A sampling of concurrent sessions, symposia, special sessions, and posters for helping professionals. This list is subject to scheduling adjustments. For individual sessions of special interest to you, check the online schedule link below for a complete description with abstract and presenters and to confirm time and day.
by Lisa Jaynes Johnson, Ph.D., LMFT, and Margaret V. (Peggy) Moore, LISW
When couples come to therapy, they may bring individual trauma from their pasts as well as trauma that emerged in the relationship. When trauma is present, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) may be useful to help the couple process the traumas that plague the relationship as well as to help improve the communication between them.
The Groves conference is soliciting paper and workshop proposals for presentation at the Annual Groves Conference for Marriage and Families, which address the interface of families and the criminal justice system.
Former NCFR president, professor, and Marriage and Family Therapist Bill Doherty discusses the creation of the Couples on the Brink Project in Minnesota, which offers a new type of counseling to married couples considering divorce.
In the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, mixed into the wreckage were lost and damaged photos of families and loved ones. Photo retoucher Becci Manson, together with local volunteers and a global group of colleagues she recruited online, helped clean and fix them, restoring those memories to their owners.
