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AAMFT Winter
Institutes for Advanced Clinical
Training
March
4 - 8, 2009
Asheville,
North Carolina
As a marriage and
family therapist, we know that you are interested in finding
excellent professional development opportunities.
This year’s AAMFT Winter 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 seven workshops offered this
winter 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:
Angela Lamson, Ph.D.
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. (Offered on Wednesday, March 4, 2009)
Click here for complete course description.
This course provides 5 hours of continuing
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Functional Family Therapy: An Evidence-Based
Approach for At Risk Adolescents and Their Families:
Thomas Sexton, Ph.D.
Adolescents with behavior problems represent one of the
largest and most challenging client populations for MFTs.
Functional Family Therapy is a short term, research
based clinical model to guide MFTs in helping
adolescents with behavior difficulties and help their
families find positive and functional outcomes for their
behavioral, relational, and emotional lives.
Click here for complete
course description.
This
course provides 20 hours of continuing education. |
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Treating Military Families Using
Emotionally Focused Therapy:
Lance Sneath, M.S.
Thousands of families are being
affected by military deployments, separations, financial
strain, and combat stress. Combining EFT techniques with
an understanding of the unique stressors of military
life will be the focus of this course. Whether you work
in a military setting or see military families in your
civilian practice, this course will prepare you to work
competently and effectively with active duty and veteran
military families.
Click here for complete
course description.
This course provides 20 hours of continuing education. |
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Anxiety and Depression
Treatment: Integrating Neuroscience Discoveries:
Glenn
Veenstra, Ph.D.
Because anxiety disorders and
depression are the most prevalent mental health
diagnoses, they have long been a focus in MFT. In the
last decade the rapidly developing field of affective
neuroscience has been providing a clearer understanding
of what is happening in the brain with these disorders.
This Institute will integrate these neuroscience
discoveries with traditional approaches like
cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal therapy.
Click here for complete
course description.
This course provides 20
hours of continuing education. |
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Therapeutic Moments
that Count: Bringing Humor, Drama and Adventure to
Family Therapy:
Matthew Selekman, M.S.W.
Moments of humor, surprise,
revelation and emotional connection transform therapy
from a clinical procedure to a healing art. In this
upbeat Institute, focus on the creative use of self in
family therapy as a catalyst for therapeutic
change and getting unstuck with difficult cases.
Click here for complete
course description.
This course provides 20 hours of
continuing education. |
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Advances in Couples Therapy: Integrative Theory
and Practice:
Gerald Weeks, Ph.D.
Couples almost always present with
the hidden agenda of, “change us without changing me.”
This popular Institute will provide integrative
approaches to common complaints such as conflict and
anger, lack of sexual desire, and the latest advances in
dealing with one of the most therapeutically perplexing
and difficult problems to treat in couples—extramarital
affairs.
Click here for complete
course description.
This course provides 20 hours of
continuing education. |
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Fundamentals of Marriage and
Family Therapy Supervision:
Thorana Nelson, Ph.D.
This 30-hour Institute fills 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 complete course description.
This course provides 30 hours of continuing
education and meets the course requirement for the AAMFT
Approved Supervisor designation.
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