Name
A01 - Riding the Waves: Family therapy in Integrated Care in Times of Global Upheaval
Date & Time
Thursday, October 8, 2026, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Location Name
Grand A (4th Floor)
Description

This session will focus on the increasingly turbulent world in which we all live and consider how we deliver family therapy based on the principles of belonging, dignity, and justice. Social upheaval, conflict, political and environmental instability is growing often at an alarming rate. For those in the global north increasingly we are in it and not immune from the anxiety and concerns it may create. In this context in integrated healthcare, how do we deliver family therapy based on the principles of belonging, dignity and justice. This workshop will explore how as practitioners in integrated healthcare we manage our own and our families' anxieties and concerns. Whilst working effectively with those of our patients and their families. The workshop with use a variety of teaching methods, case studies, group discussion, presentation of theory and data, group tasks, and digital feedback software.

Content Level
Intermediate
Tags
Patient-centered care or Patient perspectives, Self-care/Self-management, Training/Supervision
Session Type
Concurrent
For participants to consider and identify how their practice is informed by increasing global uncertainties.
To identify strategies to effectively manage our own anxieties arising from global upheaval
To consider the application of Belonging Dignity and Justice principles within increasing social and political uncertainties

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