Fw: [DRAMATHERAPYLIST] NEW CHILD INSTITUTE FOR ANXIETY AND TRAUMATIC STRESS

[HV Psychodrama]

> 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 treatment approaches for anxiety disorders and 
> traumatic stress, ethics, and the theoretical and experiential application 
> of the 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 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 has published several articles on the use of 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.
>
> Assistant Training Director
>
> Laurice Adams M.A., RDT, is drama therapist and 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 
> in New York City.
>
> Before coming to New York City, Ms Adams provided children and adolescent 
> drama therapy at (Chicago). Since 1988 Ms. Adams has served as Drama 
> Therapist at the 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 from Israel and the Netherlands. For the past three 
> years she has served as the assistant training director at the Institute 
> for Developmental Transformations in Manhattan, and as adjust faculty 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)
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________
>
> Monthly                                       $ 540
>
> Yearly                                          $ 5400
>
> __________________________________________
> Full 2-Year Program               $ 10,800
>
>
>
>
> For further information or for an application contact:
>
> miller at theplayspace.com
>
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