EFTA 2007 - Scientific Programme

:: Scientific Programme ::
Wednesday 3rd October
12.00 - 18.00	Access for Exhibitors/Poster set up	Halls 1 & 2
14.30 - 18.00	Registration Open	Halls 1 & 2
Thursday 4th October – Mind and Body
08.00 - 18.00	Registration	Hall 1
09.00 - 09.30	Welcome Speeches Dr Arlene Vetere - President, EFTA Ms Barbara Warner - Chair, AFT	Clyde - SI*
09.30 - 10.15	Plenary 1 Co-Chairs: Arlene Vetere (EFTA), Barbara Warner (AFT UK) Neuro-Ethology of Empathy Dr Boris Cyrulnik, France	Clyde - SI*
10.15 - 11.00	Plenary 2 Co-Chairs: Arlene Vetere (EFTA), Barbara Warner (AFT UK) Harry Potter’s Family: Internal and External Aspects Professor Michael and Margaret Rustin, UK	Clyde – SI*
11.00 - 11.30	Refreshment Break/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Halls 1 & 2
11.30 - 13.00	Sub Plenary 1 Chair: Jacques Pluymaekers (EFTA) Systemic Approach in Social Work Michel Maestre, France Family Therapy and Schizophrenia Jacques Miermont & Bernard Prieur, France	Clyde – SI* Presentations will be given in French
	Sub Plenary 2 Chair: Judith Lask (AFT UK) Being there, Building Bridges and Creating Space for Dialogue: the Theraputic Relationship in Family Therapy Peter Rober, Belgium Building Bridges: Home Visits To Multi Problem Families Where Professional Help Got in a Dead Lock Justin Van Lawick, The Netherlands	Gala 1 & 2
	Sub Plenary 3 Chair: Rodolfo de Bernart (EFTA) Emotional dances. Therapeutic conversations as embodied systems Paolo Bertrando, Italy Process: A Natural Tool for Overcoming Dichotomies in Therapy, Training and Designing Life Petros Polychronis, Greece	Forth
	Sub Plenary 4 Chair: Nikos Paritsis (EFTA) Constucting Identity from Body Narratives: Some Relational Pathways Juan Luis Linares, Spain Adolescents and Conduct Behaviour Anna Abio Riog, Spain The Use of Metaphors in Systems Theraphy: A Bridge Between Mind and Body Languages Luigi Onnis, Italy	Alsh
	Sub Plenary 5 Chair: Frank Burbach (AFT UK) Companionship in Body and Mind: The Psychobiology of Human Relationships, Society and Meaning Colwyn Trevarthen, UK Open Dialogues in Severe Crises: Mobilizing the Resources of the Social Networks Jaakko Seikkula, Finland	Boisdale
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Halls 1 & 2
13.00 - 13.45	EFTA AGM (EFTA members only)
14.00 - 15.30	Oral Presentations/Workshops Session 1 Chair: TBA O-1 Bodies In Session: Between Aesthetics And Perturbations Alain CHABERT^1,2, Pascale PERINEL², Sylvie TETREL² ¹Université de Savoie, Chambéry, France, ²E.F.T.A., Bruxelles, Belgium O-2 Recovering From Epilepsy?. A Multidimensional Approach Joëlle Rudin IMP Leopold Bellan, Bry sur Marne,Val de Marne, France O-3 Couples Relationship Patterns, Depression and CHD Risk: The Role of Anxiety and Avoidant Interactions in the Homeostatic Symptoms Maintenance Model Angelo Compare^1,2 ¹Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy, ²Catholic University of Milan, Faculty of Psychology, Milan, Italy	Clyde- SI* Presentations
	Session 2 Chair: Mike Seritt (AFT UK) O-5 The Person’s Morning in the Family System Balogh Klára Private Practice, Debrecen, Hungary O-6 Uncovering Feelings or Constructing a Plot: Which System Which Task. A Narrative Approach to Grief Therapy Ricardo Ramos-Gutierrez, Eva Garcia-Bayona Human Communication Laboratory, Family Therapy School, Autonomous University of Barcelona-Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain	Gala 1 Presentations
	Session 3 Chair: Dorothy Ramsey (AFT UK) O-7 Should Psychological Research Into Reproductive Events Become More Systemic? Reflections from Studies on Menopause Eleonora Bielawska-Batorowicz University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland O-8 Towards Better Quality of Life; Integrating Systemic and Narrative Therapy for Mind-Body Problems David Skorunka^1,2 ¹Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, ²Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic O-9 Training in a Family Systemic Approach to Chronic Pain Management: An MSC Experiential Learning Course Dionyssis Sakkas, Eleni Eftihidou, Mina Polemi-Todoulou, Petros Polychronis The Athenian Institute of Anthropos, Athens, Paleon Faleon, Greece	Gala 2 Presentations
