COURSES 2006 - 2007

All courses can be taken independently or combined toward our Certificate.

Family Therapy: Theory & Practice Survey Course
Faculty: Froma Walsh, PhD and Center Faculty
Time: Wednesdays, 9:00 - 11:00 am. October 3 - January 30
Tuition: $995 (15 sessions/30 hours)
Essential concepts and methods in resilience-oriented systemic approaches to family therapy. Addresses influences of culture, gender, spirituality, and multi-generational family life cycle. Practice guidelines, application with a range of problems and family diversity.

Intervention with Children & Families
Faculty: Ronna Lerner, LCSW and Center Faculty
Time: Wednesdays, 9:00 - 11:00 am. February 6 - March 19
Tuition: $680 (10 sessions/20 hours)
Integrative assessment and intervention with structurally and culturally diverse families presenting child emotional, behavioral, and educational difficulties. A life cycle perspective serves as a base to evaluate family functioning and unique child and parent needs.

Intervention with Adolescents & Families
Faculty: David Schwartz, PhD and Center Faculty
Time: Wednesdays, 9:00 - 11:00 am. April 2 - May 21
Tuition: $340 (5 sessions/10 hours)
Addresses adolescent and family developmental issues and intervention strategies. Clinical approaches with parenting dilemmas (e.g. control/autonomy), substance abuse, eating disorders, sexuality, school problems, peer and family relations.

Couples Therapy: An Integrative Approach
Faculty: Mona D. Fishbane, PhD and Center Faculty
Time: Thursdays, 9:00 - 11:00 am. October 4 - January 31
Tuition: $995 (15 sessions/30 hours)
Advanced theory and techniques in couples therapy, integrating systemic, psychodynamic, intergenerational, relational, cultural and cognitive-behavioral orientations. Focus: dilemmas of intimacy, communication, gender and power with a change-oriented, resilience-based approach.

Special Issues in Couples Therapy
Faculty: Mona D. Fishbane, PhD and Center Faculty
Time: Thursdays, 9:00 - 11:00 am. February 7 - March 20
Tuition: $475 (7 sessions/14 hours)
Advanced theory and techniques for working with complicated issues in couples therapy, divorce, and remarriage. Intervention guidelines will be offered with case illustrations. Presenters bring expertise with family and couples therapy, divorce mediation, custody evaluation, the legal system, and complicated cases.

Helping Families with Death and Loss
Faculty: John Rolland, MD and Froma Walsh, PhD
Time: Thursdays, 9:00 - 11:00 am. April 3 - May 22
Tuition: $550 (8 sessions/16 hours)
Systemic approach with death and loss of a partner, parent, child, sibling, or kin. A multi-generational life cycle perspective informs assessment and intervention guidelines with threatened and ambiguous loss; terminal illness; end-of-life decisions; sudden, traumatic loss; and long-term complications. Examines beliefs and spirituality, legacies of loss, and healing approaches for recovery and resilience. Opportunities to explore personal interface issues.

Families, Illness and Disability: Systemic Approaches
Faculty: John Rolland, MD, and Faculty
Time: Thursdays, 9:00 - 11:00 am. October 4 - January 31
Tuition: $960 (14 sessions/28 hours)
Integrative systemic approach with a range of disorders and healthcare settings to enable clinicians to work more effectively with couples and families dealing with a child- or adult-onset conditions. Topics: psychosocial demands over time, illness timing in the life cycle, health beliefs, loss, compliance issues, family-provider relationships, professional collaboration, clinician’s own issues.

Family Systems and Health: Clinical Approaches with Special Populations
Faculty: Families, Illness & Collaborative Healthcare Faculty
Time: Thursdays, 9:00 - 11:00 am. February 7 - March 20
Tuition: $475 (7 sessions/14 hours)
Skills & techniques for work with specific healthcare problems & issues using a family systems approach. Topics: pain & invisible disorders; psychosomatic problems; sexual issues in illness & disability; infertility & pregnancy loss; HIV & other stigmatized conditions; substance abuse & addictions; genetic illness/at-risk testing; chronic mental disorders. Opportunity to discuss participants’ work contexts and challenging cases.


To register for any of the above, send in a registration form with a $75 deposit for each course.