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Miriam
O. Smith Educational
Series
presents
Strengthening Families-The
Shelter of Each Other
featuring Bestselling Author of
"Reviving Ophelia"
Mary Pipher, PhD
with a choice of four Breakout sessions led by local specialists
Sunday, March 19, 2006
12:30 pm - 5:30 pm
(Registration begins at 11:30 am)
Manor House
7440 Mason-Montgomery Road, Mason, OH
Phone registrations accepted until 5 p.m. Friday, March 17
Call (513) 766-3323
Walk-ins Welcome
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General Admission:
$15
by March 10, $20 after March 10
With registration of Professional Credits:
$ 65 by March 10, $80 after
March 10
4.5
CEUs for Counseling, Social Work, Nursing, or Occupational Therapy
4
CEUs for Psychology
Teacher
Certificate of Attendance for 4.5 Contact Hours
4
Physician CMEs.
Dr. Mary Pipher’s work combines her training in psychology and
anthropology to explore how American culture influences mental health of
families.
According to Dr. Pipher, in our new century families have their
old problems plus new ones related to the loss of community and extended
family, the avalanche of technology and the invasion of media.
She examines how our culture affects the mental health of families and offers
new approaches to the treatment of families in therapy.
Dr. Pipher received her BA in Cultural Anthropology at the University of
California at Berkeley and her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University
of Nebraska. She received the American Psychological Association Presidential
Citation in 1998. In 2001, she was a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar in
Residence at Bellagio, Italy.
Three of her books, Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each
Other, and Another Country were New York Times
best-sellers. Reviving Ophelia was #1 for 27 weeks and on the NYT list
for 154 weeks. Her new book, Writing to Change the World, will
be published in 2006.
She has appeared on the TODAY show, 20/20, THE
CHARLIE ROSE SHOW, NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER, and National Public
Radio’s FRESH AIR. She has written articles for Time Magazine,
Hope, Psychotherapy Networker, The Journal
of Family Life, and many other publications.
Dr. Pipher travels all over the world sharing her ideas with community groups,
schools, and health care professionals. Her articulate and passionate delivery
creates enthusiasm in all types of audiences. Her down-to-earth stories of
hope and resilience inspire people to work together to build a better
community.
Agenda
11:30 -
12:30 Registration, Agency Fair, Book signing
12:30 - 2:30 Keynote by Mary Pipher, PhD:
Strengthening Families - The Shelter of Each Other
2:30 - 3:00 Break, Refreshments, Book signing
3:00 - 4:00 Overview with Q & A by Dr. Pipher
4:00 - 5:00 Breakout Sessions (see inside for details)
• A Normal Teenage Girl: An Oxymoron?
• A Normal Teenage Boy: An Oxymoron?
• Turn On and Tune In to your Tech Savvy Teen
• To Allow or Not to Allow
5:00 - 5:30 Wrap Up and Evaluation
Keynote
Strengthening Families -The Shelter of Each Other
will look at the changing roles of parents and the “disappearance of
childhood”. Participants will learn the skills they need to help families
protect themselves from what is “toxic” in the culture and connect themselves
to what is healing and growth-producing. We will explore the tools needed to
help families make good choices about time, money, media.
Participants who attend the symposium will:
• Recognize strategies for strengthening families. These involve teaching
families to protect time and space; to define and celebrate themselves; and to
connect with other families, the natural world and the broader culture.
• Recognize the influence of media and technology on teens and their
families.
• Identify ways to change the community and culture, including strategies
for helping families connect with communities.
You may choose from four Breakout
Sessions:
Register
Early. Breakout Session Spaces are Limited.
Please rank the four Breakout
Sessions in your preferred order on the registration form. We will try to honor
all requests. Breakout Sessions will be filled in the order registrations are
received.
A: A
Normal Teenage Girl: An Oxymoron?
This session will provide participants with valuable, real-life information
and a discussion about encouraging healthy development and strengthening
family connections of early adolescent girls within this complex and
increasingly competitive world.
Participants will:
• Recognize normal development and behavior for adolescent
girls.
•
Discuss the typical “stressors” for adolescent girls and strategies for
addressing them, including peer relationships, school transitions, body image,
sexuality, and substance abuse.
•
Identify how to lay the foundation for positive family interactions, including
communications, boundaries, support, and what to do when you are not sure.
Facilitators
Kathy Burklow, PhD is a clinical psychologist at Cincinnati Children’s
Hospital Medical Center and an Associate Professor. Dr. Burklow’s primary
research
and clinical interests are in fostering health and understanding psychosocial
development in girls.
