Dr. Bonnie Goldstein
Developing Resilience: How to Draw upon the Body to Cope, Adapt and Thrive in Challenging Times
This past year has been riddled with stress, uncertainty and challenges affecting children, adolescents and families. Our nervous systems are hardwired for live human-to-human contact and although virtual platforms are useful (and necessary right now!), there is no replacing the actual physical connection and personal face-to-face contact that most of us are missing as the number of Covid-19 cases continue to rise worldwide. To offer support and concrete tools for how to cope and develop resilience for the COVID era, and for other stressful challenges, renowned child and family psychotherapist Dr. Bonnie Goldstein explores the impact of the environmental threat of COVID-19 and safe-at-home worldwide guidelines, and ensuing feelings of upset, aggression, irritability, fearfulness, avoidance, loss of interest in activities, etc. affecting children, caregivers and families. Dr. Goldstein will explore ways to ameliorate the impact of chaos and destabilization on family members and offer concrete tools that parents and children can practice together through the integrative lens of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Embedded Relational Mindfulness.
Bonnie Goldstein, Ph. D. is a psychologist from Los Angeles. She is the founder and director of Lifespan Psychological Center in Los Angeles, offering an integrated therapeutic treatment approach to child, adolescent, family and group treatment. She is a faculty member at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, co-developing--with Dr. Pat Ogden-- a series of workshops and seminars elucidating the interconnectedness of somatic therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory and human development in the therapeutic treatment of our younger clients and their families. Dr. Goldstein is a part-time professor at USC’s School of Social Work and has been part of USC’s larger commitment to bring issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion to the forefront of the academic curriculum. She received her B.A., MSW, and Ph.D., at UCLA and her Ed.M. at Harvard University, and holds dual licenses in the state of California in Psychology and Social Work.
10-02-2021
20:00-21:30