Seminar-Workshop In Family Dynamics & Counseling

September 4, 2007 · Filed under Programs

The Center for Family Ministries (CEFAM) is offering this intensive, two-week seminar workshop particularly for persons and agencies whose work is focused on helping families.

The program is designed to develop:

KNOWLEDGE

  • Look at a family not simply as pathological/ dysfunctional but also with opportunities and strengths
  • Appreciate the Filipino family psyche
  • Exposure to different family counseling/therapy approaches
  • Learn family dynamics from a systems theory perspective
  • Understand crises/transitions & how families can cope
  • Learn “differentiation of self”, “boundaries”, and its implication to the Filipino concept of “family connectedness”
  • Awareness and understanding on how one’s emotional birth order molds a person’s personality, behavior, and managerial skills.

SKILLS

  • Assessment
  • Identify healthy patterns of behavior/ strengths and use them
  • Capacity to “define self”
  • Identify which family counseling approach would fit the helper
  • Distinguish: Ordinary conversation and counseling
  • Confession and counseling
  • Spiritual direction and counseling
  • Advice-giving and counseling
  • Treatment:
  • Observe the different family counseling/ therapy approaches demonstrated and try to use them under supervision
  • Use reflecting skills for empathy and the ability to clarify
  • Transference/ counter transference and referral

ATTITUDES

  • Awareness of being a “church” and deepen hope, trust, faith, and humility
  • Awaken and appreciate the dignity of person despite deep psychological problems
  • Deepen compassion (empathy) as one looks across generations
  • Appreciate “Serenity Prayer”

The seminar-workshop will make use of:

  • a psycho-spiritual approach in helping couples
  • experiential process activities, both individually and in groups
  • demonstration of counseling sessions
  • role play sessions
  • lectures, readings, case studies
  • growth group process
      Teaching & Administrative Staff:
      Fr. Ruben M. Tanseco, S.J., M.A., S.T.L.
      Ma. Mila C. Domingo, R.S.W.
      Teodulo P. Gonzales, S.J., Ph. D.
      Arsenio A. Lumiqued, Jr., M.S.C., Ph.D.
      Myrna Joyce O. Sanchez, M.A.
      Maureen N. Sandejas, M.A.
      Antonia C. Siy, M.A.

    DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: April 12, 2008

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