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Groups for Donor Assisted Reproduction

TPPN Hello!   The Third Party Parenting Network will gather again on January 12th at 7:30pm.   This meeting will focus on issues related to disclosure but all are welcome.   Professionally led by Nancy Kaufman LCSW, these small group discussions have been lively, rewarding and truly helpful to those who participate. Join us to hear the experiences of others, and, if you wish, share your story and questions. First-time participants and partners are encouraged to attend. The Third-Party Parenting Network (TPPN) is a network of parents who have built (or are working on building) their families through ovum donation, embryo donation, sperm donation, and/or surrogacy. TPPN provides the opportunity for parents to connect, share their stories, receive support, and learn from each other about the issues that are unique to the experience of Third Party Parenting, such as disclosure, donor selection and the impact of different genetic origins within a family.   It has been our experience that meeting regularly over time with the same group of people builds a level of trust which enables a deeper exploration of what it means to be a parent dealing with these issues. TPPN Fall 2015 & Spring 2016 Schedule: (*sessions on disclosure) September 15* and  29 October 13* and 27 November  10* December 8 January 12* and 26 February 9* and 23 March 22* April 12 and 26* May 24 June 28* July 12 and 26* All meetings are held at: 7:30-9pm 1430 Second Avenue (between 74/75th St.) Suite 109 New York, NY 10021  Fee: $25 per person/$40 per family   RSVP:    Or: ()                All participants are asked to respect the confidential nature of these discussions and agree not to disclose what others share with us in our mutually supportive environment.   Please forward this note to anyone who might be interested in attending.

ADOPTION WORKSHOP: SEPARATING ADOPTION MYTHS FROM ADOPTION REALITIES

A workshop led by an adopted person, adoptive parents, a birthfather in an open adoption and a clinical social worker specializing in adoption, third party reproduction and infertility.
Saturday January 23, 2015 1 pm - 4 pm
49 West 86 Street
New York, New York 10024

Adoption myths like all myths sprout from tiny kernels of truth, but in time, these tiny kernels harden while hiding feelings of loss, denial, blame, guilt, shame and rejection.
The workshop will consist of the viewing of a short documentary on Infertility: A Complicated Lost, poetry about being an adopted person and a birthfather discussing his experience with open adoption.

Attendees will be invited to join in the discussion of sorting out myths from realities.

Fee; $75 per person Pre-registration is required as space is limited.

With questions or to register, please email or call .

Phyllis Lowinger,LCSW is a clinical social worker who has been in private practice for over 30 year. In addition to general psychotherapy she specializes in infertility, adoption, and third party reproduction.

She has presented at numerous workshops and conferences including the 92nd Street Y, A Harvard Adoption Conference, American Adoption Congress, and was a featured therapist in the documentary " Infertility: A Complicated Loss. She is a parent by adoption and birth.

Penny Callen Partridge, MSW is an adoptive person and an adoptive parent. Pursuing her origins and and needing to talk with fellow adoptees led her to start Adoption Forum, which promoted communication within the adoption community for 30 years. Penny has published several collections of poems as well as professional articles about the adopted.

Bryan Hill LMSW is the Director of Development and Operation of Fostering Change for Children. He is a proud birth father in an open adoption and a proud step father to his partners son.

The Theory, Practice, and Process of Group Work
with Susan Gair, LCSW

Monday. January 25, 2016    12 00pm • 2 00pm

The seminar is approved to offer 2 CEU.

ICP Room 401 A: 1841 Broadway(60th st.) 4th floor
New York. NY 10023

General Admission S35

ICP affiliated $20 and S15 additional for CEU

For info email Jenny Schenkler, at Program Manager,
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The focus of the workshop is to offer information on how working in a group setting, with a goal of increased self awareness and the awareness of others enhances the work in individual therapy. I will be pulling from Systems Centered Therapy. Psychodynam»c Therapy, and Group-as-a-Whole approaches. In using these theoretical approaches, one of the main operating principles is to discover what in me is similar to the apparent difference in the other. How to find resonance and deepen connection to self and other (age, religion, ethnicity, culture, race, gender, status-socioeconomic, sexual-orientation, education….)

Discussion of the defenses used in groups, such as: redundancy, ambiguity, contradictions, vagueness, and leading questions and how these defenses are used to protect one from forming meaningful connection. How they are brought out and worked with in non-shaming ways.

