Session 1 09:00-12:00

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09:00 – 10:30 Group Therapy with Haredi Patients: Doubts, Models and Experience

• General Overview: Hanna Bar Yosef, PhD

• Group Therapy for Young Women with Schizophrenia with the Assistance of Animals

Nechama Samuel, Dinah Korol; Therapists Certified in the Use of Animal Assisted Therapy

• Group Therapy with Mothers and Fathers of Young Adults with Mental Disorders

Frumi Gotleib, MSW Rabbi Dovid Levin, MSW

10:45-12:00 Use of Consultant in Extricating From Treatment Impasse

Seymour Hoffman, PhD Esther Herman, MSc

2

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The Making of SECRETS: A Journal of a New Oleh: Using Interactive Theater to Confront the Challenges of Teenage Aliyah and its Effect on the Family

Sarah Beth Solomont, MA Toby Klein Greenwald, BA Michelle Berkovitz, MS

3

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Mindfulness for the Psychotherapist: Empower Yourself, Empower Your Patients Dina Wyshogrod, PhD Sheryl Prenzlau, MSW

4

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The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing Sanford Landa, DCSW-R, MPA., CASAC., CPP

5

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09:00- 10:30 Munchausen by Proxy:

A Case Review-- NOT THAT CASE!!

Judi Guedalia, PhD Amalia Oren, MSW

6

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10:45-12:00 Track A

Social & Spiritual Dimensions of Aging

Treatment, Intervention and Prevention of Abuse of Elderly People Sarah Halperin, BSW

7

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We (Men and Women) all Feel!!! Our Environment Does Not always Acknowledge It..

Avraham Katz, MSW

12:00 – 13:00

13:00-14:45

LUNCH

Welcome & Keynote Speech

1:30-14:15

Halacha & Medicine

Prioritizing Treatment?

Who receives the vaccination first?

Session 2 14:45-16:15

Session 3 16:30-19:00

Session 4 19:00-21:00

8

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Sometimes Reciting the Aleph Beis Just Isn't Enough: How Learning, Attention and Behavior Problems Affect Children at Home, in School and in the Community

Sandi Isaacson, PhD

13

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Chagra B'Oz Motneha...: 

An Experiential Self-Protection Toolbox

For At-Risk Teens

Jill Baker Shames, MSW

15

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Women and ADHD:

Highlighting Women’s

Unique Challenges

Hazel Brief, MSW

9

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Track B "... "הזורעים בדמעה ברנה יקצרו

Teenage Girls from the Community in Crisis: Identifying the Problem, Scope and Treatment

15:00-19:00 A Special Session Presenting Programs and Treatments available for Teenage Haredi Girls

HaRav Benayahu Dvir, HaRav Moshe Peleg, Denise Erlenger, BA Shoshana Kirshenbaum, BA

Closing Remarks: Tzipi Lefler, BSW Moderator: Tsilkah Kroezer, MA

19:00-20:00 Panel Discussion: Q&A Rav Dvir, Rav Peleg, Denise Erlenger, BA Shoshana Kirshenbaum, BA

20:00-21:00 "The Power Within You" – A Fascinating Meeting with Teenage Girls who "Crossed Over" and "Came Back" to Us

10

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Tensions Between Couples Created by the Laws of Nida:

Problems and Suggested Solutions

Rav Menachem Borstein

14

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A Unique Model for Juvenile Sexual Abusers in the Dati/Charedi Community Shai Urim, BSW

Behavioral Characteristics of Haredi Sexual Abusers Rav David Emmanuel, MSW

Rav Shmuel Meyberg, MS

16

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Facts about OCD, and Treatment with the Help of an Exposure Coach Gideon Fain, BA

11

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Track A Social & Spiritual Dimensions of Aging cont'd

15:00 New Beginnings and Difficult Beginnings in Later Life Iris Kleinman Haetzni, MA

16:15 Preventing Functional & Cognitive Decline in the Elderly Tzvi Dwolatzky, MD

17:30 Taking Charge of Aging Parents Leah Abramowitz, MSW

17

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18:45-20:45

End of Life Issues

Ephraim Yaul, MD

12

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15:00 -19:00 EMDR Not Just for PTSD but as a Psychotherapy Gary Quinn, MD