Mo Yee Lee, PhD

David Grove, MSW, LISW

I-FAST Workshop

12, 13, 14, 16 July, 2012

Integrative Family and Systems Therapy (I-FAST):

Utilizing Family Strengths and Resilience

Integrative Family and Systems Therapy (I-FAST) is a family-based treatment model that was developed with the purpose of developing an evidence-based common factors treatment model that addresses practice realities of social service agencies, embraces social workers’ existing expertise, and empowers the development of expertise at the agency level. Building on evidence-based literature regarding effective family treatments, I-FAST identifies three core treatment components that can be integrated into a coherent treatment protocol for working with families. These core treatment components include: (1) establishing and maintaining a positive therapeutic alliance, (2) implementing change strategies for initiating beneficial shifts in family interactional patterns, and (3) collaborating with other systems that serve the family. The simplicity of this treatment model involves a parallel process between the helping professionals and the families in implementing the model: helping professionals are encouraged to utilize and integrate their expertise around these evidence-based core components in providing treatment and families utilize their strengths and resilience in finding solutions that successfully address their problems.

Objectives:

·  Participants will learn I-FAST model and treatment concepts

·  Participants will develop initial therapy skills in implementing I-FAST with families

Teaching methods:

·  Didactic presentations

·  Review of videotapes of I-FAST sessions

·  Role-play and exercises

·  Case consultation

Specific content:

·  Conceptual framework of I-FAST regarding process of change in treatment

·  Key treatment components

·  Skills in each I-FAST phase including:

o  Creating alliance

o  Tracking interactional patterns around problems and interactional exceptions

o  Developing useful goals and attainable solutions

o  Developing frames and rationales for creating pattern shift in the family

o  Developing procedures and tasks for creating pattern shift in the family

o  Tracking changes and adjusting to responses

o  Building resilience and ownership

Course Details

Target Participants / Social Workers, Counselors, Psychologists, Nurses and other professional practitioners
Date / 12, 13,14, & 16 July, 2012
Time / 9:30-5:00pm (6.5 hrs/ day)
Venue / 9/F, Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai, Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service
Quota / 60
Course Fee / $1,500
Medium of Instruction / Cantonese & English

Application

Send the following application form, together with a crossed cheque to “Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service” in the following address: 36, Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai, 8/F, Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service.

Application Deadline: 15/6/2012 (Friday)

Enquiry : 34131505 Fax :34131590 Email :

Biography

Lee. Mo Yee, Ph.D.

Dr. Mo Yee Lee is Professor of Social Work at the College of Social Work of The Ohio State University. Professor Lee’s expertise is primarily in the area of intervention research and practice using a strengths-based perspective and an integrative/holistic approach. Her practice and research focus on domestic violence issues, home-based treatment for at-risk children and adolescents, meditation and treatment of trauma survivors of interpersonal violence, and an integrative body-mind-spirit clinical practice framework. Dr. Lee has published three books by the Oxford University Press: “Solution-focused treatment with domestic violence offenders: Accountability for change,” 2003, “Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Social Work: An empirically based approach to assessment and treatment,” 2009; and Solution-Oriented Social Work: A Practice Approach to Working with Client Strengths, 2011. Dr. Lee also is the editor of the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work.

Mr. David Grove, LISW-S, LMFT

Mr. Grove is a Full Time Lecturer for the College of Social Word at The Ohio State University. Mr. Grove’s area of expertise is in applying family therapy approaches to diverse populations and problems. Mr. Grove received extensive post-graduate training at The Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C. under the supervision of Jay Haley, one of the founders of the field of Family Therapy. In 1992, Mr. Grove was made a Regional Faculty of The Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C. Mr. Grove has published two books in the area of family therapy:

“Conversations on Therapy”, co-authored with Jay Haley, published by Norton in 1992, and “Invisible Men”, published by Zeig-Tucker in 2002. For the past ten years, Mr. Grove has been one of the principal participants on the project developing and researching Integrated Family and Systems Treatment (I-FAST). Mr. Grove has provided training in I-FAST for numerous social service agencies in the United States and abroad.

Application Form

Personal Particulars

Full Name: (English)# Dr/Mr/Ms/Miss ______(Chinese) ______

Name of Organization: ______Position: ______

Nature of Organization: Education SWD Medical NGO Others

Field of Service: Children & Family Community Work Education Elderly

Medical Rehabilitation Youth Others

Correspondence Address:

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Tel. No.: (O) ______(M) ______Fax No.: ______

I would like to prepare a case presentation for consultation during this training workshop:

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*If yes, please prepare a case summary (together with tape or brief transcript if any) for the purpose of case consultation.

Payment

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Please make only ONE cheque payable to “Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service” in this course with an amount. Payment will not be refunded once the registration is confirmed.

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Important Notes

• Application will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.

• Confirmation of application or cancellation of course will be announced via *email at least one week before the commencement of course. Please contact us if you do not receive any notification.

• If Storm Warning Signal No. 8 or above, or Black Rainstorm Warning Signal is hoisted, the lesson will be cancelled. Details of postponement or other arrangements will be announced afterwards.

• Receipt of application fee will be issued on the first day of the course.

• A Certificate of Attendance will be given to participants who have attended at least 80% of the course