faculty publications: presentations

Faculty News Archive

2011 - 2012

Lois Braverman

Presentations:

"The Ackerman Relational Approach: Current Clinical Ideas", University of Iowa Alumni Fellow, Iowa City, IA, September 2011.

Martha Edwards

Presentations:

Bright Beginnings and Personal Best Parenting Programs:  Five-day summer intensive training, with Judy Grossman at the Ackerman Institute, July 2011.

“Pregnancy” at the American Family Therapy Academy Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, June 2011.

"Promoting Sensitive and Effective Parenting:  Family Therapy With Children of Different Ages" at the Family Therapy Institute of Chile, Santiago, Chile and at Aigle, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2011.

"Using the Family Play Genogram in Family Therapy" at the Family Therapy Institute of Chile, Santiago, Chile, June 2011.

Evan Imber-Black

Presentions:

"The Craft of Scholarly Writing in Family Therapy" New Writers Fellowship through Family Process, Denver, November 2012.

"Will Talking About it Make is Worse? Families and Medical Illness" at the Multi-Cultural Family Institute, New Jersey, November 2012.

"Healing Couples in Crisis: A Global Perspective" Pan-Asian Family Conference, Singapore, December 2012.

"The Half-century Evolution of the Ackerman Institute for the Family: Contexts and Transformations" as a keynote address for the Ackerman Institute 50th Anniversary Conference, September 23, 2011.

"Will Talking About It Make it Worse?" Families and Illness – workshop with Lisa Lavelle for the Ackerman 50th Conference, September 23, 2011.

"The Evolution of Family Process: Contexts and Transformations" as a keynote address at the Family Process 50th anniversary conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 14, 2011.

"Rituals in Family Therapy" at the New York Assoc. for Marriage and Family Therapy, June 17, 2011, New York City.

"Demystifying Publishing in Scholarly Journals" with Jay Lebow, at AFTA, Baltimore, June 24, 2011.

Publications:

"The Evolution of Family Process." Family Process 50.3 (2011): 267-279.

“Learning from and Teaching the Next Generation.” Family Process 50.4 (2011): 431-433.

"The Value of Rituals in Family Life." Normal Family Processes, 4th edition, edited by Froma Walsh, 483-500.

"Toward a Contemporary Social Justice Agenda in Family Therapy Research and Practice." Family Process, 2, 129-131. (2011)

"Family Process: From Beginnings to Tomorrow." Family Process, 1, 1-3. (2011)

"Anticipating the 50th year of Family Process: New Initiatives." Family Process, 4, 437-438. (2010)

"DYI Marriage Repair." Good Housekeeping, February, 99-101. (2011)

"Creating meaningful rituals for new life cycle transitions." In M. McGoldrick, N. Preto and E. Carter (Eds.), The expanded family life cycle, fourth edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon Publishers. (2011)

Peter Fraenkel

Presentations:

"The therapeutic palette: An integrative approach to couple therapy in cultural context" Centro de Terapia Familiar y de Pareja, Guadelajara, Mexico, August 2012.

"Collaborative and creative practices for re-constituting, re-vitalizing, re-specting, and re-humanizing traumatized and marginalized children and families" at the International Festival of Family Therapy, Rome, Italy, June 2012.

"Intimacy in the Age of Overwhelm: Helping Partners Get in Sync." Chicago Center for Family Health, Chicago, IL. October 2011.

"Couple Arrhythmias: Timely Techniques for Re-syncing Intimate Relationships." Ackerman Institute for the Family, New York, NY. November 2011.

"The Therapeutic Palette: An Integrative Approach to Couple Therapy." Centro de Therapia Familiar y de Pareja, Puebla, Mexico. December 2011.

Publications:

Fraenkel, P., & Wilson, S. (2012). Zeit zu zweit: Problemerkennug und Intervention bei Paaren. In U. Borst and B. Hildenbrand (Eds.), Zeit essen Seele auf: Der Factor Zeit un Therapie under Beratung (pp.111-136). Heidelberg, Germany: Carl-Auer Verlag GmbH.

"From Isolation to Connection: How to Create a Community of Practice." Psychotherapy Networker 35 (2011): 48-51.

"Die Therapeutische Palette: Ein Leitfaden für die Weichenstellungen in der integrativen Paartherapie." Familiendynamik 36 (2011): 52-69.

"Contemporary Two-parent Families: Navigating Work and Family Challenges." Normal Family Processes, 4th ed. Ed. F. Walsh. New York: Guilford, (2011): 78-101.

Elana Katz

Presentations:

"Why can’t they just be reasonable? When emotions and numbers collide and what you can do to help" Conference for Association of Divorce Financial Planners, Rye Brook, NY, September 2012.

"The Art and Science of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy," 
Cape Cod Institute, Eastham, MA, August 2012.

"Hooked on a Feeling: Working with Attachment and Emotion in AEDP and EFT," Third International EFT Summit, New York, NY, July 2012.

"Divorcio Sin Destruccion – Therapy, Mediation, and Collaborative Practice," La Montana Psicoterapia SINGULAR, Mexico City, Mexico, March 2012.

