The National Stepfamily Resource Center (www.stepfamilies.info),
the Alabama Community Healthy Marriage Initiative (www.alabamamarriage.org) , and the
Florida Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (www.famft.org)
present:

CLINICAL TRAINING:
WORKING with STEPFAMILY RELATIONSHIPS

October 2-3, 2009
Lake Mary Marriott Hotel
Lake Mary, Florida (near Orlando)


 

The intense challenges created by stepfamily dynamics are woven through every clinician's practice.
Your clients may be stepfamilies, stepcouples, individual stepparents, kids, single parents who have recoupled, or adults who grew up in a stepfamily.

Don't miss this opportunity to hone your skills with this critical population with two of the country's preeminent stepfamily clinicians:

 

Dr. Patricia Papernow and Dr. Scott Browning,
and one of the leading researchers in the field,
Dr. Kay Pasley

 

$150 ($75 for students)

13.5 CEU's

(The NBCC has approved these CEU's as core hours for both LMFTs and LPC's in Georgia and Alabama)

 

You will learn about:

  • 5 normal challenges created by "stepfamily architecture" and the ways in which these challenges impact adults and children and their relationships with each other.
  • Evidence-based strategies that meet each of these challenges.
  • What children need from adults to adjust to stepfamily living
  • "The Loyalty Bind Talk" and the "Toxic Ex-Spouse Talk."
  • The differences between effective parenting and effective stepparenting.
  • Easy errors in working with people in step relationships.
  • Psychoeducational, interpersonal and intrapsychic levels of clinical work with people in step relationships.
  • Interpersonal skills that help stepfamily members meet their challenges.
  • The art of psychotherapy with stepfamilies.
  • The most current research findings on this important family form

 

The workshop includes live demonstrations of therapy with a stepfamily and a stepcouple by Dr. Browning and Dr. Papernow

 

HOTEL RESERVATIONS:

Lake Mary Marriott, 1501 International Parkway, Lake Mary, FL.

Call 407 995-1100 for hotel reservations (ask for Family Therapy Association special rate of $99 per night).

 

REGISTRATION:

For more information and registration form: www.stepfamilies.info , www.famft.org, or www.alabamamarriage.org

 

Conference Resources
Information Flyer Training Agenda
About the Presenters Registration Form