	Session 4 Chair: Mony Elkaïm (EFTA) O-10 Self and System: The Concept of “Tiers Pesant” Edith Goldbeter Université Libre de bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium O-11 Time: The Silent Guest at the Therapeutic Table? The Self in the System of Time and Ritual Hugh Jenkins	Forth Workshops
	Session 5 Chair: Peter Robinson (AFT UK) O-12 Steps Towards a Usable Outcome Measure for Family Therapy Clinicians Julia Bland¹, Peter Stratton², Emma Janes¹ ¹Maudsley Hospital, London, United Kingdom, ²University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom O-13 My Family History : Work on Myself in the Family System of Three Generations Using Different Tools Like the “Genogramm” Eric Louis Sistemica (Asthefis), Bernex, Geneva, Switzerland O-14 The Asylum Seeker/Refugee 'Condition' Jocelyn Avigad, Kathleen Van de Vijver Medical Foundation, London and Glasgow, England and Scotland	Alsh 1 Presentations
	Session 6 Chair: Shila Rashid (AFT UK) O-15 “Is my Anxiety an Actual Anxiety?” 10 Steps to Cope with Anxiety Jerzy S. Jakubowski Saarlaendische Gesellschaft für Systemische Therapie und Beratung SGST, Saarbruecken, Germany O-16 Combining Psychodrama and Family Therapy with Alzheimer-Families Sanna Aavaluoma, Tarja Tammelin Helsinki Alzheimer-Association, Helsinki, Finland	Alsh 2 Workshops
	Session 7 Chair: Liz Dodge (AFT UK) O-17 ‘All in the Mind’s Eye?: Metaphors for Practice’ Liz Burns AFT, Aylesbury, Bucks, United Kingdom	Boisdale 1 Workshop
	Session 8 Chair: Alan Holmgren (EFTA) O-4 Ethics At Work - Moral Judgement in Couple Therapy Jarl Wahlström¹, Katja Kurri² ¹University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, ²Finnish Association for Mental Health, Helsinki, Finland O-19 Somerset’s Family Support Service: Creating Collaborative Therapeutic Relationships with Families Affected by Psychosis Frank Burbach, Roger Stanbridge Somerset Partnership NHS Trust, Somerset, United Kingdom	Boisdale 2 Workshop
15.30 - 16.00	Refreshment Break/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Hall 1 & 2
16.00 - 17.30	Oral Presentations/Workshops Session 9 Chair: Graham Bryce (AFT UK) O-20 Family Relations and Symptoms of Asthma Mariusz Furgal¹, Roman Nowobilski², Bogdan de Barbaro¹, Edyta Dembinska¹ ¹Family Therapy Department, Jagiellonian Uniwersity, Krakow, Poland, ²II Department of Medicine, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland O-21 Title: The Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapeutic Technique (EMDR), in the Treatment of Families Affected by Difficult or Traumatic Situations: Investigation and Analysis of Clinical Cases Pérez Marín Marian^1,2, Molero Zafra Milagros², Kreuz Smolinsky² ¹Valencia C. University, Valencia, Spain, ²Fase 2 Training Center, Valencia, Spain O-22 An Integrated Brief Systemic Therapy – Postulats – Principles and Techniques Stephan HENDRICK Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium	Clyde- SI* Presentations
	Session 10 Chair: Julia Hardy (EFTA) O-23 Beyond Words - Holistic Body-mind Training for Helpers for Families who Survived the Tsunami Disaster Ofra Ayalon NORD COPE Center, Tivon, Israel	Gala 1 Workshop
	Session 11 Chair: Jed Smith (AFT UK) O-24 A Colloquy with Life: Working with Dying Parents and their Under-age Children Florence Schmitt, Jorma Piha Turku University Hospital, Child Psychiatry Clinic, Turku, Finland O-25 When Memory Fails: Knowing and Telling about Forgetting Marion Dixon, Liz Curtis Avon and Wiltshire Partnership NHS Trust, Avon and Wiltshire, United Kingdom O-26 Systemic Approach, EMDR Technique : Madness in the Method? Danièle Wichené ¹Association for Family Therapy, Warrington, United Kingdom, ²UKCP, London, United Kingdom	Gala 2 Presentations
