SYLLABUS L•VE & INTIMACY J, THE COUPLES CONFERENCE APRIL 19 - 21, 2002 LAX Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles, CA featuring Constance Ahrons, PhD ¥ Ellyn Bader, PhD ¥ Helen Fisher, PhD Pat Love, EdD ¥ Christine Padesky, PhD ¥ Peggy Papp, ACSW Frank Pittman, MD ¥ David Scharff, MD Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD ¥ Jeffrey Zeig, PhD ~ LAWS & ETHICS Worksho by Mathilda Canter, PhD CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 7:00-8:11AM Registration 8:11-8:30AM Opening Remarks Imperial CD 8:30-8:30 AM Keynote Address - Helen Fisher, PhD Imperial CD Lust, Romantic Attraction and Attachment 8:41 AM-12:41 PM Workshops Exploring the Interaction Between Lust, Romantic Attraction and Attachment- Helen Fisher, PhD Imperial CD After the Affair: Trauma and Recon~ation- Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD Marquis 1 The Truth About Love: Transformng Research Into CHnlcallmpact- Patricia Love, EdD Imperial EF A Primer of Object Relations Couple Therapy- David Scharff, MD Imperial AS 2:00-6:00 PM Workshops Making Divorce Work - Constance Ahrons, PhD lmperiaiAB In Quest of the Mythical Mate: An Introduction to the Developmental Model of Couples- Ellyn Bader, PhD Imperial CD After the Affair: Trust Sexual Intimacy and Forgiveness - Janis Abrahms Spring, PhD Marquis 1 Experiential Methods for Treating Couples - Jeffrey Zeig, PhD Imperial EF 0-0~~~~~~~~0: 8:00 AM-12:0n PM Laws & Ethics Track - Part 1 Marquis 1 Practicing Ethicaly in Today's World- Mathilda Canter, PhD 9:00 AM-12:00 N Workshops Couples at the Crossroads - Constance Ahrons, PhD Imperial AS Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy- Frank Pittman Ill, MD Imperial CD Chaos, Transference Geography and Trauma - David Scharff, MD lmperiaiEF 1:30-3:30 PM Laws & Ethics Track - Part 2 Marquis 1 Practicing EthicaHy in Today's World- Mathilda Canter, PhD 1:30-2:30 PM Panels & Conversation Hour Panel1 - Anatomy and the Physiology- Fisher, Love, Scharff Imperial CD Panel 2 -Affairs - Ahrons, Pittman, Spring Imperial AS Conversation Hour 1 - Bader lmperiaiEF 2:46-3:41 PM Panels & Conversation Hour Panel 3 - Therapist Beliefs- Padesky, Pittman, Scharff lmperiaiCC Panel 4 - Chore Wars or Clutter, Clutter- Who Controls the Clutter? - Bader, Love, Zeig Imperial AE Conversation Hour 2 - Spring Imperial EF 4:00-6:00 PM Keynote Address Imperial Cl Love in the Time of Prozac and Cyberspace - Peggy Papp, ACSW 8:30-8:30 AM Keynote Address lmperiaiCI Couples in Crises; Couples in Treatment- Frank Pittman Ill, MD 9:46 AM-12:41 PM Workshops Men and Marriage- Frank Pittman Ill, MD lmperiaiCI What Ues Beneath: Cognitive Therapy for Couples in Conflict- Christine Padesky, PhD Marquis Is It Symbiosis or Is It Intimacy?- Ellyn Bader, PhD Imperial AI Changing Belief Systems in Couples Therapy- Peggy Papp, ACSW Imperial El 2:00-6:00 PM Workshops Erickson/an Methods to Empower Couples- Jeffrey Zeig, PhD Marquis Sexual Savvy in the Therapy Room - Pat Love, EdD lmperiaiCI When You Wish Upon a Star: Constructive and Deconstructive Language in Couples Therapy- Christine Padesky, PhD Imperial AI Couples Therapy for Depression: His or Her Depression - Peggy Papp, ACSW E 6:16-6:30 PM Closing Remarks Imperiale 5:00-8:00 PM Continuing Education Validation Imperial/Marquis Foy The Couples Conferences have become a leading ONSITE REGISTRATION FEES 11ehicle for learning the applications of the latest ·esearch on facilitating treatment with couples. $450 for the entire Conference Therapists are continually thrust into the tension of $150 per day (can include the Laws & Ethics X>uples' colliding goals, values and interests. As couples Track on Saturday) herapists, we listen daily to conflicting demands and $100 for the Laws and Ethics Track only Jrapple with competing theories and interventions. At this Conference, you will see, hear and learn from ACCREDITATION eading-edge theorists and practitioners as they define, AMA - The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is lescribe and discuss differing approaches that initially accredited by the Accreditation Council for continuing »romote closeness and those that move toward Medical Education to provide continuing medical nanaging difference and facilitating differentiation. education for physicians. By the end of three days, you will have advanced and The Milton H. Erickson Foundation designates this efined your own thinking about how to approach the educational activity for a maximum of 21 * hours in hallenge of facilitating intimacy. Category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only WORKSHOP ON ETHICS those hours of credit that s/he actually spent in the A six-hour Laws & Ethics program is included in the educational activity. ~onference and runs concurrently with the Couples APA - The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is :onference sessions. You may elect to register for this approved by the American Psychological Association to rorkshop only. The course covers the necessary topics offer continuing education for psychologists. The ,r professional license renewal. This special program Erickson Foundation maintains responsibility for the 'ill be presented by Mathilda