Joined the Board of Directors of both the New York Association of Collaborative Professionals and the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy.

“A Smarter Divorce:  The Collaborative Team Approach,” with Kaplan, S., CPA and, Vacca, A., JD at Third Annual Symposium, New York Association for Collaborative Professionals, New York, NY, May, 2011.

“Divorce and the Mediator,” with Neumann, K., Ph.D. at Cardozo Dispute Resolution Society, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY, March 2011.

“Deepening  the Practice of EFT,” for Continuing Education Series, New York State Society for Clinical Social Workers, New York, NY, Feb-March 2011.

Jean Malpas

Presentations:

“Expanding your Vision of Gender and Sexual Identity”, Key Note, Institute Noos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2011.

“Exploring Gender Fluidity”, Workshop, Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, Washington, DC, March 2011.

Publications:

"Between Pink & Blue: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Gender Nonconforming Children and their Family."  Family Process 50.4 (2011): 453-470.

"Can Couples Change Gender: Couple Therapy with Transgender People and their Partners." In Jerry Bigner & Joseph Wetchler (Eds.) Handbook of Affirmative LGBT Couple and Family Therapy. Philadelphia: Routledge. 2012.

Judith Peck Stern

Presentations:

“Families, Couples and Money: New Ways for Therapists to Facilitate Money Conversations with Clients” at the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Ashville, North Carolina, March 2012.

“Money and Meaning Workshop at UBS Next Generation Academy” at the UBS bank retreat for 2nd generation in Israel, May, 2011.

Marcia Sheinberg

Presentations:

"The Ackerman Relational Approach: Family Therapy for the 21st Century." Keynote address for the Ackerman Institute 50th Anniversary Conference, September 23, 2011.

"Treating Children with Relational Trauma." Workshop for the Ackerman 50th Conference, September 23, 2011.

"Restoring Ruptured Bonds: A Workshop for Clinicians Struggling to Strengthen Parent/Child Relationships and Increase Parental Attunement and Support." Ackerman Institute, November 2011.

Michele Scheinkman

Presentations:

“Impasses of Intimacy, Jealousy and Fidelity in Couples Therapy” for the Ackerman Institute, February 2011.

“Foreign Affairs: Working with Affairs from a Multi-cultural Perspective” at The Psychotherapy Networker Conference in Washington DC, March 2011.

“Dilemmas of Love in Couples Therapy” for a one day workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2011.

“Dilemmas of Fidelity and Jealousy in Couples Therapy” at the Chicago Center for Family Health, May 2011.

Publications:

Review of Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee, a book by Pamela Druckerman. AFTA Monograph (2011).

Peter Steinglass

Presentations:

"Family-Motivational Therapy for Substance Abusers." Grand Rounds presentation, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, November 4, 2011.

"Systemic-Motivational Therapy for Substance Abuse Disorders." Workshop presentation, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, December 9, 2011.

Publications:

Steinglass, P., Ostroff, J., Steinglass, A.S. "Multiple family groups for adult cancer survivors and their families: A 1-day workshop model." Family Process 50.3 (2011): 393-409.

2009 - 2010

Lois Braverman

Presentations:

“The Ackerman Relational Approach: Engaging Enterprising Families” presentated to the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Family Firm Institute, November 16. New York City, NY.

“Gender and Power: The Ackerman Relational Approach.” 2 day workshop, Practicum VIII, CRISOL. Center for Psychosocial Investigation. Cuernavaca, Mexico in May.

“Gender and Power: Multi-theoretical Models,” Public lecture, CRISOL Mexico City, Mexico in May.

Martha Edwards

Active in the American Family Therapy Academy as Vice President, Chair of the Next Generation Initiative, and Chair of the Search Committee for the new Executive Director.

Invited to join a technical work group of national experts with in-depth knowledge of research, policy, and practice related to infant and toddler development and care environments, sponsored by the federal Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in collaboration with the Office of Head Start.

Presentations

“Interest Group: Curiosity, Dialogue, and Empathy in Couple Therapy” at the American Family Therapy Academy Annual Meeting in Colorado in June.

“Family Therapy with Young Children” at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York in April.

"Two Generation Prevention Programs:  Bright Beginnings and Personal Best" at the Zero to Three National Training Institute workshop wiht Judy Grossman, in Phoenix, AZ, December 2010.

"Feeling Good about Saying No" for the Parenting Education Network series, Ackerman Institute, November 2010.

Peter Fraenkel

Publications:

The therapeutic palette: A guide to choice points in integrative couple therapy. Clinical Social Work Journal, 37, 234-247. (2009). 

Review of Attachment, play, and authenticity: A Winnicott primer by Steven Tuber. The Family Psychologist, 25, 34-35. (2009).

Sync your relationship, save your marriage: Four steps to getting back on track. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (scheduled publication date: March 15, 2011). (in press).

Die Therapeutische Palette: Ein Leitfaden für die Weichenstellungen in der integrativen Paartherapie. Familiendynamik. (in press). 

