- How Bowen family systems theory can provide a broad framework that enables professionals to work collaboratively with families that are overtly intense, or families that present subtle relationship tensions and conflicts.
- Sustaining clinical neutrality in working with families with problems of child abuse and violence.
- Designing effective clinical intererventions addressing multiple issues for family members.
Presentations which include:
- The role of family emotional process in the clinical treatment of child abuse.
- Designing effective clinical interventions that addresses multiple issues for various roles of family members
- Sustaining clinical neutrality in clinical practice with families with problems of child abuse and violence
- How understanding the broad emotional processes, common to all families can increase the effectiveness of clinical practice.
- How Bowen theory can provide a broad framework that enables professionals to sustain clinical neutrality with families that are overtly intense or present subtle relationship tensions and conflicts.
Plus a live interview on FAMILY SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND CHILD ABUSE POTENTIAL with Dr Elizabeth A. Skowron, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University. Dr Skowron is the principle researcher of the NIMH funded project-the Family Systems Lab. Her research interests are: the neurobiology of at-risk parenting, differentiation of self (i.e., autonomy & attachment), self-regulation, and the ways in which family systems promote children's competence. http://familysystemslab.psu.edu/
Professionals will benefit in being able to develop more accurate clinical hypotheses from which to design interventions with people in highly reactive family contexts.
***While the focus will be on family violence and child maltreatment, this conference will be useful for working with cases at all levels of family conflict; and an excellent way to build an understanding of Bowen family systems theory.
“A psychological understanding of behaviour does not reduce personal and social responsibility.” Walter Smith
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