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GEORGIA ASSOCIATION FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY and MINUCHIN CENTER FOR THE FAMILY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2008 LOUDERMILK CONFERENCE CENTERAtlanta, Georgia
WORKING WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN CLIENTS AND FAMILIES
This workshop will provide participants with a greater understanding of how to work effectively with African-American individuals and families. The diversity within the African-American community will be discussed. Participants will learn how to make use of cultural strengths such as the extended family network, religion and spirituality, and African-American survival skills in their work. Issues of racism will be discussed, particularly in terms of its impact on family life, child rearing, gender issues, and couple relationships. Special attention will be paid to the “invisibility” of African-American men and the fears for Black male children. White and Black clinicians, as well as those from other cultural groups, will learn how to effectively use themselves to join with African-American families. The Multi-systems Model will be described. Clinical case examples and videotaped material will be presented throughout.
Participants will: 1. acquire a greater understanding of the subtleties of African-American culture; 2. learn more effective strategies for joining and intervening with African-American individuals and families; 3. examine the role of spirituality and religion in African-American families and learn how to make use of these strengths in therapy; 4. learn how to involve key extended family members in treatment; 5. learn the importance of “the therapist’s use-of-self” in the treatment of African-American individuals and families.
Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D.
Nancy Boyd-Franklin is as African-American family therapist and a Professor at Rutgers University in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. Throughout her career she has been involved in the development of community-based interventions for African-American and other ethnic minority individuals and families. Currently she is the co-director, with Dr. Brenna Bry, of the Rutgers/Somerset Counseling Program, a school and community based program that trains doctoral students to provide individual therapy, home-based family therapy, and school-based violence prevention groups for at-risk adolescents.
An internationally recognized lecturer and author, Dr. Boyd-Franklin has written numerous articles on issues such as ethnicity and family therapy, the treatment of African-American families, extended family issues, spirituality and religion, home-based family therapy, group therapy for Black women, HIV and AIDS, parent and family support groups, community empowerment, and the Multi-systems Model. She is the author of three books, Black Families in Therapy; Understanding the African-American Experience (2003, 2nd edition); Boys into Men: Raising Our African-American Teenage Sons (2001); and Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-based, School and Community Interventions with Dr. Brenna Bry (2001); and an editor of a fourth book, Children, Families and HIV/AIDS: Professional and Therapeutic Issues (1995).
Dr. Boyd-Franklin has received numerous awards from professional and community-based organizations. These have included: an Honorary Doctorate from the Phillips Graduate Institute in 2006; the Ernest E. McMahon Award from Rutgers University in 2005 for the development of a creative, multilevel community intervention; and the Solomon Carter Fuller Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2005 for outstanding contributions to the field through scholarships and programs related to the treatment of African-Americans. Division 43 of the American Psychological Association acknowledged her work with the “Family Psychologist of the Year Award” in 2003, and she received the “Outstanding Contribution to the Field” award from the association of Black Social Workers in 2001 and the “Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award” from the Association of Black Psychologists in 1994. In 1995, she was invited by President Bill Clinton to present her community and family interventions at the first White House Conference on AIDS.
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