Treating the Child Who Learns Differently with Rena Matison Greenblatt at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

TREATING THE CHILD WHO LEARNS DIFFERENTLY
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Presenter: Rena Matison Greenblatt, Ph.D.

TIME: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Breakfast at 9:30 AM
LOCATION: The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health
1090 St. Nicholas Avenue (located on West 165th Street
between St. Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues, downstairs
level next to Church Santa Rosa de Lima)

Children who learn differently present several challenges for the treating therapist. In this workshop, Dr. Greenblatt will teach the ways to recognize whether a patient may have a learning disorder, and if so, how psychological testing may be useful for the patient and family as well as for the treatment. She will discuss how to read a report and understand what it says. She will discuss how the learning challenges may manifest themselves in treatment. Another focus will be how the therapist may help a child with a learning disability and the challenges children may face in school, with family and with peers. Dr. Greenblatt will show in what ways working with a child with a learning disability may be similar to a standard child psychotherapy and in what ways it may be different. She will describe how she works with such patients, what resistances tend to manifest themselves most commonly and what real limitations these children may face, all of which impact upon the treatment. Also highlighted will be the transference and countertransference manifestations that come up in such work and the self-esteem issues that are so common. Finally, there will be an emphasis on how to help the child and family so they may work together to focus on the child’s strengths and successes.

Rena Matison Greenblatt, Ph.D. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs; Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Adult and Child Programs. Supervisor: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Child Program. Director: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Child Adolescent Psychotherapy Program. Adjunct Associate Professor: New York University School of Social Work. Member: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, International Psychoanalytical Association, American Psychological Association.

FEE: $50 includes breakfast (no fee to MCMH staff)
$30 Student Fee (includes breakfast), with proof of student status
On site registration: $60 or $40 (students with proof of student status)
No fee to MCMH Staff members.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 12, 2012.
SPACE FOR THE WORKSHOP IS LIMITED. REGISTRATION IS ACCEPTED
ON A FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVED BASIS.