Participants in this class will be introduced to the model that we have been developing in Ackerman’s Adolescents and Their Families Project. Our belief is that the adolescent’s transition from childhood to adulthood largely depends on the quality of the connection the adolescent is able to maintain with his/her family.

We will demonstrate how to open up communication around sensitive issues, change conflictual family patterns, examine values, beliefs and practices that block change and establish positive interactions that lead to workable solutions. Based on this model, participants will learn interventions for resolving the issues that adolescents typically present with, including substance abuse, suicidality, depression, truancy, school failure, etc.

Short and specific readings, role playing, videotapes and clinical cases presented by participants are used to detail the basic concepts in our approach and facilitate discussion of the many dilemmas, questions and challenges that therapists face when working with adolescents.

Faculty: Michael Davidovits, PhD, LCSW, Assistant Director of the Adolescents and their Families Project, Ackerman Institute; Clinical Instructor, Assistant Director of the Family Therapy Program, North General Hospital/Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He conducts frequent trainings on family therapy with adolescents throughout the metropolitan area.
Paul Feinberg, PhD, Assistant Director, Project for Adolescents and their Families Project, Ackerman Institute; Supervisor, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Date: Tuesdays, beginning February 10, 2009, 15 sessions
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Tuition: $1,415 Deposit of $700 payable upon acceptance into the program. Balance is due by November 1.
Continuing Education Credits: 30

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