Consultation
Training & Teaching
- 2010
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Queens Chapter of Clinical Social Workers
"The Thorny Thicket of Treating the Overweight Population: A Clinical Perspective"
- 2008
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Queens Chapter of Clinical Social Workers
It's Not About the Fat: Addressing the Hollow Victory and Pseudo Cure of Weight Loss"
- 2003
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Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, Short term group, "Crisis Intervention with recently separated and divorced adults." Jewish Community Center of NYC.
- 2002
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Collaboration with AGPA response to 9/11 Formed Short Term Support Group: "The Emotional Response to Job Loss Due to Sept. 11"
- 2001
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Collaboration with AGPA response to 9/11 Formed 1 Day Psycho-Educational Day For Lee Hecht Harrison Outsource Group. Focus "The Emotional Response to Job Loss Due to Sept. 11".
- 2001
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Critical Incident Stress Debriefing at Morgan Stanley, whose home office was in the World Trade Center. One other mental health professional and I set up a Mental Health Crisis Center.
Collaboration with AGPA response to 9-11 work with Families of Firefighters. One Day Interventions. (Brooklyn site and Orange County site.)
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing at The American Red Cross in response to 9-11.
- 2000-Present
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St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center/University Hospital of Columbia University/College of Physicians and Surgeons/Department of Medicine/New York Obesity Research Center/NIH Grant, Look Ahead Study and The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP).
Senior Psychotherapy Trainer And Consultant
Staff Responsibilities as follows:
- Development of interview protocol for patient inclusion in study.
- Psychotherapy supervisor.
- Psychotherapy Consultation for Referrals
- Supervising and teaching mental and non-mental-health staff group dynamics in cognitive behavioral modalities.
Lectures:
- "Predictors for Long term study adherence: What to look for; Guidelines"
- "Wanting to 'fix it'"
- "What now? Counter transference, make use of it"
- "Making use of your 'clinical gut'
- "Conducting the differential diagnostic interview"
- "Group dynamics for the Non mental health professional"
- "The dynamics of body image"
- "Hoarding: overview: Impact and possible interventions in the geriatric population"
- "For the non mental health professional: What to do in the event of a psychiatric emergency: the risk of suicide"
- "The difficult, non compliant patient"
- "Anticipating Death"
- "The Death of a patient in group: The Dynamics of managing the group"
- "Your safety first: what to do in an Emergency"
- 1994 to 2001
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St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center/University Hospital of Columbia University/College of Physicians and Surgeons/Department of Medicine/ New York Obesity Research Center/Theodore B. VanItallie Center for Nutrition and Weight Management.
Senior Psychotherapy Trainer and Consultant
Staff Responsibilities as follows:
- Psychotherapy Supervisor for Psychotherapy Staff
- Development of Psychotherapy Protocol
- Body Image Workshop
- Short Term Psychotherapy Groups
- Psychotherapy Consultation for Referrals
- Psychotherapy Consultation for Surgical Clearance for Gastroplasty
- A Day of Mourning; The sudden death of Wendy Worth, PhD. Running a large group for mourning group members and staff.
- 1979 to 1994
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St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center. Obesity Research Center. Weight Control Unit.
Psychotherapy Consultant
Staff Responsibilities as follows:
- Psychotherapy Supervisor for permanent staff members. (1979-88)
- Staff Person responsible for training staff members from disciplines outside the mental health field and medical students in endocrine rotation.
- Developed and conducted seminar series for pre-medical students, Institute of Nutrition, "Psychosocial Behavioral Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders," (1985).
- Leads psychotherapy groups and developed short-term group psychotherapy modules using combined behavior modification and psychodynamic approach. Intake, differential psychiatric diagnosis, and individual psychotherapy.
- 1992
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Doctoral candidate adviser to Research Fellow in the Sociology Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
- 1991
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New York Times, Resource Person,
Interview "The 90's Woman: How Fat is Fat?" Same article reprinted International Herald Tribune.
- 1991
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NBC, CBS, Resource Person,
Interview "The Changing Body Image of Women".
- 1991
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Woman's Day, Resource Person, Interview "Exercise in the 90's."
- 1990
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United Weight Control Corp., in affiliation with St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Training Consultant, Body Image Workshop for Staff.
- 1985
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Columbia University Student Mental Health Center.
Special Consultant
- 1984
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NYC Television, Resource Person, "Eating During the Holiday Season".
- 1980
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx Psychiatric Center
Family Studies Section. Conference Coordinator
Coordinator for Family Studies 1980 Conference. "The Clinical Challenge of Working With Families in Today's Community."
- 1979
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Urban Research Planning and Conference Center. N.Y.C.
Research Consultant
Comparative study - Children, U.S. & Abroad - Stress & Violence: Administrative Models - Instruments to interpret change.
- 1979
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Beth Abraham Hospital. N.Y.C.
Consultant
Wrote Hospice Proposal incorporating psychosocial aspects of patients with catastrophic illness for Department of Health Education and Welfare funding. (This project was funded.)
- 1971 to 1979
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Black Analysis Inc. N.Y.C.
Consultant
A research group funded by The Carnegie Corporation to probe the multi-levels of the Black Experience. This was an interdisciplinary group comprised of anthropologists, social workers, lawyers, engineers. Several months were spent abroad to research the Mediterranean societies which were impacted by African civilizations from antiquity. The lead consultant on this project studied under John Hope Franklin Ph.D., Arthur Logan and Frank Snowden Ph.D. at Howard University. The lead resource book was authored by Dr. Snowden…Blacks in Greek and Roman Antiquity. My assignment was to make an inventory of information related to the Carthaginian and Arabic civilizations in the Mediterranean Region.
Wrote a proposal for refunding of Black Analysis Inc. Minority Group Doctoral Fellowship Program by Head Start, Department of Health Education and Welfare. (This project was funded.)
Carried out research for proposal-writing leading to funding of child welfare programs; doctoral program in early childhood education; economic development proposals for community development, such as, senior citizens' housing project, low-moderate income housing in urban renewal areas. prepared analytical summaries and reports for use by funding sources, such as, foundations, State Government Agencies, Federal Government Agencies, which led to refunding of initial start programs. Evaluated programs for refunding and participated in "think tank" reviews.
- 1978 to 1979
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Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Jerusalem, Israel.