UAMFT Sponsored Continuing Education Opportunities

Co-Parenting Works: Helping Divorced and Divorcing Parents Navigate Transitions in Parenting

Friday October 25, 2019
9:00-12:15 3 CEUs

Divorce places children at great risk for a variety of problems, largely because of their parents’ diminished capacity to parent. Effective co-parenting reduces the risks these children face. Marriage and family therapists are in a unique position to help parents strengthen their co-parenting skills in order to better support their children’s adjustment to divorce.

At the end of this workshop, Participants will be able to DUAL:

• Distinguish between a Parenting Plan and a Co-Parenting Strategy
• Understand the unique demands of post-divorce parenting
• Assess parenting styles and help parents identify their own parenting styles
• List the components of an effective Co-Parenting Strategy

Relational Ethics: Developing a Systemic Understanding and Application of Ethical Principles

Friday October 25, 2019
1:45-5:00 3 CEUs

Practicing professional ethics in a vacuum can be risky for therapists. Using a collaborative and systemic approach to ethical decision-making with both colleagues and clients can expand options and outcomes when therapists are faced with ethical situations.

At the end of this workshop, Participants will be able to: SAIL

• State the fundamental ethical principles for Marriage and Family Therapist
• Apply a systemic ethical framework proposed by Karl Tomm
• Investigate ethical decision-making in collaborative group processes
• List the elements that present the greatest challenges in ethical decision-making

Microanalysis: A Close Look at Therapeutic Conversations

Saturday October 26, 2019
9:00-5:00 6 CEUs

This 6 hour course will focus on psychotherapy communication. We will discuss an overview of communication components (questions, etc.), myths of communication, mircoanalysis of face-to-face dialogue, applying microanalysis to one’s clinical work. Opportunities for applying the material will occur throughout the day.

Course Objectives:

• To learn the basic components of communication
• To learn how the basic components of communication occur in psychotherapy
• To learn the basics of microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue
• To understand the myths of communication
• To apply the method of microanalysis to the participants’ clinical work

Our Presenters

Victor Nelson, S.T.M., LMFT began his ministry as a Lutheran pastor in 1974 before becoming a Pastoral Counselor and a Marriage and Family Therapist. He has integrated the disciplines of therapy and spirituality in his work since 1985. Victor has been in private practice as a marriage and family therapist since 1988, is an AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor, and has conducted numerous workshops and training events on a local, national, and international level. He is a former director of the Family Institute in Logan, Utah and also a former director of the Santa Fe Pastoral Counseling Center. Victor currently serves on the Southwestern College Board of Trustees where he has also taught as adjunct faculty since 2014. Victor is a licensed marriage and family therapist in New Mexico. He has been a practitioner of solution-focused brief therapy since the 1990’s and brings a solution-focused perspective and passion into his therapy, supervision, teaching, mediation, spiritual direction, and consulting work.

Sara Jordan, PhD, LMFT is an Associate Professor and Program Director of UNLV’s Couple and Family Therapy Program. Dr. Jordan’s research focuses on recognizing solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) as an evidenced-based practice. Her work on applying SFBT with substance abusers has been nationally recognized on SAMHSA’s NREPP registry. In addition, Dr. Jordan is a co-founding member of The International Microanalysis Associates. Their expertise lies in in microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue (MFD), which is the systematic, moment-by-moment examination of specific observable behaviors in face-to-face dialogue, focusing on their immediate communicative functions. Dr. Jordan has received national and international recognition for her research efforts.