Canter, PhD, Saturday, program. Credit is provided on an hour-by-hour basis. pril20, 8:00 AM-12:00 Nand 1:30-3:30 PM. (21 * hours maximum) PROGRAM OBJECTIVES NBCC - The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., is 1. In working with couples, be able to directly recognized by the national Board for Certified Counselors :idress issues of love and intimacy. (Provider #5056) to offer continuing education for 2. To compare and contrast clinical/theoretical national certified counselors. We adhere to NBCC :;,rspectives and translate these into specific Continuing Education Guidelines. This program provides terventions. a maximum of 21 * hours. ELIGIBILITY BBS - The Erickson Foundation is a board-approved The Conference is open to professionals in health­ provider (PCE #398). This course meets the lated fields including physicians, doctoral-level qualifications for 21.0* hours of continuing education ;ychologists and dentists who are qualified for credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the embership in, or are members of, their respective California Board of Behavioral Sciences. ofessional organizations (i.e. AMA, APA, ADA). The BRN - The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is >nference also is open to professionals with mental approved by the Board of Registered Nursing in !alth-related degrees (i.e. MSW, MA, MS, MSN) from California to offer continuing education for nurses :credited institutions. (Provider No. CEP 9376). This program is eligible for a Applications will be accepted from full-time graduate maximum of 21.0* hours. Jdents in accredited programs in the above fields who pply a letter from their department certifying their Licensed California Psychologists 1-time student or intern status as of April 2002. APA Sponsor credit is accepted for MCEP credit in California. CE credit only will be granted under the Milton SPONSORSHIP H. Erickson Foundation APA Sponsor approval. This meeting is sponsored by the Milton H. Erickson Psychologists will have to report their own undation, Inc., a federal nonprofit corporation, formed attendance using the appropriate form and paying the promote and advance the contributions made to required filing fee to the MCEP Accrediting Agency. alth sciences by the late Milton H. Erickson, MD. The Reporting forms will be available at the Erickson ard of Directors of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation Foundation Desk during the Conference. t Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD, Elizabeth M. Erickson, BA, *Total number of hours depends on the length xanna Erickson Klein, PhD, Camillo Loriedo, MD, J. and number of events attended aries Theisen, MA, MBA, JD, and Bernhard Trenkle, »1. Psych. The Erickson Foundation does not discriminate on FINANCIAL DISPOSITION basis of race, sex, color, national or ethnic origin. Profits from the Conference will be used by the Organizational assistance was provided by The Milton H. Erickson Foundation to support its uples Institute; Menlo Park, California. The Directors educational and scientific efforts. Ellyn Bader, PhD and Peter Pearson, PhD CONTINUING EDUCATION SITE AND ACCOMMODATIONS Participants in CE activities will be made aware of The Couples Conference will be held entirely within any affiliation or financial interest that may affect the the LAX Marriott Hotel. The Conference hotel and speaker's presentation(s). Each speaker has been meeting rooms are accessible to people with disabilities. requested to complete a conflict of interest statement. The names of faculty members declaring a potential PARKING conflict of interest are indicated in the program syllabus. Self-parking and indoor valet parking are available at the hotel. The rate for valet parking is $11 per day. CONTINUING EDUCATION VALIDATION The rate for self-parking is $8 per day. These rates are Validation of Continuing Education forms will be good for all registrants of the Couples Conference. held throughout the Conference. After attending all BOOKSTORE sessions for which they are requesting continuing The bookstore at the COuples Conference features education credits, attendees may submit the books by the presenters, as well as related titles. The completed evaluation forms to the Erickson Foundation bookstore is located in the Marquis 2 room. CE Validation Desk. Attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance BOOKSTORE HOURS (Hours may vary) showing the total number of Continuing Education Friday - 7:00 AM-5:30 PM credit hours they have earned. Saturday - 7:00 AM-6:30 PM The Continuing Education Validation Desk will be Sunday- 8:00 AM-3:00 PM open until6:00 PM, Sunday, April21 If you leave the Conference before Sunday AUTHORS' HOUR & RECEPTION afternoon, evaluation forms can be validated at the Saturday 5:15 - 6:15 PM Registration Desk or completed forms may be mailed in the Imperial/Marquis Foyer to the Milton H. Erickson Foundation and a Certificate of Attendance will be mailed to you. Full attendance at each session is required to receive CE credit. No partial credit will be awarded. AUDIOTAPE DESK Professionally recorded audiotapes are available at Workshop evaluation forms MUST be completed the Audiotape Desk in the Marquis Foyer.