Two deputies from the Women’s Ministry of Malaysia visited the Ackerman Institute on April 2nd. The deputies discussed mental health issues in their country with Lois Braverman, President of the Ackerman Institute.
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Thirteen colleagues from Argentina came to the Ackerman Institute for two weeks of training from April 27th to May 8th. Faculty member Mary Kim Brewster and her husband, Blair Brewster, Secretary of the Ackerman Board of Directors, graciously hosted a dinner at their home in Brooklyn for the group. Faculty member Judith Stern Peck also
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The Ackerman Alumnae/i Association presented its final program of the 2008-09 academic year on Friday, June 12. The program was a lecture by Martha Edwards, PhD, and Gillian Walker, LCSW, on Working with Affect: A Work in Progress. In an introduction to the topic, Dr. Edwards explained that for many years, she considered thought and
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The Ackerman Institute for the Family was deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Marcia Stern on Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Dr. Stern passed away at her home in Arizona after a courageous battle against brain cancer. “Marcia Stern was a highly respected and beloved colleague who devoted many years to the Ackerman Institute,” Lois
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On February 24, 2009, the field of family therapy lost a giant and the Ackerman Institute lost a great and inspirational colleague when Olga Silverstein died at the age of 87. Family, friends and colleagues gathered in the Ackerman library on March 25th to share their memories of Ms. Silverstein and to celebrate her life
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Abbe and Peter Steinglass Dr. Peter Steinglass, Director of Ackerman’s Center for Substance Abuse and the Family and President Emeritus, was honored by the Freedom Institute at its annual Mona Mansell Award Dinner at the Hotel Pierre on May 11th. The Mansell Award, named for Freedom’s founder, is given annually to an honoree deemed to
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Matthew J. Leeds joined the Ackerman Institute for the Family’s Board of Directors in December 2008. Mr. Leeds is a real estate lawyer whose diverse practice includes the representation of owners, developers, sponsors, condominium and cooperative boards, investors and institutional real estate lenders. He has particular experience in the burgeoning area of commercial condominiums. Mr.
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Six new graduates of the Social Work and Diversity Program presented cases and spoke about the ways the program changed their lives at a moving ceremony in the Ackerman Library on May 6, 2009. The Ackerman Institute initiated the Social Work and Diversity Program in 1992 as a result of the vision and generosity of Arthur Maslow,
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