Fraenkel, P., & Caflisch, J. (in press). Managing work and family responsibilities in the age of increased technology. In M. J. Craft-Rosenberg (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Family Health. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

Fraenkel, P., & Capstick, C. (in press). Contemporary two-parent families: Navigating work and family challenges. In F. Walsh (Ed.), Normal family processes (4th ed.). New York: Guilford.

Johnson, D., Cabral, A., Mueller, B., Trub, L., Kruk, J., Upshur, E., Diaz Alarcon, L., Marrero, L., Auf der Heyde, T., Thoma, N., Rodriguez, E., Cione, G., & Fraenkel, P. (2010). Training in intersectionality sensitivity: A community-based collaborative approach. American Family Therapy Academy Monographs, 5, 4-15.

Presentations:

“The Therapeutic Palette: A Model for Integration in Couple Therapy in Cultural Context Working with High Conflict Couples: An Integrated Approach” at the Training for the Social Welfare Department in Hong Kong in November and December. 

“The Relational Trauma of Incest: A Family-Based Approach to Treatment Live Case Consultation” at the Training for the Social Welfare Department in Hong Kong in November and December.

“Working with high conflict couples: An integrated collaborative approach” for the Ackerman Alumni Institute for the Family (Hong Kong) Limited in November.

“The couple’s toolbox: Key skills and ideas to prevent conflict and strengthen relationships” as part of a series entitled „Systemische Paarberatung als Begegnung“ in Switzerland in February.

“The couple’s toolbox: Key skills and ideas to prevent conflict and strengthen relationships” at the Tulane School of Social Work in New Orleans in March.

“Play therapy for grown-ups” at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington, D.C. in March.

“Last chance couple therapy” at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington, D.C. in March.

“Balancing work and family life: Mastering the great juggling act” at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in Hong Kong in August.

“Theory and practice in couple therapy” at the Training for Social Welfare Department in Hong Kong in August and September.

Judy Grossman

Presentations:

“Promoting Child, Parent & Family Development Through Groups: An Integrated Parenting Program” at the National Head Start Association 37th Annual Training Conference in Texas in May.

Evan Imber-Black

Presentations: 

“Secrecy and Privacy in a Talk Show Age” via Skype at the Conference on Family Relationships and New Media in Holland in September.

“Contemporary Couples Therapy” at the First International Congress of Brief and Family Therapy in Mexico in October.

Elana Katz

Presentations:

“Basic Collaborative Practice Training,” with Linnehan, M., JD,  Miller, K., JD, and Smith, M., CFP for Core Training at New York Association for Collaborative Professionals, New York, NY. Nov. 18-20, 2010. 

Jean Malpas

Completed an “International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance” with Fordham University and the United Nations SSC, Goa, India, November 2010.

Presentations:

“Between pink and blue: Exploring gender fluidity” for The Psychotherapy Networker in Washington, D.C. in April.

“Can couples change gender?: Supporting couples through gender transition” at the AFTA annual Conference in Colorado in June.

Publications:

Between gay and straight: Honoring a client's multiple identities. Commentary on a case study by Jeff Levy. The Psychotherapy Networker, May/June 2010.

Can couples change gender? Supporting couples through gender transition. Chapter in Bigner, J. & Wechtler, J. (Eds.) Handbook of couple and family therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients. (In press). 

International Training:

Haiti, psycho-social relief work and training with International Medical Corps, February 2010.

International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance with Fordham University, Goa, India, November 2010.

Marcia Sheinberg

Presentations:

“Preventing Revictimization: A Systems and Family Perspective” in Ireland in October.

Michele Scheinkman

Publications:

Foreign Affairs: Infidelity has Different Meanings in Different Cultures. The Psychotherapy Networker. (2010)

Sheinkman, M. & Werneck, Denise. Disarming Jealousy in Couples Relatiosnhips: A Multi-dimensional Approach. Family Process (2010).

Disarming Jealousy in Couples Relationships: A Multidimensional Approach, with Denise Werneck, Family Process Vol 49, No 4, 2010 ( Dec, 2010). The article was selected as a feature article and translated to Spanish in Family Process online.

Foreign Affairs, July/August 2010 Psychotherapy Networker.

Presentations:

Dilemmas of Intimacy, Jealousy and Fidelity in Couples Therapy” at the Chicago Center for Family Health in Illinois in October. “Infidelity, Violence and Gender” at CRISOL, Mexico City, Mexico in May.

“Infidelidad, Violencia Y Genero: Terapia de pareja en el Ackerman Institute” CRISOL. Center for Psychosocial Investigation. Cuernavaca, Mexico in May.

“Terapia de Pareja: Trabalhando com impasses e infidelidad” at The Instituto Chileno de Terapia Familiar in Chile in November.

“La Infidelidad en Terapia de Pareja” at the Fundacion Aigle in Argentina in November.

Judith Stern Peck

Presentations:

“Families, Couples and Money: New Ways for Therapists to Facilitate Money Conversations” in Argentina and Chile in November, 2010.