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Faculty Highlights
Members of the faculty publish the results of their research and participate in academic conferences and workshops around the world.
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Adelphi University Derner Institute's Colloquium Series of Fall 2008
All Colloquium Series are held on Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m.
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Paul Eckman Ph.D.
Honorary Degree Recipient
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
University Center Ballroom, Adelphi Univiersity
Degree Conferral Ceremony and Short Address:
“Emotional Awareness: Overcoming Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion”
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Paul Ekman Ph.D. ’58, a pioneering psychologist in the field of emotion and its physical expression, will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from Adelphi University at a ceremony on Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Following the conferring of the degree, Dr. Ekman will deliver a short address, “Emotional Awareness: A Conversation Between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman.” during which he will talk about his recent meetings with the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.
Public Lecture:
“A Career Trajectory to Alleviate Suffering: From Psychotherapy, to Research and Training”
Wednesday
Time: 4:00 p.m.
In his evening lecture, Dr. Ekman will discuss how to understand emotion through facial expression using his ground-breaking Facial Action Coding System (FACS), a method of detecting emotion by the observation of facial muscle movements.
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Expanding Your Clinical Practice: Current Applications of Psychoanalytic Technique
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Adelphi University, Manhatten Center
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Whether working with adults, children, adolescents, couples, groups, or in a school setting, today’s practitioners benefit from a broad repertoire of clinical skills. Faculty from each of our postgraduate programs will offer ten workshops that demonstrate the interface between psychoanalytic
technique and five treatment modalities. These workshops will have practical application and relevance to your professional work.
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Reception Celebrating the George Stricker Fund for the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies
June 11, 2007
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Workshops, Conferences and Symposia
Workshops in Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy
The Postdoctoral Program in Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapy will sponsor a
series of two workshops in psychodynamic child psychotherapy.
The workshops will focus on the use of play, verbal communication, and the therapeutic
relationship, to enhance children’s awareness of their affective experience and inner world.
In each workshop, the instructor will review technical issues and the group will discuss
clinical material presented by the instructor and group members.
Dr. Robert Drago and Dr. Ionas Sapountzis, Faculty members and Supervisors in the Postgraduate
Program, will lead the workshops. Dr. Drago was codirector of the Child and Adolescent
Training Program at the Advanced Center for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Dr. Sapountzis
is a Professor of School Psychology at Long Island University. Both are graduates of the
Postdoctoral Program in Child, Adolescent, and Family Psychotherapy and of the Postdoctoral
Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University.
The workshops are open to licensed and license-eligible mental health professionals,
graduates, and students of training programs for mental health professionals who work with
children and adolescents.
"Shut Up and Move" Working with Structured Board Games in Child Psychotherapy
Children in therapy grow out of dramatic play long before they develop the ability to talk about
their difficulties in life. At this stage, they are most comfortable playing board games—a modality
that makes many therapists feel untrained and uncomfortable. This workshop will focus on ways to
find meaning in the structured board game play of children in psychotherapy, and ways to use those
games therapeutically. Case examples will be used to demonstrate the latent meaning of structured
game play and to turn board games sessions into therapy sessions.
Jill Bellinson, Ph.D. is author of the book Children’s Use of Board Games in Psychotherapy. She
is a Faculty member and Supervisor in the Postgraduate Program in Child, Adolescent, and Family
Psychotherapy at the Derner Institute at Adelphi University and the William Alanson White Institute.
The workshops are open to licensed and license-eligible mental health professionals, graduates, and
students of training programs for mental health professionals who work with children and adolescents.
“STOP! WAIT! THINK!”
Helping Children with Challenges in Self-Regulation
Become More Successful in School
The focus of this workshop will be the classical challenge faced by clinicians who work
with children—how to help the child, his/her parents, teachers, and other school personnel
identify and treat problems in self-regulation.
Ron Balamuth, Ph.D., is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program
in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a faculty member and a
supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute’s Program for Child
and Adolescent Psychotherapy. In addition, he is a faculty member at
the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He is also an associate
adjunct professor at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and is on
the faculty of the DIR/Floortime Institute in Washington, D.C., founded
by Dr. Stanley Greenspan, where he has been teaching and supervising
in the U.S. and abroad.
Dan Gensler, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice,
practicing psychotherapy and psychological testing in Manhattan and
Great Neck, New York, where he works with adults, families, couples,
adolescents, and children. He has worked in hospitals, schools,
corporate, and clinical settings, and has made many professional
presentations throughout his career. Currently, he is director of the
Child and Family Center at the William Alanson White Institute in
New York, supervising analyst and instructor at White, and supervisor
and instructor at Adelphi University. He is coauthor of Relational Child
Psychotherapy (Other Press, 2002), and has also published several
articles and chapters in professional literature.
Dr. Gensler received his doctorate degree in psychology from Ferkauf
Graduate School of Yeshiva University in 1980, and his certificate in
psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute in 1987.
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Sibling Relationships: How They Influence Our Choices and Voices
A psychoanalytic film symposium held on Adelphi's Garden City campus
Clinicians have traditionally emphasized the importance of early parent-child interaction, with minimal importance placed on the effect siblings can have on each other. Family therapy has customarily applies a wider lens that encompassed the complex interactions of all family members but rarely recognized the unique nature of siblings as a distinct and powerful subgroup. This symposium will examine the impact of sibling relationships on couple relationships.
The School-Age Autism Spectrum Child: Fostering Relatedness and Emotional Growth by Integrating DIR/Floortime and Psychodynamic Approaches
Conference presented by Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
This conference is designed for clinical psychologists, school psychologists, educators, special educators, social workers, other professionals, and parents who seek new insights and skills that can be utilized with children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) and Asperger’s Syndrome (AS).
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