Past Event Archives: 2010 • 2009

Trauma and Resilience in the Lives of Young Children and Their Families

Featuring Keynote Speakers:
Daniel Schechter, MD

Gilbert Foley, EdD
Therapists of the Primary Prevention Project for
Mothers, Infants and Young Children of 9/11/2001

ABOUT OUR CONFERENCE:

Trauma has profound implications for the mental and physical health of family members and for the development of young children. Whether it’s the “big T” traumas, such as war, serious accidents and incest, or the “little t” traumas, such as ongoing emotional neglect or a family history of alcoholism, trauma impacts children either directly, when children, themselves, are victims, or indirectly, when parents’ trauma is transmitted to their children. This conference will explore the concept of both trauma and its equally important, but more elusive, counterpart: resilience. Speakers will define trauma and resilience and illustrate through case studies the impact of intra-family traumas, such as abuse, and extra-family traumas, such as those occurring on September 11, 2001.

When: Friday May 14, 2010 from 8am to 3:30pm

Where: New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania
Penntop South / Skytop Room
401 7th Avenue at 33rd Street, 18th Floor

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