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iaedp Symposium 2015 Keynote Speakers
Eating Disorders: The Family as the Client
Keynote Address: Friday, March 20, 9am
 | | Claudia Black PhD |
Claudia Black's seminal work with children impacted by substance abuse in the late 1970s created the foundation for the adult child movement. Today Claudia is a renowned author and trainer internationally recognized for her pioneering and contemporary work with family systems and addictive disorders. She serves as a Senior Fellow and Addiction and Trauma Program Specialist at The Meadows Treatment Center in Arizona. She sits on the Advisory Board for the National Association of Children of Alcoholics, and the Advisory Council of the Moyer Foundation.
Claudia' pioneering contributions are many:
- She would be the first to name and coin the dysfunctional family rules, "Don't Talk, Don't Trust, Don't Feel. "
- She described the phenomena of delayed stress, emotional trauma, the child's denial process, the phenomena of "looking good" kids as they relate to growing up with addiction, and hence the meaning and phraseology of "Adult Child of Alcoholics".
- She utilized art therapy in the context of group work with young children that offered a model for children's programs for the past three plus decades.
- She broke the barrier and openly discussed physical and sexual abuse in the context of addictive families.
Her work, her passion has been ageless and offers a foundation for those impacted by addiction to recover, and gives our professional field a library of both depth and breadth.
Dr. Black is the recipient of numerous national awards including the 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Washington School of Social Work, the 2010 Conway Hunter Award for excellence in the field of addictions, the 2012 Robert Rehmar Addiction Professional Award, and the 2014 Father Joseph C. Martin Professional Excellence Award.
Dr. Black has been a keynote speaker on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. Her workshops have been presented to an extraordinarily wide array of audiences including military academies, prison systems, medical schools, and extensive mental health and addiction programs. Claudia has extensive multi-cultural experiences working with agencies and audiences in Japan, Brazil, Australia, Scotland, Iceland, Germany, England and Canada. Many of her books and videos have been translated and published abroad.
Claudia is the author of It Will Never Happen To Me, Changing Course, My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has A Disease, Repeat After Me, Relapse Toolkit, A Hole in the Sidewalk, Depression Strategies, Straight Talk, Family Strategies, Anger Strategies, Deceived: Facing Sexual Betrayal, Lies and Secrets, The Truth Begins With You, and her most recent book Intimate Treason.
Positive Psychotherapy
Keynote Address: Saturday, March 21, 9 am, followed by an afternoon workshop from 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm also on Sat, Mar 21.
 | | Dan Tomasulo, PhD |
Dan holds a PhD in psychology, an MFA in writing, and is the first licensed psychologist and psycho-dramatist to graduate from the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. In addition to teaching at NJCU he is an assistant instructor for Martin Seligman, The Father of Positive Psychology, at UPenn for the MAPP program.
He writes for Psychology Today as an expert on group therapy (The Healing Crowd) and authors the daily column, Ask the Therapist, for PsychCentral.com as well as their Proof Positive blog on practical applications of positive psychology. Recently honored by Sharecare* as
one of the top ten online influencers on the topic of depression he joined the staff of ANSWERS.com as their expert on depression.
He is also the creator of Interactive-Behavioral Therapy and the Dare to be Happy experiential workshops and is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New Jersey City University where he created the first Positive Psychology course to become a permanent full-term offering in the state. He is co-author of Healing Trauma: The Power of Group Treatment for People with Intellectual Disabilities, the American Psychological Association's first book on the subject, and the first psychologist to win the statewide Healthcare Provider of the Year award from the ARC of New Jersey.
Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir is his latest book by Graywolf, and his plays Sticks, Stones and the R word, and Negatively Oriented Therapy won the 2010 and 2012 International play competition for RETHINK Theater Challenge, both premiered in Auckland, New Zealand.
He is currently working on his next book: The Participants, a memoir about his involvement in deinstitutionalizing the residents of Willowbrook.
Elusive Answers: Difficult Cases that Pose Clinical and Ethical Challenges...answering the question of "what to do when?" Keynote Panel Address: Sunday, March 22, 9 am
Don't miss this panel discussion based on actual case studies that promises to be interesting and informative from the multidisciplinary viewpoints of experienced professionals who work in therapeutic settings with difficult patients.
Presenters:
Bryan Gusdal, MA Director (Panel Moderator)
Jennifer Gaudiani MD, CEDS
Edward Tyson MD, CEDS
Amy Boyers PhD, CEDS
Karen Beerbower MS, RD, LD, CEDRD
Click here for the exhibitor packet or contact Blanche Williams at blanche@iaedp.com.
Click here to make your hotel reservations - make them early to take advantage of the discounted rate! Reservations must be made by February 24, 2015, but don't wait! The hotel block fills up fast!
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