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Official publication: Annals of Neurology.

The official publication of ANPA is the Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences [JNCN].

The official publication of Ortho is the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

1. 5-th Annual Summer Symposium: "Adolescence - Development, Treatment, and Community" (June 21-25, 2010: Eastham, Cape Cod, MA)

5-th Annual Summer Symposium
"Adolescence - Development, Treatment, and Community"

( Refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: American Orthopsychiatric Association [Ortho]

June 21-25, 2010
Eastham, Cape Cod, MA

This Symposium addresses the multiple challenges faced by today's adolescents in their development, in clinical services, and in their successful integration into our communities. These important citizens of our nation experience the burdens of a more complex developmental trajectory in the face of over-burdened educational systems, over-stressed families, and unresponsive communities. This is so in spite of much attention by the popular press and by policy makers to the challenges they face. Such attention often focuses on their failings and does not celebrate their capacities and resilience. Additionally, the special needs of culturally diverse youth are often not acknowledged or effectively addressed.

The Symposium features a slate of faculty renowned for their cross-disciplinary, developmentally appropriate and youth driven perspectives in addressing the needs of adolescents. The focus of the presentations will be on preventive approaches and resiliency building amongst our youth, youth empowerment, the development of effective approaches to identifying and addressing mental health needs in adolescents, and therapeutic approaches that are most effective in engaging and resulting in developmental success. Cultural and linguistic issues and the community relevance of these strategies/interventions will be addressed. Participants will learn concrete skills needed to implement specific evidence-based or empirically supported practices, including cultural and linguistically appropriate adaptations and approaches to the empowerment of youth in communities.

Program:

• Promoting Youth Development, Resiliency and Prevention with Youth of Color
  • Carl Bell, MD, Director, Institute for Juvenile Research; Professor, University of Illinois School of Medicine, Chicago
• Youth Alienation: Engaging and Empowering our Youth
  • Charles Huffine, MD, Medical Director for Children's Services, King County Behavioral Health Services; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
• Mental Illness and Emotional Disturbance in Adolescents: Fact, Fiction, and Societal Response
  • Andres J Pumariega, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Temple University; Chair, Department of Psychiatry, The Reading Hospital and Medical Center, Pennsylvania.
• Adolescents and Systems of Care Model: A Good Fit?
  • Mary Armstrong, PhD, Professor of Family Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa
• Psychotherapy with Adolescents: Group and Individual Psychotherapy with Cultural Sensitivity
  • April Fallon, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Rama Rao Gogineni, MD, Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Professor of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Camden/Cooper Medical Center

Deadline for abstracts or proposals: 3/15/2007.

There are as many as 18 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -psychologists
  -social workers
  -nurses
  -marriage & family therapists
  -counselors
  -various disciplines

Event Contact:

Cape Cod Institute
Professional Learning Network, LLC
270 Greenwich Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830

888/394-9293
203/629-6048 fax
203/422-0535

prolearning@behavior.net

(So as to help out when calling about the above meeting, it would be nice of you to mention this Web resource as your source.)