Pre-Congress Intensive Family Therapy Certificate Program
Enrollment: Register for the Pre-Congress Intensive Course #1 (Overview and Introduction to Family Therapy) or Course #2 (The PACT Model) by selecting the appropriate course.
Certificate: Participants receive a Certificate signifying that they have completed a one-day Intensive Family Therapy Course offered by IFTA.1. OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION TO FAMILY THERAPY
• Wednesday, 5 March 2014 • 9 AM - 5 PM
Instructor: Dorothy S. Becvar, Ph.D.
This course provides a survey of the family therapy field, including its epistemological roots and both seminal and current approaches to clinical practice. Participants are introduced to a systems theoretical perspective at the levels of first-order and second-order cybernetics as well as to the distinctions between modern and postmodern orientations to therapy. In addition to consideration of the many models of family therapy, also addressed are the dynamics of families and the impact of cultural, structural, and other contextual variations. The course includes didactic instruction, large and small group discussions, video presentations, and role plays or other simulations, as all are invited to engage actively in the teaching/learning process.
Certificate: Upon completion of this all-day course, participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance signifying that they have completed a one-day Intensive Family Therapy Course approved by IFTA.
Enrollment: Register for attendance on the congress web site.
Dorothy Becvar
Dorothy Becvar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist with 30 years of experience in both academia and private practice. Dorothy is currently serving as Editor of Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal. She has published extensively and in addition to many journal articles and book chapters is the author of the books Families that Flourish: Facilitating Resilience in Clinical Practice (Norton, 2007), In the Presence of Grief: Helping Family Members Resolve Death, Dying and Bereavement Issues (Guilford Press, 2001) and Soul Healing: A Spiritual Orientation in Counseling and Therapy (Basic Books, 1997) as well as the editor of the book The Family, Spirituality and Social Work (Haworth, 1997). With her husband, Raphael J. Becvar, she has co-authored four books: Family Therapy: A Systemic Integration (Allyn & Bacon, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009), Pragmatics of Human Relationships (Geist & Russell, 1998), Hot Chocolate for a Cold Winter's Night: Essays for Relationship Development (Love Publishing, 1994), and Systems Theory and Family Therapy: A Primer (University Press of America, 1982, 1999). And she is co-editor, with William Nichols, Mary Anne Pace-Nichols and Augustus Napier, of the Handbook of Family Development and Intervention (Wiley, 2000).
Education: Ph.D., Saint Louis University; MSW, Saint Louis University
Teaching Areas: Social work practice with families/family therapy, Grief/therapeutic approaches to loss and change, Spirituality and social work, Couples and marital counseling, Sex therapy
Research Interests: Family resilience, How healing happens, Complementary and alternative medicine, Spirituality
2. THE PACT MODEL
• Wednesday, 5 March 2014 • 9 AM - 5 PM
Instructor: Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., MFT
This workshop explores how early attachment patterns are somatically imprinted onto the development of the brain and nervous system and how to interpret the consequent somatic responses. The PACT methodology utilizes a bottom-up versus a top-down approach to psychotherapy focusing on very fast, often surprising interventions in order to access implicit systems as revealed in micro-expressions and micro-movements in the face and body, respectively. Attendees will learn to analyze moment-to-moment variations and shifts in affect and arousal and will learn to therapeutically stage interventions that will trigger arousal and implicit somatoaffective experience and memory. This workshop, intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, MFT/LCSWs, and other health professionals interested in romantic primary relationships.
Certificate: Upon completion of this all-day course, participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance signifying that they have completed a one-day Intensive Family Therapy Course approved by IFTA.
Enrollment: Register for attendance on the congress web site.
Stan Tatkin
Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of A Psychobiological Approach To Couples Therapy® (PACT) which has training programs in California, Colorado, Washington, Texas, New Jersey, New York, as well as in Canada, Turkey, Spain, and Australia. In addition to his private practice, he teaches and supervises first through third-year family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, Woodland Hills, through which he is an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine.
He is co-author with Marion Solomon of Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy from Norton's Interpersonal Neurobiology Series and author of Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain Can Help You Defuse Conflicts And Spark Intimacy from New Harbinger and most recently of Your Brain on Love, through Sounds True.
