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IFTA 2015 Intensive Institute

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International Family Therapy Association

Research e-News

Volume 7, Issue 3

Click here to view the July 2015 issue. This newsletter is designed to help IFTA members stay informed about research happening throughout the globe that impacts the field of Family Therapy. It also provides newsworthy updates on the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA).

Are you involved in or aware of current research projects relevant

to the field of Family Therapy?

Let us know so it can be considered for a future issue of

IFTA's Research e-Forum Newsletter.

The International Family Therapy Association (IFTA) provides international conferences to promote, strengthen and improve the quality of family therapy, the quality of relationships within families and to promote well-being and peace within our world. They also publish the prestigious Journal of Family Psychotherapy for their members.

Visit the IFTA website at www.ifta-familytherapy.org

More information on Izmir More information on Hawaii

World Family Therapy Congress

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IFTA's
23rd
World Family
Therapy
Congress
March 11 - 14, 2015
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
JW Marriott Hotel, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Congress Headquarters
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Dear Anna,
We are counting on you to FORWARD this to your
students and colleagues. At the request of
faculties around the world who are just beginning
the fall term, we have extended the deadline.
Call for Presentation Proposals
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO
September 30, 2014
CLICK HERE to Submit Online
Please click on this link to print a flyer to distribute
or to post on your bulletin board
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THIS IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TO AN
INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE. THIS INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE HAS NEVER BEFORE VISITED ASIA.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT...
Hotel Accommodations and Venue
Trips and Tours
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IFTA's
23rd
World Family
Therapy
Congress
March 11 - 14, 2015
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
JW Marriott Hotel, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Congress Headquarters
EVENT SPONSOR
Visit Our Websites
www.ifta-congress.org
www.ifta-familytherapy.org
SOCIAL NETWORKS
"Friend" us on Facebook"
Twitter IFTA
Dear Anna,
We are counting on you to FORWARD this to your
students and colleagues. At the request of
faculties around the world who are just beginning
the fall term, we have extended the deadline.
Call for Presentation Proposals
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO
September 30, 2014
CLICK HERE to Submit Online
Please click on this link to print a flyer to distribute
or to post on your bulletin board
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THIS IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TO AN
INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE. THIS INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE HAS NEVER BEFORE VISITED ASIA.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT...
Hotel Accommodations and Venue
Trips and Tours
Keynote Speakers
Registration

Second issue of the World Family Therapy Congress

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International Family Therapy Association

World Family Therapy Congress e-News

Volume 1, Issue 2

Click here to view the Second issue of the World Family Therapy Congress e-Newsletter! This newsletter is designed to keep you updated with important information regarding World Family Therapy Congresses past and upcoming.

Don't Forget

Call for Presentation Proposals

DEADLINE IS

August 30, 2013

CLICK HERE to Submit Online. Take this opportunity to
present to colleagues from around the world.

Please forward this email to friends and colleagues

who may be interested in submitting a proposal.

Visit the IFTA website at www.ifta-familytherapy.org

International Family Therapy Association

General Secretary, IFTA

William Hiebert

2014 World Family Therapy Congress

5 - 8 March 2014 * Swissotel Grand Efes
Izmir, Turkey

EFTANewsletter5

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A word from the president

Welcome to our EFTA Newsletter.

As you can see we have contributions from different events and different countries that show the wealth and range of tradition, experience and expertise within our organisation.
If you would like to make a contribution to the Newsletter, please let us know - we should love to hear from you.

With all good wishes
Arlene Vetere

Obituary notes for Michael White

Michael White in memoriam

by Allan Holmgren, Dispuk Denmark
Michael White in memoriam (PDF 268 Kb)

Panning for Gold (on Michael White)

by Mary Sykes Wylie
Panning for Gold (PDF 128 Kb)
We express our appreciation to Richard Simon, Ph.D., Editor of The Psychotherapy Networker, for authorizing the reproduction of this article, which appeared in the Psychotherapy Networker website during the summer 2008, written shortly before Michael White's death and published in his homage.

Articles in several languages (English, Français, Italiano, Español)

Sandro Giovanazzi (Chile), Juan Luis Linares (España)

Dinámicas relacionales parentales en torno a los hijos en el proceso de separación conyugal. El "síndrome del juicio de Salomón" (PDF 196 Kb)
In Revista Sistemas Familiares y Otros Sistemas Humanos, A. 23 n°1, Buenos Aires 2007.

Anne Courtois (Belgique)

Couples à transactions rigides: Re-scénarisation des attachements insécure
Perspectives systémique et développementale (PDF 240 Kb)
In Cahiers Critiques de Thérapie Familiale et de pratiques de Réseaux n°38, 2007/1, page 211 à 226.

Guerre parentale et clivage de la fratrie: un double enfermement
Ouvertures cliniques (PDF 192 Kb)
In Cahiers de Psychologie Clinique n°31, 2008/2, page 51 à 68.

