This program is sponsored by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, and the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective.

Parents who believe teenagers are different from other humans may be comforted to learn that it is literally true. During puberty the brain is a work in progress, teeming with hormones; areas that direct reasoning and impulse control are still in development. Adolescents are especially susceptible to addiction and schizophrenia, two areas under intensive study and benefiting from increased understanding of brain function.

This program is sponsored by the Rubin Museum of Art, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, and the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective.

About the moderator:

Joan Hogetsu Hoeberichts, Sensei, is a member of the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective with a private practice in NYC and Montclair, NJ. She is the Head Teacher of the Heart Circle Sangha in Ridgewood, NJ. She is also the co-founder of the Psycho-Spiritual Healing Project, a continuing joint project of the Heart Circle Sangha and Sarvodaya in Sri Lanka to bring counseling skills to local para-professionals following the tsunami of 2004.