Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY)
Monday November 21, 2016, 8:15pm

Scientific Meeting

Treatment for Traumatic Stress

Glenn Saxe, MD

Alumni Hall B, Smilow Seminar Room
550 First Avenue (near 32nd St.)

Trauma can have devastating consequences on a child's life-consequences that may not be obvious to parents, teachers, or other caregivers. In his work, Dr. Saxe tries to understand the impact of traumatic events on children and their families, and then help them to recover. He created Trauma Systems Therapy to teach other mental healthcare  professionals how to diagnose and treat children following traumatic events. The program addresses a child's emotional needs and social environment, and I am proud to see it being used to successfully treat children throughout the country and around the world.

Dr. Glenn Saxe is the Arnold Simon Professor and Chair, for the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Saxe is a physician scientist with a focus on child traumatic stress. His work has concerned the identification of risk factors for traumatic stress in acutely traumatized children and innovative methods for conducting risk factor analysis. He is also a developer of Trauma Systems Therapy (TST), a widely used community-based intervention.

Educational Objectives

* Describe treatment model trauma systems therapy
* Identify the core developmental problems related to child
traumatic stress
* Describe at least two practical approaches for interventions
for traumatized children and adolescents