Chair:            

Seth Aronson, Psy.D., CGP, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

Presenters:

Toby Chuah-Feinson, M.S.W., Ph.D., CGP, Director, Adventures in Teaching & Counseling, Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Saul Scheidlinger, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP, DFAGPA, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

Maureen Underwood, ACSW, CGP, Private Practice, Morristown, New Jersey

The centerpiece of this session will be a video produced by Project Phoenix, the New Jersey Division of Mental Health, and the Mental Health Association of New Jersey that addresses the impact of traumatic loss on the family system. Parents and children give firsthand accounts of how life changed after the death of a parent. Models for addressing the needs of these families in a support group format will also be presented.

Course References:

1. McFarlane, A. & van der Kolk, B. (1996). Trauma and its challenge. In B. van der kolk, A.

    McFarlane & L. Weisseth (Eds.),Traumatic stress: The effects of overwhelming experience on   

    mind body and society,. 3-23. New York: Guildford Press.

2. Shapiro, E  (1994). Grief as a family process. New York: Guildford Press

3. Wolin, S.J. & Wolin, S. (1992). The resilient self: How survivors of troubled families rise above

    adversity. New York: Villard Books.