Subject Guide

Subject Guide

Advocacy

 Session Time

Federal Advocacy for MFTs: Updates and Advocacy Opportunities

October 8, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Breaking Barriers, Building Access: Licensure Portability Advocacy

October 9, 9:15am - 10:15am

Erasure and the Systemic Practitioner: Combating Multifaceted Harm

October 9, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

 

 

Anxiety Disorders

 

In the Absence of Family:  Lives Shaped by Incalculable Losses Over Time

October 8, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

 

 

Child Abuse and Neglect

 

Paths to Permanency: Family Therapy for Youth in Foster Care

October 9, 9:15am - 10:15am

 

 

Collaborative and Integrative Healthcare

 

Embedding Systemic Practice in Pediatric Systems of Care

October 8, 10:30am - 11:30am

Beyond Self-Care: Fixing Workplace Systems to End Burnout

October 9, 9:15am - 10:15am

Designing the Relational MedFT Workforce

October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm

 

 

Couples, Marital and Relationship Problems

 

Perimenopause Isn’t a Relationship Problem October 8, 8:00am - 9:30am
Chronic Sorrow in Families of People with Disabilities October 8, 10:30am - 11:30am
Beyond Apology: Accountability and Repair After Relational Harm October 9, 10:45am - 11:45am
Learning as Relationship: A Systemic Approach to Teaching MFT October 9, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
When Death Changes Your Life: Guiding Couples Through Shared Loss

October 8, 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Integrating APIM and AI to Predict Couple Well-being October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Does Relationship Distress Associate with Suicidal Risk? October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Universal Gains in Relationship Education Outcomes October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Individualism, Collectivism, and Marital Satisfaction October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm
Men & Miscarriage: Impact of Contextual Factors on Paternal Grief October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm
Development of a Suicide Safety Plan for Couples in Couple Therapy October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm
The Association Between Relational Ethics and Couple Satisfaction October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm
When Fairness Breaks: Relational Ethics in a Divided World October 8, 5:30pm - 7:00pm

 

 

Diversity and Cultural Treatment Issues

 

Fractured National Attachment: A Systemic Model

October 9, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

 An IPA Study on the Experiences of Chinese Adult Satellite Babies

October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm

 

 

Ethics/Legal

 

Privilege and Confidentiality

October 9, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

You, I, and AI: Conceptualizing the Role of AI within Relationships

October 9, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

 Trust Through Transparency in Cross-Cultural Supervision

October 8, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

 

 

Feeding and Eating Disorders

 

Feeding Within the Family System for Early Eating Disorder Prevention

October 9, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

 

 

Gender Identity/Transgender & Non-Binary

 

Becoming a Safe Haven: EFT with Transgender & Gender Expansive Clients

October 8, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Queering The Clinical Space: LGBTQ+ Affirming Systemic Practice

October 8, 5:30pm - 7:00pm

 

 

Leadership

 

The Whole is Greater: Fix the System, Not the People. October 8, 10:30am - 11:30am
   
Medical/Physical  
Medical Grief: A Relational Approach to Illness‑Related Loss October 9, 10:45am - 11:45am
The Grieving Therapist: What We Carry After a Client Dies October 8, 10:30am - 11:30am
Understanding the Impact of Long COVID on the Family - A Case Study October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm

 

 

MFT Students and Trainees

 

Teaching While Targeted: Lessons from a Duoethnographic Exploration

October 9, 9:15am - 10:15am

 

 

Military Personnel and Their Families

Beyond Mandatory Reporting: Confidential Care in the Military

October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm

 

 

Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Including Communication Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD

 

Intersectionality in the Therapeutic Setting

October 8, 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Making the Implicit Explicit: Autistic Clients and Families

October 9, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

 Reconceptualizing Trauma in Disability Contexts

October 9, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

 

 

Neuroscience

 

Using Neurobiology & Positive Psychology to Advance Systemic Therapy

October 8, 8:00am - 9:30am

Neuro-Affective Therapy for Couples

October 9, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

 

 

Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

 

A Phenomenological Study of Queer Women's Experiences with OCD October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Perinatal Mental Health Disorders
Strengthening Couples Through Transitions in Perinatal Care October 9, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Invisible Grief: Navigating Perinatal Loss and Grief October 9, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

 

 

Practice Building

 

Let’s Talk Dirty: Therapists Using AI

October 9, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

 

 

Qualitative Research

 

Strengthening Family Resilience Through Community-Engaged Research October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm

 

 

Relational Problems: including Parent-Child and Sibling Relationships

 

Effects of Social Media Narratives on Family Systems October 9, 9:15am - 10:15am
Rethinking Familismo in Latine Family Therapy October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm

In-Session Change Episodes: The Lost Art of Engagement

October 9, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

 

 

Schizophrenia, Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders 

 

Psychosis Rising: Supporting Families in Crisis

October 8, 8:00am - 9:30am

 

 

School Systems

 

When Teaching Hurts

October 8, 8:00am - 9:30am

 

 

Sexuality Issues

 

Purity Culture and Male Sexual Outcomes October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm
Systemic Sexuality: An Integrative Approach to Sex & Family Therapy October 8, 8:00am - 9:30am
Purity Culture Recovery: Mental Health Treatment Considerations October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm

 

 

Spirituality

 

When Faith Meets Family: Understanding Patterns Before Marriage October 9, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

 

 

Stigma/Barriers to Care

 

Queer Therapists' Perceptions of Police and Crisis Response

October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm

 When Reality Shifts: The MFT's Role in Early Psychosis

October 9, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

 

 

Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

 

Family Recovery:  Healing the Wounds of Addiction

October 8, 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Moderating Effects of Videoconferencing: Alliance and Outcome in SUD

October 8, 4:45pm - 5:15pm

Parallel Realities: Co-Parenting in the Context of SUOAD

October 9, 10:45am - 11:45am

 

 

Supervision

 

Trust Through Transparency in Cross-Cultural Supervision October 8, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Telehealth
Irreplaceable by Design: How MFT Practice Survives AI Disruption October 8, 10:30am - 11:30am
Post-Pandemic Telehealth: What Should We Keep, What Should We Let Go? October 9, 10:45am - 11:45am
Using Signals in Teletherapy: Implications for LGBTQ+ Populations October 9, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Therapist Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Seeking Professional Consultation 
Beyond the Classroom: Teacher Burnout and Its Impact on Family Systems October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Building CORE: Advancing Contextual Therapy Through Collaboration

October 9, 10:45am - 11:45am

 

 

Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders: including PTSD, Acute Stress and Adjustment Disorders

 

Thriving in Uncertainty: A New Vision for Family Therapy Practice October 8, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Adversity to Adaptation: A Systemic View of Resilience October 8, 4:00pm - 4:30pm