Keynote Speakers
Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Emerging Technologies, Families, and Psychotherapy: Beyond Control & Toward Curiosity
"Information technologies are an unavoidable and often indispensible dimension of our family and community life. Families communicate and engage through the use of an evolving set of emerging technologies. The adoption of these technologies, however, tests our ability as psychotherapists and citizens to understand how families are embracing and challenged by them. In this presentation, I explore some of the challenges and critique the usual discourse about technology that changes from a nostalgic assessment of family life without them to the utopian idea that these technologies will help us to resolve quickly some difficult social dilemmas. The talk is based on a critical review of the literature, my own empirical research on the impact of technology, and clinical situations in which technology is protagonist of family difficulties and therapeutic work. Questions I intend to answer include: What are the untapped opportunities for therapeutic interventions that embrace technology in the therapy session? How do we frame our conversations about technology in ways that invite collaboration rather then diagnostic labels or the need for control?"
About Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH, is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Deusto Stress and Resilience Research Team at the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) and is Professor of the Master of Science in Family Therapy Program and the PhD in Counseling Psychology, College of Education & Human Development, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Bacigalupe is President (2013-2015) of the American Family Therapy Academy and fellow of the American Psychological Association. His research with colleagues in Spain, Mexico, and USA, focuses on the impact of emerging media on families, transnational /immigrant families, family health, and e-health. He is senior researcher in the Deusto Stress and Resilience Research Team leading qualitative research and mixed methods research in a longitudinal study of Basque adolescents. Overall, his research focuses on vulnerable populations such as immigrants, the chronically ill, and those at risk of being negatively affected by health inequity.
Stan Tatkin
Wired for Love: A Psychobiological Approach to Couples
Developer of A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT), and author of Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship, Tatkin will provide a brief introduction to the PACT approach to couple therapy. A bottomup, body oriented method for working with implicit
memory systems in primary attachment relationships. The presentation will focus on the importance of using somatoaffective techniques for discovering and treating problems related to attachment history, arousal dysregulation, and social-emotional deficits. Clinical video examples that demonstrate methods for accessing nonverbal information implicit in microexpessions and micromovements and for effectively using that information in the therapy session will be provided.
About Stan Tatkin
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinician, researcher, teacher, and developer of a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy® (PACT). Dr. Tatkin teaches and supervises first through third-year family medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente, California, and is assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. He received his early training in developmental object relations (Masterson Institute), Gestalt, psychodrama, and family systems theory. His private practice specialized in treating adolescents and adults with personality disorders, and recently has specialized in psycho-neurobiological theories of human relationship. Dr. Tatkin was formerly clinical director of Charter Hospital’s intensive outpatient drug and alcohol program, and is a former president of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Ventura County chapter. He authored: Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship, (New Harbinger); and Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy, with coauthor Marion Solomon (W. W. Norton’s Interpersonal Neurobiology Series
Systemic Therapy with Families and Children Working in the Streets in Ecuador and Mexico
Over the last twenty years, two JUCONI (Together with the Children) centers have developed and very successfully implemented a four-stage framework for working with marginalized and excluded families. They break multigenerational cycles of poverty and lack of access to education and get kids off the streets and back in school. The clinical leader from JUCONI Ecuador (Merli López Rodríguez) will explicate these four stages as well as creative strategies for engaging families in therapeutic work. Janine Roberts, who has trained therapists for both JUCONI Ecuador and JUCONI Mexico for over a decade will describe key processes in entering organizations to do trainings including: shadowing staff, delivering topics on demand, moving in and out of the role of facilitator and participant, entering into the trainings from different vantage points within an organization, and designing activities with an eye to how they will impact work relationships of staff and clients.
Janine Roberts and Meril López Rodríguez will also present a workshop (in two parts) on innovative family therapy techniques for sessions conducted in family homes in marginalized communities.
Janine Roberts
About Janine Roberts
Dr. Janine Roberts is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, past president of AFTA (American Family Therapy Academy), & an Associate Editor for Family Process. Dr. Roberts has presented nationally and internationally for decades and has lived, worked, and traveled in more than 60 countries beginning with Kuwait in 1963. Among other awards, she has received two Fulbrights and the Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice from AFTA. She is the author of Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy (Norton Press, 1994); coauthor of Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (Jason Aronson, 1998); and coeditor of Rituals in Families and Family Therapy (2nd edition Norton Press, 2003), as well as some sixty articles and book chapters, and a book of poems, The Body Alters (2009).
Merli López Rodríguez
About Merli López Rodríguez
Merli López Rodríguez hace parte del Equipo de Fundación Junto con los niños - JUCONI – Ecuador (www.juconi.org.ec), liderando al equipo técnico que atiende directamente a los niños, niñas y sus familias desde el 2002 hasta la actualidad. Ha participado como ponente en los congresos internacionales de JUCONI México en 2010 y 2012. Es trabajadora social con estudios superiores en Terapia familiar Sistémica y de Pareja en la Universidad Católica.
