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Lecture - THE BULLY SOCIETY: Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America's Schools
Twelve years after the Columbine High School massacre, school shootings have gone from a rare, shocking aberration to a frequent, yet still shocking, tragedy. Despite ubiquitous zero-tolerance policies, school violence continues. Even if they’re not getting beat up or shot at, students routinely endure verbal assaults and torment from other students—often as school faculty look the other way, or worse, join in. For many children and teens across the country, school feels like a hostile, oppressive, and dangerous place. Why has vicious bullying become commonplace in schools?
Jessie Klein delves into the roots of school violence in all its forms, from “everyday” bullying to shooting rampages to the alarming rise in adolescent depression and suicide. To get to the core of bullying, she draws on extensive studies and firsthand interviews with both targets and bullies in schools from rural, inner-city, and wealthy suburban communities; she also shares her experiences with these issues from the two decades she's worked in schools and universities. Throughout, she tells the stories of men, women, and children who suffered — emotionally, psychologically, and physically —because of school culture norms. Backed by hard-hitting statistics and haunting personal accounts, her book The Bully Society reveals how students get the message, from the media, as well as their parents and teachers, that status and power are everything; boys learn from an early age to assert manhood by wielding power over girls, while girls are increasingly pressured to be tough too, and to use violence to prove themselves; surprisingly, teachers and parents often contribute to the bullying problem even when they are trying to ameliorate it. What can concerned educators and parents do to stop this hurtful yet widely accepted pattern of behavior? In The Bully Society, she discusses the steps necessary to transform debilitating school cultures.
She shares successful school-based efforts, where teachers are working to bond with students and help them become leaders in creating a caring school environment; students then reach across ethnic, economic, social, cultural, and gender divides to create authentic connections among one another; in this way students finally replace the jockey for popularity which comes at the expense of building true friendships. Rather than focusing on identifying a “troubled teen,” She suggests that the goal is to diagnose disturbing values affecting the school; schools need to commit to building a culture of acceptance, where students can develop their potential, contribute to their communities, and connect meaningfully with other people. "I believe that change is possible in our schools. Together we can move from a destructive one-size-fits-all bully society to more compassionate communities—where students, families, and community members can finally thrive".
Jessie Klein, Ph.D., MSW, M.Ed. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology/Criminal Justice at Adelphi University. Over the last two decades she also led and administered high school guidance programs. She served as a supervisor, social work professor, college adviser, social studies teacher, school social worker, substance abuse prevention counselor and conflict resolution coordinator.
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location: Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium,
1468 Madison Avenue at 100th Street, New York, NY
Suggested Donation: $10-$35
The Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture is supported by the
Phillips Family.
It honors the memory of our colleague and friend and
brings to the community leading contributors
to the psychoanalytic field.
WORKSHOP FOR PRACTITIONERS
MIND-BODY
TECHNIQUES FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE, PART I
IMPROVING RESILIENCE THROUGH ACCESSING THE
BODY-SELF
In order to
assist clients in healing and developing an expanded
sense of self, therapists are increasingly integrating
the body and somatic experience into treatment. Often,
however, therapists have neither a sufficient theoretical
map nor the techniques needed to do so. Drawing on
both Eastern and Western wisdom, participants will be
given exercises to use with clients that will assist in
accessing the body's wisdom to help in the healing
process. When a client can develop a relationship with
his/her body that is resourceful, he/she builds the
capacity for increased affect tolerance, improved
emotional regulation and
resilience. The workshop
will be both didactic and experiential.
*The
content of this workshop is similar to the workshop
titled Seven Levels of Selfhood offered last year.
