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The AAMFT Annual Conference
MFT: The Difference That Makes the Difference
Sacramento, CA
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October 1 - 4, 2009
Pre-Conference Institutes
Thursday, October 1, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Lunch Break (on your own) 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
100
Supervision Refresher Course
Sandra
Rigazio-DiGilio
Doris
LaPlante
All AAMFT
Approved Supervisors must take a comprehensive refresher
course prior to the renewal of their designation. This
Institute is designed specifically to meet that requirement,
and to keep participants on the cutting edge of clinical
supervision practice. The course is structured into three
components that will include case examples, didactic and
interactional instruction methods, current resources--within
and across disciplines--available to supervisors, management
of ethical and legal issues likely to arise during
supervision, utilization of supervision contracts, cultural
and contextual competencies in supervision and therapy, and
discussion of the current AAMFT Approved Supervisor
requirements.
101
Treating Female Arousal Problems with the Crucible Approach
Ruth K.
Morehouse
This
workshop will examine women's arousal problems through cases
that represent varied causes including ethnic and religious
backgrounds, history of abuse, and differentiation issues. A
systemic approach is emphasized even when client identifies
herself as the problem. Learn to go beyond utilitarian symptom
reduction and use arousal issues as a fulcrum for increased
intimacy between women and their sexual partners.
102
EFT TRACK: Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Revolutionary
Difference
Scott R.
Woolley
Lisa J.
Palmer-Olsen
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a revolutionary,
empirically supported approach to working couples. This
institute introduces participants to EFT and will help
participants understand the phenomenon of couple distress in
an attachment context, introduce participants to processes
that help couples restructure negative interactions and create
powerful, emotionally based change events that foster lasting,
secure bonds between partners.
103
How MFT students become Different: Using Core Competencies
James
Hibel
Tommie V.
Boyd
Ronald J.
Chenail
Christopher F.
Burnett
Edrica D.
Richardson
The AAMFT
Core Competencies operationalize the unique and transformative
skills that MFT students learn. Accreditation requires
programs to document this process. Attendees will learn how to
utilize core competencies, learning objectives, portfolios and
other tools to demonstrate this process and engage with
students in their transformation, shaping their curricula and
demonstrating effectiveness at helping students attain these
distinctive MFT competencies.
104
Three Oppositional Adolescents You'll Treat
James P.
Keim
Oppositional adolescents with attachment issues, information
processing problems, and caretakers who are authoritarian
and/or authority averse present particular challenges to the
therapist. This workshop helps the therapist to more quickly
identify these problems and presents strategies for working
collaboratively with all parties. Special attention is made to
avoid blame and burnout, two of the top reasons for client
dropout.
105
Family Systems Approach For Families After Adoption
Joyce Maguire
Pavao
This
course will present models for treatment that look at these
concerns as normal developmental crises, needing
psycho-education and strategies for strength. The course will
explore the ethical issues after adoption for birth, foster
and adoptive families.
106
Emotion Makes The Difference
Glenn J.
Veenstra, Jr.
Neuroscience findings about emotion provide a useful new way
to understand traditional systemic dynamics such as circular
causality. Participants will learn how to use these emotional
explanations to improve techniques for the learning of
emotional skills in the parent-child relationship, increasing
emotional regulation in the individual, and resolving
interactional conflicts like distancer-pursuer impasses in
couple relationships.
107
SUPERVISION TRACK: Becoming an Approved Supervisor
Dale G.
Blumen
Thorana
Nelson
Morning session: Requirements, Responsibilities and Procedures
for Becoming an Approved Supervisor.
Through
interactive discussion, participants will become familiar with
the standards and responsibilities involved in the training
and mentoring processes for the Approved Supervisor
designation. (This session addresses learning objective 9.)
Afternoon session: Supervisory Relationships and the
Supervisory Training System.
Participants will learn to facilitate the co-evolving
supervisor-therapist-client and therapist-client relationships
by applying systemic concepts (such as parallel process,
boundaries and hierarchy) to different levels of the training
system. (This session addresses learning objective 3.)
108
Mindfulness for MFT’s: Clinical and Personal Applications
Eric E.
McCollum
Diane R.
Gehart
Mindfulness skills are used increasingly in psychotherapy and
can enhance the well-being of clients and therapists alike.
This presentation will introduce the concept of mindfulness,
aspects of its Buddhist roots that are being integrated into
clinical models, and its research base. Participants will
explore both personal and clinical uses of mindfulness and
have extensive opportunities to practice mindfulness
techniques.
109
Online Therapy Legal and Ethical Issues and Applications
Kathleene A.
Derrig-Palumbo
Liza N.
Eversole
William R.
Scott
Online
therapy, a non-traditional yet effective method for delivering
therapy makes a difference for clients unwilling or unable to
receive traditional, face-to-face therapy. This workshop
offers the latest information and tools for legally and
ethically practicing family therapy over the Internet.
Attendees will learn guidelines and practice online therapy
skills best suited for education and practice building.
110
Healing Fractured Couples With Male Sex Problems
Michael E.
Metz
A threat
in some marriages surrounds problems with men's sexual health
- sexual compulsivity, internet pornography, strip bars,
affairs, variant arousal patterns (e.g., fetishes) and common
sexual dysfunctions. This workshop examines features of men's
sexual health problems and the '10 Things Men Need to Learn
for Sexual Health' and presents a comprehensive, positive
approach to realistic relationship healing.
111
Silent Scream: Therapy with Adolescent Girls
Kenneth V.
Hardy
Christiana I.
Awosan
Troubled
girls are trapped in self-destructive cycle that masks their
painful experiences with trauma and oppression. Whether it is
the "girl thug" or the hyper-sexualized "bad girl", it seems
difficult for many therapists to see their underlying pain.
Sociocultural context of girls and effective strategies for
treating disaffected, traumatized girls and their families
will be provided.
112
When One Hour is All You Have: Single Session Therapy
Arnold B. Slive
Monte
Bobele
All
therapists have experience with clients who are seen for only
one session. In fact, research consistently indicates that
“one” is the modal number of sessions for all models of
therapy. This institute describes theory, strategies, and
techniques for facilitating effective systemic change in a
single session with a wide range of clients, including low
socio-economic status and cultural minority populations. Video
clips of therpay sessions will be interspersed throughout the
session.
113
It Makes a Difference! Systems or Medical Model Approaches
Arnold F. Woodruff
James P.
Morris
George P.
Stone
Randolph
Fiery
Byron
Stith
This
seminar will explore the difference it makes in understanding
and treat behavior health disorders when one adopts a systemic
approach as opposed to a medical model. This crucial
difference will be demonstrated from sociological,
theoretical, practical and consumer perspectives. The impacts
on practice for clinicians will be highlighted throughout the
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