AFTA - 38th Annual Meeting and Open Conference

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Wednesday - 2:00PM - 3:30PM Network Conversations

Wednesday - 3:30PM - 5:00PM Network Conversation/Special Sessions I

Wednesday - 5:30PM - 7:00PM Interest Groups I/Special Sessions II

Thursday - 9:00AM - 11:00AM Plenary

Thursday - 11:15AM - 12:45PM Concurrent Sessions I

Thursday - 2:30PM - 4:00PM Concurrent Sessions II

Thursday - 4:30PM - 6:00PM Interest Groups II/Special Sessions III

Friday - 9:00AM - 10:00AM PLENARY II, PRESENTATIONS I

Friday - 10:00AM - 11:00AM PLENARY II, PRESENTATIONS II

Friday - 11:15AM - 12:45PM Concurrent Sessions III

Friday - 2:30PM - 4:00PM Concurrent Sessions IV

Friday - 4:30PM - 6:00PM Pearls of Wisdom

Saturday -9:00AM - 11:00AM Plenary III

Saturday - 11:15AM - 12:45PM Concurrent Sessions V

Saturday - 2:30PM - 4:00PM Concurrent Sessions VI

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

Objective 1: Explore cutting-edge research and practices that will meet challenges currently facing clinicians, researchers, educators, and others involved in systemic work

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

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:

Objective 2: Create a conference community, which is inclusive, addresses intersectionality, increases diversity, and respects the sharing of all voices

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 3: Explore how situating clients' problems in a social context makes us more effective clinicians

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Collaborate on building a sense of community with other AFTA members and guests of color

Discuss expectations and concerns that people of color have for talking about race with people

Identify skills and strategies that are helpful for conversation about race

Create a safe environment to explore difficult, uncomfortable issues around issues of race

Become more conscious of racial privilege and appreciating the importance of recognizing and taking responsibility for the influence of power positions on the impact of communications

Identify particular obstacles to productive conversations across racial differences

Develop awareness of the difference between the intent of a communication and its impact, and one's responsibility for the impact of these communications

Create connections with other LGBTQI members and guests of AFTA

Collaborate on developing ideas about current needs and concerns facing LGBTQI clinicians and students which AFTA might address

Collaborate on developing ideas about current needs and concerns facing LGBTQI clients and their families which AFTA might address

Recognize some of the common dynamics that unfold between parents and stepparents around issues of parenting and discipline

List 3 positive practices for parenting, stepparenting, and discipline in successful stepfamilies

Describe a couple of â€œeasy wrong turnsâ€ that stepcouples, and their therapists, may make around parenting, stepparenting, and discipline

Understand the multiple goals that parents may have for their children given the world in which each family lives and for which the children must be prepared to function

Understand the role that reflection function plays in parenting

Become familiar with strategies for enhancing parentsâ€™ reflective function, using video review

Learn some of the latest research on the health, mental health and cognitive benefits of regular family dinners

Understand a model for conducting a community dinner

Develop skills in speaking to be heard, listening with curiosity, and understanding the importance of self-reflection as they participate

Develop awareness of the difference between the intent of a communication and its impact, and will take responsibility for the impact of their communications

Learn to identify the implications of power differentials across groups

Identify particular obstacles to productive conversations across racial differences

Begin identifying practices of recognition and possible repair of unintentional relational injuries in difficult conversations

Share in the dilemma newer therapists experience

Explore ways to embrace the challenges

Examine their own dilemmas in their workplaces

Define and recognize spiritual matters the presenter suggests are shared among us as humans

Consider the support for this idea by looking at several other discipline traditions and identifying what they share

Gain an ecological understanding and comfort with this universal human trait and aptitude

Apply and refine - create! - interventions based upon the principles described

Explore Theory U as a systemic intervention;

Expand knowledge of Theory U as it applies to Couples Therapy

Identify the cultural contexts and unique difficulties that Black LGBTQ+ and heterosexual men and women face in their efforts to develop long-term, committed relationships

Demonstrate understanding of the process by which shame and race-based, gender based and sexuality-based trauma can prevent Black men and women from building strong relational and emotional bonds

