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Finding Magical Moments with Children:
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Featuring Lenore Terr, MD  Named a 'hero of medicine" by the Secretary of Health and Human Services,Lenore Terr, has won virtually every major prize in general and child psychiatry for clinical research and for psychotherapy. She is the author of Too Scared to Cry, Unchained Memories and Beyond Love and Work. Dr. Terr was born in New York and raised in Cleveland by a loving, artistic, and fun-filled family. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a music major (piano) at Case Western Reserve University and then attended the Unioversity of Michigan Medical School where she won the Senior Award. After training in adult and then child psychiatry at Michigan, she taught for five years,full-time at Case Western Reserve Medical School, where she began a series of research studies on childhood trauma. She then opened a private practice in San Francisco while continuing her trauma research, most importantly studying over a 4-year period a group of 26 children kidnapped at Chowchilla. |
With each generation of children who remain untreated, more abuse occurs and more abyusing adults develop. Not only does abuse happen within the family, but one-time rapes, sexually intended kidnappings, sex rings in neighborhoods, and school, daycare, or church-related sexual violations take place. This workshop will define and discuss the psychological and medical findings in children who have gone through these ordeals, emphasizing how the memories are expressed in words and behaviors. Treatment planning, including abreaction, context and correction will be explained. How to use play, art, music, jokes, games and story telling are exemplified. Consultation with the medical and court systems will be discussed.