The Harlem Family Institute continues its Saturday Talks series The State of the World, with the eminent child psychoanalyst Dr Gilbert Kliman speaking on the entrenched prejudice against children in society and its traumatic effects, with case studies from abuse in the foster system.
Dr. Kliman is one of the nation’s most effective voices for children in courts. He has given detailed opinions about the systematic abuse of children, with results costing state governments and private foster care agencies many millions of dollars in jury awards and settlements for psychological damage to children. Now he reports on a related series of residential group home cases in which many children were beaten, raped, and encouraged to rape each other. They lost much of their childhoods in the false hope of institutional foster care bringing growth and sanity to their already damaged lives.
This program offers 2.5 New York State continuing-education contact-hour credits for New York State Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers and Psychologists. It also offers non-credit Certificates of Attendance to anyone interested. See Eventbrite link for complete details.
Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
1. Explain the concept of “childism” as a form of prejudice and dehumanization.
2. List three ways in which group care institutions have added to the adverse childhood experiences of their client children.
3. Give illustrations of moral injury and institutional betrayal.
The Harlem Family Institute continues its Saturday Talks series The State of the World, with three clinicians from Colombia discussing the particular challenges and benefits of community psychoanalysis in their experiences, and lessons from Indigenous resistance. María Cecilia Sánchez will present an article which asks for the projection of our queries in social and cultural interventions and searches for an ethic that could help for humanization, and explore why we ask the questions that we ask. Camila Gutiérrez Cardoso will discuss her personal experience as a community psychoanalyst and her process of learning to “listen to the words and the silences, the joy, the pain and the unasked questions.” She will explore the role of analysis in healing the traumas caused by war, violence and conflict in a troubled time in world history, and how this work can transform individuals even when all hope seems to be lost. Silvia Rivera Largacha will present on how, in an era marked by global crises – climate change, political upheaval, and widening inequality, psychoanalysis can contribute to understanding and addressing these challenges through the lens of work with indigenous communities. Drawing from experiences with the indigenous communities of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada, we examine how psychoanalytic approaches can be adapted to support communities facing the compounded traumas of historical oppression, environmental degradation, and armed conflict.
This program offers 2.5 New York State continuing-education contact-hour credits for New York State Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers and Psychologists. It also offers Certificates of Attendance. Full details on event registration page.
We’re seeking applicants with advanced degrees in any discipline and the self-awareness, intuition, curiosity and passion to become Licensed or Certified Psychoanalysts through our psychoanalytic training programs.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT US AND OUR PROGRAMS at our annual online Open House
~ On Zoom, Saturday June 8 from 11 am to 1 pm ET ~
Please join us for the Institute’s annual Open House on Saturday June 8 from 11 am to 1 pm to learn about our clinical training programs in the community to become a psychoanalyst. Applicants need to hold at least a master’s degree in any discipline – allowing individuals from across the humanities, sciences and social sciences to enter the field. Training to become a Licensed or Certified Psychoanalyst usually takes 4-5 years part-time, though swifter advancement is possible.
To register for HFI’s Open House, Saturday June 8, please click on this Zoom link:
Since 1991 we have worked to train tomorrow’s diversity-sensitive psychoanalysts by taking training and treatment out to the community in small clinical sites that we operate in Harlem and Northern Manhattan, where our candidates provide free and ultra-low-fee clinical services to children, families, adolescents and adults through both psychotherapy and play therapy.
Through play therapy, we offer youngsters a safe space to express their feelings, to learn to use their strengths to manage the challenges they face every day, and to discover new ways to relate to the world. We have served hundreds of parents and children through our school- and community-based playroom treatment centers, where we offer consistent, long-term therapy and play therapy. Clients meet with their therapist in a safe, pleasant space where they work together to address difficult issues through play or talk.
The candidates studying in our programs – many of African American or Latino heritage, including clergy, from Harlem and the city’s most diverse communities – are able to develop careers as advanced mental-health professionals. The Institute’s more than 70 available faculty members come from many of the city’s and nation’s psychoanalytic institutes, drawn by its unique mission. The institute can admit suitable candidates, whether licensed or not, who hold a graduate degree in any discipline. Graduates of our Licensure-Qualifying Program may immediately sit the state exam to become Licensed Psychoanalysts.
