Our second speaker series of 2017 (Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma) presented by the Association of Traumatic Stress Studies was another great success.
Elaine Jean Cooper, L.C.S.W. is Clinical Professor at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco.
She has 45 years of clinical practice and 30 years of teaching experience in individual, couples and group therapy. Elaine received her Master’s in Social Welfare from the University of California, School of Social Welfare at Berkeley in 1964 and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Group psychotherapy.
Dr. Cooper has coordinated four group programs in major hospitals and developed three group programs for Kaiser Permanente, St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York, and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on group therapy. Her book, Group Intervention: How to Maintain Groups in Medical and Psychiatric Settings had three printings. Her latest book is LET'S ALL HOLD HANDS AND DROP DEAD: Three Generations - One Story.
Elaine resides in Berkeley, California where she has a private practice in individual, couple and group psychodynamic psychotherapy and leads workshops on Generational Social Trauma.
http://www.elainejeancooper.com/blog/
