MOAMFT Conference History
Preconference Presenters and Locations:
1980: Lea Shattuck – AAMFT Administrative Director – Lake of the Ozarks
1981: Froma Walsh – “Multi-Problem Families - Kansas City
1982: Sherod Miller – Originator of “Couple Communication” – St. Louis/Westport
1983: Sid Johnson – Executive Director of AAMFT – The Many Faces of MFT – Lake of the Ozarks
1984: Robert Beavers – Co-Author: No Single Thread: Psychological Health in Family Systems – Springfield
1985: Bunny Duhl – Coherence: System and Self – Kansas City
1986: Richard Fisch – All Our Families – St. Louis
1987: Robert Dilts – Neuro-linguistic Programming and Family Therapy – Lake of the Ozarks
1988: Brad Keeney – Constructing Systemic Family Therapies – Springfield
1989: Gus Napier – Co-author: The Family Crucible and The Fragile Bond – Kansas City (with IAMFT)
1990: Joel Bergman – Rituals, Prescriptions, and Metaphors in Brief and Systemic Therapy – St. Louis/Clayton
1991: Virginia Goldner – Sexual Politics: The problem of Gender in Family and Couples Therapy – Columbia
1992: Springfield
1993: Bill O’Hanlon & Patricia Hudson – “Don’s use that stuff on me: The effect of being a therapist on your own
Relationship – Kansas City
1994: Marion Solomon – Narcissism and Intimacy - St. Louis/Westport
1995: Terry Hargrave – Forgiveness: Intergenerational Family – Kansas City
1996:
1997: Barton Berstein – How to Survive in a Litigious Society - Kansas City
1998: Mary Jo Barrett – St. Louis/Washington Univ
1999: Conference was cancelled - Columbia
2000: Dorothy Becvar – Soul Healing: A Spiritual Approach to Counseling and Therapy - UMKC
2001: Frank Pittman – Helping Families Grow - Springfield
2002: Matthew Selekman – Our Adolescents…Our Future - St. Louis/SLU
2003: Lorraine Blackman – The Changing Faces of Family Therapy - St. Louis/UMSL
2004: Brent Atkinson – The Neurobiology of Love - St. Louis-Webster
2005: Sue Johnson – Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy - St. Louis/SLU
2006: William Doherty – Bad Couples Therapy and How to Avoid It - St. Louis/Maryville
2007: Richard Schwartz – Internal Family Systems Therapy - St. Louis/SLU
2008: Patricia Dowds – Adolescents in Trouble, No Way to Leave Home - St. Louis/Maryville
2009: Janis Abrams-Spring – How Can I Forgive You? - Springfield/Forest
2010: David Schnarch – New Perspectives on Desire - Kansas City/Avila Univ
2011: Daniel Hughes – Understanding Family Attachment: Theory and Practice - St. Louis/SLU
2012: Monica McGoldrick – Family Transformations - Springfield/Forest
2013: Harry Aponte – Person of the Therapist - Columbia/Stephens
2014: John Rolland – Mastering Family Challenges with Illness & Disability - St. Louis/SLU
2015: Mona Fishbane – Loving with the Brain in Mind: Neurobiology in Couples Therapy – Warrensburg