Learn and be able to apply skills for unmasking oppressive trauma and help clients escape the traps of internalized racial and sexuality stereotypes

Identify and investigate their personal Self-of-the- Therapist issues that may facilitate and/or impede their clinical effectiveness with Black couples

Identify the basic concepts and techniques of the Internal Family Systems model

Identify areas of similarity and divergence between Dick Schwartz and Terry Real's approaches to couples therapy

Recognize the move from the present couples dynamic to childhood family of origin issues

Describe the idea of the multiplicity of selves (inner children/parts) and how best to work with them

Recognize and list the basic stages of IFS informed couples therapy

Define and summarize theoretical axioms of IFS including Parts and Self Energy

Identify the distinctive contribution of IFS and how it is similar to or different from other systemic models of couples therapy

Identify therapeutic choice points in complex couple therapy

Formulate directions to take in the therapy when couples present with multiple dilemmas

Learn methods to make effective therapeutic choices in a session and across sessions

Read and utilize verbal and non-verbal feedback coming from each member of a couple

Fashion meaningful questions that provide openings and to shift when these do not

Theorize, differentiate and discuss qualitative methods for researching couple therapy

Summarize current literature on common heterosexual couple interactions and experiences from a feminist perspective with a focus on gender and power

Relay the importance of attending to larger sociocultural contexts in couple therapy

Define the four constructs of empowerment

Describe therapist interventions that strengthen individual empowerment and weaken relational empowerment

Describe the benefits of collaborating with professionals across a variety of disciplines

Explain several current issues in the field of addiction

Develop awareness of specific methods to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration and discuss how they pertain to the adolescent in need

Examine strategies for thoughtfully using feedback informed treatment and standardized client feedback measures with marginalized populations

Apply these strategies to actual case vignettes, exploring the impact of privilege and particularly white privilege on engaging marginalized clients

Identify personal goals to more effectively work with marginalized clients and cultivate stronger cross-cultural therapeutic relationships

Learn about international research regarding intersections of gender, culture, and power

Apply a clinical framework that links societal discourse, emotion, and relational justice in case examples

Consider how to promote relational justice between partners without colonizing or imposing Western cultural ideals

Explore how Western ideals of mutuality and justice can be informed by research from more collectivist cultures

Maintain the therapeutic ability to respond to the different needs/agendas of the two partners

Differentiate the different types of infidelity, the different kinds of reasons, and the very different therapeutic responses to each

Move beyond blame/remorse to facilitate healing in a way that makes room for both partner's experience and voice

Describe a systemic postmodern framework in the treatment of intercultural couples

Identify four major relational challenges faced by intercultural couples

Learn specific clinical practices useful for the treatment of intercultural couples

Develop at least one new idea about using mindfulness practices to improve moment to moment interviewing skills to manage high conflict couple therapy sessions

See, discuss, and practice mindfulness techniques for working with conflict in couple therapy

Share mindfulness practices that work in their settings with their unique populations and learn what other participants find useful

Describe a comprehensive resilience-based family systems model for assessment and clinical treatment with individuals, couples, and families facing end-of life and complicated bereavement challenges

Provide practice guidelines to address challenging therapeutic and ethical issues for couples and families facing end-of-life and complicated bereavement

Describe brief interventions and other timely cost-effective applications of the Family Systems Illness Model and Family Resilience Framework in terminal illness and complicated bereavement

Highlight the power of meaning-making, hope, and spirituality for healing and resilience with end-of-life and complicated bereavement

Understand the theory and methodology behind the Integrative Care Conference

Integrate relational questions into a clinical interview in a primary care setting

Integrate relational hypotheses and relational interventions into treatment in a primary care setting

Assist residents in a primary care setting to think and interview systematically

Engage in critical discussions about accessibility and effectiveness in clinical care for people that are facing disease related conditions of diabetes and obesity

Learn some strategies and tools of the â€œAccompaniment in the path of hopeâ€ model based in narrative practices

Identify some strategies and the benefits of include and collaborate with their consultants as promoters in health like a complementary community approach to their clinical practice

