Description: Minuchin supervises a therapist using family sessions to explore clinical technique and therapist development. The discussion focuses on the therapist’s use of self, integrating theory with practice, and shifting from active engagement to reflective stance. Techniques include enactment and family-of-origin work, with emphasis on authority without authoritarianism in emotionally intense family therapy.
Syllabus Description: Minuchin will supervise a therapist who brings a live family or a videotape of a family therapy session.
Educational Objectives:
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
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Salvador Minuchin, MD, developed Structural Family Therapy, which addresses problems within a family by charting the relationships between family members, or between subsets of family. He was Director of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. Although it was minimally staffed when he began, under his tutelage the Clinic grew to become one of the most modeled and respected child guidance facilities in the world. In 1981, Minuchin began his own family therapy center in New York. After his retirement in 1996, the center was renamed the Minuchin Center. Dr. Minuchin is the author of many notable books, including many classics. His latest is Mastering Family Therapy: Journeys of Growth and Transformation. In 2007, a survey of 2,600 practitioners named Minuchin as one of the ten most influential therapists of the past quarter-century.