Workshops

Thursday / Donnerstag
30.09.2004, 11 - 12:30 h

WS01 - WS02 - WS03 - WS04 - WS05
WS06 - WS07 - WS08 - WS09 - WS10
WS11 - WS12 - WS13 - WS14 - WS15
WS51 - WS52

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Troubled Lives: Witnessing Political Violence

(Leben unter Dauerbelastung: Zeugenschaft politischer Gewalt)

Language: English

Chairs: Kaethe Weingarten (USA); Isobel Reilly (N-IRL), Sallie Motch (USA)

Hall 42, 120 Seats


Abstract:

This presentation applies Weingarten’s model of the phenomenology of witnessing political violence to Northern Ireland and Palestine. We consider individual, familial and community effects of witnessing political violence.
Domain of Inquiry: In many regions, witnesses to political violence are preponderant among those who suffer. We believe that witnessing with and without awareness, with and without an ability to take effective action at the time or later, and with and without an ability to protect loved ones differentially affect the experience of political violence at all levels. In Northern Ireland, facilitators now work in public and private settings to assist people to express the impact of witnessing violence on them. Reilly addresses the impact on the facilitator of witnessing the witnesses. Based on a letter-writing project in an all-girls high school in occupied territories in the West Bank that developed from the premise that the witness needs a witness, Motch describes the effects on the Muslim, Palestinian adolescent girls and their allies of planning, writing, sending, receiving and responding to letters from a team of three American women: a Christian, a Jew and a Muslim.
Conclusions:
It is argued that turning passive witnessing into effective action may be protective in some situations of political violence.

Wo keine Hoffnung ist, muss man sie erfinden - Aufsuchende Familientherapie

Sprache: Deutsch

Leitung: Marie-Luise Conen (D)


Saal 7, 270 Plätze

Zusammenfassung:

In diesem Workshop wird das Konzept der Aufsuchenden Familientherapie (AFT) von der Autorin des Buches „Wo keine Hoffnung ist, muss man sie erfinden“ dargelegt. Dieser Arbeitsansatz bezieht Ideen ein, wie die Skepsis und Vorbehalte gegenüber Veränderungen berücksichtigt und diese Familien darin unterstützt werden, ihre Hoffnung und ihr Vertrauen in sich selbst und in ihre Fähigkeiten und Resilienz wiedergewinnen. Basierend auf diese Annahmen stellt Aufsuchende Familientherapie eine erste Priorität in der Hilfe für armen Familien dar. 
Marie-Lusie Conen wird das Konzept darstellen und dabei erläutern, wie Familientherapeuten  Zugang zu den Klienten finden, die Ziele der Aufsuchenden Familientherapie, das Konzept der Co-Therapie und des Reflecting Teams als zentrale Methode der aufsuchenden Familientherapie, destruktive Stimmen und Familienvermächtnisse, Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Systemen, Respekt gegenüber Störungen, Kinder in der Aufsuchenden Familientherapie und Indikationen für Aufsuchende Familientherapie, Phasen von Aufsuchender Familientherapie, Erfolgskriterien und Anforderungen an die Therapeuten. 
Literatur: Marie-Luise Conen: Wo keine Hoffnung ist, muss man sie erfinden. Heidelberg: Carl-Auer-SystemeVerlag, 2002  

Kid’s Skills – a Solution Focussed Programme for the Work with Children (Ben Furman)

(ich schaff's - ein lösungsorientiertes Programm für die Arbeit mit Kindern)

Language: English

Presenter: Ben Furman (FIN)

Hall DT, 250 Seats


Abstract:

Kids' Skills is a solution-focused method with which you can help children solve their own problems by learning skills. Kid’s Skills was developed in Finland by Ben Furman and colleagues. It has been translated into several languages and was successfully introduced into rehabilitation programs for children with special needs in quite a number of countries. This program is a particularly practical method to adapt the solution focussed approach to the work with children in school settings and children orientated services.
The poster will describe the program step by step in pictures and in writing. It will show materials, which were developed to support this program, and drawings of children, who used it, will be shown.
Reference: www.kidsskills.org

Kinship Care, Complexities and Opportunities: A Systemic Approach to Working with Families Caring for a Child of a Relative or Friend