	Session 12 Chair: Jacques Pluymaekers (EFTA) O-27 EFTA CIM Family Rules and Individual Strategies through Specific Systemic Techniques: The Floating Objects Y Rey¹², M T Ferhan¹, A Gervasi¹, G Rousset¹, N Sprocq¹ ¹Universitide de Savoie, ²CERAS	Forth
	Session 13 Chair: TBA O-28 From Cellular Networks to Social Network: A Model for Rethinking Human Dynamics Tamas Kurimay, Hugh Jenkins	Alsh 1
	Session 14 Chair: Jorge de Vega (EFTA) O-29 Yoga for Therapists – An Opportunity to Explore the Mind-body-breath Connection and the Ways we can use this to Care for Ourselves and our Clients Olga Levitt Kensington Consultation Centre, London, United Kingdom O-30 To be or not to be “mindful” in Psychotherapy Vicente Simón University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain	Alsh 2 Workshops
	Session 15 Chair: Barbara Warner (AFT UK) O-31 AFT - (The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice) IN ACTION.	Boisdale 1
	Session 16 Chair: Percy Aggett (AFT UK) O-32 Developing Ways of Working with Families Post-violence: Incorporating a Participative Enquiry Approach. Charlotte Burck, Ellie Kavner Tavistock Clinic, London, United Kingdom O-33 Affective Regulation as a Meeting Point of Body and Mind Katarina Erzar, Tomaz Erzar University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia	Boisdale 2 Workshops
17.30 - 18.30	AGM AFT UK (AFT members only)	Fyne Room
18.00 - 19.00	EFTA Board Meeting (EFTA board members only)	Alsh 1
19.30 – 21.30	Welcome Reception /Buffet	Glasgow Science Centre
Friday 5th October – Self and System
08.00 - 18.30	Registration	Hall 1
09.00 - 09.30	Professor Arlene Vetere (EFTA), Ms Barbara Warner (AFT) General Announcements	Clyde
09.30 - 10.15	Plenary 3 Co-chairs: Kyraki Polychroni (AFTA), David Campbell (AFT UK) Self, identity, and globalization in times of uncertainty: A dialogical approach Professor Hubert Hermans, The Netherlands	Clyde - SI*
10.15 - 11.00	Plenary 4 Co-chairs: Kyraki Polychroni (AFTA), David Campbell (AFT UK) *The Therapist and the Postmodern Therapy System: A Way of Being with* Others** Dr Harlene Anderson, USA	Clyde – SI*
11.00 - 11.30	Refreshment Break/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Halls 1 & 2
11.30 - 13.00	Sub Plenary 6 Chair: Eric Louis (EFTA) From the Heart of the Paradox: Answering Both Levels of the Double Bind in the Same Time Mony Elkaïm, Belgium Do we need Marx as therapists? Katia Charalabaki, Greece How do we use the External and Internal Image of the Family? Rodolfo de Bernart & Cristina Dobrowolski, France	Clyde – SI*
	Sub Plenary 7 Chair: Juan Luis Linares (EFTA) Agency and System: How to Reach the Children too Carole Gammer, France Toward a New Systemic Model Connecting Family’s Dimensions with Personality Types Matteo Selvini, Italy	Gala 1 & 2
	Sub Plenary 8 Chair: David Skourunka (EFTA) Working Systemically with Attachments and Narratives Arlene Vetere & Rudi Dallos, UK Social Uterus as a Metaphor for the Family Vladislav Chvála & Ludmila Trapková, Czech Republic	Forth
	Sub Plenary 9 Chair: Barbara Jozefik (EFTA) Wearing Purple Susan Benbow, UK A Change of Patient’s Self in the Context of the Psychiatric System. An Empirical Study Bogdan de Barbaro, Poland	Alsh 1
	Sub Plenary 10 Chair: Ivan Eisler (AFT UK) What can Clinicians Learn from RTCs? Ivan Eisler with Tom Sexton & Russell Crane, UK	Boisdale 1
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Halls 1 & 2
13.00 - 14.00	EFTA CIM AGM (EFTA CIM members only) EFTA TIC AGM (EFTA TIC members only) EFTA NFTO AGM (EFTA NFTO members only)	Fyne Clyde Forth
