Fw: The Post Graduate Institute for the Treatment of Child Anxiety and Traumatic Stress

Sat Apr 14 08:24:53 CDT 2007

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Subject: The Post Graduate Institute for the Treatment of Child Anxiety and Traumatic 
Stress

theplayspace: psychological services for children with anxiety

Location:
The Institutes for the Arts in Psychotherapy
526 west 26th street
Suite 309
New York, New York 10001
Announcement

We are now seeking applications for September 2007:

The Post Graduate Institute for the Treatment of Child Anxiety and Traumatic Stress

This two-year comprehensive certificate program is for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, 
Social Workers, Counselors, Psychotherapists, and Creative Arts Therapists who want to 
effectively use the embodied improvisational arts with their child and adolescent clients 
for the amelioration of anxiety and anxiety related disorders.

This program integrates the current research and practice in developmental psychology, 
child interviewing, developmental psychopathology and assessment, current empirically 
validated treatment approaches for anxiety disorders and traumatic stress, ethics, and the 
theoretical and experiential application of embodied improvisational arts in child 
psychotherapy

This program is structured to support the theoretical and experiential learning of 
candidates in three ways: 1) the 2-½ hour weekly didactic seminar, 2) the 6-hour 
experiential monthly training group including group supervision and 3) private individual 
supervision for case study. The curriculum is organized in 4 semesters and can be 
completed in a 2-year period

First Year
Weekly Seminar Topics

Child Development
Developmental Psychopathology
Attachment, Trauma and Resilience
Empirically Supported Practice in Child Psychotherapy
The Use of the Embodied Improvisational Arts in Child Psychotherapy

Second Year
Weekly Seminar Topics

The Postmodern Self and the Performative Unconscious
Embodied Child Psychotherapy in the PlaySpace
Family Systems and Group Dynamics
Power and Privilege in the Psychotherapy Relationship
Ethics in Child Psychotherapy

Monthly Experiential Training and Group Supervision

Experiential Training in the application of Embodied Child Therapy and improvisational 
techniques for children and adolescents using: Music, Dance, Art, Drama, Poetry, Journal 
Writing, and Video

Monthly Individual Case Supervision

Director

Robert James Miller II Ph.D., RDT, is a licensed clinical psychologist in the States of 
New York and New Jersey and is a registered drama therapist. Dr Miller completed his 
predoctoral internship at the Yale Psychiatric Institute Women?s Trauma Program and The 
New Haven Post Traumatic Stress Center. He completed his postdoctoral internship in child 
forensic psychology at the Audrey Hepburn Children?s House, Regional Diagnostic Center for 
Child Abuse and Neglect, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack New Jersey. He 
has completed group relations training in the Tavistock Group Relations Model and served 
as faculty for the residential group relations conferences conducted at Mount Holyoke 
Massachusetts. Dr. Miller completed training at the Post Graduate Institute for 
Developmental Transformations Manhattan and has completed certified training in child 
forensic interviewing, expert witness testimony, and treatment for child trauma.

Before completion of his doctorate in psychology, for ten years Dr. Miller served as the 
Supervisor for the Creative Arts Therapies at the National Center for PTSD, Yale 
University Clinical Campus where he provided creative arts therapies and verbal 
psychotherapy for combat veterans and their families and directed theater works with 
combat veterans participating in the HomeFront Veteran?s Theater Company.

Dr. Miller has lectured extensively and internationally, has conducted research and 
published several articles on the use of creative arts therapies in the treatment of 
trauma related anxiety. He has supervised internship students from the Drama Therapy 
Program at New York University and internationally. He has served as adjunct faculty at 
the California Institute for Integral Studies Drama Therapy Program San Francisco 
California. He has taught adolescent psychology as adjunct professor at Montclair State 
University Montclair New Jersey and currently teaches leadership, conflict resolution and 
group dynamics using the arts media at the Lesley University Extension Campus Natanya, 
Israel. Dr. Miller has served on the board of the American Professional Society on the 
Abuse of Children New Jersey, is a current member of the American Psychological 
Association, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and the National 
Association for Drama Therapy

Most recently, Dr. Miller conducts full time private practice with children and adults 
using the arts media and verbal psychotherapy for anxiety related behavioral and emotional 
problems and acts as Director of Training at the Institute for Developmental 
Transformations in Manhattan and as Director of Education at the Specialized Therapy 
Associates in Edgewater New Jersey.

Associate Training Director

Laurice Adams M.A., RDT, is a registered drama therapist and a licensed creative arts 
therapist in the State of New York. Ms. Adams is a graduate of the New York University 
Drama Therapy Masters Program and she has completed post-graduate training at the 
Institute for Developmental Transformations Manhattan.

Before coming to New York City, Ms Adams provided adolescent drama therapy at the 
University Hospital in Chicago. Since 1998 Ms. Adams has served as Drama Therapist at 
Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan where she currently provides drama therapy for homeless 
mentally ill men. In addition to her work at Bellevue, Ms. Adams is currently in private 
practice at the Institute for the Arts in Psychotherapy Manhattan where she provides drama 
and verbal psychotherapy.

Ms. Adams has supervised drama therapy students from the New York University Drama Therapy 
Program, the New School University, and international students. For the past three years 
she has served as the associate training director at the Institute for Developmental 
Transformations, and currently serves as adjunct faculty in drama therapy at 
Manhattanville College.

Structure and Schedule for the Child Institute

1
Weekly Seminar

All required (with 2 absences per semester allowed)
Didactic Seminar (see topics above)

Monday or Tuesday Evenings 6pm - 8:30pm
2 ½ hours weekly
(10 hours monthly)

2
Monthly Experiential Group Sessions

Required 20 sessions (over 2 year period)

Experiential Training
Group Supervision

Saturday Mornings 10am - 4pm
(5 hours monthly)

3
Monthly Individual Supervision

Individual Supervision of Casework

To Be Individually Scheduled
(1 hour monthly)

16 hours per month total participation in the program

Rolling Admission

Tuition

Monthly Tuition
 (10 months per academic year for 2 years organized in 4 semesters)

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Monthly                                       $ 540

Yearly                                          $ 5400

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Full 2-Year Program               $ 10,800

For further information or for an application contact:

miller at theplayspace.com

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