Lisa C. Mills, PhD is a member of the academic faculty in the Department of
Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She is dedicated
to providing services and research addressing the physical and psychological
health and development of girls.
B: A
Normal Teenage Boy: An Oxymoron?
This session will provide participants with current information that addresses
the struggles that adolescent boys face in their quest for manhood within this
complex and increasingly competitive world.
Participants will:
•
Recognize normal development and behavior for adolescent boys.
•
Discuss the typical “stressors” for adolescent boys and strategies for
addressing them, including peer relationships, acts of daring, and the
pressure to be macho and prove their masculinity.
•
Identify how to lay the foundation for positive family communications,
boundaries, and support, including what to do when you are not sure
Facilitator
James Brush, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a member of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center staff. Dr. Brush has 23 years experience in Child and Adolescent treatment. This focus remains an area of special interest and expertise for Dr. Brush.
C:
Turn On & Tune In to your Tech-Savvy Teen
Do you IM your child to dinner? This session will open a window
into your child’s virtual world and help you understand the attractions,
benefits and risks of technology.
Participants will:
•
Recognize how families can utilize technology as an opportunity to stay
connected to their adolescents.
•
Identify where an adolescent has “virtually” been and strategies for
supervising technology use.
•
Recognize the difference between “techno obsession” and normal teenage
activity with today’s technology.
•
Discuss the danger signs of addictive behavior stemming from a teenager’s
internet use.
Facilitators
Alan Gross, LISW has extensive experience with adolescents, families and
adults through his work at Hamilton County Children’s Services, Family Service
of Greater Cincinnati, and as a marriage and family therapist in his current
private practice.
Steve Pollak was a computer service repairman who founded PC On Call. His ability to convert computer “tech-speak” into understandable terminology, along with his sense of humor, makes him a popular speaker.
D :
To Allow
or Not to Allow
How do you hold onto your values against the pressure of other parents, a
child’s peers and the broader culture? We are familiar with the concept of
peer pressure as it applies to children and especially adolescents. But
parents experience it too.
Participants will:
•
Recognize tensions parents face daily.
•
Identify how to assess when to be flexible or not with establishing boundaries
with children and adolescents.
•
Recognize the role parents play in transmitting values that help a child be
grounded, and yet still “fit in”.
Facilitator
Krista Ramsey is an editorial writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer where she has
written extensively on the well-being of youth and families. She recently has
focused on children in connection to obesity, anger, resilience,
overindulgence, and overscheduling.
Responders
Rita Gerber, LISW is a clinical social worker who focuses on the mental health
needs of children. She works as a Child and Adolescent Therapist at the
University of Cincinnati’s Central Clinic and at Jewish Family Service.
Ann Mezibov, LSW, focuses on adolescents, adults, couples, mothers and
daughters, and families as a clinical social worker for Jewish Family Service.
For more
information about the symposium, disability accommodations, or co-sponsorship opportunities contact
Sandee Golden at sgolden@jfscinti.org
or (513) 766-3323.
Thank you to our 2006 Agency Platinum Partners:
Fifth Third Bank Investment Advisors
CMC Properties
Towne Properties
Thank you to our sponsoring organizations:
Cinergy Foundation
Suburban Pediatric Associates, Inc.
Alan R. Mack Parents Center
BridgePointe Psychological & Counseling Services
Catholic Social Services
Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
County
Animal Hospital - Dr. Gary and Leah Smith
Family Service of Cincinnati
Girl Scouts - Great Rivers Council
Jewish Vocational Service
Mental Health Association of the Cincinnati Area
National Alliance on Mental Illness of Hamilton County
Ohio River Valley Clinical Social Work Society
Worldwide Web Wizards
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is accredited
by the Ohio State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education
for physicians. CME credit will be awarded for this activity.
5.1 contact hours will be awarded to nurses who attend the entire program and
complete an evaluation tool. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
(OH-046) is an approved provider of continuing education by the Ohio Nurses
Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center’s Commission on Accreditation (OBN-001-91). Provider status valid
through 9/1/06.
Cincinnati Children’s is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association-MCE
Program to offer continuing education for psychologists. Cincinnati Children’s
(provider #310833936) maintains responsibility for the program.
Miriam O. Smith Educational Series was established to honor the memory of Miriam O. Smith, a long
time social worker at Jewish Family Service who provided extensive individual
and family therapy, headed the Adoption program, assisted in forming the Alan
R. Mack Parents Center and also served as interim director of the agency.
  
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