Russel Crane, Jacob D. Christenson (U.S.A)

The Medical Offset Effect: Patterns in Outpatient Services Reduction for High Utilizers of Health Care (PDF 184 Kb)
In Contemporary Family Therapy (2008) 30: 127-128

Francesco Bruni, Pier Giuseppe Defilippi (Italia)

Memoria e valutazione dell'esperienza clinica (PDF 856 Kb)
In Ecologia della mente, vol. 28, n. 2, 2005

Francesco Bruni, Sabrina Caruso, Sabrina Caspani,
Angelo Polimeno, Stefano Ramella Benna (Italia)

I destini incrociati e la psicoterapia: una suggestione analogica (PDF 580 Kb)
In Psicobiettivo, volume XXVII, 1-2007

Guy Ausloos (Canada)

Unconditional family focus & the competence of the family (PDF 136 Kb)
Lecture from ISBA congress in Copenhague, Denmark on 24/09/2008.

Pierre Duterte (France)

La thérapie familiale pour des victimes de torture (PDF 156 Kb)

European masters degree in family therapy

Preliminary announcement

Over the last two years Per Jensen from the Diakonhjemmet University College in Oslo and Jim Sheehan from University College Dublin have begun to prepare the ground for Systemic Family Practitioners in Europe to obtain not simply their own local Qualification in Family Therapy from their Training Institute but an additional European Masters in Family Therapy as well. While much more detail about this will be circulated as the planning progresses the basic idea is to provide an easily recognized degree in Family Therapy that would be available across Europe to those successfully completing a local family therapy training that meets relevant European standards at the same time as undertaking a small part of their training in Training Institutes outside their own national borders.
This will be a wonderful opportunity to increase the exchange between teachers , trainers and students from different parts of the European region and to further develope the strength and identity of European Family Therapy.
We would be really happy to hear from both individuals, organizations and institutes who may be interested in participating in this developement and we can be contacted at jsheehan@mater.ie or per.kri.jensen@gmail.com
Per Jensen and Jim Sheehan

From Finland

Finland in Shock after school shootings - How to go on?

by Jaakko Seikkula (PDF 68 Kb)

News

From Honorary member of EFTA

Carlos E. Sluzki, M.D., itinerant Honorary Member of EFTA, has moved from his prior position as Chair, Department of Psychiatry at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Professor (Clinical) at UCLA to become a professor of Global and Community Health at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he is teaching Social Epidemiology and other related subjects, while living and practicing in Washington DC.

News from EFTA-CIM

Two good news

The 2008 membership directory will be sent to you in December 2008.

EFTA-CIM has proposed to the National Family Therapy Organisations (NFTO) of each country to sign an agreement of collaboration. This agreement allows the members of the NFTO who are already members of EFTA-CIM (as well as the ones who will join EFTA-CIM) to benefit of a reduced membership subscription of 40 € (instead of 70 €).
The National Associations from Belgium, Finland, Greece, Poland and Switzerland has already signed this agreement. We hope other countries will join soon.
It is important to stress that the force of EFTA-CIM is in particular the number and the quality of its members.

Jacques Pluymaekers,
Chair of EFTA-CIM

News from EFTA-TIC

Meetings of trainers

Since September 2003, EFTA-TIC is regularly organizing meetings exclusively for trainers on different themes. These meetings bring together the Chamber's members to share experiences, successes and concerns. These events were held in Barcelona - Spain, Florence - Italy, Rhodes - Greece and, most recently, Toulouse - France.

Participants' evaluations are very positive each time. Our 4th meeting last September in Toulouse - hosted by Eric Trappeniers, Director of the Institut de la Famille - was on the theme "Training in Family Therapy: Integrating Content, Form and Relationship" and was again a success. 108 trainers participated representing 49 institutes from 18 countries. A high level of scientific quality was demonstrated in 17 interactive workshops and in the presentations at 2 round tables:
"Accommodating a Multi-Cultural Europe: Implications for Therapy and Training" and
"Creating a European Program on Family Therapy and Systemic Practice: New Possibilities".
As is a tradition at all our meetings, we also had an enjoyable experience exchanging more personally - this time listening to French musicians while singing and dancing together to songs representing our various countries.

We are now preparing for the 5th Trainers' Meeting to be held in Krakow, Poland in September 2009 (dates to be announced).
We invite trainers to join is in what promises to be an inspiring event.

EFTA-TIC Board

News from EFTA-NFTO

Report from annual meeting in Helsinki

NFTO- chamber had it's annual meeting in Helsinki, Finland in June. Both new and old members of the chamber and the board were present. The atmosphere in the meeting was enthusiastic and collaborative. SEE SOME PICTURES (PDF 2,3 Mb)

The board had sent secretary's report beforehand to the members of the chamber, summarizing the work that had been done in the chamber and in EFTA in general during the past three years, to help especially the newcomers in engaging themselves to the work. In the meeting the beginning of the meeting was dedicated to getting to know each other, to "warming up" and to the reports of previous work. Also priorities in NFTO-work were discussed, in order to focus on central themes. After that working groups were formed around these topics:
research; creating a "core text" describing family therapy and it's evidence base; ethics; updating NFTO profile; planning of a questionnairy concerning training standards of family therapy training; planning of the chamber meetings.

