Join us for the next CPSP “Community Psychiatry Forum*” In Collaboration with The American Association of Community Psychiatrists Engaging Family Supports Learning Objectives – Participants will be better able to: Identify strategies and barriers to engage family members as supportive members of recovery team Enable people in recovery to identify and connect with potential sources of support in the community Describe issues commonly concerning family members and other natural supports and potential approaches for addressing them CME: You can …
Category: Gender
The Center for Couples and Adult Families extends a warm welcome to Michelle Jackson, a seasoned Couple and Family therapist who joined our Clinical Faculty last month. There are many reasons I’m thrilled to have Ms. Jackson aboard, not the least of which is our ability to serve more couples and families at CCAF. Her arrival is evidence of our growth; clearly the word is out that there is couple and family therapy available at Penn. Ms. Jackson’s sensitivity to …
Research findings from a team at Emory University Medical School provide evidence of “transgenerational epigenetic inheritance” – that environment can affect an individual’s genetics and then be passed on. As a family therapist I have intuited this often in my consulting room. There are times when a young adult with severe sadness sits with me, and I can sense that the sorrow is somehow lager that she is; it is too big a sorrow for someone that age. When together …
What is emotional intimacy? Listen to Dr Rob Garfield talk about the importance of mens’ friendships and discuss his book, “Breaking the Male Code” with one of my favorite radio personalities, Brian Lehrer: https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/510645 …
"I wrote this for us, for our health, our longevity, and our children," said Dr. Rob Garfield, family psychiatrist, author, and CCAF faculty member of his new book, Breaking the Male Code: Unlocking the Power of Friendship. …
Social-emotional relationship therapy offers guidelines for how to address issues of power, such as class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Read about this in the new AFTA Springer Series Brief: Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy: Bridging Emotion, Societal Context, and Couple Interaction. AFTA members can find the link on the AFTA home page: Home And here is a wonderful blog post about the revolutionary potential of this model: http://familytherapyblog.com/2015/03/30/new-couples-therapy-approach-centers-societal-context-and-mutual-support/ …
Conversations about money and its meanings are a crucial part of couple connections. …
Coming Back Together: A guide for successful reintegration after your partner returns from military deployment, by Steven Sayers (New Harbinger publications, 2014) is a terrific book for spouses and partners of deployed service members and veterans. For many years, families of servicemen and women were given scant attention by those treating veterans with post deployment issues. As we understand more about the toll that long deployments take on their partners and children, and the difficulties of reintegrating into civilian life, …
