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Listed below is information on our 2008 Conferences.
Please call VPA at: 802-229-5447 for registration information.
"Emotionally Focused Therapy"
Gail Palmer, MSW
Teaches: Externship in EFT
Gail is one of the Founding Members of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute, has her Masters in Social Work and is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist in Canada. Over the past 20 years, Gail has worked closely with Sue Johnson, co-creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy both at the Ottawa Hospital and in private practice and has become an experienced trainer in EFT; currently offering core skills training to a number of therapists across Canada and the US. Gail’s particular interest is in EFT with families and she delivered the plenary address at the 2006 EFT Summit on families.
Gail wrote the chapter entitled "Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)" in Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook, by Johnson, Tilley, Palmer, Bradley, Furrow, Lee, and Woolley. She also is coauthoring a chapter on EFFT with Don Efron in Innovations in Clinical Practice (in press) and wrote Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist (2002) with Sue Johnson for the Journal of Couple and Family Relationships.
She is an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and is a family therapy professor at the School of Social Work at Carleton University in Ottawa.
(6) Continuing Education Credits
Friday, June 27, 2008
9:00 – 4:00, Registration: 8:30 A.M.
Capitol Plaza Hotel, Montpelier, Vermont
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SAVE THE DATE - FALL PROGRAMS
ACROSS THIN ICE: TREATING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA IN ADOLESCENTS & EMERGING ADULTS
Presenter: Martha B. Straus, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology
Antioch University New England Graduate School
Six (6) Continuing Education Credits
Friday, September 26, 2008
9:00 – 4:00, Registration: 8:30 A.M., Capitol Plaza Hotel, Montpelier, Vermont
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“The TRUST”
ETHICAL DECISION MAKING AND RISK MANAGEMENT IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
Presenter: Eric Harris, Ed.D. J.D.
15% INSURANCE DISCOUNT FOR APIAT INSUREDS
Annual Meeting Luncheon (All attendees welcome)
Six (6) Continuing Education Ethics Credits
Friday, NOVEMBER 14 2008
9:00 – 4:00, Registration: 8:30 A.M., Capitol Plaza Hotel, Montpelier, Vermont
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TREATING CO-OCCURRING PHYSICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Anthony Quintiliani, Ph.D.
Six (6) Continuing Education Credits
Friday, December 5, 2008
9:00 – 4:00, Registration: 8:30 A.M., Capitol Plaza Hotel, Montpelier, Vermont
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