The chamber heard the reports from the groups and made a plan of how to proceed with the work. The groups had worked hard and presented many important and relevant observations and questions for the board.

The role of national representatives in the chamber was discussed during the meeting, including for example reporting from one's own country in the EFTA newsletter, encouraging family therapists in their countries to join EFTA and acting as a link between their association and the NFTO chamber and board. A document of the role of representatives will be created by the board.

Representatives from other two chambers, TIC and CIM and the president of EFTA, Arlene Vetere, visited the meeting and informed the chamber about current issues. E.g. raising the membership in CIM in order to strengthen EFTA:s economical possibilities to function was discussed.

The chamber will meet next time in June 2009 in Leipzig, Germany.

On behalf of NFTO board
Eija-Liisa Rautiainen
Chair person

Research

Therapeutic alliances in family therapy

by Valentin Escudero, University of La Coruña, Spain
know more about this research (PDF 72 Kb)

International congress

7th EFTA congress in Paris, 29-31 October 2010

Congress theme: 60 years of family therapy, 20 years of EFTA, and after?
New ways for systemic practice
60 ans de thérapie familiale, 20 ans d'EFTA, et après?
Nouvelles perspectives pour la pratique systémique
Congress site (available soon): www.eftaparis2010.com

World Family Therapy Congress – IFTA 2009
in Portorož, Slovenia March 4-7, 2009

Congress theme: Reconciling Differences: Can Family Therapy Help Heal the World?
Congress site: http://www.paragon-conventions.com/ifta2009

Review of books

La Famille en Héritage

Zorica Jérémic, Patrick Vinois, Ed. Larousse, avril 2008
Lire le commentaire d'Irène Kaganski (en français)

Prendre place - la famille, l'école, la thérapie

Yveline Rey, Lucien Halin, Ed. Fabert, Psychothérapies Créative, 04/04/2008
Lire la 4ème de couverture (en français)

The Child's Voice in Family Therapy: A Systemic Perspective

Carole Gammer, W.W. Norton, November 2008
Read the book review by Annette Kreuz Smolinski (in English)

Spiel-Räume. Lehrbuch der systemischen Therapie mit Kindern und Jugendlichen

Rüdiger Retzlaff, bei Klett-Cota, 2008
mehr Informationen

Contacting us

For any contributions, comments, ... Do not hesitate to contact us!

President of EFTA: Professor Arlene Vetere drarlenevetere@hotmail.com
EFTA Secretariat : Fabienne Dardenne efta@scarlet.be

EFTAnews 10

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EFTA General | contact

Новости EFTA, июнь 2010
Обращение президента.

Дорогие коллеги, члены EFTA, рада приветствовать вас. Это последнее мое обращение к вам в качестве президента нашей ассоциации. На конгрессе в Париже я покину эту должность. Мне было очень приятно работать с вами и наблюдать, как развивалась EFTA.

Она становилась все более значимой и влиятельной, помогая развивать системное мышление и системную практику в наших комитетах и организациях. Все это реализовывалось благодаря согласию и коллективному видению, а так же искреннему уважению работы всех нас в тренинговых институтах в разных странах. Надеюсь встретиться с Вами на конгрессе в Париже, где мы будем радоваться нашим различиям, делиться опытом в исследованиях и клинической практике.

С наилучшими пожеланиями Арлин Ветер, президент EFTA.
Некролог

4-го апреля 2010 умерла Розмари Вельтер-Эндерлин, известный шведский системный психотерапевт, пионер в этой области.

Некрологи по-немецки здесь.

Read the obituary (IN GERMAN) by Tom Levold (PDF 48 Kb)
Read the obituary (IN GERMAN) by Bruno Hildenbrand (PDF 128 Kb)

Статьи на разных языках об исследованиях и терапевтической практике смотрите здесь

Relvas, A.P., Escudero V., Sotero L., Cunha, D., Portugal, A., Vilaça, M.

The System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances (SOFTA) and the preliminary Portuguese studies (PDF 136 Kb) .

Mitta M. (Greece)

Read the article in Greek (PDF 424 Kb)

Argumentarium : "Familien- und Paartherapien / systemische Therapien"
Dieses Argumentarium (PDF 152 Kb) ist das Ergebnis einer Memoria: "Terapie familiari e di coppia/ terapie sistemiche"
Questa memoria (PDF 132 Kb) è il frutto di una collaborazione tra le associazioni nazionali e cantonali svizzeri di terapi a familiare e sistemica e consiglio coniugale (SISTEMICA, ASTHEFIS, SGS, STIRPS, VEF).
Argumentación : "Terapias familiares y conyugales/terapias sistémicas"
Esta argumentación (PDF 128 Kb)

К сожалению, эти тексты не переведены на английский. Ждем добровольцев, которые сделают это.

Минимальные тренинговые стандарты EFTA.

Установлены стандарты европейского уровня для тренеров по системной семейной психотерапии, супервизоров и обучающих институтов.