14.00-15.30	Oral Presentations/Workshops Session 17 Chair: TBC O-34 The Effects on Mood of Adjunctive Systemic Family and Systemic Multi-Family Group Therapy in the Treatment of Hospitalised Patients with Major Depression: A 15 Months Follow-Up Study Gilbert Lemmens¹, Ivan Eisler², Koen Demyttenaere¹ ¹Dept. of Psychiatry, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²Section of Family Therapy, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, University of London, London, United Kingdom O-35 Fathers’ Narratives of ADHD: Protection, Externalisation, and Minimisation Emma J. Greatbatch^2,1, Pieter W. Nel^3,1 ¹University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, ²City and Hackney Primary Care Trust, London, United Kingdom, ³Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom O-36 Effectiveness of Training Family Therapists about the Therapeutic Alliance: Results of a Pilot Study. Valentin Escudero^1,2, John Carpenter¹, Mark Rivett¹	Clyde - SI* Presentations
	Session 18 Chair: Melissa Adams (AFT UK) O-37 Systems and Containment: A specialist clinic involving the collaboration between Systemic Family Therapy and Psychoanalytic Child Psychotherapy Mary Long^1,2, Andrew Dawson^1,2 ¹West Glasgow CHCP, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²Scottish Institute of Human Relations, Glasgow, United Kingdom	Gala 1 Workshop
	Session 19 Chair: Maria Stedman (AFT UK) O-38 Creating Space For Open Dialogue In Early Psychosis Val Jackson¹, Jaakko Seikkula² ¹Aspire Early Intervention Service, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, ²University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Western Lapland, Finland O-39 Remembering Community from within the Consulting Room Gail Simon ¹The Pink Practice, London, United Kingdom, ²Relate Institute, Manchester, United Kingdom	Gala 2 Workshops
	Session 20 Chair: Maria Stedman (AFT UK) O-40 EFTA Training Institutes Chamber Going Beyond in Therapy and Training: Team processes including a video construction of words, ideas, and images. Co-Chairs Mony Elkaïm and Kyriaki Polychroni Presentations by Fotini Triantaphilou, The Mental Health Center of Western Thessaloniki, Greece; Aileen Tierney, Clanwilliam Institute, Dublin; Nevena Calovska Hertzog, Serbia	Forth
	Session 21 Chair: Tamas Kurimay (EFTA) O-41 Embedding Personal Professional Development of Trainees in the Clinical Family Therapy Supervision Experience Paula Boston¹, Paul Fletcher^2,1, Alison Murphy¹ ¹LFTRC University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, ²Nottingham CAMHS, Nottingham, United Kingdom O-42 Appearance and Treatment of Extreme Ambivalence During The Couple Therapy Of Patients Suffering Severe Pathology Or Loss Hardy Júlia, Barát Katalin, Blága Gabriella Hungarian Family Therapy Association, Budapest, Hungary	Alsh 1 Workshops
	Session 22 Chair: Hugh Jenkins (AFT UK) O-43 Psychotherapy Research: Therapist’s Personal and Cultural Connections in Therapy Per Jensen, Anne Øfsti Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo, Norway O-44 Looking for New Scripts at Times of Social Transformation: The Experience of Romanian Couples Ágnes Kónya, Zoltán Kónya AGAPE Life Care Foundation, Cluj, Romania	Alsh 2 Workshops
	Session 23 Chair: Rudi Dallos (EFTA) O-45 Preparing Ourselves for the Therapeutic Relationship ‘Hypothesizing Revisited’ Revisited Glenda Fredman ¹University College Hospital London, London, United Kingdom, ²Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust, London, United Kingdom	Boisdale 1 Workshops
	Session 24 Chair: Kate Waters (AFT UK) O-47 Resilience in Families With an Autistic Child Abraham P. Greeff, Kerry-Jan van der Walt University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa O-48 Genogramatic Narration in Family Therapy of Drug Addiction George Giannousis¹, Theodora Sizopoulou² ¹Kethea-Exodus, Larisa, Greece, ²KETHEA-ITHAKI, Thessaloniki, Greece	Boisdale 2 Presentations
