Guided Activity Workbooks for Child Disaster Victims

Click Here to Read:  Guided Activity  Workbooks: helping children and teenagers cope and thrive after a natural or man made disaster on the Children’s Psychological Health Center Inc. Reflective Therapywebsite. 

Two members of the American Psychoanalytic Association worked on this downloadable mental health resource.  It is part of an internationally used
series of event-focused guided activity workbook.  Over sixty thousand children and their thousands of caregivers have used our nonprofit agency’s workbooks.  Facing disasters in earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, fire storms and wars can be a tremendous mental Continue reading Guided Activity Workbooks for Child Disaster Victims

3 Book Reviews

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS
CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE: THEWORLD OF THE DEFENSELESS
By Einar A. Helander
334 pp, $90
London, UK, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-2305-7394-9

THIS PITHY BOOK EXAMINES THE ISSUES OF TRAUMA AND POVERTY in the lives of children through an international lens. Having worked for 30 years in 94 countries on 5 continents, Einar Helander brings a wealth of direct experience with children, family homes, schools, child-focused institutions, and Health and Social Welfare ministries from around the world. He asserts that 5 to 10 million children (primarily girls younger than 5 years) “die annually because of intentional neglect or outright murder” (p xviii). Continue reading 3 Book Reviews

San Francisco Attractions for APsaA Meeting

Click Here to Read: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Click Here to Read: The Legion of Honor: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 
Click Here to Read:  Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco
As the deadline approaches for early registration, this is a quick reminder to register for APsaA 100th Annual Meeting.  Sunday, May 15 is the last day of early registration.  In order to lock in the discounted registration fee you Continue reading San Francisco Attractions for APsaA Meeting

Conversations Series with Kiki Smith at NYPSI

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI FOR A YEAR LONG CELEBRATION OF OUR CENTENARY
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:

Centennial Conversations Program
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org

CONVERSATIONS SERIES
Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 7:30 pm
Fee $25; $10 for Students w ID

Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D.
in Conversation with . . .
Kiki Smith
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