PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Treating Children and Families of High-Conflict Divorce. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association.
Treating Intergenerational Trauma: Hope for the Future. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association.
Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Unspoken Legacies. Presented at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and the Wright Institute, Los Angeles.
Adolescent Suicidality. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association.
Applying Attachment Theory to Working Therapeutically with Children and Adolescents. Presented at Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Dynamics of Adolescent Depression and Suicide. Presented at the Maple Counseling Center, Beverly Hills, CA.
The Aftermath of Massive Trauma: Reverberations of the Holocaust and Contemporary Acts of Terrorism. Presented at the Annual Convention of the California Psychological Association, Pasadena, CA.
Teen Suicide: Clueless Parents, Troubled Teens. Presented at the Annual Convention of the American Association of Suicidology, Los Angeles, CA (Paper presented with co-author J. Shapiro, PhD).
Identifying Signs of Depression in Children. Presented at the Association of Educational Therapists Los Angeles Chapter meeting.
Treating Adolescents. Presented at the Los Angeles County Psychological Association Continuing Education Program, Encino, CA.
Clinical Application of Attachment Theory. Presented at Reiss-Davis Child Studies Center and California Lutheran University Child Study Center.
Holocaust Survivors and Second Generation. Presented at the Maple Counseling Center, Beverly Hills, CA.
An Analysis of Adolescent Suicide Attempts: The Expendable Child. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the International Society of Adolescent Psychiatry, Chicago, IL; American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA; California Psychological Association Annual Contention, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Psychological Association; Ambulatory Pediatrics Association, Washington, DC.
Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, and Obesity. Presented at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Division of Adolescent Medicine.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Treating Intergenerational Trauma: Hope for the Future. Los Angeles Psychologist. Los Angeles County Psychological Association Annual Convention Publication.
An Analysis of Adolescent Suicide Attempts: The Expendable Child. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 15, 789-796. Abstract also published in in the American Journal of Diseases of Children, 143, 429. (Primary author with J. Shapiro, Ph.D.)
Delay of Gratification in Bulimic and Restricting Anorexia Nervosa Patients. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 46, 706-713.
An Analysis of Adolescent Suicide Attempts: A Validation of the Expendable Child Measure. In A. Schwartzberg (Ed.), The Adolescent in Turmoil (pp. 82-90). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Abstract also published in the American Journal of Diseases of Children, 146, 463. (Primary author with J. Shapiro, Ph.D.)
Clueless Parents, Troubled Teens: Discrepancies in Awareness of Teens’ Suicidality. Abstract published in the Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 24, 109. (Primary author with J. Shapiro, Ph.D.)
Delay of Gratification and Body Image Distortion in Bulimic and Restricting Anorexia Nervosa Patients. (1986). Doctoral Dissertation, California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles.