An Open House at the Institute with clinical presentation and supervision

How Mentalization Helps an Adolescent Learn About Love, Anger and Growth

by Mayan Abecasis, LMSW

with Supervision by Jacqueline Ferraro, DMH

Monday, June 10, 2024

7:30-9:00PM

20 West 74th Street (between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue), New York City 10023

The evening’s case presentation is about an an 18-year-old patient who presented with issues of anger, engaging in a series of risky behaviors during the last year of high school and first year of college.

Through mentalization of her relationships with her family, partner, as well as her therapist, the patient explored her relationships. In re-enactments in therapy and using her countertransference, the therapist supported the patient in learning to love herself and others, and to look at her behavior patterns. Both patient and clinician grew from the relationship-evolving treatment.

Faculty, graduates and current students will answer questions about the CAPTP training program. Light refreshments will be served.

Mayan Abecasis, LMSW, is a second-year candidate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute. She graduated with a Masters of Social Work from Columbia University and attended an Internship at Creedmore Psychiatric Center where she worked with young adult psychiatric patients.  Since then, she has worked at a school-based psychotherapy program in Western Queens providing therapy to students and families. At the William Alanson White Institute, her first training in interpersonal/relational psychotherapy, she is feeling inspired and  supported.

Jacqueline T. Ferraro, DMH, is Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program at the William Alanson White Institute (CAPTP).  She is faculty, supervisor and Executive Committee member of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Training Program (CAPTP) and also of the Eating Disorders and Addictions Program (EDCAS) at the Institute. Dr. Ferraro has years of experience working with adults, adolescents, children and families. She maintains a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.