Presenter: Patricia Contaxis, MA, MFT
When: Friday, November 7, 2014                
Time: 12:30 - 2 p.m.

This presentation will introduce clinicians to the developmental changes that occur in latency age children prior to puberty, and follow the developmental curve through adolescence to young adulthood. The focus will be changes that effect children's behavior, mood, coping strategies, and general relational ability over the course of adolescence, all typical problems that result in adolescent referrals. The presentation is also intended to help clinicians formulate an understanding of adolescent development that can be used in collateral work with parents and teachers.

Patty Contaxis, MA, MFT, has worked with adolescents in school and clinical settings since 1988.  She is on the faculty of Diablo Valley College and a former adjunct professor of developmental and clinical psychology at John F. Kennedy University.  Ms. Contaxis consults to Bay Area schools on social, behavioral and community issues.  She was a school-based counselor at Walnut Creek Intermediate School and Oakland's Ralph Bunche School, and has been a staff therapist for Ann Martin Center, La Cheim Residential Treatment Centers, and the Bay Area Youth Development Agency.  Ms. Contaxis is currently the consulting clinical director to Building Futures, an East Bay agency providing emergency shelter, domestic violence programs and transitional housing to homeless women and children.  She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy with middle school and high school age youth, parents, couples and individual adults.

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