The Sessions:
Maurizio Andolfi - Adolescents’ Violent Behavior and Fathers’ Absence: How to Intervene
Adolescence is a critical stage of development with a lot of misunderstanding and prejudice inside families, schools and helping professions as well. In this presentation violent behavior, bullying, self-destructiveness in adolescence will be explored from a systemic-developmental perspective.
Father's absence has a long history in many disadvantaged families and multicultural social contexts, but is also a relevant issue in wealthy families with the increasing number of divorces, single parent and step-families. The risk of father's absence and lack of commitment for young kids is very high. Often professionals and institutions don’t include fathers in their treatment programs. They focus on the mother-child.
The presenter's forty years of clinical experience as a family therapist/consultant high-lighted the direct connection between adolescent's violent and transgressive behavior and the lack of models for positive identification in fathers or other adult males. Thus, engaging fathers in therapy, encouraging a more effective co-parenting alliance and an inter-generational support will allow many adolescents to convert negative energies (violent behavior) into positive actions and to develop healthy relationships at home and in society.
About Maurizio Andolfi
Maurizio Andolfi is Professor of Psychology at La Sapienza-University of Rome, Director of the Accademia di Psicoterapia Familiare (Rome) and Editor-in-Chief of the Italian family therapy journal: Terapia Familiare. In 1999 he was the winner of an American Association of Marital & Family Therapy award for Special Contribution to Marital and Family Therapy. He was the founder and President of the Silvano Andolfi Foundation, Co-Founder of the European Family Therapy Association and the past-President of the Italian Family Therapy Society. He has published widely in English and several other languages. The key concepts of Andolfi 's multi-generational approach isdescribed in his latest book Teen Voices-Tales of family therapy (2013, Wisdom Moon Publish., San Diego). It will be illustrated in his presentation through video-segments of family consultations.
Kathlyne Maki-Banmen - The Essence of Therapeutic Change
The Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Model (STST) is unique in encompassing both the intrapsychic and interactive components of therapy. The process taps the universal yearnings and spiritual essence of individuals within their personal family and social systems and helps them work towards a sense of responsible wholeness. Intrapsychic change, therefore, not only occurs in clients’ behaviour, cognition and affect but in their sense of Being. When the spiritual essence is accessed experientially, positive possibilities become easily apparent and transformational change as an energetic shift becomes possible. With transformational change, clients experience more of their true essence and release the negative impacts they have held. The impact of intrapsychic transformational change during systemic family therapy is dramatic. Family members experience each other in more positive ways. They become more willing to make new connections, accept differences, and release reactive feelings, perceptions and expectations that have kept them from being open to each other.
About Kathlyne Maki-Banmen
An experienced teacher who worked as a Parenting Group Leader and as a Severe Learning Disabilities Teacher in Canada before getting into the field of family therapy, Kathlyne Maki-Banmen has excelled in Professional Deelopment Training in Hong Kong, Singapore, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Thailand, the USA, and Canada. She has been in private practice as an individual, couple, and family therapist since 1995 at Delta Psychological Services, and worked as a Counselor for Suicide Prevention and also as a Learning Assistance Teacher in public school systems. A leading proponent of Satir Transformative Therapy, she is Training Director of the Satir Institute of the Pacific.
John Banmen - Happiness for Many or Fear No Reason: Using the Satir Model
The Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Model (STST) has long been known for combining intrapsychic and interactive components of therapy. Virginia Satir believed that there were spiritual yearnings in all human beings which evolved and were experienced within the family. The session will demonstrate how people can release negativity and experience themselves and their family in positive ways. By making new connections and accepting differences, people can find new avenues of experiencing each other and bring happiness to their lives.
About John Banmen
John Banmen, an internationally known as an author, therapist and educator, has provided training programs have in dozens of countries in Asia, Europe, South America and North America. He is the author is several books on Satir and the Satir model including Satir Transformational and Systemic Therapy (2007) and In Her Own Words (2008). Dr. Banmen was the founding president of the British Columbia (Canada) Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and was recently, for four years, honorary Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is the Director of Training for the Satir Institute of the Pacific (Vancouver).
Judith Landau - The ARISE Model
The ARISE Model is a cross-cultural approach for enhancing family connectedness, engagement, prevention, and treatment in the face of trauma and addiction. Using a compassionate Invitational Intervention®, the ARISE Model® is a three-phase process which is a Continuum of Care that leads your loved one into appropriate treatment and recovery. The addicted individual is invited to join the process right from the beginning with no surprises, no secrets, no coercion, and absolute respect and love. ARISE introduces the addicted person and the family to a new life of recovery and healing. The individual does not need to hit bottom before getting help.
About Judith Landau, MD, DPM
Child, family, and community psychiatrist, and formerly Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Division of Family Programs at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Dr. Landau is currently President of Linking Human Systems and the LINC Foundation, in Boulder, Colorado, USA. In addition to widespread consultation with many organizations, for more than 30 years she has worked with substance abusers and their families, directing programs that interface with 12-step programs, recovery, community, and mental health service. Co-founder of the ARISE Intervention, she has presented at more than 200 conferences and lectured in more than 100 countries on five continents. She is a former IFTA President.
Wai-Yung Lee - Working with Asian Chinese Families
While Asian Chinese shares a very family-oriented culture, psychotherapeutic approaches in Asia are mostly focused on individuals. In this presentation, Dr. Wai Yung Lee will demonstrate how family therapy can be conducted with families from different Chinese regions, including Shanghai, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Using video segments of live family interviews, she will explain the therapeutic process with a variety of presenting problems in each region: a young girl with eating disorder in Shanghai, a woman with mental illness in Taiwan, and children with psychosomatic problems in Hong Kong.
Dr Lee will focus on the differences and similarities in providing therapy among these regions. She will also address culture and gender issues with families.
About Wai-Yung Lee, PhD
Wai-Yung LEE, Ph.D., is Clinical Director of The Aitia Family Institute in Shanghai and The Academy of Family Therapy in Hong Kong, Founding Director of the HKU Family Institute at The University of Hong Kong, as well as Faculty Member of the Minuchin Center for the Family in New York, USA. Recipient of the 2014 American Family Therapy Academy’s Distinguished Contribution to Family Therapy Theory and Practice Award, Dr Lee has delivered keynotes and conducted workshops in America, Europe, and Asia. Much of her work had been on dispersing the many myths about Asian families, while developing a framework for culturally relevant approach in different contexts.
Dr. Lee’s research on capturing children’s response to parental conflict has been considered monumental in the family therapy field. Her recent study on comparing how couples negotiate their differences among five Asian regions including Japan, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong was published as a featured article in the September 2013 issue of the Family Process. In addition to journal papers, she has co-authored three books with Salvador Minuchin and other colleagues, including the first and second editions of “Mastering family therapy – Journeys of growth and transformation” and “Assessing families and couples – From symptom to system.” These books have been translated into many different languages.
A newspaper and journal columnist, Dr Lee has published many books in Chinese for Asian readers, including the popular “Family Dance” series.
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