Seminars or workshops may be arranged for qualified professionals in the mental health who sign confidentiality agreements to view Training DVDs depicting actual in-classroom Reflective Network Therapy sessions which will be used for demonstration explication and discussion and discussion.
A typical two-day workshop aim is for participants to gain practical technical abilities in understanding how Reflective Network Therapy works and to see how it is used with a variety of preschool clinical tasks. After an introduction to the concepts and history of the method, the aim will be achieved by Dr. Gilbert Kliman presenting and discussing multiple videos of his own and other therapist's using the method with a variety of cases, going into depth over the course of two days.
Multiple cases presented include children with PDD, PTSD, Asperger's Syndrome, full-blown autism, one with an unsocialized and borderline condition, and foster children with attachment reaction disorder, and probably several others. Most will be illustrated with videos of the actual treatment, by several different therapists. A follow-up video of an interview with a former child patient (36 years old at the time the video was made) will also be used. In this interview, the former patient will describe her remarkable recall of what helped her to emerge from Autism during her expierience of Reflective Network Therapy from three through six years of age.
As an example of a professional group who benefit from such Seminars, a two day event was sponsored by Los Angeles Department of Mental Health in collaboration with The Statewide Infant-Preschool-Family Mental Health Initiative IPFMHI), and The WestEd Center for Prevention and Early Intervention (CPEI), Sacramento, California. For information on how to arrange a similar training in Reflective Network Therapy for your professionals, please Contact us.
About Gilbert Kliman, MD−Medical Director, The Children's Psychological Health Center
Gilbert Kliman, MD, graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of The American Psychiatric Association and a Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. After his child psychiatric training and training as an interdisciplinary Fellow in Science and Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he founded three nonprofit organizations dedicated to childhood mental health services. All three are still vigorously functioning. All three were derived from the Reflective Network Therapy experience (formerly known as The Cornerstone Therapeutic Preschool Method). He originated Reflective Network Therapy with the help of colleagues (including Elissa Burian) at The Center for Preventive Psychiatry which he founded in 1965. He next founded the Foster Care Study Unit at Columbia’s University College of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Child Psychiatry, where he worked on a systematic test of a derivative of Reflective Network Therapy.
He continued to refine the method at The Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc., the third nonprofit he founded, where he has been the Medical Director since 1993. He is responsible for that agency’s clinical research, supervision, and staff training. Using data and video archives from over 40 years of Reflective Network Therapy, he is now developing a controlled, multi-site project to further replicate and study RNT's clinical and IQ outcomes. He currently supervises a Bay Area Reflective Network Therapy service site at the Ann Martin Center in Piedmont, California, the Family Services service site in Seattle, a new service site at the University City Children's Center in St. Louis, MO and also supervises and consults at the first South American Cornerstone service site, Cornerstone Argentina in Buenos Aires. In addition, Dr. Kliman collaborates with Alexandra Harrison, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, who applies Reflective Network Therapy in an innovative project in Cambridge Massachusetts. Dr. Kliman's private practice of forensic child psychiatry often leads to his testifying in federal and state courts on socially significant issues of children’s well-being; he has testified in over 250 major court cases.
He has peer-reviewed certifications from the American Psychoanalytic Association, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and has made scientific presentations at more than 100 scientific seminars, conferences and symposiums. Dr. Kliman has received over 50 grants for research and service regarding psychological illness and traumatic experiences concerning young children and families.
His professional positions have included: Interdisciplinary Fellow in Science and Psychiatry at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Assistant Clinical Professor, Mount Sinai Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, New York; Director, Preventive Psychiatry Service, Elmhurst General Hospital, Queens, New York, Chief Psychiatric Consultant, Children’s Garden, San Rafael, California, (a residential foster care facility) Director, Preventive Psychiatry Services and Unit for Study of Mass Violence and Genocide, St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco; private practice of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (Adult, Child, and Adolescent) in San Francisco, New York and California; Director and Principal Investigator, Foster Care Study Unit, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; where he was also Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Child Psychiatry.
Dr. Kliman’s guided activity workbooks were first developed as a derivative of Cornerstone therapy at the Foster Care Study Unit. He ultimately developed a range of such therapeutic workbooks to help children cope with earthquakes, wars, and hurricanes and they have been distributed by charitable agencies, such as Mercy Corps, to thousands of disaster-stricken families throughout the world and are listed on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s web site. He has appeared on national television features concerning psychological trauma and related children’s issues (Barbara Walters, Straight Talk, Health and Science News (KTVU), The Today Show). Dr. Kliman is the author of over 70 scientific papers and several books, including Responsible Parenthood (co-authored with A. Rosenfeld) which earned an international literary award (the Janusz Korczak Prize for Best Book Concerning The Well-Being and Nurture of Children). He is also the founder of The Journal of Preventive Psychiatry and served as Editor-in-Chief.
