Barry University’s Family CARE Center is proud to be co-hosting the 2015 Annual Winter Conference along with the Florida Family Research Network Inc.
Join featured speaker Dr. Roberta M. Gilbert as she discusses systems thinking and some of the dilemmas that therapists face using the new paradigm while she suggests ways of dealing with them through a workshop entitled “Systems Thinking in the Helping Professions: Implications of Clinical Practice and Education.”
Date: Saturday, February, 28, 2015
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Thompson Hall, Room #230
Dr. Gilbert, who is the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Human Systems and on the faculty of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family (formerly Georgetown Family Center), is a psychiatrist whose special interest is Bowen family systems theory and its extensions and applications to individuals, families, and organizations.
Bowen family systems theory is a theory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional unit and uses systems thinking to describe the complex interactions in the unit. It is the nature of a family that its members are intensely connected emotionally. Often people feel distant or disconnected from their families, but this is more feeling than fact. Family members so profoundly affect each other’s thoughts, feelings, and actions that it often seems as if people are living under the same “emotional skin.” People solicit each other’s attention, approval, and support and react to each other’s needs, expectations, and distress.
Participants will gain information about working in therapy and education settings from a family systems perspective. Gilbert will also highlight two recordings of people working from the family systems orientation that illustrate how people use the systems way of thinking.
To register, visit ffrnbowentheory.org, or for more information, contact Anna Dow by calling 305.899.3701.