We still have some spaces left for the following Asian Family Counselling Service-Nafsiyat half-day seminar on October 23rd:
Unpacking Attachment: The Relevance of Culture in Adoption and Fostering. The main speaker is Dr. Begum Maitra, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (City & Hackney CAMHS) and Jungian Psychotherapist (adult). Further details are below and a flier/booking form is attached. Due to postal delays, we are happy to extend the early bird rate until October 15th. Please return booking forms by fax or registration details by email (
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Two additional events are planned as part of this joint seminar series on intercultural issues in working with children and families:
Hybridization as a Therapeutic Challenge: Couple and Family Work across Bicultural Divides (Flier/Booking form attached)
Speaker: Dr. Jaswant Guzder, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: November 20th, 2009, 2 - 5 pm
Culture and Race and Family Dynamics (Flier/Booking form to follow)
Speaker: Dr. Britt Krause, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
Date: December 10th, 2009, 2 - 5 pm
Nafsiyat is pleased to announce a series of five stand-alone intercultural case discussion seminars from November to March. The seminars are aimed at individual and family psychotherapists and other mental health professionals who are working cross-culturally. Sessions will take the form of clinical case discussion groups with an emphasis on the integration of race and culture with generic psycho-therapeutic practise. Further information is attached.
If you have any queries do not hesitate to contact me.
Best wishes,
Unpacking Attachment: The Relevance of Culture in Adoption and Fostering
Speaker: Dr. Begum Maitra
Date: Friday, October 23rd, 2009, 10 AM to 1 PM
Venue: London Voluntary Resource Centre
Fees: £50 (£45 before Oct. 15th); Concessions £40 (£35 before Oct. 15h)
Aims
1. To provide participants with an understanding of cultural constructions of 'the child', 'childhood' and 'the family'
2. To enable participants to question the cultural meanings of 'attachment' relationships and behaviours using clinical examples and material from cultural studies
3. To enable participants to explore how these understandings may be relevant to the field of adoption and fostering
Hybridization as a Therapeutic Challenge: Couple and Family Work across Bicultural Divides
Speaker: Dr. Jaswant Guzder
Date: November 20th, 2009, 2 pm to 5 pm
Venue: London Voluntary Resource Centre
Fees: £45 (£40 before Oct. 30th); Concessions £35 (£30 before Oct. 30th)
This seminar explores the therapeutic challenges of working with family members representing multiple generations with quite different cultural values. Hybridization of cultural frames of reference influences alliance building, dynamics and strategies in the family therapy context. The identifications and frames of reference are issues evident in the internal and external worlds of the family and the therapist. Reframing and forming alliances to shift functioning of family or couple systems present ethical and empathic challenges. Generational transmission of values and trauma raises interesting dynamic issues, sometimes promoting health and wellness, at other times culture is used as a defence against any reflection or remapping of family or couple options. Clinical vignettes will serve as a path to enter this
territory and highlight issues that emerge in proposing strategies for couple and family work.
