Friends of The Children's Psychological Health center

A Message from The Children's Psychological Health Center's Medical Director - Requesting your Gift 

I hope you will make a generous tax deductible donation to The Children’s Psychological Health Center. Our agency needs your support to help young children with mild to moderate autism spectrum disorders, pervasive developmental disorders and serious emotional disturbances. Demand for our help is growing fast, as more and more therapists and teachers recognize how effectively Reflective Network Therapy helps some of the nation's most troubled preschoolers. Your contribution can help support training to certify therapists and teachers in Reflective Network Therapy, expand services at established affiliated preschools, provide therapeutic education scholarships for needy child patients, and further research to add to our body of outcome evidence for mental health gains and IQ rises commonly experienced by children treated using our method. We provide ongoing training and supervision to four affiliated preschool service sites and are working on requests to train staff at potential new sites while continuing our research, collaborating on multi-site studies and pilot projects, and filling special requests for our expertise. Special projects include "My Story About Being Homeless" --created for Family Services of Seattle in conjunction with preschool education in a shelter-- is a low cost therapy for homeless and recently homeless in transitional housing with broad application potential to address mental health deficits of some of the most under-served children.

We provide ongoing training and supervision for affiliated preschool service sites and are working on requests to train staff at potential new sites while continuing our research, collaborating on multi-site studies and pilot projects, and filling special requests for our expertise. Special requests include new psychoanalytically-based guided activity workbooks such as one just completed for traumatized children in Gaza, following the success of "My Sichuan Earthquake Story" which we created and donated to help children and families in China. Special projects include a new resource: "My Story About Being Homeless" --created for Family Services of Seattle for preschool education in a shelter-- a low cost therapy for homeless and recently homeless children in transitional housing to address mental health deficits of some of the most under-served children.

We deeply appreciate your support for this increasingly rapid expansion of services.

Sincerely,

Gilbert Kliman, MD, Medical Director, The Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc.
Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Senior Life Fellow & Diplomate, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Certified Psychoanalyst for Adults, Children and Adolescents, American Psychoanalytic Association _____________________________________________

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1. To support Reflective Network Therapy for autistic children in an affiliated preschool service site.

2. To support Reflective Network Therapy for traumatized children in an affiliated preschool service site.

3.  To support scholarships for needy children to attend affiliated preschool service sites delivering Reflective Network Therapy regardless of diagnoses, whether the children are autistic or traumatized or have multiple diagnoses of serious emotional disturbances and cognitive disorders.

5. To support Ann Martin Cornerstone--Reflective Network Therapy services for emotionally and cognitively disturbed children. This service site also serves as a demonstration laboratory for training new therapists. (Piedmont, California).  Supervision by Gilbert Kliman, MD

6. To support Cornerstone Argentina Service under the direction of Alicia Mallo, MD (Buenos Aires), in consultation with Gilbert Kliman, MD

7. To support Cambridge Cornerstone Service, a pilot project delivering Reflective Network Therapy which is directed by Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Alexandra Harrison, MD (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

8. To support independent outcome research, including third party psychological testing  to augment our body of outcome data.

9. Earmark my gift to support training for teachers and therapists in carrying out Reflective Network Therapy, including stipends for advanced doctoral students to train while serving at affiliated service sites.

10. To support the International Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship in Cornerstone Service and Research.

11. To support video conferencing to deliver ongoing long distance supervision and training of new Cornerstone teachers and therapists following initial intensive training and to supplement subsequent onsite supervision for certification training.   

12. To support transcription of videos for scientific study from our extensive archives of actual in-classroom Reflective Network Therapy sessions.

13. To support production and distribution of training materials and videos of actual treatments to qualified professionals who provide a signed Confidentiality Agreement.

14. To support reproduction and dissemination of The Personal Life History Book and Manual  for parents, caregivers, teachers and mental health professionals working with Foster Children.

15. To support further reproduction and dissemination of My Story About Being Homeless, a Guided Activity Workbook specially designed to help Homeless Children and recently homeless children and families in Transitional Housing.

16. To support further development of Reflective Network Therapy training materials in Mandarin to support training for Chinese speaking mental health professionals and teachers who request to work with children in China using our methods.

17. To support US Disaster Relief for children and families traumatized by natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, tornados, earthquakes and fires using evidence-based Guided Activity Workbooks for psychological first aid. 

18. To support psychological help for children and families in Haiti using the Reflective Network Therapy derivative, My Own Story about the Earthquake in Haiti, a guided activity workbook available in three language editions: Creole-Haitian French, Haitian French and English.

19. To support ongoing psychological help for children and families in China, including the use of our guided activity workbook, My Sichuan Earthquake Story, and further training of Chinese teachers and therapists in Reflective Network Therapy for children with autism and other serious emotional and cognitive disorders. 

20. Use my gift for your nonprofit agency's most urgent current priorities.

Contact Us to specify how your gift is used. Thank you for your help!

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