The Development Center

A STORY STILL TO SHOW:
Rethinking Case Studies and Critical Incidents in Youth Work

March 7, 2008, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

This is part of a series for professionals who work with or develop programs for adolescents. This series explores the practical application to this work of underlying psychological and systemic issues. Dr. Claude Barbre is returning at the request of the participants. Participants will decide subsequent workshop topics. The next workshop date is June 7, 2008.

  • Learn to use case studies to discover additional dimensions in their work with adolescents
  • Learn to develop systemic hypotheses about what might be behind a critical incident

Claude Barbre, M. Div., Ph.D., is Executive Director of The Harlem Family Institute, a training institute that offers long-term school-based psychotherapy to children and adolescents. He lectures and teaches throughout the United States on child and adolescent psychology and psychoanalysis. Dr. Barbre is a prize-winning author and four-time recipient of the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Dr. Barbre teaches and supervises at The Harlem Family Institute, Westchester Institute, and Fordham University. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.

Frances Unsell, M.Div, is Founder and Director of The Development Center, a psychoanalyst, a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, and a Presbyterian minister. She works as a leadership and organizational consultant in the U.S. and abroad and maintains a private practice of psychotherapy in Darien, Connecticut.

For information or to register, please call 203.655.9414. Registration deadline: February 15. CEUs available through Auburn Seminary. Cost: $135. Financial assistance is available for full-time students. Hosted by Green's Farms Congregational Church, 71 Hillandale Road, Westport, CT

The Development Center

5 Brook Street, Suite 1A
Darien, Connecticut 06820
203.655.9414