IAMFT Professional Development
3 CEUs FOR LMFTS
Memorial Hall, Peoria
Presenter: CURT KELLER, LMFT
Friday, January 25, 2008
9am-12pm
“USING BRAIN RESEARCH IN FAMILY THERAPY”
Memorial Hall - Forest Hill United Methodist church
706 E. Forrest Hill, Peoria, IL 61603
Register at the door
Information - 309-353-5792
3 CEUs FOR LMFTS
Prairie Center, Schaumburg
Presenter: LYNDA J. BROWN, LMFT
February 1, 2008
9am-12pm
"CHANGING FACES, TRADING PLACES"
The practice of adoption is a socially sanctioned institution which mirrors our societal needs to create families for children who need them and to provide potential adopters an additional choice for parenting aside from marriage and birth. While adoption has always been present in communities of humans, its impact on our cultural view of family life has been minimal. Today however, as adopters take by choice children of other parents as their own children they are redefining our traditional definitions for family, assimilation, diversity and our society itself.
There are an estimated six million adopted persons in the United States. Considering birth parents, siblings, extended family members and close friends, adoption directly affects tens of millions of Americans. The adoptee holds the tension in multi-relational and parallel family systems. Each one comes into a family with his/her own personal history, a first mother, her own ethnicity and cultural background and a profound sense of loss. Clinical issues in this population, as they have in the past, will continue to challenge our facility to expand and deepen our systems thinking about identity and life span development.
REGISTER AT THE DOOR FOR THIS MEANINGFUL SESSION ON FEB 1, 2008