AFTA 32nd Annual Meeting: Public Issues, Private Lives

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Plenary 1

Plenary 2a

Plenary 2b and Interest Groups 1-8

Brief Presentations 1-8

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Plenary 3a

Plenary 3b and Interest Groups 9-16

Brief Presentations 9-16

Plenary 4a

Plenary 4b Interest Groups 17-24

Brief Presentations 17-19, Interest Grps 25-26 and Human Rights Forum

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Describe the impact of social, political, and policy issues on the lives of individuals, couples, families, communities, and teachers and trainees

Discuss clinical practice and research in relation to particular populations affected by current social, political, and economic realities

Explain how to integrate social justice concerns and cultural contexts in relation to clinical research and practice

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Characterize the social and cultural context of emotional and psychological problems among Native people

Discuss the role of collective identity in the cause, risk, expression, and treatment of mental illness among American Indians and Alaska Natives

Idenitfy the therapeutic points of leverage in conventional and traditional forms of intervention that emphasize these aspects of health and wellness in Native America

Identify potential mechanisms by which disparities can take place in the clinical encounter

Describe how bias, stereo-types and ethnic / matching relate to mental health care disparities

Define Community-Based Participatory Research

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Discuss ways to facilitate dialogue in couple therapy

Utilize techniques for mentalizing in couple therapy

Explain the neurobiology of attachment and empathy and their relevance to couple therapy

Demonstrate how misunderstanding and distortion occurs in the Family Therapy Field

Demonstrate the use of the theory through clinical presentation

Discuss innovative programs that integrate family therapy teaching in a medical setting

List engaging techniques for teaching residents to think systemically

Discuss the hidden curriculum which emphasizes take charge positions for residents

Dicuss military fathers' perspectives of involvement

Summarize the unique challenges military families face

Cite tools and tips for working with military members and their families in a clinical setting

List three practices in working with agency administrations to engage their interest in introducing family-based collaborative programs

Describe the difference between a social control stance and an "appreciative ally" stance towards families and at least two effects of this change in stance

Describe how program development and evaluation research can be integrated as core aspects of the practices that help families and staff members enhance resilience and restore positive narratives about their lives

Evaluate evidence supporting the effectiveness of postmodern/narrative/constructionist therapies

Identify research methods to evaluate their effectiveness congruent with their theoretical foundations

Outline procedures for co-constructing outcomes that can be integrated into efficacy research

Describe the role of family therapists in addressing violent relationships

List ways to enhance preparation of family therapists in identifying violence in relationships

Discuss possible research agenda for documenting effectiveness of couples work with domestic violence

Describe the complexity of issues related to death through the life cycle

Discuss spiritual resources and responses to both the personal and the systemic ramifications of death

Compare Eastern and Western traditions and other healing practices related to grief and loss

Discuss the meaning of vicarious resilience and its relationship to other concepts addressing the impact of trauma work in therapists

Differentiate between compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, burn out and secondary traumatic stress and resilience, altruism born out of suffering, post traumatic growth and vicarious resilience

Differentiate between battering and domestic violence

Summarize how cultural gender-myths inform patterns of interactions and relational behaviors in families

Explain how a collaborative and respectful stance of the therapist facilitated potentially challenging conversations

Summarize the process of immigration and its impact on youth and their families, and their adjustment and adaptation process

Discuss the complex issues impacting families with a transgender, transsexual, or gender non-conforming member and the role of the therapist in creating an atmosphere of support for all family members

Discuss ways to think about family adjustment to the coming out discovery, including how youth can play a role in their parents' reactions

Explain how to intervene in parent-child interactions in ways that maximize family adjustment

Identify key concepts in family therapy applicable to school-based youth mentoring

Summarize a competence approach to therapy and youth programming

Describe narrative informed practices with women diagnosed with DID

Explain the central constructs of Control Mastery Theory and its plan formulation method

Compare Control Mastery Theory, Narrative Therapy, Family Systems Theory and Emotion Focused Therapy in order to more effectively promote corrective new experience and transform growth inhibiting beliefs and narratives

