Workshops

Friday / Freitag
01.10.2004, 11 - 12:30 h

WS26 - WS27 - WS28 - WS29 - WS30
WS31 - WS32 - WS33 - WS34 - WS35
WS36 - WS37 - WS38 - WS39 - WS40
WS53 - WS54

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Working with Couples: the Place of ‚the Unspoken Absent’ in Therapeutic Practice

(Die Arbeit mit Paaren: der Stellenwert des ‚unausgesprochenen Abwesenden’ in der therapeutischen Praxis)

Language: English

Chairs: Hugh Jenkins (GB), Edith Goldbeter (B)

Hall 42, 120 Seats


Abstract:

Systemic theory emphasises the relational spaces between a couple which, although a valuable starting point in therapy, is rarely sufficient for effective practice. The workshop will demonstrate how in our respective approaches we attempt to avoid becoming caught up in restrictive orthodoxies (Jenkins, 1985). We will describe those concepts that enable us to transcend the immediacy of what is presented, in particular, the balancing function of the ‘tiers pesant’ (Goldbeter, 1999) and the ‘inside out, outside in’ dynamic (Jenkins, in preparation). Participants will be encouraged to link this material to their own work.
We will draw on our understandings of systemic theories as a framework for introducing ‘the unspoken absent’ in couples work, - linking transgenerational and psychodynamic models. Our work will be presented from our gender perspectives as female or male therapists.
An important aspect of this workshop will be for participants to think more specifically about the role of the therapist and what she/he brings into the encounter, - the power of their ‘unspoken absent’. This refers to the often invisible third point in the therapeutic triangle of couples therapy.

Working with ‚Self-of-therapist’ Elements in Supervision and Consultation

(Arbeit mit Elementen des Therapeuten-Selbst in der Supervision und Konsultation)

Language: English

Chairs: Elsa Jones (GB)

Hall DT, 250 Seats


Abstract:

In recent years several changes in theory and practice have invited systemic therapists to pay attention to the subjectivities of the therapist as well as that of the client. These changes include the implications of working from an observing-system stance; the training and registration of supervisors; and the increasing emphasis on continuing professional development as a requirement of ethical practice. In the workshop we will explore some ways that supervisors might help therapists to attend to their contribution to the mutual construction of meaning in systemic psychotherapy.

Clinical Demonstration of Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT) – An Empirically-Supported Treatment for Adolescent Drug Abuse

(Klinische Demonstration der Multidimensionalen Familientherapie MDFT - Eine empiriegestütztes Behandlungskonzept bei Drogenmissbrauch von Adoleszenten)

Language: English

Chair: Howard A. Liddle (USA)

Hall 43, 120 Seats


Abstract:

On the basis of rigorous clinical trials and process studies, MDFT has demonstrated clinical and cost effectiveness with ethnically diverse samples of drug abusing adolescents. Recognized as a Best Practice by various U.S. government agencies, including NIDA, U.S.-based and international studies are transporting MDFT to real-world clinical settings. This how-to workshop provides an intensive tutorial in the core clinical methods of MDFT.
Videotapes of treatment sessions show the main interventions in MDFT’s 4 focal areas: individual sessions with the adolescent and the parent(s), family sessions, and sessions with family members focused on changing adolescent and parent interactions with extrafamilial social systems.
Per contemporary research and clinical consensus, MDFT works systematically and simultaneously in several important developmental domains. Using the MDFT treatment manual, the workshop specifies the key ingredients and in-sessions processes, emphasizing the core therapist skills that account for the model’s effectiveness.

The Therapeutic Session: Theater within the Theater

(Die therapeutische Sitzung: Theater im Theater)

Language: English

Chairs: Nahum Frenck, Amilcar Ciola (CH)

Hall 8, 138 Seats


Abstract:

The idea of making a relationship between theater and the daily life is a very ancient one. Shakespeare on the front wall of his theater, The Globe, wrote a citation by Petroneus, "Totus mondus agit histrionem" and in his comedy "As you like it", act II, scene vii,
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts"
Later on Moreno creates psychodrama, and Erving Goffmann writes the book "The presentation of self in everyday life" and later on Byng-Hall writes his "Rewriting Family scripts".
The aim of this workshop is to utilize diverse theater analogies and metaphors in the systemic therapy session. Inspired by Schechner's Environmental Theater, we will "perform" with the participants in order to experience how to introduce creative change in therapy.
The central idea is that the therapy session is the place where the family "performs" for the therapist. This performance becomes a co-construction family – therapist and as actors all the participants bring up creative newness. Very often the family members show themselves as actors or as spectators to other's actions. With this notion of "theater within the theater", we introduce a new dimension, as in Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed, the dimension of the spectactor!!!

