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a 3 hour Continuing Education Course for Social Workers    Sunday, May 21, 2017 from 9:30AM to 12:30PM to be held at The Open Center,*  22 East 30th St., New York City   (map) This workshop will address effective ways of offering psychotherapy, through the use of drawing, play and talk, to children and their families who are going through separation and divorce.  Transcripts of couple sessions and a family evaluation session will be presented and discussed.  Children's drawings will be shown and analyzed to demonstrate the therapeutic model, and to illustrate how the youngest family members carry their worries and unprocessed family dynamics during separation and divorce.    v Participants will learn a model of family assessment that helps all family members manage worries and concerns about separation and divorce.    v Participants will understand how the therapist's treatment approach is affected by the therapist's personal feelings about separation and divorce.   v Participants will learn how to set up a family play space that facilitates intergenerational comfort in therapy About the Instructor Carl Bagnini, LCSW is a Senior and Founding Faculty member of the International Psychotherapy Institute.  Carl also teaches Object Relations Couples Therapy at the Training Institute for Mental Health.  Carl is a Board member of the American Psychological Association, Section VIII, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, Division 39, where he mentors early career scholars. Carl has presented papers at conferences in the US, Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Panama, at the Tavistock Centre in Great Britain, Edinburgh, Scotland, and Paris, France. He has presented in Buenos Aires at the International Psychoanalytic Working Group, and at the American Psychoanalytic Association Conference (2011) in New York on a panel devoted to dream work. Carl’s publications include over 25 book chapters, journal articles, papers and book reviews. His published work ranges from stepfamily treatment, adolescent treatment, dream work, psychoanalytic supervision, Oedipal and Pre-oedipal issues, the Negative Therapeutic Reaction, and narcissistic pathology, to name a few. His book, Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth was published in June, 2012 by Jason Aronson. Carl maintains a private practice in individual, couples and family therapy in Port Washington, NY.   Price: $80.00 (includes certificate of completion for 3 CE hours) Light refreshments will be served   SPACE IS LIMITED!   Please register early.  Refunds will be given for cancellations prior to May 14, 2017. No refunds will be given after May 14, 2017   *This event is not affiliated with the Open Center     Reserve your seat No one will be admitted without a reservation!   Pay via PayPal, it's safe and secure # of Tickets   -select- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Enter Guest Name   License   -select- LCSW LMSW Other How did you hear about us?

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