Working with children whose sense of emotional and/or physical safety has been ruptured is a challenge family therapists often confront. When this rupture is the result of family relational traumas – a bitter divorce, domestic violence, sexual abuse, or the alcoholism of a parent – this challenge becomes even more daunting.

In this course, Marcia Sheinberg and Fiona True teach participants a recursive model of therapy that links individual and family modalities into a seamless systemic therapy to provide safety for the child while not usurping the primacy of the parents. Students learn the recursive therapy model and how to use a “decision dialogue” to link the family and individual modalities.

Students also observe live therapy sessions behind a one-way mirror and have the opportunity to consult on their own cases.

Faculty: Marcia Sheinberg, LCSW, Director of Training and Clinical Services, Co-Director of Ackerman’s Center for Children and Relational Trauma, Ackerman Institute for the Family; co-author with Peter Fraenkel of The Relational Trauma of Incest: A Family-Based Approach to Treatment, (Guilford, 2000.) Fiona True, LMSW, faculty member, Co-Director of Ackerman’s Center for Children and Relational Trauma, Director of Community and International Training, Ackerman Institute for the Family.

Date: Tuesdays, September 16, 23, October 7, 14, 21, November 4, 11, 2008, 8 sessions
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Tuition: $960 Deposit of $480 payable upon acceptance into the program. Balance is due by August 1.
Continuing Education Credits: 16

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