The second Yale-Riggs Conference on Partnerships, Parenting, and Family Systems will focus on the reciprocal effects of addiction on family process and family process on addiction.
The conference will be held over two days—Friday, June 21st and Saturday, June 22nd—at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut.
Visit the conference web site for more details and registration.
In a series of clinical and research presentations by experts from Yale School of Medicine and the Austen Riggs Center, the conference will explore the nature of sexual partnerships and parenting as they unfold in the context of addiction.
Special attention will be devoted to the integration of psychodynamic and psychobiological perspectives on both addiction and family process. Clinical and research presentations will be followed by an invited commentary and group discussion.
Throughout the conference, there will be an emphasis on ways research on addiction can inform clinical care and ways clinical care can inform research on addiction.
This year's conference chairs are Thomas McMahon, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, and M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erik H. Erikson Institute for Education and Research at Austen Riggs Center.
Last year's conference was hosted by the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
A discounted early registration fee is available through June 7th. Continuing education credits for medicine and psychology have been approved. An application for continuing education credits for social work is pending.