15.30 - 16.00	Refreshment Break/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Halls 1 & 2
16.00 - 17.30	Session 25 Chair: Michel Grabbe O-49 Non Violent Resistance (NVR) in the Systemic Therapy of Violence, Aggression and Dangerous Behaviour. Michael Grabbe: Linguistic Alliances (Buendnisrhetorik) Haim Omer, Michael Grabbe, Peter Jakob, Uri Weinblatt ¹Institut für Familientherapie/Systemische Gesellschaft, Weinheim/Berlin, Germany, ²University, Tel Aviv, Israel, ³Practise, London, United Kingdom, ⁴clinic, Philadelphia, United States O-50 Haim Omer: The loving fight: Coaching the Parents of Violent and Self-destructive Children in Non-violent Resistance. Haim Omer University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel O-51 Peter Jakob: Insights from Clinical Experience into the Inverse Relationship between Control and Self-confidence in Non Violent Resistance. Peter Jakob PartnershipProjects UK, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom O-52 Uri Weinblatt: Efficacy of Non Violent Resistance – A Controlled Outcome Study Uri Weinblatt University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel	Clyde - SI* Symposium
	Session 26 Chair: Paul Fletcher (AFT UK) O-53 Ceremony and Therapy: Life Cycle Rituals as Communal Holding Judith Davis University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States	Gala 1 Workshop
	Session 27 Chair: David Amias (AFT UK) O-54 Parenting Adult Children – Invisible ties that bind? Clinical Implications and Research Findings Myrna Gower, Emilia Dowling ¹Tavistock Clinic, London, United Kingdom, ²Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom O-55 Seeing 1 to I: Harnessing the Resources of the Team in Systemic Training and Supervision Nicola McCarry^1,2, Karen Partridge^1,2 ¹Central and North West London Mental health Trust, London, United Kingdom, ²The KCC Foundation, London, United Kingdom	Gala 2 Workshops
	Session 28 Chair: Isobel Reilly (AFT UK) O-56 Relational Risk-Taking, Men and Affairs Barry Mason Institute of Family Therapy, London, United Kingdom O-57 Phobic Disorders: A problem of Positioning within a Semantics of Freedom ? Valeria Ugazio^1,2 ¹European Institute of Systemic-relational Therapies, Milano, Italy, ²University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy	Forth Workshops
	Session 29 Chair: Tamas Kurimay (EFTA) O-58 Becoming a Better Therapist: Messages from Research Peter Stratton University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom O-59 Family Loyalties, Group Loyalties and Universal Solidarity. Applying Contextual Approach to Overcome Oppositions Catherine Ducommun-Nagy¹, Tamás Kurimay² ¹The Institute for Contextual Growth, Glenside PA 19038, United States, ²Budapest Family Therapy Training Institute, Budapest, Hungary	Alsh 1 Workshops
	Session 30 Chair: Viv Stringer (AFT) O-60 Is Therapeutic Conversation with Phobic Subjects Dominated by the Semantics of Freedom? Valeria Ugazio, Attà A.M. Negri, Emanuele Zanaboni University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy O-61 Developing Co-research Practices with Families in Couple Therapy for Depression Eija-Liisa Rautiainen¹, Jaakko Seikkula², Jukka Aaltonen² ¹Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland, ²University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland	Alsh 2 Workshops
