Clients requiring intensive treatment for substance abuse, mood, eating and trauma-based disorders typically grew up in family systems wounded by legacies of loss from which the members have never fully recovered. This presentation will describe the nature of family system woundedness including the behavioral, relational, spiritual and epigenetic effects of life in such environments, approaches to engage members in a clinical conversation that will benefit all family members, and offer some strategies for harnessing the power of the intense counter-transference reactions clinicians will customarily encounter.
By the end, attendees will be better able to:
- Define the common environmental characteristics of wounded family systems.
- Describe the ways in which ancestral trauma influences individual coping styles.
- Utilize techniques for managing counter-transference reactions in ways that reduce their disabling effects on the work.
Event Schedule:
11:00-11:20 - Overview: A model of family system woundedness
11:20-11:45 - Thinking systemically: initial engagement
11:45-12:10 - Countertransference breakout w/prompts
12:10-12:30 - Countertransference management.
12:30-12:45 - Epigenetics and inherited PTSD-like responses
12:45-1:00 - Q&A
Dr. Kenneth Perlmutter, Ph.D., is a California-licensed Family Systems Psychologist with more than 32 years’ experience treating clients and their families experiencing complex psychological, behavioral and addictive disorders. He is Founder of the Family Recovery Institute which provides clinical training, consultation and supervision, family and individual psychotherapy. His 2019 work, Freedom from Family Dysfunction: A Guide for Families Battling Addiction or Mental Illness, was published in late 2019 by Rowman&Littlefield, re-released in paperback in 2022 and printed in Estonian in 2023. He has served on the Graduate Faculty, San Francisco State University Counseling Dept. and as Assoc. Professor Chemical Dependency Studies, CSU East Bay.
Please visit www.FamilyRecoveryInstitute.com for more information.
Date: March 30th, 2024; 11am - 1pm PDT
Where: Family Recovery Institute (in-person) & via Zoom (Online)
Cost: Free to attend for active members and non members
CE: 2 CE credits free for members and $20 for non members