Share their own perspectives and practices in the realm of social justice approaches to counter-practices in family therapy settings related with physical health situations

Proactively engage in reflection of their self-of-the-therapist journey through dialogue about marginalizing experiences

Develop a supportive framework to access and utilize their voice for personal and professional growth

Pursue resources to keep them connected to colleagues, mentors, and publications that will affirm their growth as a whole-therapist

Learn what constitute a multicultural supervisor

Discover how to create a supervisory climate that is regarded as nonjudgmental, supportive, safe, and accepting for sharing cultural values

Learn how a culturally competent supervisor attends to multiple aspects of differences and similarities among the supervisor, the supervisee, and the client

Learn how to integrate advocacy and social justice in supervision

Diagram the couple's vulnerability cycle

Identify the neurobiology underlying partners' reactivity in the cycle

Implement techniques to facilitate intimacy, empathy & relational empowerment in couple therapy

Develop an ability to create accountable conversations, maintain control of the conversation and an ability to set achievable outcomes for these conversations

Learn the best way to structure conversations about oppression

Learn how basic oppression dynamics work and how to easily explain them to others

Learn how therapists can best engage men in individual and couples therapy and help them deepen their emotional intimacy skills

Learn useful approaches to connecting with and supporting men from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations

Learn how a close male friendship can empower men to better address their health and relationships with partners, children and colleagues

Understand the social forces that are reshaping our current expectations of men and how we "do" masculinity

Understand that homosexuality is an example of variability in nature and the human species

Understand the factors that have contributed to the presence of fear and anxiety

Learn the role of acute and chronic anxiety in generations of family members

Understand the challenges to homosexual male development of self

Learn the Four Lifecycle Phases

Define the criteria for family maltreatment and couple relational problems incorporated into the DSM-5 and proposed for ICD-11

Describe the evidence for the reliability, validity, and field-testing of the criteria

Explain the implications of the criteria for improved screening of, intervention for, and research on couples and families

Learn about the interlocking identities of victims, children and offenders

Learn strategies for healing across generational boundaries

Experience the building of social capital across multiple fault lines of gender, race, class, and other targeted identities

Increase awareness and ability to identify perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in the clinical setting

Knowledge of treatment options and resources for women and families struggling with these issues

Understand group family therapy treatment program that addresses the needs of the mother, infant, and the relationship in the setting go postpartum

Describe the models for enhanced primary care currently being implemented to accomplish the Triple Aim of Improving care and patient experience while reducing cost

Discuss how family systems concepts can be used in improving the cultures of primary care practices and improve the ability of practices to implement new models of care

Describe the use of family therapy concepts to improve health behavior change efforts in practices

Discuss other ways in which family therapy approaches can be useful in primary healthcare

Describe the potential role of family influence on the risk behaviors of gay and bisexual youth

Apply this new knowledge to their work with families

Explain how to modify these interventions to address double stigma and intersecting oppressions experienced by Black and Latino families

Describe macro level interventions to address the HIV epidemic, based on parents' and youth's suggestions

Define key aspects of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy related to collaboration in clinical work

Identify key task alliance opportunities or issues in applying E.F.T. with couples or families

Role-play practice fostering collaboration while applying a fundamental E.F.T. Intervention with a distressed couple

Learn and use respectful language when working with transgender clients

Identify common interpersonal and intrapersonal challenges within the transgender couple

Role-play a mock session to identify and clarify the inner needs of each individual while supporting the couple.

