Santa Clara University

The Developing Brain

April 21, 2008

• 2:00-3:00 PM - Presentation to Counseling Psychology Students and Alumni
• 3:30-4:30 PM - Reception
• 7:00-8:30 PM - University Lecture: Open to the University Community and Guests

Internationally acclaimed author and speaker Daniel J Siegel, M.D. received his medical degree from Harvard University and completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent and adult psychiatry. He served as a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow at UCLA, studying family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavior, autobiographical memory and narrative.

Dr. Siegel has published Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body and Brain; parenting from the Inside Out; The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are; and The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attachment in the Cultivation of Well-Being.