Dr. Nancy Neufeld Silva, '06 and Karen Mitchell, LCSW will be teaching a six-unit workshop on the nature of language and how a holistic approach to it can enhance clinical practice. October 2, 2009 in Modesto and October 17, 2009 in Turlock.

Dr. Joan Dasteel, ’78 was recently appointed as lecturer in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in recognition of her work in teaching in the Doctoring 2 program.

Dr. Tanya Moradians, ’81, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA has been given an Honorary Status with that department. This distinguished status is seldom given to non-medical professionals. Dr. Moradians taught Group Psychotherapy (both theoretical and experiential) as well as family systems to the psychiatric residents, psychiatric nurses, social work students, and other allied staff during her 19 years with the department.

Dr. Susan Spiegel, '01 is the Coordinator of the Adolescent and Child Treatment Program at the Maple Center. Recent presentations include participation on a panel entitled When Spouses Stray offered at the NMCOP conference in Chicago in March 2007 and at the COP conference in Los Angeles in November 2007. (AAPCSW)

Dr. Elaine Leader, '81 received the California Association of Nonprofits' Excellence in Leadership Award on October 25th, 2007at the CAN Annual Conference held in Los Angeles.   Dr. Leader received the news of the Award on her 80th birthday which was celebrated on October 21st at Yamashiro Restaurant in Holloywood by friends and supporters of TEEN LINE, of which she is Co-founder and Executive Director.

Dr. Irene Harwood, '83 together with Malcolm Pines, has edited a book titled SELF EXPERIENCES IN GROUP: INTERSUBJECTIVE AND SELF PSYCHOLOGICAL PATHWAYS TO HUMAN UNDERSTANDING (International Library of Group Analysis, 4). She is on the editorial board of ISSUES, the group journal of the New York Postgraduate Center.

Dr. Judith Kay Nelson, '79 released her book, titled SEEING THROUGH TEARS: CRYING AND ATTACHMENT. It was published by Routledge in 2005. Dr. Nelson's book is a comprehensive view of crying behavior from the standpoint of attachment theory and research. On her book tour, she has presented at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, to the Health Plan of New York, the New York Society for Clinical Social Work Annual Conference, and to the John Bowlby Center for Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in London.

Dr. Elinor Grayer, '81 presented on group thrapy at the Threshold Conference in Belfast, Ireland, in August 2005. She will present a workshop on "Improvisational Acting for Group Therapists" to the Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association in Vancouver, B.C., in November 2005, and she will conduct a seminar on "The Process of Aging Therapists: Older Clients or Younger Clients" to the American Grup Psychotherapy Association in San Francisco in February 2006.

Dr. Priscilla Fleischer, '04, a Sanville alumna and Northern Regional Co-Chair of our board, was part of a panel presentation at United Nations Headquarters in New York in March 2007 to the Commission on the Status of Women. Dr. Fleischer’s paper, “When I was a Girl,” focused on working with women who have dissociative disorders subsequent to having been severely abused as girls. This panel was sponsored by anthropologist Dana Raphael, PhD, Director of the Human Lactation Research Center in Westport, CT. The panel addressed the impact of inhumane acts - torture, ritual abuse, and mind control - on the lives of girls and women, including the impact of dissociative disorders. Dr. Fleischer is the first Sanville grad to present at the United Nations, a great honor. Dr. Priscilla Fleischer also participated on a panel titled "Critical Elements to Recovery from Trauma: Two Perspectives" as part of a conference on Trauma, Recovery and Spirituality to be held at Summit Medical Health Education Center on April 7, 2006.

Dr. Steven Zemmelman, '01 was recently selected to be a supervisor in the Training Program of The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley.

Dr. Whitney van Nouhuys, '05 was recently selected to be a supervisor in the Training Program of The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley.