By Rich Simon As therapists, many of us practice in two different worlds. In the first, we see polite, well-behaved, articulate clients with solid values. They engage fully in therapy, talk cogently about their problems, listen attentively to our responses, make reasonably good-faith efforts to follow our suggestions, and sooner or later get better. No wonder we genuinely like these people! 
By Rich Simon A thousand years ago, during the palmy days of generous insurance reimbursement, therapists could maintain the illusion that, since therapy was paid for by an unseen hidden hand, clinical practice was somehow untouched by the tacky subject of money. Even the style of therapy reflected this disjunction: 
Includes a Bonus Session with Sherry Turkle!
Bonus Session only available as part of the Enhanced Learning Track
Explore The Full Range Of Parenting Issues
With The Field's Leading Experts
With The Field's Leading Experts
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Session 1 - Wednesday, May 2 Reclaiming Parental Authority Gain a broader perspective on the social context of parent-child relationships today and learn how to help parents effectively reassert authority by overcoming their isolation and establishing connection with other parents while also creating effective “I mean it” moments with their kids and developing other practical childrearing strategies. With Ron Taffel, Ph.D. |
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Session 2 - Wednesday, May 9 Family Therapy for the Postmodern Family Discover the advantages and disadvantages of working individually with a child or working with family-at-large and learn how to recognize when it’s effective to involve parents at strategic times in treatment. With Martha Straus, Ph.D. |
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Session 3 - Wednesday, May 16 Attachment Issues in Stepfamilies Examine the distinct challenges to attachment and intimacy that the stepfamily structure often creates and discover practical strategies for helping clients meet these challenges and form healthy stepfamily relationships. With Patricia Papernow, Ed.D. |
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Session 4 - Wednesday, May 23 |
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Session 5 - Wednesday, May 30 Overprotective Parenting Discover how parents can best offer children opportunities to experience risk and responsibility and give them the boundaries they need without suffocating them, heightening their anxiety, or strengthening their need for rebellion. With Michael Ungar, Ph.D. |
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Session 6 - Wednesday, June 6 Child Therapy without Problems: The Kids Skills Approach Teach parents a new way to praise and encourage their children while also getting them to comply and overcome difficulties, all without using punishments, by shifting the focus from “problems” to helping young clients gain meaningful new skills while using parents as guides and cheerleaders. With Ben Furman, M.D. |
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Session 7 - Wednesday, June 13 Parenting with the Brain in Mind Discover how applying the latest advances in the neuroscience of child development to clinical practice will help parents raise calmer and happier children by teaching kids to think and listen before reacting, shifting their emotional states through physical activities, and paying attention to their left brain story-telling. With Dan Siegel, M.D. |
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Bonus Session - Wednesday, June 20 Cyber Intimacy and Cyber Solitude Explore the enormous psychological and cultural impact of today’s digital technologies on children, adolescents, parents, and society at large in this illuminating keynote address. With MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle, Ph.D. |
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7 dynamic sessions with recognized experts! |
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Plus Bonus Session with Sherry Turkle! |
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Streaming-video webcasts that make learning come alive! |
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Lively post-session exchanges with peers and presenters! |
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Streaming-video sessions and slides available anytime! |
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MP3s and bonus materials--all yours to keep! |
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Add 7 CE credits with a quiz! |
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Our Presenters Are Leaders In The Field
Ron Taffel, Ph.D., is the chairman of the board of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York. His books include Getting through to Difficult Kids and Parents: Uncommon Sense for Child Professionals and his latest, Childhood Unbound: Authoritative Parenting for the 21st Century.
Martha Straus, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Antioch University New England and adjunct instructor in psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, is the author of No-Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents and Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope.
Patricia Papernow, Ed.D., has worked as a trainer, consultant, and therapist with stepfamily relationships for more than 30 years. She’s a National Stepfamily Resource Center senior training faculty member and the author of the award-winning book Becoming a Stepfamily and the forthcoming Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships.
Stan Davis is the co-leader of the Youth Voice Research Project, which has collected information from thousands of young people about effective bullying prevention strategies. He’s the author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies to Reduce Bullies and Empowering Bystanders in Bullying Prevention: Schools Where Everyone Belongs.
Michael Ungar, Ph.D., is director of the Resilience Research Center and professor of social work at Dalhousie University. He’s the author of 11 books for therapists and parents, including Counseling in Challenging Contexts and Strengths-Based Counseling with At-Risk Youth.
Ben Furman, M.D., codirector of the Brief Therapy Institute in Helsinki, Finland, is a psychiatrist and trainer of solution-focused psychotherapy. His books include Kids Skills in Action: Stories of Playful and Practical Solution-Finding with Children and Kids Skills: Playful and Practical Solution-Finding with Children.
Dan Siegel, M.D., is clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he's coinvestigator at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development and codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. His books include Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, The Mindful Therapist, Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, and most recently, The Whole-Brain Child.
Sherry Turkle, Ph.D., is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, director of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self, and a trained clinical psychologist. She's the author of the groundbreaking books The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit; Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet; and, most recently, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other.
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