Continuing Education Credit Workshops

Understanding and Treating the Emotional Problems of Gifted Children, Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychotherapy Approach

Saturday, July 18, 2009
9:00 to Noon
Orlando, Florida

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Dr. Jerald Grobman New York, NY Dr. Grobman is a board certified psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. He specializes in the psychodynamic and cognitive/behavioral psychotherapy of adolescents and adults. Currently he is a member of the attending staff of the Lenox Hill Hospital ’s department of psychiatry where he is a senior supervisor in the psychology intern and externship training program. From 1975-1980 he was an associate clinical professor in the department of psychiatry of the Tufts University School of Medicine. While there, he was the director of the group psychotherapy training program and was a group therapy training instructor in the American Group Psychotherapy Association’s national training institute. He also developed a full service community based mental health center and was the psychiatric consultant to the guidance staff of a middle school. Dr. Grobman has published in the fields of community psychiatry, group psychotherapy and consultation/liaison psychiatry. Dr. Grobman is a member of the SENG Professional Advisory Committee.

 This workshop/seminar is designed to help clinicians understand the common emotional problems of gifted children, adolescents and young adults and how to treat them using psychotherapy.

In the first half of the seminar/workshop, Dr. Grobman will use clinical vignettes to review the personality traits of gifted individuals and describe how they develop from childhood through adolescence and into young adulthood.

The particular difficulties gifted young people have in resolving development and circumstantial conflicts with school, peers and parents will be discussed. There will be a special exploration of the ambivalent feelings gifted children, adolescents and young adults have about the unique elements of their endowment. The causes of depression, anxiety, underachievement and self-destructive behavior will be examined.

The second half of the seminar/workshop will proceed with a discussion of how a comprehensive psychodynamic assessment of gifted individuals can compliment educational and neuropsychological testing. Techniques of crisis intervention and therapeutic work with parents will be discussed. Case based material will be used to illustrate the basic aspects of and different stages of psychodynamic psychotherapy of gifted adolescents and young adults. Special attention will be paid to integrating the techniques of mentoring, coaching, counseling and cognitive/behavioral therapy with psychotherapy to establish a less traditional and more flexible therapeutic approach.

Participants are encouraged to read Dr. Grobman’s paper Underachievement in a Group of Exceptionally Gifted Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychiatrist’s View available for download at: www.psychotherapyservicesforthegifted.com

Best Practices of Health Care Professionals in Serving the Gifted: The Role of Physicians

Saturday, July 18
2:00 - 5:00 PM
Orlando, Florida
3 CE Credits

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Dr. Richard Clouse Louisville, KY Dr. Clouse is a family practice physician and Associate Professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and has practiced medicine in Pennsylvania and Kentucky for nearly 20 years.

Gifted families encounter unusual challenges in social, emotional and behavioral development. Yet most health professionals have little or no training in recognizing gifted children and assisting their families with the unique parenting challenges these children present. This seminar provides health professionals with the information they need to anticipate these issues and prevent some of the more common and serious behavioral problems that arise among gifted children. Professionals who are consulted about behavior when a problem arises will be better able to recognize the unique factors at work in the development of a gifted child and provide helpful advice.

You will learn:

• How to recognize a gifted child
• The characteristics of giftedness from which behavior problems arise
• How these characteristeics impact developmental tasks
• The underlying issues behind misbehavior
• Practical constructs to help parents understand these issues
• Common behavioral challenges from infancy to adulthood
• The long-term repercussions of different parenting approaches
• Practical advice for evaluating these children
• Practical interventions to help parents manage

Gifted individuals face unique challenges especially in the process of growing up. Pediatricians and family practitioners regularly coach parents on social, emotional and discipline issues during well-child visits. This "Anticipatory Guidance" is meant to alert parents to developmental issues and to open a dialogue about handling children's behavior. Psychiatrists, psychologists and counselors are frequently consulted when parents find their child puzzling, difficult or unhappy. Professionals who understand the special circumstances that challenge the gifted child will be able to provide appropriate anticipatory guidance or insightful analysis and good advice for problem behaviors

New! Opportunity to receive APA credits with a SENG Home Study Course.
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