(Verwandtschaftspflege - Schwierigkeiten und Gelegenheiten: ein systemischer Ansatz für die Arbeit mit Familien, die ein Kind von Freunden oder Verwandten aufnehmen)

Language: English

Presenter: Sara Barratt, Julia Granville (GB)

Hall 17/18, 70 Seats


Abstract:

The placement of children with a relative or friend when parenting by the biological parents has broken down is becoming increasingly common. The change from traditional, informal forms of Kinship Care to a state-sanctioned system influences the extent to which carers may feel entitled to parent children. A systemic approach to engaging children and their carers has been developed to explore and address the multi-layered stories and complex web of loyalties involving the renegotiation of roles and relationships. Work with the wider family and professional network and issues of culture and identity are central to the work.
Kinship Care is widely seen as offering non-stigmatising placements with continuity of attachments for children who would otherwise enter the care system. However, this can also lead to divisions in the wider family. Inter-generational patterns of difficulty can continue to reverberate and undermine the new family groupings.
We will present the working methods of our multidisciplinary team, including family therapy and parenting groups. We will describe our work and findings using clinical examples. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to draw on experiences from their own practice.

The Child I.P., the Family and the Child - Psychiatrist as "Co-Agonists" in Constructing their Futures: an Experiential Workshop

(Das Kind als Indexpatient, die Familie und das Kind - Psychiater als "Ko-Agonist" bei der Konstruktion ihrer Zukunft: ein erfahrungsbezogener Workshop)

Language: English

Presenter: Petros Polychronis, Vassiliki Gakou (GR)

Hall 11/12, 70 Seats


Abstract:


This workshop shall offer participants an experiential opportunity to explore some of the ideas of the multi-focal / multi-level systemic-dialectic approach to family therapy with children and adolescents (in the presenter’s  jargon described as  “from time to time family therapy”) as they have been exposed in the relevant Congress Sub-plenary, “Systemic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry”. Key conceptualizations regarding the child as a co-agonist in predicting the family’s reconstructional needs and disturbance as opportunity for the differentiation of family constellation will be experientially examined and discussed.

From the Parents Bed to the World Discovery: Family Therapy with Pre-Adolescents Children

(Vom Bett der Eltern zur Entdeckung der Welt: Familientherapie mit prä-adoleszenten Kindern)

Language: English

Presenter: Cristina Dobrowolski (I)

Hall 13/14, 70 Seats


Abstract:

The workshop presents the clinical practice of the author at the ITFF with preadolescent children and their families founded on the integration of the systemic approach with the psychodynamic view. The intergenerational dual transgenerational transmission, the projective identification in the family group, the functions of children's symptoms in the couple’s dynamic and the collusive relationship in the couple are particularly emphasized.
Videotapes of sessions with preadolescent children and their families are presented with the aim of showing the clinical use of some classical instruments of the systemic approach as the intergenerational inquiry, the metaphorical object and psychodynamic interpretative techniques.
The workshop will demonstrate the usefulness of an integrated approach in pathological non chronical situation which can need different settings (individual, couple or familial) particularly after the early remission of the children symptons.

Life Transitions - What do we Know about Parenting Adult Children

(Phasenwechsel im Lebenslauf - Was wissen wir über Eltern erwachsener Kinder?)

Language: English

Presenter: Emilia Dowling, Myrna Gower (GB)

Hall 15/16, 70 Seats


Abstract:

The aim of this workshop will be to examine the processes involved in the transition to parenting adults. This will include reflecting on the experiences of being parented as adults.
The dominant discourse in the Family Therapy literature tends to emphasise separation and leaving home as the main features of the transition to adulthood. This workshop will provide an opportunity to highlight continuity of parenting and connectedness at different stages of life development. The clinical implications of these ideas and their application will be illustrated with case study and video clips.
Questions to be addressed will include: What happens to parenting when children become adults? What expectations of being parented do we have as adult children? How do parenting responsibilities change across the life cycle and do they cease over time? How do cultural narratives organise our constructions of parenting and being parented? What are some of the differences in the stories for men and women? To what extent do we pay clinical attention to the negotiation of these transitions?

