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MAPS - McAbee Adlerian Psychology Society's 2006 Fall Conference:
Embracing Cultural Differences: Strengthening Clinical Practice and Parent Education
When: Friday, September 29, 2006
Attendance at this Conference will offer 6 CE credits.
We are pleased to announce that MAPS annual fall conference will address the many complexions and complexities of the people we serve. Embracing Cultural Differences: Strengthening Clinical Practice and Parent Education will feature the following presenters and their respective cultural emphasis.
* African American Perspectives - Dr Henry Raymond, faculty and former head of the Adler-Dreikurs Institute, of
Bowie
State
University
* Mental Health Needs of Latino Immigrant Families - Viviana Azar, clinician for over twelve years in the Adult Behavioral Health Program of Montgomery County's Department of Health and Human Services
* Marriage Therapy with Inter-Cultural Couples: Assessment, Challenge, Opportunity - Steven J. Stein, private practice clinician with over twenty years experience, and president of MAPS
* Cross-culture, cross-generation: An interdisciplinary session on creativity, identity and cross-cultural families. This unique and dynamic session will use art, drama, and performance to explore tools for cross cultural understanding. Hala Buck, Art Therapist, Cross Cultural Educator, and adjunct faculty at Bowie State University and George Washington University, is of Lebanese origin. She will present jointly with her daughter. Leila Buck is a Lebanese American actress, writer, storyteller and teaching artist based in New York. With her award winning one-woman show, ISite, Leila has toured many parts of the world, conducting workshops in drama for cross-cultural understanding and using theater to educate about the Arab world. ("To see a production of Isite is to see the world in a different way" The Hoya, Georgetown University Newspaper).