Эти правила guidelines (PDF 124 Kb)

Должны применяться местными и национальными организациями, осуществляющими регистрацию и аккредитацию профессионалов и институтов.

Во Франции принят новый закон о психотерапии.

Read the summary (PDF 72 Kb

В Германии назначен приз Немецкого системного Общества на 2011 год.

Информация на сайте

http://www.systemische-gesellschaft.de/presse.php?y=2&mod=single&pfi_id=104

Интернет-платформа для исследований в области системной психотерапии

( http://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/Sektion-Medizinische-Organisationspsychologie.105479.0.htmla ) www.ochsundorban.de ,: www.systemisch-forschen.de

Интернет-платформа поддерживает развитие системных исследований для практиков и научных работников.

Имеются: 1.программы и стандарты для проведения системных исследований 2.Мнения экспертов о том, что такое системное исследование, 3. Дискуссионный форум, где клиницисты и ученые обсуждают системные исследования4 список полезных контактов.

Исследовательский центр Тавистокской клиники в Лондоне
(http://www.uel-ftsrc.org/) with our webpage
Для более полной информации
matthias_ochs@med.uni-heidelberg.de

В Италии поменялся президент психолого-псхиотерапевтического общества. Теперь Джанфранко Манфрида.

7-й конгресс EFTA в Париже в октябре 2010. Всех очень зовут. Пригласительные письма на всех европейских языках. www.eftaparis2010.com

Призыв участвовать в выборах в правление тренингового комитета EFTA/.Информация здесь.
(PDF 144 Kb) . forms on the EFTA-TIC page .

Последние публикации

Biologie et psychothérapie

Plus d'informations

Les humiliations de l'exil

Francine Rosenbaum, Edtions Fabert, 01/2010. Plus d'informations (PDF 196 Kb)

IX Congresso Brasileiro de Terapia Familiar (Brazil)

Buzios 11 a 14 de agosto de 2010
www.abratef.org.br

See the agenda on the EFTA website

For any contributions, comments,... Do not hesitate to contact us!

vetere@surrey.ac.uk
EFTA Secretariat : Fabienne Dardenne efta@scarlet.be

A Word from the President of EFTA

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EFTA General | contact

Newsletter n° 10 | December 2011

A Word from the President of EFTA/ Le mot de la Présidente d'EFTA

Dear EFTA Colleagues,

Many of us in the late 1960's, may remember singing Bob Dylan's "The Times they are a- Changin'":

Come gather round people

wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you

is worth savin'

Then you'd better start swimming

or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Now, after over 10 years into this new century, these lyrics are again relevant. In the midst of socioeconomic unpredictable developments, crises and imminent stress, we may ask: what are the processes that make it more likely that families overcome adversity and how do we as family therapists help families through these difficult periods?

In a world of individuation and a diminishing sense of belongingness, where does the future of our profession as family therapists lay? Will we become an endangered species, with family therapy being increasingly less applied to dealing with personal difficulties, taken over by pharmacology and less process-oriented approaches?

On the other hand, will we be able to remain open systems and change according to the needs of today's families? To accept the varied contemporary family forms and structures and to facilitate both the well-being of the individual and the interrelations of family members? How will our theories and practices be affected by phenomena common today, such as migration, interculturalism and poverty?

The 2013 EFTA Conference in Istanbul, October 24th-27th, with its theme "Opportunities in a Time of Crisis: The Role of the Family", promises to provide an opportunity to explore these questions. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding how we as family therapists may continue to learn and develop so as to keep pace with the changing times while holding on to concepts and processes that are still prove relevant and valuable. On how EFTA, our historically established organization, can once again connect to its founding roots as a network of professionals dedicated to changing social structures related to the field of psychotherapy while, at the same time, move forward in this new age of technological advancement and global socioeconomic crisis.

EFTA as an organization may also be seen as being in a process of creative transition. From it's restructuring in 2001, when the 3 Chambers were established - CIM, TIC, and NFTO - EFTA went through a period where each chamber developed its autonomous goals and activities while acknowledging and respecting the processes of the other chambers. Now that each Chamber has developed a clearer identity and has put its purposes into active practice, it is an opportune time for effective interdependence and closer collaboration among the 3 Chambers to evolve.

The primary goal now is to bring EFTA as a whole to optimal levels of functioning that support our common mission, our membership sustainability and our growth.

A number of steps in this direction have been setout last year at the launching of my term as President, steps that are slowly, but steadily in the process of being realized: overall EFTA financial management, adoption of functional bye-laws, support of regional meetings throughout Europe, task groups for Interventions on Social Issues, and on Immigration and Marginalized Families.

EFTA is evolving a new collaboration aimed at promoting an organizational structure and process that will nurture its growth and creative differentiation.

I am grateful for the participation and cooperation in this process and for the range of views that keeps our conversations vibrant and authentic.

I call upon all of you as EFTA members to actively join in this process by submitting your comments, ideas and proposals.

Let's envision how we can together make these times that are a-changing into

emerging opportunities.

