Workshop

Working with Parents of Adolescents in Family Therapy

Description

Most therapists dread working with parents of troubled adolescents. By the time they come to therapy, parents generally feel helpless, scared, angry, hurt and ridden with guilt and shame.  As a result, they are often highly critical of their teenager, and may seem to have given up. This workshop will focus on the challenges that parents face as they attempt to meet the changing needs of their adolescent. We will introduce techniques for uncovering the beliefs, expectations, fears and personal vulnerabilities that make it difficult for parents to maintain a positive connection. We will also demonstrate how to help parents and teenagers repair their strained and broken bonds. These will be illustrated through DVD case presentations.

Faculty: Peggy Papp, L.C.S.W., is the Director of the Ackerman Adolescent Project and the Director of Family Therapy at the Mt. Sinai Adolescent Health Clinic.  She is the author of The Process of Change and co-author of The Invisible Web; Gender Patterns in Family, as well as the Editor of Couples on the Fault Line. She maintains a private practice in New York City.

Michael Davidovits, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is Assistant Director of the Project for Adolescents and their Families and Teaching Faculty at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. He also teaches in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Mercy College, supervises in the Family Medicine Residency Program at the Columbia University School of Medicine and lectures and consults to agencies that serve at-risk youth throughout the Metropolitan New York area. He maintains a private practice in New York City.

Date: Saturday, April 28, 2012  
Time: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Tuition: $128
CE Credits: 5