Discuss what frontline practitioners identify as contributing to effective helping

Explain the relevance of current findings and theories from both the fields of neuroscience and attachment to the work with today's older couples

Identify the hidden strategizing in everyday conversation

Describe three of the challenges created by stepfamily architecture

Differentiate between the common factors and the model-driven paradigm of therapeutic change

Differentiate between the moderate versus the extreme view of common factors

Articulate some of the implications of common factors for supervision, training, and research

Identify data supporting the need for the adaptation in light of existing health disparities

Describe the core principles and intervention steps of program chosen for adaptation

Identify challenges to teaching cultural competence and social justice in graduate training programs and agencies working with families

Distinguish between cultural competence and social justice training endeavors

Discuss how to advance ideas on cultural competence and social justice in their practice settings

Describe the patient-centered medical home

Describe the place of mental healthcare in primary care settings

Describe the role of families in primary healthcare

Explain how habits reflect neural circuits & how neuroplasticity underlies change in behavior and in the brain

Explain the role of emotion, emotional contagion,& emotion regulation; as well as the interplay between the prefrontal cortex (thought, regulation) and limbic system (emotion)

Discuss gender fluidity as possibilities for family life

Define mindfulness and mindfulness practice

List one finding from the research regarding the effects of mindfulness meditation

Describe two applications of mindfulness approaches for use with couples and families in therapy

Discuss current research findings in the family and addiction field

Assess issues of early detection and intervention in increasing the likelihood of long-term recovery of individual and family

Review the interface of addiction counseling/therapy and family therapy and how to work collaboratively across the divide

Explain how to apply the ambiguous loss framework to assessment and prognosis of children and adults with various diseases

Discuss impact of ambiguous loss on the clinician and how to increase our own tolerance for ambiguity to do this work

Compare issues of diversity when working with cases that involve unclear and ambiguous diagnoses and prognosis

Discuss the emerging digital technologies and their potential impact on families

Explain how emerging digital technologies are reshaping interpersonal, institutional, advocacy, and political action

Discuss the potential applications and challenges of applying Web2.0 technologies in working collaboratively with families, colleagues and across institutions

Compare their own clinical approach to romantic love with alternative approaches

Explain the basis of their own approach

Describe clinical outcomes to the use of their own approach

Discuss inadvertent attitudes and acts that are experienced as racist

Practice skills of dialogue across racial difference with colleagues

Identify specific skills for conversation across racial differences that are relevant for effective communication in clinical and teaching contexts

Discuss three key ideas about the qualitative research paradigm

State three concepts of Bowen family systems theory

Utilize interview text to code perspective qualitative data indicating effectiveness

Explain why Social Justice Training is important for an MFT

Explain how these ideas contribute to the advancement of the field of MFT

Discuss ways we have built Social Justice Training into our program

Name the philosophical bases for the emergence of the concept of justice as a pivotal concept in human relationships

Define the conditions for just conversations

List several guiding orientations for just practice with families

Describe the subjective aspects of family secret

Define the conditions for revealing a family secret by adolescents

Discuss the implications for intervention with adolescents in revealing family secrets

Discuss personal experiences of living with a family member with a major mental illness

Describe the effects mental illness has on intimate family relationships

Discuss personal experiences of intersecting with helping professionals, what is helpful and what causes more distress for family members

Summarize current knowledge about the epidemic of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Discuss each aspect of this integrative ASD treatment paradigm, "the three-legged stool"

Summerize basic knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in children and adults

Explain how the sense of belonging serves as a coping resource

Discuss the impact of the past on present sense of belonging

Summarize the current situation of children who are exposed to violence in Colombia

Explain how intervening in addicted families with Invitational Intervention reduces the likelihood of relational breakdown by initiating a continuum of care towards individual and family recovery and healing

Summarize the philosophy and principles of Invitational Intervention: the ARISE model

Identify and resolve problems using intuitive and energy-based tools such as applied kinesiology, EFTA, and systemic constellations

