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Discuss advances to the theory of family resilience.
Demonstrate innovations in clinical practice with families that bolster positive developmental processes of family members.
Discuss the latest research on family processes related to interactions that promote resilience.
Discuss related advances to the theory and practice of systems thinking regarding families across cultures and contexts.
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List the policies that caused upheaval in US cities.
Describe the changes to the family.
Link the changes to alterations in family process.
Create framework for identifying and addressing power inequality in couple relationships
Discuss how helping couples of color understand how messages of oppression contribute to their difficulties supports resilience.
Identify unique minority stresses that gay and lesbian couples face and specific coping mechanisms that they can use to transcend those stresses , protect their relationships, and preserve their emotional well-being.
Discuss the national and international legal standing of same-sex marriage and comparable legal relationships.
Discuss the similarities and differences between same-sex and opposite-sex couples in legalized relationships.
Explain how to incorporate knowledge about same-sex couples into couples and family therapy.
Identify the differences between Bowen theory & other theoretical orientations.
Contrast prevailing ideas of attachment theory with those that originate from Bowen theory & what this says about resilience.
Explain how fusion is an important variable to account for the development of stress reactivity & the development of physical, emotional, & relationship symptoms & to what degree does resilience play a part.
Explain how to develop and implement a resilience-oriented, family-based training program for agency workers in a major city.
Discuss how to address issues of race, class, ethnicity, and other aspects of social location in developing such a program.
List at least 2 challenges to creating such a program and 2 solutions to these challenges.
Identify their own beliefs and values about healthy relationships.
Discuss what strategies to use to help couples explore areas of values/beliefs conflict rather than get embroiled in the conflicts.
Identify areas of potential conflict between them and couples they see and discuss ways to deal with these conflicts.
Discuss first-hand experiences of the effects of power on supervisees.
Discuss possibilities for making the operations of power visible in the supervisory relationship.
Describe practices that can counter the negative effects of power.
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Discuss the impact that evidence based models are having on the current state of family and systemic therapy in the field.
Discuss the development, research of, and dissemination of evidence based models.
Explain how to use principal informed theory and techniques in their practices.
Discuss how the narrative approach successfully brings families together against problems.
Discuss how to use the narrative approaches with families in their own practices.
Discuss how, through the use of narrative inquiry, families collective wisdom can be drawn upon to counter certain problems.
Discuss the creation of a space where the voices of Latino communities and Families can be heard in the organization.
Discuss how to promote the complexity of being Latino/Latina.
Discuss the creation of a learning/teaching exchanges where innovative theory and clinical work and with Latino community and families can be exchanged.
List three ways to integrate mindfulness practices into their work.
Describe the theory underlying Insight Dialogue, particularly the sustemic and relational aspects.
Describe the specific practices of Insight Dialogue.
Identify the four main brain systems implicated in addiction: the opiate and dopamine circuits and the impulse- and stress-regulation centres.
Explain how these brain systems develop—or fail to do so—in interaction with the intrauterine and childhood rearing environments.
Identify concurrent diagnoses and how these interact with the addiction process both as predisposing and complicating factors.
Identify 3 strategies for activating adaptability and resilience in families in various cultural contexts.
Name 3 ways that clinicians can adapt their practice to meet the needs of families in various cultural contexts.
Discuss how to become sensitive to the subtle ways gender discourses are reinforced in couples therapy.
Explain how to more successfully challenge gender discourses.
Identify the relational dynamics of disease management in adolescents with poorly controlled diabetes, from the perspective of the adolescents themselves, their families and providers.
Identify ways to help providers take the lead in changing this mutually frustrating relational pattern and create new avenues of collaboration.
Discuss how strained relationships between families and medical providers impact communication and collaboration.
Explain how three aspects of family functioning promote resilience in families with children with autism.
Describe three methods for connecting families with formal and informal coping resources.
Discuss how wo use poetry to facilitate healing in individuals, families, and community.
Discuss practical exposure to strategies and techniques to work with adolescents.
Identify how to incorporate community in therapeutic process.
Discuss concepts that will help them better visualize and utilize community elements in therapy.
List questions that expand parents' perceptions of their children's problematic behavior.
Discuss potential hazards of offering parenting advice.
Discuss relevant literature on adolescent romantic relationships.
Discuss the new family therapy interventions the VA is currently rolling out.
discuss the relivance of integrating family resilience and community resilience in regards to serving low income popualtions and accessing supportive programs such as housing assistance, disability insurance, medicare/aid, vocational training, community based medical clinics.
Comapre and constrast the current family resilience theories.
Describe how to assess clients using a family strengths based model and focus interventions based on this assessment.
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Discuss the concept of family resiliency from the perspective of the family as a unit.
Explain how a student might feel that s/he is powerless in a situation where the client believes that the student is powerful.
Discuss the differences and possible overlaps among power-to, power-with and power-over.
