The Frank Daniels Endowed Lecture Description: Much of what therapists strive to do is to help clients experience difficult emotions and avoid avoiding what they value for their lives. Yet, when it comes to matters of race and power, practitioners may avoid potentially … Read more
Description: Eric Moss, Ph.D. will speak on group psychotherapy with Israeli civilians who have lost family members to random acts of terrorism. In Israel the scope of this problem is enormous: the numbers of victims has grown to the thousands. … Read more
Description: This workshop will provide an introduction to the theory and application of an evidenced based treatment approach to depression that combines aspects of Cognitive Behavioral and Solution Focused Treatment. Developed in 1990, Problem Solving Treatment was so effective in addressing … Read more
The Frank Daniels Endowed Lecture Description: Transgender clients frequently experience multiple types of violence such as interpersonal, self inflicted, and social (inflicted by institutions and systems), as well as ongoing micro-aggressions. Transgender clients who experience any of these types of violence … Read more
Description: Women and their families face unique issues during the perinatal period, which includes preconception planning, pregnancy, and early parenthood. Outcome research also shows that women with bipolar and psychotic mood disorder exacerbations during this period are challenging to treat and … Read more
Description : “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning Meaning making … Read more
The Carroll Butts Heins Endowed Lecture Irvin Yalom, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at Stanford University, is an acclaimed psychotherapist and author. His book The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy is the seminal text for training therapists. He has also written … Read more
Description: The effect of trauma is widely recognized as qualitatively different from stress and acknowledged as often resulting in lasting psychological and physiological changes. Life after September 11th makes effective training in this area all the more urgent since media … Read more
Description: Psychodrama is a therapeutic approach that involves improvisational action based on creativity and spontaneity. Drawing on their experience as certified psychodramatists and instructors of psychodrama techniques, Ms. Bacallao and Dr. Smokowski will present powerful techniques for working with clients … Read more
Description: Drawing from his vast experience in groups, Dr. Hawkins will help equip participants with a toolbox of skills for contending with the challenges that inevitably arise in group work including uncomfortable topics, combative participants, and our own anxieties. Trainer: … Read more