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2009 NCFR Conference Recordings

Streaming audio and video of selected 2009 NCFR Annual Conference sessions

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Adoption Plenary Session - Video Recording

New Worlds of Adoption: Growing Up in Complex Families

In recognition of November as National Adoption Month, Dr. Harold Grotevant will speak on “New Worlds of Adoption: Growing Up in Complex Families,” arguing that contemporary adoption requires that we expand our definition of family, and also necessitates developing theories and methods that will allow us to conduct credible research.

“Shared Fate” in Contemporary Multicultural Adoption Context

Dr. Leslie Hollingsworth addresses the applicability of “shared fate” theory (H. David Kirk) for strengthening contemporary multicultural adoptive families, including those in which domestic transracial, intercountry, and embryo adoptions occur.

Transnational Adoption

Dr. Sara Dorow will speak on “Transnational Adoption,” with particular attention to Chinese-North American adoptions.

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Cohabitation Plenary Session - Video Recording

Two leading scholars will offer a plenary on cohabitation. Dr. Scott Stanley, Research Professor, Department of Psychology, and Co-Director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver, will discuss risk and findings from an ongoing longitudinal study in his presentation. Dr. Pamela Smock, Professor of Sociology and Research Professor in the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, will cite recent evidence from social science research and examine the meanings of cohabitation in the United States as they vary by social class, gender, and race/ethnicity.

The Marriage-Go-Round: Partnership Turnover in the U.S. and Other Western Countries - Video Recording

Andrew J. Cherlin, Ph.D., Griswold Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University

Americans today marry more repeatedly and have more live-in partners than people in any other Western country. American children, more than any others, must cope with the frequent and often disruptive comings and goings of parents and parents’ partners. Dr. Cherlin will compare U.S. data with that from other countries; discuss the roots of this distinctive pattern; review the strength and limitations of the evidence of the effects on children; and discuss the implications for family policy.

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Aging and Kinship- Audio Recording

Overall Wellbeing of Grandparents Rearing Grandchildren in Southwest Virginia

Dr. Tammy Henderson, Associate Professor, CFLE, Oklahoma State University

Dr. Eboni Baugh, Assistant Professor, CFLE, University of Florida

The presenters will cover details of their study Overall Wellbeing of Grandparents Rearing Grandchildren in Southwest Virginia, with attention given to factors such as personal health, diet, and health care and related public policy issues.

Kinship Relations in Cross-Cultural Comparison

Dr. Bernard Nauck, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Dr. Nauck will speak on Kinship Relations in Cross-Cultural Comparison and how the institutional structure of family and kinship systems have a stronger effect on kinship relationships than socio-structural factors or individual family-related attitudes.

Facilitator/Presider: Christine Price

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Building Bridges to Support Military and Veteran Families- Audio Recording

Building Bridges to Support Military and Veteran Families: A Multi-Agency, Civilian/Military Collaborative Approach

CDR Brenda L. Gearhart, Division Chief, Outreach Clearinghouse, Outreach and Advocacy Directorate Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE).

Multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the expanded role of the National Guard and Reserve in these conflicts have placed great stress on families and communities. As military and veteran families transition to different systems of care and move to new communities, care and support often becomes fragmented. Communities want to help but often are unfamiliar with military culture and systems, and may be unsure how to reach out to the military installations and Guard and Reserve Units to offer support. This presentation will describe a multi-agency, civilian/military collaborative group, “Building Bridges,” whose goals are to develop networks for informationsharing, initiate joint planning efforts, and increase the capacity of communities to support military and veteran families.

Brenda Gearhart is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of military experience, both as an enlisted service member and as an officer, and has served as a U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Officer since 2002. CDR Gearhart has worked at DCoE since July 2008 and facilitates the multi-agency, multiservice group.

Facilitator/Presider: Gary Bowen

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Contemporary Grounded Theory: A Dialogue With the Experts - Audio Recording

Kathy Charmaz is Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University. As developer of “constructive grounded theory,” she has integrated the classic grounded theory guidelines of Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss with methodological developments of the past forty years.

Adele Clarke is professor of sociology and history of health sciences at UCSF. Her book, Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn offers an extension of grounded theory method focused on mapping strategies.

Conveners/Facilitators/Presiders: Robert Milardo, Jennifer Hardesty, Ramona Faith Oswald

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Couple and Family Research Using Secondary Data - Audio Recording

This is a workshop for family researchers interested in using secondary data to examine couple and family relationships. Dr. Elizabeth Cooksey of The Ohio State University will discuss the National Longitudinal Surveys data. Dr. Sarah Meadows of the RAND corporation will discuss the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Dataset. Dr. Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at UCLA will discuss How to Find GLBT Couples and Families in Secondary Data Sources.

Facilitators/Presiders: Cassandra Dorius, Karina Shreffler

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Emotion Focused Family Therapy - Audio Recording

Emotion Focused Family Therapy

Gail Palmer, MSW, RMFT

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is a model of intervention that helps build strong and cohesive families from the inside out, according to presenter Gail Palmer, MSW, RMFT. The EFFT approach uses new insights from attachment theory to understand distressed and satisfying relationships within a family. Palmer has worked closely with EFFT co-creator Sue Johnson and has trained therapists across Canada and the United States. She is a founding member of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and a family therapy professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University, Ottawa.

In this Saturday special session, Palmer will review relevant research, discuss family distress from an attachment perspective, and identify EFFT stages including key change events and clinical interventions. The workshop that follows (3:15-6:45pm) will focus more closely on the core skills and tasks in therapeutic practice, corresponding interventions, change events that foster a secure bond between family members, and interventions to help families re-process negative affect and restructure negative interactions.

