2005 AWP Conference
Feb. 24-27, 2005
Tampa, Florida

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005

FULL DAY WORKSHOP: 8am-5pm

FD1: Feminist Qualitative Research Methods (8am - 5pm, $90)

Workshop Leader: Sue Morrow

Seminar in qualitative research methods for both experienced quantitative researchers who are new to qualitative methods and students wishing to conduct qualitative research. Emphasis will be placed on practical aspects of qualitative research design, epistemological frameworks, feminist collaborative research, and conducting qualitative research in traditional quantitatively-oriented environments.

 

AM WORKSHOPS: 8AM to 12 Noon

AM1: Mindfulness-Based Meditation and Clinical Practice: An Immersion Experience for Clinicians (8am-noon, $45)

Workshop Leader: Beverly Serabian

Workshop participants will engage in guided meditations, reflect upon the impact of mindfulness-based meditations on one's own life, and be introduced to a new set of technical skills. Strategies for maintaining the newly acquired skills as well as techniques in clinical practice will be discussed.

AM2: Teaching Cultural Diversity in Graduate Mental Health (8am-noon, $45)

Workshop Leaders: Beverly Greene & Gladys Croom

This seminar offers substantive information and skill enhancement in the construction and instruction of the "diversity" course in graduate mental health. Presenters will examine the pedagogical components that are needed for training clinicians to be competent in the delivery of psychological services to members of culturally diverse groups as well as the process issues that are intrinsic to these courses. Finally, strategies to address ongoing and future challenges in this work will be examined.

AM3: Tools for Surviving Anti-Gay Politics: A Workshop for Therapists (8am-noon, $45)

Workshop Leader: Glenda Russell

Political debates about LGBT rights carry psychological consequences for LGBT people and their allies. Based on over a decade of research on this issue, this workshop explains sources of stress and resilience in the fact of anti-LGBT politics and offers tools for therapists working with affected individuals and communities.

PM WORKSHOPS 1:00 – 5:00 PM

PM1: Psychotherapy with African American Women: Exploring Resilience and Vulnerability in Psychotherapy (1pm-5pm, $45)

Workshop Leader: Beverly Greene

Didactic material, videotapes and discussion will be used to examine ways for therapists to conduct psychotherapy with African American women that are sensitive to their historical cultural origins as well as their contemporary realities; their collective and unique experiences as members of multiple subordinate groups; their wide range of diversity; the role of these variables on their psyches as well as its impact on the therapy process from an integration of feminist and psychodynamic thinking.

PM 2: What's New and What's Not in Trauma Therapy: A Feminist Appraisal and Integration of Current Treatment Models (8am-noon, $45)

Workshop Leader: Mary Hayden

Neurobiology and attachment research have inspired great advances in trauma treatment, but most approaches still neglect analysis and intervention at the social/political level, which feminist trauma therapists have always addressed. This workshop presents an integrative, multi-level model of assessment, healing, and prevention. The final hour is devoted to case discussion.

PM3: White Therapists in a Multicultural World: How Being White Affects Our Work (1pm-5pm, $45)

Workshop Leader: Rosalind Dutton

White therapists will explore their ethnic identities, unearned privileges, and its effects on therapy; discuss terms, including mainstream, margin, rank, and assimilation; and locate ourselves within the stages of white racial identity. We will apply their knowledge and awareness to issues of race within therapeutic relationship.

The purpose of the Caucus on Bisexuality and Sexual Diversity is to celebrate the multiple forms that sexual expression can take among us. Importantly, we also work to educate our local and larger communities about the need to create safety for the expression of diverse and intersecting identities.

Speakers and discussion groups will address issues that are salient for the expression of sexual and gender identity in our lives today and in the future. At the institute, we will create a space in which new voices may be incorporated into the ongoing caucus dialogue. More details to come! Donations over and above the $25 fee to benefit the Caucus for Bisexuality and Sexual Diversity will be accepted. Additionally, no participant will be turned away due to inability to pay the full fee.

Special guest Dr. Glenda Russell will participate in caucus discussion!

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