Guest presenter from The Bowen Center USA: Anne S. McKnight, LCSW, Ed D

This workshop will be of interest to:

• University and TAFE Counsellors;
• Health professionals working with life transition issues; and
• interested public including young adults and parents.

Young adults separate from their families to support themselves, create new relationships, and make their mark in the world. Despite their creativity, intelligence, and hard work, these young people often experience problems with careers, goals, relationships, and functioning. This day explores how the trajectory of their lives is tied to and affected by the relationships with their original families. Through a didactic session, video interviews with young adults, and discussion with the audience, the bonds and dilemmas they faces with their families will be explored as influential to their present lives.

Dr. Anne McKnight is a family therapist in private practice in Arlington, VA. She developed a special interest in families with addiction from working, teaching, and supervising students for many years in a child and family substance abuse program in Virginia.

Dr. McKnight was appointed to the faculty of the Bowen Centre in 1992. She is currently Director of the Postgraduate Training Program in Family Psychotherapy at the Bowen Centre. Over the years she has organized conferences on family systems therapy and addiction, death, differentiation, health, cut-off, and triangles. She has presented regularly at the Annual Family Symposium and Spring Conference. Her most recent was "Leadership in a Family Business," presented in November 2008. Each year, she presents at the Bowen Clinical Conference in Washington, DC, focusing in recent years on the emotional process in the family systems of young adults as they establish lives independent from their families.

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