Wie Moderation Berater, Therapeuten und Supervisoren in ihrem Alltag unterstützen kann

Sprache: Deutsch

Leitung: Hagen Böser, Hans Walter Putze (D)

Saal 6, 206 Plätze


Zusammenfassung:

Der gezielte Einsatz von Moderationsmaterialen kann die Prozesse der therapeutischen Arbeit ergänzen und neue Perspektiven einbringen. Komplexe Sachverhalte werden in Kontextanalysen übersichtlich visualisiert. Auftragsklärungen können entwickelt und in Prioritätenlisten aufgenommen werden. Die visuellen Darstellungen unterstützt die Fall- und Teamsupervisionen. Dadurch lassen sich Interaktionen und Muster leichter entdecken und Interventionen im Team entwickeln.
Der Workshop zeigt verschiedene Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in den unterschiedlichen Arbeitsbereichen auf. Fallbeispiele werden exemplarisch bearbeitet, um den Transfer der Methode in den psychosozialen Kontext zu unterstützen.

Systemische Traumatherapie

Sprache: Deutsch

Leitung: Reinert Hanswille, Alexander Korittko, Karl-Heinz Pleyer (D)


Saal 44, 120 Plätze

Zusammenfassung:

Die Arbeit mit traumatisierten Menschen und Systemen hat sich in den letzten Jahren radikal verändert. Neuere Erkenntnisse aus Neuropsychologie, Neurobiologie zeigen, dass für traumatisierte Menschen andere Zugänge gewählt werden und Therapeuten ihre Arbeitsweise umstellen müssen. Viele Menschen sind Opfer eines Traumas und haben entsprechende Symptome entwickelt, andere zeigen posttraumatische Reaktionen, weil sie lange unter großem Stress gelitten haben. Wieder andere zeigen sogenannte komorbide Störungen wie Sucht, Ängste, ADHS, Depressionen die durch oder mit traumatischen Erfahrungen entstanden sind.
Neue Psychotrauma-Diagnosen wie PTSD, DIS etc. setzen sich unter Klinikern immer mehr durch, und neue Therapierichtungen prägen das Feld. EMDR, Imaginations- und Screentechniken, Stabilisierungsarbeit, etc. sind deren Handwerkszeug. Systemische Therapeuten sind in der Traumatherapie noch nicht angekommen, obwohl sie mit ihrer Therapeutenhaltung, der Ressourcenorientierung und Lösungsfokussierung besonders prädestiniert sind. In diesem Workshop sollen Erkenntnisse der Traumatherapie und systemische Zugänge (Co-Traumatisierung, transgenerationale Traumaweitergabe etc), Techniken und Interventionen vorgestellt werden.

Von der Sprache zum Körper. Körpererfahrung als Ressource in der systemischen Therapie und Weiterbildung

Sprache: Deutsch

Sylvia Betscher-Ott, Silvia Bickel-Renn (D)


Saal 43, 120 Plätze

Zusammenfassung:

Schon Virginia Satir hob die Bedeutung der Beziehung zum eigenen Körper, für die seelische und körperliche Gesundheit hervor. Beratern empfahl sie auf ihren Körper zu hören, um ihre Klienten vollständiger wahrzunehmen. Auswertungen unserer Weiterbildungsseminare und Therapien haben gezeigt, dass Körper- und Bewegungserfahrungen ein wichtiges Agens zum Verstehen von vielschichtigen Systemwirklichkeiten ist, zur Verlangsamung und Fokussierung bei Lern- und Veränderungsprozessen führt und damit eine wichtige Quelle von Lernen und Veränderung sein kann. Wir haben eine Vielzahl von Interventionen und Übungen, die den Körper miteinbeziehen, oder vom Körper ausgehen, für die systemische Praxis in Beratung, Therapie und Weiterbildung weiterentwickelt. Mit theoretischen Reflexionen zum „Körper in der systemischen Therapie“ geben wir dem Körper einen wichtigen Stellenwert.
Im Workshop werden neben kurzen Vorträgen körperorientierte Interventionen für die systemische Praxis vorgestellt. Wir lassen uns anregen von systemischer Theorie in Verbindung mit Bewegungstherapie, Achtsamkeitspraxis und körperorientierten psychotherapeutischen Verfahren und geben Raum für eigenes Experimentieren.

