CUSSW DISTINGUISHED VISITING ALUMNI SERIES

Frances Cournos
Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Director, Washington Heights Community Service at New York State Psychiatric Institute


City of One: A Personal and Professional Perspective on Foster Care

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
12:30 - 1:30 (Room C03)

School of Social Work - 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 121st & Morningside Drive)


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Presentation
Dr. Cournos will discuss the impact of foster care on emotional well being from both a personal perspective, based on her own experience in foster care, and from a professional perspective, based on projects focused on the mental health needs of foster children.

About the Presenter
Dr. Francine Cournos is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, Director of the Washington Heights Community Service at New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Principal
Investigator of the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Project (AETC). Her academic work has largely focused on the interface between HIV/AIDS and mental illness, and she has written many papers, and participated in numerous research projects, training grants, practice guidelines, and policy development projects in this area. In 1999, Dr. Cournos wrote something more personal, an autobiography, City of One, which describes her own
experiences as an orphan and foster child. She has since spoken and published about disclosure, permanency planning, and childhood bereavement and is currently participating in many initiatives focused on the mental health needs of foster children.

Suggested Readings

City of One: A Memoir; iUniverse, 2006

Cournos F. The trauma of profound childhood loss: A personal and professional perspective. Psychiatric Quarterly, 73:145-156,2002.

Cournos F. Lessons for high-risk populations from attachment research and September 11: Helping children in foster care, inTrauma and Human Bonds, New York, Analytic Press, 255-271, 2003.

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