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 conferences and workshops are from 9:00 to 4:00 and are held at the Neumann Center.

  • 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 2010 Events Listings



Family Therapy Certificate Training Program

2 Year / 240 Hour Intensive Course & Case Consultation

Cost:
$3,000 per year
(Group Size limited to 12 participants)

Location:
Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Dates:
October 2010 to May 2011

Times:
Tuesdays 4 to 8 pm (Levels 1 & 2)

Credits:
240 Clinical Contact Hours

Faculty:
McGoldrick, Garcia-Preto, Petry,

 
Petkov, Font


The Family Therapy Certificate Training Program requires 240 foundation hours of intensive family therapy supervision, 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 presents an expanded conception of systems theory, human development through the life cycle, and the application of these ideas to clinical practice.

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

Prospective trainees should call Administrator, Fran Snyder (732-565-9010, ext. 201) for application and interview information, and submit a resume.

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Working with LGBTQ Individuals and Their Families

Cost:
$100

Location:
Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Dates:
October 15, 2010

Credits:
6 Clinical/Cultural Competence Contact Hours

Faculty:
Deidre Ashton


The workshop will provide an overview of coming out as a normative developmental process for individuals and their families. We will explore the ways in which LGBT families integrate and negotiate intersecting identities including sexual identity, gender identity, race, culture, and class. We will examine effective ways of collaborating with LGBT families to address problems, conflicts, and stressors generated by the ridig binary gender system and heteronormativity of the dominant culture in the USA.


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South Asian Families in Therapy

Cost:
$100

Location:
Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Dates:
November 12, 2010

Credits:
6 Clinical/Cultural Competence Contact Hours

Faculty:
Anita McLean


Culture shapes our sense of who we are in the world as well as the relationships we form and those that are offered to us. This day will acquaint clinicians with South Asian cultural imperatives that affect South Asian individuals and families in obvious and subtle ways and cultural issues that are present in the therapeutic encounter. We will talk about effective ways of working with families from this culture to help them with a range of issues with which they may present.


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Empowering Resilience

A Workshop/Retreat

Cost:
$100

Location:
Multicultural Family Institute Directions

Dates:
December 3, 2010

Credits:
6 Clinical/Cultural Competence Contact Hours

Faculty:
Charlee Sutton


Participate in ways to enhance your ability to recover and adjust easily to misfortune and unanticipated change. Expand, improve and practice the skills needed to bolster resilience. This experiential day provides the space to strengthen listening, spirituality, approaches to problem-solving and transforms adversities into opportunities for the practitioner and their work with families, couples, children and the community.


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