Jordan Bate, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Combined School-Clinical Child Program, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, where she coleads the psychodynamic practicum and teaches courses in beginning work with children, parents, and families and cognitive assessment of children.
She is also a supervising psychologist in perinatal and child psychotherapy services at Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital, and maintains a private practice in Manhattan, New York.
She has written multiple papers on attachment and mentalization in psychotherapy with parents and children, as well as the impact of parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on their attachment and parenting. Her research lab focuses on the applications of attachment to psychotherapy process, and innovative ways of training clinicians in mentalization and interpersonal skills.
Deliberate practice exercises help students and trainees rehearse fundamental child and adolescent psychotherapy skills to develop basic competence and hone their own personal therapeutic style.
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Parenting is a developmental process that fluctuates and transforms throughout the lifespan. To support working with parents, the authors present a mentalizing approach that considers the current... (more)