AFTA - 35th Annual Meeting: Coupling Today: Love, Parenting, Community

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Wednesday, June 5 - 5:00 - 7:00pm

Wednesday, June 5 - 1:30 - 4:30pm

Thursday, June 6 - 8:30 - 10:15 am

Thursday, June 6 - 10:45 - 12:15pm

Thursday, June 6 - 2:00 - 3:30 pm

Thursday, June 6 - 4:00 - 6:00pm

Friday, June 7 - 8:30 - 10:15am

Friday, June 7 - 10:45 - 12:15 pm

Friday, June 7 - 2:00 - 4:00pm

Saturday, June 8 - 8:30 - 10:15am

Saturday, June 8 - 10:45 - 12:15 pm

Saturday, June 8 - 2:00 - 3:30pm

Saturday, June 8 - 4:00 - 5:30pm

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Please rate the following:

The program was relevant to my work.

Content matched stated objectives.

Usefulness of handouts/AV.

Quality of facilities.

Please rate the speaker(s) as a group. You will have the opportunity to elaborate on an individual speaker in the following question.

Please rate your ability to meet each of the overall program objectives:

Discuss the processes of coupling, including the neurobiological, interpersonal, systemic, familial, cultural and societal factors influencing the functioning and resilience of contemporary couples.

Discuss parenting as a couple and family process.

Discuss how to integrate the clinical and cultural issues related to gender and sexuality into couple and family practice, research and policies.

If you have additional comments regarding the session or individual speaker(s) - e.g. teaching ability, expertise, organization of materials, etc. - please use the space below:

Having completed the activity, please rate your ability to meet each of the following objectives:

Discuss outcome research on CT.

Define what "integration" in therapy is.

Identify obstacles to integrating research in clinical practice of CT.

Explain how a revolution in gender relationships and the role of marriage over the past 200 years has created new challenges for couples and for individuals seeking partners.

Discuss emerging patterns of sociological and psychological dynamics in individuals romantic entanglements and couple relationships, including their variation by socioeconomic status.

Distinguish between causes and correlations in evaluating the outcomes of these changes and the potential solutions to the dilemmas facing individuals and families.

Discuss the power and applicability of personal storytelling to communicate ideas.

Discuss the stigma and secrecy around medical diagnoses and how storytelling can break those down.

Discuss the applications of personal storytelling as an advocacy tool.

Explain how a revolution in gender relationships and the role of marriage over the past 200 years has created new challenges for couples and for individuals seeking partners.

Analyze emerging patterns of sociological and psychological dynamics in individuals romantic entanglements and couple relationships, including their variation by socioeconomic status.

Distinguish between causes and correlations in evaluating the outcomes of these changes and the potential solutions to the dilemmas facing individuals and families.

Discuss contemporary perspectives used to study marriage, romantic unions, and childbearing patterns among low-income women.

Discuss the utility of prevailing theoretical approaches for understanding the marriage, romantic union, and childbearing patterns of low-income women using emergent conceptual model derived from longitudinal ethnographic research.

Discuss the implications of these emergent approaches for family therapy practice and public policy.

Discuss the process of forgiveness.

Discuss the role of shame in resolving emotional injuries.

Discuss the process of forgiveness.

Discuss the role of shame in resolving emotional injuries.

Describe a culturally relevant adaptation of a parenting program to a Hispanic population.

Discuss the process of knowing others and being known, and how this influences parent child relationships.

Discuss concerns about parenting interventions for at risk or clinically distressed populations.

Discuss two responses to interpersonal injury that are unhealthy.

Discuss two responses to interpersonal injury that are healthy.

Discuss two concrete steps that offenders must take to earn forgiveness.

Explain how conflict within a couple can be understood by looking at the larger contexts and their privilege and oppression within those larger contexts.

Discuss how to expand the context (e.g. to include themes such as privilege, oppression, cultural sameness & difference) when a couple enters therapy with a narrow story.

Identify at least one of our own "blind spots" in the area of context and couples therapy (what do we miss due to our own identities, privilege, and/or oppression)?

Explain Bowen theory of human behavior.

Explain how parenting is influenced is influenced by the extended family emotional system, the marital relationship and parental anxiety.

