The Development Center

What Teens Can Tell Us
Psychological and Spiritual Lives of Adolescents

Friday, April 20, 2007
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

A workshop for persons who wish to foster psychological and spiritual health in teens.

Explore:

• Recent neuroscientific research
• Current perspectives on working with teens

Examine:

• Causes of psychological suffering in adolescents
• The hope for a healing presence

Learn:

• How to maximize the psychological and spiritual growth of adolescents

Leader: 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. His recent books include Creative Dissent: Psychoanalysis in Evolution and Psychotherapy and Religion: Many Paths, One Journey. 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.

To register, please make a check payable to The Development Center and mail it to the address listed below. Please call 203.655.9414 to register. Registration deadline: April 5, 2007. Cost: $90. Financial assistance is available for students. Co-sponsored by Auburn Seminary. The workshop will be held at Noroton Presbyterian Church, 2011 Post Road, Darien, Connecticut.