INSPIRING PREVENTIONA Symposium on New Insights to Strengthen the Parent/Child Relationship through Literacy, Music and the Art of Parenting Friday, June 11, 2010Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA Registration & Coffee - 8:30am Program & Lunch - 9:00am - 4:00pm Click Here to Register!
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Objectives:
- Identify the key environmental and social risks for child abuse and domestic violence and identify creative pathways to prevention.
- Discuss how early music and reading experiences contribute to healthy relationships.
- Explain the importance of parental effectiveness and parent training in preventing and treating child abuse.
- Synthesize issues in prevention that include, music and literacy, and identify their common themes.
- To suggest opportunities in communities and programs for children and families to apply concepts in interactions between parents and children and in work with families.
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Presenters:
- Eli Newberger, M.D.: Inspiring Prevention in the Berkshires
- Longwood Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players: Keeping Families in Harmony - Perspectives on the long term effects of childhood trauma (Terry Buchmiller, M.D. Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston; Lisa Wong, M.D., Milton Pediatric Associates; Andrea Spencer, M.D. Pediatric Psychiatry; Massachusetts General Hospital; Tai Katzenstein, Ph.D. Psychology, Massachusetts General Hospital)
- Jean Ciborowski Fahey, Ph.D., Massachusetts Family Literacy Consortium: The Journey Toward Literacy Begins at Birth
- Kerby Alvy, Ph.D. The Art of Effective Parenting - Learning to be the Parents Our Children Deserve
Wrap Up Panel discussion with Eli Newberger, M.D., Jean Ciborowski Fahey, Ph.D., Lisa Wong, M.D., Kerby Alvy, Ph.D., Carolyn Mower Burns and Kelley DeLorenzo.
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