Family in Change. A Systemic and Resource Focused Intervention in a Family with Television as Co-Therapist

(Familie im Wandel. Eine systemische, ressourcenorientierte Intervention bei einer Familie mit dem Fernsehen als Ko-Therapeut)

Language: English

Chair: Eva Soendergaard (DK)

Hall 19, 60 Seats


Abstract:

Danish Television wanted access to institutions in order to show new tendencies in family treatment. The producer hoped to prove that negative social heritage could be broken. For more than half a year in 20 hours our therapeutic work with one family in our institution for school children was closely followed. The mother’s motivation for participation was to show others that though she had been a battered woman on social welfare with loss of self-esteem, life could become better for her and her family.
This workshop will use and comment on part of the 57 minute English subtitled version. Generation perspective, relations between family members and therapeutic methods will be pointed out. The producer and photographer drew attention to more perspectives, and it became clear that this documentary is a social construction. Because of the ethical attitude in the production, this narrative hopefully can be used in a positive way by the family in the future.
Working with television as an informal co-therapist pointed out new perspectives and made it a useful narrative for the future.

Exploring Therapeutical Approaches: Disability, Family and Art Therapy

(Behinderung, Familie und Kunst-Therapie - Exploration therapeutischer Ansätze)

Language:

Chairs: Cabak Bogdanka, Saveta Draganic-Gajic, Desanka Nagulic (YU)

Hall 28/29, 50 Seats


Abstract:

Our study seeks to identify the specifities of the everyday life in The Nursing Home for the Disabled in Beograd, to analyse the communication within family members, and to explore some communication models that are being established within the group in a given context.
The actual group that forms our sample consists of the physically disabled people (30) who have been engaged in the art-therapy workshop for the last three years. The methodological approach is to observe the group dynamics through three types of procedures: the analysis of the findings obtained during the (art-therapy) workshop sessions, system interviews with the individuals and their families, and Olson's questionnaire for examining the cohesion and flexibility within the familily and group. The preliminary results point to the high potentials of the group organised around the common objective of providing support / benefit to each other and of encouraging psychosocial and emotional intregration. The obtained results also reveal the important role of this specific group which may act parallely , complementary or in association with the family towards the aim of empowering the individual.

Eric Trappenier’s Experiential Systemic Approach

(Eric Trappeniers erfahrungsbezogener systemischer Ansatz)

Language: Francais

Chair: Eric Trappenier (F)

Hall 32/33, 50 Seats


Abstract:

Multiple Family Therapy (MFT) with Hospitalised Depressed Patients and their Family Members

(Mehr-Familien-Therapie (MFT) mit hospitalisierten depressiven Patienten und ihren Familienmitgliedern)

Language: English

Chairs: Gilbert Lemmens, Ivan Eisler, M. Heireman, L. Migerode, K. Demyttenaere (B)

Hall 36/37, 50 Seats


Abstract:

We have developed a multi-family group programme for hospitalised, depressed patients and their family members. Major goals of the programme are to decrease the impact of the depression on the family unit, to search for healthier family stories, and to restore normal family functioning and communication. Further, we try to help the families with adapting to the different stages of the depression and the family life cycle and to increase the coping mechanism of the patients and the family members.
The programme consists of 6 biweekly sessions and a follow-up session after 3 months. Each session lasts about 90 minutes. A group is composed of 4 to 6 patients and their partner, and a therapeutic team. The children of the patients are twice (session 2 and 5) invited to participate. The content of the session is determined by a treatment protocol. The first two sessions mainly focus on the impact of the depression on the family unit. In the third session couple, lifecycle or gender issues are addressed. In the fifth and sixth session positive changes, new coping strategies, competencies within the families and new family scripts are explored. The sixth session tries to facilitate thinking about the future, recognising and consolidating treatment gains for patients and the family members and to discuss possibility of relapse.
In the workshop, this programme will be presented and situated within the field of multiple family therapy. Further, possible benefits and difficulties will be discussed and necessary therapeutic skills addressed.