Looking forward to our further connection - please contact me directly at k_polychroni@otenet.gr

Kyriaki Polychroni

President

Announcement

2 New Sections

As of the New Year, the EFTA Website Newsletter will incorporate 2 new sections:

a. EFTA Community News

Once upon a time...

EFTA Community News

This section will publish news of EFTA's membership - individuals, Institutes and National Federations.

Send us, at mailto:efta@scarlet.beyour personal updates (enclose a photo, if you wish) and/or information on professional activities and interesting developments in your area.

Through this circulation of information we hope to energize and further develop the interconnecting of our EFTA community.

We look forward to receiving you news!

Once upon a time...

Each of us has a story of how he/she first got involved in Family Therapy what good fortune struck and influenced the direction of our personal and professional development.

In this section, we invite you to share meaningful dimensions of your story with EFTA colleagues and to learn of related stories from your fellow members.

Let's get together in the past and in the future by opening-up our "initial enlightening experience" to each other and to our interested students.

Send stories directly to efta@scarlet.be.

News from EFTA's Chambers

EFTA-CIM

Dear Members,

After the celebration of the EFTA's 20th birthday in Paris, here is the 10th newsletter! We wish that this letter can be the link that gather us together and give us the pleasure of exchanging and sharing our practices and researches.

The Directory you received this year is also a tool designed to help us to keep in touch as much as we can. The EFTA-CIM website is increasingly consulted and used by people who are non-members. Those people wish to have more information about family therapy and the systemic approach. Some of them are also looking for family therapists coming from different areas. Sometimes, we receive critics but most of the time, people are after information regarding the psychotherapist status in the different European Countries.

By the way, this newsletter aims to report the few steps already taken but also all the difficulties EAP, in partnership with EFTA, had to face with the European Commission. And we also would like to thanks in this letter all the people who worked hard on this massive emerging project, especially Mony Elkaïm, Rodolfo de Bernart, Annick Lambert and Serge Ginger who passed away recently.

I take this opportunity to remind you that the therapists subscribe to the associations (such EAP, EFTA or NFTO's) after having filled the requested criteria but those associations are not accrediting bodies.

Ten years ago, Juan Linares, belonging to EFTA-CIM launched a "passport" designated to help therapists and trainers to share easily information about their practices by inviting each others. So far, we realised that these exchanges never increased significantly whereas they are really essential. We are looking for a new ways to give a second breath to this "passport". What about the creation of a EFTA-CIM's internal social network (like Facebook)?

We would be pleased to receive comments and suggestions from you on www.eftacim.org (Contact).

Jacques Pluymaekers

Chair of EFTA-CIM

Chers membres,

Après les 20 ans de l'EFTA à Paris, voici la dixième newsletter ! Qu'elle soit ce lien qui nous réunit et qui nous donne du plaisir à échanger, à partager nos pratiques et nos recherches.

Le directory que vous avez reçu cette année est aussi un instrument dont nous espérons qu'il facilite les contacts entre nous. Le website d'EFTA-CIM est, lui, de plus en plus consulté et utilisé par des non-membres qui nous contactent pour se renseigner sur la thérapie familiale ou l'approche systémique. Certains cherchent un thérapeute familial dans d'autres régions que la leur. De temps à autre, une critique ...et surtout beaucoup de questions sur le statut de psychothérapeute dans les différents pays de U.E.

A ce propos, cette Newsletter fait le point des petites avancées mais surtout des difficultés des démarches actuelles faites par l'EAP en collaboration, entre autres avec EFTA, auprès de la Commission Européenne. C'est pour moi l'occasion de remercier tous ceux qui se sont attelés à ce difficile chantier. Merci à Mony Elkaïm, à Rodolfo de Bernart, à Annick Lambert mais tout spécialement à Serge Ginger dont nous apprenons le décès ces derniers jours.

Rappelons ici que nos associations, que ce soit l'EAP, EFTA, les NFTO's, sont des associations auxquelles les thérapeutes adhèrent après avoir satisfait aux critères exigés mais qui ne confèrent en rien une accréditation.

Avec Juan Linares, EFTA-CIM a lancé il y a dix ans le "passeport" pour permettre aux thérapeutes familiaux et aux formateurs d'échanger sur leurs pratiques par des invitations réciproques. A notre connaissance, ces échanges sont restés peu nombreux alors qu'ils sont d'une grande richesse. Nous sommes à la recherche de façons nouvelles pour faire vivre ce "passeport"... A quand un "facebook" interne à EFTA-CIM ?

Heureux de vos suggestions et de vos nouvelles sur www.eftacim.org rubrique : contact

Jacques Pluymaekers

Président d'EFTA-CIM

EFTA-TIC

In 2011, the membership of EFTA-TIC is as follows: Full members: 110 institutes, Associate Members: 13 institutes.

Total membership: 123 institutes in 29 countries. The names and contact details of the member institutes are available in the Membership Directory on the EFTA-TIC website (www.efta-tic.eu).

