Offering the Full Range of Comprehensive Psychological Services with a Specialty in Eating Disorders, DBT, & Child Services
Coming in September 2010!
Families in Transition (FIT)
Program for Separated and Divorced Parents and Children
Families in Transition (FIT) offers therapeutic activity groups that are time-limited, 10 session activity/play groups for children whose parents are experiencing a marital separation or divorce. Each group is run at an afterschool hour by a therapist with expertise in marital separation and divorce. Both the parent and children of families in transition are assisted to understand and address the pressures on their relationship sand the changes in their lives through early intervention. Children are helped to adjust to these new changes in order to minimize disruption in their normal development.
| Coping Strategies o Visitation |
Assertive Communication Skills
o Indentifying one’s feelings |
Negative Thoughts/Feelings Management
o Improve understanding of parental conflict |
| Anxiety, Sadness, Anger Management
o Handling difficult Situations |
Managing New/Different Household Rules
o Respite from ongoing stress |
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* Marilyn Kotcher, LCSW, is the director of the Child Adolescent Treatment Team and the Families in Transition (FIT) Program at The Koch Center. She was the former director of the Child Adolescent Outpatient Evaluation Service at New York Presbyterian Hospital, University of Columbia and Cornell Westchester Division, and is a lecturer in social work in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She frequently presents to professional and community members on working with parents of high conflict divorce and serves as a consultant on custody and visitation issues for divorcing parents.
*Contact: Marilyn Kotcher, LCSW (201) 541-6420 x3