Our founding Trustees included Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, MD, the nation’s first African American woman pediatrician and first African American psychoanalyst, who died in December 2019 aged 105. Our leadership includes Principal Consultant Dr. Paula Kliger, PhD; Honorary Dean Dr. Kirkland C. Vaughans; PhD, Executive Director Michael Connolly, MPA, LP; Deputy Director Sheila Johnson, LP, MPS; Training Director Dr. David Abrams, PhD; Academic Dean Robin Rayford, MA, MLLP; Clinical Director Ernest P. Smith, LCSW-R, and child & adult psychoanalyst Ann Marie Sacramone, MSEd, LP.
Paula Kliger, PhD HFI Principal ConsultantSheila Johnson, LP, MPS Deputy DirectorKirkland Vaughans, PhD Honorary DeanDavid Abrams, PhD Training DirectorRobin Rayford, MA, MLLP Academic DeanErnest P. Smith. LCSW-R Clinical DirectorAnn Marie Sacramone, MSEd, LP Senior Faculty Member
In addition to taking psychoanalytic training and treatment out to the community, the Institute aims to deepen an understanding of diversity and inclusiveness among tomorrow’s psychoanalysts. Created in 1991 to help children and families at a small independent elementary school in Harlem, HFI seeks to draw individuals of all cultures and backgrounds as it helps them develop psychoanalytic skills in working with children, parents, adolescents and other adults. It operates small neighborhood therapy sites in schools, community centers and houses of worship in Harlem and Upper Manhattan. It offers evening classes and supervision in faculty members’ offices. It also offers supervised clinical-experience programs for students in graduate programs in psychology, LMSWs and others. The Institute is currently working to develop a bigger Harlem clinical and child-development operation, where it hopes to offer not only individual psychoanalytic work and psychotherapy for adults, adolescents and children, but also group work for pregnant women, mothers & babies, parents & toddlers, Reflective-Network Therapy Nurseries for Preschoolers, and adolescent groups.
If you hold a graduate degree in any discipline and would like to become a psychoanalyst equipped to work with children, families, adolescents and adults in Harlem and nearby communities of New York’s great’s diversity, this event will help you get started by learning about the Institute and our training programs.
To register for HFI’s Open House, Saturday June 8, pleaseclick on this Zoom link:
HFI, which aims to take psychoanalytic training and treatment out to the community, grew out of a 1980s psychotherapy program created by psychoanalyst Stephen Kurtz, LCSW to help children at the Children’s Storefront School on East 129th St. In addition to Mr. Kurtz and Dr. Lawrence, founding Board members included Robert Coles, MD, the Harvard Medical School psychiatrist who devoted much of his career to researching and writing about the moral and spiritual life of children, including the book “Children of Crisis,” George Getzel, CSW, Tamar Turin Opler, LCSW-R, poet Ned O’Gorman, who founded the Children’s Storefront School, and attorney Elisabeth Radow, the Institute’s first chair, who did a mountain of pro bono legal work to set up the Institute and win its needed New York State approvals.
HFI Founder Stephen Kurtz, LCSW, with Founding Trustees Margaret Morgan Lawrence, MD, and Robert Coles, MD
Leading psychoanalyst and HFI Honorary Dean, Dr. Kirkland Vaughans, has drawn wide attention for co-editing with Warren Spielberg, PhD, the seminal, 2014, two-volume book “The Psychology of Black Boys & Adolescents.” He is also the founder of the Journal of Child, Adolescent and Infant Psychotherapy.
To register for HFI’s Open House, Saturday June 8, please click on this Zoom link:
The new Social Justice Division of Harlem Family Services announces a seminar series led by forensic expert Dr. Gil Kliman, focusing on “Trauma through a Forensic Psychoanalytic Lens.”
These monthly virtual sessions will explore the theory and practice of forensic psychoanalysis as applied to cases of trauma. The first session will take place on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at 11 AM EST via Zoom. Guest instructor Hasani Baharanyi, MD will be the featured speaker.
Participants may register via Zoom at this link (click here.) Registration is free for HFI/HFS candidates, faculty and staff. All others, please pay the $30 registration fee online via HFI’s website here.
