Professional Development Workshop for Mental Health Professionals
Date:25 Nov, 2009
Description:
Special Professional Development Workshop for Yeshiva and Day School Mental Health Professionals and Guidance Counselors
The Orthodox Union has been proactive in addressing the growing problem of eating disorders in the Orthodox Jewish community. Although predominantly prevalent among the female population, it has made strong inroads with males as well.
Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair of Harvard Medical School and an Eating Disorders Specialist has agreed to address and meet with our Yeshiva/Day School mental health professionals and address the topic of Eating Disorders for professionals during a brief visit to New York at the end of November. Dr. Steiner-Adair was involved in the development of “Hungry to Be Heard,” a film on Eating Disorders, created by the Orthodox Union Young Leadership Council. She is extremely committed to our cause of successfull awareness and addressing issues surrounding Eating Disorders in the Jewish community.
This is a professional development workshop which is not to be missed and your RSVP is extremely important, as space is limited to a first response basis. Please RSVP to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
The workshop will be held at The Board of Jewish Education at 520 8th Avenue, between 36th and 37th street, on the 15th floor.
Dr. Steiner-Adair has also authored Bishvili, a Jewish supplement to her book, which has served as the basis for the development of an Orthodox guide for teachers and guidance counselors just completed by Elisheva Diamond and Sarah Weinberger-Litman (producers of “Hungry to Be Heard”). Copies of this Orthodox guide will be available, free of charge, to all participants.
A brief bio: Catherine Steiner-Adair is a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is a well known international speaker, consultant, and Clinical Psychologist. She is the Director of Eating Disorders Education and Prevention at the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric facility of Harvard Medical School. Dr. Steiner-Adair has authored countless professional articles and is the co-author of Full of Ourselves.
As we would like to reach as many guidance counselors as possible, we are also sending this message to school leadership to forward to the attention of their school guidance counselors and mental health professionals. We encourage at least one representative from each school.
This is a program of the Orthodox Union, Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York,
FEGS, and The Yeshiva Counseling Network.
To download the one page word document, click here: Special Professional Development Workshop
Location:
Board of Jewish Education
520 8th Avenue (36th-37th) 15th Floor
New York, NY
10018
Contact:
http://www.oucommunity.org
212.613.8300
Please RSVP to (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)