	Session 31 Chair: Nancy Graham (AFT UK) O-62 Connecting and Using Your Hidden Domains In Therapy: Mind, Body, and Beyond the Regular Senses Noga Rubinstein-Nabarro SHINUI: Israel institute For Systemic Studies, Israel Forms of Therapeutic Dialogues in Mental Health Services (O-63 to O-68) Under the auspices of Hellenic Systemic Thinking and Family Therapy Association (HESTAFTA) and of the Societa’ Italiana di Ricerca e Terapia Sistemica (SIRTS) Chairs: Valeria Pomini, Psychologist - Psychotherapist, Athens University Dept. of Psychiatry, President of HESTAFTA. Mauro Mariotti, Psychiatrist, President of SIRTS. O-63 The Systemic Perspective in Child Psychiatry Public Service: Two Italian Experiences Fabio Bassoli¹, Mauro Mariotti¹, Lia Mastropaolo² ¹ISCRA. Modena Institute of systemic and relational Psychotherapy, Modena, Italy, ²co-Director Centro Genovese di Terapia della Famiglia, Director of Scuola Genovese di Mediazione e Counselling Sistemico., Genova, Italy O-64 The Symptomatic Child as a Person Who Emerges the “Normal” in the Family Map: Difficult Operations-Pleasant Surprises in Therapeutic Dialogues Dimitris Magriplis Peristeri Mental Health Center - Child’s Sector Psychiatric Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece O-65 Mind-Body Dialogue in Systemic Psychodrama Maria Digridaki, Achilleas Prokopiou Institute of Family Systemic Consultation and Therap, Chania, Crete, Greece O-66 Systemic Consultation and Irriverence in the Equipe Iva Ursini Centre of Family Therapy, Milan, Italy O-67 Therapeutic Dialogue and Therapeutic Relationship in Clinical Practice Konstantinos Batsalias, Katerina Theodoraki Centre for Child-Adult-Family’s Development, Heraklion, Crete, Greece O-68 The Meaning of Symptoms within the Therapeutic Dialogue: A Systemic Approach to the Treatment of Psychosis Valeria Pomini¹, Vlassis Tomaras² ¹Athens University Medical School Dept. of Psychiatry – Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece, ²Athens University Medical School, Director of the Child-Psychiatric Clinic, Hospital “Ag. Sofia”, Athens, Greece	Boisdale 1 Workshop Symposium
	Session 32 Chair: Glenda Fredman O-69 Making Systemic Approaches Fit in Intellectual Disabilities Service Sandra Baum Newham Primary Care trust, London, United Kingdom O-70 Issues in families with Intellectual Disability Susan King Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom O-71 Systemic Practice in Services for Men and Women with Intellectual Disability Mark Haydon^1,2 ¹Sussex Partnership NHS Trust, Lewes, United Kingdom, ²Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, United Kingdom	Boisdale 2 Symposium
17.30 – 19.30	Drinks Reception and Poster Viewing Session sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell	Halls 1 & 2
20.00 – 23.00	Conference Dinner and Ceilidh	Science Centre
SI* = Simultaneous Interpretation offered
Saturday 6th October – Cultural Integration and Differentiation
08.30 - 18.30	Registration	Hall 1
09.00 - 09.30	Professor Arlene Vetere (EFTA), Ms Barbara Warner (AFT) General Announcements	Clyde
09.30 - 10.15	Plenary 5 Chair: Mony Elkaïm The Challenge of Multi-Being Professor Ken Gergen, USA	Clyde – SI*
10.15 - 11.00	Plenary 6 Chair: Mony Elkaïm Beyond Cultures: Universal Standards and Individual, Family and Group Expectations Ms Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, UK	Clyde – SI*
11.00 - 11.30	Refreshment Break/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Halls 1 & 2
11.30 - 13.00	Sub Plenary 11 Chair: Yveline Rey (EFTA) The Disease of Alzheimer: A cultural event? Jacques Pluymaekers & Thierry Darnaud, France Being Positioned by Others and the Possibilities for ‘Reluctant’ Dialogue David Campbell, UK	Clyde – SI*
	Sub Plenary 12 Chair: Kirsty Darwent (AFT UK) Walk the Tightrope: Therapists Balancing Between Cultures Annette Kreuz-Smolinski, Spain Difference in Learning, and Learnings about Difference John Burnham & Diana Alvis Palma, UK	Gala 1 & 2
	Sub Plenary 13 Chair: Nik Child (AFT UK) Working Systemically with Families affected by Trauma Resulting from the Civil Conflict in Northern Ireland Arlene Healey, Northern Ireland Strategic Family Therapy Concerning Drug Addicts Treated in Theraputic Communities Luigi Cancrini, Italy	Forth
	Sub Plenary 14 Chair: Rob Wrate (AFT UK) Authority Without Violence Haim Omer, Israel Identities in Transition – Living as an Asylum Seeker Anne Douglas, UK	Alsh 1