Course Description
Psychological trauma will be defined in behavioral and psychoanalytic terms, together with a theoretical point of view consistent with modern evolutionary theory. In this seminar we will work together to identify the obstacles and opportunities presented by the legal system for psychoanalytic and psychodynamically-oriented expert witnesses. Countertransference problems will be discussed, ethical problems will be described, and most importantly the alleged and proven victims of psychological traumas will speak for themselves in various videotaped interviews which demonstrate the evidence of their psychological damage.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the seminar, participants will be able to:
Describe what plaintiff and defense attorneys expect an expert witness to contribute to the education of a jury or to the settlement of a contested claim. Explain why a psychoanalytic point of view about the long-term effects of childhood trauma has special value in a court room and goes far beyond a behavioral cross section. Illustrate how to formulate a clinical life care plan in a way that is associated with cost estimates over a lifetime. Describe the power of adverse childhood events research in forecasting psychosomatic problems and physical health care costs over a victim’s lifetime. Demonstrate how to prepare a Meyerian Chart in a fashion that can be presented to a jury, instead of an ordinary legal timeline. Explain how to testify concerning “Loss of Parental Services.” Describe special features of scientific knowledge about the aftermaths of childhood sexual molestation. Describe special features of traumas involving “betrayal” by family, institutions, schools, and agencies.
NOTE: Each Forensic Seminar will be recorded in order to ensure that interested colleagues may study them. In addition, numerous videos of evaluations concerning which we have permission will be shown and made available by HIPAA-compliant means. Upon receipt of separate confidentiality agreements, those videos may also be studied in-depth at leisure.
We at the Harlem FamiIy Institute and Harlem Family Services, New York, NY, urge compassion for all souls affected by the continuing conflict between Israel and Hamas and wish to press for humanitarian responses. While we condemn the recent and continuing violence and acknowledge the long-standing suffering of both the Jewish and Palestinian peoples, we believe that identification with the aggressor solves nothing and that only nonviolence engenders the transformations that can allow all to come together.
Following the example of African Americans who met the terrorism of white supremacy with nonviolence, as modeled by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we implore both sides to break this cycle of violence. Lay down your armaments and open your hearts to each other’s anguish. See the basic humanity in those you call foe. Turn hatred into empathy, isolation into kinship, brutality into mercy.
Through compassion that lifts up the downtrodden, we can transform suffering into a higher purpose. Our shared burdens can blossom into enlightenment if we raise each other from pits of vengeance to peaks of unity. When we connect as fellow human beings through shared struggles, labels of race, nationality, or creed fade into the background.
The path of nonviolence and compassion is challenging. We harbor pain and anger that tempts us to answer violence with violence. But we must resist the cycle of retribution, which only leads to more innocent bloodshed. With empathy for the suffering on both sides, we appeal to the humanity that lies in all people beneath the labels that divide us. We believe peace is possible if we open our hearts, though the road may be long.
Reconciliation demands humility and sacrifice. We must be willing to understand those we call enemies. We must be willing to forgive, even amidst grievous injustice. We must be willing to seek nonviolent solutions, though they require work and compromise. The rewards are healing, hope, and dignity for all people. We urge perseverance of spirit despite setbacks. With shared courage and compassion, we can mend what is broken. For in the profound words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Paula Kliger, PhDNeil Altman, PhDSheila Johnson, MPS/LP
For our October meeting, we’ll aim to pick up the threads we’ve been weaving. A big part of the challenge of community work is to find a way to support each other through thick and thin, despite disruptions, to return again and again to the beauty of the shared humanity we work resolutely to cultivate. We hope to see you all, each and every one of you, again this Saturday – and the second Saturday of every month!
The past few years have brought to a head multiple points of conflict in U.S. society that deeply affect the people of Harlem, Northern Manhattan and the Bronx. Join us or visit our websites frequently to learn about out our programs addressing what is at stake for our people with respect to abortion, guns, voting rights and many other issues of vital concern.
At our most recent meetings, people from various overlapping communities have discussed a range of issues that community members have been struggling with and have borne witness to these efforts as we strive to offer the Harlem Family Institute as a community resource for healing and action. Please feel free to invite others to our meetings.
For more than 30 years, the Harlem Family Institute has offered psychoanalytic-training and clinical-treatment services in Harlem and Northern Manhattan, training psychoanalysts and other mental-health professionals while helping hundreds of children, families, adolescents and others in schools, community centers and houses of worship.
Now, more than ever, those of us on the front lines of mental-health care in our beleaguered, under-resourced communities, need to support each other. So, the Institute has launched this monthly discussion group to draw together clinicians, therapists, clergy, educatorsand counselors with city agencies, including law enforcement and trade unions from Harlem, Northern Manhattan and the Bronx to share and learn from each other . . .
We hope that together we can create a forum for thoughtful and meaningful engagement about our often-times stressful and overwhelming work with our stressed and overwhelmed clients, students and congregations.