Identify most salient affirmative theories for same sex couples

Describe and expand understanding of why an integration of discussed theories best serves queer couples

Examine and decide best approach to resolve clinical vignettes presented present opinions and decision making process to clinical peers

Provide a systemic view of the issues faced within large public service systems

Outline an intentional process of change in the system, incorporating Racial Humility and Trauma Informed Systems as a catalyst

Promote a generative conversation about this approach and the importance and challenges of organizations centering race and trauma in leadership, policy, and programmatic structures

Analyze the constraints and potential resources that impact your ability to stay committed to social justice when challenges arise in the classroom, supervisory relationship, and among other colleagues

Examine your own strategies for naming white privilege and interrupting white supremacy in your own universities and classrooms

Explore the unique challenges and opportunities they experience in doing social justice work based on their own social locations and identities

Identify strategies for cultivating a community of support networks that sustains you as we endeavor to remain faithful to furthering the work of social justice within the field of MFT

Describe the principles of Family Based Therapy (FBT)

Demonstrate understanding of multifamily group

Discuss approaches to expanding family involvement in their practice or programs

Become familiar with practical ideas on how to show a sense of humor

Understand how humor affects your physical and mental health

Identify specific skills needed to prevent compassion fatigue

Learn how to chart your sense of humor

Articulate why family systems approaches to chronic illness greatly out way individual level interventions

Identify the most crucial, and best practices, for psychosocial interventions in pediatric chronic illness

Learn the MEND program and the conceptual, as well as multidisciplinary operational, components of the program

Work with interpersonal violence within the context of complex developmental trauma

Utilize the Collaborative Change Model

Understand the impact on the therapist when working with violence

Experiment with acknowledging and addressing self of the therapist issues related to significant personal relationships

Differentiate emotional intensity of doing relational versus individual therapy

Develop sensitivity for self and others as both victims and perpetrators of emotional pain

Formulate ways to integrate relational self of the therapist exercises into couple and family therapy training

Increase awareness of human rights and human dignity issues when researching vulnerable systems and populations

Learn about possible methodologies that can be used when integrating human rights and human dignity values in research of vulnerable systems and populations

Clarify the researcherâ€™s position when performing research with vulnerable systems and populations

Understand oppression dynamics that impact our clients

Help clinicians understand their own biases

Incorporate oppression analysis into supervision

Promote cross-generational transmission of ideas and discoveries in the field of family therapy

Increase knowledge of critical moments of the history of the field of family therapy

Connect the history of family therapy with the history of the pioneers who have shaped the field

Recognize the importance of addressing intersectionality as a context for intervention

Compare and contrast different models and approaches to families within socially conscious frames of reference

Identify questions that can inform intervention in context of social and cultural factors and social justice concerns

Learn how the symptoms of family members, especially children, may reflect the sense of loss and tensions in the family due to immigration

Learn how to help a family toward an easier adjustment to a new cultural dimension, through joining with the children and their perspective

Learn how to use an experiential model of therapy, adopting a multigenerational family approach

Understand and articulate how homophobia presents differently with gay and straight clients

Identify destructive myths about homosexuality related to masculinity, sexual predation and domiance/submission

Recognize homophobia manifests itself across various racial and ethnic groups

Assess when the client's beliefs about sexuality, heterosexism, and masculinity negatively impact their health and relationships

Describe recent research on unmarried or premarital relationships

Use theories related to relationship development to diagnose relationship problems

Apply current research on relationship development to supporting therapeutic change

Learn how to work with couples that are struggling with desire issues

Learn and define some of the latest and most current treatment interventions for arousal dysfunction, renewing desire, integration, pharmacological treatment, and sex therapy

Explore erotic recovery, sexual empathy, monogamy agreements, and review core interventions for renewing low and no desire relationships comparing strategies to attachment versus individuation based couples therapy

Describe the key components of a family-based systemic motivational treatment approach for work with couples and families dealing with substance abuse disorders

List and describe the 6 different modules of the Ackerman/Freedom Institute MFDG model for families with substance abuse disorders

Apply versions of 2 or more MFDG modules in workshop participants own clinical settings

Explain PTSD as a biological-psychological-social illness that impacts survivors of traumatic events, individuals who have witnessed a traumatic event, and family and friends who have learned of a loved oneâ€™s experience of a traumatic event

Understand the significant relationship between addiction and trauma and its impact on all family members and overall family functioning

Describe secondary trauma as an individual bio-psychosocial reaction of family members to the traumatic experience of a loved one and the systemic impact of family member response on family functioning

Discuss intergenerational transmission of trauma from a biological and family system perspective

Describe the characteristics and components of an integrative family therapy/healthcare program

