List of Confirmed Presenters
(This list only contains the primary presenter on each proposal and does not include the poster presentations.)
Lectures
Donna Andrews: Effective skills for couples parenting a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Kiran Arora: Making the Invisible Visible: Understanding the Wounds of Oppression in Couples of Color
Christiana Awosan: Black Couples in Therapy: How Can the Profession Help?
Dorothy Becvar: Facilitating Couple Resilience
Dorothy Becvar: Family Therapists Concerned About Our Field
John Caffaro: Sibling Violence: Assessment & Intervention
Pornthip Chalungsooth: Family Secrets and Family Functioning in Asian Culture.
Dr Eddie Chan: An elaborate funeral : A Case Study on how a scapegoat fights back.
Manijeh Daneshpour: Power of Interpersonal Touch and Cross Cultural Implications
Madeleine De Little: Satir in the Sand Tray -Where Words Cannot Reach
Cecile Dillon: Stepfamilies: Quidelines for Performing Assessement
Eileen Bobrow: Training Clinicians: The Benefits of Learning Live with Peers as well as Experts
Valentin Escudero: Practice into research and research into practice: Studying the therapeutic alliances
Larry Freeman: Psychobiological Family Therapy:Ecological Psychiatry in Practice
Jerry Gale: Mindfulness & Loving kindness meditation: Relational practices in couple & family therapy
Jerry Gale: Attending to couples, money, food & the home: The creation of an interdisciplinary clinic
James Harper: Assessing Couple Patterns with the Couple Implicit Rules Profile
Judye Hess: Core-Focused Family Therapy: Moving from Chaos to Clarity
Gordon L. Hirshhorn: Divorce Without Enmity: Ending a Failed Marriage, the Family-Collective View
Sue Johnson: Extravagant Emotion : Transforming the bonds of love in couple therapy (90 mins)
Sue Johnson: Research on love and the repair of love relationships in Emotionally Focused Couple Therap
Florence Kaslow: Divorce Around the World: Trends, Theories and Therapies
Florence Kaslow: Divorce and its Aftermath
Gabor Keitner: The McMaster Model of Family Assessment and Intervention
Scott Ketring: Developing, Measuring, Evaluating Supervision Impact on Student Therapist/Client Outcomes
Judith Landau: The ARISE Intervention for Reaching Recovery Through Love, Hope, & Family
Valérie Le Goff-Cubilier: Emergency/crisis treatment for couples and families, a 3 years study
Jay Lebow: Demystifying writing and publishing in scholarly journals
Paul Lee: Building Strong, Successful Families With Appreciative Inquiry
Steve Livingston: Treating Suicidal Adolescents: Considering Family Structure and Role Assignment.
Joyce Lai Chong Ma: Multiple family therapy with Chinese families of children of mental health problems
Kathlyne Maki-Banmen: The Use of The Self of the Therapist
Shantay Mines: How can we (or can we?) use Evolving Technology Ethically in Marriage and Family Therapy?
Rachel Mirecki: Learning from the Past, Altering the Future: Trust in Divorce and Remarriage
Matt Morris: To Hell in a Handbasket: Techniques for Working with High Conflict Couples
Robyn Mowery: Enhancing Multi-Cultural Sensitivity in Ethical Decision-Making: Mowery's 7 Ps, Part I
Jennifer Nagel: Working with Reactive Emotions in Couples Therapy
William Northey: Advancing Family Therapy through Training across Cultures
Sandy Novak: The Universality of Couples Issues in Modern Chinese Marriages through a Satir Model Lense
Terje Ogden: Predicting outcomes of Parent Management Training (PMTO): Child, parenting, context and th
Warwick Phipps: Refiguring Family Therapy: Postmodernism and Beyond
Phoebe Prosky: Family Therapy Training Around the World: Third Annual Traiining Division Workshop
Anne Prouty: Student's Perspectives on Mentorship in US Training Programs
Anne Prouty: Using Students' Learning Edges to Guide Graduate Courses in MFT
Edita Ruzgyte: Organizing study abroad trips - Expanding students' horizons
Dalesa Scott: Healing women of color: Addressing the trauma of IPV
Scott Sells: Welcome to the New Frontier: The Many Challenges of Transporting Evidence-Based Practices
Scott Sells: The Direct Link Between Unresolved Trauma & Juvenile Delinquency
Wencke J. Seltzer: Children diagnosed with bipolar spectrum disorder and their families. First person voices
Meri Shadley: Coping by Doping: Assisting Addicted Women with Trauma
Lin Shi: What Determines Conflict Resolution Behaviors Among Couples Seeking Marital Therapy Attach
Sandra Stith: Domestic Violence Focused Couples Treatment
Elayne Tanner: A Critical Review of the Mandatory Reporting Protocol
Frank Thomas: Solution-Focused Supervision: Themes and Techniques from Insoo Kim Berg, MSW
Susan Tschudi: The Effect of Adult ADHD on a Relationship
Arthur Williams: Nuts and Bolts of the Initial Conjoint Interview in Short-Term Marital Therapy
Interactive Workshops
Morten Anker: How to integrate feedback in couples therapy.
