"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. …
Tag: family therapy
The National Association for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has awarded Dr. Ellen Berman, CCAF Founder and Director of Training, with a 2015 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award. The clinical and training faculty at CCAF extend our warmest congratulations for this well deserved recognition. The recipients of this award have demonstrated their commitment to work along with NAMI members for access to care, research, funding, and other NAMI priorities. As a Board Member of NAMI Pa., Main Line, Dr. Berman has worked to …
Silences, grudges and cutoffs between family members that can last for decades. How does this happen, what’s the price everyone pays and why is it so difficult to let go of resentment? Let’s talk about what we don’t talk about—family rifts and estrangement. Dr. Ellen Berman, founder of the Center for Couples and Adult Families discusses ways to re-establish communication and review when that might not be possible. Listen to her conversation with Dr. Dan Gottlieb: http://whyy.org/cms/voicesinthefamily/ …
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/ …
"We work as a collaborative team with the family to adopt a position of curiosity about what brought them to this moment in time." …
Dr. Nancy Gambescia, sexologist, author, couples therapist and CCAF Training Faculty, discusses the topic of infidelity: How is it defined? What is the therapist to do with this complicated situation? And what about forgiveness? We are so fortunate to have Dr. Gambescia share her insight into this painful and complex issue. When a partner consistently hides their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors from the other, a violation of the couple’s intimacy contract has taken place. This is infidelity – the failure …
