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Fresno, Tuesdays, beginning Jan 20, 2009 ~ 6-9 PM
San Diego, Thursdays, beginning Jan 22, 2009 ~ 6-9pm Sacramento, Mondays, beginning Jan 26, 2009 ~ 6-9pm Los Angeles (Alhambra) – Spring, 2009, Dates TBA This advanced seminar explores in depth the phenomenon of risk and resilience in infants and preschoolers. The course covers risks to infants and preschoolers emanating from the family and stemming from the wider community and the potential for these children to positively adapt despite significant life adversities. Participants use a resilience framework for research, policy, and practice emerging from research on resilience, including implications for conceptualizing the mission, models, measures, and methods of intervention. This resilience model is applied to several high-risk populations such as young children in foster care, with developmental delays or risks, and teen parents. This course meets the following criteria developed by the California Infant, Early Childhood & Family Mental Health Workgroup on training standards: California's IPFMHI Training Guidelines
Fresno Instructor: Daryl Hitchcock, PhD, RPT-S is a licensed psychologist, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Clinical Director of the Assessment Center for Children ages 0-5 at Exceptional Parents Unlimited, Fresno. He co-developed and taught the Infant mental health learning lab Curriculum in Fresno County for non-clinician providers and worked as a psychologist with the Infant Mental Health team at Fresno County Mental Health Youth Link. He is a co-developer of the Marschak Interaction Method Rating System (MIMRS) and has published his research in the International Journal of Play Therapy. San Diego Instructor: Lily Cosico-Berge, PsyD, ATR-BC, RPT is a licensed psychologist and registered art & play therapist in the San Diego area. She is also a clinical supervisor at East County Outpatient Counseling, an outpatient clinic for children from birth to 21, and a psychological consultant to Head Start. She has developed and directed early intervention and treatment programs for infants, preschoolers and their families and has worked extensively with high-risk and multicultural populations. She uses an ecosystemic and relationship-based approach in her work, with particular emphasis on integration of diversity issues. She is trained in Incredible Years (IY), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Infant-Parent/Child-Parent Psychotherapy and Trauma Focused CBT. Sacramento Instructor: Beth Limberg, PhD, RPT-S is a licensed psychologist, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director of the doctoral clinical psychology program at CSPP/Alliant in Sacramento. She was Program Services Manager of Building Blocks Early Childhood Intervention Program at the River Oak Center for Children for several years She is a national trainer on the DC:0-3R for Zero To Three. She presents extensively on early childhood mental health and has published two book chapters on Ecosystemic Play Therapy with young children. |