Family Universals in Different Cultures: Analysis through the Family Sculpture

(Universelle Merkmale von Familien in unterschiedlichen Kulturen: Analyse unter Einsatz von Familienskulpturen)

Language: English

Presenter: Teresa Moratalla, Ana Pérez (E)

Hall 19, 60 Seats


Abstract:

To analyse the similarities and differences of the family models in various cultural settings, by using criteria that shows the links, the fundamental dates, the power structures and hierarchies.
To take a sample of different people (male- aged 22-26 years) belonging to various cultural environments, different ethnic and religious strata and ask them to draw what it would be the ideal sculpture of the family relationships in their own culture.
This workshop is made by volunteers that take part in the carry-out of this method. The similarities and differences between the various cultural groups are analysed and shown in this communication. In the family relationships there are universals that affect mainly the emotional or sentimental relations while the differences are basically due to cultural or social aspects. The similarities between the different cultures are shown in the  family sculpture method while the differences correspond to formal aspects of the relationship.

Making Room for Children in the Family Therapy Session: a Dialogical Approach

(Raum für Kinder in der familientherapeutischen Sitzung: ein dialogischer Ansatz)

Language: English

Presenter: Peter Rober (B)

Hall 36/37, 50 Seats


Abstract:

A lot of publications in the family therapy field stress the importance of children in family therapy. Several authors report, however, that in practice many family therapists don't actively involve children in their therapies. In this workshop the question is posed how a family therapist can make room for the stories of children in the session. A dialogical approach is proposed, based on ideas of Bakhtin, Volosinov, Shotter, Gergen, and others. The presenter considers the importance of the therapist's inner conversation and focuses the necessity of the creation of a safe therapeutic culture for children.
Practical suggestions will be made of ways to involve children in therapy. Special attention will be given to a dialogical approach of children’s non-verbal communication. Videotapes will illustrate how this dialogical approach can help the therapist to mobilize the active participation of children.
References: Rober, P. (1998). Reflections on ways to create a safe culture for children in family therapy. Family Process, 37, 201-213. Rober, P. (2002). Constructive Hypothesizing, Dialogic Understanding and the Therapist's Inner Conversation: Some Ideas about Knowing and Not-Knowing in the Family Therapy Session. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 28, 467-478.

Family and Social Network Interventions with Severely Disabled Children

(Familien- und Netzwerk-Interventionen in der Arbeit mit schwerbehinderten Kindern)

Language: English

Presenter: Juan Rodríguez-Abellán, Higinio Sales, Jose N. Gongora (E)

Hall 32/33, 50 Seats


Abstract:

This work-shop will practically illustrate the family and network approaches used in crisis related to chronic and acute children conditions. The goals of such approaches are convening the concerned people for stabilizing the crisis, making some change in the affected child, modifying the family’s current pattern of relationship (especially with the child), potentiating the available social network support, and re-committing and coordinating the professionals involved, frequently exhausted when they have to face crises in the context of chronic problems. Reference: Chronic acute problems cause severe stress within the families who very likely develop patterns of interaction which may be described in terms of high expressed emotion (EE), what, in turn, feed-back the dysfunctional children’s behaviours, in a recursive dangerous pattern. In this relational context, crises flourish. The crisis affects the whole social network: the child, the family and the attending professionals. El Cau is a rehabilitation centre for severely disabled children that has been approaching the crises with a family and network approaches for the last twenty years. Conclussions: The work-shop describes the assumptions and the how-to-do for approaching crises in the context of children’s severe chronic problems. The approach convenes the family, the extended family and friends, and the professionals, trying to improve and coordinate them for solving the child’s problems, the family’s vicious pattern of interaction, the quality of network support and the commitment of the professionals involved.

