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Friday May 2nd, 2008  
NYAMFT State Conference
The Art and Science of Family Therapy
Embassy Suites, East Syracuse, NY

Keynote speaker
Dr. Patricia Dowds,
Executive Director of the Minuchin Center
“Evidence-based Therapy and the Private Practitioner”

Friday May 30th, 2008    
Family Therapy as Art Form 

Early Bird
Special - Reminder  

May 15th 2008 is the last day to qualify
for this special when registering for the
2008 Summer Intensive

Please see Summer Intensive Application
and Registration form for further information

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  Our Faculty  
 

Amy Begel, LCSW, LMFT
Email: amybjazz@aol.com

Amy completed her training with Dr. Minuchin in 1986. Since then, in addition to private practice, she has been teaching family therapy and supervising in many agency settings in the tri-state area.  For the past 20 years she has been affiliated with several different medical centers as teacher, consultant in Family System Medicine.  She currently conducts teaching rounds for internal medicine residents and offers monthly cardiology fellows at Maimonides Medical Center.  She has authored several articles related to her work as a family therapist.  She has worked as a consultant to alternative high schools, children centers, and substance abuse agencies.  She is also a jazz musician and chanteuse.  Some people dance with the family, Amy swings.



Patricia C. Dowds, Ph.D.

Email: patriciadowds@optonline.net

Patricia is the Executive Director of The Minuchin Center. She is also the Co-Director Family Therapy Institute of Suffolk, a Consultant to Suffolk County Dept of Health, and Visiting faculty State University of NY at Stony Brook. She has Certificates in Substance Abuse Treatment and Divorce Mediation. Her primary interests are Family Reconstruction Post-Divorce, and Health Care Advocacy.


Jorge Colapinto, LPsych, LMFT
Email: JColapinto@minuchincenter.org

Jorge is a faculty member at the Minuchin Center for the Family. He trained as a psychologist at the University of Buenos Aires and as a family therapist at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. A long-time collaborator with Salvador Minuchin, Jorge was a member of the training and consulting team gathered in the 1980s to disseminate Minuchin’s pioneering, ecosystemic approach to foster care. Mr. Colapinto has written and lectured, both nationally and internationally on structural family therapy, training and supervision, and the application of family systems concepts to social services, and is the co-author, with Patricia and Salvador Minuchin, of the book Working with Families of the Poor. He also serves as an advisory editor in the periodicals Family Process, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Redes, and Sistemas Familiares.



Ema Genijovich, Lic.
Email: EGenijovich@minuchincenter.org

Ema a native of Argentina, was trained there as a psychologist, group therapist and family. In 1976, she moved to Mexico City where she lived and worked for eight years. She has been in New York since 1984, where she maintains a private practice, and is affiliated with NYU Medical Center Department of Psychiatry. Ema is a consultant and trainer with an international reputation who has presented her work in more than 200 workshops and conferences. Her major areas of interest include diversity, gender issues, immigration, and new kinds of families.



David Greenan, EdD, LMFT
Email: DavidGreenan@verizon.net

David is a psychologist and family therapist, and past Executive Director of the Center.  Through the Center, he consults to inner-city hospitals, working to create policy and implement practices for family preservation.  He has contributed to a chapter in Working with Families of the Poor (Guilford, 2007) about his work with poor families.  He has presented internationally on his work with same-sex couples and co-authored the highly acclaimed book, Couple Therapy with Gay Men (Guilford, 2003).  He is also on the faculties of NYU/Bellevue Hospital and Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches and supervises family therapists.  Dr. Greenan is a clinical member of AMA, AAMFT and AFTA and a Fellow of Rockway Institute.



Richard Holm, DSW*, LCSW, LMFT
Email: rholmdsw@comcast.net

Richard has extensive experience in providing supervision, training, and consultation to agencies serving low income, culturally diverse and "difficult to engage" populations. His background includes work with home-based services to prevent out-of-home placement and/or hospitalization of family members, recovery programs for women at "high risk" and their families, residential treatment centers for adolescent substance abusers; and inpatient and outpatient mental health systems. Dr. Holm is a Clinical Member of AAMFT and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. He is a former Associate Professor of Human Services at CUNY-New York City College of Technology.  Dr. Holm co-authored a chapter with David Greenan and Patricia Minuchin, “Substance Abuse:  a Family-Oriented Approach to Diverse Populations” in the book Working with Families of the Poor (2nd ed.).



Wai-Yung Lee, PhD* spends the academic year on the faculty of the University of Hong Kong where she is an associate professor and the director of the HKU Family Institute. Each summer, she leads an international group of students in an intensive training in systemic family therapy at the Center. She has taught family therapy in the UK and Italy, and travels throughout Asia training and supervising family therapists. An AAMFT approved supervisor, Dr. Lee has published many articles and is co-author of two books together with Salvador Minuchin, George Simon and Mike Nichols.



Daniel Minuchin, MA, LMFT*
Email: danielminuchin@nyc.rr.com

Daniel is a licensed marriage and family therapist. He has provided consultation and training around working with families to agencies working in foster care, residential treatment, substance abuse, psychiatric and home-based treatment, and, for a number of years, was a consultant and trainer for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. He maintains an active interest in how the public and non- profit sectors, and helping institutions in general, can interact with families more productively. Mr. Minuchin also has an interest in conflict resolution and is a certified mediator in Massachusetts. He is a Clinical Member of the AAMFT and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor.



Roni Schnadow, MS, RN, LMFT
Email:RSchnadow@minuchincenter.org

Roni is a Clinical Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing and a Family Therapist. Her psychiatric nursing background has enhanced her work with families living with chronic medical and psychiatric illness. Ms. Schnadow is on the faculty at NYU School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Columbia University's' Graduate School of Nursing. Ms. Schnadow is currently involved in training and supervising therapists in various mental health settings in upstate New York where she is in private practice.



George M. Simon, MS, LMFT
Email: GMSimon@minuchincenter.org

George has been practicing family therapy for twenty years and has been involved in the training and supervision of family therapists for over thirteen years. Currently, in addition to the training that he provides at The Minuchin Center, George provides supervision to family therapy interns at Hofstra University's Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic, and provides training and consultation on Structural Family Therapy to administration and staff of The Children's Village. He has co-authored a book on family therapy supervision with Salvador Minuchin and Wai-Yung Lee, and has published the book Beyond Technique in Family Therapy: Finding Your Therapeutic Voice.

 
     
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