Dr. Edward Eismann

Dr. Edward Eismann is the creator of Unitas (Unity), a community mental health outreach organization established in the South Bronx in 1967.For the past 35 years, Dr. Eismann has implemented one of the most innovative and successful programs in New York City, a program deeply rooted in the psychological theories of Alfred Adler.
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Recognizing that many biological families are not able to fulfill important psychological and social roles, Dr. Eismann has set up an alternative family system composed of functioning and dysfunctioning neighborhood youth who work together to build emotional security and community for themselves and each other.

Dr. Edward Eismann, Ph.D.

Founder
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Dr. Edward Eismann, Ph.D.Clinical Director

The second of the Fordham studies and a publication from the Fordham University Press, (Eismann,E. Unitas: Building Healing Communities for Children, 1985, 1996 second edition), by the founder, Edward P. Eismann, Ph.D., is summarized below.
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The three Unitas studies described above -- one, an ethnographic outsider's account, the second, an insider's view by Edward P. Eismann, Ph.D., the founder of Unitas, and the third an experimental evaluation -- form a trilogy providing a comprehensive, multifaceted evaluation of the Unitas experience.

Edward P. Eismann, Ph.D. xiii, 214 pp.,
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This volume is a look inside the Unitas program provided by its principal participant, Dr. Edward Eismann.Eismann, founder and former director of Unitas, provides the reader with a rich, first-hand account of how he went about mobilizing the youth who would later become the core of this successful program.He also provides some of the ideas in the social sciences and therapeutic literature which influence the shaping of Unitas.UNITAS includes a series of training modules for persons interested in replicating this type of therapeutic program.

"Dr. Eismann demonstrates how he first connected with youth in the South Bronx,
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Dr. Eismann pioneered in adapting services and making them appropriate to the needs of diverse populations.