Overview of This Year's Programs and Events

The Multicultural Family Institute is pleased to offer the following events as part of this year's seminar programming. If you have any questions about the events below, or would like to register via the telephone, please call our offices at (732) 565-9010.

Please note that all trainings start at 9:00 am and end at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted.

  • Target audience for our training programs: Mental Health Professionals. Coursework is designed for intermediate or advanced levels of practice.
  • Special Needs: Please call 732-565-9010 x. 201 to learn about accommodations.
  • Professional Contact Hours – Important Notice: Fee for Professional Contact Hours is $20 payable by separate check or money order only after each training. Participants will not be eligible for continuing education credits if they are not on time and present for the entire session. Participants must sign-in and sign-out. Partial credits will not be issued to participants arriving late or leaving early. Certificates will be mailed within 4 weeks.
  • Cancellation Policy: Refund (less $30 processing fee) if cancelled 2 weeks prior to training date. No refund after this deadline.

Upcoming 2009 Events Listings



2009 Brochure

Download our Spring 2009 Brochure for more information about workshops offered this spring.
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MFI Certification Program

3 Year / 330 Hour Intensive Course & Case Consultation

Tuesdays 4 to 8 pm (Levels 1 & 2), Thursdays 9 am-noon (Level 3) - other workshop hours to be announced.


Social Work and Professional Counseling continuing education credits are being applied for.

Tuition Fee:
$3000 per year

Location:
Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Faculty:
McGoldrick, Garcia Preto, Chatman-Finley, Hardy, and others

The Institute offers a 350-hour, three-year training program leading to a certificate in family therapy. The Family Therapy Certificate Training Program requires 300 foundation hours of intensive family therapy supervision, intensive training and special workshops. The program reflects the Institute’s re-visioning of family therapy to include issues of culture, class, race, gender and sexual orientation. The Institute faculty present an expanded conception of systems theory, human development through the life cycle, and the application of these ideas to clinical practice. Trainees learn systems principles and family therapy techniques for working with individuals, couples, and families.


Participants will learn to use genograms and family play genograms, how to assess whole families, how to develop a workable treatment plan, family therapy with one person, and working with children and families using play therapy techniques. Live team case consultations are a major focus of this program.


To apply for this program, prospective trainees must submit a completed application and resume, and are required to call Administrator, Fran Snyder for interview information (732-565-9010, ext. 201).

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Summer Therapist’s Own Family Coaching Seminar

Small Group 5 — Tuesday Afternoons

Cost:
$850
(Group Size limited to 12 participants)

Location:
Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Dates:
coming soon...

Faculty:
Monica McGoldrick & Nydia Garcia-Preto


This small group coaching seminar will use the method of coaching developed by Murray Bowen to help participants explore relationships in their own families of origin, applying systems theory to family relationships. Participants will use genograms to track family patterns and decide what patterns they may want to change. Coaching, a method of changing one’s position in one’s family system, has been compared to Zen. Its methods are educational and cognitive, but the process relates to the existential goal of developing person-to-person relationships with members of one’s family, while maintaining a solid sense of values and goals. Topics include: traumatic loss, siblings, conflict, cutoffs, addiction, suicide, abuse and migration.


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