The Trauma Institute of Orange County doing business as The Welcome Orange Training Institute

School Refusal-A Guide to Prevention, Management & Intervention

Jennifer Powell-Lunder, Psy.D.

Event About the Program: When: This workshop will offer an overview for managing school refusal. Areas of specific focus will include: understanding why kid’s refuse November 15, 2019 school, how to address the refusal, what can be done to get them 9:00 am—12:00 pm back to school, and how to proceed if returning to school does not seem like a viable option. An in depth exploration of how to best serve kids at highest risk to refuse school including students suffering from

depression, anxiety, and/or managing learning differences will also be Where: offered. Emergency Services 22 Wells Farm Road About the Presenter: Goshen, NY 10924 Jennifer Powell-Lunder, Psy. D. Dr. Jennifer Powell-Lunder is a clinical

psychologist specializing in work with tweens, teens, young adults, Registration is required: adults, and their families. She is co-author of the book Teenage as a Second Language (Adams Media 2010) www.bookeo.com/ octraumainstitute She is a featured blogger on tweens for Psychology Today: (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/lets-talk-tween). Dr. Powell- Lunder is regularly featured in both national and international media as Continuing Education Credit: an expert in her field. Most recently she was interviewed by ABC’s This educational offering is Elizabeth Vargas for an upcoming documentary on online dating. She is acceptable for 3 continuing featured in the HBO documentary: Swiped: Hooking up in the Digital education contact hours for Age , and New York Times bestselling book by Vanity Fair editor Nancy social workers, mental health Jo Sales, American Girls, Social Media and the Secret Lives of counselors, psychoanalysts, creative arts therapist, and Teenagers. Her television and radio credits include NPR’s Talk of the marriage & family therapists. Full Nation, NBC’s TODAY in New York, Al Jazeera America’s Consider This, attendance is required to receive Better TV, More, WCBS, Fox, ABC, and their affiliates, WPIX, and credit; variable credit for partial Westchester12, among many others. Dr. Powell-Lunder is a published attendance may not be awarded based on State Board guidelines. researcher, writer, accomplished speaker and consultant on tween,

teen and young adult issues. She is a contributor to Smithsonian Cost: $25 Magazine, The New York Daily News, Parenting Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, Huffington Post Live, The Christian Science Monitor, Your Teen Magazine, among many others. She was profiled in Westchester Magazine’s January 2012 feature on ‘People to Watch.’ Dr. Powell-Lunder is an adjunct professor of psychology at Pace Steven M. Neuhaus University and maintains a private practice in Bedford Hills, NY. County Executive