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The Internal Family Systems Therapy Model and Psychological Trauma
| What | Conference |
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| When |
04/11/2008 - 08:30 AM
04/11/2008 - 04:30 PM
04/11/2008 from 08:30 am to 04:30 pm |
| Where | Hilton Burlington, VT |
| Contact Name | Elliot Benay |
| Contact Phone | (802) 241-3067 |
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Grounded in systemic and psychodynamic theory, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems SM in response to clients’ descriptions of experiencing various parts within themselves, which, when feeling safe, their concerns attended to, acceded to qualities of confidence, openness, and compassion that Dr. Schwartz came to call the Self. In IFS, he moved the idea of a system of parts with characteristic roles, as in systemic family theory, into the inner world of the client, constellating the parts around a coordinating Self.
This approach to psychotherapy suggested alternative ways of understanding psychic functioning and healing, and lent itself to innovative techniques for relieving clients’ suffering and symptoms. Locating the source of healing within the client, with the therapist’s skills applied to helping the client access that source and unburden obstacles to it, IFS is a nonpathologizing, hopeful framework within which to practice psychotherapy.
Agenda:
8:00- 8:30: Registration
8:30-10: Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS)
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-12:00: IFS as Applied to Trauma
12:00-1:00: Lunch-cost included with registration (Parking is Not)
1:00-2:30: Using IFS with Trauma Clients
2:30-3:00: Break
3:00-4:30: Discussion, Questions and Conclusions
Trainer: Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic. Author, with Michael Nichols, of Family Therapy: Concepts and Methods (the most widely used family therapy text in this country), Dr. Schwartz was associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for Juvenile Research and later at The Family Institute at Northwestern University.
In 2000, Richard Schwartz founded the Center for Self Leadership in Oak Park, Illinois. CSL offers three levels of training in IFS, workshops for professionals and for the general public, a yearly national conference, publications, and videotapes and DVDs of Dr. Schwartz’s work through its web site at www.selfleadership.org. IFS courses in Germany have drawn psychotherapists and physicians from across Europe.
A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz is a fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and serves on editorial boards of four professional journals. He has published three books and over fifty articles about IFS; his books include Internal Family Systems Therapy, Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model, and The Mosaic Mind (with Regina Goulding), as well as Metaframeworks (with Doug Breunlin and Betty Karrer), about transcending current models of family therapy. A new book about using IFS with couples is about to be published under the Trailheads imprint of the Center for Self Leadership. Dr. Schwartz maintains a private practice in Oak Park, Illinois.
Location: Hilton, Burlington, VT
Cost: $140 if received by March 14, 2008, $160 if received after March 15, 2008; please make checks payable to:
Vermont Trauma Institute
P.O. Box 269
Burlington, VT 05402
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