Child, Youth and Family Committee Updates
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS BY: Abby Brewer-Johnson, Psy.D DATE: 7/20/18 | SDPA CHILD AND YOUTH COMMITTEE MEETING More Than Meets the Eye: The Psychology of Twins DATE/TIME: 662 Encinitas Blvd #228
Dr. Joan A. Friedman is a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist who has devoted many years of her professional career to educating twins and their families about twins’ emotional needs. Having worked through her own twinship challenges and parented her fraternal twin sons, she is a definitive expert on twin development. |
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS BY: Abby Brewer-Johnson, Psy.D DATE: 5/2/18 | We would like to invite you to join us for a tour of Jewish Family Service of San Diego on May 18 at 11:30 AM to be led by the Senior Director of Programs and Services, Lea Bush. This year JFS celebrates 100 years of helping others in the San Diego greater community. Since its inception in 1918, JFS has been steadfast in its resolve to make a difference in people’s lives. Today, located on a spacious, beautiful campus, JFS offers a wide spectrum of services to individuals and families in the greater San Diego area. These include Aging and Wellness, Case Management, Counseling and Family Support, Family Assistance, Jewish Connections, Parenting and Youth Services, Refugees and Immigration, Teen Leadership. Within each service area there are multiple well-established programs offered by a caring professional community. Detailed program information is available on the JFS website: JFSSD.org Please consider joining us for our tour on May 18 at 11:30. Contact Ruth at ruth.drabby@gmail.comby May 15 for further information. |
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS BY: Abby Brewer-Johnson, Psy.D DATE: 4/26/18 |
SDPA’s Child/Adolescents Committee would like to invite you join us for a tour of Jewish Family Service of San Diego on May 18 at 11:30 to be led by the Senior Director of Programs and Services, Lea Bush. This year JFS celebrates 100 years of helping others in the San Diego greater community. Since its inception in 1918, JFS has been steadfast in its resolve to make a difference in people’s lives. Today, located on a spacious, beautiful campus, JFS offers a wide spectrum of services to individuals and families in the greater San Diego area. These include Aging and Wellness, Case Management, Counseling and Family Support, Family Assistance, Jewish Connections, Parenting and Youth Services, Refugees and Immigration, Teen Leadership. Within each service area there are multiple well-established programs offered by a caring professional community. Detailed program information is available on the JFS website: JFSSD.org Please consider joining us for our tour on May 18 at 11:30. Contact Ruth at ruth.drabby@gmail.com by May 15 for further information. |
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS BY: Abby Brewer-Johnson, Psy.D DATE: 3/22/18 |
Our next meeting will be April 6th Time: 12:00 - 1:00 Location: 12625 High Bluff Dr. #105 San Diego CA 92130 Speaker: Dr. Kelsy Bradshaw Topic: Family Therapy Dr. Kelsey Bradshaw is a licensed psychologist and received his Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas under the mentorship of Dr. Brad Donohue; a co-developer of Family Behavior Therapy. He completed his internship at Sharp Mesa Vista here in San Diego and then returned to Idaho; where he grew up. While in Boise he completed a community-based postdoctoral fellowship at Northwest Neurobehavioral Health (NNH). At NNH, he worked with children, adolescents, and adults in the community. His emphasis was on behavior management training, social skills training, emotional intelligence training, and use of evidence-based treatments for trichotillomania, PTSD, OCD, anxiety disorders, adjustment challenges, substance use, ADHD, and depression. He also provided comprehensive psychodiagnostic evaluations to assess for psychological and learning diagnoses, as well as developmental evaluations to assess for Autism Spectrum Disorders. He returned to San Diego where he is now a psychologist at Sharp Mesa Vista on the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit. As a member of the SMV psychology faculty, he provides supervision to pre-doctoral interns and oversees child and adolescent psychodiagnostic testing. He also conducts psychodiagnostic evaluations for the San Diego Center for Children’s Family Wellness Center on a part-time basis. We hope you can make it as it should be a great presentation!! Please reply to RSVP. Ruth O - 858-480-9155 |
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS BY: Tami Magaro DATE: 3/12/18 |
