65th Annual Conference
Friday,
February 22
Afternoon Open
Sessions
2:45 -6:00
P.M.
Session
312
Bridging
Two Worlds: A Panel of Senior Clinicians Consult for a Group of
Adolescent Muslim Immigrants
Presented under the auspices of the
AGPA Child/Adolescent SIG
Chair:
Seth Aronson,
Psy.D., CGP, FAGPA, Training and Supervising Analyst, William
Alanson White Institute, New York, New York
Panelists:
Craig Haen, MA, RDT, CGP,
Clinical Director, Adolescent Services, Kids in Crisis, Cos Cob, Connecticut
Thomas Hurster, MSS, CGP, Private Practice, Bryn Mawr
School of Social Work, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
Gloria Batkin Kahn, Ed.D., CGP, FAGPA, Private Practice,
Hartsdale, New York
Lama Khouri-Padova, M.S.W., Candidate, Psychoanalytic
Program; Graduate, Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program,
William Alanson White Institute, New York, New York
Faye Mishna, Ph.D., CGP, Associate Professor, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Judith S. Tellerman, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, Clinical Professor,
University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana-Champagne,
Illinois
Clinical material
from a group for Muslim immigrant youth will be presented. A panel
of senior clinicians will provide a variety of theoretical
viewpoints through which the material can be understood. General
discussion will follow, with Q&A with the audience on the
practicalities and difficulties arising in adolescent groups in
general (e.g., countertransference, limit setting).
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1. Identify two
issues facing immigrant youth.
2. Distinguish between various theoretical viewpoints.
3. Identify 3 issues particularly pertaining to leading adolescent
groups.
Course References:
1. Aronson, S. and
Scheidlinger, S. (2002). Adolescent Group Treatment in Context.
International Universities Press.
2. Grinberg, L.
and Grinberg, R. (1999).
Psychoanalytic perspectives on migration.
In Psychoanalysis and Culture: A Kleinian Perspective. (D. Bell,
Ed.). London: Tavistock.
3. Szckacs-Weisz,
J. and Ward, I., Eds. (2004).
Lost Childhood and the Language of
Exile. Imago: Freud Museum. |
