Training Institute for Mental Health

Couple Therapy Training Program Mini-Workshop Series Save the Date  SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 10 AM – 2:30 PM Please join us for a SPECIAL SESSION Presented by   THE EmpathyWorks PROJECT  Empathy-Skills Training Validation Research Study   CHRISTOPHER SCOTT, LCSW, CGP How empathic are you? Find out your EmQ (Empathy Quotient). Participate in a multifaceted research project. Play Empathy Games and enhance your empathy skills. Please join us for a customized presentation of "Creating the WE Space," a fun, easy-to-grasp empathy-skills training program that deconstructs empathy and provides practical tools to help enhance your empathic ability.  Be one of the first to participate in our research study being conducted with TIMH to determine the efficacy of the program using a new performance-based, non-self-reporting empathy measure, the "EmQ." Workshop participants will be asked to take the preliminary EmQ via an online link, which will be sent to you in the workshop invitation email. If you wish to participate please be sure to complete "Bagging Groceries," the online survey, before attending the workshop. (Your information is completely confidential.) This workshop will be valuable to anyone who works in the health, mental health and educational fields.Participants will be invited to participate in feedback and role-play as part of the EmpathyWorksOrganic Learning Method. Christopher Scott, LCSW, CGP is a senior partner at the Village Counseling Center in NYC and has been in clinical practice for over 25 years. He is a Group Analyst and Certified Couples Therapist, with a specialty in training individual, couple and group therapists. He is on the faculty of Adelphi University, Training Institute for Mental Health, Psychoanalytic Society & Institute Group Therapy Program, where he is Associate Director, and a guest lecturer at Teacher's College, Columbia University and corporate venues. Chris is Co-Founder and CEO of Psych-Tech Inc. and The EmpathyWorks Project, dedicated to training emotional intelligence and providing support for emotional well-being through digital technologies to underserved segments of society. Couple Therapy Training Program Albert J. Brok, PhD., Director Ellen Gussaroff, PhD., LCSW, Associate Director Kimberly Bonds-Grocher, LCSW, SAP, Assistant Director