Tulasi Jordan,
LCSW ERYT-500
Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:30am-1:00pm
Location: West Village This workshop is filled
Giving
Our Daughters What They Confide They Need: An Ongoing
Dialogue on Sexuality from Childhood through Adulthood
Based on
McFadden’s study of 450 women, in which they could reveal
whatever was important to them, this workshop will focus
on what those women most wanted to talk about: how girls
learn about sexuality from their mothers and how this
impacts the women they become. To support their self
worth, daughters report wanting to feel a sense of
belonging and being welcomed by their mothers into the
gender they share. To that end, we’ll explore simple
changes that can be made to avoid the distance daughters
say gets created in the mother-daughter bond throughout
the life cycle when their bodies, desire and the
complexities of sexual relationships are seen as topics
too taboo to comfortably discuss. By illuminating the
unhelpful messages we can unintentionally pass onto our
girls as well as our adult daughters, we’ll be able to
reframe talking about sexuality as an act of maternal
love and female cohesion rather than a source of
awkwardness.
Joyce McFadden NCPsyA LCSW
Saturday, October 20, 2012 11:00am-1:30pm Fee: $65
Location: TBA This workshop
is filled
WORKSHOPS
FOR PRACTITIONERS
Somatic
Cognition: Accessing The Narrative of the Gendered
Body
In
recent years psychoanalysis has turned its attention to
the role of the body in treatment. What is missing from
the current discourse is the role gender plays in our
experiences of and expressions through our bodies.
Decoding somatic and non-verbal material, both ours
and our patients', offers another dimension to
understanding gendered human experience. Utilizing
clinical material, participants will learn to recognize
the physical manifestations of psyche and culture in
order to make use of the body as a vehicle for
change.
Andrea Gitter
MA, LCAT, BC-DMT
Saturday,
December 8, 2012 10:30am-12:00pm
Location: TBA
Fee: $65
An Introduction to Neuroscience and Psychotherapy: Giving
Our Clients What Their Brains Need
It is an exciting time to be a clinician because
neuroscience is offering dramatic insights into human
development that can greatly enhance our effectiveness
with clients. Did you know that a child’s brain is
designed to develop through interactions with caregivers?
As babies and parents exchange long, loving glances,
babble and coo, neurons in the baby’s brain are firing
and wiring together with lifelong implications for
self-esteem, optimism, trust and relational capacity.
Current brain
research validates what we have always known: that our
love and attunement are the agents of change in
psychotherapy. But how can we create the conditions that
optimize neuroplasticity? Newer models of practice that
emphasize attachment theory, affect regulation, and
somatic and sensory motor processing offer clues to this
vital question. Come to this introductory workshop to
learn more about neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and the
implications of current practice models for our work with
clients.
Postponed
Amy Gladstone,
Ph.D.
Saturday,
November 3, 2012 11:00am-1:00pm
Location: TBA Fee: $65
MIND-BODY
TECHNIQUES FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE, PART II
SEVEN LEVELS OF SELFHOOD: UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT
THROUGH THE BODY-SELF
Building on
Mind-Body Techniques for Clinical Practice Part I, this
three-hour workshop will offer additional techniques to
integrate the body and somatic experience into treatment.
Drawing on both Eastern and Western wisdom, and
proposing that the core of the body itself is an
energetic one, participants will be given exercises to
use with clients that will assist in accessing the body's
wisdom to help in the healing process. The workshop will
be both didactic and experiential, allowing participants
a unique perspective on human development, both felt and
conceptualized.
*Mind
Body Techniques for Clinical Practice Part I or last
year's course Seven Levels of Selfhood is a pre-requisite
for part II.
Postponed
Tulasi Jordan,
LCSW ERYT-500
Saturday, November 10, 2012 10:30am-1:00pm
Location: West Village Fee: $65
FOR
PRACTITIONERS
AND THE PUBLIC
It's
Hot or It's Not--Sustaining Sexual Desire
and Erotic Energy
POSTPONED
This workshop
for the public will address how women can stay in touch
with, nurture and re-find their desire and erotic energy,
especially in long term relationships. For many, long
term relationships pose a particular problem to
maintaining sexual energy as familiarity and
comfortableness can replace excitement and
aliveness. We will look at what goes into attending
to an erotic life, what gets in the way and what makes it
so hard to maintain. We will also explore if there
is an intrinsic incompatibility between safety and erotic
excitement. All are welcome, whether gay or straight, in
a relationship or not.
Wendy Miller, Ph.D.
Spring 2013 -
date TBD
Location: Greenwich Village Fee: $60