Identifying Depression workshop

[Guest guest]

Identifying Depression

In Your Middle School Or High School Child:

How To Recognize And Treat It

The Learning Services Home And School Association is sponsoring a seminar on

" Identifying Depression in Your Middle or High School Child " , an issue that

has gained and deserves a tremendous amount of attention over the last few

years. The specialists, Sara M. Calvert, MD and Borders, LCSW, will

focus on recognizing the symptoms and differentiating them from moodiness,

then discuss pathology, medication, therapy and more options for helping

your child.

DATE: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

TIME: 7:30-9:00 P.M.

PLACE: Ridgewood Board Of Education - 3rd Floor Conference Room

49 Cottage Place

Ridgewood, NJ 07450

About the speakers:

Dr. Sara Calvert practices in the New Jersey Family Practice Group in

Paramus treating children, adolescents and adults, headed by Dr.

Mitnick. She also consults for the Children's Aid and Family Services, a

foster care and adoption care agency based in Paramus. Dr. Calvert has

extensive training in General Psychiatry from s Hopkins Hospital in

Baltimore, and sub-specialty training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

from New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Medical Center and

Weill-Cornell Medical Center in New York, where she serves on the voluntary

faculty.

Borders, LCSW is a longtime resident of Ridgewood and has two grown

children who have graduated from the Ridgewood school system. She is

Assistant Vice President of Clinical Services for Youth Consultation Service

(YCS), New Jersey's largest provider of residential treatment for children

and adolescents. She oversees the clinical treatment of more than 100

children and adolescents. Her experience in working with teenagers and

teenagers diagnosed with depression is extensive. also has a private

practice in Waldwick, NJ where the emphasis is working with adopted children

and their families. She also teaches a class on Trans-racial Adoption at

Rutgers University School of Social Work Institute for Families.

Q & A will follow the discussion. The meeting is open to the public.