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The Center for Families and Health provides a unique and systemic context for effective treatment of and research about families experiencing acute, chronic and life-threatening illness; collaboration and training for medical professionals and allied health-care professionals; and partnerships with healthcare institutions.
This seminar examines:
- The interplay of families and illness
- Theories of Family Systems Health
- family beliefs about illness
- Systemic processes and techniques for couples and families with medical illness across various social class and cultural contexts
- Life cycle issues where illness pertains
- Working with larger medical systems, including coaching families to deal with the increasing complexities of medical technologies
- Creating effective multi-disciplinary teams
- Working with meaningful rituals
- Issues of secrecy and privacy in the context of serious illness
This seminar includes live case observation, case consultation from participants’ work context and multiple family discussion group leadership training.
Faculty: Evan Imber-Black, PhD, faculty member, Director of the Center for Families and Health, Ackerman Institute for the Family and Lisa Lavelle, LCSW, faculty member, research assistant for the Center for Families and Health, Ackerman Institute for the Family.
Date: Tuesdays, beginning October 7, 2008, 15 sessions
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Tuition: $1,415 Deposit of $700 payable upon acceptance into the program. Balance is due by August 1.
Continuing Education Credits: 30
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