“Raising Awareness” (Commercial sexual exploitation prevention curriculum for parents) Facilitator Training

Caregivers play a crucial role in preventing youth from getting caught up in the commercial sex industry, so it’s important to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to…

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Understanding Life Backward but Living It Forward: Analyzing to Understand but Envisioning Possibilities to Incentivize Action​

Martha Stark, MD, will be presenting an action-based, solution-focused, future-oriented psychodynamic model that conceives of the mind as holding infinite potential and of memory as dynamic and continuously updating itself…

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Spirituality as a Key Resilience Factor for Military Families Transitioning Overseas

Resilience in military families has been studied for decades. A twelve-year review (ending in 2021) of clinical work with military families identified spirituality, support networks, resourcefulness, prior preparation efforts, flexibility,…

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A conceptual map for understanding health-related anxieties in pediatric populations in the post-pandemic era

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, prevalence rates of psychiatric diagnoses among children and adolescents are rising. Multiple variables including individual psychological characteristics, pandemic-related stressors and systemic factors conspire to catalyze anxiety…

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