	Sub Plenary 15 Chair: Peter Stratton (EFTA) Towards Personal Synthesis of Flow of Opposing Inner Voices: Cultural Chronie of Couples Kyriaki Polychroni, Greece Cultural Integration and Differentiation - Family Connections Eia Asen, UK	Boisdale 1
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Halls 1 & 2
13.00 - 14.00	Celebration of People's Lives	Clyde
14.00 - 15.30	Oral Presentations/Workshops Session 33 Chair: TBC O-72 Bicultural Couples: Looking at Difference as a Resource Ana Relvas¹, Wolfgang Lind² ¹Faculty of Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal, ²Faculty of Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal O-73 Forced from your Home Culture to Seek Asylum on your own in a Culture that might not let you be at Home. When Integration might not be Possible and Differentiation Forced: Working with Unaccompanied Minors Rachel Morley NHS Greater Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom O-74 Multiple Family Therapy Groups in Brittany (France) Frédéric La Belle Pegase Processus, St. Brieuc, France	Clyde – SI* Presentations
	Session 34 Chair: Kate Daniels (AFT UK) O-75 New Models – Community Intervention, Cultural Integration Ester Santos, Rosa Amaral CADIN, Cascais, Portugal O-76 Lisa Fellin, Valeria Ugazio, Francesca Colciago and Roberto Pennacchio Unversity of Bergamo, Italy	Gala 1 Workshops
	Session 35 Chair: TBC O-77 When The Body Takes Over as the Mind is too Distressed: Working with Families in the Context of Severe Somatisation Vivienne Gross Great Ormond Street Hospital, London O-78 Developing Self-Reflexivity through the use of Symbols/Small Objects “Our Destinies are Opened and Closed in Terms of the Stories that we Construct to Understand our Experiences” Barbara Kohnstamm Clanwilliam institute, Dublin, Ireland	Gala 2 Workshops
	Session 36 Chair: Mina Poleni-Todoulou O-79 EFTA NFTO Breaking News 2006-2007: A Systemic View on Family and Youth Related Issues as Portrayed through Headline News Convener Chairs: Mina Polemi-Todoulou, Roberto Pereira and Corina Ahlers Mina Polemi-Todoulou (Greece), Corina Ahlers (Austria) and Roberto Pereira (Spain)	Forth
	Session 37 Chair: Malvina Tsounakious (EFTA) O-81 Co-Constructing Narrative and Shared Meaning: An Exploration of the Journey of Unaccompanied Refugee Young People and their Therapist - A Tale from Qualitative Research Máire Stedman ¹University of London, London, United Kingdom, ²Refugee Council, London, United Kingdom O-82 A Residential Three Week Couple Therapy Program : 35 Years of Clinical Practice, Theory Building and Empirical Research: The ‘Couples Communication Centre’ Alfons Vansteenwegen^1,2, Maureen Luyens² ¹M&F Impuls, Pellenberg, Belgium, ²Inst.Family Sexuality Studies, Leuven, Belgium	Alsh 1 Workshops
	Session 38 Chair: John Burnham (AFT UK) O-83 The Performance of Practice : Enhancing The Repertoire of the Family Therapist Jim Wilson ¹Foster care Associates, Newport,Wales ,, United Kingdom, ²Institute of Family Therapy London, London, United Kingdom O-84 Raids on the Absurd, the Oppressive and the Anxious: Developing Existential Mindfulness in the Dialogue of Systemic Psychotherapy John Hills Tavistock Clinic, London, United Kingdom	Alsh 2 Workshops
	Session 39 Chair: TBC O-85 Migrant Families : Maintaining Traditions while Adapting to New Cultural Patterns Triggers within Generational Conflicts Pedro Gonçalves¹, Salomon Uzan^1,2 ¹Asthefis, Geneva, Switzerland, ²CEFA Genève, Geneva, Switzerland O-86 Exploring Levinas: The Ethical Self in Family Therapy Glenn Larner ¹UTS, Sydney, Australia, ²Queenscliff Health Centre, Sydney, Austria	Boisdale 1 Workshops