We’ll aim to share and discuss dilemmas in our work to counter burnout and despair. Please join us to be part of the organization and inauguration of this group. Let’s share ideas about how we can best support each other. As a whole we can be more than the sum of our parts!
Mark your calendars! The Harlem Family Institute’s “Saturday Talks” series and community outreach conversations are set to continue this fall. Stay tuned for further information and registration for each event.
Saturday, September 30, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM Eastern Time (virtual): “Saturday Talks: Harlem’s Psychoanalytic Renaissance” presents: Don Moss, “On Having Whiteness Revisited & A Composite of Outraged Whiteness.”
Friday-Sunday, October 27-29, in-person in Phoenix, AZ: an immersion weekend workshop in REFLECTIVE NETWORK THERAPY with Dr. Gilbert Kliman.
Saturday, November 25, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time (virtual): “Saturday Talks: Harlem’s Psychoanalytic Renaissance” presents: Jennifer Davids, “The Grenfell Tower Fire and The Social Psychoanalytic Work | Refugee Life, Race, Gender, and Privilege as Power | Faces of Othering 6 Years Later”
We’re seeking applicants with advanced degrees in any discipline and the self-awareness, intuition, curiosity and passion to become Licensed or Certified Psychoanalysts through our psychoanalytic training programs.
Please join us for the Institute’s annual
Open House
on Saturday May 6 from 11 am to 1 pm (Eastern Time)
to learn about our clinical training programs in the community to become a psychoanalyst.
Applicants need to hold at least a master’s degree in any discipline – allowing individuals from across the humanities, sciences and social sciences to enter the field. Training to become a Licensed or Certified Psychoanalyst usually takes 4-5 years part-time, though swifter advancement is possible.
To register for HFI’s Open House, Saturday May 6, please click on this Zoom link:
Since 1991 we have worked to train tomorrow’s diversity-sensitive psychoanalysts by taking training and treatment out to the community in small clinical sites that we operate in Harlem and Northern Manhattan, where our candidates provide free and ultra-low-fee clinical services to children, families, adolescents and adults through both psychotherapy and play therapy.
Through play therapy, we offer youngsters a safe space to express their feelings, to learn to use their strengths to manage the challenges they face every day, and to discover new ways to relate to the world. We have served hundreds of parents and children through our school- and community-based playroom treatment centers, where we offer consistent, long-term therapy and play therapy. Clients meet with their therapist in a safe, pleasant space where they work together to address difficult issues through play or talk.
The candidates studying in our programs – many of African American or Latino heritage, including clergy of multiple faiths, from Harlem and the city’s most diverse communities – are able to develop careers as advanced mental-health professionals. The Institute’s more than 70 available faculty members come from many of the city’s and nation’s psychoanalytic institutes, drawn by its unique mission. The institute can admit suitable candidates, whether licensed or not, who hold a graduate degree in any discipline. Graduates of our Licensure-Qualifying Program may immediately sit the state exam to become Licensed Psychoanalysts.
Our founding Trustees included Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, MD, the nation’s first African American woman pediatrician and first African American psychoanalyst, who died in December 2019 aged 105. Our leadership includes Principal Consultant Dr. Paula Kliger, PhD, Honorary Dean Dr. Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD, Executive Director Michael Connolly, MPA, LP, Training Director Dr. David Abrams, PhD, Academic Dean Robin Rayford, MA, MLLP, Clinical Director Ernest P. Smith, LCSW-R, and child & adult psychoanalyst Ann Marie Sacramone, MSEd, LP.
Paula Kliger, PhD HFI Principal ConsultantKirkland Vaughans, PhD Honorary DeanDavid Abrams, PhD Training DirectorRobin Rayford, MA, MLLP Academic DeanErnest P. Smith, LCSW-R Clinical DirectorAnn Marie Sacramone, MSEd, LP Senior Faculty Member
In addition to taking psychoanalytic training and treatment out to the community, the Institute aims to deepen an understanding of diversity and inclusiveness among tomorrow’s psychoanalysts. Created in 1991 to help children and families at a small independent elementary school in Harlem, HFI seeks to draw individuals of all cultures and backgrounds as it helps them develop psychoanalytic skills in working with children, parents, adolescents and other adults. It operates small neighborhood therapy sites in schools, community centers and houses of worship in Harlem and Upper Manhattan. It offers evening classes and supervision in faculty members’ offices. It also offers supervised clinical-experience programs for students in graduate programs in psychology, LMSWs and others. The Institute is currently working to develop a bigger Harlem clinical and child-development operation, where it hopes to offer not only individual psychoanalytic work and psychotherapy for adults, adolescents and children, but also group work for pregnant women, mothers & babies, parents & toddlers, Reflective-Network Therapy Nurseries for Preschoolers, and adolescent groups.
