In order to provide greater access to the information provided in the Bridging The Gap Conferences over the past eight years. The Children's Center now offers the public access to these archives.

Click on the name of the conference and you will see the title, date, and name for each presentation during that year's conference. If you are interested in borrowing one or more vhs/dvd's from a particular conference click on the words "Lending Rates" to check the rates for the conference you selected. Next click on the words "Borrow Now" to begin the check out process. Follow the instructions on the Borrow Now page.

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.

DVDS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

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

6th Annual Bridging The Gap Conference: Presented February 2005

Roseanne Clark, Ph.D.:

• A Mother-Infant Relational Approach for the Treatment of Post-Partum Depression: What is the Best "Port of Entry"?

Miriam Steele, Ph.D .:

• Attachment Representations and Parent Child Relationships: Implications for Adoption and Foster Care

Bert Powell, M.A.:

• Circle of Security: Altering the Developmental Pathway of At-risk Parents and Their Young Children

Charles Zeanah, M.D.:

• Constructing Attachment Relationships in Abandoned and Maltreated Young Children: What Do We Know and What Do We No?

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