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In this seminar we will explore a systemic therapy model that views the family as an emotional unit which influences and is influenced by the individuals within it.

This course examines the adverse impact of parent’s death, separation, or abandonment on children and adolescents.

Focus on the effects of Attention Deficit Disorder on cognitive, emotional, and social development and functioning; psychotherapeutic work to help children understand and cope with difficulties in these areas.

With Johanna deLeyer-Tiarks, PhD, assistant professor in the Derner School of Psychology.

This workshop will review the essential ethical and legal background for the provision of psychotherapy by licensed social workers/psychologists in New York State.

Jay Haley, one of the founders of family therapy, also worked with individuals and couples.

Join us for our Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology Clinical Psychology PhD Virtual Information Session hosted by Dr. Laura Brumariu, Program Director and Associate Professor.

This presentation then outlines some common clinical questions raised by LGBTQ patients as well as ethical issues raised in these clinical encounters, with a focus on transgender issues.

Adelphi gives you a variety of degree and schedule options that fit your busy life. Find out how at our Graduate Open House.

This presentation explores the impact of existential crises (COVID, political, social, and climate) on our and our patients’ ability to mourn within and outside analytic space.

The purpose of this course is to equip postgraduate mental health professionals with a systematic integrative approach to couple therapy.

Contribution of Relational Psychologists to understanding development and to psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and their parents with a focus on play interventions.

Evolving new research significantly challenges our cultural bias of a universal gender binary.

The suicide of a patient may have a complex impact on psychotherapist survivors, training programs, and organizations. Understanding the prevalence of patient suicide in training contexts and beyond may help clinicians, training directors, supervisors, and administrators anticipate the wide array of reactions and to develop a plan for responding at the level of the individual, the group, and the organization.

Adelphi gives you a variety of degree and schedule options that fit your busy life. Find out how at our Graduate Open House.

This seminar focuses on Contemporary Object Relations theory which is involved in the study and treatment of the unconscious couple system.

This course will focus on the racial and cultural identifications of both the child patient, and that of the therapist.

This course focuses on considerations and strategies in developing and maintaining a psychotherapy treatment plan that includes effective communication and collaboration between the child’s psychotherapist and school personnel.

Using Interpersonal theory and a discussion of dissociation as a backdrop for exploration, this seminar will discuss how the treatment of eating disorders allows for an exaggerated version of what we may consider a more traditional analysis.

The Autistic Spectrum Disorders represent significant neurologically based impairments in mentalization that disrupt the normal course of development.

The extremely dissociated person offers us entre into a world of unthinkable and unimaginable terror. Life gone awry, minds derailed by cruelty and sadism, bodies seemingly intact but perverted, holding secrets of betrayal, rend and terrify the soul within.

This seminar focuses on attachment based Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples which conceptualizes the negative, rigid interaction patterns and distress in couple relationships in terms of emotional disconnection and insecure attachment.

This course will review the research literature on the risks and benefits of psychopharmacological interventions as an adjunct to individual psychodynamic treatment.

This course introduces psychotherapists to the legal responsibilities, risks and dilemmas inherent in their work with minors and their families.