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About Foundations Community Partnership Doylestown, PA (January 19, 2010) - Foundations Community Partnership, a private non-profit operating foundation benefitting youth in Bucks County invites educators, counselors, parents, and mental health professionals to attend their spring workshops, featuring experts in repetitive behaviors, depression and autism. The workshops include: "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Trichotillomania and Other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors", "Principles of Problem-Solving Therapy to Treat Depression", and "Autism: Untangling Complex Causes". The impulse control disorder Trichotillomania (TTM), which involves self-injurious behavior, i.e. hair-pulling, usually associated with both impulse control and obsessive compulsive disorders is estimated to affect one to two percent of the population, or four to eleven million Americans. OCD disorders, including TTM are even more common in children and adolescents with autism and other severe behavioral disorders. On Weds., March 3, 2010 prominent researcher/clinician Dr. Martin Franklin, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and Dir. of the Child & Adolescent OCD, Tic, Trich, and Anxiety Group (COTTAGe) will discuss "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Trichotillomania and Other Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors." This enlightening presentation will cover cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of TTM applicable to children, adolescents, and adults, and will describe the treatment strategies that flow directly from this conceptualization. The Wednesday, April 7, 2010 "Principles of Problem-Solving Therapy to Treat Depression" will cover the basic principles and applications of Problem-Solving Therapy (PST), a brief evidenced-based clinical intervention for depression. PST helps individuals -- children, adults, and the elderly -- cope more effectively with difficult life situations by fostering the adoption and effective implementation of adaptive problem-solving attitudes (e.g., optimism) and behaviors (e.g., generating a variety of possible alternatives to cope with stress) in order to reduce depression. Presenter Arthur M. Nezu, Ph.D., ABPP is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, and Public Health at Drexel University and co-author of "Problem-Solving Therapy: A Positive Approach to Clinical Intervention" and the widely used measure, "Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised." Don't miss this incredible opportunity to hear the world-renowned Dr. Craig Newschaffer from Drexel University talk about findings, trends, and what's ahead in the research on the causes of autism on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. In his presentation, "Autism: Untangling Complex Causes", Dr. Newschaffer will discuss the highly complex disease of autism and talk about what we are learning about the condition's causes. He will also touch on some of the challenges faced communicating findings on autism risk factors to different audiences. Dr. Newschaffer is the Principal Investigator of the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI), the most comprehensive study of autism etiology in the world and is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University. He joined Drexel from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he founded and directed the Hopkins Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology. Continuing education credits will be offered for PA Social Workers & Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychologists, NBCC Counselors, PA Nurses and Act 48 credits. Workshops are held from 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The cost is $50 for each workshop, which includes refreshments. Workshops are held at the Health & Wellness Center Auditorium, 847 Easton Rd./Rt. 611, Warrington, PA 18976. For more information or to register, call Foundations Community Partnership, 267-247-5584 or visit www.fcpartnership.org. ### |
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