TRANSGENDER AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING YOUTH: HOW TO PROVIDE GENDER AFFIRMING SUPPORT TO YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES Presented by Huong Diep, PSY.D. What a great talk last Friday, March 9th from Dr. Diep on providing gender affirming support, which needs to start with the family. As the child may be struggling with their identity so will the parents. Dr. Diep takes a family holistic approach to walking the child as well as the parents through this process. As the parents are still the "gatekeeper" to the child's transition or block to transition. Dr. Diep shared the video, How to Be a Girl, which was so heart felt. It was from a mother about her baby boy who identifies as a girl - a must see. HUONG DIEP, PSY.D. Dr. Huong Diep is a Vietnamese-American, bilingual (English/Spanish), licensed clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience providing gender-affirming therapy, psycho-diagnostic evaluations and consultation to transgender and gender non-conforming children, adolescents and their families. She holds a doctorate degree from the University of Denver and completed her two post-doctoral fellowships in Adolescent Medicine with the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). She is passionate about the intersection of language, gender and culture and is an ally to the LGBTQ community. Dr. Diep recently transitioned into full-time private practice and provides services in Encinitas and Sorrento Valley. |
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS BY: Abby Brewer-Johnson, Psy.D DATE: 2/17/18 |
Our next meeting will be March 9th
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 Speaker: Dr. Houng Diep Topic: Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth: How to provide gender affirming support to youth and their Families Dr. Huong Diep is a Vietnamese-American, bilingual (English/Spanish), Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over ten years of experience providing gender-affirming therapy, psycho-diagnostic evaluations and consultation to transgender and gender non-conforming children, adolescents and their families. She holds a doctorate degree from the University of Denver and completed her two post-doctoral fellowship in Adolescent Medicine with the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). She is passionate about the intersection of language, gender and culture and is an ally to the LGBTQ community. Dr. Diep recently transitioned into full-time private practice and provides services in Encinitas and Sorrento Valley. We hope you can make it as it should be a great presentation!! |
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT BY: Cynthia Cotter, Ph.D DATE: 2/3/18 |
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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT BY: Abby Brewer-Johnson, Psy.D DATE: 1/26/18 |
THE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT COMMITTEE will be meeting next Our next meeting on February 9th from 11 am-12 pm.
We will be meeting on February 9th at 12625 High Bluff Drive, Suite 105 San Diego CA from 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Our speaker will be Patricia Padgett Owner of Foundations for Reading and Learning in Carlsbad. She will talk with us about current interventions for Dyslexia. For information about Patricia and FRC see the following; http://www.f-r-l.com/whocanbenefit.html. Any one who is interested in attending should email my assistant Ruth at ruth.drabby@gmail.com |
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT BY: Abby Brewer-Johnson, Psy.D DATE: 9/18/17 |
THE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENT COMMITTEE will be meeting on September 29th at the office Dr. Abby Brewer-Johnson 12625 High Bluff Drive, Suite 105 San Diego Ca 92130. If you are interested in joining the committee please join us. For more information send an email to drabby99@gmail.com or call 858-465-0984. |
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT BY: Katherine Nguyen Williams, Ph.D. DATE: 7/24/17 |
THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT COMMITTEE is dedicated to supporting mental health professionals who treat children, adolescents, and families. The committee connects SDPA professionals to free monthly CE trainings in collaboration with local institutions/universities, offers social networking opportunities with fellow child and family-focused professionals, and focuses on professional cross-collaborations. We offer case consultation, support, community, referrals, food, and social networking. We welcome new members and would love to have more students and trainees join us. We are always looking for new ideas for programs and leadership opportunities. Please contact SDPA Child & Adolescent Psychology Committee Co-Chairs, Katherine Nguyen Williams, Ph.D. (k1williams@ucsd.edu) or Abby Brewer-Johnson, Psy.D. (drabby99@gmail.com), for more information or to provide suggestions. We look forward to hearing from you! |