THURSDAY SCHEDULE December 24, 2015 TIME 7:15 AM Shachris I 8:00 AM Shachris II 8:30 AM- 9:30 AM Registration Coffee and Cake Poster Sessions 9:30 AM- 12:30 PM Mother-Infant Interaction and Predictions Of Secure and Insecure Attachment Phyllis Cohen, Right Here, Right Now: Creating Change in Couples Treatment Using EFT Elana Katz, CASAC: Practicing in the Present An Introduction To Mindfulness- Oriented Psychotherapy David Kohn, 12:30 PM- 2:00 PM Lunch 2:00 PM- 2:15 PM Mincha 2:20 PM- 4:55 PM Leaning In: When One Plus One Equals Three. Promoting Secure Attachment Bonds and Co-Regulation in Couples Treatment Evie Rappaport, Treating Tourette Syndrome and Tics in Clinical Practice** Meir Flancbaum, Parents, Kids, The Family; How Do We Juggle All of These Approaches in Play Therapy? Allan Gonsher, LSCSW Awareness and Interventions For Adult Males Sexually Victimized as Children Barry Horowitz, Healing Intergenerational Wounds: A Systemic- Neurobiological Approach Mona Fishbane, From Insanity To Serenity: The Art and Science of Treating Addictions Binyamin Tepfer., CSAT-S, Fundamentals of Forensic Psychology Jeffrey Singer, EARLY PROFESSIONAL TRACK Competencies And Proficiencies for Beginning Clinicians and Students Marcy Davidowitz, Anxiety, Opportunity and Hope: Navigating Through the Early Years of a Career in Mental Health David Katzenstein,
TIME 5:05 PM- 6:30 PM Leaning In: When One Plus One Equals Three. Promoting Secure Attachment Bonds and Co-Regulation in Couples Treatment Evie Rappaport, Non-Suicidal Self- Injury: Attentiongetting Behavior or a Dance with Death? David Brent, From Kollel to Career: Facts, Fantasy, Data and Interventions Tzvi Pirutinsky, Forensic Evaluation and Evaluation in Custody Battles Martin Friedlander, PC Infant Attachment- An Exploration Meredith Weiss, Real Life And Life Cycle Events Yocheved Berlowitz, 6:30 PM- 8:00 PM Dinner 8:00 PM- 8:15 PM Maariv 8:20 PM-10:00 PM Work the Network 10:00 PM- 11:30 PM An Experiential Workshop on Joy as a Therapeutic Intervention Ed Yisroel Susskind, Behavioral Addictions: How to Help Your Religious Clients Yaakov Siegal, Anatomy of a Helpline Chaya Mermerstein,
TIME 7:30 AM Shachris I 8:15 AM Shachris II 7:00 AM- 9:00 AM Registration Coffee and Cake Poster Sessions FRIDAY SCHEDULE December 25, 9:30 AM- 12:30 PM Loving with the Brain in Mind: Integrating Neurobiology In Couple Therapy** Mona Fishbane, Intergenerational and Attachment Trauma: Healing the Wounded Self and Repairing the Parent/Child Connection Rivki Jungreis, ADHD In Adults: A Practical Overview** Binyomin Goldman, Seeking The Perfect Mate? Shidduchim, Dating and OCPD Jonathan Schwartz, Engaging the Resistant Adolescent with Maladaptive Behaviors Rozi Wax, MA, LMFT, LMHC START TIME 10:30AM Looking Through the Peephole Before the Doors Close and Gates Open Judith Guedalia, 12:30 PM- 1:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM- 3:00 PM Learning from Our Therapeutic Mistakes Janice Goldfein, LMSW Intergenerational and Attachment Trauma: Healing the Wounded Self and Repairing the Parent/Child Connection Rivki Jungreis, Depression, Self- Doubt, and Bad Relationship Choices - Themes In The Aftermath of Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and Neglect. Rachel Lowinger,
TIME 4:16 PM Candle Lighting 4:27 PM Mincha / Kabbalos Shabbos 5:45 PM- 8:00 PM Seudas Shabbos 8:00 PM- 9:30 PM Seek And You May Or May Not Find: Psychological Challenges and Realities in The Search for Contentment in Orthodox Jewish Religious Life Rabbi David Fox, Rabbi Avrahom Union Yitzi Horowitz, 9:30 PM Oneg Shabbos and Tisch
SHABBOS SCHEDULE December 26, 2015 TIME 7:00 AM Hashkama Shachris 7:00 AM- 10:00 Breakfast AM 8:30 AM- 11:15 Shachris AM 11:30 AM- 1:20 PM Kiddush / Seudas Shabbos 2:35 PM- 3:40 PM Ma Hu Rachum...Ma Hu Chanun.. Emulating Our Creator Aviva Biberfeld, Informing on Others for Violations of the Secular Law ** Nachum Klafter, Wounded Healers of the Soul: Exploring the Psyche, Strengths, and Struggles of The Helping Professional Binyamin Tepfer, CSAT-S, CMAT 3:50 PM- 4:15 PM Mincha 4:15 PM Seudas Shlishis 5:49 PM Maariv / Havdalah Rising from Divorce Genetic Testing in (FILM) the 21 st Century Mark R. Banschick, Psychological and Ethical Issues Hindie Klein, Edward Reichman, 8:30 PM Melaveh Malka 7:00 PM- 8:30 PM "As If Forced by a Demon": Abnegation and Sensuality in Jewish Sexual Ethics and Psychology Rabbi Simcha Feuerman, - R Ethical Dilemmas and Halachic Questions for General Physicians** Edward Reichman, Rav Dovid Cohen
SUNDAY SCHEDULE December 27, 2015 TIME 7:00 AM Shachris I 8:15 AM Shachris II 7:00 AM- 9:00 AM Breakfast 8:00 AM Registration 8:30 AM- 9:00 AM Poster Sessions EARLY PROFESSIONALS TRACK 9:30 AM- 12:30 PM Radical Concern for the Needs of the Patient: Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration. Karen Starr, Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Principles to Forge Secure Attachment in a Unique Group Setting Mary E Stacy, MSW Lea Koplowitz, -R 12:30 PM- 2:00 PM Lunch 2:00 PM- 2:15 PM Mincha 2:20 PM- 5:30 PM We Have Data! Prevalence and Impact Data of Male Sexual Abuse Gavriel Fagin, ACT, Mindfulness and Judaism Moshe Zev Lamm, Isaac Schecter, Jonathan Feiner, Trauma, Abuse, Neglect, Aggression, or Abandonment. What Are the Common Themes Play Therapists Need To Address? And, in Play Therapy, What Do We Do? Allan Gonsher, LSCSW 5:30 PM Maariv Enchanting Therapy: Hypnosis in Contemporary Clinical Practice Hillel Zeitlin, -C Yeshiva Bochur Burnout: Understanding and Treating the Distressed Overachiever Dov Finkelstein, Religion vs. Psychotherapy Hillel Zeitlin, -C Nachum Klafter, Ilana Rosen, MFA, Yehuda Krohn, Treating Sexual Problems Through the Lens of Attachment: Integrating EFT Techniques and Sex Therapy Pamela Klein, Supervisors and Supervisees Nosson Solomon, Yeta Solomon, Aviva Biberfeld, Chavie Rabinowitz, LMHC When It s Over: The Post Termination Period in Psychodynamic Treatment Sarah Jofen Miller, MA