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AAMFT Summer
Institutes for Advanced Clinical
Training
August
10-14, 2008
Vancouver,
Washington
As a marriage and
family therapist, we know that you are interested in finding
excellent professional development opportunities.
This year’s AAMFT Summer Institutes is sure to meet
your expectations with workshops on important topics ranging
from Hypnotherapy to Parenting Coordination, and the popular
Supervision Refresher course. Each of the six workshops offered this summer will provide you with an
opportunity to learn and share with some of the top
clinicians in the field as well as network with colleagues
from all over the world.
We are pleased to offer the following workshops:
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Approved Supervisor Refresher Course
Thorana Nelson, PhD
AAMFT Approved Supervisors are required to take this
5-hour refresher course once during each five-year
renewal period. Participants review and discuss current
resources on clinical supervision, the management of
ethical and legal issues, supervision contracts,
cultural issues, and current standards.
Click here for full course description.
Course Schedule:
Sunday, August 10
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 pm & 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
This course provides 5 hours of continuing
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Hypnotherapy for Pain, Anxiety, and Habits: The Basics
and Beyond
Gary Elkins, PhD
Participants will
learn the essentials of clinical hypnosis, methods of
hypnotic induction, the effective use of hypnotherapy as
a mind-body intervention and a wide range of
applications in clinical practice. The course will
include multiple demonstrations, practice and case
consultation, in addition to didactic material and an
update on clinical research.
Click
here for full course description.
Course Schedule
Monday, August 11 –
Thursday,
August 14, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each day
This
course provides 20 hours of continuing education. |
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Systems Therapy for
Military Families
Blaine Everson,
PhD
Improving our understanding of military family issues
and how to provide adequate care for them is a must.
This Institute will focus on applying our existing
systemic skill set to help adults, children and couples
in the military. At the same time, it is important to
know about job opportunities for MFTs in this area, and
how to gain visibility for oneself as a therapeutic
specialist with military families.
Click
here for full course description.
Course Schedule
Monday,
August 11 – Thursday,
August 14, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each day
This course provides 20 hours of continuing education. |
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Parenting Coordination: A Family Systems Model of
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Lynelle Yingling, PhD
This course will include an overview of what is
happening around the country with legal guidelines for
PC practice. It will also cover ways in which MFTs can
market their services as PCs, become resources to local
legal communities, and become leaders in the ADR
(alternative dispute resolution) movement.
Click
here for full course description.
Course
Schedule
Monday,
August 11 – Thursday, August 14, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each day
This course provides 20
hours of continuing education. |
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Advanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
for Couples: A Contextual Approach
Norman Epstein, PhD
Participants will be introduced to a well-defined set of
interventions that can be used to help couples improve
relationships by changing the way they understand,
behave, and feel. Participants also will learn about the
most up-to-date interventions used to help couples,
through lecture, discussion, demonstrations, and
experiential exercises.
Click
here for full course description.
Course Schedule
Monday, August 11 – Thursday, August 14, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each day
This course provides 20 hours of
continuing education. |
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A Crash Course in Marriage and
Family Therapy
Thorana Nelson, PhD
Through pre-Institute
readings, lectures, discussion, and exercises,
participants can expect to learn or re-learn
foundational material in family therapy. Attendees will
also discover how this material contributes to newer,
evidence-based models, learn what populations are best
served by these models, and gain practice in using the
tools of the models.
Click
here for full course description.
Course Schedule
Monday, August 11 – Thursday, August 14, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each day
This course provides 20 hours of
continuing education. |
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The
Fundamentals of Marriage and Family
Therapy Supervision
Dale Blumen, MS
This 30-hour Institute
fulfills
the course requirement for the AAMFT Approved Supervisor
designation. It addresses the nine learning objectives for
supervisors. By the end of the course, participants will be
able to articulate their philosophy of supervision.
Pre-reading and a post-course writing assignment are
required.
Click
here for full course description.
Course
Schedule:
Sunday, August 10, 4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Monday, August 11, 8:00 a.m. – noon, 1:30 – 5:00
p.m.
Tuesday, August 12, 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 13, 8:00 a.m. – noon, 1:30 – 5:00
p.m.
Thursday, August 14, 8:00 a.m. – noon, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m.
This course provides 30 hours of continuing
education and meets the course requirement for the AAMFT
Approved Supervisor designation.
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