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Working With Parents of Antisocial Youth
Creating Connections With Children That Invite
Courage And Change...& Having Fun While Doing It!
Relational Therapy Across the Generations:
Creativity and Resources
WORKING
WITH PARENTS OF ANTISOCIAL YOUTH |
Timothy
A. Cavell, PhD
Friday, September 16, 2005, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
6 CEUs
Traditional
models of parent training are designed for parents who are eager to learn
new ways of managing young, mildly oppositional children. The focus of
this workshop, presented by author and professor Dr. Timothy Cavell, will
be working with resistant parents whose children are often older and more
aggressive and antisocial. Dr. Cavell will present an overarching framework
that builds on relationship-based programs with documented effectiveness,
drawing heavily from recent findings in areas such as behavioral genetics
and attachment theory which are critical to understanding the development
of antisocial behavior. Ten guiding principles for parents are drawn from
this framework, covering three broad areas of parent work: process issues,
systemic issues, and dyadic issues.
This
six-hour workshop will blend lecture/discussion with participant-driven,
role-play demonstrations and excerpts from previously recorded therapy
sessions. Specific intervention principles and clear case examples will
be provided to enhance both learning and application of treatment strategies.
 Timothy
A. Cavell, PhD is Professor and Director of Clinical Training
at the University of Arkansas. His expertise is in the treatment
of aggressive, antisocial youth, with particular interests in interventions
involving parents and adult mentors. Guiding his work is a relationship-based
model of socializing difficult, troublesome children, summarized
in his book, Working with Parents of Aggressive Children:
A Practitioner’s Guide (2000, American Psychological
Association). Dr. Cavell’s work has been funded by the National
Institute on Drug Abuse and by the William C. Hogg Foundation of
Texas. He has published over 30 refereed journal articles and over
15 book chapters. Dr. Cavell maintains a part-time practice and
is an engaging and informative presenter.
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CREATING
CONNECTIONS WITH CHILDREN THAT INVITE COURAGE AND CHANGE
... & HAVING FUN WHILE DOING IT!
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Ken
Graves, PhD and Michelle Kinder, MEd
Friday, October 7, 2005, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
6 CEUs
Most
of us have found ourselves sitting in the office with a child and feeling
that we have a clear understanding of the problem but little understanding
of how to move toward the solution. Many of us have been trained on working
with adults but have received less formal training on how to have dynamic,
change-producing interactions with children. Sound familiar? This workshop
is designed to make you feel more confident while in the room with children.
We will focus on facilitating connections with children which highlight
their courage and their capacity for making sense of difficult situations.
We will also examine how young children communicate and the impact of
language on the therapy process. You will leave the workshop with numerous
techniques that can be immediately worked into your existing practice.
These ideas will bring the fun back into your work with children!
 Ken
Graves, PhD, has worked with children and families for more than
20 years. His primary area of interest is young children with behavioral
and developmental challenges. He has been involved in teaching, training,
and program development activities related to clinical work with children,
cultural issues, and child abuse and neglect. Ken has presented at local,
state and national conferences and acts as a consultant to several agencies
that serve children and families.
Michelle
Kinder, MEd, LPC, has worked as a therapist with families and
their children for nine years. She has also developed and implemented
family strengthening programs in English and Spanish. She is asked to
present to and consult with several community groups on a regular basis
and is regularly involved in training students and other therapists in
working effectively with children.
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RELATIONSHIP
THERAPY ACROSS THE GENERATIONS:
CREATIVITY AND RESOURCES
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Sara
B. “Susy” Jutoran, MTF
Wednesday,
November 2, 2005, 1 pm – 4 pm
3 CEUs
Doing
psychotherapy with families requires ability and knowledge, but it also
requires perceptual skills. In this workshop, family therapist and professor
Susy Jutoran from Buenos Aires combines an international perspective and
a time-honored systemic paradigm to create a relational therapy that is
truly multigenerational. In her words:
From
this point of view, I bring forth the family as a three-generational
system, with each individual considered a member of an extended family
network evolving through time. This multilevel relational dynamic includes
past-present-future, culture and gender, diverse values and beliefs,
and different experiences-perceptions-emotions, offering a context that
allows for the emergence of personal resources. Such a perspective permits
movement toward change as the therapist fosters creativity and complexity
in a context where ready-made answers are of no help. Eliciting and
amplifying the therapist’s resources promotes therapeutic creativity
that transcends techniques and allows one to enter different domains
of therapeutic experience – from doing therapy towards being a therapist.
Join
Susy for a perception-changing day filled with creative clinical examples
and warm resourcefulness! (Note: This workshop will be conducted in
English.)
 Sara
B. “Susy” Jutoran, MTF, is a consultant, author, and family
therapist from Buenos Aires, Argentina and Reunion Institute’s Visiting
Professional for this fall. Susy has presented her work in North
America, Europe, and throughout South America, is fluent in four
languages, and has served as a postgraduate professor in schools
of law, medicine, and psychology. In addition to creating and directing
the Instituto de Terapia Sistémica (Institute of Systemic
Therapy) in Buenos Aires, Susy is a member of an international family
therapy group coordinated by Maurizio Andolfi, MD in Rome. She has
interviewed some of the courageous “Plaza de Mayo Mothers and Grandmothers,”
a group of women who challenged the terrors of the Argentina’s military
regimes to uncover the fates of the more than 30,000 “disappeared,”
in order to communicate their ordeals to others.
Words
of praise for Susy Jutoran:
“The serious
danger of considering feelings as out of context and history, becoming
blind with respect to social aspects related to gender identity
and its norms, is underlined in Sara Jutoran’s passionate work.”
Maurizio
Andolfi, MD
Rome, Italy
“I was quite
impressed and mobilized by the ideas. I congratulate you and I thank
you for the way you transmit and let us understand such complex
concepts; also for the passion one can perceive in what you do.”
“It’s so
good to maintain our wonder capacity and learning hunger. And how
good it is to find a person who mobilizes us with her knowledge,
energy, and humility. Thanks!”
“All 60
of us (in the class) wrote a letter to the Program Director to continue
with you in another course. Thank you, Susy!”
Attorneys
commenting on Jutoran’s postgraduate family law courses
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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