Systemic Ideas for an Open Dialogue Between Families and Professionals in Child Protection

(Systemische Ideen für einen offenen Dialog zwischen Familien und professionellen Helfern im Kinderschutz)

Language: English

Presenter: Jan-Christer Wahlbeck (FIN)

Hall 8, 138 Seats


Abstract:

You are confronted with complicated questions of good and evil in the field of child protection. You must be aware of the interaction you are co-creating, and you have to keep the dialogue open regardless of the social control function. In familytherapy you must take the context into consideration and combine a familytherapeutic and a child protective attitude.
The field of child protection forces to overcome what G.Bateson called philosophical dichotomies and to realize the impossibility of unilaterally controlling the interactional. For an open dialogue it is important to realize how much all human experiences are shared as C.G.Jung showed. Talking with the clients you can combine systemic discussing with the use of reflective processes. In child protection the families and the professionals are struggling with the same questions: How to be good enough? How to stand your helplessness? How to protect yourself? How to make decisions although you are unsure? How to trust what life is offering you? How to see parenthood not just as giving but also as receiving? How to avoid lying, secrets and intrigues? How to be realistic in what you expect from life? How to get along with feelings of shame, guilt, envy and rage? How to find a human connectedness that helps you to deal with as well good as evil in life?

Training Family General Practicioners in Systemic Relational Theory and Practice

(Weiterbildung von Hausärzten in Systemischer Theorie und Praxis)

Language: English

Presenter: Rodolfo De Bernart, Aldo Mattucci, Ivano Cazziolato (I)

Hall 28/29, 50 Seats


Abstract:

Since many years the Institute of family therapy in Florence, in Treviso and in Padua trains General Practicioners (GP) in systemic relation theory and practice.We propose to GPs three different levels:
First: One day introductory course, very interactive, using different tecniques as: movies or videotaped sessions to teach non verbal language and how to cope with difficult situations with patients. For example the communication of a serious disease or the presence of a cronic illness or the danger of death. We also use role playing of difficult cases chosen by trainers (Florence) or by doctors (Treviso-Padua).
Second: Usually restricted to GPs who have followed the first level; is a longer course with 10 meeting of one day every other week or every month. We work on the group and each participant should bring his photographic Genogram. We also work on the Family Life Cycle in physiology and pathology, and on the impact of the doctor’s family on his/her profession. Role Playing is based on true cases brought by phisicians themselves.
Third: is offered to young GPs in training to become Family Doctors. It is a 16 hours course (usually in three or four days, organised (for the moment only in Florence) with the local medical and Health Organisations. We teach the Family life Cycle, the Systemic Relational Theory and the relation with the doctor’s family. We also try to cope with problems of the doctor’s health and with the difficulties of profession, such as dealing with our patient’s death. Sometimes some Balint Groups can follow.
In the workshop the authors will present the model of trainig and some images of their work. A brief interactive experience could also be offered to partecipants if time allows to do that.

Dancing with the Community: Working with Professionals of Prevention Centers, in a Systemic-Dialectic, Multi-Level, Multi-Focal Model

(Tanz mit der Gemeinde: Helferkooperation in Präventionseinrichtungen nach einem systemisch-dialektischen, multi-fokalen Mehrebenen-Modell)

Language: English

Presenters: Mina Polemi-Todoulou, G. Gournas (GR)

Hall 10, 160 Seats


Abstract:

The purpose of this experiential workshop is to share with the participants our experience from ‘interprofessional consultation’ sessions with groups of newly developed prevention centers, functioning in different parts of Greece.
Among the basic guiding principles in this work is the recognition that community phenomena develop as processes, in which we as professional teams are interweaved in a ‘co-evolutionary dance’, that shifts from level to level in the system hierarchy and from one focus to another, as new conditions and needs arise. The fact that the group of consultees consists not only of individuals, but of the whole professional team of the centers, gives a rich opportunity for these co-evolving processes to be reflected and worked upon during the sessions. Moreover the fact that the participating centers operate in different milieux, helps draw attention to the ways different cultural contexts stimulate and modify different interventions (‘milieu-specificity’).
By way of active participation in specifically devised experiential tasks, workshop members will embark on a group journey, illustrating key-conceptualizations regarding the functioning of the community and the processes that develop within and among the interrelating groups of its members - teachers, parents, youth, administrators, representatives and professionals who address their mental health and growth needs. The focus is on building ways for actualizing the difference that arises within and among the different levels - individual members, groups, community, as well as within and among the different roles. The multitude of community’s ‘inner voices’, that reflect the complexity of its organization and the rapid sociocultural changes it undergoes, is approached as one ‘undivided process’, in which the principle of co-evolution is constantly at work.