Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute: Lectures and Seminars

Lectures and Seminars

The 2011-2012 academic year's schedule of Lectures and Seminars is an exciting one -- with something for everyone.  We have classes specifically for Mental Health Professionals, for Educators and Professionals who work with Children and Adolescents and for the Community at large. 

And we continue our latest  course of study -- Psychodynamic Studies in Adoption and Foster Care -- with two new classes plus case studies.  The full certificate course information is here, but each class in the series can also be taken individually as part of our continuing education program.  Click here for class listing and descriptions.  These courses are designed for all professionals working with adopted and foster children and their families.

We're very excited to present these two lectures coming this spring featuring internationally known experts in their fields:

Friday, March 9, 2012
David Brodzinsky, PhD
THE LIFECYCLE OF ADOPTION
This presentation will explore family life cycle issues that are unique to adoptive families and their implications for childen's psychological adjustment.  Among the many topics to be discussed are those associated with the transisition to adoptive parenthood, helping chidren recover from early adversity, sharing adoption information with children and supporting a child's curiosity about their origins, helping children cope with adoption-related loss, and supporting a child's adoptive identity.

The role of openess in adoption commnication will be highlighted as the basis for successful negotiation of these life cycle tasks for adoptive parents and their children. 

This lecture is a must-attend for all who work with and counsel adopted children and their families, as well as for all members of the adoption triad: birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees.

Dr. Brodzinsky has written and lectured extensively in the fields of developmental and clinical psychology and is co-author of such well known books as The Psychology of Adoption, Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self, and Children's Adjustment to Adoption: Developmental and Clinical Issues. 


7:00 p.m.
AT&T Auditorium at The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Directions here)
Tickets:  $15
Purchase tickets here
Sponsors:  Webster University Graduate Program in Counseling and Protivi
Collaborative Partners: Children's Home Society, Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition and Voices for Children


Thursday, April 26, 2012
Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, PhD
EMOTIONAL MUSCLE: STRONG PARENTS, STRONG CHILDREN
Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, PhD, have been working with children and families on thoughtful, positive parenting techniques for more than four decades.  Their latest book, Emotional Muscle: Strong Parents, Strong Children, offers all who work with children useful ways to build emotional muscles, such as trust, adaptability, empathy, internal controls and more in children from babies to five-year-olds.
6:30 p.m.
Ethical Society of St. Louis Auditorium
Tickets: $15
Purchase tickets here



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