	Session 40 Chair: Shan Tate (AFT UK) O-87 Perception of Family Relationships in Eating Disorders Barbara Józefik^1,2, Maciej Pilecki¹, Malgorzata Wolska¹, Dorota Okular¹, Dominika Pindus¹ ¹Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, Krakow, Poland, Krakow, Poland, ²Krakowska Szkola Wyzsza im A. Frycza Modrzewskiego, Krakow, Poland O-88 Alert, pain and fear Martine Nisse, Robert Mesle Centre des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris, France O-89 False-Self and Maltreating System Pierre Sabourin Centre des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris, France O-90 Thalis Papadakis O-91 Family Therapy in Serbia: 50 Years Branco Gracic¹, Nada Polorina² ¹University Clinical Centre, Belgrade ²Institute for Education Study, Belgrade	Boisdale 2 Presentations
15.30 - 16.00	Refreshment Break/Exhibition/Poster Viewing	Halls 1 & 2
16.00	Exhibition Closes
16.00 – 17.30	Oral Presentations/Workshops Session 41 Chair: Nevena Calovska Hertzou (EFTA) O-92 New Country, New Family! Anna Fotou, Georgia Karistianou, Olga Alexatou Private Office, Athenes, Greece O-93 South African Families Looking for “Home”: Some Ongoing Narratives Maria Marchetti-Mercer University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa O-94 Crosscultural Echosystemic Intervention with Migrants Eduardo Brik ¹FEATF, Madrid, Spain, ²FEAP, Madrid, Spain	Clyde - SI* Presentations
	Session 42 Chair: Frank Aust (AFT UK) O-96 Cultural and therapeutic aspects of the emerging new male identity Ch. Katakis, N. Tsamis, G. Bogdanis, I. Kallistratou, J. Mastoris.	Gala 1 Workshops
	Session 43 Chair: Eiga-Liisa Rautiainen (EFTA) O-97 Between Contexts, Across Continents: Multi Dimensional Family Therapy implementation in USA and Europe Graham Bryce¹, Isobel Reilly² ¹Glasgow Multi Dimentional Family Therapy Study, Glasgow, United Kingdom, ²European Multi Dimensional Family Therapy Study, Belfast, United Kingdom O-98 Introducing Research and Reflexivity into Family Therapy Training Rob Wrate Scottish Institute of Human Relations, Scotland, United Kingdom	Gala 2 Workshops
	Session 44 Chair: Annette Creuz (EFTA) O-99 Resilience and immigration Estíbaliz Pereda, Roberto Pereira Escuela Vasco-Navarra de Terapia Familiar, Bilbao, Spain	Forth Workshops
	Session 45 Chair: Lorrainne Davis (AFT UK) O-100 New Techniques in Child Family Therapy : The Family Totem and Others Raymond Traube SISTEMICA, Neuchatel, Switzerland O-101 Pragmatic Experiential Perspective in Clinical Practice Murat Dokur IFTI psychotherapy, Istanbul, Turkey O-102 Resilience of Immigrant Families in Portugal Madalena Alarcão¹, Joana Dias² ¹Facuty of Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal, ²Facuty of Psychology, Coimbra, Portugal	Alsh 1 Presentations
	Session 46 Chair: TBC O-103 A Trauma Life-Span Narrative Approach to Promote the Recovery of Children and their Families Growing up in a Climate of Violence, Neglect and Abuse Arnon Bentovim London Child and Family Consultation Service, London, United Kingdom O-104 Discourses about Roles and Relationships – Implications for Practice Gwyneth Down Great Ormond Ormond Street Hospital Trust, London	Alsh 2 Workshops
	Session 47 Chair: Mourizio Coletti O-105 Working with Migrants in Italy: Alternatives to Psychotherapy Umberta Telfener University of Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy	Boisdale 1 Workshop
	Session 48 Chair: Cherrith Marshall (AFT UK) O-107 “The Past is another Country - They do things Differently there”: Issues of Integration and Differentiation in the Provision of Systemic Therapy within Older Adult Cultures Tania Thorn John Hampden Older Adults Community Mental Health Team, Aylesbury, Bucks., United Kingdom O-108 Understanding Families in Context. Dunbar-Krige Helen, Brown Janet University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa	Boisdale 2 Presentations
17.30 - 18.15	Closing Plenary Chair: Chair of AFT/President of EFTA Difference and Diversity or Division Lord John Alderdice, UK	Clyde - SI*
SI* = Simultaneous Interpretation offered

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