NFI Vermont is pleased to present:

Bruce D. Perry, MD, Ph.D.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2016

9:00am - 4:30pm

Check In will begin at 8:00am

Located at the Champlain Valley Expo in the Blue Ribbion Pavillion

Treating Developmental Trauma

Dr. Perry is the Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, a not-for-profit organization based in Houston, TX (www.ChildTrauma.org), and adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University   in Chicago.  Dr. Perry is the author, with Maia  Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, a bestselling book  based on his work with maltreated children and Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered. Over the last thirty years, Dr. Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences holding a variety of academic positions.

Dr. Perry, a native of Bismarck, North Dakota, was an undergraduate at Stanford University and Amherst College. He attended medical and graduate school at Northwestern University, receiving both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Perry completed a residency in general psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Chicago.

Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D.

with Ken Epstein, Ph.D.,LCSW

Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

9:00am - 4:30pm

Check In will begin at 8:00am

Located at the Essex Cinema T-Rex Theatre

Giving words to the unspeakable:

Repairing the effects of trauma in the early years

Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D. holds the Irving  B. Harris Endowed Chair of Infant Mental      Health in the UCSF Department of  Psychiatry, where she is also Professor  and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs.  She is Director of the Child Trauma Research  Program, San Francisco General Hospital and clinical consultant with the San  Francisco Human Services Agency. Born and raised in Paraguay, she received her B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem   and Ph.D. from The John Hopkins University.  This national and cultural background informs her work on behalf of children and families from diverse ethnic and cultural origins. Her major interests include infant mental health, disorders of attachment, child-parent interventions with families experiencing multiple adversities, the effects of trauma and domestic violence in the first years of life, and treatment outcome research with traumatized young children and their parents. She is the lead developer of  Child-Parent Psychotherapy, an  evidence-based, culturally informed treatment for traumatized young children and parents that is disseminated nationally and internationally.