Jeff Chang: The Contextual-Functional Meta-Framework for MFT Supervision
Jeff Chang: Systemic Intervention in Schools: Building Collaborative Teams
Jessica Chou: Acculturation and International Adoption: "It's all in the Family"
Robert Colby: A Team Approach to Therapy With Families Through Divorce and Post Agreement Conflict
Patricia Ebersole Zwier: Systemic treatment of the lack of intimacy skills in couples with marital conflict
Valentin Escudero: Building therapeutic alliances with mandated, reluctant & absentee clients
Cadmona Hall: All Couples Are Multi-Cultural: Helping Couples Manage Differences and Find Common Ground
Arden Henley: Distributed Learning for Marriage and Family Therapists: Trends, Perils, and Possibilities
Linda Lucas: Treating Addictions with Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy
Stephen Madigan: Re-authoring and remembering relationships: Narrative therapy with couples experiencing tr
Kathlyne Maki-Banmen: Couples Therapy: Individuation or Attachment? Why Not Both?
Lieven Migerode: The no conclusion intervention for couples in conflict
Robyn Mowery: Applied Ethical Decision-Making in Medical Family Therapy: Mowery's 7 Ps, Part II
Phoebe Prosky: The 'Expanded Family': Helping Families Stay Whole Through the Process of Divorce
Edita Ruzgyte: Systemic Approach to Couples Sex Therapy
Christine Schneider: Clinical Considerations for Couples with Developmental Disabilities
Dalesa Scott: Healing adolescents: a multisystemic approach to trauma
Lin Shi: Integrating Childhood Trauma into Adult Outpatient Treatment:Assessment, Conceptualization
Maire Stedman: Resilience, Coexistence, Reconciliation: An Ongoing Conversational Project.
Rolf Sundet: Patient-focused research supported practices in two family therapy teams: What happens?
Takeshi Tamura: Cross-Cultural Clinical Collaboration: International Views from East and West
S. Todd Townsend: Forgiveness: The Quintessential Tool for Repairing African American Relationships
Barbara Warner: Regulation: outcomes for therapists complained against in USA and UK
Yulia Watters: Facing Illnesses and Losses: Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Approach in Couples Therapy
Judy Weiser:
Panel - Using Photos & Videos to Improve Family Therapy Practice: Four Pioneers Share Perspectives
Brief Reports
Ibrahiem Alothman: The Effectiveness of School Counseling Services for Students with Autism in Saudi Arabia
Marianne Bie: On becomming a better couple therapist
Marianne Bie: Couple Workshops for Parents with Disabled Children, Using EFT and Gottmann Principles
Carizma Chapman: 21st Century Discourses on Adolescent Love
Ai-Lan Chia: Evolution and Implication of Working with Couples at a University Counselling Centre
Suzanne Coyle: Narratives of Liberation in Appalachia
Ivana Djuraskovic: Family Therapy with Refugees: Risk and Resilliency
Doralice Otaviano: Working in the expression of feelings in "Home Houses" on the optics of Paulo Freire
Dr Hadas Doron: Implications of Couple Therapy Profession On Therapists' Spousal Relations
Lia Fernandes: Psychoeducational Intervention for Family and Caregivers of People with Dementia
Sunnie Giles: The impact of parentification on depression and codependence
Cadmona Hall: Holding on Together - A Family Grief Journey
Ana Lucia Horta: Repercussion of Mourning in the Conjugality After Loss of a Son
Charles Jacob: Clinical Decision-Making in Domestic Violence Scenarios: The Influence of Experience
Sara Jerebic: Relational couples therapy with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse
Naveen Jonathan: A Narrative Approach to Grief with Elder Women
Gabor Keitner: Family Functioning In the Community
Karni Kissil: Helping Trainees to Use their Struggles to Promote a Deeper Therapist-Client Connection
Pei-Fen Li: Couple and Family Therapy in Taiwan: Challenges and Transformation
Maria. C. Marchetti-Mercer: Gender differences in emigration: A South African case study
Nicole Massey-Hastings: CPL: A Manualized Primary Intervention for Couples Regarding Reproductive Decisions
Lucineia Cristina Micali: Couple therapy with patients with affective disorder
Dr Oscar Modesto Ramirez: Working with couples from Culturally&Linguistically Diverse backgrounds: Australian view
Dr Oscar Modesto Ramirez: Couples communicating after divorce? An approach to reflective functioning post-separation
Sesen Negash: Is It Over? Extradyadic Involvement and Relationship Dissolution in Dating Relationships
Martine Nisse: The hands of time buried in his soul stopped abruptly. H MURAKAMI
Ana Pego: Strengths and Challenges of Dating Relationships: Qualitative Insights for Prevention
Marnie Rogers: Co-constructing "We:" Cohabitating Couples' Relationship Narratives
Samira Rostami: Marital Communication Patterns And Defense Styles
Jennifer Sampson: The Role & Effectiveness of a Psychoed-Support Group for Family Members of Hoarders
Joachim Sehrbrock: Mentalizing in Psychotherapy with Same-Sex Couples
Joana Sequeira: Narrative Change in Post Modern Systemic Couple and Family Therapy
Armeda Stevenson Wojciak: Hear our voices! Review of research and policy in the child welfare system.
Ata Tehranchi: relational coping strategies in mothers with chronic pain: implications for couple therapy
Nihan Tezer: Marital satisfaction in binational marriages: A literature review
Umaporn Trangkasombat: Family functioning and depression in adolescents :a gender perspective
Nadja Vilela dos Santos: Systemic intervention with families using art therapy techniques in shelters
Lai Cheung Wong: Clinical intervention to married couples to achieve forgiveness and reconciliation
Sarah Woods: Predicting improvements in depression across therapies using romantic relationship factors