HEALING FROM TRAUMA:
INDIVIDUALS, CULTURES
AND SYSTEMS
 

BRONX PSYCHIATRIC CENTER CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 25, 2006

 

In recent years we have become aware of the long term and multifaceted impact trauma has on individuals and communities. How do we as a society, as a system,
as a family and as individuals respond to traumatized persons? Is there a different response depending on the kind of traumatic events and of persons afflicted? How
will this response affect healing? What is healing? What factors are involved that will hinder healing? What fosters healing? Does healing take place in a multitude of
different ways: individually, in a family, in a group, in a community, in a system?
In this conference we will explore some of these connections and hope to gain a
deeper understanding of the complexities and intricacies that affect healing from trauma.

In collaboration with:

     
    BPC Trauma Committee chaired by Kristina Muenzenmaier, M.D. and
    attended by Mara Conan, Ph.D, Toshiko Kobayashi, M.A.,LCAT, Gillian
    Langdon, M.A.,LCAT, Faye Margolis, Ph.D, Chris Miller, C.S.W, Annie Perez, C.S.W, Ekaterini Spei, Psy.D.
    IIBR-Institute of InterBalkan Relations, NGO, chaired by Thalis Mylonas and represented by Panos Stavrianidis, Georgina Galanis, Vagelis Stamatopoulos, and Ekaterini Spei.
    LeRoy Carmichael, M.A., MPS, Executive Director, BPC
    Joseph Battaglia, M.D., Clinical Director, BPC
    Milton Hollar, MD, Assistant Clinical Director, BPC
    Carlos Rodriguez, MA, RDT, BCT, LCAT, Director of Rehabilitation Services,
    BPC

The event will occur on October 25, 2006 at Bronx Psychiatric Center, 1500 Waters Place, Bronx, NY, 10461, Rehab Building, Auditorium. Attendance is free.

Pre-registration is required. Send your name, affiliation, discipline, tel.number,
e-mail, and concurrent session choice to the following e-mail address : Joan Tulshi-Jorawar brodjbt@omh.state.ny.us (For questions: 718-862-3303)

Art Exhibits:

     
    1) Anna and Her Drawings
    2) BPC Trauma Survivors: My House Series

Poster: Reflections of No Man’s Land; Symbolization, Symmetry, Experience and Memory Through Poetry of the First World War. Paul S. Saks, Ed.M
 

PROGRAM
 
08:30-09:00

Registration
Coffee
 
09:00-09:20 Welcome
Le Roy Carmichael, M.A., MPS, Executive Director, BPC
Joseph Battaglia, MD, Clinical Director, BPC
 
09:20-09:30 Introduction
Kristina Muenzenmaier, MD
Joseph Battaglia, MD, Clinical Director, BPC
 
09:30-10:30 The Story of A Child’s Path to Mental Illness:
What Happened to Anna?
What Might Have Made a Difference?
Ann Jennings, PhD
 
10:30-10:45 Break
 
10:45-11:15 Holistic Approaches to Trauma in the Urban Context.
Derek Suite, MD
 
11:15-11:45 Caring for the Caregiver: Personal and Professional Reflections on Directing the 9/11 Music Therapy
Relief Effort.
Andrea Frisch-Hara, MA, BC, LCAT
 
11:45-12:30 Panel Discussion – How Does Healing Take Place?
Discussants: Madeleine S Abrams, LCSW (Family), Milton Hollar, MD (Community/Culture), Panos Stavrianidis, MBA (Activism)
Participants: Andrea Frisch-Hara, MA, BC, LCAT, Ann Jennings, PhD, Derek Suite, MD
Moderators: Joseph Battaglia, MD and Ekaterini Spei, PsyD
 
12:30-01:30 Lunch
 
1:30-3:00 Concurrent Workshops:

A. How to Heal from Trauma: Syndrome Specific Group Therapy
(SSGT), Faye Margolis, PhD, Kristina Muenzenmaier, MD,
Anne Marie Shelley, PhD, Ekaterini Spei, PsyD

B. Music Therapy: Experiential Followed by Case Examples from Long Term and Short Term Trauma Treatment. Rebecca Fleetwood, M.A., MTBC, LCAT, Gillian Langdon, M.A., LCAT, Victoria Mierlak, MA,
Sandra Ramos, MA

C. Origami as a Healing Process: Enrichment Origami Art Therapy, Toshiko Kobayashi, M.A., ATR, LCAT
 
Workshops Choice:
1. A 2. B 3. C
 
PRESENTERS/SPEAKERS/MODERATORS
 
Abrams, Madeleine, S., LCSW
Family Education Coordinator, BPC
Director of Family Studies, Department of Psychiatry, AECOM
 
Battaglia, Joseph, M.D.
Medical Director, BPC, Director of Residency Training, BPC
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, AECOM
 
Carmichael, LeRoy, M.A., MPS
Executive Director, BPC
 
Frisch-Hara, Andrea, MA, BC, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT)
Music Therapist, Private Practice
 
Fleetwood, Rebecca, M.A., MTBC, LCAT,
Director of Therapeutic Programming, Bronx Lebanon Hospital
 
Jennings, Ann, PhD
Trauma Systems Consultant
 
Hollar, Milton, MD
Recipient of the Dr Solomon Carter Fuller Award, APA 2006
Assistant Clinical Director, BPC
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, AECOM
 
Kobayashi, Toshiko, M.A., ATR, LCAT
Board Member of New York Art Therapy Association
Art Therapist, BPC
 
Langdon, Gillian, MA, LCAT
Director of Creative Arts Therapies, BPC
Music Therapist, BPC
 
Margolis, Faye, PhD
Licensed Psychologist, BPC, Private Practice
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, AECOM
 
Mierlak, Victoria, MA
Music Therapist, Bronx Lebanon Hospital
 
Muenzenmaier, Kristina, M.D.
Supervising Psychiatrist, BPC
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, AECOM
 
Ramos, Sandra, MA
Music Therapist, Bronx Lebanon Hospital
 
Saks, Paul S., Ed.M.
Psychology Intern, BPC
 
Shelley, Anne Marie, PhD
Licensed Psychologist, BPC
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, AECOM
 
Spei, Ekaterini, Psy.D
Associate Psychologist, BPC
IIBR, NGO in consultative status with the ECOSOC, UN
 
Stavrianidis, Panos, M.B.A
City University of New York-Research Associate at the Social and
Political Science Program of Pantion University of Athens
 
Suite, Derek, MD
Medical Director of Full Circle Health