January 2014 SVC-CAMFT Newsletter.
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Sacramento
Valley Chapter
California Association of Marriage
& Family Therapists Newsletter
Editor: Heather Blessing, MFT
Registered Intern
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Letter from the Board
Happy 2014!
I asked for the honor of
writing this letter from the board. This will be my 3rd year as
Newsletter Editor. I am really excited for 2014 because things are
changing and I believe with change comes growth. We will be changing
locations of our monthly meetings. Our January meeting will be Friday,
January 24, 2014. We will have the Annual Membership Meeting that
starts at 9:00am. For more detailed information please read further
down in the newsletter.
In the past year I have gotten more
involved with CAMFT at the state level. One of the things I noticed and
am personally guilty of is just letting others decide and agreeing with
whatever without always taking time to educate myself on what anything
really means. With the Affordable Healthcare Act in place, the
landscape of mental health and insurance is changing. This is a time we
really do need to educate ourselves and not just assume what someone
else says or decides must be right.
I went to the December board
meeting for state CAMFT and it was not as boring as you might think.
While sometimes it seemed tedious, I was able to see the goings on and
hear what was or wasn't being said. Because I was there, I was able to
see what proposals I could submit to the board on ideas they did not
discuss or that I thought they missed. I was also able to get a better
understanding on what CAMFT is doing and where they are heading.
So
with all of the insight I gained I want to invite you all to come to
our board meeting after the January Meeting. If you cannot make that
one, consider attending another one. It would help you see what it
takes to run our chapter and you might have suggestions or ideas we
haven't thought of and be able to make our chapter better. Registration
for the board meeting is free, but we ask for you to register so we can
make sure we have seating available.
Also I am still looking for
articles to post in our Special Features area in our newsletter. If
you have something to say - write a letter to the editor so your ideas
and voice can be heard. Have you read a book or watched a tv show or
movie recently that you think our members would be interested in hearing
what you thought - consider writing a short review so we know what to
put on our to do list or stay away from. The newsletter is for you,
help me make it better and more informative.
We are still looking
for volunteers. For more information, please look further down in the
newsletter for positions and contact information.
Finally,
remember it is a new year - if you have not renewed your membership yet,
please do - I am sure you want to continue your discounts and benefits!
See you at the January 24th Meeting,
Heather Blessing, MFT Intern
Newsletter Editor
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This issue:
· Letter From the Board
· Legal Beagle· Volunteers for Board Needed
·November Presentation Summary
· Upcoming Meeting Information · Upcoming Board Meetings
· Special Feature· Letters to the Editor
· Psyched about Books and Movies· Advertising and Announcements· Advertising Policy for the Newsletter
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President:
Chad Thompson, MFT
President-Elect:
Jill P. Lawler, MFT
Past President:
Eva Tak, MFT
Secretary:
Brad Gilbert, MFT Intern
Treasurer:
Beverly
Baldwin, MFT Intern
Members-At-Large:
Dr.
Linda Sessions, MFT
Althea
Lee, MFT Intern
Program
Chair:
Tracy Thomas
Assistant
Program Chair:
Karla Amanda Brown, MFT Intern
Hospitality
Co-Chairs:
Kimberlie Flowers, MFT
Pre-License
Chair:
Luis Gonzalez, MFT Intern
Volunteer Chair:
Catherine Zanzi, MFT Intern
Membership
Co-Chairs:
Cheryl Cleveland, MFT Intern
Miriam Hernandez, MFT Intern
Newsletter
Editor:
Heather Blessing, MFT Intern
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 Welcome to the section of the SVC-CAMFT newsletter, Legal Beagle written
by Darlene Davis, LMFT. The chapter thought it would be helpful to keep you
updated on new laws, legislative pursuits or actions, as well as ongoing legal
and ethical dilemmas we all face in our career as Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapists, Interns, and Trainees. Please feel free to ask questions that you
have and I will do my best to investigate and post your answer in the
newsletter. Please note that articles are based on information from CAMFT
and/or the BBS and have been researched to the best of my ability. This is not
meant to be legal advice. Please
contact CAMFT or Board of Behavioral Sciences for any legal matters you need
assistance for.
Our Legal Beagle is taking a well deserved vacation, but rest assured she will search out legal answers and information for you and be back next month (February 2014).
Darlene Davis, LMFT
Executive Director HOPE; Healthy
Outcomes for Personal Enrichment
MFT Stipend Coordinator for Greater
Sacramento
Instructor of University of Phoenix
www.darlenedavismft.com
www.hope-counselingcenter.org
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WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO BE ON THE BOARD!!
We want to keep providing trainings, meetings, services for our members!
But we can't without volunteers - without members who are willing to donate their time and energy!
