Parent Forum: The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age

PARENT FORUM

The Big Disconnect:  Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships
in the Digital Age

                         Monday, November 18,
2013

7:00-8:30pm Ottoson Cafetorium

For parents K-12

 Dr. Catherine
Steiner-Adair will help parents understand the ways in which technology and
media are putting children at risk at early elementary and middle school years
and challenging what it means to be a family. She will give the audience the
skills to distinguish between educational, healthy and unhealthy use, and
practical strategies for nourishing deep attention, creativity, empathy and
healthy relationships.

 Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair is an internationally recognized
clinical psychologist, school consultant, and author. In her book, The Big
Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
(Harper), Dr. Steiner-Adair examines ways in which technology and media are
putting our children at risk at every stage of development, while challenging
what it means to be a family.

Dr. Steiner-Adair works with school heads, boards, faculty,
students, and parents, with consultations that can range from an evening talk,
to a one-day visit, or, as with many schools, an ongoing relationship that
spans years. She is often invited to present to health professionals, PTAs,
synagogues and clergy groups, non-profit organizations, corporate retreats, and
fundraising events. As a resource to the media, Dr. Steiner-Adair has appeared
on The Today Show,Good Morning America, The Discovery Channel, CNN, PBS, and
NPR, and has been quoted in numerous newspapers and magazines.

Dr. Steiner-Adair has a private practice in Chestnut Hill,
MA, where she works with children, adults, couples, and families. She is a
Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
and an Associate Psychologist at McLean Hospital. She lives outside of Boston
with her husband, Fred, and enjoys family life in the digital age with a son
and a daughter.