Laurie Kaplan, co-director of Ackerman Insitute’s Social Work and Diversity Program, discusses street safety for young children with Eyewitness News.
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Lois Braverman, Ackerman Institute’s president, discusses children and safety with Eyewitness News 4. Lois Braverman on Eyewitness News at 4 from Ackerman Institute on Vimeo.
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The Ackerman Institute’s Elana Katz was featured by writer, Sam Roberts, in a NY Times article on leading divorcing couples through mediation versus litigation. Mediation is designed to make divorce less adversarial and lead couples through divorce in an emotionally healthy way. Read the full article on the NY Times website by clicking here.
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“Ready to Wed? No, Mom…” With same-sex marriage now legal in New York, some gay sons and daughters are starting to feel the same heat from parents as their straight siblings do. NY Times writer, Tim Murphy, spoke to Ackerman Institute faculty member, Jean Malpas to garner his professional opinion to how to let parents
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“Old Wounds, New Discoveries” Chicago Tribune writer, Nara Schoenberg, asks Ackerman Institute’s Dr. Evan Imber-Black to weigh in on family secrets and the basic guidelines for absorbing shocking family revelations, large and small. Read the full article on the Chicago Tribune website, click here.
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Recent Grads: How to Survive Moving Back Home Ackerman Institute’s Lois Braverman was interviewed by Metro’s Cassandra Garrison about how young adults and families should deal with moving back home after college. She says, “I would have the young adult say to themselves, ‘What do I know will make things the calmest and the smoothest?
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“Runaway Brides Challenge Stigma Against Unmarried Women” Peter Fraenkel, director of the Ackerman Institute for the Family’s Center for Work and Family, discussed the runaway bride in this Huffington Post article by Katherine Bindley. He sees the willingness to question an upcoming wedding as a good thing. He finds that engaged couples today are more
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Telling Secrets in the Family An interview with Ackerman Institute’s Evan Imber-Black about how to tell a family secret thoughtfully and well. In contrast to televised and sensationalist secret telling in front of mass audiences, Dr. Imber-Black works with families to prepare carefully before revealing important secrets. She tells stories from her work about the
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