Research in the field of Developmental Psychology continues to revolutionize views on early care-giving relationships and their significance for healthy development. This research is directly relevant for clinicians who find themselves increasingly frustrated by the growing number of children with serious emotional problems. However, it is difficult to find avenues where developmental research is presented in ways that can be easily translated to clinical practice. In 1999-2000, the first "Bridging the Gap" Symposia series provided such an avenue and the response from participants indicated that the series was, in fact, responding to a significant need in our professional community.

Now an annual conference, we continue to invite internationally respected experts to present provocative research that will generate new excitement in the clinical arena and yield creative discussions about how to apply the information to clinical practice.

BRIDGING THE GAP LENDING LIBRARY

DVD's of previous conferences can now be checked out through our Lending Library. Please see the list below for details on sessions currently available.

Only one conference video may be checked out at a time and must be returned to The Children's Center within 30 days of receipt. A non-refundable $25.00 processing, shipping, and handling fee will be charged with each video.

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If you have additional questions regarding the lending library, please contact Lisa Alleman at 801-582-5534 or LAlleman@tccslc.org.

DVDS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

11th Annual Bridging The Gap Conference: Presented February 2010

Miriam Steele Ph.D.

• Attachment Representations and Affect Regulation: Implications for Clinical Work
• Attachment Assessments: A 'Toolbox' for Intervention with Traumatized Families

Anne Murphy Ph.D.

• An Attachment Based Intervention with Traumatized Families

Neil Boris, MD

• Attachment and Trauma- Assessment of Relationships Using the "Circle of Security"
• From Assessment to Intervention- Inside the Circle: Part 1
• Deeper into Intervention- Inside the Circle: Part 2

10th Annual Bridging The Gap Conference: Presented February 2009

Drs. Alan and June Sroufe

• The Role of Attachment Relationships and Early Development

• Attachmnet Relationships from Infancy to Adulthood

• Attachment, Fear, and the Cycle of Trauma

Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D.

• Family Focused Intervention to Address the Core Deficits in Autistic Spectrum and Related Disorders: The Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-based Approach (DIR)

• Implementing a Comprehensive and Intensive DIR Intervention, Including Floortime
• Insights for Treatment of Early Signs of Autistic Spectrum Disorder

David Oppenheim, Ph.D.

• Attachment in Autism

• Maternal Insightfulness: Its Rile in the Development of Secure Attachment in Autism

9th Annual Bridging The Gap Conference: Presented February 2008

Dr. Elisabeth Fivaz-Depeursinge:

• The development of triangular communication in the family from infancy to early childhood

• Becoming a go-between in the father-mother-child triangle: The toddler’s coping with family conflict

• Live supervision

Dr. Carolyn Pape-Cowan and Dr. Phillip Cowan:

• The Importance of Couple Relationships in Children’s Development: A Family Systems Approach

• Preventive Interventions to Strengthen Couple Relationships: Good for the Parents; Good for the Children

• Live supervision

8th Annual Bridging The Gap Conference: Presented January 2007

Chandra Ghosh-Ippen, Ph.D.:

• Child Parent Psychotherapy: Core principles and skills

• Parent Psychotherapy: Case presentations and vignettes

Roger Kobak, Ph.D.:

• Caregivers’ unresolved loss, trauma, and child psychopathology

• Strategies for engaging parents in the treatment of child problems

Jeremy Holmes, M.D.:

• Metallization and Reparation in development and psychotherapy

• Attachment and Sexuality: A view from development and adult psychotherapy

• Live Supervision and Clinical Case Discussion

7th Annual Bridging The Gap Conference: Presented February 2006

Abraham Sagi-Schwartz, Ph.D.:

• Holocaust child survivors and their offspring: Vulnerability and resilience

Sheree Toth, Ph.D.:

• The efficacy of attachment theory: Informed intervention for families confronted with child maltreatment

• Child-Parent Psychotherapy: Clinical Perspectives

Theodore Gaensbauer, M.D.:

• Single episode trauma in early childhood: Memory, reenactment, and developmental impact

• Clinical Perspectives

David Oppenheim, Ph.D.:

• Mother’s Resolution of their past abuse trauma: Its importance for emotional communication with their children

• Resolving the trauma of receiving a diagnosis of autism in the child: Its significance for maternal sensitivity