Discuss the potential applications and challenges of applying Web2.0 technologies in working collaboratively with families, colleagues and across institutions

Identify some of the paradigmatic challenge that Web2.0 technologies pose at the personal, cultural, and organizational levels

Identify research and educational needs that arise as Web2.0 technologies become ubiquitous in the lives of practitioners, students, teachers, and patients

Define resilience from the perspective of an ecological construct

Compare aspects of resilience across different youth populations in different cultures and contexts

Explain the implications of this definition of resilience to family therapy with vulnerable populations

Identify critical issues in divorce and stepfamilies

Describe the collaborative divorce and mediation models as interventions

Describe the interconnections with the field of family law

Explain the impact of heteronormativity on the lives of LGBT families

Cite the effects of daily microaggressions on sexual minorities

Discuss address the internalization of heteronormativity and microaggression on LGBT families

Examine the use of film to explore ambiguous loss in the case of illness and family relationships

Discuss how film can be employed in training contexts to address ambiguous loss concepts

Explain how film can be used in the practice of family therapy with patients dealing with ambiguous loss

Discuss the link between power and knowledge

Examine the effects of the supervisor's position as the privileged position

Discuss post-structural theory as a foundation for critiquing privilege

Critique current access to institutional and long-term care for older adults

Examine the psychology of aging including role of culture and environment/social factors

Discuss the systemic and contextual factors that negatively impact elder's and their families

List the most common factors in treatment

Compare common factors vs. specific treatments

Evaluate the state of today's integrative family therapies

Utilize experiential exercises in the teaching of family therapy and social justice

Evaluate new assignments that the participant might choose to use when teaching family therapy

Assess the potential effectiveness and limitations of various family therapy teaching methods

Assess how to promote cross-generational transmission of ideas and discoveries in the field of family therapy

Identify 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

Identify the structural factors that influence how patients and families present in a community setting

Compare models that providers and families use to make meaning of the problems, and the consequences of each

Discuss ideas for a contextual and collaborative model of practice

Compare patients/clients who present with with ambiguous loss, complicated grief, PTSD

Describe the effects of ambiguous loss and why unique interventions are needed

Discuss six research-based guidelines for therapy/intervention with ambiguous loss

Summarize the shift toward attending to diversity issues in clinical training programs

Identify the problems and frustrations with dead supervision as it is usually practiced

Identify the problems and frustrations with "dead" supervison as it is usually practiced

Explain why normal couples have sexual desire problems

Describe the systemic nature of lower/higher desire positions

Discuss how interpersonal neurobiology impacts desire

Identify how such dominant cultural discourses as individualism and patriarchy oppressively shape identity positions in heterosexual couple relationships

Critique the binary of author-ized/unauthor-ized identity as it operates in couple relationships

Explore linkages between Narrative Therapy and Feminist Theory

Discuss the relevance and integration of Human Rights, advocacy and community activities to mental health, family functioning, and clinical interventions

Explain some reactions of GLBT people in terms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after GLBT rights ballot initiatives have failed

Describe the organizational issues of establishing and coordinating a complex multi-service agency thantprovides clinical, social, and advocacy services

Identify the key elements of a participatory research process

Choose between different treatments for different scenarios

Describe the specific challenges first generation immigrant youth experience in their families and in their broader environments

Describe the need for updating research and clinical information on affirmative LGBT couple and family therapy

Describe narrative informed practices in facilitating group therapy with women with histories of sexual abuse diagnosed with DID

Explain how this process can acknowledge and validate frontline workers

Practice facilitatating couples' conflict around gender identity

Identify some of the paradigmatic challenges that Web2.0 technologies pose at the personal, cultural, and organizational levels

Describe the challenges for families with autistic members as compared with normal families

Discuss ideas on working with military families in various contexts

Demonstrate how beliefs, emotions and/or the legacy of trauma impact us physically as well as emotionally and spiritually

Identify three ways to get ongoing feedback on your teaching, learning, and/or supervision skills

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What problems are your patients communicating to you that need attention or follow up?

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