distance analytic treatment, while those with mainly positive opinions feel that distance analytic treatment is effective with these issues. Those with mainly negative opinions also had less value of teletherapy for the patient who is homebound or when travel would be impractical. In general, the survey supports the principle hypothesis that therapist factors (empathy, warmth, wisdom and skillfulness) and patient factors (motivation, insightfulness and high functioning) are much more important in the effectiveness of psychoanalytic psychotherapy than the use of teletherapy, number of sessions a week, cultural similarity, or use of the couch.
“e can generalized from this study on professional teletherapy relationships to that of friends and family relationships. The warm, supportive and caring emotions can be conveyed over telecommunications. That is what matters most to the quality of life.”
Bob said that it was wonderful to see us all today. And he answered some questions.
Later Pres. Ralph sent Bob a thank you note and a complimentary raffle ticket.
CLOSING:
Pres. Ralph led us in the saying “One profits most who serves best.”
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