Tentative Program At A Glance

Tuesday, February 19, 2013
16:00 - 18:00 Registration for Pre-Congress

Wednesday, February 20, 2013
08:00 - 10:00 Registration for Pre-Congress
13:00 - 18:00 Registration for Congress
09:00 – 16:00 Pre-Congress Workshop: Family Therapy Practice and Research: A Dialogue
17:30 - 18:30 Congress Opening and Plenary: Salvador Minuchin and Celia Falicov: An Encounter Between Two Old Friends
18:30 - 20:00 Welcome Reception

Thursday, February 21, 2013
07:30-17:30 Registration Hours
08:00-09:30 Brief sessions
09:45-10:30 Presentations
10:30-10:45 Recess/Break
10:45-12:00 PLENARY SESSION: Michael Ungar, Ph.D.: The Social Ecology of Resilience: How Families and Communities Help Children Thrive
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break/Poster Sessions // Training Division Meeting
13:30-14:15 Presentations/workshops
14:30-15:15 Presentations/workshops
15:00-15:45 Refreshment Break
15:00-18:00 IFTA Board of Directors
15:45-16:45 Presentations/workshops
17:00-18:00 Presentations/workshops

Friday, February 22, 2013
07:30-16:30 Registration Hours
09:00-17:00 Intensive Family Therapy Certificate Program: Overview & Introduction to Family Therapy
08:00-09:30 Brief Sessions
09:00-10:30 International Meeting of Family Therapy Journal Editors (By invitation only)
09.45-10.30 Presentations/workshops
10:30-10:45 Recess/Break 
10:45-11:30 Presentations/workshops
10.45- 12:00 International Meeting of Family Therapy Journal Editors and Publishers (By invitation only)
11:30-13:00 Lunch/Poster Sessions
13:00-13:45 Presentations/workshops
13:45-14:15 Refreshment Break
14:15-15:15 Presentations/workshops
15:30-16:30 Presentations/workshops
19:30-21:30 Congress Event

Saturday, February 23, 2013
08:00-15:00 Registration Hours
08:30-17:00 Intensive Family Therapy Certificate Program: Models of Family Therapy
08:30-09:15 Presentations/workshops
09:30-10:15 Presentations/workshops
10:15-10:45 Recess/Break
10:45-12:00 PLENARY SESSION: Celia Jaes Falicov, Ph.D.: Living with Two Hearts: Separations and Reunifications in Transnational Families
12:00-13:30 Lunch

Super Saturday workshops

Presenters:

Michael Ungar: Resilience Building Instead of Problem Treatment: A Social Ecological Approach to Intervention with Children, Adolescents, and their Families

Celia Falicov: One Size Doesn't Fit All: Using MECA (Multisystemic Ecological Comparative Approach) to Introduce Culture in Family Therapy.

Florence Kaslow: The Many Challenges of Changing Clinical Populations

Judith Landau: Intervention and Treatment Strategies for Adolescent and Young Adult Substance Abusers and Their Parents

13:30 Super Saturday Workshops
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Super Saturday Workshops continue
17:00 Congress Ends