Clinical Consultation
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Organizer: |
Sandra Block, DCSW, LCSW, Faculty, WPFC |
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Location: |
WPFC - 3rd floor classroom |
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Date: |
Monthly beginning September 2008-May 2009 (Specific dates to be determined with participants |
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9:00 am - Noon |
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CEUs: |
Up to 27 psychology ce's. S.W. ceu's pending |
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Fee: |
$450 |
Description:
This group is open to all psychotherapists and other health professionals interested in learning about family systems ideas and their application in the clinical setting. Participants will present the patient, client (or self) and family context, or raise issues for consideration by the group. Special attention will be given to the use of the family diagram, and to the assessment process.
Bowen theory promotes a broad and objective understanding of human problems and guides the professional in his/her own efforts at being a "self". The leadership and group format are expected to offer an exciting learning opportunity for all. |
Eligibility:
Some prior knowledge of Bowen theory is recommended. |
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Clinical Forum 2/The Process of Differentiation: Addressing Chronic Anxiety
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Instructor: |
Priscilla J. Friesen, LICSW |
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Location: |
WPFC Conference Center |
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Date: |
November 20, 2009 |
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9AM-1PM/Registration-8:30 |
Description:
My professional life has included biofeedback or neurofeedback technology as an integral part of applying and informing Bowen theory. Dr. Bowen conceptualized differentiation of self as a psychological concept (In a videotape: Differentiation and Physiology, M. Bowen and P. Friesen). Observing physiology in biofeedback and the central nervous system (CNS) with neurofeedback has contributed to a broader understanding of the physiology of differentiation of self. This workshop will explore the process of defining a self, including experience with the neurofeedback in understanding and addressing chronic anxiety in defining a self.
A long time student of Bowen theory and a frequent presenter in Pittsburgh, Ms. Friesen is on the faculty of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, D.C. and is a founder of the Learning Space in Washington, DC.
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Clinical Forum 3/Emotional Cutoff and Nuclear Family Functioning
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Phillip Klever, MSW/A marriage and family therapist in private practice in Kansas City, MO, Mr. Klever has written extensively about his many years of clinical work and research with couples that are based in Bowen family systems therapy. This will be his first presentation in Pittsburgh. |
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Location: |
WPFC Conference Center |
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Date: |
December 11, 2009 |
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Time: |
9AM-1PM/Registration-8:30 |
Description:
Dr. Murray Bowen wrote, "The more a nuclear family maintains some kind of viable contact with the past generations, the more orderly and asymptomatic the life process in both generations." All families have varying levels of difficulty or success in maintaining viable contact between the generations. This is related in part to the degree of unresolved attachment between parents and their offspring. The discomfort of this unresolved attachment is handled though varying levels of distance or emotional cutoff. This presentation will explore how viable emotional contact versus cutoff influences marital and family process. The presenter will report the findings from his ten year study of cutoff and nuclear family functioning, as well as his insights from his clinical practice. |
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Clinical Forum 4/TBA
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Organizer:Presenter: |
James B. Smith, MSLouise Rauseo, RN, MS, CS-P/A member of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family faculty interested in studying the challenges of families adapting to immigration and dramatic social change, Ms. Rauseo has studied and researched migration and emotional cutoff. She has developed and taught in programs in El Paso, Texas and Cd. Juarez, Mexico, as well as maintaining a family psychotherapy practice in Annapolis, MD. This will be her first WPFC Clinical Forum presentation. |
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Location: |
WPFC Conference Center |
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Date: |
March 19, 2010 |
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Time: |
9AM-1PM/Registration-8:30 |
Description:
TBA |
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Clinical Forum 5/Court Active Families: A Family Systems Perspective
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Presenter: |
Michael Sullivan, LMSW |
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Location: |
WPFC Conference Center |
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Date: |
April 23, 2010 |
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Time: |
9AM-1PM/Registration-8:30 |
Description:
This presentation will utilize Bowen Family Systems Theory as a way of thinking about families chronically engaged with the legal system for juvenile delinquency and criminal behavior. The evolution of thinking from a symptom focus to a systems orientation will be described based upon 35 years of clinical observation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the reciprocity between the families and the social service agencies charged with regulating social behavior. How the externalized emotional process of the family reflected in delinquent behavior can be replicated in relationships between the family and social agencies will be examined. The presentation will conclude with a discussion about how the emotional process of the social agency can either bind anxiety or contribute to further regression.
A licensed social worker in private practice in Traverse City, Michigan, Mr. Sullivan has presented nationally on his work with families with juvenile delinquency and criminal behavior that is based in Bowen theory. This will be his first WPFC Clinical Forum presentation. |
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Clinical Forum 6/How One Person Can Make a Difference in a Family Crisis
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Presenter: |
Andrea Maloney Schara, LCWSA |
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Location: |
WPFC Conference Center |
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Date: |
May 21, 2010 |
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Time: |
9AM-1PM/Registration-8:30 |
Description:
Since the family is an emotional unit there are pressures on individual members to function in specific ways. When a family experiences difficulties some members have a greater challenge functioning and begin to be the focus of negative attention. This presentation concerns a family member’s recovery from a serious episode of multiple hospitalizations. It looks at what it takes for family members to respond differently to dysfunction. This presentation will demonstrate, through the use of video, how family members begin to function differently in response to a crisis. It may provide ideas for a different way to conceptualize community mental health. This effort has been going on since June 2006.
A faculty member of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, DC, an associate of the Learning Space in Washington, DC, and the developer of the website Ideas to Action, Ms. Schara writes, consults and presents widely on her 30+ years of thinking about Bowen theory “as a guide to understanding and perhaps changing one’s life.” This is her first presentation in the WPFC Clinical Forum series. |
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Clinical Forum I/Professional Ethics and Bowen Theory: Inside Out and Back Again
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Presenter: |
Sandra Caffo, LCSW, MFT, CEAP, Senior Director and James Smith, MS/Sandra Caffo is the Senior Director of LifeSolutions, a company offering EAP, wellness and workplace productivity services as part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). She has over 20 years experience in working with family and organization systems through work in EAP, organization consultation and as a marriage & family therapist in private practice. Ms. Caffo holds two Pennsylvania licenses in clinical social work and marriage and family therapy. She began studying Bowen theory in 1985 and continues to learn about and apply the theory to thinking regarding the workplace and family. Ms. Caffo served on the board of WPFC for eleven years; six years as president. She links her interest in ethics to her family where values regarding “right and wrong” were strongly held and interwoven into much of family life. Mr. Smith is a founder of WPFC and its current executive director. A licensed psychologist, he has a long standing interest in considering Bowen theory in the history of western thinking and in applying Bowen theory in clinical practice. |
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Location: |
WPFC Conference Center |
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Date: |
January 29, 2010 |
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Time: |
9AM-1PM/Registration-8:30 |
Description:
If you are not anxious before attending required ethics seminars, you certainly are after attending them, with their emphasis on the dire consequences of misbehavior. There are no guarantees, but the goal of this clinical forum is that you will leave a little less anxious and more thoughtful. Questions to be addressed by the presenters include: Why all the continued reactivity about professional ethics? Why think about ethics at all? What is the history of ethical behavior in western thinking, including history, philosophy and evolutionary biology? How does this translate to the mental health professions? What is ethical behavior in the business world? How does professional ethical behavior look through the lens of Bowen theory?
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