Workshops for the Treatment of Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents, Description & Bio

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thePLAYSPACE: psychological services for children with anxiety

Spring

2008

Three Workshops

The Treatment of Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents

II Ph.D

Attachment - April 5

Trauma - May 3

Resilience - June 7

Saturdays: 10am to 3:30pm

$125 per workshop

The Institutes for the Arts in Psychotherapy

526 west 26th street. Suite 309

New York, New York 10001

EMAIL MILLER@... FOR RESERVATIONS.

Description:

These three workshops will be given for Psychologists, Social Workers,

Counselors, Psychotherapists, Creative Arts Therapists, and Child Life

Specialists who want to practice therapy for those children and adolescents who

have been exposed to maltreatment. These workshops are intended for therapists

already working with children and adolescents who want to understand and

practice this specific and integrated model of therapy for anxiety related

disorders.

In these workshops, current research from Attachment Theory, Trauma and

Resilience studies will be briefly reviewed as this research relates to the

treatment of anxiety. Specific assessment issues will be discussed. Workshop

participants will also experience guided practice using this specific model of

child therapy during these workshops. Case studies with children will also be

provided in this didactic and experiential workshop.

Biography:

II Ph.D., RDT, is a licensed clinical and forensic

psychologist and drama therapist in New York and New Jersey.

Dr completed his predoctoral internship in clinical psychology at the

Yale Psychiatric Institute, Women?s Trauma Program, and The Post Traumatic

Stress Center in New Haven, Connecticut. His postdoctoral internship in child

forensic psychology was completed at the Audrey Hepburn Children?s House,

Northern Regional Diagnostic Center for Child Abuse and Neglect at the

Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey. In addition, Dr.

completed post-graduate training at the Institute for Developmental

Transformations where he also served as training director for the six years in

San Francisco and Manhattan.

Before completion of his doctorate in psychology, for ten years, Dr.

served as the Supervisor for the Creative Arts Therapies at the National Center

for Posttraumatic Stress, Neurosciences Division, Yale University Clinical

Campus located at the Veteran?s Administration Medical Center in West Haven,

Connecticut where he provided drama therapy for combat veterans. He directed the

Home Front Veteran?s Theater Company creating and touring original theater works

with Vietnam veteran actors in the New Haven area.

In addition, Dr. has published several articles on the use of

Developmental Transformations in the treatment of trauma related anxiety and has

clinically supervised many students from the Drama Therapy Program at New York

University. He has served as adjunct faculty at the California Institute for

Integral Studies Drama Therapy Program in San Francisco, California. He has

taught adolescent psychology as adjunct professor at Montclair State University

in Montclair, New Jersey and currently teaches courses in leadership, conflict

resolution, and group dynamics at the Lesley University Extension Campus located

in Natanya, Israel. He has served on the board of directors for the American

Professional Society on the Abuse of Children New Jersey Chapter and is

currently a member of the American Psychological Association and the

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Dr. conducts private practice in psychology in Manhattan and is also a

partner at Special Psychological Services LLC in New Jersey where he provides

forensic evaluation and expert witness testimony for issues of child

maltreatment.