Demonstrate knowledge of the key aspects of a collaborative family therapy/healthcare program

Identify the strengths and challenges of implementing a family therapy program in a healthcare setting

Formulate strategies for applying a collaborative approach in your own family therapy settings, with regards to primary care

Learn about how different family therapy approaches are being applied in Canada and Mexico

Learn about how different family therapy modalities and interventions are used with a diversity of families

Compare and differentiate diverse skills for engaging families from different ethnic, racial, class, and religious backgrounds

Broaden the lens to look at the meaning of racialized identities and how they influence our assumptions about self and others

Identify White experiences and beliefs that inform relational dilemmas in families

Use this frame to recognize the implications of race with White families and learn ways to weave this understanding into clinical practice

Offer a rationale for incorporating a prevention focus as a critical component of multi-faceted efforts to address social injustice

Identify two areas of knowledge and/or skills that systems-oriented practitioners can contribute to efforts to reduce the negative consequences of social injustice

Identify two values/principles which can facilitate effective program design, implementation, evaluation, and/or sustainability

Identify one obstacle and corresponding strategy to expanding participantâ€™s involvement in the â€˜preventionâ€™ of social/emotional and relational problems

Explore the notion of power based on your construction of social justice

Learn how three types of power are evident in participantsâ€™ work with students or clients

Identify times when it is difficult to figure out how to formulate a social justice framework in clinical practice and receive ideas from group

Develop a plan for how to bridge social justice and clinical work in their teaching or clinical supervision

Define the researcher-practitioner gap in the field of family therapy and how that effects marginalized populations

Describe the potential contributing factors to the researcher practitioner gap and how we can use social justice ideals to do so

Contribute to the conversation on how to work towards closing the researcher-practitioner gap in the field of family therapy

Learn the major technology issues clients report affecting their relationships

Learn two technology relationship patterns in couplesâ€™ complaints

Learn what couple and family therapists report as being effective with clientsâ€™ technology-related issues

Learn how to incorporate technology into their treatment of these couplesâ€™ complaints

Learn basic case conceptualization, treatment, and progress assessment skills for working relationally with clientsâ€™ technology-relationship issues

Learn four areas and a clinical intervention in each, where neurobiology could complement Narrative (or Systems) work

Understand one way we must focus our therapeutic work given the state of todays culture

Describe the two branches of the nervous system that have a great deal of influence on how we respond to others when we are stressed

Learn and introduction to AMBIT and be able to describe it to other colleagues

Learn how AMBIT can be implemented in a managed care environment and be able to discuss how AMBIT might apply to other environments in which they work

Discuss how mentalizing is useful in virtually all therapeutic settings

Objective 4: Explore how a collaborative approach to intervention and treatment is an effective means of evaluating care

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Objective 5: Examine the ways in which intersectionality and social justice can inform and enhance clinical interventions

By meeting the above objective my professional competence will increase because I have acquired new strategies to use in my practice.

By meeting the above objective my professional performance will improve because I should be able to implement the new strategies.

By meeting the above objective my patient outcomes should improve due to the implementation of newly-learned strategies.

Please rate the following:

The program was relevant to my work.

Content matched stated objectives.

Usefulness of handouts/AV.

Quality of facilities.

How well did the educational sessions give a balanced view of therapeutic options, including the use of generic names?

If you rated any of the above questions with 'fair,' 'poor,' 'disagree,' or 'strongly disagree' please explain in detail (e.g. session title, speaker name, situtation):

Do you believe this activity was appropriate for the scope of your professional activities?

Was the educational content scientifically sound?

If faculty spoke about off-label or investigational uses of a product, was that information disclosed to you?

Was the mode of education effective to learning?

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

Did you perceive any product/service/company/commercial bias in any educational session you attended or materials you received?

If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please detail the situation below (e.g. session title, speaker name):

Were you solicited by sales personnel in an educational room (other areas do not matter) while you attended this educational activity?

If you answered "Yes" to the above question, please explain in detail (e.g. who, when, where):

How much did you learn as a result of this education program?

What specifically 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?

Basic

Intermediate

Advanced

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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