Consultation Groups

HELPING COUPLES AND FAMILIES NAVIGATE ILLNESS AND DISABILITY
Seminar and Case Consultation Group (18 hours/18 CECs)
John Rolland, MD, MPH

This small group combined seminar and complex case consultation format is ideal to gain expertise in practice with individuals, couples, and families challenged by serious illness and disability. Rolland’s new book, Helping Couples and Families Navigate Illness and Disability: An Integrated Approach, provides a guiding framework to address the evolving challenges in the experience of illness over time. This resilience-oriented practice approach integrates the psychosocial demands of various types and phases of illness with family and individual life cycle concerns, multigenerational legacies, and beliefs/meaning-making. Topics include: working with child, adolescent, adult, couples, and later life issues. Discussion includes timely, cost-effective applications in different clinical settings, including preventive consultations, psychosocial checkups, brief and intensive interventions, and psychoeducational multifamily groups.

John Rolland, MD, MPH, is Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Co-Founder and Executive Co-Director, Chicago Center for Family Health. Widely recognized for his conceptual model and clinical work with couples and families facing serious health conditions, his new book is Helping Couples and Families Navigate Illness and Disability: An Integrated Approach. Other professional books include his landmark volume, Families, Illness & Disability: An Integrative Treatment Model; and (co-author) Individuals, Families and the New Era of Genetics. Past president of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) and recipient of numerous awards, he is a highly regarded international speaker and consultant on family-oriented approaches to major health conditions.

6 Bi-Weekly 3-Hour Sessions, Mondays, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm, Starting October 1, 2018.
Remote video conferencing available
Tuition:  Register before 9/20/18: $725 ; After 9/20: $775
For: Post-master’s degree practitioners.
Continuing Education Credits: (18 hours/18 CECs) for LCSWs, LMFTs, LCPCs and Clinical Psychologists.
Location: 20 N. Wacker Dr., Suite 1442 (Civic Opera Building)

For further information
contact us at ccfh.admin@ccfhchicago.org or 312-372-4731

Froma Walsh, MSW, Ph.D. is Co-Founder and Co-Director at the Chicago Center for Family Health and Firestone Professor Emerita, at the University of Chicago. Dr. Walsh is a leading international expert in the field of family therapy. Her research-informed family resilience framework is applied worldwide in clinical and community-based practice, with a wide range of situations, e.g. serious illness, trauma, and loss, at-risk youth, and multi-stress conditions. Her collaborative, multi-level systemic approach integrates developmental, relational, socio-cultural, and multi-faith spiritual perspectives. Dr. Walsh, a Clinical Psychologist and AAMFT Approved Supervisor, is Past President, American Family Therapy Academy; past Editor, Journal of Martial & Family Therapy; and a recipient of many awards for distinguished contributions to the mental health field. With 120+ publications, her most recent books are Strengthening Family Resilience (3rd ed., 2016); Normal Family Processes: Growing Diversity and Complexity, (4th ed., 2016). Dr. Walsh is highly respected and inspiring in clinical education and supervision.