Describe roles members are in and get locked into. Such roles as: designated patient, victim, bully, attacker, sarcastic, compliantt, defiant, and silent. Interventions of how to work with the group to recognize this in others and themselves and how to undo them. How to recognize this as scapegoating and how to help members take back their projections and own those aspects in themselves

Sex and Relationship Therapy: Trending Topics

Submitted by Robin Halpern, LCSW, DCSW

Stephen Snyder, MD, a psychiatrist who specializes in sex and relationship therapy, is also the author of a very interesting and informative blog containing a host of topical articles on this subject.

Written in a user-friendly unpretentious style, the information is both sensible and practical.  

Click on the links below for topics such as: “The New Bisexuality”’;  “Orgasms & Sex Therapy”; “NYC Sex Therapy Diary: the other side of Saturday night”; “Sexual Arousal For It’s Own Sake".  

www.sexualityresource.com/sex-therapy-and-the-new-york-times-the-new-bisexuality

www.sexualityresource.com/whats-for-dessert

www.sexualityresource.com/diary-of-a-manhattan-sex-therapist-the-other-side-of-saturday-night

www.sexualityresource.com/sexual-arousal-for-its-own-sake

Announcing the new HuffPost Parent Blog, "MD for Moms" written by WMHC member, Carly Snyder, MD

http://womensmentalhealthconsortium.net/snyder/

The blog will address issues relevant to moms coming from her vantage point as a reproductive and perinatal psychiatrist and mom of three. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carly-snyder-md-/md-for-moms_b_8587076.html

Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis

The Burden of Choice

This book aims to expand the awareness and understanding of the emotional sequelae of prenatal/preimplantation diagnosis, prenatal decision-making, pregnancy interruption for fetal anomaly, multifetal reduction for high-order multifetal pregnancies and preimplantation choices involving the selection of embryos.

Featuring a multi-disciplinary approach, it examines prenatal and preimplantation diagnosis from medical, legal, ethical and psychosocial perspectives. Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis is an excellent resource for obstetricians, reproductive endocrinologists, clinical geneticists, genetic counselors and mental health professionals seeking to better support patients faced with difficult choices.

to read more click here:www.springer.com/us/book/9783319189109

submitted by: 

Joann Paley Galst, Ph.D. (editor)

PSYCHOTHERAPY GROUP IN FORMATION

Dear Prospective Group Members:

I am planning a new psychotherapy group, to begin in about a month, for 20’s and 30’s, lesbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual men and women. The group is for young people dealing with major transitions that are/have been problematic, reviving old anxieties and psychological distress - attending college/graduate school, work, finding partners, leaving the parental home. The group is interactive and interpersonal. It is on-going and long-term. 
 
The group will be held in my Upper West Side office on Wednesdays from 6:30-8:00pm. It will begin in April. A consultation is required. I will be glad to give a statement for reimbursement from insurance.

I was trained and graduated from the Center for Group Studies, and am a faculty member at that institution. I am a Certified Group Psychotherapist through The American Group Psychotherapy Association.

Feel free to contact me, Susan Frankel, LCSW, at or .

A Wellness Handbook for the Performing Artist: The Performer's Essential Guide to Staying Healthy in Body, Mind, and Spirit

Alena Gerst examines issues that go beyond the importance of training or navigating the business of performing. It is the first book to prioritize the performer's well-being, your ultimate key to a long and satisfying career.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-wellness-handbook-for-the-performing-artist-alena-gerst-lcsw-ryt/1119282403?ean=9781452595511

Lisa Rubin, PhD, promotion to Associate Professor

Congratulations to WMHC member Lisa Rubin, PhD, on her recent promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure at The New School for Social Research, where she is also the Assistant Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Psychology doctoral program.

In addition, Lisa is currently chair of the WMHC social action committee. Lisa's research and clinical work focuses on women’s health concerns, including body image and eating problems, psycho-oncology, and assisted reproductive technologies.

Her scholarship includes publications in Cancer, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Health Psychology, Sex Roles, Psychology & Health, Culture Medicine & Psychiatry, among other journals. She is currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Women & Therapy on women and cancer.

Lisa Rubin, PhD