On Thursday 10/29/15 Irit Felsen presented a teleconference lecture entitled “Helping Our Clients During Times of Unsettling World News”. An audio recording of the lecture is available online free of charge at https://www.cubbyusercontent.com/pl/Instant+Meeting+2015-10-29.webm/_6f1f54b7ad58496f97314d7ddaba12de The lecture was a part of an ongoing monthly lecture series provided online by the Claims Conference for service providers across North America, Australia and the UK… READ MORE>>
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Recording of Irit Felsen’s lecture to the Claims Conference available online
Posted by on November 2, 2015
Irit Felsen presenting in the Claims Conference teleconference, October 29/15
Posted by on October 20, 2015
On Thursday Oct 29 beginning at 1 pm, I will be giving a talk entitled “Helping Our Clients During Times of Unsettling World News” during the next teleconference of the Claims Conference. More information, including directions of how to connect to the teleconference, can be found at http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=db9190cf3354f272fa9c7a934&id=3d419152ce&e=adbddb621d. For any questions, email Chavie Brumer: Chavie.brumer@claimscon.org. If you are joining the… READ MORE>>
Irit Felsen presenting at Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC, Oct. 15/2015
Posted by on October 10, 2015
On Thursday Oct 15 beginning at 10:30 am, I will be giving a talk for the speaker’s bureau at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Living Memorial to the Holocaust (http://www.mjhnyc.org). The talk will be titled “Intergenerational Transmission: Inheriting Historical Trauma” and will address the various aspects of strengths and vulnerabilities that have been observed in studies of the children of… READ MORE>>
Irit Felsen starting teaching again at Yeshiva University, for Fall 2015 Semester
Posted by on August 26, 2015
During the Fall 2015 semester, which began today, Irit Felsen is teaching a graduate level psychology course at Yeshiva University in the Bronx, as part of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. The course is “Couples and Family Counseling” (Course #6440).
Diversity, inside and out
Posted by on August 23, 2015
In recent years, cultural competence with regards to diversity has come to the foreground of the social discourse in general and in mental health services in particular. It is important to remember that cultural diversity does not necessarily mean only differences associated with ethnicity, religion, wealth, level of education and other aspects of socially-constructed identity. Some people who appear to… READ MORE>>
Liking the body you have
Posted by on August 13, 2015
Dominique Browning wrote a piece in the last weekend’s New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/fashion/im-too-old-for-this.html?emc=eta1) that captures something we mothers, psychotherapists, older women, would like so much to be able to impress upon our daughters and other younger women. It is the perspective that comes with age, that their young bodies are beautiful, as they are, and that they should celebrate their… READ MORE>>