2017 Full Conference Schedule (PDF)
Below, find details about each session planned for the 2017 NCFR Annual Conference, Nov. 15-18 in Orlando, Florida. We have also created a series of sessions sorted by NCFR sections and interest areas.
Session pages will include presentation slides or handouts if the presenter(s) chose to make them available.
Andrew Rose, Rick Miller, Jennifer Rose, Mark Ogletree, Courtney Kinneard, Sialao Mobley, W. Justin Dyer, Cassidy Ogletree, Sharlene Nauta, Michael Goodman, Justin Dyer, Erin Hemmelgarn, Heather Baker; Facilitator: Anthony Walker
This session will include four papers that cover topics related to religion including depression, parenting styles, and suicide.
Presider: Michael Goodman, Section Chair
All attendees are welcome to attend the member meetings of NCFR Sections.
88 total posters in this session. Topics include Identity and Cultural Awareness; Well-Being and Discrimination; Family Policies; Poverty, Homelessness, and Human Rights; plus seven more.
Facilitator: Heather Hessel. All belief systems welcome, religious and secular.
Meditation time will take place from 7:10-7:40 a.m. Facilitator: Heather Hessel. All belief systems welcome, religious and secular.
Woosang Hwang, Ayse Cakirsoy-Aslan, Merril Silverstein, Maria Brown, Seonghee Hong, Eugene Hall, Tasha Bell, Sarah Burcher, Steven Harris, Joe D. Wilmoth, Kenna Spiller, Leslie A. Anderson, Chalandra Bryant, Charity Somo; Facilitator: Joanne Roberts
This session will include four papers that cover topics including Husband-Wife Religious Discordance; How parental sacrifice and religiosity influence couple bonding; Christian Media Consumption and Marital Quality; and Spirituality and African American Couples in Therapy.
86 total posters in this session. Topics include Military Families; Sexuality; Stress; Relationship Dissolution; Stepfamilies; Couples and Relationships; Parenting/Coparenting; Emerging and Young Adulthood; Neighborhoods and Neurons; and Substance Abuse.
Facilitator: Heather Hessel. All belief systems welcome, religious and secular.
Meditation time will take place from 7:10-7:40 a.m. Facilitator: Heather Hessel. All belief systems welcome, religious and secular.
Annette Mahoney; Facilitator: Michael Goodman
This presentation will highlight research on spiritual behaviors and beliefs about family life that can function as resources and risk factors across diverse families and religious communities. This session will be live streamed.
Made possible with the support of the Religion, Spirituality, and Family, Feminism and Family Studies, and Ethnic Minorities Sections.
86 total posters in this session. Topics include LGBTQ; African-American Families; Sexual Addiction; Feminist Therapists' Experiences of Managed Care; Foster Care and Adoption; plus 14 more topics.
88 total posters in this session. Topics include Families in International Context; Immigrant Families; Refugees; Adolescence Therapy; Divorce; Technology and Therapy; plus five more topics.
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