If you hold a graduate degree in any discipline and would like to become a psychoanalyst equipped to work with children, families, adolescents and adults in Harlem and nearby communities of New York’s great’s diversity, this event will help you get started by learning about the Institute and our training programs.
To register for HFI’s Open House, Saturday May 6, please click on this Zoom link:
“My Book About the War and Terror in Ukraine” offers psychological first aid to displaced and traumatized children and families during the war in Ukraine
The continuing war and terror in Ukraine have caused havoc and suffering for millions of Ukrainians by killing, maiming, terrorizing and displacing them from their homes. Here at the Harlem Family (Psychoanalytic) Institute in New York we are also all too familiar with atrocities. We know about lynchings, the genocide of Native Americans, rape, mutilations and transgenerational horrors in our own neighborhoods. We have an Acute Trauma Response Service (named after the first African American woman psychoanalyst) and have been regularly presenting extraordinary workshops, including powerful videos of how psychoanalysts can listen, give voice to, understand and sometimes deeply strengthen the lives of child and family victims.
“My Book About the War and Terror in Ukraine,” a new Guided-Activity Workbook aimed at helping young war victims deal with the trauma of recent events
To help guide caregivers and therapists, child & adolescent psychoanalyst Gilbert Kliman, MD, with several co-authors and translators, has prepared a new guided-activity workbook: My Book About the War and Terror in Ukraine. (It is based on previous editions, which have helped recovery from natural and human-caused disasters.) Published digitally in numerous languages by the Harlem Family (Psychoanalytic) Institute in New York, it is offered on the Institute’s website. It is part of the Institute’s focus on responding to trauma and loss, whether in New York or elsewhere in our so-often cruel and troubled world.
The workbook provides a structure to help as many children, teens and families in many nations as quickly as possible, whether affected directly or indirectly.
We are now beginning a series of Saturday trauma-focused workshops for clinicians, educators and others. The workshops will facilitate the use of our psychoanalytic and other caregiver selves and our ways of helping traumatized people. They will focus on real experience of countertransference and technique in catastrophic traumas in many contexts. We welcome and hope to include Ukrainian and other European colleagues and their evolving work.
The Harlem Family (Psychoanalytic) Institute in New York invites you to join us via Zoom for:
Trauma-Focused Workshops for Clinicians & Educators
including how to help Ukrainian and other children & families to use
My Book About the War and Terror in Ukraine
The digital publication is an evidence-based, 98-page, guided-activity workbook designed to support children’s, teens’ and adults’ mental and emotional health amid the war and terror in Ukraine. It is available from the website of the Harlem Family Institute for single-copy download for a donation to the Institute of whatever amount each individual acquirer wishes. It is in English, Ukrainian, Polish, German, French, Italian and Spanish, and soon in Russian.
Each 90-minute trauma-response workshop will be offered for US$60 on Saturdays. It will be offered free to Ukrainian colleagues who contact us. We begin May 21 at these times:
5 to 6:30 pm:Ukraine, Israel
4 to 5:30 pm: Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Warsaw
3 to 4:30 pm: London
10 to 11:30 am: New York
9 to 10:30 am: Dallas, Chicago
7 to 8:30 am: San Francisco, Tucson
10 to 11:30 pm:Beijing
The workshops will be offered by child & adolescent psychoanalysts Gilbert Kliman, MD, the lead author on the workbook, and Paula Kliger, PhD, an expert in trauma, disaster and crisis response.
The program offers 2.5 New York State continuing-education contact-hour credits
for New York State Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers. It also offers Certificates of Attendance. Details below.
Kathryn McCormick, MA, LMFT
About This Presentation
This presentation will highlight how an evidence-based, psychoanalytically-informed treatment method called Reflective Network Therapy (RNT) helps children and their natural networks (parents/caregivers, teachers and classmates) heal the experiences of intergenerational trauma, grief and loss, and the role that forming a coherent narrative plays in treatment. Perspectives in working with Indigenous and First Nations peoples will be considered.
Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
Describe an understanding of the role of colonization in the transmission of intergenerational trauma.
Clarify and articulate the benefits that an evidenced-based psychoanalytic treatment method called Reflective Network Therapy (RNT) can bring children who have experienced intergenerational grief, loss and trauma and/or developmental disturbances.