De-Contracting the Contract with Depression: Individual-Systemic Re-Connections

(Den Vertrag mit der Depression neu verhandeln: Erneuerte individuell-systemische Verknüpfungen)

Language: English

Chair: Noga Rubinstein-Nabarro (ISR)

Hall 44, 120 Seats


Abstract:

In this workshop I will introduce the concept of the „Contract with the Depression” as a major factor in the individual-systemic development and maintenance of persistent depressions. I will unfold the fascinating co-creation and maintenance of individual-systemic narratives, cycles and connections around the Contract with Depression, and will demonstrate De-Contracting interventions by Dis-Connecting, Re-Connecting and New-Connecting these individual-systemic cycles and frames of reference. I will demonstrate therapeutic interventions that aim at creating powerful experiential shifts, as the „Contract” is grounded in powerful experiences, conceptions, narratives and interactional patterns . Intellectual understanding of the Contract is not enough for change. Restructuring experiences and „action-oriented Systemic Insight” are necessary. The experiential shift is created through a series of multilevel and integrative therapeutic interventions as a video and case demonstration will illustrate.
The empirical development of this model took place during many years of clinical work with this population. Clinical evidence shows this model to be useful and effective with Depressions.

Creative Pragmatic Couples Therapy: Theoretical and Practical Guidelines

(Kreative pragmatische Paartherapie: theoretische und praktische Leitlinien)

Language: English

Chair: Rick Pluut (NL)

Hall 11/12, 70 Seats


Abstract:

In the face of the enormous rigidity of couples in verbal conflict, weekly therapy often does little to reduce the depression, anger, verbal violence, battle and blame. With many such couples it’s very important to increase their commitment to an effective process of mutual therapy and intensify and clarify the therapeutic experience itself and at the same time as therapist to give creative, often non verbal options and/or redefinitions in order to become a more effective helper in the marital system. Some theoretical ideas and practical guidelines on becoming and staying a more creative therapist will be outlined and shown , in combination with a modern pragmatic phase-oriented couples-model. This may enable couple therapists – even from different cultural backgrounds – to decide in pragmatic/logic choices to make a very concrete and effective start of the marital therapy and a coherent continuation of the next sessions.
Method: In this workshop I will start by presenting my „Life Cycle for Couples” with the historical and actual factors of risks. It will be shown how to combine this phase-oriented framework with different creative/non verbal techniques onto a clear start ofan effective commitment with focused goals, with respect of the present and help from the past. A basic set of rules and principles of creativity will be given in order not to get entrapped in the classical verbal loops. Techniques such as the illugram and the organogram will be illustrated. Participants are invited to bring some tough couple cases, to give a more complete idea of the process of C.P.C.T.
I will show how couples are in some aspects different as described in the classical literature, how therapists can learn from their more pragmatic attitude, also will be illustrated, that this more interventive and action oriented model will give different extra possibilities as effectiveness is concerned and could also be a provider against burn-out.

Swimming in Language Games - How to Go on in the Complex World of Consultancy?

(Vom Schwimmen in Sprachspielen: Perspektiven der Weiterentwicklung der komplexen Welt der Konsultation)

Language: English

Presenters: Thorkild Olsen, Dorte Nissen, Peter Jacobsen (DK)

Abstract:

Hall 15/16, 70 Seats


At Dispuk we have two-year programs for consultants from various professional fields in the private as well as public sector. Our aim is to provide a framework for learning so that consultants feel safe to struggle with all kinds of challenges ranging from complex organizational issues to personal dilemmas of the consultant. With inspiration from the family therapy field the consultants are invited to look at their practice and role as consultants though the lenses of systemic and narrative ideas, social constructionism and language theory. As in training of therapists issues as self, personal style and development of the personal-professional repertoire are major focal points. The consultants report back that they enjoy the process and find the ideas and acquired skills very useful. In this workshop we invite you - through examples and exercises - to share and reflect upon our teaching practice.