Education
Foundations Community Partnership Spring 2009 Workshop Series

Jennifer L. Hartstein, PsyD, is currently in private practice in New York City, specializing in the treatment of high-risk children and adolescents. Prior to entering into full time private practice, she was the Clinical Director of the Discovery Center at the Child and Family Institute of St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. The Discovery Center provides short-term substance abuse prevention and early intervention strategies for adolescents. Before working at the Child and Family Institute, Dr Hartstein was the Director of the Group Psychotherapy Program, Intake Coordinator of the Adolescent Depression and Suicide Program, and Attending Psychologist, at the Child Outpatient Psychiatry Department of Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Dr. Hartstein received her BA from George Washington University in Washington, DC before earning her MA in Dance/Movement Therapy from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. She worked as an Allied Therapist on two adolescent inpatient units, creating and implementing group therapy programs, before returning to Yeshiva University to complete her doctorate in School-Child Clinical Psychology. Dr Hartstein works with children, adolescents and their families who have a wide range of psychological diagnoses. She has received intensive training in adolescent suicide assessment and has specialized in this population for several years, using a variety of treatment approaches, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Dr. Hartstein has published and presented on teen-related issues, and been asked to speak as an expert on a variety psychological issues in print and on television and radio.

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April 1, 2009

Presenter: Kathleen Meyers, Ph. D.
Dr. Meyers has over 15 years experience in adolescent assessment, health services, HIV and substance abuse research. Dr. Meyers designed the Comprehensive Adolescent Severity Inventory (CASI), a standardized multidimensional assessment instrument that evaluates psychosocial functioning of youth. She consults (and trains) staff regularly with court systems, drug treatment programs, mental health programs, and schools with regard to critical issues in adolescent assessment, triage/referral, service delivery, and outcomes evaluation. She is currently principal investigator of a NIDA-sponsored grant evaluating the CASI's psychometric properties and computerization among sub-populations of adolescent youth. She has served on a variety of Institutional Review Boards, Scientific Advisory Boards, Grant Review Committees, and Expert Panels.

May 6 2009

Presenter: Elio Frattaroli, MD
The author of "Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Why Medication is not Enough", Dr. Frattaroli is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in full-time private practice, doing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with adults, adolescents and couples. He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and is associate director of their Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program. He is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Frattaroli studied Shakespeare at Harvard and trained with Bruno Bettelheim at the University of Chicago before turning to medicine. He has written and lectured on Shakespeare as well as on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He lives and practices in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.