We have several vacancies and without people to fill them we will not be able to continue as a chapter:
Pre-Licensed Chair
Membership Co-Chair (2 positions Vacant)
Member at Large - (2 positions Vacant)
Volunteer Chair
Please contact Jill for more information
at jilllawler@hotmail.com
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November Presentation SummaryUnderstanding Major Mental Disorders of DSM 5
Speaker: Gabrielle M. Guedet, Ph.D., MFT
(2 CE)Dr. Guedet participated in some of the Research Trials for the APA's new DSM 5 Manual. She walked us through many of the changes of the DSM 5. With humor she explained the changes and how they can benefit us and how we can use them to more accurately diagnose our clients.
While the changes to the DSM 5 are a bit overwhelming, Dr. Guedet gave us the basic understanding to start using the new format of the DSM 5. She answered many of our questions. I honestly was afraid to even open DSM 5 before this workshop and now it doesn't seem quite so intimidating. One of the main take aways is that we have the ability to more accurately diagnose our clients since there is more flexibility in the diagnoses.
By Heather Blessing, MFT Intern
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Upcoming Meeting InformationJanuary 24, 2014 - NEW LOCATION
Pre-license Meeting
There is no pre-license meeting this month in order to accommodate the Annual Membership Meeting.
Annual Membership Meeting
Date: Friday, January 24, 2014
Time: 9:00AM-9:30AM
Location: St Ignatius Loyola Parish 3235 Arden Way Sacramento, CA 95825 (map)
Agenda: Click Here for the Agenda
January Monthly Training
Date: Friday, January 24, 2014
Time: 9:30AM-noon
Location: St Ignatius Loyola Parish 3235 Arden Way Sacramento, CA 95825 (map)
Topic: To Be Announced
Speaker: To Be Announced
We encourage early registration as space is limited.
To Register Click here.
Cost: Pre-register: $15 stu/interns, $20 SVC-CAMFT memb, $30 non-memb., +$5 "at-door" registration. Inclu. Cont brkfst. & 2 CEUs. No cc's at door. Reserv req'd by January 22 -Laura (916) 350-1577, email:membership@sacramentovalleycamft.org or reg,pay, directions at http://www.sacramentovalleycamft.org
Reservations required: You can register and pre-pay online at www.sacramentovalleycamft.org, or contact Laura Frederick at (916) 350-1577 or email membership@sacramentovalleycamft.org to register and pay at the door. Please help us contain the cost of presentations by making reservations in a timely manner (by Tuesday before the meeting). This is much appreciated.
Upcoming Board Meetings
January 24, 2014 12:15pm - 2:00pm All members are welcome to attend after the January meeting. It is free. Click her to register.
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Special Feature
The Unmentionable Abuse: Child Victims who Victimize their Familiesby Heather Blessing, MFT Intern
The last several decades much research has been done about the
different forms of abuse. The effects of neglect, sexual abuse,
emotional abuse and physical abuse on children have been well
documented. Research has shown that some of the possible effects
associated with physical child abuse on children is aggression,
fighting, noncompliance, defiance, property offenses and arrests
(Barnett, Miller-Perrin & Perrin, 2005). Possible effects on
adolescents are violent interpersonal behavior, delinquency, and violent
and criminal offenses. Even with sexual abuse many of the effects seen
have to do with aggression, hostility, anger, tantrums, and family and
peer conflicts. Neglect can also have negative effects on children and
adolescents such as physical and verbal aggression conduct problems and
non-compliance, and disturbed attachments with family. There have been
many papers, studies, conferences, legislation and books written about
the above effects of these abuses upon the child victims. But what
often is unmentionable and even unthinkable is that these effects on
these children can end up with the child victim turning things around
and victimizing their parents, caregivers, siblings and other family
members. In their book Barnett, et al., discussed all of the above
symptoms and barely touched the subject of child aggression. They
dedicated a portion of their book to such rare and possibly non-existent
abuse such as satanic ritual abuse, but other than a few implications,
they never discussed the damaging effects of a victimized child
victimizing their family. This paper will discuss this
often-unmentionable abuse – victimized children who victimize their
families.
Research
The actual number of children who are
exposed to the approximately 4 million acts of intimate partner abuse is
not known but it is considered to be a substantial number (Rinehart,
Borowsky, Stolz, Latts, Cart, Brindis, 1998). Children who grow up in
homes with intimate partner violence are at a greater risk of being
abused themselves. Some studies have surmised that children witnessing
violence at home can be as traumatized as having been abused personally.
Research has shown that those who are abused or witness abuse in the
home are more likely to grow up to perpetrate violence.
These
children do not always wait until they are adults to become violent, nor
do they wait until they have a intimate or dating partner themselves.
Some children commit parent abuse. “Parent abuse can be described as
any act perpetrated by a child or adolescent that cause a parent to feel
threatened, intimidated and controlled (Kennair, & Mellor, 2007,
204).” Because parent abuse has not generated much interest by
researchers, the prevalence of child abuse against parents has not been
determined. Often parents do not wish to report their abuse because
they feel guilty, ashamed or afraid they will be seen as an incapable
parent. A large proportion of youth who commit parent abuse were
physically or sexually abused themselves. Often the abuse starts
against the victimized parent soon after the violent parent is removed
from the home.