Since June 2008 eleven new full members have been accepted and nine new associate members. It is noteworthy that as a result of the revised Training Standards it appears that new members are likely to enter as Associates in the first instance while they develop their training programmes to meet the new criteria - i.e. a minimum of four years and 700-900 hours of specialised Family Therapy training.

Since January 2009 thirteen institutes have had their membership discontinued as a result of continued non-payment of annual fees. A formula for managing this procedure was agreed at the recent board meeting in Brussels. Institutes who fail to pay the fees for two consecutive years will be expelled after being given a warning. All cases will be considered by the Board.

Another important development is the decision of the EFTA-TIC board at their meeting in Florence in June 2011 to open membership to institutes from anywhere in the world. This was prompted by a series of enquiries and some applications from interested parties in regions outside or on the margins of Europe - e.g. Lebanon, Palestine, Canada and Ukraine amongst others. Rather than create new categories of membership it was agreed that applications from these regions would be treated in the same way as all others. If they meet the established criteria they will be admitted. None of these applications has been completed as yet.

Some of the enquiries received have been requests for accreditation of local training programmes or groups of trainers who are not formal institutes as such. These have been declined. EFTA has not, as yet, established itself as an accrediting body and such requests are referred to the relevant national family therapy organisation (NFTO) where such exists. Where there is not an established NFTO there is something of a vacuum. EFTA (-TIC) may have to find a way to respond to these scenarios.

A further emerging development is the request for visiting teachers and lecturers to make inputs to recently established training programmes. Such requests have arisen from Lithuania and Malta (see the separate input in this Newsletter) and this was mentioned at the recent Trainers' Meeting in Brussels. This has always been a stated objective of EFTA-TIC and it may be that a more co-ordinated approach to sharing resources in this way can be initiated. If EFTA-TIC had a better developed infrastructure (including the website) it might be possible to respond more promptly and actively to these requests.

Financial matters continue to pose significant challenges. The treasurer, Michel Maestre, has established a bank account in Lille and all transactions are now handled by Michel. For many years this role was carried out by Rodolfo de Bernart and his colleagues in Florence. Many thanks to Rodolfo for all his work.

Some increased income is generated by the Trainers Meetings which take place in the two years between congresses.

The 2011 Trainers' Meeting was held in Brussels from Sept 30th - Oct 2nd hosted by Edith Goldbeter and Mony Elkaïm of the Institut d'Etudes de la Famille et des Systèmes Humains. There were 26 presentations - 16 workshops and 10 oral presentations. This was a significant increase on the previous meeting. In total there were 92 participants from 23 countries representing 48 institutes.

Peter Stratton, Chair of EFTA Research Committee, gave a keynote presentation "Can we get our trainees more engaged with research? Is the only hope for the survival of systemic therapy?"

It is hoped to make some of the presentations available on the EFTA-TIC website. This is one example of how the website might be enhanced to make it more of a resource for trainers and students.

The 2012 Trainers' Meeting will be hosted by the Institute for Marriage, Family and Systemic Practice in Skopje, (FYRO) Macedonia from Sept. 21st-23rd. Thanks to the director, Slavica Gajdadzis-Knezevik, for offering to act as host.

Phil Kearney,

Secretary EFTA-TIC Board

6th EFTA-TIC Meeting of Trainers in Brussels

A brief account of Experience

"As a first timer to the meeting I didn't know what to expect..."Read more (PDF 84 Kb)

By Dr. Charlie Azzopardi, Malta

EFTA-NFTO

Annual Chamber Meeting in Florence

From 10-12th June 2011 the EFTA-NFTO chamber had its annual meeting in Florence. We would like to thank again our hosts from the Institute of Family Therapy of Florence who took very good care for us! National representatives from 15 European countries attended the meeting and created inspiring discussions.

The first day of the meeting we had our ritual of a warming-up experience: this was combined with a short exercise, how to make use of this method in our everyday practice working with families or couples. Our new president of EFTA Kyriaki Polychroni joined us to say a few words to the chamber, especially on the tasks of family therapists to use our movement facing the new problems in Europe. The board report followed including the report from the NFTO-Symposia on Paris conference. Of course financial issues were discussed as well, especially how to acquire money to keep alive the solidarity fund for poorer European countries.

Peter Stratton, head of the EFTA research committee gave his report on the development of the SCORE project all over Europe and even in Asia and answered our questions.

Continuing our discussions from recent annual meetings one main focus of the chamber meeting was on the subject of how family therapy and systemic practice can contribute knowledge to actual social processes in Europe. We believe that a network as the EFTA-NFTO chamber based on support and shared initiatives provides a means of generating systemic thinking not only to contribute to family therapy clinical practice but also as a means of influencing wider national debates about human systems, family policy and public health. Topics like migration, influence of and being influential through the mass media were discussed, as well as concrete experiences of some European countries successfully gaining influence on their parliaments through their national family therapy association.

These conversations are to be continued through a mailing list and will be reconsidered next year in our chamber meeting.

So please note and feel invited: The next NFTO Annual Meeting will be held from 15-17th June 2012 at the Diakonhjemmet Community College in Oslo, Norway.

