AFTNC Events
8/28 - Teaching Family Systems: A Collaboration of Local AFTNC and AFTA Members Who Teach Family Therapy
11/13- Assesment and Family Therapy with Gender-Variant/ Transgender Youth with Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD
12/11 - Holiday Party
01/2011 - Ethics and Family Therapy
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Teaching Family Systems: A Collaboration of Local
AFTNC and AFTA Members Who Teach Family Therapy
In a continued effort to develop and support the academic community in couples and family therapy in the Bay Area, the Association of Family Therapist of Northern California and the American Family Therapy Academy (www.afta.org ) are cosponsoring a discussion for family and couples therapy teachers in the Bay Area. This will be an opportunity for participants to share their syllabi, their favorite research articles, textbook preferences, videos that inspire students, and discuss teaching methods for teaching family therapy. Please feel free to invite other professors at your institution who teach couples and family therapy.
When: Saturday August 28, 2010, 11:30am - 2pm
Where: Alliant International University, San Francisco, CA
Cost: FREE, unless you'd like CE, which is $15 for 2 hours
To RSVP: Shawn Giammattei, drshawn@questfamilies.com (415) 722-7134
September 25, 2010
Deepening Conversation about
Culture/Multiculturalism and Privelege in Clinical
Practice: presented by AFTNC Cultural Accountability
Committee:
Becky Pizer, PsyD; Theopia Jackson, PhD; W. Keith Sutton, PsyD, Tekesia Sturgis, PsyD; Rochè Brown, PsyD; Heather Martarella, PsyD; Erica Torres, PhD; Sam Tabachnick, PhD; Shawn Giammattei, PhD; Sara Mizban, PsyD; Lety Manzanares, MFT
The Association of Family Therapists of Northern California has been focused on ensuring that the organization addresses the complexities and ‘multiplicities’ of culture and implications for the field. Toward that end, the organization established a Cultural Accountability Committee that will be hosting this event. In this workshop we will be creating a context for in-depth discussions about the ways issues of multiculturalism shows up in the work and supervision. We will share what has worked, what hasn’t, and what can be learned in order to be effectively culturally accountable in family and couples therapy, as well as in our professional relationships. The goals of the workshop are to raise self-awareness, clinical reflection, and practice and to stimulate critical thought around cultural and social justice issues.When: Saturday, September 25, 2010: 12-12:30 networking; 12:30-2:30 workshop
Where: Argosy University, 1005 Atlantic Ave, Alameda, CA Room 238
Cost: FREE, unless you'd like CE, which is $15 for 2 hours
To RSVP: Shawn Giammattei, drshawn@questfamilies.com (415) 722-7134
October 15-17, 2010
Annual Conference:
One Size Doesn't Fit All: Working with Latino Familes
and Other Cultures with a Multisystemic Ecological
Comparative Approach
with Celia Falicov, Ph.D.
Traditional clinical concepts do not necessarily fit every client. Unlike an earlier generation of therapists, who believed the goal of therapy was to help clients acculturate, today's therapists need to practice the art of "cultural humility" by becoming aware of the personal and cultural biases that they bring to the therapeutic encounter. Therefore, in today's diverse society, therapists are invited to modify traditional clinical concepts to help clients reconcile, learn to live in the dominant society, and constructively challenge social and cultural disjunctions in their lives. In this workshop, a generalist framework called MECA (Multisystemic Ecological Comparative Approach) will be offered for integrating in the therapeutic conversations issues of cultural diversity, the stresses of race, conflicts with institutions and social class locations and the resources of religion and spirituality. Attention will be paid to important cultural differences in family organizations and in how the family life cycle is constructed and experienced. Futhermore, therapists will learn to ask relevant questions that elicit information about significant cultural conflicts, including the therapit's own cultural preferences. Participants will learn new family therapy concepts and interventions applicable to families in cultural transition. Techniques that fall into “therapeutic rituals” (odd days/even days; catching-up life narratives; rebalancing contracts and others) can be used to deal with the ambiguous losses of migration; or to intervene in generational conflicts between parents and adolescents or gender conflicts between husband and wife. This multicultural roadmap and clinical illustrations relevant to assessment, goal setting and interventions will be useful for working with a wide variety of cultural groups, rather than becomming competent with one ethnic group.
Celia J. Falicov, Ph.D. is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California-San Diego. Dr. Falicov pioneered writings on family transitions, migration and cultural perspectives in family therapy training and practice. Her Multisystemic Ecological Comparative Approach (MECA) Model integrates cultural and sociopolitical similarities and differences across cultural groups. Her publications include two edited books: Family Transitions (Guilford) and Cultural Perspectives in Family Therapy (Aspen). Dr. Falicov’s book, Latino Families in Therapy: A Guide to Multicultural Practice, provides a new model for both trainees and experienced therapists.
When: Friday October 15, 2010- Sunday, October 17, 2010
Where: Westerbeke Ranch, Sonoma CA
For Costs and more information go to Annual Conference Page
November 13, 2010
Assessment and Family Therapy with Gender
Variant/Transgender Youth
with Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD.
When: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Where: Alliant University, San Francisco, CA Room 201
Cost: FREE, unless you'd like CE, which is $15 for 2 hours
To RSVP: Shawn Giammattei, drshawn@questfamilies.com (415) 722-7134
December 11, 2010
Holiday Party
Come celebrate the holidays with AFTNC members and Families.
When: Saturday, December 11, 2010
Where: San Rafael Joe's, San Rafael, CA
Cost: $35 per person
To RSVP: Shawn Giammattei, drshawn@questfamilies.com (415) 722-7134
January 2011
Ethics and Family Therapy
When: TBA
Where: TBA
Cost: TBA
To RSVP: Shawn Giammattei, drshawn@questfamilies.com (415) 722-7134