Low-Cost On-Site Accommodations

Earn 24 Continuing Education Hours (Four Days, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm)

Alfred Adler was an early champion for women's rights and equality of the sexes. He created a remarkable set of tools for achieving a profound understanding of each individual's unique vision of security and significance. These individual insights also provide illuminating vistas into the dynamics of couples--their attractions, limitations, and mistakes. Classical Adlerian psychotherapy provides creative techniqes for promoting positive change within the individual and extending new benefits, including the feeling of equality, respect, and cooperation to the lives of others.

This unique four-day professional training program is intended for clinicians and students who wish to deepen and refine their understanding of Adlerian personality theory and its practical application in working with couples. Participants will be exposed to the rich and varied nuances of Adler's published, out-of-print, unpublished and previously untranslated writings, as well as the creative contributions of other Classical Adlerians. Innovative accelerated-learning methods will be utilized to help each participant develop a personal integration of the Adlerian constructs. A full day will be devoted to demonstrations of individual and couple therapy techniques, as well as case presentations. The instructor, Henry T. Stein, Ph.D., is one of the leading Classical Adlerian psychotherapists in the United States.

• Major Influences and Ideals

Roots of male and female roles: historical perspectives on equality and inequality; cooperation, domination, subordination, privilege and protest; problems during transition periods. Influences of culture and religion. Imprint of parents and grandparents: assets of respect, love, and encouragement; obstacles of pampering, neglect, coercion, and abuse. Imprint of siblings: training in cooperation, sharing and helping, or competition and rivalry. Adolescent experimentation with roles, behavior, and feelings; prototypes for approaching other sex. Adult components of emotional, mental, and physical intimacy. Synergistic and conflicting philosophies of life. Ideals of creative love: Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, and Milton Mayeroff.

• Evaluating Couples: Unfinished Business

Interview sequence and strategies: individual and joint sessions; questionnaires, interest and trait inventories; pathology testing; chemical abuse and dependency. Individual histories including childhood memories and family constellation. Relationship histories: first encounter, attraction, decisions, difficulties. Overview of previous therapy. Diagnostic conclusions: creating and comparing life style summaries of each person. Treatment plan: unfinished emotional business, correcting mistaken ideas and goals, developing missing qualities.

• Technique of Treatment: Individual and Joint

Early stage: meeting with couple to air complaints and views of difficulties; individual, confidential interviews for elaboration. Middle stage: individual psychotherapy or counseling to build self-esteem, gain insight, and correct mistakes; encouragement for each to move in a new, unfamiliar direction; creating climate of experimentation. Later stage: working with couple to verify and reinforce improvements; building up recognition, appreciation, and trust.

• Issues About Sex, Money, Careers, and Family

Sexual: positive and negative uses of sexual feeling and behavior; sexual dysfunction and other symptoms. Financial: the meaning of money as security, affection, prestige, power, freedom, or exchange. Division of labor: housekeeping, shopping, cooking, child care. Careers: levels of ambition, assigned importance, competition. In-laws: territorial issues, unfinished issues from childhood. Children: parenting styles, privacy.

• Demonstrations, Case Illustration, and Accelerated-Learning

Demonstrations of working with individuals and couples in one-to-one and group settings, illustrating the Socratic method to elicit cognitive change, eidetic and guided imagery to promote affective change, and role-playing to achieve behavioral change. Participants may volunteer for personal work or role-play their clients. Cases will be presented to illustrate life style assessment and treatment planning. Accelerated-learning methods will be utilized to help digest and integrate the material.

About the Presenter:

A Classical Adlerian psychotherapist in private practice and the Director of the Alfred Adler Institute of San Francisco, Henry T. Stein, Ph.D., worked for twenty years with Sophia de Vries who studied with Alfred Adler, Lydia Sicher, and Alexander Müller. Dr. Stein has fully documented and developed Adler's original therapeutic structure, technique, and style, including a comprehensive exposition of the Socratic method in psychotherapy. A leading force in the re-discovery of Classical Adlerian theory and practice in the United States, he has been lecturing and teaching since 1975. For the past seven years he has spearheaded a project to translate all of Alfred Adler's clinical writings.

What You Will Get From the Four-Day Program:

You will be offered a complete, integrated perspective on working creatively with couples. The program balances theoretical models, couple life style assessment, treatment planning, therapeutic strategies, role-played demonstrations, and case illustrations. Accelerated-learning techniques will be included to facilitate a cognitive/affective/behavioral integration of the experience.

Who Has Attended The Annual Summer Program:

In the past thirteen years, psychologists, family therapists, marriage counselors, educators, social workers, physicians, nurses, and students from the United States, Canada, Israel, Germany, Holland, England, Singapore, Australia, and Japan have attended the summer program.

Where the Program is Held:

A modern, very comfortable complex located on the campus of San Francisco State University, the Seven Hills Conference Center overlooks Lake Merced. The beach is a short drive away and a new shopping mall with theaters and restaurants is within easy walking distance. Downtown can be reached by public transportation or a twenty-minute drive. On campus, a student union and library are nearby. Accommodations and dining are located in the conference center.

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 Love, Sex, & Money: Helping Couples Cooperate 
 July 9-12, 1999 (4 days: Friday to Monday) 
 ____ $695.00 (If paid by May 10, 1999) 
 ____ $750.00 (After May 10th--space available basis) 
 ____ $550.00 for Full-Time Students (If paid by May 10th) 

 Conference Guest Center Accommodations July 8-12, 1999 (5 nights: Thursday to Monday)

 ____ $320.00 (single occupancy) 

    The Guest Center private rooms have 1 or 2 beds, TV, phone, and maid service.
    All meals may be purchased at the adjacent "City Eats" dining room.
    *** Reservations guaranteed only if paid with course fee by May 10, 1999.
    *** Registration Deadline - June 1st. 
 
 ____ Please send information about moderately priced nearby motels and
    downtown hotels. 

 Total Payment Enclosed: $__________ (Check payable to "AAISF")

This program was designed for our on-site and distance training students, and is also available for professionals and students in psychology, psychiatry, counseling, social work, education, and nursing. Please include a resume or curriculum vitae with your registration. The course qualifies for 24 continuing education hours for MFCC's and LCSW's in California. (California Continuing Education Provider, Approval No. PCE 38.).