Description: This workshop invites therapists to stretch beyond habitual ways of working by blending creativity, experiential supervision, and family therapy principles. Therapists share stories from clinical practice—including a case involving a family raising a child with Down syndrome—and explore with Minuchin how expanding perspective can deepen therapeutic impact. The session closes with reflections on the role of elders and the need for a more engaged, socially responsive field.
This workshop is a consideration of the need and methods to expand a therapist's available range.
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.