Date: Jan 29-30th, 9-5pm
Venue: The Center for Psyhcology
491B River Valley Road, #16-02A, Valley Point
Contact: 6733 2893
Please email contact@aipp.com.sg for registration info.

Summary:
Recent advances in the neurosciences have increased our knowledge of how and why people change. This workshop will examine new ways of conceptualizing the therapeutic process and move beyond the traditional theoretical school approach to deal with depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, ADHD in children and adults.

John Arden, PhD is the author of 12 books including: Rewire Your Brain. He is lead author of the books: Brain-Based Therapy:Adult and Brain-Based Therapy:Child

His first book, Consciousness, Dreams, and Self, was awarded the 1997 Outstanding Academic Book Award by Choice, a publication of the American Library Association. An international panel of jurists nominated his second book: Science, Theology, and Consciousness, for the CTS award funded by the Templeton Foundation. His book: America’s Meltdown: Creating the Lowest Common Denominator Society explored the degradation of the fabric of American society.

He is highly trained in in neuropsychology and is the director of training for mental health for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in Northern California. In this capacity, he oversees one of the largest mental health training programs in the world, operating in 22 different medical centers throughout Northern California. He also practices part-time at Kaiser Permanente in Petaluma and San Rafael, and he served for several years as the Chief Psychologist at Kaiser Vallejo. He has taught in colleges, professional schools, and universities.

The Professional Lecture Series Presents

Depression 101- An overview of the etiologies of depression, its symptoms and effective treatment methods with special focus on the Chinese Population
by Dr. Alex Leung
Program Director for the Alliant International University/California School of Professional Psychology's Hong Kong PsyD Programs. (www.aipp.com.sg)

April 28, 2009 (Tues) 7:00-9:00pm
Asia Institute of Professional Psychology (www.aipp.com.sg)
491B River Valley Road, #16-02A Valley Point Office Tower

Abstract

This workshop will cover clinical information on the causes with an in-depth investigation on the symptoms of depression. Current clinical research on the impact and pervasiveness of depression will also be explored. Finally, different treatment methods on depression will be discussed in details.


Dr. Leung is the Program Director for the Alliant International University/California School of Professional Psychology's and directs the Hong Kong PsyD Programs. He held the rank of Assistant Clinical Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, at the University of California, San Francisco; and was the attending psychologist at the Asian-Pacific Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at the San Francisco General Hospital. He has more than twenty years of clinical experiences serving the Chinese population in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China; providing psychodiagnostic evaluation and treatment.