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The 65th AAMFT Annual Conference
Healing
Fractured Relationships in the 21st Century
Long Beach, California
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October 11-14, 2007
Conference Highlights
Plenary Sessions
Thursday Opening Plenary Session
Reconciliation: Healing Each Other’s Wounds
Linda Biehl
Friday Plenary Session
The Great Divide: Politics in American Life
Earl Black, Ph.D.
Saturday Morning Plenary Session
Wounds, Rifts, Feuds and Wars:
How Self-Justification Keeps Us Mired in Conflict
Carol Tavris, Ph.D.
Saturday Afternoon Plenary
Session
Organizational Relationships: When Missions Collide
Michael Bowers, MA
LBGT Track
This series of sessions will
help therapists develop the competencies needed to serve gay,
lesbian, and transgender individuals and families.
105 Socialization Effects in Same-sex Couples
205 Becoming a LGBT
Affirmative Couple and Family Therapist
305 Transgender in Family Therapy: Towards Sensitive
Treatment
405 A Straight Therapist’s Journey: Working With Gay Couples
505 Coming Out, Coming Home: Making Room for Gay Spirituality
605 Children in Lesbian/Gay Headed Households
Infidelity Track
This track focuses on techniques therapists can use to help
couples heal from infidelity.
108 Treating Affair Couples:
An Integrative Approach
208 Marital Infidelity: Exploring Forgiveness as an
Intervention
308 Cyber Betrayal: Clinical Implications for Therapists
408 Infidelity and Sex Addiction: Couple Recovery
508 Infidelity: The Transgenerational Fracture
608 Healing From Infidelity: An Attachment Based Approach
Eating Disorders Track
In these sessions, learn new
perspectives on treating individuals and families affected by
eating disorders.
111 Integrating the Eating
Disorder Self into the Healthy Self
211 Couple Therapy for Eating Disorders: Assessment and Treatment
311 What are we Feeding Our Children?
411 Eating Disorders: Restoration and Healing Through
Separation
611 Eating Disorders: A Feminist Family Systems Perspective
Divorce/Custody Track
When relationships face
divorce, therapists can play a vital role in reducing the
potential negative impact on the couple and their children.
117 Healing Post-Divorce
Families through Parent Coordination
217 Damage Control During Relationship Breakdown
317 Parenting Coordinating in High Conflict Divorce
417 A United Family/Therapist/Attorney Team
517 Working Effectively with Post-Divorce Couples and
Families
617 Seven Basic Principles of Divorce Counseling
Supervision Track
Co-sponsored by Loma Linda
University
This comprehensive track will cover all of the learning
objectives for MFTs who want to become Approved Supervisors.
The full track meets the 15-hour interactional component of
the course requirement for the AAMFT Approved Supervisor
designation. Participation in the entire track (sessions 102,
202, 302, 402, 502, and 602) is strongly recommended. Please
do not forget to register for the Pre-Conference Institute
(session 102) that will be held on Thursday, October 11th.
102 Supervisory Models and
Functions
202 Update on Legal and Ethical Issues in Supervision
302 Enhancing Supervisee Strengths and Creativity
402 Beyond the One-Way Mirror: Supervision Across MFT Settings
502 Healing the Future: Mentoring Trainees for Clinical Membership and Beyond
602 Perspectives on Diversity in MFT Supervision
California Mental Health
Services Act
Significant resources are being
poured into public mental health services in California. Learn
what MFTs need to know to be competitive in this challenging
landscape.
200 Transformation, Treatment
and Training: Building Collaborative Relationships
in Public Mental Health
California Educators Luncheon (by invitation)
Sponsored by the California Division of the AAMFT.
Contact Olivia Loewy at
olivialoewy@aamftca.org
for details.
300 Our Future: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Market |