Explore how Indigenous and First Nations preschoolers, their caregivers and tribal communities can experience healing from the impact of intergenerational grief, loss, and trauma through the process of building epistemic trust and the formation of a coherent narrative.
About Kathryn McCormick
Kathryn McCormick, MA, LMFT, CMHS, EMMHS, is a bilingual (Spanish) child analyst and an advanced candidate in adult training at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She has worked for over two decades in a northwest tribal community as a clinician, including for over 10 years as the Administrative Clinical Supervisor of a tribal Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Mental Wellness Program. For the past six years, she has served as the Administrative Clinical Supervisor of the tribes’ Birth to Five Center, and as the head and lead clinician in the psychoanalytically informed, evidence-based Reflective Network Therapy (RNT) program for children (aged 2½-5) challenged with trauma, developmental delays and/or social, emotional and/or behavioral difficulties.
Internationally, Kathryn has held numerous administrative and executive positions with IPSO (the candidate organization of the IPA) including as the former IPSO VP Elect of North America – 2013-2015, IPSO VP of North America – 2015-2017, IPSO President Elect 2017-2019, and most recently IPSO President, 2019-2021.
Additionally, she has held several positions in the IPA both on the IPA IPSO Relations Committee (IIRC) from 2013-2020, IPA Health in the Community Committee.
Kathryn currently serves on the IPA Education in the Community Committee.
Spotlight on HFI’s New Community Outreach
This presentation is part of our multifaceted new Community Outreach programs, including:
This Saturday Talks series, Harlem’s Psychoanalytic Renaissance, on many Saturdays at 11:30 am ET, featuring leaders on issues of diversity, discrimination, social justice, human rights and other global, community and individual needs.
A weekly clinical discussion group, Bridging the Harlem Family Institute and the Community,for neighborhood clinicians, clergy and teachers, led by Paula Kliger, PhD, and Neil Altman, PhD.
The Margaret Morgan Lawrence Acute Trauma-Response Service providing especially veteran psychoanalysts to help those suffering after traumatic events, led by Gilbert Kliman, MD, and Paula Kliger, PhD.
The Institute is also working to launch a service for young children, Reflective Network Therapy in Preschool Classrooms, created by Gilbert Kliman, MD. We seek preschools, daycare centers and child clinical centers interested in collaborating with us.
Further announcements about these efforts will follow.
Registration
To support the Harlem Family Institute’s work, we are charging attendees $60 for this event. Registration takes place via Eventbrite and you will receive the Zoom link by email prior to the event.
Discounts are available for unlicensed candidates at psychoanalytic training institutes and unlicensed students who can demonstrate this status and for whom this fee would be a hardship.
CE Contact-Hour Credits & Certificates of Attendance
New York State Continuing Education Contact-Hour Credits will be available for New York StateLicensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers who attend the entirety of the presentation and remain on screen throughout. HFICertificates of Attendance will also be available on the same basis. Please note that we can offer CE credits only to Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers currently licensed in the State of New York. Other licensed clinicians should check with their licensing agencies to see if the agency will accept an HFI Certificate of Attendance.
CE contact-hour credits will be granted only to participants with documented attendance of the entire program and completed online evaluation form who have registered for them. No partial credit will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted 2.5 Contact-Hour CE credits. Certificates of Attendance will be granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program who have registered for them.
The Harlem Family Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychoanalysts, #P-0048. The Institute is recognized by the same Board as an approved provider of continuing education for Social Workers, #SW-0648.
The Harlem Family Institute is deeply committed to diversity as it trains candidates from many different backgrounds to become psychoanalysts through clinical work in underserved communities. It is authorized to train anyone with a master’s degree in any field recognized by the NY State Education Department. Graduates may sit the state licensing exam in psychoanalysis upon graduation. The Institute is especially interested in issues of diversity and discrimination in race, ethnicity and gender and works especially with children and families as well as with adults in Harlem and other underserved communities.
Cancellations:Professionals who are unable to attend a course for which they have registered may obtain a 60% refund through Eventbrite up to 24 hours before the class. Less than one day, no tuition will be refunded. If you are in need of further assistance with a refund, please contact the Institute (hfi.admin@harlemfamilyinstitute.org) in writing. Disclosure Information:None of the planners and presenters of this program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Recording:As the presentation will be recorded, participants’ registration and attendance represent their permission to be recorded and for their name and/or image to be included in subsequent presentations of the recording.
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