| Mar 5th, 2010 (Fri) |
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
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Workshop - Behavioral Parent Training: Approaches for Helping the Parents of Strong-Willed Children
Behavioral Parent Training (BPT) refers to a variety of theoretically grounded, evidence-based interventions for caregivers of children with oppositional, aggressive, and/or unruly behaviors. Such approaches use behavior therapy principles, such as clear expectations, modeling of positive behavior, and consistent positive and negative consequences, to improve parent-child relationships and reduce problematic behavior.
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| Mar 5th, 2010 (Fri) |
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM |
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Alumnae/i Association Lecture: Treating Children with Relational Trauma
Engaging children who are living with a bitter divorce, domestic violence, sexual abuse or parental alcoholism in therapy can be a daunting clinical challenge. Loyalty bonds, unacknowledged secrets, the need to protect one parent, lack of trust for the therapist and anger all may silence kids in therapy and lead to a therapeutic stalemate. In this workshop, we’ll discuss a systematic structure that combines individual and family sessions to soothe children’s anxieties, make them feel their concerns are respected and encourage them to share their thoughts and feelings.
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| Mar 12th, 2010 (Fri) -- Mar 13th, 2010 (Sat) |
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
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Workshop - Working with Entrenched Impasses in Couples Therapy: A Road Map
Couples usually arrive in the therapist's office caught up in reactive cycles from which, on their own, they cannot get out. Entangled in ways they do not understand, they invite the therapist into the intimacy of their struggles, hoping for a new direction. In this two-day workshop Michele Scheinkman will present the vulnerability cycle as a model and diagram to describe couples in impasse. She will demonstrate how the therapist creates a “holding environment” to help couples contain their anxiety and escalation; and then, through a collaborative, integrative, multi-level approach she will teach how therapists can proceed sequentially to explore interactional, contextual/structural, intrapersonal, and intergenerational dimensions of the couple's problem.
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| Mar 19th, 2010 (Fri) |
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
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Workshop - Complicated Grief and Ambiguous Loss: A Relational Approach to Resiliency
In the world of complicated grief, people often suffer from what Pauline Boss, veteran family therapist, calls “ambiguous loss.” The lack of closure plays havoc with identity, attachment, ambivalence, meaning and hope, but the problem is relational. When loved ones disappear physically (with no evidence of death), or psychologically (from cognitive impairment), the ambiguity complicates and traumatizes.
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