| | | APSA_NY12-400 | | Educators Symposium: Executive Function Disorders and Disorders of the Self: Exploring No Man’s Land Speakers: Tillie C. Garfinkel, M.Ed (Silver Spring, MD); Joseph Palombo, MA (Chicago, IL); Stephen D. Kerzner, MD (Duxbury, MA); Tillie C. Garfinkel, M.Ed. (Silver Spring, MD); Stephen D. Kerzner, MD (Duxbury, MA) This symposium is geared to APsaA Educator Associates, K-12 educators, psychoanalysts, and mental health professionals. Executive functioning disorders are brain based dysfunctions involving neuropsychological deficits, often producing deficits in the sense of self. A complex relationship exists between executive functions and ADHD. The integration of neuropsychological and psychodynamic factors requires a new paradigm incorporating neuropsychological, relational, and intra-psychic dimensions. This session explores implications of this new paradigm. Joseph Palombo is a clinical social worker, and founding Dean, Institute for Clinical Social Work, and faculty Rush Neurobehavioral Center and affiliated with Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Stephen Kerzner, psychoanalyst and school consultant, provides a psychoanalytic perspective. Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $15.00 | | $15.00 | |
| | | APSA_NY12-302 | | Research Symposium: Parental Mentalizing in Action: Verbal and Embodied Parental Mentalizing in Theory and Clinical Practice Speakers: Dana Shai, PhD (Herzliya, Israel); Arietta Slade, PhD (New York, NY); Nancy E. Suchman, PhD (New Haven, CT); Mary Target, PhD (London, England); Robert J. Waldinger, MD (West Newton, MA) Parental mentalizing is a significant factor shaping the infant’s socio-emotional development and is the focus of this symposium. Two papers focus on intervention programs designed to enhance parental mentalizing in high risk families — Minding the Baby and Mothering from the Inside Out, including results of randomized controlled trial studies demonstrating the efficacy of these interventions. The third paper will introduce Parental Embodied Mentalization — a method of observational assessment involving the scrutiny of the whole-body nonverbal interactive process between mothers and infants that predicts attachment security. This session explores how parental mentalizing can enhance children’s socio-emotional wellbeing. Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $15.00 | | $15.00 | |
