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October 17, 2007 10:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time
International Psychoanalytical Association to Address Issues of Children’s Identity Formations in Cross-Racial Adoptions Three-Day Conference to Explore Race/Identity in the Familial Setting
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–How do people who have been adopted by parents of another race shape their identity? And how does a child’s own mixed heritage play out in his/her formation of identity?
As more and more children from around the world are adopted and raised by parents with racial and/or ethnic backgrounds differing from their own, parents, teachers and mental health professionals need to cultivate more understanding and sensitivity in regards to the role that race/ethnicity plays in identity formation for these children. Continue reading COWAP Adoption Conference in the News
Lemberg Children’s Center at Brandeis University, The Mass Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics, and several others and sponsoring Supporting Children Affected by the Iraqi War: What Responders Need to Know a workshop on Saturday, October 20 in Schwartz Auditorium at Brandeis University.
Supporting Children Affected by the Iraqi War: What Responders Need to Know
Betsy McAlister Groves, LICSW
Director, Child Witness to Violence Project, Boston Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
Major Molinda Chartrand, MD
Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Brandeis University, Schwartz Auditorium
Continue reading Supporting Children Affected by the Iraqi War: What Responders Need to Know
Click Here to read about: “Neuropsychoanalysis: How Neuroscience is Validating our Theories” a conference on December 1st from 9 am to 12:30 pm, in Westport, CT. Sponsored by the Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Psychoanalytic Association of Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