Understanding the Abuse
Understanding the
existence of this abuse is hard for many to comprehend. This is even
seen in the text book, Family Violence Across the Lifespan, (Barnett et.
al., 2005, p210, 211) when they describe a little girl who was sexually
abused and neglected. The little girl was placed with her biological
father and his new wife and their child and the father brought her back
to the hospital after she tried to stab that child. She showed signs of
anxiety, depression, self-mutilation, enuresis and encopresis. They
step-mother was said to dislike the little girl, put her down and blame
her for anything. It continues with how bad the therapist felt about
sending the little girl back to a stepmother who did not like her.
Taking a different look, at this situation, there is another way to see
what may be going on. This victimized girl, is finally removed from the
abuse and put into a loving home, which she does not understand. She
feels disconnected and has only learned to express herself through
violence because that is all she was taught. Jealousy and frustration
caused her to lash out at the step-mother and become violent to her half
sibling. The step-mother may have tried to be loving and caring, but
because of the girl’s abuse she was scared and anxious that she was
going to be abused again and lashed out to protect herself. The
step-mother may be at a loss on how to handle an aggressive and violent
child who would try to stab another child. Sadly as it often happens
though, that was not even in the thoughts of the therapist witnessing
this situation.
When the community sees an unruly tantruming
child in the grocery store, they think the parent is at fault and not
controlling the child. When the police are called to a home for a
domestic disturbance, even if the child mouths off to the police office,
they are usually given a verbal warning and the parents are told they
need to be more stern and controlling or that they need to lighten up.
No one wants to think that the parent has tried and the child is
completely out of control. The community, the schools, the other
parents, family members usually condemn the parent before they even see
the situation for themselves.
At first it might seem such
scenarios are few and far between, but looking at the statistics of how
many women leave their abusive partners and face poverty and single
parenthood to protect their children from further violence, violence
that their children have grown up with, it is not hard to see that many
of these abused children will act out or become aggressive or
oppositional when faced with their new lives and trying to deal with the
violence of their past. Often little boys who have watched their
fathers verbally and physically abuse their mothers while take on the
alpha male role once the abusive father is out of the picture. Since
their learned behavior is based on how their fathers treated their
mothers, they start verbally and physically abusing their mothers.
Stopping the Abuse
The first part of stopping victimized children from victimizing their
families is acknowledging that it exists. This abuse needs to be
discussed, researched, acknowledged and like may other abuses that went
unacknowledged in the past brought to the attention of the public. This
is important because until family members can stop hiding and feeling
ashamed of not being able to handle these abusive children, the children
will not get the help they need to heal and instead they will continue
the cycle of abuse with those in the family.
The next step is
for support services, the community and the family of the victimized
children to not stop support once the child is safe and no longer being
abused, there are still many problems the child will have to work
through. Just because the abuse has stopped does not mean everything is
healthy again. The family needs to learn to be functional. Each of
the family members may have different problems that need to be addressed
separately and together. For many families, they never had a
functional family and do not know how to act and react appropriately.
If the victimized child starts abusing or victimizing others, more help
and support is needed to help both the child and those who are now
victims. It is imperative that society as a whole, not keep sweeping
this type of abuse under the rug. It needs to be brought out into the
light and studied so that solutions can be found. This will help heal
the victimized children before they create too much damage to others and
it will help them perpetuate healthy families in the future.
References
Barnett, O.W., Miller-Perrin, C.L., & Perrin, R.D. (2004). Family violence across the lifespan:
An introduction. Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Kennair,
N., & Mellor, D. (2007, October). Parent Abuse: A Review. Child
Psychiatry & Human Development, 38(3), 203-219. Retrieved June 19,
2009, doi:10.1007/s10578-007-0061-x
Rinehart, P., Borowsky, I.,
Stolz, A., Latts, E., Cart, C., Brindis, C. (1998, January 1). Youth
Violence: Lessons from the Experts. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service
No. ED460197) Retrieved June 19, 2009, from ERIC database.
The
views expressed in the Special Feature Articles do not
necessarily reflect the Sacramento Valley Chapter of CAMFT or CAMFT.
They should be
understood as the personal opinions of the author. No information in
this articles will be understood as official. Other views and
commentary are welcome and will be published as long as they are
respectful and stick to the topic.
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 Psyched about Books and Movies Welcome to "Psyched about Books and Movies!" Each month we include a book or movie review by one of our readers. Please see below guidelines on submitting a review. Happy reading!Title: Becoming Chaz Directors : Fenton Bailey, Randy BarbatoRelease Date: November 29, 2011Reviewer: Heather Blessing, MFT Intern
Review: Becoming Chaz allows the viewer to get a look into Chaz Bono's transition from female to male. If someone has very little or no knowledge of transgender issues, it is a place to start. The movie delves into Chaz's top surgery and issues with his family.
There are several male to female movies out there but not very many female to male transgender movies available. It is only a small snippet of his life and transgender issues but it might give some basic understanding to someone who is just learning about transgender female to males.
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Your review should include the title, a short synopsis
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