The 2 Day Congress will present general topics of brief therapy,
strategic therapy, brief strategic therapy,
and systemic therapy.
Exciting new advances will be presented.
Keynote Address by Cloe Madanes
Presenters include an international panel of innovators representing MRI Brief Therapy,
Italian Brief Strategic Therapy (BST), Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), Strategic Experiential Family Therapy, and Strategic Family Therapy.
Tired of feeling less than effective with difficult problems?
Bored with a caseload that experiences little change?
Unsure of how to handle certain problems?
The 2008 International Congress offers a fresh perspective on treatment unlike anything you were taught in graduate school.
Discover specific techniques to produce change in difficult problems like
- Eating Disorders
- Conduct Disorder
- PTSD
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Anxiety
- Depression
Learn strategies to bind resistance and bring serious symptoms to their self annihilation.
Discover why common sense is your worst enemy.
Find out stupid things that therapists do that undermine their own success.
Explore the current movements in brief and strategic therapy:
The Tradition
MRI Brief Therapy
Presenters
Dr. Wendel Ray, Professor of Family Therapy at Louisiana State Univ
Director of the Don Jackson Archive
Dr. Katharina Anger, Research Associate at the Brief Therapy Center of MRI, co-founder of Centre for Systemic Action
Dr. Barbara Anger-Diaz, Senior Reseacrh Fellow, MRI, co-founder of Centre for Systemic Action
Strategic Family Therapy
Presenters
Cloe Madanes, Pre-eminent Founder of Strategic Family Therapy,
Professor of Family Therapy, International lecturer and noted author.
CLOE MADANES WILL PRESENT THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. Marilyn Wedge, Author and Lecturer on Strategic Therapy
The Integration
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Presenters
Dr. Michael Robbins, Research Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health,
Miller School of Medicine, Univ of Miami
Dr. Anamitra Basu, Senior Lecturer at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
Strategic Experiential Family Therapy
Presenters
Dr. Liliana Cabouli, Director of the Strategic Experiential Family Therapy Institute, Radio and TV Personality
The Evolution
Italian Brief Strategic Therapy
Advanced Italian Brief Strategic Therapy
Presenters
Dr. Giorgio Nardone, Director of the Centro di Terapia Strategic in Arezzo, Italy
Dr. Claudette Portelli, Professor of Psychology & Counseling at the University of Malta
Dr. Roberta Milanese, Professor and Researcher at Centro di Terapia Strategica of Arezzo
Dr. Chad Hybarger, Director of the Family Therapy Institute of San Diego
Christian Moretto MSW, Director of the Brief Strategic Therapy Center of New York
Dr. Dezsoe Birkas, Psychiatrist and Systemic Brief Therapist, head of the Phobia Clinic at Semmelweis University Budapest
Dr. Matteo Papantuono, BST psychotherapist and educational psychologist specialised in school-related difficulties and young people problems
Dr. Federica Cagnoni, Professor and Researcher at Centro di Terapia Strategica of Turin
Dr. Teresa Garcia Rivera, General Director of the Gregory Bateson Institute, Paris
Where & When
TOWN AND COUNTRY RESORT & CONVENTION CENTER
500 HOTEL CIRCLE NORTH (Access to Conference Center via Fashion Valley Road)
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92108
Friday September 12 and Saturday September 13, 2008
9:30AM - 4:30PM
Directions to Conference Center
The Conference Center is directly behind the Town & Country Resort
facing Fashion Valley Road.
Conference Center Parking is accessed from Fashion Valley Road
Interstate 8 East (El Centro) - Exit 2nd Hotel Circle Exit and turn left going under the overpass.
Interstate 8 West (Beaches) - Exit Hotel Circle and turn right.
Interstate 5 North or South - Exit onto Interstate 8 East (El Centro) and exit 2nd Hotel Circle exit, turn left continuing under the overpass.
Interstate 805 North or South - Interstate 15 North or South & Hwy 163. Exit onto Interstate 8 West (Beaches), exit Hotel Circle and turn right.
