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International Congress of Brief, Strategic & Systemic Therapists

Age of Discovery
9/12/2008 - 9/16/2008
San Diego, CA, USA
sponsored by Family Therapy Institute
http://www.familytherapyinstitute.com/conference.html

Contact Information:
Family Therapy Institute
Dr. Chad Hybarger
2160 Fletcher Parkway, Suite M
El Cajon, CA 92020
619-562-2130


2 Day Congress and 3 Day Post Conference: Intensive Workshops in Brief Strategic Therapy

Dear Colleague,

Please join us in beautiful San Diego for the international congress of brief, strategic and systemic therapists

Discover the cutting edge techniques and methods of renowned scholars in psychology, family therapy, and social work.  Keynote address by Cloe Madanes.

Featuring Emeritus Presentations by Giorgio Nardone . Presenters include Dr. Wendel Ray, Dr. Roberta Milanese, Dr. Chad Hybarger, Dr. Marilyn Wedge, Dr. Barbara Anger-Diaz, Dr. Michael Robbins, Dr. Katharina Anger, Christian Moretto MSW, Dr. Teresa Garcia, Dr. Claudette Portelli, and Dr. Deszoe
Birkas.

Discover new ways to work with families, eating disorders, PTSD, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and more...

2 Day Congress

Friday & Saturday

The 2 Day Congress will present general topics of brief therapy, strategic therapy, brief strategic therapy, and systemic therapy.

Exciting new advances will be presented.

Presenters include an international panel of innovators representing MRI Brief Therapy,

Italian Brief Strategic Therapy, Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), and Strategic Family Therapy.

Tired of feeling less than effective with difficult problems?

Bored with a caseload that experiences little change?

Unsure of how to handle certain problems?

The 2008 International Congress offers a fresh perspective on treatment unlike anything you were taught in graduate school.

Discover specific techniques to produce change in difficult problems like Eating Disorders, Conduct Disorder, PTSD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression.

Learn strategies to bind resistance and bring serious symptoms to their self annihilation.

Discover why common sense is your worst enemy.

Find out stupid things that therapists do that undermine their own success.

Explore the current movements in brief and strategic therapy:

The Tradition
  MRI Brief Therapy
       Presenters
            Dr. Wendel Ray, Professor of Family Therapy at Louisiana State Univ
                Director of the Don Jackson Archive
            Dr. Katharina Anger, Research Associate at the Brief Therapy Center of MRI
                co-founder of Centre for Systemic Action
            Dr. Barbara Anger-Diaz, Senior Reseacrh Fellow, MRI
                co-founder of Centre for Systemic Action
            Dr. Teresa Garcia Rivera, General Director of the Gregory Bateson Institute, Paris

  Strategic Family Therapy
       Presenters
            Cloe Madanes, Pre-eminent Founder of Strategic Family Therapy,
                Professor of Family Therapy,  International lecturer and noted author.
                CLOE MADANES WILL PRESENT THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
            Dr. Marilyn Wedge, Author and Lecturer on Strategic Therapy

The Integration
  Brief Strategic Family Therapy
       Presenters
            Dr. Michael Robbins, Research Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health,
                Miller School of Medicine, Univ of Miami

The Evolution
  Italian Brief Strategic Therapy
  Advanced Italian Brief Strategic Therapy
       Presenters
            Dr. Giorgio Nardone, Director of the Centro di Terapia Strategic in Arezzo, Italy
            Dr. Claudette Portelli, Professor of Psychology & Counseling at the University of Malta
            Dr. Roberta Milanese, Professor and Researcher at Centro di Terapia Strategica of Arezzo
            Dr. Chad Hybarger, Director of the Family Therapy Institute of San Diego
            Christian Moretto MSW, Director of the Brief Strategic Therapy Center of New York

Where & WhenMission ValleySan Diego, California 92109Friday September 12
and Saturday September 13, 20089:30AM - 4:30PM^p

3 Day Post Conference: Intensive Workshops in Brief Strategic Therapy

The post conference will focus on the techniques, strategies, and methods of Giorgio Nardone

Sunday September 14 through Tuesday September 16 from 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM.

Workshop Schedule (Subject to change)
Track I
Treatment of Anorexia Part 1
Treatment of Bulimia Part 1
Treatment of Vomiting Part 1
Track II
Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Part 1
Treatment of Anxiety/Panic Part 1
Treatment of PTSD
Track I
Treatment of Anorexia Part 2
Treatment of Bulimia Part 2
Treatment of Vomiting Part 2

Track II
Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Part 2
Treatment of Anxiety/Panic Part 2
Treatment of Depression
The format will be a combination of lectures and video taped case demonstrations from the lecturer''s clinic in Italy.

Tracks are presented for scheduling information only. Registered post conference participants may attend any combination of workshops.

Full Conference Price including post conference: $500 (includes 30 CEU''s)

2 Day Congress Price: $250 to Attend Friday and Saturday (includes 12 CEU''s)

3 Day Post Conference Only Price: $350 to Attend Sunday through Tuesday only (includes 18 CEU''s)