CUSSW CLINICAL & COMMUNITY PRACTICE GRAND ROUNDS SERIES

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

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


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Presentation
While we are hard wired to respond to conflict with fight, flight or freeze, social workers can help couples and families find other alternatives that are respectful and constructive. Divorce therapy will help each person to understand the reasons for the divorce, reach closure, and discuss ways of guiding their children and themselves through the transition. In a related but separate field, mediation is an alternative to the adversarial process in which couples use the guidance of the mediator to reach the decisions that will form their legal agreement. Both fields will be discussed, and some edits of a couple in the mediation process will be shown

About the Presenter
Elana Katz, LCSW, is the Associate Dean at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, where she supervises family therapy in the externship and serves as the Director of the Divorce Mediation Program. She maintains a private practice in individual and family therapy, mediation, and collaborative divorce coaching

Suggested Readings

Katz, Elana. (March 2007). "A Family Therapy Perspective on Mediation." Family Process, 46, 1.

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The Clinical and Community Practice Grand Rounds is made possible through the generous support of the Hyman Grossbard Lectureship. Dr. Grossbard graduated from CUSSW in 1938, and was a member of the School's faculty from 1952 until his retirement in 1973. An eminent psychiatric social worker, Dr. Grossbard was highly regarded for his significant contributions to the field of child welfare.