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, except for the Culture Conference sessions, which end at 4:30 on 1st day and 4:45 on the 2nd day.


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MFI Certification Program

2 Year / 240 Hour Intensive Course & Case Consultation

October 2007 to May 2008 - Tuesdays 4 to 8 pm

Social Work continuing education credits will be available

Tuition Fee:
$2500/100 foundation hrs per year:
(+20 hours elective seminar and workshop hours per year)

Location:
Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Date:
Tues. between 4 to 8p.m. (October 2007 to May 2008)

Faculty:
McGoldrick, Garcia Preto, Klages and Chatman-Finley, Gil, and others

The Institute offers a 240-hour, two-year training program leading to a certificate in family therapy. The Family Therapy Certificate Training Program requires 200 foundation hours of intensive family therapy training (100 hours per year for two years) and 40 elective seminar and workshop hours (20 hours per year at additional cost). Trainees are strongly urged to take the Family of Origin Coaching course as partial fulfillment of the course requirements.

The Family Therapy Certificate Training Program reflects the Institute’s re-visioning of family therapy to include issues of culture, class, race, gender and sexual orientation. In this program 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 clinical 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, how to conduct family therapy with one person and how to work with children and families using play therapy techniques. Live team case consultations will be 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 an appointment (732-565-9010, ext. 201).

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Summer MFI Coaching Seminar on the Therapist’s Own Family

Small Group 5 — Tuesday Afternoons — June-Sept 2008

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

Location:
Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Dates:
06/03 (2pm-8pm), 06/10, 07/17, 09/09 (4pm-8pm), 09/30 (2pm-8pm)

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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Supervision of Family Therapy Supervision

by Nydia Garcia Preto, LCSW

Cost:
$150 per hour

Date & Time:
By Arrangement Only

Supervision will be provided for Marriage and Family Therapists, Clinical Social Workers and other mental health professionals who are supervising clinicians who are working with families in their agencies. A framework for supervision and guidance through the relevant supervision literature will be provided. An individualized supervision program will be arranged. Fees will depend on the number of participants being supervised at the same time.

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2008 Annual Culture Conference

Healing, Recovery, and Wellness in a Multicultural Context.

Cost:
$225.00 (until March 15th)

Student Rate:
$170.00 (until March 15th)

Location:
The Neumann Center Directions & Lodging

Dates:
April 11th-April 12th, 2008

We are very proud to tell you about our plans for this year’s Culture Conference. Please save the dates April 11 and 12, 2008. The theme will be Healing, Recovery, and Wellness in a Multicultural Context. We hope very much that you will come to the conference and are happy to announce that we have invited a few outstanding new voices to join us. Among them are Michael Fowlin, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, and Salome Raheim. For more information about the 2008 Culture Conference offerings, please download the brochure using the following link:


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Event Registration

Students, should register using the form found on the discounted student registration page.

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Co-sponsored by: The Multicultural Family Institute & Behavioral Research & Training Institute UMDNJ, University Behavioral HealthCare, Training and Consultation Resources


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Domestic Violence & the Family System Assessment

with Debra Chatman Finley, MA & Robbin Loonan, MA

2 day seminar - Thursday & Friday, May 1-2, 2008

Cost:
$200

Training:
12 hours

Location:
Neumann CenterDirections

Date:
Thursday & Friday, May 1-2, 2008

Faculty:
with Debra Chatman Finley, MA & Robbin Loonan, MA

Domestic violence can have a devastating impact not only on the victim but the entire family. The impact of abuse spans through the life-cycle and over multiple generations. This workshop will provide mental health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of domestic violence (including verbal and emotional abuse), its impact on the family, and a variety of intervention strategies. We will examine not only the impact of domestic violence on the family but also the cultural and socioeconomic factors that influence assessment, disclosure and strategies for therapeutic interventions.

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