Facilitator/Presider: Jeffry Larson, Family Therapy Section Chair

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Emotion Focused Family Therapy Post-conference Workshop - Audio Recording

Post-conference Workshop on Emotion Focused Family Therapy (continued)

Gail Palmer continues her 1:30 session in a special workshop that focuses on core skills and tasks in therapeutic practice,corresponding interventions, change events that foster a secruebond between family members, and interventions to help families re-process negative affect and restructure negative
interactins.

Facilitator/Presider: Jeffry Larson, Family Therapy
Section Chair

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International Programs in Family Life Education - Audio Recording

Socio-Educative Approaches for Family Life Education in Brazil, Maria Lucia Afonso, Charles B. Hennon, Tina Carico, Lesley Ormiston, Gary W. Peterson

An Intergenerational Program in Taiwan—Go Go Village Sports Competition, Ju-Ping Lin Changes in the Greek Family: An Overview of Family Life Education Efforts and Services, Panayiota Courelli, Basilia Softas-Nall, Anna Pagoropoulou

Nigerian Women Amidst Cultural and Career Dictations; Need for Family Life Education, Awosika Bridiget Itunu, Cecilia Olarewaju The ELITE FLE Program in Taiwan, Theresa Nei-yuh Huang Facilitator/Moderator/Presider: Carol A. Darling

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Military Families: Defining, Assessing and Building Resilience - Audio Recording

Military Families: Defining, Assessing and Building Resilience

  • Dr. Shelley MacDermid, CFLE, Purdue University
  • Dr. Dennis Orthner, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Dr. Gary Bowen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

This session is designed to increase understanding of factors that contribute to resilience in military families, how that can inform intervention/prevention strategies, and the effectiveness of the Essential Life Skills for Military Families program.

Chair: Dennis K. Orthner

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Relationship Dissolution and Divorce- Audio Recording

Research on Relationship Dissolution: A Brief Overview, Paul R. Amato

Signs the End is Near: Causes of Relationship Breakups in Young Adults, Kay Pasley, Amber Vennum How Divorced Parents Manage Co-parental Relationships and Make Decisions About Their Children, Lawrence Ganong After the Divorce: How do Women Cope? Marilyn Coleman Theoretical Developments Related to Variability in Responses to Divorce, Mark A. Fine, David Demo

Discussant/Chair: Paul R. Amato

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Religion and Families Special Session - Audio Recording

Diversity, Religion, and Pedagogy

Mary Ann Hollinger, Director of International Programs and Partnerships at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, will describe how social scientists have long been ambivalent, even wary, about incorporating religion into their teaching and research agendas. As a result, the influence of various world religions on the lives of families, communities and nations is often either trivialized or ignored altogether. This presentation will consider the benefit of infusing religious themes throughout the family science curriculum. It will begin with a brief overview of tensions and competing views of religion in the American academy. This will be followed by an illustrated discussion of religion as a theoretical paradigm, research variable, unit of analysis and curricular component.

How Faith Works and Why Religion Matters to Diverse Religious Couples and Families

Presented from both a research and a pedagogical focus. David Dollahite, Brigham Young University, will report on research related to How Faith Works and Why Religion Matters to Diverse Religious Couples.

Facilitator/Presider: Michelle Knights

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Same-sex Marriage- Audio Recording

Same-Sex Marriage in Canada: A Triumph of Human Rights?

Hilary A. Rose, Ph.D. Marie-France Bureau, Ph.D. will give a presentation on the past (i.e., legal history), the present (i.e., current statistics), and the future (i.e., unresolved issues) with respect to samesex marriage in the Canadian context. Hilary Rose is Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal.

Marie-France Bureau is assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke, family and persons law, focusing particularly on LGBT issues.

Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S.: A Triumph of Human Rights?

Gary J. Gates, Ph.D. will discuss the legal history of marriage and relationship rights in the U.S., talk about demographics of same-sex marriage (how many, broad demographic characteristics), and where he sees the marriage equality movement heading (including how current demographic characteristics of same-sex couples might be affecting that movement).

Dr. Gary J. Gates is the Williams Distinguished Scholar, Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy Research Center, UCLA School of Law dedicated to the field of sexual orientation law and public policy.

Facilitator: Ramona Faith Oswald

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Sexuality Issues Special Session - Audio Recording

Mapping Latina/o Sexualities Research in the United States

Dr. Marysol Ascencio, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, Human Development and Family Studies and Puerto Rican and Latino Studies A review of the complexities, challenges, and gaps in current research and scholarship. The Latina/o population is the largest minority group in the United States, but understanding is limited and often colored by simplistic or stereotypical images.

The Impact of Family Acceptance and Rejection on Risk and Well- Being for LGBT Youth

Caitlin Ryan, Ph.D., ACSW, Director of Adolescent Health Initiatives, Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco State University Little has been known about the role of families and caregivers in contributing to risk or well-being for LGBT adolescents and adults. Dr. Ryan will discuss new research from the Family Assistance Project on acceptance and rejection and a resulting family-related model of prevention and care.

Facilitator/Presider: Stephen Russell

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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Families in the U.S. and Abroad - Audio Recording

Dr. Cynthia Gomez, Professor and Director of Health Equity Initiatives at San Francisco State University

Facilitator/Presider: Deborah Coehlo

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Whanau and Family in Aotearoa New Zealand: Bicultural Approaches to Family Research, Policy and Practice - Audio Recording

Like many indigenous peoples, the Maori of New Zealand are a tribal people, and at the heart of tribal life is the whanau, the extended family. Dr. Jan Pryor, Chief Families Commissioner of the New Zealand Families Commission, and Mr. Kim Workman (Ngati Kahungunu), a member of the Commission and retired government official, will discuss specific areas of policy and research and illustrate how cultural worldview determines the way in which research or policy development is undertaken and the cultural values that influence responses.

Facilitator/Presider: Paul R. Amato