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Kenneth Hardy: “Race, Class and Culture”
Framework for providing family therapy across race and class lines examines pitfalls and challenges around issues of race, class and culture. (120 min)
Kenneth Hardy: “The Psychological Residuals of Slavery”
Addresses the continuing impact of the legacy of slavery on African Americans, white Americans, and American culture as a whole. (18 min)
Susan Heitler: “The Angry Couple: Conflict-Focused Treatment”
Demonstrates approach for helping couples cut through impasses that prolong their conflict and obscure the fundamental issues. (74 min)
Howard Liddle: “Adolescent Drug Abuse”
This is a video taped presentation of the Multidimentional Family Therapy (MDFT) model followed by a case presentation (70 min)
Howard Liddle: “Multidimensional Family Therapy”
In this session, Dr. Liddle works with a 15-year-old boy, recently diagnosed with ADHD and depression, who seeks a better relationship with his father. Dr. Liddle meets with the adolescent client and his mother to help them move beyond previous therapy to make changes in their lives. (Over 100 min)
Monica McGoldrick: “The Legacy of Unresolved Loss”
Follows the key moments in an 18 weeek course of therapy with a family, and observes how the presenting problem masks unresolved loss across three generations of family members. (88 min)
David Schnarch: “Constructing the Sexual Crucible”
Object relations and Bowenian theory are integrated to present a daring paradigm shift to move the hoards of bored “normals” to sexual intensity and intimacy. (120 Minutes)
Virginia Satir: “The Lost Boy”
Large intact family with ten children whose presenting problem is the grief following the loss of one of their children who is still missing a year after his abduction. Experiential session in which family is emotionally and physically engaged through use of stairs, touch and positioning to reflect the mourning, intersibling rivalry and distancing the father. Excellent demonstration of Satir’s open, directive, spatial style. (1984, 80 Minutes)
Karl Tomm: “Internalized Other Interviewing”
LIVE FAMILY – Tomm works with a couple who has undergone a series of stressful life events by demonstrating his method of “internalized other interviewing”. This technique is a unique way of bringing forth the intuitive awareness of each partner’s experience of the other’s experience. The process deepens interpersonal empathy and facilitates spontaneous change that is congruent with the consensual desires of each spouse. (120 Minutes)
Marianne Ault-Riche: “Love and Work: One Woman’s Study of Her Family of Origin”
(1985 38 min)
Marianne Ault-Riche: “Integrating the Personal and Professional: A Sequel to Love and Work”
(1994 47min)
Constance Arons: “Making Divorce Work: A Clinical Approach to the Binuclear Family”
Arons works with an entire binuclear family–the divorced mother and father, their two sons, and the father’s new wife. She gradually brings these reluctant family members together to begin forging a more cooperative approach to parenting. (45 minutes)
Evan Imber-Black: “Family Secrets: Implications for Theory and Therapy”
An adolescent’s behavioral problems are linked to the secret that his biological father died when the son was only a few years old and that the man he has always called “Dad” is really his stepfather. The focus shifts in the therapy from the boys behavior problems to the family secret and associated unresolved issues. (43 minutes)
Steve Lerner: “She’s Leaving Me: A Four-Stage Treatment Model for Men Struggling with Relationship Loss”
This presentation includes one-on-one counseling sessions and a therapy session with a divorced couple, their young son, and their respective new partners. A model for helping men cope with the end of a significant relationship is presented. (40 minutes)
Carl Whitaker and Gary Connell : “Creating a Symbolic Experience through Family Therapy”
In this session, Whitaker gets across clearly what he means by Symbolic Experiential Therapy. He interviews two extended families in the company of his collaborator, Gary Connell. (120 Minutes)