Attachment and Autonomy: How Parents Can Help Their Adoptive Children Thrive

DIALOGUES ON…” CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOANALYSIS

Wednesday, June 14, 2017
8:00 pm

Presenter: Anna Balas, M.D.

Sometimes parents feel challenged as they need to shift gears with their children from favoring strong bonds of attachment at a younger age, to allowing them the emergence of a separate identity and sense of autonomy in adolescence. We will explore these themes with parents with adopted children where these themes are often lived out more intensely. We will discuss how to help such families thrive.

No CME or CE credits offered.

No charge. All are welcome.

Anna Balas, M.D. is a child, adolescent and adult board certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is on the faculty at New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Associate Professor on the Voluntary Faculty at The Payne Whitney Division of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Weill Cornell School of Medicine.