Explain how to assess outcome of treatment.

Discuss negative cycles of interaction as attachment protest.

Explain how challenging experiences in family of origin make it hard to reach in their intimate relationship.

Discuss how to help a withdrawn client reengage in their couples relationship.

Discuss definitions of terms and share their own significant stories followed by an open dialogue with participants.

Explain the clinical relevance of their significant stories and discuss clinical relevance with participants.

Discuss applications to other clinical situations.

Discuss the process and current status of the development of the new DSM V.

Discuss new practices of professional exchange and collaboration between (non-medical) family therapists and more biologically oriented psychiatrists.

Explain how to put into practice locally new initiatives aiming at improvements in mental health care for people diagnosed with major mental illnesses.

Discuss how adverse educational, economic, housing and criminal justice policies converge to constrict development among African American men within impoverished neighborhoods.

Discuss how shame and worry potentially intersect with the social construction of masculinity among African American male youth.

Discuss how the cumulative effects of these stressors negatively affect the ability to African American male youth to assume positive life roles.

Compare the meanings of self-care and boundary setting between Western and non-Western cultures.

Discuss how the value differences could be related to the issues of social justice.

Identify how dominant cultural discourses such as individualism shape identity positions in heterosexual relationships.

Discuss how power is distributed between men and women by social discourse.

Explain how parenting practices can shed further light on the distribution of power in intimate heterosexual relationships.

Discuss the progress towards evaluating these methodologies.

Discuss innovative approaches to measurement now being put into practice.

Create a network of individuals interested in this topic.

Discuss skills regarding how one's own family system-oriented training can be used to facilitate integration with and use by other members of the multidisciplinary health care team.

Describe models and demonstrate skills for expanding the focus of intervention for other members of the healthcare team from individual to family system.

Identify changes in healthcare operations that promote a systems-focus throughout a clinic or healthcare system.

Compare the difference between the effect of talking during supervision vs. moving during supervision.

Discuss how movement/action can address obstacles in the supervision process.

Demonstrate the use of action in a supervision session.

List assumptions about senior couples.

Explain the current themes that we have identified in our clinical work.

Identify areas for further discussion and research.

Discuss new methods of teaching this material th this intended audience.

Discuss the strengths of their programs so that others can learn from what is working.

Develop strategies to develop solutions to challenges they experience.

List 5 factors facilitating the adjusting of family members to the demands of becoming parents.

List 5 factors making more difficult the adjusting of family members to the demands of becoming a parent.

Discuss different types of interventions for decreasing detrimental factors and foster the ones improving outcomes.

Discuss the diversity of blended families.

List ways clinicians can help men face changing norms for masculinity.

Identify common themes that emerge in families when men become stepdads.

Discuss the role AFTA members play in training.

Discuss training program for the Masters of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at Northwestern University.

Discuss the benefits for training of an integrative curriculum.

Explain how conflict within a couple can be understood by looking at the larger contexts and their privilege and oppression within those larger contexts.

Discuss how to expand the context (e.g. to include themes such as privilege, oppression, cultural sameness & difference) when a couple enters therapy with a narrow story.

Identify at least one of our own "blind spots" in the area of context and couples therapy (what do we miss due to our own identities, privilege, and/or oppression)?

Define mindfulness from experiential and didactic perspectives.

Discuss specific strategies and ideas for incorporating mindfulness into work with families.

List a minimum of three barriers to utilizing mindfulness with families and how to address these effectively.

Discuss negative cycles of interaction as attachment protest.

Discuss how to help clients understand how challenging experiences in family of origin make it hard to reach in their intimate relationship.

Discuss how to help a withdrawn client reengage in their couples relationship.

Describe how differences in how partners relate to time often result in struggles around power and intimacy.

List 5 elements of time in couples that are useful for assessment.

List 4 steps to helping couples resolve time/power struggles.

Discuss the issues affecting child and youth who are gender nonconforming.

Discuss the challenging ethical issues facing families and therapists.

Discuss the complex systemic issues impacting schools, physicians, and extended family.

Please answer the following:

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?

If you answered "No" to any of the above questions, please explain.

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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