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Newsroom>April
13 , 2006
Announcement
For Immediate Release: April 13, 2006
RISK, RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY: THE FORMATION OF THE
FAMILY AND THE EFFECTS OF TRAUMA AND RECURRENT STRESS
From Animal Models to Model Programs and Social Policy
Conference Co-Chairs:
Jean Adnopoz, M.P.H, Director of Clinical Services,
Yale Child Study Center
Arie Kaffman, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department
of Psychiatry, Yale University
James F. Leckman, M.D., Director of Research, Yale
Child Study Center
Steven Marans, Ph.D., Director, The National Center
for Children Exposed to Violence
Linda C. Mayes, M.D., Director of Infancy and Early
Childhood Studies, Yale Child Study Center
James E. Swain, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Yale Child Study Center
Joseph L. Woolston, M.D., Director of Clinical Services,
Yale Child Study Center
Dates:
April 25-27, 2006
Goals of Conference:
This conference will focus on that special time in the lives of families
– from first realization of the pregnancy through the first
years of life. Under normal circumstances, this is a time of transformation
- a time when families come into being and a new person begins their
journey through life. Trauma can dramatically influence the course
and outcome of families. There appear to be critical developmental
windows during which the genetically determined microcircuitry of
key limbic-hypothalamic-midbrain structures are susceptible to early
environmental influences and that these influences powerfully shape
an individual’s responsivity to psychosocial stressors and their
capacity to parent the next generation. Emerging data from the role
of genes, to the enduring influence of early life experience and our
ability to visualize brain activity has begun to provide a scientific
basis for understanding risk, resilience and recovery in the human
species. The integration of these data with an exploration of why
proven intervention programs are efficacious and cost effective is
a major goal of this conference. This emerging area of science should
inform social policy locally as well as at a national level. There
is also a critical shortage of well trained service providers.
During this three day conference we plan to:
1. Review the success of primate models in elucidating
the molecular mechanisms that influence parental behavior and stress
response
2. Consider available assessment methods using genetic
and neurobiological methodologies, what can they teach us about an
individual’s “allostatic load.”
3. Understand effects of trauma on human parental
care and stress response
4. Review the “active ingredients” in
successful of early intervention programs
5. Review how best to diffuse successful intervention
programs
6. Consider what more can be done from a social policy
perspective
7. Determine how best to train the next generation
of service providers
TUESDAY, APRIL 25TH DONALD J. COHEN AUDITORIUM
1:00 PM Departmental Conference:
How gene-environment interactions shape biobehavioral development
in rhesus monkeys and other primates
Stephen J. Suomi, Ph.D.; Linda C. Mayes, M.D., Chair
3:00 PM Maternal Emotional Disturbance and the Enduring
Molecular Consequences for her Primate Offspring - Jeremy Coplan,
M.D.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 TH DONALD J. COHEN AUDITORIUM
8:30 AM Robert T. Schultz, Ph.D., Chair
Michael Crowley, Ph.D., Rapporteur
Parent Infant Bonding: Using Brain imaging and Correlated Measures
toward Models of Mental Health Risk and Resilience - James Swain,
M.D., Ph.D.
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM Understanding the Effects of Early Stress:
A Focus on White Matter
Changes and the Potential Role of Myelin-Related Genes in the
Pathogenesis of Early-Onset Stress Related Disorders - Joan Kaufman,
Ph.D., Ron Duman, Ph.D. - Discussant
1:00 PM Roundtable Discussion of “What are
the Active Ingredients of Model Programs – their Mechanisms
of Action?”
Jean Adnopoz, M.P.H. & Joseph Woolston, M.D., Co-Chairs;
Julia Kim-Cohen, Ph.D., Rapporteur
Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D.
Ruth Feldman, Ph.D.
Peter Fonagy, Ph.D.
Linda C. Mayes, M.D.
Stephen Suomi, Ph.D.
Frank Putnam, M.D.
Steven Marans, Ph.D.
James Leckman, M.D.
Edward Zigler, Ph.D.
David L. Olds, Ph.D.
William Harris, Ph.D.
Lois Sadler, Ph.D.
Walter Gilliam, Ph.D.
Joan Kaufman, Ph.D.
Kimberly Yonkers, M.D.
Steven Berkowitz, M.D.
Robin Weersing, Ph.D.
4:00 PM Albert J. Solnit Memorial Lecture:
Still Searching for the Best Interests of the Child: Violence, Trauma,
and Infant Mental Health -Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D.
THURSDAY, APRIL 27 TH DONALD J. COHEN AUDITORIUM
8:30 AM Roundtable Discussion of How Science can
Inform Social Policy*
Frank Putnam, M.D., Chair;
Steven Marans, Ph.D. & Steven Berkowitz, M.D. – Co-chairs
Laura Sosinsky, Ph.D., Rapporteur
1:00 PM Roundtable Discussion of How to Train the
Next Generation of Academic Leaders and Service Providers*
Jean Adnopoz, M.P.H. and Joseph Woolston, M.D., Co-Chairs
Prakash Thomas, M.D., Rapporteur
4:00 PM Close of Conference
*The Roundtable discussions will formally include
all of the listed participants as well as questions from the floor.
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