Depression: Resiliency Across the Life Span -- Annual Conference on Depression

The fourteenth annual conference on depression, Resiliency Across the Lifespan, is coming Wednesday, January 9, 2008, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., at the Borg Warner Rooms, Tompkins County Public Library, 201 E. Green Street, Ithaca. The conference is free and open to the public.

A keynote talk will be given by Ellen deLara., PhD, LCSW-R. Her research is in adolescent development and school violence, with expertise in bullying from a systemic perspective. Author of many articles, her book on this topic, co-authored with Dr. James Garbarino, is And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to protect adolescents from bullying, harassment, and emotional violence. Dr. deLara is on the faculty of the School of Social Work, Syracuse University and is a faculty fellow, Family Life Development Center, Cornell University. She is in private practice in Ithaca.

The conference offers workshop sessions on children’s depression; Circle of Courage, a treatment modality used by Franziska Racker Centers’ Counseling for School Success program; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT); and Powerful Tools, a support strategy for family caregiver of older adult family members.

To register, please call the Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, 273-9250; for accommodation of a disability in order to attend please call the Finger Lakes Independence Center, 272-2433 (v/TTY), call by Friday, January 4th.

Conference sponsors: Family anf Children’s Services Homecare Program, Finger Lakes Independence Center, Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service, Tompkins County Office for the Aging, and the Tompkins County Public Library.