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SUMMARY:Psychotherapy with Neurodivergent Individuals: A Developmental and Relational Approach to Parent-Child Work
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available for\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs\nCT Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LMFTs\, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists \n\n\nAs diagnoses and awareness of neurodivergence (including ASD\, ADHD\, etc.) have rapidly grown over the years\, many psychotherapists wonder how to address neurodivergent clients’ unique needs in psychotherapy. The DIRFloortime® model and related strategies\, developed by Stanley Greenspan\, MD and Serena Wieder\, PhD\, are well-suited for addressing developmental differences\, emotional regulation\, reflective thinking\, and self-advocacy in a strengths-based\, developmentally-informed\, and relationship-based manner. Through didactic and video case presentation and discussion\, participants will learn the foundations of this person-centered\, neuroaffirming model and how to apply to children (with their parents) and adults with a range of developmental capacities. \n \nDr. Lauren Tobing-Puente is a licensed psychologist who earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology\, with a specialization in child and family therapy\, from Fordham University. She leads a team of mental health clinicians at her private practice\, Connected Growth & Wellbeing\, in NYC which provides evaluations and intervention for individuals\, from toddlerhood to adulthood\, and their families\, as well as professional consultations and training\, and parent workshops. Dr. Tobing-Puente is the former Clinical Coordinator of a large nonpublic school where she supervised a multidisciplinary team of mental health clinicians\, and evaluated and provided psychotherapy to students through age 21 using the DIRFloortime(R) methodology. Her diverse experience includes many years working in home-based and center-based Early Intervention\, independent preschool and elementary school\, Head Start\, and hospital settings for children with various developmental needs. Dr. Tobing-Puente was a long-time board member of the NY Metro chapter of the National Autism Association (NAA).
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SUMMARY:Impairments to the "Therapeutic Minding" of Black Boys
DESCRIPTION:2 CE Hours available for\nNY Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LPs\, LMFTs\, LMHCs\, LCATs\, PHDs\, PSYDs\nCT Practitioners – LCSWs\, LMSWs\, LMFTs\, LPCs and Licensed Psychologists\n\n**HYBRID EVENT**\nIn-Person at the Scarsdale Public Library or Live on Zoom!\n \nCurrently\, a number of books have been written\, such as Ken Corbett’s\, Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities; Jonathan Haidt’s\, The Anxious Generation; and Richard Reeves\, Of Boys and Men\, addressing the social\, psychological\, and mental health challenges faced by male youth and youth in general.  A major benefit of these works is that they are available to the public as well as to professional audiences.  In addition\, unlike a considerable number of their predecessors\, efforts are made to address the different plight of Black youth or boys. \nThis presentation is an attempt to request psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic therapists to examine systemic racism and its unacknowledged effects upon the developing psyches of Black youth. It is particularly advantageous to consider the following: transgenerational trauma as a legacy from slavery\, our educational and apartheid institutional arrangements of living\, and the impediments to cross racial therapeutic engagement. \n \nKirkland C. Vaughans\, PhD\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A Fellow-training and supervising analyst on the faculty of IPTAR\, he is also faculty and founder of the Adelphi Derner/ Hempstead Child Clinic and Supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Program of the Derner Postgraduate Program and faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is also the Honorary Institute Dean of the Harlem Family Institute. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant\, Child\, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at over 125 conferences and panel discussions on issues pertaining to white racism\, generational trauma among African Americans\, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of Color\, and is a subject of the documentary\, Your Mum and Dad. He Is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and was a member of the Holmes Commission. In addition\, he is a recipient of the 2024 Founder Award of SPPP (Div. 39) APA. \n\n\nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND IN-PERSON \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER TO ATTEND ON ZOOM \n\n 
URL:https://wcspp.org/event/impairments-to-the-therapeutic-minding-of-black-boys/
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