On behalf of the EFTA-NFTO Board, Maria Borcsa, Chair, and David Amias, Secretary

News from EFTA Members

Malta

Developing Training

The idea of offering formal training in Malta cropped up from deprivation. We Maltese had no opportunity to learn systemic therapy formally and officialy in our own country. This meant that costs were normally high. I myself spent a fortune in tickets to and from London while doing my doctorate and my M.Sc. Such uncomfortable and costly situation pushed me to seriously think about setting up formal training... Read more (PDF 52 Kb)

By Dr. Charlie Azzopardi (IFT-Malta)

Research

Increasing the Research Involvement

At the board meeting in Florence, the EFTA Research Committee decided to explore the possibility of a meeting in London to bring together EFTA members who want to share and increase their research involvement. This event is organised on February 3, 2012 jointly with the Tavistock based Family Therapy and Systemic Research Center.

Professor Peter Stratton,

Chair, EFTA Research Committee

See the flyer

European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP)

EAP and Common Platform for Psychotherapists

Explanatory note by Mony Elkaïm and Annik Lambert concerning EAP undertaking the establishment of a Common Platform for Psychotherapists in the EU under Articles 15 of the Directive on Professional Qualifications (2005-36/EC)

Association Européenne de Psychothérapie (EAP) et Plateforme Commune pour Psychothérapeutes

Note explicative rédigée par Mony Elkaïm et Annik Lambert concernant l'engagement de l'EAP dans un projet de Plateforme Commune pour Psychothérapeutes au sein de l'Europe répondant aux critères de l'Article 15 de la Directive des Qualifications Professionnelles (2005/36/EC).

Papers and Presentations from the 2010 PARIS Congress

Magdalini AGRAFIOTI, Greece (Workshop)

The Application of the Systemic Approach in the School System

Download the document (PDF 92 Kb), the powerpoint presentation (PPT 6,2 Mb)

Luana CUNHA FERREIRA, Portugal (Brief communication)

Time, Intimacy and Sexual desire: Joint interviews with couples

Download the presentation in English (PDF 2,6 Mb)

Pierre DUTERTE, France (Atelier)

La thérapie familiale en situation extrême

Télécharger la présentation (PPT 2,5 Mo)

Pierre DUTERTE, France (Communication libre)

Thérapie familiale chez les mineurs isolés étrangers...? Une impossibilité, un paradoxe, une solution?

Télécharger le document en français (PDF 80 Ko)

Lena KRISTIANSEN, Toril REITAN, Norway (Workshop)

A narrative and systemic group approach for people facing a family crisis

Download the document in English (PDF 1,7 Mb)

Ana Maria VEDES, Wolfgang LIND, Portugal (Workshop)

Grounds and Tracks for the Promotion of Couples' Satisfaction and Resilience in Portugal

Download the presentation in English (PDF 1,3 Mb)

Articles of EFTA Members in various languages

Becchis Emmanuela (Italia)

Adolescenza tra eccesso e assenza di "rete". Articolo in italiano (PDF 316 Kb)

Simou Vicky (Greece)

Read the paper about Family Self-esteem in Greek (304 Kb), in English (PDF 80 Kb)

Simou Vicky (Greece)

Teenagers and Parent's limits. Read the paper in English (PDF 56 kb)

Recent Publications/ Publications récentes

La Presencia de la Ausencia: Terapia con Familias y Fantasmas

Carlos E. Sluzki, Barcelona/Buenos Aires, Gedisa, 2011

A collection of real-life family therapy clinical cases where hard realities combines with fantastic realism.

Funérailles. Cérémonies sur mesure.

Jeltje GORDON-LENNOX, Editions Labor et Fides, 04/10/2011

Le deuxième d'une série de trois manuels pratiques, cet ouvrage est précédé par Mariages et sera suivi par un livre sur les cérémonies à la carte relatives à la naissance d'un enfant, le divorce et d'autres passages significatifs de la vie.

Plus d'informations

Palabras que permanecen, palabras por venir

Marcelo Pakman, Gedisa, 02/2011

Mas informaciones

Dans les coulisses du travail social

Risques psychosociaux en travail social

Josiane Marie Régi, Chronique Sociale, 10/2011

Plus d'informations

The Three person solution

Paul Ryan, Purdue University Press, 2009

More information

Témoignages sur le soin aux victimes de torture

Un centre parisien Parcours d'Exil

Pierre Duterte, in Revue Dynamiques Internationales n°5, 07/2011

Télécharger l'article

Red Balloon: Approaching Dreams as Self-Narratives

Article by Athena Androutsopoulou, in the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy

More information

Systeme: Interdisciplinary Journal for Systemic Research and Practice in the Human Sciences

Abstract of last issue (02/2011)

2011 EFTA Directory

Addenda

Please download the Addenda (up-date and new members) of the 2011 Directory printed in May.

Télécharger l'Addenda (corrections et coordonnées des nouveaux membres)du directory 2011 imprimé en mai.

