NEW CHILD INSTITUTE FOR ANXIETY AND TRAUMATIC STRESS

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THEPLAYSPACE: PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH ANXIETY

Location:

The Institutes for the Arts in Psychotherapy

526 west 26th street

Suite 309

New York, New York 10001

Announcement

We are now seeking applications for September 2007:

The Post Graduate Institute for the Treatment of Child Anxiety and Traumatic

Stress

This two-year comprehensive certificate program is for Psychiatrists,

Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Psychotherapists, and Creative Arts

Therapists who want to effectively use the embodied improvisational arts with

their child and adolescent clients for the amelioration of anxiety and anxiety

related disorders.

This program integrates the current research and practice in developmental

psychology, child interviewing, developmental psychopathology and assessment,

current treatment approaches for anxiety disorders and traumatic stress, ethics,

and the theoretical and experiential application of the embodied improvisational

arts in child psychotherapy

This program is structured to support the theoretical and experiential learning

of candidates in three ways: 1) the 2-½ hour weekly didactic seminar, 2) the

6-hour experiential monthly training group including group supervision and 3)

private individual supervision for case study. The curriculum is organized in 4

semesters and can be completed in a 2-year period

First Year

Weekly Seminar Topics

Child Development

Developmental Psychopathology

Attachment, Trauma and Resilience

Empirically Supported Practice in Child Psychotherapy

The Use of the Embodied Improvisational Arts in Child Psychotherapy

Second Year

Weekly Seminar Topics

The Postmodern Self and the Performative Unconscious

Embodied Child Psychotherapy in the PlaySpace

Family Systems and Group Dynamics

Power and Privilege in the Psychotherapy Relationship

Ethics in Child Psychotherapy

Monthly Experiential Training and Group Supervision

Experiential Training in the application of Embodied Child Therapy and

improvisational techniques for children and adolescents using: Music, Dance,

Art, Drama, Poetry, Journal Writing, and Video

Monthly Individual Case Supervision

Director

II Ph.D., RDT, is a licensed clinical psychologist in the

states of New York and New Jersey and is a drama therapist. Dr completed

his predoctoral internship at the Yale Psychiatric Institute Women?s Trauma

Program and The New Haven Post Traumatic Stress Center. He completed his

postdoctoral internship in child forensic psychology at the Audrey Hepburn

Children?s House, Regional Diagnostic Center for Child Abuse and Neglect,

Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack New Jersey. He has completed

group relations training in the Tavistock Group Relations Model and served as

faculty for the residential group relations conferences conducted at Mount

Holyoke Massachusetts. Dr. completed training at the Post Graduate

Institute for Developmental Transformations Manhattan and has completed

certified training in child forensic interviewing, expert witness testimony, and

treatment for child trauma.

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 PTSD, Yale University Clinical Campus where he provided creative arts

therapies and verbal psychotherapy for combat veterans and their families and

directed theater works with combat veterans participating in the HomeFront

Veteran?s Theater Company.

Dr. has lectured extensively and internationally, has conducted research

and has published several articles on the use of arts therapies in the treatment

of trauma related anxiety. He has supervised internship students from the Drama

Therapy Program at New York University and internationally. He has served as

adjunct faculty at the California Institute for Integral Studies Drama Therapy

Program San Francisco California. He has taught adolescent psychology as adjunct

professor at Montclair State University Montclair New Jersey and currently

teaches leadership, conflict resolution and group dynamics using the arts media

at the Lesley University Extension Campus Natanya, Israel. Dr. has served

on the board of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children New

Jersey, is a current member of the American Psychological Association,

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the National Association

for Drama Therapy

Most recently, Dr. conducts full time private practice with children and

adults using the arts media and verbal psychotherapy for anxiety related

behavioral and emotional problems and acts as Director of Training at the

Institute for Developmental Transformations in Manhattan and as Director of

Education at the Specialized Therapy Associates in Edgewater New Jersey.

Assistant Training Director

Laurice M.A., RDT, is drama therapist and licensed creative arts therapist

in the State of New York. Ms. is a graduate of the New York University

Drama Therapy Masters Program and she has completed post-graduate training at

the Institute for Developmental Transformations in New York City.

Before coming to New York City, Ms provided children and adolescent drama

therapy at (Chicago). Since 1988 Ms. has served as Drama Therapist at the

Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan where she currently provides drama therapy for

homeless mentally ill men. In addition to her work at Bellevue, Ms. is

currently in private practice at the Institute for the Arts in Psychotherapy

Manhattan where she provides drama and verbal psychotherapy.

Ms. has supervised drama therapy students from the New York University

Drama Therapy Program, the New School University, and international students

from Israel and the Netherlands. For the past three years she has served as the

assistant training director at the Institute for Developmental Transformations

in Manhattan, and as adjust faculty at Manhattanville College.

Structure and Schedule for the Child Institute

1

Weekly Seminar

All required (with 2 absences per semester allowed)

Didactic Seminar (see topics above)

Monday or Tuesday Evenings 6pm - 8:30pm

2 ½ hours weekly

(10 hours monthly)

2

Monthly Experiential Group Sessions

Required 20 sessions (over 2 year period)

Experiential Training

Group Supervision

Saturday Mornings 10am - 4pm

(5 hours monthly)

3

Monthly Individual Supervision

Individual Supervision of Casework

To Be Individually Scheduled

(1 hour monthly)

16 hours per month total participation in the program

Rolling Admission

Tuition

Monthly Tuition

(10 months per academic year for 2 years organized in 4 semesters)

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Monthly $ 540

Yearly $ 5400

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Full 2-Year Program $ 10,800

For further information or for an application contact:

miller@...