Students from New England’s PhD in Couple and Family Therapy program presented at 2022 Groves Conference on Marriage and Family; “Families as a Source of Strength, Healing & Hope” in Paradise Island, Bahamas, May 23-25, 2022.
Presenter and their topics included:
Marquitta J Fields, MS, LMFT: Utilizing a Genogram to Identify Family of Origin Resources for EMDR Therapy
Samanda Bryant Hagan, MDiv, LCSW-C: The Church Family: Enhancing Capacity and Resources in the Provision of Mental
Health Services with African Americans
Brian T. Hannigan, MS: Empowering Curiosity in Families: The Foundational Skill of Relational Well-Being
Barrie Birge, LMSW: Towards the Inclusion of Relational Spirituality as a Theoretical Foundation in MFT
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Karmen Smith: Discussion Facilitator
Kevin Lyness, PhD Faculty: Conference Wrap Up
The Groves Conference was begun in 1934 by the late Professor Ernest Groves, who was among the first academicians to give a course in marriage and the family in an established university. The conferences began with the bringing together of a few teachers and students interested in serious study of the family. It evolved over the years into an interdisciplinary, interprofessional organization. Its objectives are to work on the leading edges of theory development and empirical research in the field.