Opening Day Conference
Anxious Times, Anxious Families
Overview
October 4, 2019
Anxious Times, Anxious Families will be the topic of the Bowen Center’s Opening Day Conference for the 2019-2020 academic year. Anxiety will be presented from a family systems perspective, exploring the difference it can make to see anxiety in the family rather than in the individual. By the end of the day, clinicians will have an increased understanding of human functioning as related to anxiety and an increased ability to use a family diagram in working with a variety of presentations of anxiety in family groups.
Location
University of the District of Columbia
David A. Clarke School of Law
4340 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Building 52, Room 515
Washington, DC 20008
Note: UDC faculty, students, staff & Trinity Washington University students are free to attend. Please bring your ID for verification at registration.
Date
October 4, 2019
TIME
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Schedule
Time |
Session Title |
Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | Anxiety – What Difference Does it Make to See Anxiety in the Family Rather than in the Individual? | Anne S. McKnight, EdD, LCSW |
| 10:05 | Observing Anxiety through the Family Diagram | Joan Jurkowski, MS, LCPC |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 | Observing Anxiety in Triangles: Examples from Films | Amie Post, MA, LCMFT |
| 11:50 | Lunch Break | |
| 1:15 | Break-Out Group A: Anxiety in the Client, Anxiety in the Therapist | Douglas C. Murphy, MA, LCMFT |
| Break-Out Group B: Zooming Out: Seeing Anxiety as Adaptive – How Anxiety Moves around a Family System | Kathleen Smith, PhD, LPC | |
| 2:10 | Break | |
| 2:20 | Break-Out Group A: A Rose by Any Other Name: DSM-V General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) or Just Plain Afraid? | Carrie E. Collier, PhD, LPC, CRC |
| Break-Out Group B: The Holiday Season: Managing Self Without Cutting Off | Laura R. Brooks, LCSW-C | |
| 3:15 | Closing Thoughts | |
| 3:30 | Adjournment |
CEU/CEs
The Georgetown Family Center is approved as an independent provider of continuing education credit by the Maryland State Board of Social Work Examiners and the District of Columbia Board of Social Work. Georgetown Family Center/Bowen Center for the Study of the Family has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6225. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Georgetown Family Center/Bowen Center for the Study of the Family is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.The conference day provides a maximum of 5 hours of Category I continuing education credit for social workers and for counselors.
If you plan to participate in the CEU/CE process, it is necessary to:
Pay the CEU/CE fee of $15
Sign CEU/CE registration form the day of conference
Prepare to stay for the entire conference
Submit a completed evaluation at day’s end
Return policy: Refund will be issued if cancellation is given within 24 hours
Georgetown Family Center, Inc.
Opening Day Conference
ACEP No. 6225
About the Opening Day Conference
The Opening Day Conference is a single day meeting that kicks off the Clinical Conference Series and focuses on a basic Bowen family systems theory concept. Ideas such as the family as a system, triangles in relationships, the family diagram, anxiety in a family, and goal-setting are discussed. Applications for clinicians are explored in small group breakout sessions.