PDF 148 Ko

Obituary

Décès de Serge Ginger (France)

Serge Ginger est décédé le 1er novembre à l'âge de 83 ans.

Il était notamment le secrétaire général et fondateur de la Fédération Française de Psychothérapie et de Psychanalyse (FF2P). Il a été le porte-parole des psychothérapeutes pendant les négociations sur la loi concernant le titre de psychothérapeute.

Lire la présentation de Serge Ginger

Serge Ginger passed away

Serge Ginger passed away on November 1 at 83 years of age.

Ginger was General Secretary and founder of the French federation of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (FF2P). He was the spokesperson of the psychotherapists during the negotiations on the law concerning the title of psychotherapist in France.

In February 2011, he had been elected Honorary President of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP).

To learn more about Serge Ginger

Calendar of Events

Psychotherapy, Neurosciences and Culture (Marrakech)

The WCP Maghreb Machreq Chapter is organising the WCP World Regional Congress of Psychotherapy in Marrakech (Maroc) on March 29-30-31, 2012

This conference is organised under the auspices of WCP and in collaboration with the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP). It is an opportunity for psychotherapists from Africa, Europe and Middle East to share ideas about their practice on various topics.

www.wcpmarrakech.com

Re-Creating Connection in Couples: Attachment and Emotionally Focused Therapy (Athens)

The Athenian Institute of Anthropos is organizing a 2-day conference with world leading Couples' Therapist, Sue Johnson, in Athens, Greece, on May 12th & 13th, 2012.

For more information, contact Kyriaki Polychroni (k_polychroni@otenet.gr).

Children on the Edge: Cultural Dilemmas for Helping Professionals (Rome)

Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia, in celebration of 20 years since it was established, is organizing its 2nd Festival of Family Therapy, in Rome, Italy, June 7th, 8th & 9th, 2012.

For more information click here.

Improving Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in Europe (Spain)

Mejorando la Salud Mental y el Bienestar Emocional en Europa

XVIII Congress of Psychotherapy in Valencia (Spain), 4-7 July 2012

Announcement in English and Español

For more information on those or other events

Refer to the Calendar of the EFTA website

HELPING EFTA GROW

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Encourage professionals, Training Institutes and National Federations you consider eligible to join. (Refer to the websites of the 3 Chambers for membership categories and criteria).

Promote EFTA to students and trainees, supporting them to apply for associate membership.

Set-up a group of therapists and students that will contribute ideas to the Organization Committee of the Congress in Istanbul - conjointly making this an interesting, meaningful event.

For any contributions, comments,... Do not hesitate to contact us!

Pour toutes contributions, commentaires... N'hésitez pas à nous contacter!

President of EFTA: Kyriaki Polychroni k_polychroni@otenet.gr

EFTA secretariat: Fabienne Dardenne efta@scarlet.be

In this issue

A Word from the President of EFTA/ Le mot de la Présidente d'EFTAAnnouncement

* 2 New Sections

News from EFTA's Chambers

* EFTA-CIM

* EFTA-TIC

* EFTA-NFTO

News from EFTA Members

* Malta

Research

* Increasing the Research Involvement

European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP)

* EAP and Common Platform for Psychotherapists

* Association Européenne de Psychothérapie (EAP) et Plateforme Commune pour Psychothérapeutes

Papers and Presentations from the 2010 PARIS Congress

* Magdalini AGRAFIOTI, Greece (Workshop)

* Luana CUNHA FERREIRA, Portugal (Brief communication)

* Pierre DUTERTE, France (Atelier)

* Pierre DUTERTE, France (Communication libre)

* Lena KRISTIANSEN, Toril REITAN, Norway (Workshop)

* Ana Maria VEDES, Wolfgang LIND, Portugal (Workshop)

Articles of EFTA Members in various languages

* Becchis Emmanuela (Italia)

* Simou Vicky (Greece)

Recent Publications/ Publications récentes

* La Presencia de la Ausencia: Terapia con Familias y Fantasmas

* Funérailles. Cérémonies sur mesure.

* Palabras que permanecen, palabras por venir

* Dans les coulisses du travail social

Risques psychosociaux en travail social

* The Three person solution

* Témoignages sur le soin aux victimes de torture

Un centre parisien Parcours d'Exil

* Red Balloon: Approaching Dreams as Self-Narratives

* Systeme: Interdisciplinary Journal for Systemic Research and Practice in the Human Sciences

2011 EFTA Directory

* Addenda

Obituary

* Décès de Serge Ginger (France)

* Serge Ginger passed away

Calendar of Events

* Psychotherapy, Neurosciences and Culture (Marrakech)

* Re-Creating Connection in Couples: Attachment and Emotionally Focused Therapy (Athens)

* Children on the Edge: Cultural Dilemmas for Helping Professionals (Rome)

* Improving Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in Europe (Spain)

* For more information on those or other events

HELPING EFTA GROW

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* For any contributions, comments,... Do not hesitate to contact us!

The contents of the EFTA General Newsletter do not represent the opinions of the members of the EFTA General Board