Explain the importance of supervision addressing interesectionality and the power dynamics between supervisor-student, professor-student, student-client, supervisor-client, etc, in a way that makes those power and privilege issues visible and able to be voiced by student.
Explain how out come interviews illustrate that relational/contextual therapy enhance human resilience.
Discuss how a systemic model of treatment is a more efficient model for healing traumatic injuries.
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Compare methods of teaching family interventions and family treatment to Residents in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Describe how to teach family skills in a variety of assessment and treatment settings in psychiatric training
Cite ways to continue to engage residents in family therapy after graduation
Discuss the theory of ambiguous loss for the purpose of training therapists to treat or intervene with this unique yet ubiquitous type of loss.
Apply the resilience based framework to the situation of a family member becoming the caregiver for someone who has dementia.
Discuss focusing on personal cases in order to become more effective in building resilience with professional cases.
Identify research possibilites for postmodern therapies.
Discuss the research presented for its viability.
Explain how to appreciate the limitations of the approach.
Discuss the impact of homophobia on clients both LGB identified as well as those who are not LGB identified.
Compare and contrast the dynamics of heteronormativity and homophobia.
Discuss the impact that homophobia has on male development.
List at least three ways to integrate mindfulness practices into their work.
Describe the theory underlying Insight Dialogue, particularly the systemic and relational aspects.
Describe the specific practices of Insight Dialogue.
Decipher incidences of dominant culture racism hidden within normal discourse by AFTA members in teaching or treatment.
Compare specific language that emphasizes non-racist comments from unconsciously racist language.
Identify and outline the two epistemological paradigms underlying the medical model and relational family therapy.
Discuss the process and proposed content of the new DSM V and formulate their own position about the use of psychoactive drugs in relationship focused therapy.
Discuss the contributions to the ongoing conversations between family therapists and psychiatrists.
Discuss the changes to family resilience over time.
Define commitment and monogamy as it applies to long term.
Identify how affairs out in the open no longer create the same attachment wounds when there is transparency, honesty and openness in relationships.
Identify ways to help couples redefine their monogamy agreements where implicit monogamy and explicit monogamy are created through a structured dialogue process that therapeutically changes the dynamic of a post affair couple and can heal the infidelity trauma.
Explain the reasons for increased domestic violence during and after disasters.
List reasons why disadvantaged women are more vulnerable during and after disasters.
Identify ways family therapists and specialist DV services might respond to women at risk of increased DV during disasters.
Identify common factors related to family systems, Anorexia Nervosa, and culture that resulted in the successful outcomes of each of these two cases.
Identify specific cultural factors that may come into play in each of the three phases of Family Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa when treating Latino adolescents.
Discuss how a clinician’s own cultural biases can be an important part of transference and countertransference.
Discuss the benefits of collaborative work with financial planners, and consider models for how this work might take place.
Discuss marginalized “truths” crucial to effective clinical work with multiracial families.
Discuss current trends/challenges in intercountry adoption through China.
Explain a 6 dimensional model for deconstructing rituals in order to assess existing rituals and create new ones.
Describe splitting and flooding as cognitive and emotional phenomena that surface in couples relationships.
Describe the benefits of training clinicians in the mental health field in a live setting, with their peers, as well as experts.
Describe the differences between being directive, and being manipulative.
Discuss ethical regarding how reserachers use their power issues in interpretiing and presenting findings.
Discuss research on vicarious resilience with Colombian educators.
Discuss vicarious resilience.
Discuss how a neurobiological explanation of memory consolidation differs from common sense explanations.
List the three components of memory that therapists can elicit from clients' description.
Compare how trauma focussed approaches process "feelings" to talk therapy's approach to "feelings".
List the four stages of pursuit and distance.
Discuss the impact of complex chronic trauma on couple relationships.
Discuss the basic techniques and adaptations required for working clinical with couples dealing with trauma.
Discuss ideas and discoveries in the field of family therapy.
Discuss critical moments of the history of the field of family therapy.
Discuss how to connect the history of family therapy with the history of the pioneers who have shaped the field.
Discuss how to help couples to strengthen their relationship and attach to their baby during this critical period.
List stressors that can come from this transition period.
Discuss how to develop private and institutional models. We hope to create a group for year-long exchange and reflection.
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Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?
Was the educational content scientifically sound?
Was the educational content free of commercial bias?
Was the mode of education effective to learning?
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What did you learn during this activity that you intend to integrate into your practice?

What questions have arisen in your practice for which you need answers/strategies that you can implement?

What patient/client problems or patient/client challenges do you feel you are not able to address appropriately or to your satisfaction?
What problems are your patients/clients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

Are you interested in basic, intermediate or advanced level trainings?

What barriers might you have that would interfere with implementation of new information learned from this training?

How can this training (the overall meeting) be improved to better impact competence, performance and/or patient/client outcomes?

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