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Marie LaHaye
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Family stress and risk in grandparent-headed households

by Marie LaHaye, M.S. candidate and graduate research assistant, Project HOME, Family & Developmental Studies Program, Colorado State University

Imagine you have just retired from teaching and are looking forward to retirement and pursuing your own interests. Then, one afternoon, you receive a call from social services that your daughter has been arrested, so her two children are being placed in your care. What will you do?

Joshua Coleman
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The many faces of parental estrangement

by Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, www.drjoshuacoleman.com

Despite the common assumption that parental estrangement only occurs in those cases where there was severe child maltreatment, plenty of parents have little to no contact with their adult children due to reasons unrelated to poor parenting.

Mommy, Please Read This: The FACTS about Child Sex Abuse

One out of three girls & one out of six boys will be sexually abused by their 18th birthday (and most often by family member or friends of the family).  This heartwarming book teaches how to recognize, protect and respond to child sexual abuse.  A must read for potenital heroes everywhere.

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Fall 2011 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on Intergenerational Relationships

In this issue of NCFR Report, your colleagues examine the many facets of intergenerational relationships—the joys and the ambivalence.

Mock Homocentric Therapy Session

This Homocentric Role Play is meant to serve as an example of some of the kinds of uniformed and anti-gay questions, assumptions and behaviors that clinicians and lay people alike often impose on same-sex couples—the catch is, however, that it is in reverse—meaning that the role play is done with a mock heterosexual couple and from a homocentric lens. The homocentric lens means that the therapist is taking the stance that the default setting of society is homosexual so the role play is a projection of this point of view.

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High Conflict Divorce and Therapy

This article is a presentation made to a team of professionals involved with a family embroiled in a high conflict divorce.  In addition to a brief review of the literature pertinent to families in the throes of difficulty, recommendations are made in order to work effectively with these families and assist them in achieving family stability.

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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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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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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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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